Concentrating on the base, concentrating on outrage and division and never letting facts get in the way of a good headline, is the Trump formula, right down to Sky News YouTube and social media promotion mimicking its Fox News model.
If Israel has proven to be lying why does Western media continue to state their unverified facts as if true? Is Israel the only source of their information being delivered as News? What has come to light “many women and children were killed” but not all by Hamas. When caught out the IDF tried to blame their fake and exaggerated figures on Hamas. The jury is still out on what really happened on Oct 7th no independent investigation has ever been allowed and the “crime scene” has been cleansed.
Currently, even Israeli journalists are beginning to question the IDF and government version. Israel is currently arresting and killing more journalists than any other country. Over 100 dead in Gaza and 17 arrested in Israel with no reason given.
“The attacks, in which many women and children were killed and bodies mutilated, drew worldwide revulsion and condemnation.”
It is tempting to liken the conjugal embrace of the Murdochs’ News Corp and the Liberal Party to that of praying mantises – News Corp playing the female role of consuming the male after getting what she wants.
Source: How News Corp damages Liberal Party, and Australian democracy
“Morrison says that to accommodate the AUKUS submarines deal, Australia’s defence budget will need to increase to 2.5 per cent of GDP, and there’s not much doubt he’s right. That’s an extra $10 billion or so per year, on top of a structural deficit of $50 billion a year, already rising to $70 billion. Make that $80 billion. So where is the money coming from? Tax increase or spending cuts?
Source: Budget balance: Spending like Europe means taxing like Europe
Remember the LNP slogan “Privatisation” makes things cheaper? When did that ever happen?
As for how much money it means for the government, Mark Butler also said that the average gap fee for a standard GP consultation is now more than the Medicare rebate for the first time in its 40-year history.
Source: Social repair, especially fixing Medicare, must trump budget repair
All of a sudden there are other priorities rather than saving Australian lives and livelihoods. There’s not enough money for free rapid antigen tests for everyone but there’s a stash of $16 billion to buy votes ahead of the election. We got a couple of installments at the weekend. There are one billion dollars for the Great Barrier Reef and $50 million to save koalas, both programs announced in North Queensland by the Prime Minister on the deadliest days of the Omicron wave. Despite assertions, Omicron is less severe, it has a four-times higher death rate than the original Delta outbreak. Four hundred elderly Australians in aged care died in January alone, more than the 300 over the entire 12 months of 2021. Experts are warning with the return to school we are sure to see another surge in infections, which can only prolong supply chain disruptions and staffing shortages. And yet calls from doctors, businesses and the opposition for free rapid antigen tests for everyone as a surveillance check on the spread of the virus continue to be rejected.
Source: Paul Bongiorno: Coalition offers a sick excuse for pandemic inaction
Then there is the issue of why the federal government is throwing millions of dollars at golf clubs at all – they are, after all, private businesses, whatever their ownership structure, and part of the big business that is golf.
Source: Michael Pascoe: The Great Golf Rort where Labor seats need not apply
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