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Australia's Shame Dutton's and Morrison's Afghan Ally Abandonment.  Backs turned on friends and left to die.

 While the Taliban have said they’re open to “political solutions” in the peace talks, they have captured at least 12 provincial capitals in little over a week.

Taliban takes Kandahar and Lashkar Gah as US, UK, Canada send rescue convoy

Trust in government has never been so low. This crisis in public confidence is driven by the widespread perception that politics is corrupt and politicians and government have failed to be accountable. The sports rorts and the travel expenses rorts are just two major scandals that have again led to calls for a federal independent integrity commission. Below are a number of stories highlighting political misconduct over the past several years. Few have been investigated, even fewer properly investigated. None have been prosecuted. QED – Quod Erat Demonstrandum – “so it has been demonstrated”. This compilation of allegations is, in itself, hard proof that Australia needs a federal corruption commission to hold government to account! We’ll keep adding to the list. If you have something, to add, please get in touch.

 Q.E.D: The case for a federal ICAC – Michael West Media

  

Total Champs now touring Australia

 

 "It will claim a $273 allowance for each night it has to stay in Canberra"

Virus Mutates Into Corrupt, Sexist, Attention-Seeking Parasite, After Just One Day In Canberra 

 

“Not doing anything about climate change? We can do that from home"

Canberra Lockdown Won’t Impact Government’s Ability To Avoid Doing Job, PM Assures

ABC News is showing its extensive audience that growth in gross domestic product (GDP) ranks third in the world – 23rd is closer to the mark

 False

 REAL

The consequence of the ABC being kicked from pillar to post and their budget reduced to less than that of 1984 seems to have seen it tamed according to Alan Austin and is now growing closer to being yet another commercial media beggar at the feet of the this LNP government rather than holding it to account and independent of it.

Alan Austin does some fact checking

ABC News is showing its extensive audience that growth in gross domestic product (GDP) currently ranks third in the world. The ABC knows this is false. Yet this “news” is still visible on the ABC’s website. Alan Austin reports on another case of politically compromised data.

Third, Oh Really? ABC News swallows Coalition data spin

This doesn't apply to New York alone

 New York’s commercial real estate sector is in crisis, as office workers are increasingly unwilling to come back into a physical office. It’s an opportunity to rethink what a city that serves its residents rather than commercial landlords could look like.

Imagine a New York City Not Dominated by Real Estate 

 

What are the IPCC report’s most important overall messages in your view? At the most basic level, the facts about climate change have been clear for a long time, with the evidence just continuing to grow. As a result of human activities, the planet is changing at a rate unprecedented for at least thousands of years. These changes are affecting every area of the planet. Line chart showing influence over time of different sources of warming. Only human-caused emissions are on the same trajectory as the actual temperature rise. Humans produce large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions, primarily through fossil fuel burning, agriculture, deforestation and decomposing waste. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report While some of the changes will be irreversible for millennia, some can be slowed and others reversed through strong, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But time is running out to meet the ambitious goal laid out in the 2015 international Paris Agreement to limit warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (2 C equals 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Doing so requires getting global carbon dioxide emissions on a downward course that reaches net zero around or before 2050

 IPCC: Ocean has risen more than in any century in at least 3,000 years, and in worst case could rise 7 feet in next 80 Years

FAKE NEWS, MISINFORMATION AND TRIVIA EXPOSED 

Greens leader Adam Bandt was the most shameless hysteric, shrieking that this week’s big global warming report was “a death sentence for Australia”.

Many journalists also hit the panic button.

They claimed this Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warned of worse cyclones, huge fires and “deadly heatwaves”, and the ABC aired vision of cars swept away in raging floods.

First the virus terror and now this. Why this addiction to frightening people out of their wits?

I’m guessing almost none actually read the IPCC report.

When Adam Bant was in short pants Andrew Bolt was the most "shameless hysteric shrieking" the world was cooling not warming and the IPCC was a left-wing corrupt organization of conspirators posing as scientists to defraud and control the global energy industry. How far has he come from being a total denier to today declaring oh "climate change turns out to be not so scary" .

