Tag: lies

Israel

Israeli Army Abducts Nine Palestinians Near Ramallah

Hostages were abducted on the 10/7. However, Israel has abducted and killed Palestinians daily before and since 10/7 and we don’t hear the media wail on their behalf. If West Bank protested like Israel they knew they’d be shot by a greater military force.

Unlike Israeli hostages, like Noa who feared Israel more than her captors, those taken by Israel, we never hear are conflicted. They fear, and rightly so Israel.

On November 23 during the hostage exchange, we witnessed the expressions on the faces of those released by both sides. The smileless, and pained expressions on the faces of the Palestinians against the cheerful exchanges between the Israelis and their captors. Netanyahu and Israel were so shamed that was the last of further exchanges. Since then we’ve witnessed the Hannibal Directive in play along with Israelis freed but being silenced because if they had anything to say that was contradictory to the Israeli Government propaganda output

Israeli Army Abducts Nine Palestinians Near Ramallah

Immigration

Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants

Israel, Uncategorized

Israel ordered thousands to ‘safe’ areas in Gaza City — then bombed them
Palestinians flee the neighborhood of Al-Rimal in response to Israeli evacuation orders, Gaza City, July 8, 2024. (Ferial Abdu)

After fleeing west at the Israeli army’s instruction, Palestinians quickly found themselves encircled and under fire from tanks, drones, and snipers.

Israel ordered thousands to ‘safe’ areas in Gaza City — then bombed them

American Politics

Trump’s IQ

“You got to ask him, as far as Israel and Hamas, Israel is the one that wants to go. He said the only one who wants to keep going is Hamas. Actually, Israel is the one, and you should them go and let them finish the job. He doesn’t want to do it. He has become like a Palestinian. But, they don’t like him because he is a very bad Palestinian. He is a weak one.”

Trump called Biden a “Weak Palestinian:” is the P-word the new N-Word?

Israel

Red Crescent: Israel Never Reached Out About Hind Rajab Investigation

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It’s these types of conspiracies that Julian Assange would have revealed and been jailed for. 8 Reporters killed by an American helicopter gunship. This is what the American government regards as secret

The Israeli military never contacted the Palestine Red Crescent Society about Israel’s killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, her family members, and the paramedics sent to save her, a Red Crescent spokesperson told The Intercept, refuting the State Department’s first substantive remarks about the killing that took place 148 days ago. 

In the nearly five months since the killings, The Intercept repeatedly asked the State Department about the incident, the status of investigations, and how the U.S. could continue sending Israel aid if it could not get straightforward answers on the case. (U.S. policy requires foreign governments to provide assurances they won’t violate international law with U.S. weapons; the U.S. found that Israel likely violated law with American weapons, but did not act on the conclusion.) On almost every occasion, Miller said the U.S. was asking Israel to investigate. 

On February 14, for example, after The Intercept asked about the range of material available for an investigation to proceed, Miller said the question is “appropriately addressed to the government of Israel,” but that the U.S. wanted the incident to be investigated. Several times after, Miller either did not have an update on the “ongoing” investigation, or said the department would “come back” after getting an answer.

After nearly 150 days, the State Department finally came back with answers: ones that relied wholly on Israeli claims — assertions the U.S. admitted it did not attempt to verify, that deflated upon the slightest provocation.

Source: Red Crescent: Israel Never Reached Out About Hind Rajab Investigation

Israel

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Afterlives of Lies

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Unambiguous Rebuttal 

Answering the question posed in the headline atop their piece, Philps and Weiniger reply with an unambiguous “No”: there is no sound evidence whatsoever that Hamas militias, and others that crossed into southern Israel with them last Oct. 7, engaged in systematic, officially planned sexual violence against Israelis, women and men, during their attacks on various kibbutzim just across the Gaza–Israel border.

Source: PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Afterlives of Lies

Israel

Tony Greenstein’s Blog-We are Living in an Orwellian Dystopia Where Lies are the Truth & the Truth is a Lie

    The cars burn out as a result of Israeli Apache missile strikes

Today we see this playing out in Israel’s war on the Palestinians. Genocide is called Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ and ‘terrorism’ is the Palestinians’ resistance. If anyone is the terrorist it is the Israeli state whose military has destroyed every university, nearly every hospital and virtually all civil society infrastructure such as churches, mosques and schools.

