Manipulation in 2014 has grown and grown
Manipulation in 2022 has grown to a whole Nation
Murdoch Media National Manipulation
How do you begin to declare a new "system" is in place when there is no apparent "system" in existense? It seems it seems Morrison wants chaos and confusion about the real numbers of Covid infected people in the community. Less is a benefit to the government and and unregulated grab for RATs will guarantee that the real numbers are lower than they really are.
Morrison on the other hand has created a capitalist monster of a jungle with speculators draining the market of RATs for profit. A night club owner buying up 86.000 kits to sell. Morrison's ideal market has been let loose to battle against itself rather than team together to fight the common cause, the pandemic. With no concern about long term effects of Covid or the pressure on our hospitals all Morrison's done is offered a slightly qualified "let it rip" coupled with yet another promised gov strollout, "kits are on their way". Doctors were telling Morrison months ago to buy what he hasn't until now with no certainty of arrival. A promise of RATS has been made to a limited number of sectors when these kits become available Morrison has pledged. The States can do the rest it's simply not his problem. He's changed the definitions of the pathways to success and failure told Australia what they were. Now it's up to us... he doesn't lick the stamps.
The nation’s Pharmacy Guild proposed a “hybrid” model to the government, warning a free-for-all on tests would leave the system swamped by healthy people wanting to stock up.
Politics
Pharmacies opposed widespread free tests amid fears ‘worried well’ would overwhelm system
State and federal governments may be scrambling to secure rapid antigen tests to ease the burden on PCR testing, but several Melbourne businesses recognised the potential of the fast-acting and relatively inexpensive technology months ago. Nightclub owner Martha Tsamis has sold more than 800,000 of the 15-minute tests since October, when she negotiated distribution deals with manufacturers in Australia, China and South Korea. Ms Tsamis had originally bought a few thousand rapid antigen tests for staff and patrons of her late-night venues Chasers in South Yarra and Inflation in the CBD. Now, her new business Oz Medical employs seven full-time staff and supplies thousands of the tests to every Australian state – other than Western Australia, where they remain prohibited.
Source: Year of the RAT: Positive results for rapid test entrepreneurs
Changing Definitions
Increasingly dire ecological damage and severe impacts of the climate crisis are pushing the natural world towards a mass extinction event unparalleled since the age of the dinosaurs, conservationists in Germany warned this week, with humanity possibly facing self-annihilation if behaviors do not change.
Source: Within Decade, Planet’s Natural World Facing Largest Mass Extinction Event Since Dinosaurs
The first attempt to subvert a democratic election result was chaotic. Donald Trump and his allies are better organised now.
Washington: One year after thousands of his supporters stormed the US Capitol, Donald Trump plans to mark the anniversary on January 6 with a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
It will be no mea culpa.
In a statement issued before Christmas, the former president made it clear that he would use the event to reassert his false claim that the election was “stolen”, and launch yet another attack on the bipartisan select House committee investigating the incident.
“Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on November 3rd,” Trump said, referencing the day of the 2020 election.
“It was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged election that took place on January 6th.”
Democracy
The Capitol attack was Trump’s dress rehearsal
But in more recent years I’ve come around. As America has moved closer to being an oligarchy — with staggering inequalities of income, wealth, and power not seen in over a century — and closer to Trumpian neofascism (the two moves are connected), “It’s a Wonderful Life” speaks to what’s gone wrong and what must be done to make it right.
Soon after “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released, the FBI considered it evidence of Communist Party infiltration of the film industry. The FBI’s Los Angeles field office — using a report by an ad-hoc group that included Fountainhead writer and future Trump pin-up girl Ayn Rand — warned that the movie represented “rather obvious attempts to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a ‘scrooge-type’ so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.” The movie “deliberately maligned the upper class, attempting to show the people who had money were mean and despicable characters. This … is a common trick used by Communists.”
The FBI report compared “It’s a Wonderful Life” to a Soviet film, and alleged that Frank Capra was “associated with left-wing groups” and that screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett were “very close to known Communists.”
This was all rubbish, of course — and a prelude to the Red Scare led by Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, who launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of Hollywood, the State Department, and even the US Army.
The movie was also prelude to modern Republican ideology. Since Ronald Reagan, Republicans have used Potter-like social Darwinism to justify everything tax cuts for the wealthy, union-busting, and cutbacks in social safety nets. Rand herself became a hero to many in the Trump administration.
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