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Australia's Shame

CPAC Australia: hardline culture warriors rail against Indigenous voice, ‘fake news’ and ‘woke corporates’ | Australian politics | The Guardian

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said Australians should oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament as a way to stand against ‘woke insidious cancel culture’ and ‘city elites’Tony Abbott, a member of Advance’s advisory board, said defeating the referendum should be the ‘main focus’ of CPAC attendees.

Abbott went on to claim “hundreds of Aboriginal men would not have signed up to fight for king and country in 1914 and 1915 if they had been the subjects of a racist empire”.

The Australian War Memorial offers more context. Its website states about 1,000 Indigenous soldiers enlisted in the first world war, but “upon their return to civilian life they were treated with the same prejudice and discrimination as before”.

“By the end of 1915 it became harder for Aboriginal Australians to enlist, and some were rejected because of their race … Instructions for the ‘guidance of enlisting officers at approved military recruiting depots’ issued in 1916 state that ‘Aboriginals, half-casts, or men with Asiatic blood are not to be enlisted’,” the AWM website says.

Perhaps Abbott could have provided more detail.

Parroting a Trump catchcry wasn’t exactly surprising for the CPAC event, a local franchise of the long-running American conservative gathering. In keeping with its US roots, the event hosted a smattering of devotees of the Donald, alongside several Sky “after dark” favourites and one-fifth of the Nationals partyroom.

Source: CPAC Australia: hardline culture warriors rail against Indigenous voice, ‘fake news’ and ‘woke corporates’ | Australian politics | The Guardian

Liberal Party

View from The Hill: Without those ‘lefties’ the Liberals can’t regain government

McQueen – who ousted a moderate, former MP Trish Worth, to become a vice-president – is known for airing her frank opinions, often unhelpful for her party.

McQueen at the weekend told the Conservative Political Action Conference Australia: “The good thing about the last federal election is a lot of those lefties are gone. We should rejoice in that.

“People I’ve been trying to get rid of for a decade have gone, we need to renew with good conservative candidates.”

McQueen – who ousted a moderate, former MP Trish Worth, to become a vice-president – is known for airing her frank opinions, often unhelpful for her party.

The Liberals’ four federal vice-presidents are discouraged from speaking out publicly; when they do, they are supposed to get the okay of the party’s director.

Early this year, with McQueen in mind, the party’s federal executive passed a motion saying that until the election only the president and director could make public statements about federal party matters.

But McQueen, a regular contributor to Sky News, dismisses suggestions she should go quiet. Whether she remains as a vice-president after the 2023 Liberal federal council will be a test of the Liberal organisation.

Source: View from The Hill: Without those ‘lefties’ the Liberals can’t regain government

Far-Right

‘Key to white survival’: how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior | CPAC | The Guardian

Putin is now seen as the upholder of traditional Christianity.

After all, Fox News did it! They infact lead the applause heard in Western media and they did it as a team. Carlson, Ingraham, Watters all vocal but then when they realised the division they caused and the potential loss to Fox like all convictionless scammers  they backed off, scattered and ran for cover.

“Can we get a round of applause for Russia?” asked Nick Fuentes, on stage last week at a white nationalist event. Amid a roar of applause for the Russian president, just days after he invaded Ukraine, many attendees responded by shouting: “Putin! Putin!”

Source: ‘Key to white survival’: how Putin has morphed into a far-right savior | CPAC | The Guardian

Trump

‘We will win’: Trump hints at 2024 presidential run in first speech
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The not so united Conservatives

But not everyone supported Mr Trump. A separate question on the poll asked whether Mr Trump should run again in 2024 – getting a mixed result, with 68 per cent saying he should run and 32 per cent opposed or having no opinion.

‘We will win’: Trump hints at 2024 presidential run in first speech
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Fact checking Trump’s CPAC speech – CNNPolitics
American Conservative Union Holds Annual Conference In Florida

Trump repeated a bunch of other false claims we regularly heard from him as president, on subjects ranging from trade with China to his stance on the war in Iraq. He also offered up some new false claims about President Joe Biden’s early days in office. We are still going through the transcript of Trump’s remarks, but here is an initial breakdown of some of the things he said.