Source: We are Living in an Orwellian Dystopia Where Lies are the Truth & the Truth is a Lie

Media

Mainstream Media Is Spreading Lies About Palestine Protests

Rather than acting as a check on the powerful, media outlets like CNN and MSNBC are allowing police to give their interpretation of student Palestine protests with few challenges, even in cases where police are blatantly lying or distorting the truth.

Source: Mainstream Media Is Spreading Lies About Palestine Protests

Israel

Celebrations in Gaza after breakthrough in ceasefire talks

Palestinians celebrate in Rafah after Hamas announced it had accepted a truce.

Israel yells “fooled ya”

“This would appear to be a ruse intended to make Israel look like the side refusing a deal,” said the Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Source: Celebrations in Gaza after breakthrough in ceasefire talks

Israel

Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies? | Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian

a side-by-side image of Antony Blinken, Unrwa's damaged headquarters, and Benjamin Netanyahu

Source: Which is worse, Israel’s lies about Gaza or its western backers who repeat those lies? | Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian

Israel

Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood

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Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.

…..the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified State Department cables obtained by The Intercept, is at odds with the Biden administration’s pledge to fully support a two-state solution.

Source: Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood

Israel, Israel Crimes

Sen Van Hollen Says Netanyahu Spreading ‘Flat Out Lies’ About UNRWA

Palestinians children at UNRWA school.

The Maryland senator defended the organization on CBS and said there was no evidence that it was a “proxy for Hamas.”

Source: Sen Van Hollen Says Netanyahu Spreading ‘Flat Out Lies’ About UNRWA

Trump

George W. Bush’s Iraq Lies Served as a Blueprint for Trump

WASHINGTON - MARCH 19: U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the nation March 19, 2003 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Bush announced that the U.S. military struck at "targets of opportunity" in Iraq March 19, 2003 in Washington, DC. Air defense sirens and anti-aircraft fire was reported briefly in Baghdad. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

It was a powerful piece of disinformation that became so deeply embedded in the American consciousness that it was nearly impossible to dislodge.

Source: George W. Bush’s Iraq Lies Served as a Blueprint for Trump

Murdoch Media

Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News: A network of treason, sedition and lies | Salon.com

Advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, adorn the front of the network's headquarters building in New York. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

I believe Tucker Carlson is one of the most notorious traitors to the United States — not to mention common sense — since the days of Joe McCarthy.

Source: Tucker Carlson, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News: A network of treason, sedition and lies | Salon.com

Australia's Shame

The lucky country? – Pearls and Irritations

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Australia is the spoilt offspring of an ultra-rich empire who gained wealth through exploitative, brutal means.

Just as the United States perpetuates its own destructive national myths, of exceptionalism and manifest destiny, Australia has its own. “The lucky country,”

Australians repeat to themselves. This book-title-turned-national-narrative is just as worthy of examination.

Source: The lucky country? – Pearls and Irritations

Far Right

I was right about why Lauren Southern ‘quit’ white nationalism

Why is Australia so important to the likes of Lauren Southern? The Publicity support and nurture given to her, and grubs like her, by Sky News which is global of course. Coupled with the political sympathy afforded her by Australia’s worst Immigration and Homeland Minister Peter Dutton, who’s now lost for something to do she trying to remain relevant. Lies, lies, and more enables a depleting income for Southern which has now been cut off down under by the ALP. Try to get a visa now Lauren your lies are on record and the world has turned its back. Andrew Bolt for something to do might continue to pay you for interviews from Canada but I doubt it.

Lauren published a lengthy video called The Whole Truth on Tuesday. It commits more than two painful hours to unending navel-gazing about all the white nationalist shit she’s ever said or done. She says in the video that she was declared a political extremist in many countries and that this stifled her ability to apply for international visas.

So, she essentially had to make a performance of “quitting” in order to get a visa here — and this strategy was almost immediately successful.

