Tag: Systemic Failure

News Corp

News Corp denies Albanese Government any credit for success

Despite its many achievements, the Albanese Government is denied credit in the mainstream media, which turns every success into a failure. Paul Begley reports.

At the same time, News Corp outlets work relentlessly to promote Opposition Leader Peter Dutton as a heroic speaker of truths that “woke” mouths are not game to utter. And as the dominant media voice in Australia, sharing 86 per cent of outlets with one other like-minded owner, News Corp manages to set the default that other legacy media players increasingly follow, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s once robust news service.

The most recent example of the strategy has been to surrender to Dutton’s Liberal Party hysteria on refugee detention policy following the High Court decision that indefinite detention of refugees is illegal. Dutton falsely characterised the release of refugees as a Labor Party initiative, knowing full well that the Government does not control decisions made by the High Court.

Source: News Corp denies Albanese Government any credit for success

America

Democrats’ triumph may be miraculous but US is still split down the middle | Michael Cohen | The Guardian

Donald Trump

American Democracy proves itself not to be “the ideal Democracy” but rather a failed experiment. Having said that, it doesn’t mean throwing Democracy out as possibly the most equitable form of government. After all Australia’s system managed to stall the over-exaggerated swing to the right this past decade.

Just as Marx predicted the coming of an ideal state of Communism, the execution of which failed, doesn’t mean Marxism is not a more equitable ideal to Capitalism which has also proved to be an increasing failure with every decade for the past 50 years. Corporations, Governments and Inheritance are institutions that have guaranteed any notion of a “free market”, “merit” or “equitable principles” could never be reached.

America is almost perfectly divided between Democrats and Republicans and neither party can cobble together an effective majority. The 2022 midterms are, on the surface, a win for Democrats, but from a deeper perspective they have simply ratified the status quo of the US as a divided and divisive country.

Source: Democrats’ triumph may be miraculous but US is still split down the middle | Michael Cohen | The Guardian

Death

A Carnival Of Errors Led To Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Shooting | HuffPost Entertainment

Alec Baldwin speaks on the phone in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 21 after he was questioned about the shooting.

The inexperienced armorer in charge of the weapon, the assistant director who grabbed the gun and shouted “cold,” and crew members who reportedly took it for a round of target shooting all played some part in a long chain of compounding irresponsibility that led to a negligent discharge in an industry that portrays gun battles as a matter of routine ― usually without incident.

Source: A Carnival Of Errors Led To Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Shooting | HuffPost Entertainment