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They want to shift their rhetoric from support for corporations and the morbidly rich to pretending they care about working people. This new organization will, they say, “think differently about labor vs. capital than Republicans have in recent generations.”
Conspiracy the true meaning of the word and it’s relationship to reality
“They had a damn insider on SCOTUS who they thought would help them overthrow our democracy. He’s married to a deranged MAGA cult member. He won’t even recuse himself,” wrote former federal prosecutor Richard Signorelli.
Murdoch led us to conspiracies which led us to even the more extreme QAnon mindset along with both militant, religious, and Far-Right groups in the USA and here. Australia’s own homegrown Christian-right dream of a theocratic-led state like ISIS and are calling for one openly.
Andrew Bolt declared, after the bombings in Barcelona, that the Australian Christian youths should have the same commitment as those bombers had in Spain. To the death, he wrote with the blessing of Murdoch’s media. Mind you he doesn’t have the same commitment himself but insists and drives others to have it. He went into immediate hiding for 4 days after the Christchurch massacre and then outpoured own denial to any violence. What did he mean when he said Australian Christian youth were gutless and needed to fight back? He certainly said it, wrote it, and they read it. The Australian militant mass murderer in Christchurch hero-worshipped and listened to a series of far-right guests giving voice to aggression on Andrew Bolt’s show. The Murdochs didn’t even profit from it yet they promoted it. The fact that Bolt admired the commitment to the death, of the Barcelona bombers says it all. He was a media crusader and recruiter for the radical right and as Judge Mordecai Bromberg declared a lazy and no-talented hack who had no regard for facts.
The same forces are in play in Australia: desperate people, stoked with existential dread at the crimes of the Elites, exacerbate each other’s sense of victimhood. They falsely claim the pandemic was manmade, and vaccines intended to control them or kill them slowly. They celebrate their pure blood and sperm. They wondered if they felt sick after gathering unvaccinated because the government had sprayed them with toxins. (Because conspiracies are unfalsifiable, every consequence of stupidity becomes fodder for paranoia.)
Source: Conspiracy: the disease that threatens our survival – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Email Twitter62 Facebook8.6k LinkedIn Print Scenes of protesters clad in hi-vis jackets and shouting anti-vaccination slogans have dominated the news this week.
As the ABC reported: Some of those gathered held a banner reading ‘freedom’, while others sang the national anthem and chanted ‘f*** the jab’. Some attacked union offices, drawing criticism from officials such as ACTU chief Sally McManus, who described the protests as being orchestrated “by violent right-wing extremists and anti-vaccination activists.” These images may shock some but for researchers like me — who research far-right nationalist and conspiracy movements, and explore the online spaces where these people organise — these scenes came as no real surprise.
Tucker Carlson’s own family could easily be targeted by the hate he spews. Despite his WASP name and demeanor, Carlson is descended on his mother’s side from Cesar Maurice Lombardi (1845-1919), a Catholic Swiss Italian who immigrated to the United States during the big wave of 1850-1924.
Let us just recall that in 1891 some of New Orleans’ most upstanding and prominent citizens participated in one of the largest mass lynchings in US history, of 11 Italian-Americans. Tucker Carlson’s great-great grandfather could have been among the victims if he had immigrated to that city.
Source: Tucker Carlson touts ‘Replacement’ Conspiracy Theory; but his own Ancestor could have been Lynched
It’s sort of like when Craig Kelly speaks and Scott Morrison says that we have free speech so I can’t disagree with him because we have free speech and I certainly can’t say that he’s an embarrassment to the party because I’m the PM and we can’t tell you our views on anything apart from our right to holiday. Gee, when this didn’t age well!
Why I Don’t Believe Anything Unless It’s From Some Conspiracy Theorist On The Internet… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
In Trumps purview the 75 year old Antifa agent provocatuer is to blame for everything. Just as the banks were for his 6 bankruptcies and the women that acred up when he grabbed their pussies (ODT)
The economists of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the group that determines when recessions begin and end, have officially declared that we are in a recession, which started in February, ending the longest economic expansion the nation has experienced.