So, I think that means I was right all along. (Tom Tanuki )

Source: I was right about why Lauren Southern ‘quit’ white nationalism

Oil & Gas

Gas Lies: as super profits ramp up so too does the fossil fuel propaganda war – Michael West

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As fossil fuel corporations reap fabulous profits at the expense of Australian gas and electricity customers, the gas lobby is running a propaganda campaign calling for Australia to power the world, help Ukraine, let “the market” do its thing. The reality is there is no properly functioning market and this is all a PR distraction to combat the obvious solution to the crisis, that the government needs to earmark gas supply for East Coast customers. Callum Foote fact-checks the finance press.

Source: Gas Lies: as super profits ramp up so too does the fossil fuel propaganda war – Michael West

Scott Morrison

PM Morrison denies AUKUS mismanagement

Morrison calls France, America and Albanese and all verified and consistent reports liars and fake news. Just how like TRUMP is he?

Mr Morrison denied the veracity of the report, saying the government “absolutely complied with all of the issues that needed to be addressed in forming that partnership”. “We understood absolutely what the requirements were and we met them 100 per cent,” he said on Monday.

Source: PM Morrison denies AUKUS mismanagement

Scott Morrison

AUKUS deal: duplicity and deception behind Australia-UK nuclear submarine alliance

Talking AUKUS: US President Joe Biden virtually alongside British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House.

Australia’s reputation was diplomatically trashed by Morrison’s sting. He lied to both the French,and the Americans by not doing what he had promised while backstabbing Albanese. All in all, he singlehandedly compromised the integrity and reputation of our ADF. All of his duplicitous actions risked our National Security for what? His own personal interest, his entrenchment, and praise. Now he’s even losing that National Security political debate he held to be so precious because he’s the one still lying about what he actually did. The term National Security has actually dissolved to become Morrison Security.

Scott Morrison’s efforts by stealth to secure the AUKUS deal had global ramifications, with the French president enraged and the US president blindsided.

Source: AUKUS deal: duplicity and deception behind Australia-UK nuclear submarine alliance

Scott Morrison

AUKUS: Biden demanded bipartisan support before signing defence pact. Labor was not told for months

US President Joe Biden demanded bipartisan support from Australia before signing AUKUS.

Australia’s own GOLUM…. Imagine what an Integrity Commission would discover investigating his past 15 years. Yes, Morrison plays cricket with sandpaper in his pocket

What’s his name asked Biden ” That guy down Under”? Yes, that guy who wanted all the glory for himself  so risked jeopardizing the AUKUS. Only autocrats threaten a nation’s security by not doing what was agreed on with Morrison’s excuse “I thought they’d agree”.

Morrison took a punt for his own political glory and lied to everyone, which made him totally irresponsible, untrustworthy, and duplicitous. He lied to our American, British, French allies, and even us to get the deal done for his sake not ours. To say otherwise is to declare he was smarter and not reckless. He truley is “The Unbelievable One” second only to Trump and look what he did to America’s reputation. Morrison has trashed Australia in much the same way. Now the forever con man having been busted says he will change “that’s a promise”

By waiting four-and-a-half months, the prime minister made AUKUS into a high-stakes, last-minute political gambit.

Source: AUKUS: Biden demanded bipartisan support before signing defence pact. Labor was not told for months

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age revealed on Saturday that four-and-half months before the announcement on September 16, senior members of the Biden administration insisted that it would only consider pursuing the landmark AUKUS project if it had solid support from both major Australian political parties.

Instead, the Morrison government waited until the day before the announcement to brief Albanese and senior members of the opposition about the plan to build nuclear submarines with the help of the US and Britain.

Source: AUKUS pact: Albanese slams Morrison for not briefing him for months before announcement

Scott Morrison

Fact check: Scott Morrison misleads about Labor’s Help to Buy scheme

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Morrison simply can’t lie in bed straight. How can a liar be a “better Money Manager”?

TND fact-checked Mr Morrison’s claim and found it to be misleading.

Source: Fact check: Scott Morrison misleads about Labor’s Help to Buy scheme

Corporate Games, corporate impunity, Corporate Politics

Don’t Believe a Corporation That Promises to Do Better

Corporate responsibility pledges are an increasingly common response to public scrutiny. But trusting private companies to keep their promises hasn’t worked in the past, and it won’t work in the future.