Meanwhile record temperatures have been recorded across the planet. Fires never seen before are burnining in several countries never seen before and floods are creating havoc. The IPCC is warning that things will escalate even more if the global average temperature rises above a 1.5 degrees and Bolt says "that's not scary". Extreme weather will become common place and we will have got used to it. That is scary because it's coming out of the mouth of someone who won't be affected to the same degree as the poorest peoples on the planet. Andrew Bolt isn't part of the millions living in the Bay of Bengal or in the growing desert regions of the planet. He will however be most effected if we mobilize to change that.  Scary for Bolt is the social and economic changes that will be required to be made by the socially  and economically privileged if the direction of the continuing rise in proven man-made global warming isn't controlled. The phenomenon he spent years declaring himself the expert over and above science and telling us don't worry the planet is actually cooling.

IPCC REPORT NO ‘DEATH SENTENCE’. CLIMATE CHANGE TURNS OUT NOT SO SCARY

 

Why is the ABC running a protection racket for journalist Louise Milligan, after she’s smeared so many innocent men?  

And why have taxpayers had to pay $1m for the ABC to save her from the consequences of her untruths?Milligan’s latest false accusation – that federal MP Andrew Laming broke the law and photographed a woman under her skirt – has just cost us $79,000 in court-ordered damages, and an estimated $50,000 in Laming’s legal fees. That’s not counting the ABC’s own legal costs.

Laming was actually innocent of “upskirting”, even if foolish. He’d photographed a woman in shorts – not a skirt – filling a fridge.

It is astonishing that the ABC is now picking up Milligan’s costs, when she’d smeared Laming on her private Twitter account, and on an issue unrelated to her work for the ABC.

PS: A question for lawyers. Does the ABC even have the legal right to essentially give and employee a  $130,000 gift to cover

 

 Nothing to see here really other than Andrew Bolt whose on record of being in the courts for false reporting and defamation more times than Milligan and has cost Murdoch's insurance companies mega dollars is squawking.These days the number of complaints issued against Bolt and Newscorp are kept hidden by the media watch dog. All settlements  even apologies come with non disclosure clauses and are hidden. The media watch dog has it appears no teeth. The ABC is a statuary independent body entitled to do what it sees fit and by charter isn't beholding to either the government or Andrew Bolt who tries to suggest otherwise. What is amusing is  Bolt hasn't been away from Murdoch's teat or umbilical chord since a baby starting his career. He's hung on to that teat like a leach since birth quite unlike anyone at the ABC. So the notion of Milligan being "protected" by an ABC board appointed by the LNP these past 8 years with ex- Murdoch employees on it is a bit ridiculous in the circumstance. Particularly given the protection Bolt has. Let it be said everywhere else Bolt has moonlighted while firmly attached to mother Murdoch has ended badly and hasn't continued. The ABC pays for Milligan's IP what does Murdoch recieve for paying Andrew Bolt other than a chap suit and desk?

ABC SLUGS TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR LOUISE MILLIGAN’S LAWYERS

 

 Abbott is back and it seems he wants skin in the game. Mr "nope nope nope" is offering advice he never took himself when PM. Royal Commission into the Trade Unions was shredded as it found no systemic criminal conduct in the way the unions operated. Nevertheless Abbott's term set out to neuter them which turned the Commission into a pantomime.  We were told it was rational move to improve our Democracy and it did but absolutely the reverse of what the LNP intended to diminish it. 

"Abbott criticised the fact that political leaders had rarely released health advice underpinning their decisions, which he said was a “little irksome” given “so much that is so out of character has been asked of us on the basis of health advice, in inverted commas”.

 For Christ sake this crap posturing is coming from someone that turned his back on the 97% consensus among scientists that the planet was in a critical state due to man made CO2 emissions warming the planet. Abbott was an outright denier of that "science" substituting it for his "own". Given his podcast is IPA sponsored and named Australia's  Heartland podcast we know he hasn't changed. He's always been a "science" a "university" "an expert" sort of a guy trying to force his "experts" into positions of power that defined his narrow political reality.  Abbott was the "no tax cuts" sort of guy who took bipartisan problem solving out of parliament and replaced it with what we have in place now. The Trumpist single minded electioneering that denies the very structure of representative democracy and replacing it with business of political  autocracy in it's place to serve the wealthiest and most powerful 1%. It's why he's an honarary member of the IPA.

 Abbott's problem was not everyone liked the transition he and the backroom tried to foist on MPs even in his party let alone the people of Woollhara. He was neither charismatic or diplomatic just a pugilist and still is.

 Tony Abbott at odds with Scott Morrison over vaccine mandates for business | Scott Morrison | The Guardian