Their working definition of recession is “a decline in economic activity that lasts more than a few months.” In a statement, the panel said “The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions.”
via The Smirking Chimp | News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
1 million Iraqis and 4,486 US service members killed. Another is the destabilization of the region, perpetuated by ISIS’ rise. The US, the UK and their allies went to war on the premise that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and that he had cooperated with al-Qaeda. As the 2004 Duelfer report to Congress revealed, there were no WMDs. It had all been fabricated.
via Will Bolton and MEK pull an Iraq War-like Chalabi-type Scam on Iran? | Informed Comment
The GOP suddenly grew a backbone.
Source: Republicans HUMILIATE Trump By Trashing His Pathetic ‘Illegal’ Voters Conspiracy (VIDEO) – US Uncut
If you’d have said a year ago that the US State Department, Google, and Al Jazeera had been collaborating in pursuance of regime change in Syria, chances are you’d have been casually dismissed as a ‘crank’ and a ‘conspiracy theorist’.
Source: Google this! Hillary Clinton and the Syrian regime-change conspiracy — RT Op-Edge
History shows us that propaganda is an inherent part of any wartime society, obscuring facts and motivations in favor of those who initiate and benefit from war
Source: The Conspiracy Of War — Power, Profit, Propaganda and Imperialism | Wake Up World
By Vanessa Kairies Earlier on in the year I was analysing a summary of the Budget. Of significant interest to me, was the tens of billions allocated to defence, including setting up a new military base in Afghanistan. I thought this was very odd at the time. I had many a conversation with folks trying…
Source: Tony’s war on terror – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The Courier Mail reported in its Sunday Mail edition that Timothy Paul Gear, 23, had been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, fully suspended for 18 months for child sex offences. Gear was the Chairman of the LNP Currumbin Branch and Secretary of the Gold Coast LNP. He had aspired to be a future member of parliament.
The Gold Coast remains a power base for the LNP with voters religiously voting blue. At the 2015 state election, despite MP for Mermaid Beach Ray Steven’s “chicken dance”at reporter Dave Donovan, despite MP for Broadwater Verity Barton’s three confessions to driving without a license and despite the huge swing to Labor, the Gold Coast seats remained barely dented.
So it came as no surprise that Gear, a school captain at Elanora State High School, began his political life with the LNP. He became a protege of LNP MP for Currumbin and former Newman Government Tourism Minister, Jann Stuckey. In 2008, Stuckey praised him in her online newsletter, saying, “Member for Currumbin, Jann Stuckey today congratulated three local students Timothy Gear, Benjamin Naday and Leigh Moran on their selection for the 2008 Queensland Youth Parliament.”
To Stuckey, he was simply the best. Hansard showed that on May 31, 2012, in an Address-in-Reply speech, she told parliament, “To my fantastic campaign team—Richard Stuckey, Carley McNeil, Tim Gear, Peter Barrett, Ben Naday, Anne and Robert Wright, Virginia Freebody and Minna Knight: you are simply the best.”
However, in 2014, a dark side to Gear began to emerge. He publicly admitted to trolling online. In political terms, trolling is the process by which a person uses social media to attack political opponents using anonymous accounts. These apparatchiks tow the party line by reposting messages from politicians of their party. They also attempt to dissuade other social media users from promoting ideas against the party by engaging in personal attacks, use of foul language and propaganda.
Claims that all sides of politics do it have been made before but no one has been so brazen as Gear about it. Labor candidate for the state seat of Burleigh Gail Hislop had blocked a Young LNP member from her facebook page. In response he threatened to, “set up troll accounts closer to the election”. It was then that Gear responded to this by writing, “We all have troll accounts”. The startling confession suggested there existed a network of political trolls on the LNP side.
At 21, he’d been caught by police posing as underage children in an online operation to catch sex offenders. He was charged with two counts “of trying to procure a child under the age of 16″. He entered a guilty plea. A spokesman told The Courier Mail that Gear had resigned from the party before the charges were known to the party.