Source: Don’t Believe a Corporation That Promises to Do Better

LNP, LNP Government

Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’ | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

Scott Morrison

We’ve lived with their lies and spin for a decade. Isn’t it time for service of the kind Labor provided with Whitlam, Hawke, and Gillard. Service that moves a Nation forward, The LNP has simply taken us to wars and held us back. Their goal has been to service us at the cost of our living experience feelings of certainty about tomorrow and our savings. Our marrow and childrens futures sucked up for the bottom line figures of  their corporate donors and supporters. It’s now a historical footnote witnessed by the number of actual bills passed. Their claim “We can’t rule” because the ALP won’t let us.. WAKE UP AUSTRALIA

Abbott and Credlin flipping carbon pricing into a tax (abetted by the then Labor government that rolled over too easily on the nomenclature) was the core of the weaponisation of climate policy that continues to this day. So every time one of the current generation of Coalition politicians utters the words carbon “tax” and Labor in the same sentence, understand this: they are lying, and worse, they are fully aware they are lying.

Source: Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’ | Katharine Murphy | The Guardian

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

They were trapped in immigration detention for nine years. Here’s what life after the Park Hotel looks like – ABC News

Two men stand next to each other.

Morrison simply can’t speak to the truth because to the truth of the matter would condemn and reveal him to be what he is on a larger and more intense scale than currently publicly seen. It’s why he’s currently being condemned by so many members within the Liberal Party and why so many are abandoning the Party in numbers and droves never seen before. The Party has shifted to no longer be  a diversity of individual opinions to become one of strategists tactitionsand liars to achieve one mans goal and win at any cost.

Should Morrison win this election the cycle of shattered promises and increased repression will be felt in the first year revealing truth and fakery. But shortly after Morrison’s campaign of lies and illusion will begin again with media aid forging a path to the election in 2025. Dealing in the lies is now the norm, to win the goal, ignore democracy, serve oneself and  a select group supporters and have those least likely to vote for you pay. Groups, organizations and Institutions like ABC, Universities, the Arts, were critical thought might flourish will be dismantled or neutered. Systems that maintain power and enable reward to trickle, no flow up not down strengthened. As a consequence decisions that serve the Nation merely secondary in intent. This has been the increasing autocratic nature of the LNP this century and their ever increasing move to the extreme and religious right.

Since arriving in Minnesota, local support groups have found the cousins a two-bedroom rental property, helped pay the bills and provided medical assistance. “As soon as we came here, they treated us with dignity,” Mehdi says. “Australia has never done that.” Former immigration minister in the Fraser government, Ian Macphee, says the Coalition’s track record with refugees makes him ashamed to be Australian. “People like Mehdi have committed no crime and yet have been locked up with no idea of when they’ll ever get out,” Macphee says. “The inhumanity of it is appalling, it’s racist and it’s hidden from most of us.” On March 24, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews announced Australia had agreed to New Zealand’s offer to take some of the boat arrivals, an offer made nine years ago. Mehdi welcomed the news but was sceptical: “I think they’re just trying to say before the election, ‘Look, we made a deal’.”

Source: They were trapped in immigration detention for nine years. Here’s what life after the Park Hotel looks like – ABC News

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- The Public Response Albo won. The Media’s Response Albo was a little better BUT

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 21/4/22; Facts 1) Morrison Lies Albanese Doesn’t 2) No ICAC because Morrison doesn’t trust the LNP 3) Frydenberg says “Fuck the Rules”

Informed Comment

Lies, damn lies and falling cats – » The Australian Independent Media Network

So when the prospective politician, regardless of their allegiance to orange, yellow, blue, red, green, teal or any other colour promises you the world on the glossy brochure, the well-produced television spot or the slick social media post during this election campaign, remember the term survivor bias and ask yourself if this is the answer to the real question. You also have the right to ask the ‘real’ question of your candidate and expect a reasonable and considered response. After all, if they get to Capital Hill, they are supposed to be working for you, not the ‘party hierarchy’ or political donors who expect a return on their investment.

