Australia reports that rooftop solar briefly generated 101% of South Australia’s electricity demand on Saturday around 2 pm local time.
Source: In First, Rooftop Solar Alone provides 101% of South Australia’s Electricity Demand
India has seen an “escalating trend” of anti-Muslim speech since Modi rose to power in 2014. The report found that more than half of the documented incidents this year were orchestrated by the ruling BJP and affiliates including the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Sakal Hindu Samaj. Those groups have ties to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, the ideological parent of the BJP.
Source: ‘Escalating trend’: Most hate speech in India linked to Modi’s party
One small step for a white Australian one huge step for mankind and Human Rights. Yes, Australia “It’s Time” to undo our Colonial and Inglorious past and move forward together as the Multicultural Nation we are.
Dutton said he would prefer to see the money spent on practical outcomes for children in remote areas. It’s a pity that in the nine years the Coalition was in government, and with Mundine as a key adviser, it ripped $500 million out of Aboriginal programs. Many of those programs, according to Warren Snowdon, the former long-time member for the NT seat of Lingiari, were achieving real results in remote areas.
For her part, Price is consistently offensive. She punches down on her own people and, as Tony Wright wrote in The Age, “she is a weaponised conservative woman who can say things out loud that white conservatives haven’t dared to say since the early 1960s”.
It is not race that makes First Peoples special but their prior history on the continent and their bloody dispossession of it.
The British built Australia on their land 250 years ago and we remain tied to that Crown. Indigenous Australians have been here for 65,000 years and our short history has shown they haven’t been listened to.
Source: “In the… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
Help yourselves Australia. We have had a problem for 250 years and it has never been Black. Indigenous People have had a Voice on previous occasions like ASTIC but it was removed. Ripped away by the Howards and Abbott’s. It’s time to change direction and “Fix It”! Cuban Global Voulteers came to teach and be health workers in remote Indigenous communities and were shocked with what they saw the worst living conditions of any people ever seen on the planet. White Pride and privilege is Australia’s Shame and Dutton simply says what’s been said for 10 generations by white colonisers “There’s really no problem other than that of their own making and it’s a “lifestyle choice.” Listen to Jacinta Price she’s “their (my) voice.
Voting ‘no’ is essentially a vote to not change anything because there might be something we didn’t think about that happens down the track. As countless people, including the former Spanish Football President have found out to their cost – no means no – there are no excuses. Your ‘no’ vote is the same as Dutton’s, Price’s or Mundine’s – regardless of how you try to justify it to yourself or others. And if you don’t know – do the research. Here’s a link to help you start.
Source: No means no – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Murdoch’s employees, like Andrew Bolt, are scared to walk the streets of their own hometowns. His wife lost the plot when their eldest son was outed in the press for working at the IPA. Their daughter was sent overseas. Does anyone even know where or what their youngest is doing? Yet Bolt used his home as his office and condemned his family to the psychological stresses of his paranoias.
Lachlan Murdoch has solved that issue. As Head of Fox News and News Corp New York he runs his office from Sydney and lives here and not in the USA. Andrew Bolt gives the impression he hates Australia and even fled elsewhere to holiday. His preferred destination is Holland. He fled from Malvern to the conservative Mornington Peninsula but I’m sure he’s still uncomfortable. He’d rather be running his mouth offshore living on a barge in Amsterdam. His never-photographed wife Sally and kids would rather have had a less secret existence. So why did Andrew Bolt put his family under such a psychological hammer? His ego and counterfeit syndrome of being found out who he truly is demand he remain disingenuous and the Murdochs pander to personalities like Bolt who are merely invisible ghosts behind a curtain.
What can we now expect from Rupert Murdoch’s successor, his son Lachlan? Don’t hold your breath waiting for Murdock 2.0 to take his family media colossus down a path any less plutocratic. Lachlan doesn’t have much E. W. Scripps in him. Back in 2019, he spent $150 million on an 11-acre estate in L.A. At that time, Lachlan’s new home rated as the second-most expensive U.S. mansion ever purchased.
Source: Not All Media Titans Were as Dastardly as Rupert Murdoch | The Smirking Chimp
Transparency when do we want it NOW!!
It can’t be correct that a government-of-the-day can, by defunding its FOI apparatus, steals away a right given to us by Parliament to have timely access to information useful for scrutinising that very same government. Rex Patrick is taking his FOI fight to the Full Bench of the Federal Court.
