Sunday 17 July 2022

Fighting Fake News with REAL 17/7/22; Extinction in Plain sight Dan; The Spectre of Trump is a bonus for Dems midterm chance; Australia has Peter Dutton; Dan Andrews doesn't always listen; Prisons;

 

 May be an image of 6 people and text that says 'MURDOCH& MORRISON THE ABC All Rupert's horses & all Sky News men, couldn't put Scumo in power again!'


 

 

 Professor David Lindenmayer, the most cited forest ecologist in the world, warns that actions in Wombat State Forest right now are increasing fire risk.

 Dan and his advisors aren't always right and they don't always take notice of the science.

In allowing VicForests to perform salvaging in Wombat State Forest, the Andrews government is increasing the likelihood and severity of bushfires. It must stop today.

The state government is increasing our bushfire risk right now

 

Koalas and greater gliders lost vast swathes of habitat during the Black Summer bushfires but their slide further towards extinction has not halted logging

 

Source: ‘We’ll lose this species’: The fight to save koalas and greater gliders

 

 

Donald Trump

 

Specter of Trump haunts GOP's chances

Heather Digby Parton

This election may be turning into a choice election rather than a referendum election

 

White anger, money and the likely healthy future of right-wing populism
 If Trump is the dark spectre hanging over the GOP along with abortion, guns, and education and climate surely the same could be said of Dutton and the LNP. Currently there is no resistense to Albo other than by the IPA's Fake Poll Push for coal fired power stations and their absurd claim 68% of Australia support them.
. The LNP and the ALP are both at a loss to deal with inflation nor is it the war in the Ukraine. The fossil fuel industry can't hide from the fact that they and they alone are abusing their power to make the globe suffer. Because the sectors economy is greater than anyone sovereign nation. 
The LNP may have assisted in the planet losing a decade of opportunity but the fossil fuel industry lost us over 3 decades of action and will continue down the same path. Does anyone for a moment think BP the third largest solar power developer outside of China and the EU are transitioning with the utmost rapidity to green energy or controlling the pace away from their primary investment? Tobacco companies are now claiming they too are the biggest drivers of anti-smoking on the planet as well while suing government quit campaigns and trying to redefine the definition of smoking..

Australia's Right Extreme has 1) Dutton, Holly Hughes, 2) Women 3) LGBTQIs and Transexuals 4) Education 5) Climate Change 6) Disunity  all working against it to even be a semblence of an Opposition at the moment.
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"[Previously] we looked at how News Corp remains a powerful propaganda tool for right-wing extremists and populist leaders in the US, the UK and Australia. The messaging infrastructure that played such a key role in the growing extremism of US Republican voters — from the Tea Party through to Trump, and now as the “resistance” to Biden — remains ready to work again for the right candidate.

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