Source: Lies, damn lies and falling cats – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Scott Morrison’s Lies, Character and Incompetence – » The Australian Independent Media Network

PART 1

This article will be broken up into 4 different sections: 1) Morrison’s lies, 2) Morrison’s character, 3) Morrison Government incompetence and 4) Media. In short compass, indeed call it an executive summary, I believe there is overwhelming evidence Mr Morrison lies to the degree that it should be called pathological, which of itself militates against his fitness of character to hold office, but then there are also very concerning alleged character flaws raised by members of his own party which is also may militate against his fitness for office, once proven. The Morrison Government is also extremely incompetent, and whilst some people may allege that incompetence can be taken to greater heights of accountability or culpability, in my view limiting my opinion to incompetence is enough for them to be voted comprehensively out of office. Finally, I consider our mainstream media, or Fourth Estate, to be suffering from condensed ownership problems, biased reporting in favour of the Liberal Party and as a result, the Australian public has lost faith in the Fourth Estate. Okay, so away we go.

Source: Scott Morrison’s Lies, Character and Incompetence – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Judgment Day: It’s the economy, and the environment, and a better deal for the low-paid – Michael West Media

The 2022 election campaign is on. (Image: Grant Stuart)

Wages have stagnated. Frydenberg says they will recover. Such breezy promises have been proved wrong time and time again. It doesn’t engender much faith in the assurance that wages will outstrip inflation. As MWM pointed out, the Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (LAMITO) ends on June 30, which means that millions of Australians will be paying more tax, not less as claimed.

Source: Judgment Day: It’s the economy, and the environment, and a better deal for the low-paid – Michael West Media

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Autocratic Capture Russia Hungary and Turkey lead the way. America’s Republicans are working on it and it’s Morrison’s dream. Mussolini drew up the ideal and he called it Fascism

Fighting Fake News with REAL 3/12/21; The Morrison Solution; Rio Tinto

LNP, LNP Government

Integrity bill not priority for parliament: Cash

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With so many LNP ministers demoted for corrupt financial rorts, lies and morally scandalous misbehaviors not just to be now recalled but even promoted this second time around proves the electorate’s demand for an Integrity commission is an essential. Yet, the Morrison government, supposed servant of the electorate, has intentionally avoided establishing what was promised 3years before and he claims he’s not a liar.

What all this suggests is that this has all been just a “Trial Run” for an even bigger Scam, set of lies, and flow of corrupt money this time around because they feel they have got away with it. What’s worse today’s LNP politicians are laughing in the face of the electorates belief in Democracy and they’re behaving as if the electorate works for them and a tsunami money will keep them in power. How Trump  are they?

Federal cabinet has not signed off on a much-criticised integrity commission proposal that Attorney-General Michaelia Cash indicates is unlikely to be introduced to parliament this year.

Source: Integrity bill not priority for parliament: Cash

Fox News

Two Fox Commentators Resign Over Carlson’s Jan 6th Lie-Fest | Crooks and Liars

Two Fox Commentators Resign Over Carlson's Jan 6th Lie-Fest

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, long-time commentators who have been on Fox News for years, tell NPR they’ve had enough of the lies that most of the network hosts are spewing and are resigning from Fox News. C&L readers are very familiar with these two Republicans — we’ve covered them since 2009. The breaking point for the duo came when Tucker Carlson ran a three-part series on Fox Nation called “Patriot Purge,” which promotes QAnon conspiracy theories, hosted by nuts and liars to exonerate Trump and his supporters for the seditious attack on the US Capitol on January 6th.

Source: Two Fox Commentators Resign Over Carlson’s Jan 6th Lie-Fest | Crooks and Liars

LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

Inflation worse under Coalition than Labor, contrary to Morrison’s claims

Scott Morrison’s latest scare campaign claims interest rates and inflation will be worse under Labor than the Coalition, but the historical data refutes that, writes Alan Austin.

Source: Inflation worse under Coalition than Labor, contrary to Morrison’s claims

Scott Morrison

Lying in Public Life: The Scott Morrison Formula – » The Australian Independent Media Network

He has some gall. Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a person who finds the truth a creature best beaten, shunned and ignored, is now moving into what looks like campaign mode. At COP26 in Glasgow, he sold the world a climate change model that kept company with countries where fumes linger stubbornly, and the fossil fuels burn bravely. He made sure to do it the “Australian Way”, ensuring that emission reduction targets would not so much be met as thoroughly “beaten” without the need for taxes. He spoke of technology unproven and made assumptions unfounded.