Source: Appeal for Transparency: Rex Patrick takes secrecy fight to the Full Federal Court – Michael West
The record rainfalls triggering deadly floods in Libya and Greece dwarf the precipitation that caused Germany’s 2021 flood catastrophe, and are a grim reminder of the need to act on and adapt to climate change, said German climate researcher Mojib Latif in an interview with public broadcaster BR.
Mary Trump knows her uncle only too well and could go head-to-head with him in any interview. ” Call me Doctor Mr Trump”
Instead of embracing real pro-democracy journalism and consistently warning the American people about the proven dangers of Donald Trump and the larger neofascist movement, the country’s news media continues to normalize him. The most recent prominent example of this type of media malpractice is NBC’s decision to give the ex-president a platform on last Sunday’s edition of the venerable TV news program “Meet the Press.”
President Biden has said “the world faces the biggest risk of nuclear Armageddon since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.” The context of Biden’s statement came a month earlier on September 21, 2022, when Putin warned the West he was not bluffing when he said he would be ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia against what he said was “nuclear blackmail.” Earlier, in an April 21, 2021, speech, Putin said:
We really do not want to burn bridges. But if someone mistakes our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intends to burn or even blow up these bridges, they must know that Russia’s response will be asymmetrical, swift, and tough. Those behind provocations that threaten the core interests of our security will regret what they have done in a way they have not regretted anything for a long time.
Source: Is World War III About to Start? Part I: Drift Toward War – scheerpost.com
Indigenous Australians call her and Warren Mundine “Plastic Blacks”. They are Black. But they are the Ken and Barbie trophies of Dutton’s white world making false claims about who elected them and who they represent. Indigenous Australians have not elected either of these two to speak for them in any capacity yet they get the mainstream media attention that the majority of Indigenous Australians don’t. Stan Grant and Adam Goodes have all but been silenced Marcia trampled and Noel ignored. Even the Indigenous Australians who want “Treaties Now” and no Voice are getting greater attention despite the fact they aren’t the majority.
The conservative senator was elected thanks to suburban voters in Darwin and Alice Springs not remote communities she aims to champion
He has damaged democracy and civil discourse and journalism itself. The behaviour of News Corp has on occasions been reprehensible, for which I think Rupert must take the blame.
Source: Why is Rupert Murdoch stepping aside now and what does it mean for the company?
Here are three essential reads from The Conversation about Murdoch and Fox News and how they have shaped the American media and political landscapes.
Fakery is not beyond Rupert Murdoch if you witnessed his performance in the UK inquiries. Back then he did an Alan Bond impersonation.
Rupert Murdoch, who has for decades promoted global elites who rape and pillage government finances around the world, has faked his resignation as executive chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp to avoid his legal and financial labilities for his countless crimes.
Whatever the changes, A.J. Bauer is surely right in quashing any assumptions that Fox News “would suddenly become a bastion of journalistic integrity.” The rot, its dank and enervating properties, has well and truly set in, blighting journalism in toto and subordinating political classes too afraid to admit otherwise.
Rupert Murdoch has announced that he is becoming ‘Chairman Emeritus’ of News Corp and Fox Corporation, leaving his previous co-chair, favoured son Lachlan Murdoch, to be in charge of both, all by himself. What’s the scam?
Source: Stepping down? Will Chairman Emiritus Ruper Murdoch still pull the strings? – Michael West
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems to love waving around cartoonish props at the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. This year his theme was the likelihood of an Israel-Saudi rapprochement, which is being pushed by the Biden administration despite the abysmal Saudi human rights violations and despite Netanyahu’s ongoing destruction of the last vestiges of Israeli democracy.
Source: Israel’s Netanyahu at UN Wipes Palestinians off the Map, Menaces Iran with “Credible Nuclear Threat”
After the brazen killing of a high-profile Canadian Sikh activist in June, FBI agents visited several Sikh activists in California this summer with an alarming message: Their lives were also at risk.
How the worm turned in just 50 years when the US drew us into a war with the Communists of Vietnam. We lost to what the majority of the Vietnamese people wanted. Today the US is ready to arm them, friends to prepare them against China.