Gear, now 23, was sentenced on March 16, 2015. He had made two previous court appearances, one in December of 2014 and another during the election campaign in January. His facebook page showed him campaigning with former LNP Premier Campbell Newman, former LNP MP for Brisbane Central Robert Cavallucci and a pre-election photo of Federal LNP Senator for Qld James McGrath. Sources have also told NoFibs Gear appeared with Stuckey during the campaign at Elanora State High School.
A senior member of the Gold Coast LNP, a declared campaigner for a Newman Government Minister and a self-confessed troll had been convicted of a sex crime. Yet, there was no media coverage of any court appearances or the allegations during or prior to the 2015 election. The report of his crimes only appeared 34 days after he had been sentenced.
What had elapsed during all that time?
On March 27, 2015, eleven days after the sentencing, the LNP began its assault on the Labor Government, pushing for a by-election over the allegations made against MP for Cook, Billy Gordon. The Courier Mail launched a barrage of anti-Labor front pages at the Palaszczuk Government. Speaker of the House Peter Wellington described the paper as attempting to “discredit this government”.
So, over the two year period, had the media simply missed the whole story? Possibly, but it seems unlikely when every week on the nightly news and online we hear the court reports on people we’ve never heard of.
A West Ipswich scout leader has been charged with making and sending child porn: http://short.ninem.sn/Y27btem . #9News
Conspiracy theories abound. The deception is almost water tight, however, there is one clear clue in The Courier Mail’s article which shows the outlet must have known all along of the Gear case. It’s the photo of him smoking with the caption, “Timothy Paul Gear after being convicted of child sex offences.” The photo could only have been taken by someone that knew Gear would be appearing on March 16, 2015 for sentencing. It would appear the paper embargoed the story so as not to distract from the upcoming LNP attack against Labor over Billy Gordon.
http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/03/30/39302/fnc-fnf-20150330-google
Three of Rupert Murdoch’s largest and most powerful news outlets promoted baseless conspiracy theories that Google is using its alleged “close ties” with the Obama administration to receive favorable treatment and to push its policy agenda. Murdoch has a long history of attacking Google.
On March 24, News Corp’s Wall Street Journal reported on the purportedly close ties between the Obama administration and Google after discovering that Google employees have visited the White House multiple times since President Obama took office. The piece went on to allege that Google used its ties with the White House to get favorable action from a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust probe into the company.
The New York Post (News Corp) went further on March 28 in an article titled “Google controls what we buy, the news we read – and Obama’s policies.” The article speculated that Google has used its influence and financial contributions to the Obama administration to receive favors including net neutrality regulation, favorable FTC action, and contracts to fix the Affordable Care Act’s website. The piece speculated on “what’s coming next: politically filtered information.”
21st Century Fox’s Fox News echoed the New York Post during the March 30 edition of Fox & Friends, with co-host Clayton Morris claiming “the same search engine that controls our news also controls the White House.” During the show, Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo claimed that Google was “being investigated, the president dropped it — net neutrality — Google wanted the president to go that way.” Bartiromo also speculated on whether Google was “editing” the news “to make it more favorable for the president.”
But the Wall Street Journal admitted that the “FTC closed its investigation after Google agreed to make voluntary changes to its business practices.” And the FTC pushed back critically to the Journal‘s piece, writing:
The article suggests that a series of disparate and unrelated meetings involving FTC officials and executive branch officials or Google representatives somehow affected the Commission’s decision to close the search investigation in early 2013. Not a single fact is offered to substantiate this misleading narrative.
Rupert Murdoch, head of both News Corp and Twenty-First Century Fox, has a history of attacking Google. Murdoch has accused Google of being “piracy leaders,” and in 2009 found himself in a war of words against Google and threatened to block his content from the search engine.
How many reports of clandestine actions by governments does it take before the excuse that it was the actions of rogue elements within the system and not the system iself does it take before we believe the Snowdens and Assanges of this world should be listened to and not destroyed. How many laws must we see changed at the expense of our freedoms to ensure government secrecy.
Who are the meglomaniacs Bush, Cheney Rumsfeld or Blair or those that tried to expose them?
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