Fact checking Trump’s CPAC speech – CNNPolitics
Far-Right, Uncategorized

As CPAC Goes, So Goes the GOP. And It’s Not Looking Good. | Washington Monthly
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CPAC is not Conservative

It’s unconfirmed yet whether it was intentional or an unfortunate coincidence, but it seems at least symbolic that even the CPAC stage itself is shaped like a symbol adopted by Nazis and subsequent white supremacist movements.

All of it points to a grim future for the country if the movement currently animating the conservative movement holds majority power over the next decade. Defeat has not chastened the movement, but rather emboldened it. And if CPAC is the predictor it normally is, the next incarnation of Republican power will be even more aggressively racist and authoritarian than its predecessor.

But CPAC isn’t a sideshow. It’s the main stage of the conservative movement, predicting its future behavior in an era of widening asymmetric polarization. CPAC presaged the rise of the Party of Reagan over that of Gerald Ford and Dwight Eisenhower. It heralded the scorched-earth confrontational politics of Newt Gingrich in the Bill Clinton era. It elevated George W. Bush at a time when the mainstream GOP still saw itself more in the mold of John McCain. It celebrated the Tea Party before GOP legislators had fully embraced it. And it promoted openly racist birthers and conspiracy theorists like Donald Trump at a time when the the mainline GOP was producing superficially anti-racist autopsies and promoting candidates like Marco Rubio and Spanish-speaking Jeb Bush. So if we want to know where the Republican Party is heading today, we should pay close attention to CPAC. So what’s the theme now? Where is it going? The answer seems to be doubling down on Donald Trump, white supremacy, insurrection and conspiracy theories. One theme of CPAC this year is unwavering loyalty to Donald Trump, and an insistence that not only is there no conflict within the party over Trump, but anyone who suggests otherwise is a has-been or fifth-columnist attempting to subvert the movement:

As CPAC Goes, So Goes the GOP. And It’s Not Looking Good. | Washington Monthly
Alt-Right, Uncategorized

CPAC’s travelling show can pack up and go home. And stay there. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Nor do we need to kid ourselves that CPAC speakers are interested in debate. All we’ve seen and heard is personal abuse and an eagerness to win converts to conspiracies.

There is a world of difference between freedom of speech and being granted a licence to spread hate-speech. And the last thing our politicians need is to court the far-right or let themselves be used to legitimise your fear-mongering and your lies.

Forget the idea of a “multi-year, forever, project”. Once is way more than enough.

via CPAC’s travelling show can pack up and go home. And stay there. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Fox News, Uncategorized

Guess who said it: Tucker Carlson or a far-right shooter | Nathan Robinson | Opinion | The Guardian

‘Tucker Carlson’s rhetoric about non-white people has long been virtually identical to that of white supremacist terrorists in New Zealand and El Paso.’

Why has Carlson gone on holiday? To avoid the flack his bullshit caused and the number of advertisers lost.Even Andrew Bolt has dumbed down a little claiming he’s the victim. You shouldn’t be surprised to see them or simalr Murdoch men at CPAC Sydney (ODT)

The Fox New host’s nightly diatribes are making the US an ever more terrifying place for immigrants and people of color

Carlson’s rhetoric about non-white people has long been virtually identical to that of white supremacist terrorists in New Zealand and El Paso. Here, for example, is a passage from Carlson’s most recent book, on the topic of why “diversity” makes us weaker:

When confronted or pressed for details, [proponents of diversity] retreat into a familiar platitude, which they repeat like a zen koan: diversity is our strength. But is diversity our strength? The less we have in common, the stronger we are? Is that true of families? Is it true in neighborhoods or businesses? Of course not. Then why is it true of America? Nobody knows. Nobody’s even allowed to ask the question.

And here is an excerpt from the manifesto issued by the man who killed 51 people in a New Zealand mosque:

Why is diversity said to be our greatest strength? Does anyone even ask why? It is spoken like a mantra and repeated ad infinitum … But no one ever seems to give a reason why. What gives a nation strength? And how does diversity increase that strength? What part of diversity causes this increase in strength? No one can give an answer.