The Biden administration is in talks with Vietnam over an agreement for the largest arms transfer in history between the ex-Cold War adversaries, according to two people familiar with a deal that could irk China and sideline Russia.
Source: Biden administration in talks with Vietnam for arms deal that could irk China – India Today
My thought for the day
We dislike and resist change in the foolish assumption that we can make permanent that makes us feel secure. Yet change is part of the very fabric of our existence. (John Lord )
Source: The ALP is best prepared to take us into the future – » The Australian Independent Media Network
(1) 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). Wikipedia:
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me –
And there was no one left to speak for me.
By Anthony Haritos Yes, we were cheap. And we were very nasty. Yes, we did fuck your mind over. Yes, it’s true; we did twist your moral compass completely out of shape so that you’d never ever remember you ever ever had one. Because – and this is a tad difficult since I feel we’re…
Source: On the day of Murdoch’s retirement… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Across a 70-year career as the head of News Corporation – a non-state political actor and conservative social engineering project disguised as a news media company – Murdoch has innovated, refined and perfected methods of inflicting misery and dulling minds all across the Western world, at great distance from his physical, shrivelled shell. If the world’s information flows like a stream, Rupert Murdoch has for seven decades been a strain of E. Coli tainting the waters.
Source: Fuck Rupert Murdoch – The Shot
Why is he voting No in Australia? This just might be a clue
Lachlan believes in the reality of “systems” agreeing with Tucker Carlson’s “great replacement theory”. Which makes him more Hansonite and fiercely anti- Multiculturalist. But when it comes to Indigenous Australians who can’t be deported from their land, and can’t be “sterilised”, as proposed by Lang Hancock Gina’s land-grabbing father, he claims like Dutton and the No campaign there is no “systemic racism in Australia”. Only a Woke lack of acceptance and antipathy to be allowed to complete a process of unfinished re-education or Assimilation. Which has continuously failed for 250 years or should we be clearer for 50 years since the 1969 referendum recognizing Australia’s First People.
In fact, if it’s not racist, why does it sound so very pro-Chinese leaning toward their necessary process of the re-education of the ethnic Uyghurs? Or so Russian where Siberia is a place elected for the special psychiatric re-education of any individual opposition to Putin. Murdoch like Dutton like all No campaigners is all over the shop encouraging neo-Nazis to come out and openly walk our streets at the behest of the No campaign.
He has also defended Tucker Carlson’s airing of the “great replacement theory,” a conspiracy theory that falsely alleges that white people are intentionally and systematically being replaced by immigrants, and continuously argued that Fox News’s coverage is both balanced and fair.
Source: Lachlan Murdoch “considerably more brutal” than his father
Murdoch allegedly believed that he could plead the First Amendment, which attests to a dismal level of knowledge about US law. The First Amendment protects individuals from the US government, it doesn’t give people carte blanche to destroy the reputations of others with malicious lies. And while courts seek a high bar for libel cases in the US because of the First Amendment pledge of free speech, unlike in the UK, they haven’t set them aside entirely, and there have been recent landmark libel cases. I’m only hoping that Dominion opened a floodgate, and that further suits against Fox are forthcoming. It is a cancer in the body politic, of deliberate lies, hatemongering and warmongering on behalf of big capital, and we desperately need to be cured of it as a nation.
“In Fox News, Murdoch created a uniquely destructive force in American democracy and public life, one that ushered in an era of division where racist and post-truth politics thrive.”
Source: Rupert Murdoch’s retirement won’t break Fox News — yet | Salon.com
Indigenous Australians are as divided by income and wealth as any group in Australia however, the fact is 1 in 2 First Nation Peoples live far, far, below the poverty line, which isn’t the case for Australians as a whole. They are represented as the lowest on every social metric. Price and Mundine are regarded as “coconuts” or “plastic “Koories” and not real Indigenous Australians as they aren’t part of the majority or 70% nor do they accept the generation after generation of social trauma and the consequences passed down by colonialism that haven’t been resolved for 250 years. The fact, that Indigenous Australians weren’t even recognized as full citizens until 1969. And they still remain under the administration of an Aboriginal Affairs Department whose promises budgets, plans, and strategies have changed like the weather with minimal success.
Yes23 is a simple request to be listened to with the hope of more self-administration of social welfare and other issues decided “in the communities” by being allowed some input by the First Nation peoples themselves. To be allowed the self-respect that was never allowed to grow and develop.
