Monday 18 January 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL 18/1/2021; Dan Andrew is laughing, Political Donations, History Repeats

 

 

 

 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.

Victoria's economic recovery to outstrip all other states as nation's economy bounces back

I can't but help notice Federal silence. They certainly jumped on Dan when our economy was lagging

Victoria could show the fastest recovery of any state or territory after suffering through the worst downturn in the country, with new forecasts showing the national economy will grow 4.4% in 2021.

 

Victorians Stuck In NSW Have Had Plenty Of Time To Become Professional Tennis Players, Andrews Says

"You've had literally weeks of notice" 

 The Electoral Commission of Queensland has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether businessman Clive Palmer is a property developer and therefore banned from making political donations.

'Highly problematic for public trust': Australian political donations revealed

Mining and gas companies ramped up their spending on political parties in recent years to outstrip property developers and other big donors, led by a funding blitz from coal and iron ore magnate Clive Palmer.

 Adolf Hitler and other top Nazis in Munich in the summer of 1939 – just months before the attempt on the Fuehrer's life.

If something can happen once, it can happen again: The US cannot ignore the lessons of history

Watching the attempted coup unfold at the Capitol building, the two fundamental lessons of history kept working through my mind. Never have I felt like I was living so intensely in history.

 Adolf Hitler – a man considered an embarrassment to his establishment backers but who had a gift for speaking to the people. On November 8, in a Munich beer hall, Hitler assembled a ramshackle collection of his followers – angry extremists dismissed as uneducated buffoons, and right-wing establishment figures who thought they could easily control him – and convinced those gathered to take over the Bavarian state government and march on Berlin to seize power. In a confused, pathetic fiasco, four policemen and 14 others were killed and Hitler slinked away to later be arrested.


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