Friday 3 September 2021

Fighting Fake News with REAL 3/9/21; Murdoch Media, Big Lie, Big oil's philanthropy; New York; Coal NSW;

 

 

 

   

"It's possible nobody knew"

Morrison Calls Inquiry To Determine Whether He Knew He Was Prime Minister At Time Of Brittany Higgins Assault


 

Over the last two Mondays, ABC Four Corners aired a two-part investigation into News Corp’s most lucrative global asset, the New York-based Fox News channel. Called ‘Fox and the Big Lie’ ‒ a reference to the claim made by former U.S. President Donald Trump that he had not lost the 2020 Presidential Election ‒ reporter Sarah Ferguson delved deeply into the role of Rupert Murdoch and his two sons in promulgating this fiction, amongst other topics.

 Murdoch and the big Australian lie

 

 Scott Morrison

The Morrison government has moved to keep national cabinet deliberations secret by introducing new legislation intended to blunt the impact of a recent tribunal decision that would have allowed access to key documents.

 A Shell gasoline station damaged by Hurricane Ida in Lockport, La., on Aug. 31, 2021.

 During Hurricane Ida, energy companies briefly paused efforts to claim credit for combating the problems they’ve caused.

Hurricane Ida Makes a Mockery of Big Oil’s Philanthropy

 

New York, New Jersey death toll jumps in Hurricane Ida’s devastating aftermath

The region was walloped with record-breaking rain, drowning more than two dozen people in their homes and cars. Surging rivers, tornado damage and continuing help calls overwhelmed emergency servi


 Wollemi Mine, Ryalston, coal

The NSW government is pushing through new coal exploration areas in the state’s mid-west, which have been labelled unviable and “corrupt” by independent experts even as the G7 call a halt on all new coal mining reports Callum Foote.

Wollemi Mine? Experts label Barilaro’s plan for new coal “corrupt”, unviable


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