Tag: Informed Opinion

Peter Dutton

Slow implosion of Liberal Party accelerates under Dutton

The facts are that the Liberal Party’s lurch to the far-distant depths of Right-wing politics began during the ’90s, so if anyone should claim credit for the inevitable destruction of the Liberal Party, it’s probably John Winston Howard.

How Howard screwed the Libs How Howard screwed the Libs John Howard somehow made his way into power in Australia, staying PM for 11 long years, yet his divisive legacy may marginalise the Liberal Party for far longer than that.

It’s true that Dutton is holding firm to the Coalition’s core policy framework, rooted as it has been in fear, hate and otherness, which helped to get Howard elected an inexplicable four times. And yes, this essentially unchanged platform also helped propel Abbott and Morrison into power, with a short stint from the not-quite-as-Right Turnbull thrown in.

But this extreme Right-wing stance was not really in full view until Morrison took it to new evangelical heights and displayed its glory for all to recoil.

Source: Slow implosion of Liberal Party accelerates under Dutton

Enviroment

Party Policies on Koalas Revealed Ahead of NSW Election – » The Australian Independent Media Network

National polling conducted by Roy Morgan Research in March last year found that:

  • 98% of Australians consider animal welfare to be important
  • 94% support laws that ensure animals are provided with a good quality of life
  • 97% support laws that ensure animals are protected from cruel treatment
  • 80% support government doing more to protect animal welfare
  • 82% support a national government fund to help farmers improve animal welfare practices
  • 74% support the creation of an independent body to oversee animal welfare
  • 85% support animal welfare laws reflecting community expectations and best-available science.

Key facts:

  • Australian Alliance for Animals has released a series of policy scorecards outlining party and candidate positions on animal welfare ahead of the NSW election.
  • Seven parties have expressed full or partial support for protecting koala habitat, banning puppy farms, etc.
  • Labor has committed to establishing an Independent Office of Animal Welfare.
  • Coalition haven’t committed to the Alliance’s policies, but have made a record $40 million funding commitment to animal welfare.

 

Australian Alliance for Animals Media Release Fate of Koalas Hangs in Balance as Party Policies Revealed Ahead of NSW Election. The Australian Alliance for Animals has today released a series of policy scorecards revealing where parties and candidates stand on protecting koala habitat, ending puppy farms, and other key animal welfare issues ahead of the…

Source: Party Policies on Koalas Revealed Ahead of NSW Election – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Capitalism

Capitalism Makes Everyone Bend to Its Will, Rich and Poor Alike

In his new book Mute Compulsion, Søren Mau argues that to understand and end capitalism, we need to analyze how it not only subordinates the poor to the rich but in fact exerts economic power over everyone — including capitalists themselves.

Source: Capitalism Makes Everyone Bend to Its Will, Rich and Poor Alike

Russia

Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong – scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.

Source: Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong – scheerpost.com

George Pell

God says Cardinal George Pell will go to hell. Unless of course, God’s teachings in the Bible are a lie.Kangaroo Court of Australia

Above is only a small part of the evidence against George Pell and any true believer in God and his teachings should acknowledge that Pell has gone to Hell. That raises the question of why do people including Pope Francis continue to support Pell.

Source: God says Cardinal George Pell will go to hell. Unless of course, God’s teachings in the Bible are a lie.Kangaroo Court of Australia

Democratic Socialism

Democratic Socialism in Australia: reverse privatisation, embrace neutrality – Pearls and Irritations

Capitalism and “liberal democracy” are failing and destroying our world. In this, the second in a three-part series, we explore how Australia can halt the decline by reversing privatisation of public utilities and embracing a foreign policy based on neutrality.

Source: Democratic Socialism in Australia: reverse privatisation, embrace neutrality – Pearls and Irritations

Trump

Here is the real reason Trump will go down in flames in 2024 – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Here is the real reason Trump will go down in flames in 2024

Underscoring my claim that the story of Trump is now the story of a needy, desperate loser who refuses to move on, scores of social media users, including many of his own supporters, responded to the “major announcement” by blasting him for an obvious attention-seeking scam. One tweet asked, “How pathetic do you have to be to sell nfts of yourself photoshopped into various professions that you could never even dream of having?”

Source: Here is the real reason Trump will go down in flames in 2024 – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

America

Cult of denial: Lies, injustice and the new American way

IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN.

There are lots of problems with cults, but one is that they’re not terribly self-aware. The Make American Great Again (MAGA) “movement”, to frame it generously, lacks even the most rudimentary self-awareness. Many of its staunchest adherents – zealots, perhaps; those who disseminate their religion with furious keyboard strokes and oddly-placed capital letters (you’ll know them from the Kool-Aid running down their chins) – are not even cognisant of the ideology they’re embracing.

We all know there are Nazis at Trump rallies. There were Nazis at Charlottesville. There were Nazis storming the barricades during the attempted coup on 6 January. We all know the KKK endorses Trump. But the people who don’t know it, the people who deny it with every misspelled slur, every comedic self-own, are Trump supporters.

It’s weird. They don’t even know what they stand for.

Source: Cult of denial: Lies, injustice and the new American way

Socialism

You Can’t Have Socialism Without the Working Class

The task of socialists in 2022 is the same as it’s always been, says sociologist Vivek Chibber: to build working-class organization. That requires clarity about the central political role of the working class.

Source: You Can’t Have Socialism Without the Working Class

Peter Dutton

Dutton Dressed as Lamb: Dissecting The Image – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Conclusion: Dutton Dressed as Lamb I hope that this article has shone some light on the sheer crap that is the media’s attempt to rehabilitate The Dark Lord. As I said in the opening paragraph, his record in government is too recent and too well documented for this to work, but I thought I would add my voice to the chorus of detractors. No matter how much the media tries to create and run with this new Dutton, the people know who he really is. His recent (and central) role in a government so thoroughly rejected in the polls should be too much to overcome, but with our press, one can never be sure.

Source: Dutton Dressed as Lamb: Dissecting The Image – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Government

Everything Scott Morrison says is … – » The Australian Independent Media Network

There is absolutely nothing good one can find to say about the LNP. This diabolical, self-serving regime is made up of the worst type of political misfits ever seen in this nation! The LNP has degenerated into an internationally condemned pack of smug, totally ruthless, unconscionably cruel gang of lying, conniving, misogynistic bible-thumping hypocrites who don’t give a rat’s behind about anyone but themselves and their multi-millionaire, non-taxpaying donors in the Top 1%. Wake up, Australia and kick these smug, corrupt and self-serving parasites to the gutter at the next federal election – they do not care about you and never did!

Source: Everything Scott Morrison says is … – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trump

Opinion | George Conway: The beginning of the end for Trump? – The Washington Post

Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Oct. 9, 2021.

On Thursday, a judge in New York ordered Trump, along with his daughter Ivanka and his son Donald Jr., to testify within 21 days at civil depositions in the New York attorney general’s investigation of potential fraud at the Trump Organization. The judge’s opinion brutally rejected Trump’s arguments for blocking the depositions: It would have been “blatant dereliction of duty” for the attorney general not to take the testimony, the judge explained, because prosecutors have unearthed “copious evidence of possible financial fraud” in Trump’s business.That evidence includes a letter that might turn out to be, as a practical matter, the biggest blow Trump has ever suffered, even bigger than his six corporate bankruptcies and two presidential impeachments. A blow dealt not by prosecutors, plaintiffs, politicos or the press — but by his own longtime accountants.

Source: Opinion | George Conway: The beginning of the end for Trump? – The Washington Post