Unlike
the US trip, Scott Morrison would get no plaudits at Glasgow. He’d be
seen, as best, as the under-performer who, facing enormous pressure, had
lifted his game to a greater or lesser degree.
Morrison’s career lives or dies in the next few months
A federal review of the $89 billion JobKeeper scheme found 31 per cent
of recipients who triggered compliance checks were “not eligible at all”
for the mammoth wage subsidy, sparking efforts to recover cash from
thousands of companies that made false claims.
Bogus staff, fudged losses exposed in Jobkeeper, thousands of businesses were ineligible
Is Australia on the path to being a fascist state? Despite the recent anti-lockdown protests being hijacked by the far-Right, Dr Martin Hirst argues “not yet”.
From fascism to farce to the next election
‘The system is buckling’: Elective surgery cut back as health workers feel the strain
In 1776, the United States was founded in North America. It boasted of being the city upon the hill and that its mission was to promote "democracy" to the world.
Yet what it loves most is war. During its 245 years of existence, less than 20 have been without a war.
By massacring the Indigenous peoples and grabbing territory from Mexico, it expanded to the western coast of the continent;
By selling weapons and materials to belligerents, it made a big fortune in the two world wars. It became a superpower and has intervened around the world.
The US people pay for the militarism of their politicians, because the huge costs of war are paid by them in taxes.
And many US soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress on returning home. From 2008 to 2016, data show that 6,000 US veterans committed suicide each year.
One of Portugal’s largest banks is holding up a $12.7 million order to fund shipment of medical supplies and vaccines to Venezuela.
U.S. Sanctions Blamed as Venezuela Laments Frozen Order for Medicine
Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records from his administration to the House select committee scrutinizing the 6 January attack on the Capitol by claiming executive privilege, potentially touching off an extended legal battle over disclosure. The former president also expects top aides – former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, strategist Steve Bannon and defense department aide Kash Patel – to defy select committee subpoenas for records and testimony. Trump’s moves to try to resist the select committee, informed by a source familiar with his planning, are likely to lead to constitutional clashes in court that would test the power of Congress’s oversight authority over the executive branch.
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