PEN America may continue to exist, indeed its obsequiousness to governmental and corporate power will probably assure its funding, but it is a hollow brand used to justify the crimes and lies of the U.S. government and Israel.
Source: Chris Hedges: PEN America Self-Destructs – ScheerPost
The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that the Israeli police dispersed a crowd of demonstrators from a major Tel Aviv thoroughfare, Kaplan Street, after they attempted to block it, and that the police used water cannons on the crowd. At least 21 persons were arrested.
Source: Thousands Protest in Israel, Demand Netanyahu Step Down, new Elections, Hostage Deal
America has arrived in Australia in the form of the LNP
A group of conservative Liberals are war-gaming to roll party president Greg Mirabella and the more moderate members of the powerful administrative committee, prompting fears of a conservative takeover of the Victorian division.
Source: Victorian politics: Conservative Liberals plan to roll party president Greg Mirabella
Andrew Bolt clings to the IPA like a leech for their intellectual narratives
For the IPA, the history of settlement and dispossession, however lamentable, forms no part of the referendum proposition on the table. For them, the present disadvantage of Indigenous Australians, again however lamentable, owes more to the way that Indigenous Australians have allowed themselves to become pauperised and impoverished by welfare systems, and encouraged to think of themselves as helpless victims rather than actors in their own personal advancement. They want to persuade people that rights and assistance should be stripped away, arguing, that “woke” policies and government interventions, however well intentioned, have not improved their situation and generally have made it worse. For them, only policies based on personal responsibility, providing individual rather than collective rights and rewards for work, will create the wealth, human, social and economic capital, and incentives to lift people from their misery. The inequality, and material and spiritual poverty of the US is a testament to the truth of their gospel. Depriving the IPA and their sponsors of their special privileges and advantages, and their access to the power they enjoy should be one of the more com
Source: Voice vote may demand blood in the water – Pearls and Irritations
While diversified and screaming for unity this planet is divided and disjointed by minorities in power some with clear Human Rights and others with clear Human Wrongs.
A report published this week by Save the Children revealed that 1 in 3 of the world’s poorest nations spend more on paying off debt to wealthy countries and investors than on educating its own children.
Source: 1 in 3 of World’s Poorest Countries Spend More on Debt Repayments Than Education – scheerpost.com
Morrison has managed to TRUMP the LNP
“Look at the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, the party that has abolished slavery – has now become the party of Trump, the party of Putin sympathisers and anti-vaxxers. “That is not in the Liberal Party’s interests.”
COAL-ition N-LP or L-NP, they still remain very divided. Morrison wants to maintain an unsigned International Agreement substituted by his religious “Committment” which makes him one with the world but neither the World, the Nationals nor we agree with him. His mentor afterall was Brian Houston.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is downplaying remarks made by a National Party colleague declaring the net-zero emissions target “dead”. Nationals Senator Matt Canavan said the internationally agreed target was “all-over”, despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison earlier confirming it was still the Coalition’s policy.
The L/– NP
198 View all comments Advertisement Nationals cabinet minister Bridget McKenzie has taken a swipe at her Liberal colleagues, including Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, labelling their support for a carbon neutral economy by 2050 the “worst kind of vacuousness over values”. The Victorian senator, who holds several regional-based policy portfolios, says too many federal MPs were worried about being “cool” rather than “the consequences of their decisions”.
Source: Climate change: Josh Frydenberg criticised by Bridget McKenzie over net zero emissions targets
It’s a Labor landslide in WA. Mark McGowan’s party may end up with 41 seats as the Liberal primary vote collapses 15% , and it’s all over bar the infighting and the recriminations. Yet one thing is sure. The fall of “Emperor” Colin Barnett can have nothing to do with Malcolm Turnbull; no blame no…
Source: WA Liberal landslide buries Turnbull and Hanson. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Are Jews of Middle Eastern, North African and Spanish descent discriminated against in Israel?
Bronwyn Bishop, a small but perfectly formed seethe of indignation after being cast adrift, has things that must be set to rights, you might be sure.
The Liberals have lost touch with mainstream Australia, and now conservatives could drag the new PM down before he starts.
Source: Malcolm Turnbull’s first task: soothe the angry beast in the Liberal Party
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