Stan Grant Adam Goodes, Jacinta Price, and Warren Mundine might all be part of the middle-class professional minority but they too are divided in who they are speaking for. As are Noel Pearson Marcia Langton and Lidia Thorpe. The Upper class Indigenous are as politically divided as white people are but their divisions are better resolved among the First Nations Peoples themselves than the Colonial political system imposed on them by the white fella that’s failed them until now. The Voice and/or Treaty might reveal the complexity and political division among Indigenous Australians but The Uluru Statement and process that resulted in the request for a Voice is the majority and result of by Indigenous Australians themselves. That year of effort put in was dismissed by the Turnbull LNP without discussion politically pushed by Dutton’s far-right “Monkey Pod Room”, a far-right minority of Liberals and the National Party. Those who believe in ignoring and denying the reality and historical facts of colonialism and the reality of better outcomes of a Voice for Indigeneity given by most other Nations on the planet.
The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and diminishes us all. Why do we tolerate such behaviour?
Source: Freedom of the press barons? – Pearls and Irritations
By educating the public properly on the dangers posed by White supremacists, the mainstream media holds the power to diminish the neo-Nazi threat, writes Tom Tanuki.
Rupert Murdoch was a poisonous force not just in America, and he meant to flood the world with his Goebellian opinions. He found Roger Ailes and accelerated which accelerated the process of chaos that unnerved Democratic nations. The UK admonished him in the 1980s but failed by not canceling his license and jailing him. However, by then he had made the US his base and Fox News his primary platform.
However, it all really began in Australia with the sacking of Gough Whitlam, and his destructive force continues today. China was much wiser than the West and the Anglosphere and simply “Kicked him out”. Murdoch’s been heaping his revenge ever since despite China’s request to silence lies and personal attacks. The search for truth based on verified data and rational analysis has been lost and Murdoch created the model that has been the yardstick for countless mimics across the planet. He’s a political force and to say otherwise is to be blind. He has even appointed mad monk Tony Abbott to his board of directors.
“Murdoch created a uniquely destructive force in American democracy and public life, one that ushered in an era of division where racist and post-truth politics thrive”
Rupert Murdoch is a major media figure, but he may not be as influential as most people think.
He owns 175 Non-News but poisonous Opinion Papers around the world and “Floods the Anglosphere with Shit”. However, since his $750M loss to Dominion Systems truth has pushed back and is defending more cases globally. His last chance at reprieve is to ensure Trump’s election win in 2024 but knows he can’t trust him or even his own family after he’s gone to maintain his poisonous empire.
Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he is handing over the reins to his son has drawn a range of positive and negative responses across the political world.
Source: Rupert Murdoch retires, drawing praise and criticism around the world
“The aspirations of Aboriginal Australians are expressed through a political system designed, first and foremost, for the white majority.”
Source: We have failed the First Nations people – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Racism, corruption and profiteering plague the system that governs Indigenous issues in Australia, with an urgent need for a permanent Voice to set things right, writes Craig Hill.
Source: White greed and corruption motivations for Indigenous Voice
Is this riding the Inflation high? What does it do for ordinary Australians if the surplus isn’t spent on the poorest of us?
Sky-high prices for Australia’s commodity exports and robust jobs growth have helped the federal government land a much bigger surplus than expected.
Source: Federal budget back in black for first time in 15 years
Managing editor Michelle Pini details why Peter Dutton’s latest nuclear energy push is actually “unhinged”.
Source: Melting down the Coalition’s clean, green nuclear spin
“War is good for business.” So reads a quote from an arms industry executive in a recent Reuters article titled “At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business” about Europe’s biggest arms show, the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International. You will probably be unsurprised to learn that Reuters does not name the war profiteer whose quote inspired their headline.
Source: War profiteers are a sign of a profoundly sick society – Pearls and Irritations
The focal shift from Russia in Europe to China in Asia is less a mechanism for coping with defeat than the pathological reaction of a country that, feeling a gnawing sense of diminishing prowess, can manage to do nothing more than try one final fling at proving to itself that it still has the right stuff – since living without that exalted sense of self is intolerable. What is deemed heterodox, and daring, in Washington these days is to argue that we should wrap up the Ukraine affair one way or another so that we might gird our loins for the truly historic contest with Beijing. The disconcerting truth that nobody of consequence in the country’s foreign policy establishment has denounced this hazardous turn toward war supports the proposition that deep emotions rather than reasoned thought are propelling us toward an avoidable, potentially catastrophic conflict.
