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 Is this to be the media war has time come to cut the Fox umbilical cord? (ODT)

Fox News and Trump's Coming Network, Fantastic Fake News

I'm astonished that Trump had time this week to Twitter-attack his former, favourite propaganda arm, Fox News, considering how busy he was, releasing a classified photo with no aforethought whatsoever; "monitoring" Hurricane Dorian, while a former Canadian prime minister was "rooting for a direct hit on Mar a Lago!”; barring the entry of Canadian Muslims into the U.S.; learning that his campaign manager has billed one of his super PACs for nearly a million dollars; sacking a besotted, loquacious assistant; snubbing National Security Adviser John Bolton, and furthering his assault on former FBI director James Comey.
Nevertheless, he did have time, accusing Fox of "heavily promoting the Democrats" through the nefarious ploys of interviewing a DNC spokeswoman and having hired former DNC interim chair Donna Brazile as a contributor. Oh my.
Thou shalt not hear opposing views, is Trump's first commandment. One would think Fox would take that seriously, coming, as it does, from the King of Israel and second coming of God.

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  Disinformation Is Catalyzing the Spread of Authoritarianism Worldwide | The Smirking Chimp

 In this, they have a structural advantage over those who remain invested in a pluralistic democracy. It is anathema to most of them to fight fire with fire–to stoop to using similar tactics–and as we know, a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can put on its boots.

Unless this asymmetry is addressed in some fashion–and it’s not an easy nut to crack–historians may look back at the early 21st century and conclude that this was the time when it became apparent that liberal democracy is fundamentally incompatible with the internet and its free-wheeling information infrastructure.

 

The toughest time for the economy since the tech-wreck downturn

The Art Of The Con "We are the best money managers we can prove it Labor won't let us manage as we want."

Prime Minister Scott Morrison cautioned against a 'knee-jerk reaction' as figures point to the worst GDP result since 2000
 

Australia's economy to slow down even further, after weak 'business indicators'

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 Australia's economy is already set to experience its weakest rate of growth in 10 years — but the latest corporate profit figures suggest the economy could be faring worse than expected.

 

'Precisely what you'd expect in an economic downturn': Retail sales tumble despite tax cuts

The Morrison government's income tax cuts and lower interest rates have not been enough to get shoppers into the nation's malls.

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ABBOTT GIVES GREAT BREXIT SPEECH. JOURNALISTS FREAK AT BIBLE REFERENCE

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott gives a great speech defending Brexit and pointing out how Britain's economy need not get clobbered. But here is the brainlessly hostile and Christophobic headline run by The Age  and Sydney Morning Herald: "Tony Abbott quotes the Bible in London Brexit speech." 

Andrew Bolt an agnostic accuses and calls out a Christophobic press for quoting Papist and Monarchist Tony Abbott accurately. Does this suggest Bolt, in fact, is a fake agnostic and does believe in God and in Christ his son? Bolt often gets tangled so much nobody knows what it is he does or doesn't believe in.

Remember when he went for the jugular of Australia's top Imam for saying women only have themselves to blame if the parade a dressed meat. Bolt also said if his daughter went out dressed in a way he disapproved of he'd wouldn't allow her out of the house. How Islamic of him.  If she bucked would tear the dress off her.

Abbott the Monarchist is hoping for a knighthood from the Un-united Kingdom or Little Britain. He's out there reinforcing some anachronistic idea we are a European nation in Asia. So Colonial of him. Frankly, I believe he wants the ALP to win so he can make a Royal comeback.

Multicultural nations have a history of peace that goes to hell in a handbasket when technophobes demand division along ethnic lines look what happened in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and what's going on in Israel. Abbott whole sense of politics was about ethnic division and it has to lead to violence for politic's sake. It's such a scripted right-wing agenda.