Monday 7 March 2022

Fighting Fake News with Real; 7/3/22; Help the government won't, Putin, Zelensky;

 

 

 

 The state of Independant Media in Australia is a reflection of the fact the L-NP sponsors the Corporate MSM, with quantities of cash while trying to trash Australia's most trusted public broadcaster the ABC. They are happy leaving dedicated and investigative journalism to fend for them selves on the fringes. The L-NP's most favored model of News and Information in their ideal world would be a State run media Department.

In 2022 – an election year – there has never been a greater need to make a difference. Many would agree that Scott Morrison and his government are the worst in living memory and we cannot afford another term of this incompetent rabble. There is far too much at stake to leave the country in their incapable control

Source: We’ll get by with a little help from our friends – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

Graphic about Vladimir Putin

There is a major error in describing Putin's "Extreme Patriotism of the State" the term Patriotism generally refers to the "People" for whom Putin has and shows no regard for. Extreme Russian Nationalism more accurately describes Putin's obsession with the State. Even that has been bent, twisted, and steroid warped to his blinkered KGB view of empire.

VLADIMIR PUTIN in recent years has drawn strong comparisons to ex-Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin. But what are the parallels between the two?

 

Source: Putin’s stark similarities to Stalin: 5 key connections explained | Politics | News | Express.co.uk


Volodymyr Zelensky accuses the West of wanting to see the Ukrainian people “slowly killed”.

The protests came as Vladimir Putin said his campaign in Ukraine was going to plan and would not end until Kyiv stopped fighting.

 

Thousands of anti-war protesters detained in Russia

 May be an image of ‎1 person and ‎text that says '‎We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security. Paul Keating ۔ Labor Prime‎'‎‎

Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Morrison announced an American decision to spend $10Bn on a base plus ongoing rental payments to house their nuclear submarine fleet and manpower in Australia while we spend another $3bn planning and $116Bn building ours. Is it any wonder he’s never been seen as a man of action? We have been talking subs since 2009.

Mr Morrison will note there would be economic benefits from the submarine base that would also be used by visiting nuclear-powered US and UK submarines. Among the criteria set for the location of the base, Mr Morrison will say its proximity to a large population base so as to recruit and retain a substantially larger uniformed submarine workforce.

Source: Morrison plans east coast base for nuclear powered submarines

 

Today Ben Fordham interviewed Morrison. Fordham asked for confirmation of Bridget McKenzie’s figure of 5,000 ADF on stand-by. He then said he heard that only 455 personnel were on the ground in Northern NSW and asked where the rest were.

Morrison replied “ah well, no the figures are higher than that Ben”. He added that 2,000 were on stand-by on the ground in both NSW and south east QLD.

After further probing, it turns out the 2,000 were ‘deployable’ by the States,

As usual, Morrison hand-balled the problem to the Army – he said “what we’ve done is we’ve put Brigadier General Galloway in as head of a task force for deploying ADF Support staff.

He even gave it another of his customary ‘feel-good handles’ – Operation Flood Assist! Really? Bit of a misnomer if you ask us! We would have thought the flood needs no help at all – but our communities do! Once again, Morrison just does not get it. Nor does he care.

To clarify matters, we checked the Defence Department media centre (as of this morning) for the truth. Here are some facts that Morrison and McKenzie should have known:

Total personnel deployed on task in QLD: 1378

Total deployed on task in NSW: 512 (pretty damned close to Ben Fordham’s 455 & proving the PM wrong again)

The Defence Dept also have a day-by-day list of tasks planned for both States. This sort of detail seems beyond our Federal Ministers and definitely beyond the miserable ramblings of the NSW Premier Perrottet this morning.

All in all, Fordham’s interview was far from revealing on anything important, full of Morrison bullshiza and illustrated quite clearly after all these days, that our northern citizens can not rely on anything practical or sensible from either Government. Once again, it is our emergency services and volunteers who will shoulder the burden alongside their community brothers and sisters.

We can only hope that our emergency services are enhanced and adequately equipped and supported in the future. Lord knows we will need them – and we wont have to wait 100 years!

GB / AB

The Auspol Bulletin

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