Fighting Nake News with REAL,18/6/21 Thought Police; Australian competitiveness the worst in 25 years; Dark Emu and new archeological research; The great photo op;

 

The former New South Wales director of public prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdery, has questioned the use of the fixated persons unit to arrest a 21-year-old producer for the Friendlyjordies YouTube comedy channel.

Source: Friendlyjordies arrest by NSW police fixated persons unit questioned by former top prosecutor | Australian police and policing | The Guardian

Australia’s competitiveness drops to lowest level in 25 years: WCY 2021 Australia has fallen four places to 22nd in a global ranking of the competitiveness of 64 nations released today. It is Australia’s worst result in 25 years. CEDA Chief Economist Jarrod Ball said our performance in the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2021 showed we could not afford to stand still, despite our early success in managing the COVID-19 pandemic and recent strong economic recovery. “Australia cannot waste any time getting match-fit for the post-pandemic era,” Mr Ball said. “The rankings show business will need to do a lot of the heavy lifting, with business efficiency leading Australia’s slide in the rankings, driven by a lacklustre 58th place for management practices. “We are among the lowest-ranked of 64 nations on company agility, entrepreneurship, customer satisfaction and credibility of managers.

Yet we still pay for this lackluster performance as there were no tomorrow. Our PM refuses to talk about why his personal record and management history remains so deeply hidden. Due diligence seems a dangerous exercise to this obsessively active marketing man who hides from any deeper examination.

Source: Australia’s competitiveness drops to lowest level in 25 years – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

The G7, NATO and the demonising of China

The meetings of the G7 and NATO have left no doubt as to the growing strength of a united front that is being built to reduce China’s influence in the world.

What the mainstream media left us with was an image that Morrison was the center of the G7 attention the pivot and that he invited the 7 other nations to join him. They even made him the center point of the news showing him patting the queen on the head as she came to visit him at his invitation at the palace. "we were all just talking about you my dear"

 

Conservatives seem to be extremely fearful that history might replace them. So fearful they don't even want to reveal the amount of new research that's being conducted into our past. No, Andrew Bolt Bruce Pascoe hasn't been cancelled.

 Friday essay: how our new archaeological research investigates Dark Emu’s idea of Aboriginal ‘agriculture’ and villages

Right-wing “critical race theory” attacks are supercharging a racist movement to undo decades of civil rights advancement

Attempts to create, expand, and protect a multiracial democracy in this country have always been met with white backlash. That is an incontrovertible fact, going back as far as Reconstruction, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the racist media of earlier times that tried to gaslight a nation. 

In that ugly light, raising the alarm about the current Fox News-fueled disinformation campaign on the supposed dangers of critical race theory -- a decades-old framework for the study of systemic racism -- seems somewhat quaint, or even exaggerated.

It’s not. In the wake of months of election results denialism, voter suppression efforts, and a far-right invasion of the U.S. Capitol, it’s the last thing we need.

Modern right-wing media have periodically attacked and misinformed about both cultural and legal civil rights accomplishments in this country, and their current attempt to falsely brand all anti-racism efforts as “critical race theory” is a tactic out of that tested playbook. Brainwashing white students to obscure the long history of institutional racism in this country, which is now being not only proposed but legislated in response to this manufactured panic, is also nothing new.

 

The Attacks on Critical Race Theory Are All About Preserving White Privilege and Power

by Bill Berkowitz | June 17, 2021 - 6:12am | permalink

It’s a way to attack civil rights. It’s a way to revise and deny sordid parts of American history. And it is highly likely that none of its critics have read a single document about it. Nevertheless, Republican Party politicians want to create an apocalyptic vision of jack-booted academics/public school teachers forcibly indoctrinating America’s youth with Critical Race Theory, which is fast becoming a right-wing culture warriors’ issue as we roll towards the 2022-midterm elections.

At its heart, Critical Race Theory maintains that racism has been a significant factor in the formation and function of the United States. It posits that American institutions like the justice system and educational institutions should be seen through the perspective of race and racism.

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