Tag: In Denial

Alt-Right

Will Ukraine Write the Alt-Right’s Epitaph? | The Smirking Chimp

Some of the greatest offenders—Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, the UK’s Nigel Farage—have spent the last three weeks trying to reinvent themselves as staunch defenders of Ukraine. A select few have doubled down on their idiocy, chief among them Thierry Baudet in the Netherlands and Tucker Carlson from the land of Fox News. White nationalists aside, Putin’s once formidable alliance of global sympathizers has been hemorrhaging support by the day. Putin’s overreach in Ukraine may ultimately prove his political demise. But has the alt-right, in losing a massive political gamble, also earned a return ticket to the fringes from whence it came?

Source: Will Ukraine Write the Alt-Right’s Epitaph? | The Smirking Chimp

Government Madness, LNP Government

Sisters arrested in $5.4 million day care fraud case free on bail

What a joke the government is congratulating itself for having paid out $5.4 mill in 2 weeks. That’s like the banks saying “but it was only one mistake repeated 57,000 times and we have nipped it in the bud”. Simon Birmingham shouldn’t be sacked for not knowing but simply for congratulating his department and treating the Australian electorate like idiots. (ODT)

 

The group allegedly backdated the children’s care by four months to a single day in March, claimed they were cared for up to 14 hours a day, five days a week, and received $5.7 million in government rebates and benefits over two weeks.

“The message today is that greed on this scale will not be tolerated by authorities,” acting AFP commander Kate Ferry said after the arrests on Thursday.

On Friday, Education Minister Simon Birmingham congratulated officers in his department for their role in monitoring non-compliance.

“The Turnbull government continues to crack down on rorters, and actions like this should send a further message to people who try to rip off the child care system,” Mr Birmingham said.

via Sisters arrested in $5.4 million day care fraud case free on bail

Murdoch Media

News Corp magazine’s provocative ad for interns an ‘error in judgment’: News Corp denies the truth of their thinking.

Ad featuring photograph of young woman in lingerie posed on a bed, headlined ‘Interns wanted’, since removed

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Sunday Style’s apology for the intern ad posted on their Instgram account. Photograph: Twitter

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News Corp Australia’s most popular magazine insert has advertised for fashion interns by using a photo of a young woman dressed in underwear on all fours on a bed.

View image on Twitter

The ad, since removed, was posted on Instagram and asked people who were interested in being a fashion intern to email their CV “or tag friends who might be good candidates”.

Murdoch’s glossy magazine insert, Sunday Style – which appears in weekend papers the Sunday Herald Sun and the Sunday Telegraph – conceded “an error in judgment” in posting the ad for interns.

“We made an error in judgment today with an image used in a recent Instagram post calling for interns that has since been taken down. We take our intern program seriously and apologise for any offence caused,” read a post on the Sunday Style Instagram feed.

The original post – featuring the ad – was deleted.

A spokeswoman for NewsLifeMedia, the company’s magazine arm, declined to comment and referred Guardian Australia to the apology on Instagram.

Sunday Style has a circulation of almost 900,000 and is the most popular glossy insert in the newspaper market. The magazine features style, beauty and celebrity stories.

The intern ad was lampooned on Twitter after being brought to light by an Age journalist, Suzanne Carbone, when she posted it on Twitter, although many Twitter users believed the original was a parody.