Lying in politics is much a statement of fact as rising obesity levels in industrialised states. As that keen student of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, pondered, factual truth is ever at the mercy of the lie made in the name of political power. “Facts and events are infinitely more fragile things than axioms, discoveries, theories, which are produced by the human mind.” In his unsurpassed essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell also reminds us with severity that political language itself “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Source: Lying in Public Life: The Scott Morrison Formula – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Trump

Crybaby Trump Demands He Be Given Arizona Win | Crooks and Liars

Crybaby Trump Demands He Be Given Arizona Win

Trump has taken Goebbels to a whole other level of lying.

Source: Crybaby Trump Demands He Be Given Arizona Win | Crooks and Liars

Corporate Media, Media

Fact-checking AT&T’s defense of single-handedly funding OAN | Media Matters for America

OAN

CLAIM: “DIRECTV offers a wide variety of programming, including many news channels that offer a variety of viewpoints, but it does not dictate or control programming on the channels. Any suggestion otherwise is wrong.” FACT: Another misdirection — OAN’s critics are not suggesting AT&T controls its programming. Rather, OAN would not exist were it not for AT&T’s financial support and distribution, as well as support from close personal relationships between the Herring family, which owns the network, and AT&T executives. Even worse, Reuters reports that Herring “has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.” “They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.” Since manufacturing the demand, AT&T has been the primary distributor for OAN’s indiscriminate lies, racism, and conspiracy theories being blasted into the homes of millions of its subscribers. OAN’s programming is completely out of control, and AT&T, which is in the best position to rein in this threat to democracy, has actively decided against doing so.

Source: Fact-checking AT&T’s defense of single-handedly funding OAN | Media Matters for America

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Government’s climate change web of lies

Our political leaders will do anything to stay in positions of power, including deceiving the voting public on urgent matters of climate change, writes Sue Arnold. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT issue facing this nation is not the pandemic, economic scenarios or nuclear submarines but a perilous lack of critical thinking and analysis by political parties, the mainstream media and a large majority of Australians.

Source: Government’s climate change web of lies

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- They keep telling us the internet has made us ??? How do you feel about that?

Fighting Fake News with REAL 30/9/21; China at war with Coal, Australia t world top emission exporter; The American Model of the World’s best Practice

LNP, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Alex Hawke says Australia’s resettlement of refugees ranks third-highest globally. Is that correct? – ABC News

A politician in a suit headshot with a closed mouth. Verdict says "cherrypicking" underneath with an orange asterisk

The verdict Mr Hawke’s claim is cherrypicking. Australia “resettles” more refugees than most, but this only accounts for people transferred to Australia from other asylum countries, including refugees referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Fewer than one per cent of the world’s refugees are resettled each year, or roughly 108,000 of the 20 million refugees under the UNHCR’s mandate in 2019. Other countries take in far greater numbers of refugees arriving on their doorstep. In 2020, and for the fifth year straight, Australia ranked third in the world for the number of its resettlements from other asylum countries, behind Canada and the United States.

Source: Alex Hawke says Australia’s resettlement of refugees ranks third-highest globally. Is that correct? – ABC News

America's Shame

How U.S. Generals Lied on 9/11 Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Army General David Petraeus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 after meeting with members of Congress about the latest on the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

For generals like David Petraeus and Lloyd Austin, there has been no punishment for 20 years of disinformation on Afghanistan and Iraq.

Source: How U.S. Generals Lied on 9/11 Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

LNP

Paul Bongiorno: Truth serum needed just as much as more vaccine doses

When the premier of Australia’s biggest state warns the country that things are going to get much worse before they get better, we should thank her for her honesty and urge our national political leaders to take note. In many ways Premier Gladys Berejiklian has no alternative but to face the facts of her own lethal misjudgments since June; she is trying to move the argument from case numbers to hospitalisations at the very time when the state’s health system is already struggling to cope. The day on which a new record of 1290 infections was announced, Ms Berejiklian was warning her hospitals would face even greater pressure on stretched intensive care units peaking in October, the same months she hopes the state will reach 70 per cent of its adult population fully vaccinated. This in itself is a reality check. If you take an increasingly strident Treasurer Josh Frydenberg at his word, he will withhold federal financial support for people in states whose governments continue lockdowns once the 70 per cent national target is reached. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is warning states to stick to the reopening plan as economists warn of another technical recession. Photo: AAP He says th

