Monday 16 August 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL,16/8/21; Media Watchdog has no teeth; LNP have given up service; John Pilger and Assange; Inside Racist Aussie HQ;

 

 

 

 Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a Senate hearing on media diversity in Australia, at Parliament House in Canberra on  Friday 19 February 2021.

Former PM calls for the country’s media watchdog to be abolished, saying it had failed during the pandemic by not upholding broadcast standards at Sky News.

‘Monumentally failed’: Rudd calls for media watchdog to be scrapped over Sky COVID claims

 As the price of renewable generation continues to fall, Scott Morrison is facing a test on energy policy as Barnaby Joyce backs new coal fired power.

 When the Media does for the LNP what the LNP doesn't do for us.  "Making Anonymous Announcements" it shows we have neither a government, a media, nor a Democracy. Just a shit scared LNP grasping for authoritarian control.

While the focus is on the Nationals’ objections, moderate Liberals say behind the scenes they have all but won the argument.

As the price of renewable generation continues to fall, Scott Morrison is facing a test on energy policy as Barnaby Joyce backs new coal fired power. Analysis Climate policy Net zero by 2050: why Liberal Party moderates believe they’ve won While the focus is on the Nationals’ objections, moderate Liberals say behind the scenes they have all but won the argument. James Massola

Net zero by 2050: why Liberal Party moderates believe they’ve won

 

People wait inside Afghanistan's only passport office in the Kabul neighbourhood of Pul-i Surkh to provide or receive documents required for the issuing of their documents. The applicants were tired, hot, frustrated, upset and angry as they waited in various spaces inside the large compound, through what they described as a chaotic process with little order. It was above 30 degrees by 9AM this morning and far hotter inside the airless, enclosed structures of the passport office. According to a passport official, as many as 5,000 passports are being issued on a daily basis at the moment, as Afghans from across the country, many fearing a country-wide return of the Taliban, travel to the capital to apply for passports in the hope of using them to travel outside the country. Since May 1, when U.S. and international military forces began their final withdrawal from the country after nearly 20 years at war, the Taliban have taken total control of more than 160 of the country's roughly 400 districts. Afghans who believe they have reason to fear the Taliban have left districts for provincial capitals and provincial capitals for Kabul, where the government maintains a shrinking area of control.

 Yes Morrison keeps "announcing his plan" just as he does for COVID

Afghan friends and colleagues began asking for help leaving the country in June. The requests were nothing new, but in the past they’d mostly been in jest. Now they were serious and urgent. The people who made them weren’t just seeking a better life but refuge.

 Desperate Afghans Are Trapped in an American-Made Fiasco

 Keeping this off the front pages of our MSM does Morrison a favour

As the High Court’s final decision on the Julian Assange trial draws nearer, John Pilger bears witness to the latest development in the attack on journalistic integrity.

 JOHN PILGER: A day in the death of British justice

 Neo-Nazis from the National Socialist Network from their encrypted online sites.

 Infiltrating a nest of Australia’s far-right radicals revealed they are angry, armed and training for societal collapse. Uncovering their identities came next.

Inside Racism HQ: How home-grown neo-Nazis are plotting a white revolution


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