A society represented by an entire political class that is not sobered by that prospect rightly can be judged as providing prime facie evidence of being collectively unhinged.
Israel has imposed a partial siege on the Palestinian Gaza Strip since 2007, when a coup attempt against the elected Hamas government failed. UNCTAD estimates that the Israeli occupation costs the Palestinians of Gaza about $16.7 billion per decade, so by 2027 that would be $33.4 billion. The difference between a decent life and crawling on trash hills to find the wherewithal to live. Elements of the siege constitute war crimes. As for the exodus of Palestinian youth, that has been hailed as a goal of Israeli policy by right wing members of the Israeli parliament. Unfortunately, since Palestinians are kept stateless by Israel, they are not wanted in most countries, and those who leave often find a watery grave in the Mediterranean or end up undocumented and with blighted lives abroad.
Source: Israeli Export Ban Piled Economic Misery on Palestinians of Gaza, as Youths increase Emigration
Winning and Losing isn’t the case here. What we are witnessing is Steve Bannon’s strategy of “flooding the zone with shit” for the purpose of fragmentation, division, and destruction of people’s lives and not serving, everyone a loser. Despite all the incontrovertible facts at the center of this “Our” story, no matter how clear a case the Yes23 makes, it will be highly likely that no single version of the truth according to the pollsters is ever going to be accepted.
We’re in an age of manufactured nihilism.
The issue for many people isn’t exactly a denial of truth as such. It’s more a growing weariness over the process of finding the truth at all. And that weariness leads more and more people to abandon the idea that the truth is knowable.
It’s “manufactured” and a consequence of a deliberate strategy. It was perfectly distilled by Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News and chief strategist for Donald Trump. “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon reportedly said in 2018. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
The No campaign doing just that and with x 10 the money being spent than by Yes23
Bannon articulated the zone-flooding philosophy well, but he did not invent it. In our time, it was pioneered by Vladimir Putin in post-Soviet Russia. Putin uses the media to engineer a fog of disinformation, producing just enough distrust to ensure that the public can never mobilize around a coherent narrative.(Vox 2020)
The cliché about disunity being death in politics sure doesn’t apply to the No campaign. It’s all over the place, and it’s winning.
Source: ” The… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook
It’s so easy to jump onto the Trump Equivalence bandwagon saying there’s good and bad on both sides when there’s clearly not. There is a distinguishable difference between right and wrong and that’s conveniently thrown out the window. Equivalence and postured neutrality under the current circumstance opens a larger can of worms that declares past history that has led us to our present status quo is fine. It’s over so it’s better not to do anything.
However, doing nothing has proven to be a moral and ethical dilemma unless of course, you don’t believe in the recognition of equality or Universal Human Rights. However, Peter Dutton maintains he does, but just not right now. So why not now Mr Dutton if this referendum is simply a moral and ethical issue more than just a political or technical one? Any second referendum could be held whenever true Rights and equality were believed achieved, and there was no longer any need for an Indigenous Voice. However, the data to data says otherwise. There is a need and it’s urgent. Listening to a Voice should be guaranteed for all most downtrodden in our Democracy at all times and written into our Constitution shouldn’t it?
It seems the party of Robert Menzies has lost its soul. Were he alive, the liberal Ming would no longer recognise the party that carries the liberal name but has morphed into a rabble consisting, with a few notable exceptions, of MAGA Trumpers, self-serving property owners and aspiring rich listers, and religious zealots at the loopy end of U.S.-style Christian evangelism.
Source: Both major party leaders damaged by Voice Referendum
Let’s set the record straight, please. Slavery and people trafficking was fine according to British thinking in the day. A Christian, God-given right and quite justifiable. So why does Jacinta Price for a moment think that Indigenous Australia was an exception to that belief? The thought that Indigenous blacks in Australia were considered differently to those elsewhere and benefited from colonisation?
