Australia’s premier tax cheat Exxon is one of a number of companies in the US using conflicting Facebook ads to target both liberals and conservatives, writes Jeremy B Merrill. The left wing sees narratives  extolling Exxon tackling climate change while right wing Facebook users see ads asking for support to stop regulation.

 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears to be testing the waters of a zero net emissions target by 2050, saying the climate goal will be “won” by Australia’s mining and energy sectors, factories and industry.

Source: PM says mines and factories will help us reach zero net emissions

Australian politics

Capitalist Greed Created the European Super Leagu

The disgraceful European Super League is a disaster for football. But it’s just the last step in capitalists stripping away the beautiful game from the working-class communities that built it. 

 FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED

‘Incredibly worrying’: Top Euro football clubs to form breakaway league

‘Incredibly worrying’: Top Euro football clubs to form breakaway league

Spiked Online Editor Brendan O’Neill says news a number of top European football clubs will break away to form a new league is “incredibly worrying”. Twelve of the biggest clubs including Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United will play in the new league. “It remains to be seen exactly what’s going to happen and whether this is a bargaining chip,” Mr O’Neill told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “But the whole idea to me is incredibly worrying”. “Football … has become an extraordinarily business-orientated sport, it’s about money making, it’s become a money-making machine”. “And it’s becoming more and more distant from working class fans in particular.” 
 
Is it a coincidence no not at all that O'Neill and Bolt boost themselves by stealing their opinions from others to appear to seem  populists. They are really trying to save Murdoch's control of the Premier League. Battling the encroaching monopoly of a Super League for Murdoch isn't joining a supporters movement . O'Neill has simply taken Ben Joyce's article from the American left-wing  Jacobin and applied it as his own opinion. Andrew Bolt and Rupert Murdoch have provided him the platform to do it in order to seem football traditionalists when they're not.
  The EU football clubs aren't "breaking away" they are being "swallowed up" by Capitalism's natural evolution as was tennis and cricket before them. The sports Industry has bought and wants to own all the clubs and take them away from their roots why? To steal the football audience as Netflix has done to movie goers simply reduce the middle men. There is nothing strange about that that's the nature of capitalism Amazon lead the way. It's what Sky and Murdoch did in the past to gain the broadcast rights to the game in the 80s and 90s. What India did with the IPL
 However now Sky has been out played by a Super League or have they? Murdoch in fact seems to be supporting the notion of the super league and jumped on board with his heavy investments into gambling and massive divestment from entertainment due to Netflix stealing his thunder and subscriptions. Nothing has really changed other than Capitalism's ongoing evolution and the money supporting it.

It’s important to point out that the Super League isn’t an anomaly. It is, rather, a continuation of the path football has been traveling for a long time. Some would point to the creation of the Premier League itself in the 1990s, with the incentive of Sky television money, as the origin point. But there is something qualitatively different about the clubs themselves controlling the game — at least in the Premier League–era giants of English football like Newcastle, Leeds, Aston Villa, and even Super League “Founding Club” Manchester City have been relegated. (Ben Joyce)


 Labor giving a ‘very positive sign’ to workers in the coal industry

Labor giving a ‘very positive sign’ to workers in the coal industry

 Former Labor Minister Stephen Conroy says the Labor Party is giving workers in the coal industry a “very positive sign” by reaffirming the importance of coal. Labor has recently voiced support for the coal industry, with resources spokeswoman Madeleine King announcing the party will not stand in the way of new coal mines. “If I was Scott Morrison today, I would be a little bit nervous that maybe the Labor Party has learnt [from] some of the mistakes it’s made over the last few years,” Mr Conroy told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

The ALP isn't supporting coal at all it's is supporting a transition away from it as it has always done and not a transition to it. It certainly isn't saying coal is the road to net zero emissions as Morrison makes out. The ALP's message is and has always been that more jobs will be created and found in the renewable energy sector than will be found in coal. 

This is more a case of Sky gaslighting than reporting the news. A"very positive sign" couldn't be more of an indication. When ex ALP ministers are employed to help for a fee it shows however they aren't the ALP any longer but are guns for hire. However they never seem to stay for very long as Emerson once on Bolt's panel showed. He showed more than just a "very positive sign" he left. Unlike the Nationals and the Liberals the Greens and the ALP aren't a coalition and neither are their policies.