The best western journalists are overwhelmingly despised while the worst are acclaimed millionaires. Western civilisation is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don’t seek widespread approval. It’s worthless.
Source: The best journalists are persecuted and despised – Pearls and Irritations
“Too much blood has been spilled” — Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies highlight a few of the many under-reported appeals made at the General Assembly for peaceful negotiations.
66 Nations at UN Say ‘End War in Ukraine’
Iran protests: majority of people reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime, surveys find
A federal integrity body is finally to become a reality. While it’s a significant achievement, there are shortfalls and political hurdles. Callum Foote garners expert opinion on Australia’s National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) draft legislation. Whistleblower protections and secret hearings are the two big issues.
Source: “Massive achievement” but is the NACC anti-corruption commission missing some teeth? – Michael West
What about Australia?
Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison have similarly ransacked our national wealth for nine years. They have weakened Medicare, lowered taxes on the rich, stolen taxpayers’ funds to fund obscenely rich private schools at the expense of public schools, and gutted our universities.
They also spent billions adding to the fossil fuel companies’ ill-gotten gains, hamstrung climate change mitigation for a decade, and attacked our national cohesion with deliberate trashing of our international treaty obligations, especially regarding refugees, dog-whistling attacks on minorities, started an unnecessary war of words with China, and essentially destroyed our biodiversity so that land clearing can proceed.
But, I hear you say, we threw them out on their ear. We elected a reformist government, in whose DNA flows liberty, equality and fraternity.
We did change governments, but we are still on track to lower taxes to our richest minority. We still subsidise fossil fuel companies. We will not tax them for their ill-gotten gains, and we won’t even consider increasing the welfare payments of the poor.
Even though we know that it causes Australian children to go to bed hungry, and a recent finding that the average rent increase for the last year was $3000. That is, on average, $60 a week in rent alone. Then factor in energy cost rises, higher food costs due to shortages caused by floods, and you have a perfect recipe for a human disaster.
So there have been changes for the better, but this government is seemingly intent on ‘doing a Truss’, and going ahead with stage 3 tax cuts. Spare me from inhumane governments. They need to wake up as to why they exist, at all.
Source: Why elect governments if they don’t care about the people? – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Fossil Fuel Industry demands increased corporate welfare. It wasn’t that long ago Andrew Bolt was telling us the planet was cooling and renewables were too expensive. The LNP spent 13 years putting the brakes on transitioning.
Renewable energy becoming cheaper is behind the early closure of AGL coal-fired power stations, Tanya Plibersek says.
Source: Cheaper renewables drive coal closures – Michael West
This means personal debt has increased and the Shylocks are making greater profits
Household wealth has slipped for the first time since the pandemic, with superannuation balances taking a hit from bearish markets locally and overseas.
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