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comment that: … she did not believe there are any ongoing impacts of colonisation, but in some cases, a “positive impact”. … begs to be disputed. There is zero positivity in the planned extermination of the world’s oldest culture. But that was the plan. However, in fairness to Senator Price she,…
Children were taken away under government policies of protection and assimilation aimed at having indigenous people adopt European culture and behaviour to the exclusion of their family and background. The assimilation policy presumed that, over time, indigenous people would die out or be so mixed with the European population they became indistinguishable (The Path to Reconciliation, 1997, p 24).
Yes, I would argue that the total extermination of Australia’s Indigenous people was deliberately intended. If not by the bullet, then by the policies of those governments that saw them as a stain on white purity. God favoured the white man and they set out to do His work.
Source: The sad truth – » The Australian Independent Media Network
How is it that Peter Dutton says “It’s a Labor and a Union fault” and Albanese doesn’t. But then at the same time, he doesn’t address it? Corporate profits are rising in the sector that’s been pointed out to be the biggest of our tax evaders, the biggest thieves of workers’ wages and superannuation, the biggest scammers of government-provided services, the biggest employers of casualized and temporary imported labor, and the biggest investors in AI technologies to reduce labor altogether yet as Fels and every data collector tells is raising prices?
When the political center has drifted so far right of center any moderate left-wing opposition gets to be labeled extreme left allowing for indecision and nothing done. Albanese’s small target tactics in his first term doesn’t bode well for a more progressive second.
Corporate profits have continued to soar, driving inflation while effectively reducing workers’ wages.
The findings from the Australia Institute’s Centre for Future Work found salaries have not kept up with inflation as companies mark up prices and record sky-high revenues.
The evidence “couldn’t be any clearer”, the centre’s director Jim Stanford said.
Corporate profits will need to take a hit.
Source: Soaring corporate profits fuel inflation, shrink wages
No Celebration will come from voting No
Australians have been able to witness the voter remorse that can arise when a nation votes on a specific question of policy in a referendum that has the potential to set their country on a new course. Referendum questions with that level of significance don’t come along very often for democratic nations but when they do the cost of getting them wrong can be far bigger than we might expect.
Source: Remember Brexit? Australians will regret voting No on the Indigenous Voice – Pearls and Irritations
In winter 2022, at a hideaway in St Barts, Rupert Murdoch directed “sudden fury” at Donald Trump, who he thought would lose the 2024 Republican presidential primary to Ron DeSantis, but who the media mogul also said was likely to cost him “fifty million dollars”, through a lawsuit regarding Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
The lawsuit was filed by Dominion Voting Systems, over Fox News’s broadcast of Trump’s lies. Settled this April, it cost Murdoch considerably more than he predicted: $787.5m, to be precise.
Wolff’s new reporting may cause further embarrassment for Murdoch and Fox News.
Source: National Times – Rupert Murdoch thought $787.5m Dominion suit… | Facebook
One such event might be questionable but several starts to be as suspicious as Russian Oligarchs accidentally falling out of hospital windows. PM Modi has a noted history when it comes to the blood spilled by Hindu Nationalists.
Of late, that lack of conspicuousness has been challenged. On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that there were “credible allegations” that agents in the pay of the Indian government had murdered Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal supporter for an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan and deemed by Indian authorities since 2020 to be a terrorist. He was alone in his truck when he was shot to death on June 18 outside the Surrey temple, Guru Nanak Gurdwara.
The Indian response was predictably sharp, with New Delhi also expelling a “senior Canadian diplomat,” asking the individual to leave within five days. Prior to that, the Canadian high commissioner to India, Cameron MacKay, was summoned for a bit of an ear-bashing, while the Indian Ministry of External Affairs expressed the “Government of India’s growing concern at the interference of Canadian diplomats in our internal matters and their involvement in anti-India activities.”
They still line up to do his work in hope
On Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, sued the former New York mayor for more than $1.3 million in allegedly unpaid legal fees dating back to 2019. That lawsuit, Costello says, is a consequence of Trump’s own refusal to pay Giuliani for years of work as Trump’s personal attorney.
Costello, whose biography touts his 40-plus year of litigation experience, told me Tuesday that Bannon was the first client “I’ve ever had to sue for fees.” Giuliani was the second.
Bannon and a Trump spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
Lawyers for Trump have landed in legal jeopardy due to his lies. They’ve been forced to testify against him, sanctioned, fined, stripped of law licenses, sued, and indicted.
Source: Trumpworld Lawyers Keep Getting Stiffed on Fees – Mother Jones
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