Tag: Complacency

Morrison pins his hopes on the complacency or ignorance of voters – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Morrison’s advantage is that his unstated quid pro quo relationship with a corporate MSM, a private media which assists by producing a numbing mist and not News. A cocktail of sport, entertainment, and a scattering of trivial reports sold as but what it isn’t “News”. It’s actually a distraction a soporific fake product. Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins started a conversation at the NPC and 60 Minutes follows it up with Morrison hiding behind his wife Jenny’s skirt. The issue of Morrison and te Sexism in Canberra diffused rather than addressed proves and speaks to Tame and Higgin’s claim that Morrison has done nothing.

Murdoch doesn’t even hide the fact that they aren’t a News organisation anymore but use the term “opinion” to cover up their primary function propaganda, or a cash for comment business model. Meanhile  Morrison’s LNP shreds our Democracy and the ABC to consolidate their’s and Murdoch’s model of and transition to one party rule.

By Mike Scrafton We’re facing a climate calamity, yet the PM believes Australians are more focused on the next holiday than threats to their children’s future. In his recent address to the National Press Club, Prime Minister Scott Morrison typically infantilised voters and kept the focus on economic growth. He believes the voters, cocooned in their cloistered suburbs, are oblivious to the threats that will crush their children’s future prospects.

Source: Morrison pins his hopes on the complacency or ignorance of voters – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Is This Goodbye to the American Republic?

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk by fighter jets in front of a big American flag

It seems clear that [Attorney General William Barr] will do or enable anything to keep Trump in office. And Trump will do anything to stay there. Suspension of the election, negation of the results, declaration of martial law are not simply fanciful, alarmist or crazy things to throw out there or to contemplate. Members of Congress, governors and state legislators, leaders in civil society, lawyers, law enforcement figures and the military need to be thinking now about how they might respond”

via Is This Goodbye to the American Republic?

Big game hunters are easy targets for our anger. It’s harder to recognize the evil we’re all complicit in every day

Lion: Our problem isn’t too much outrage — it’s that we can’t summon enough