Guess who said it: Tucker Carlson or a far-right shooter | Nathan Robinson | Opinion | The Guardian

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts -Trump, Johnson, Morrison connected by Murdoch Media and paid for by the interests of the Silent Minority has destroyed Democracy

Brenton Tarrant

Fighting Fake News with Real; 11/8/19; The Inspiration and cement for toxic extreme Right-Wing Global Nationalism in Politics is Murdoch Media and it’s Business Model; Their consequences seen in Christchurch, El Paso;

Propaganda, Uncategorized

CPAC: how Australia’s rightwing speaking circuit went from ‘PR stunt’ to cash cow | Australia news | The Guardian

Far-right agitator and former Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos at Parliament House in 2017

The cash cow of the conservative circus make money at the Australian taxpayer’s expense. CPAC promoted by Sky After Dark for free  no tax all expenses on YOU!! (ODT)

There is no shortage of tourists keen to cash in on an apparent demand for their services in Australia

“I wouldn’t continue to seek opportunities in this space, and I wouldn’t have Penthouse continue to seek out opportunities in this space if it wasn’t profitable both in a monetary and a marketing sense,” he says

And the arrival of CPAC suggests conservative organisations around the globe agree.

“It’s really dragging the mainstream of conservatism to the fringes. There are figures now at CPAC who would have been considered beyond the pale of respectability a few years ago.”

“Members of the hard right in Australia follow American and British politics as much as they follow ours, they see Trump as this really important figure for the whole world because they believe he embodies the kind of global possibilities of the hard right,” he says. “We’re very much part of this global movement, or at least aspiring movement.”

via CPAC: how Australia’s rightwing speaking circuit went from ‘PR stunt’ to cash cow | Australia news | The Guardian

Australian Politics, Informed Comment, Uncategorized

Foreign influence in Australian politics – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Next week, Australia will host its first Australian Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. The organiser says the event will “not be a one-off” and that its US backers, the American Conservative Union (ACU), had committed to holding the event long-term.

You also get to hear from ACU’s executive director Dan Schneider and their chairman, Trump fundraiser Matt Schlapp, whose wife Mercedes is Trump’s Director of Strategic Communications. In his role as vice president of federal affairs at Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, Schlapp directed the major federal public policy strategies on anti-environmental and energy policies, financial markets, legal reform, and international and domestic tax issues.

For your entertainment, you can also listen to Nigel Farage – the man who so desperately wanted Brexit and then had no idea what to do with it when he got it.

Home grown contributions will come from luminaries like Craig Kelly, Mark Latham, Tony Abbott and Amanda Stoker as well as Fox News host Jeanine Pirro and sundry kids from the IPA.

The ACU have been involved with some shady fundraising practices in the past. Asked whether they saw an Australian conference as a financial opportunity, Cooper disagreed. “My perception of the ACU is that they are looking to spread their message,” he said. “If anything they are going to be investing in us for a long, long time.”

Considering how the government is going in the US and the UK, I fail to see what advice we could get from this bunch of tossers.

Unless it’s on how to put a fool in power.

via Foreign influence in Australian politics – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

Eyeing 2020, White House Steps Up ‘Socialism’ Attack on Dems | RealClearPolitics

Trying to portray Democrats as out of step with ordinary Americans, Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that the choice in the next election is “between freedom and socialism, between personal responsibility and government dependence.”

via Eyeing 2020, White House Steps Up ‘Socialism’ Attack on Dems | RealClearPolitics

Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

“All of a Sudden They’re Trying to Take You Out With Bullshit.” – Mother Jones

Democrats, he said, are “embracing open borders, socialism and extreme late-term abortion.” Around minute 75, Trump seemed to realize he’d already said too much. “I’m going to regret this speech,” he said, leaning into the microphone. “This speech should have been delivered one year from now—not now, damn it.”

via “All of a Sudden They’re Trying to Take You Out With Bullshit.” – Mother Jones

Media

The Breitbartification Of CPAC

“My biggest fear is that later this week I will be among the legions at CPAC rearranging the furniture,” wrote Andrew Breitbart just days before the first Conservative Political Action Conference of President Barack Obama’s administration. “Instead, the conservative movement needs to think in revolutionary terms.”Eight years later

Source: The Breitbartification Of CPAC

Conservative media fallout

CPAC’s Chairman Just Condemned The “Alt-Right.” He Will Host Steve Bannon On Thursday.

Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, said today that he condemns the “alt-right,” a loose affiliation of white nationalists, misogynists, and other deplorables that have gained increasing influence in the conservative movement. But don’t be too quick

Source: CPAC’s Chairman Just Condemned The “Alt-Right.” He Will Host Steve Bannon On Thursday.