Source: Paul Bongiorno: Truth serum needed just as much as more vaccine doses

Scott Morrison

Turning fibs into gold, everything he touches – you do have a choice right now, choose your vaccine wisely – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Transparency, facts and truth are not a hallmark of the Liberals or the Morrison government, and Morrison fudges and lies about everything he touches. The king of tourism and economic geography turning fibs into gold, for himself of course. The pandemic like quarantine, border control, refugees, robodebt, the Indue cashless welfare card, bushfires and global climate change are among the many critical topics in his coal bunker of precious lies. Even other Liberal bimbos like Simon Birmingham, Minister for Finance insist in having their say on public record outside of their ministerial portfolio, blowing off at Labor State premiers on this pandemic and public health, politicising anything that moves, and like Morrison, what the fuck would he know about it!

Source: Turning fibs into gold, everything he touches – you do have a choice right now, choose your vaccine wisely – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Scott Morrison

Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s four favourite ways to bend the truth

The four ways to find Scott Morrison's lies

This makes the release today of Crikey’s A Dossier of Lies and Falsehoods – covering 16 documented lies and 11 falsehoods from Prime Minister Scott Morrison, all backed with referenced source – surprising only because it is overdue. Crikey has been careful, only picking those matters they can back with documented facts and evidence.

Source: Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s four favourite ways to bend the truth

America

Man Dies In Police Custody For Failure To Produce ID | Crooks and Liars

Man Dies In Police Custody For Failure To Produce ID

On April 19, 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, a father living in Oakland, California, died after what Alameda police originally called a “medical emergency.” Gonzalez, according to police, had suffered this emergency after a “scuffle” with police, who were attempting to arrest Gonzalez for not being able to produce identification. On April 27, the City of Alameda posted an hour-long video of the events from one of the police officers’ body cameras. As with most of these tragic stories, what the police initially told Gonzalez’s family does not line up with what is on the video.

Source: Man Dies In Police Custody For Failure To Produce ID | Crooks and Liars

Scott Morrison

You Can’t Trust a word Morrison says and it’s on the record. His role model is Donald Trump Watch the video here

https://fb.watch/4K06FsRm4X/

Trump, Trumpland

Trump and his allies won’t drop claims of stolen election — because they’re cashing in | Salon.com
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Trump’s voting base is a sea of suckers.

Trump and his allies won’t drop claims of stolen election — because they’re cashing in | Salon.com
Trump

Trump Is Going Out Like He Came In: With His Press Secretary Lying About Crowd Size – Mother Jones
People identifying themselves as members of Proud Boys join supporters of President Donald Trump at Freedom Plaza, Saturday Nov. 14, 2020, .

It’s no secret that the president cares a lot about size. Nearly four years ago, in his debut as White House press secretary, Sean Spicer falsely claimed crowd sizes at Donald Trump’s inauguration were bigger than pictures suggested, saying images were “intentionally framed” to minimize the “enormous support” for the president. He said that the event drew the “largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period,” a lie which Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway infamously referred to as “alternative facts.” Not much has changed over the past several years. Spicer may have long since resigned, but he’s been channeled by current press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who said Saturday that pro-Trump crowd sizes at DC’s Million MAGA March surpassed 1 million attendees. “More than one MILLION marchers for President @realDonaldTrump descend on the swamp in support,” McEnany tweeted. “Best base in political history — we LOVE you guys!!!”

Trump Is Going Out Like He Came In: With His Press Secretary Lying About Crowd Size – Mother Jones
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All of Trump’s Lies About the Coronavirus – The Atlantic

President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied about the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s preparation for this once-in-a-generation crisis. Here, a collection of the biggest lies he’s told as the nation endures a public-health and economic calamity. This post will be updated as needed.

All of Trump’s Lies About the Coronavirus – The Atlantic
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Trump’s Dangerous Lies About the Covid Economy | The Smirking Chimp

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Australia is built on lies, so why would we be surprised about lies about climate change? | Luke Pearson for IndigenousX | Opinion | The Guardian

A bushfire in the town of Moruya, south of Batemans Bay, in New South Wales

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