Thursday 3 March 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL 3/3/22; The Shovel; Morrison takes a break, The cabinet scrambles; Conservative Love Affair with Putin;

 

 

 

 May be an image of 3 people, people standing and text that says 'The Chaser Anthony Bell Pacific Islands ask Dutton why he's not laughing about water lapping at his door'

May be an image of text that says 'What refutes science: -Better science What doesn't refute science: -Your feelings -Your religion -Your favorite politician -Your half-baked opinon after watching two YouTube videos' 
 In Australia you can add who?  LNP, Murdoch, IPA, UAP, One Nation and QAnon
 
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Scott Morrison knew he was having covid symptoms when he did this.


Scott Morrison will fund rapid antigen tests

PM’s colleagues, contacts scramble for COVID tests

Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Racism is as true today in Australia as when Whites stepped off the boat and imported it on invasion day. Yes, Woke is BLM and the fact that Black lives Do Matter. Yes Woke is “cancel culture’ but not all but “change culture” for women, for LGBTQI’s, for Climate action. It’s for the betterment of us all and not the maintenance of privilege and power generationally handed down to a marginal few. Woke is proudly multicultural, and the fact that our Institutions and the culture that dominantes opinion and justifies our historic systemic patterns of behaviors no longer reflects the common good in our reality is the reason for the drive, and need to change.

Racism is not an opinion.

It is a fact.

This is true both in the United States and around the world.

Racism and white supremacy continue to structure American society, largely by privileging some groups (those defined as “white”) and disadvantaging others (especially those deemed “Black,” but other nonwhites as well). These outcomes are the aggregate result of individual, systemic and institutional discrimination and other forms of racial animus. This has been a fixture of American life and society since before the founding of the republic through to the post-civil rights era and now the Age of Trump and a 21st-century form of fascism. In practice, racism and white supremacy are a “changing same,” constantly adapting over time to fit American society in support of the maintenance and expansion of white privilege, white power and white control. 

Source: How white supremacy fuels the Republican love affair with Vladimir Putin | Salon.com

Press conference with President Volydymyr Zelensky

Scott Morrison said instantly “Ukrainians were“refugees” and would go straight to the top of the ladder” Not so Iraqis, Aghanis, or Africans and definitely not those who arrived by boat. They are “illegals”, first “asylum seekers” maybe but will never be settled here in total contravention to the International Convention which we signed. Even the ACL the Australian Christian Lobby took umbrage at Morrison’s Racist and Orientalist stance suggesting Ukrainians Caucasians and Europeans are the exception to those from the third world. But that’s Scott Morrison who picks up a ukelele and can’t play and has always taken on jobs he simply hasn’t the DNA or capacity to do.

This double standard is all the more apparent in how prominent journalists have discussed the war. CBS reporter Charlie D’Agata apologized after describing Ukraine as “civilized” compared to places like Iraq or Afghanistan, but he is far from alone. Others have similarly expressed shock that a war could happen outside a “third world nation” to people who “seem so like us.” In response to such examples, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association released a statement condemning “orientalist and racist” rhetoric and demanded that newsrooms apply the same consideration to all victims of war.

Source: Media Malpractice and Information War in Ukraine | The Nation

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