Tag: Problem

Radicalisation

Does ‘Radicalisation’ have to be a Problem? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Any progressive change in the history of this country began with protests, civil unrest, and generally from the bottom up, not the top down. It comes from the belief that the systems we inherited were man-made and can be changed, need to be changed, and that there is an alternative.

But this is all predicated upon a rejection of the hegemony of neo-liberal ‘Centrism’ and the realisation that radicalisation is not always such a bad thing. We can change the world, but it all starts with a rejection of the ‘Common Sense’ that ‘There Is No Alternative’.

Source: Does ‘Radicalisation’ have to be a Problem? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch has a wicked problem

Pictured is Rupert Murdoch

The Dominion defamation case makes one wonder if Rupert Murdoch has been advised to try the Alan Bond defence of early onset dementia or mental incapacity as we once saw him try to do in the UK 20 odd years ago? Is his on-and-off recent engagement a step in that direction one wonders?

In love one moment and ” I didn’t know what I was doing the next”? What benefit would such a claim be? Maybe to escape being called to testify due to his age and mental ill health? It served him well during the UK investigations when he was only in his 70s and being investigated for his involvement in the criminal practices of his media in the UK.

Rupert Murdoch has a wicked problem. Many of the politicians who bent, or even grovelled, when his News media outlets blew on them are no longer scared.

On the other hand, News – particularly Fox – is showing signs that it is scared of its own audiences.

A growing number of journalists and eminent Australians are fearlessly pushing back against the Murdoch Australian empire.

Source: Rupert Murdoch has a wicked problem

Enviroment

Environment: How to feed 10 billion and predict the next Covid

Planet earth and blue human eye -

Capitalism certainly won’t do it

The global population is now 8 billion but the vast majority make little contribution to global warming. The search is on for ways to feed 10 billion sustainably in 2050.

Source: Environment: How to feed 10 billion and predict the next Covid

Trumpland Revealed, Uncategorized

Is This Goodbye to the American Republic?

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk by fighter jets in front of a big American flag

It seems clear that [Attorney General William Barr] will do or enable anything to keep Trump in office. And Trump will do anything to stay there. Suspension of the election, negation of the results, declaration of martial law are not simply fanciful, alarmist or crazy things to throw out there or to contemplate. Members of Congress, governors and state legislators, leaders in civil society, lawyers, law enforcement figures and the military need to be thinking now about how they might respond”

via Is This Goodbye to the American Republic?