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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
Professor
Edward Holmes, who studies the emergence of infectious diseases, said
the fact that this variant is so distinct from other variants is a
worry.
Would this be reported in the Murdoch Press or SMH? Will AG Cash attend to this or is this something to be ignored? Having lost the referendum on Marriage Equality this "law"seems one of based more on sour grapes and revenge returning to Go and the freedom to Discriminate.
With
Scott Morrison's religious discrimination bill in the spotlight, a
school teacher tells Q+A she was fired by a religious school for coming
out, but a pastor defends the right of religious schools to do so.
The United States has long been concerned about China’s influence in the
region. So, too, is Australia, even if nobody in Canberra is actually
saying that about why our men and women in uniform are on the ground
there at this particular time.
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the
current crisis and unrest engulfing the islands is “influenced and
encouraged by other powers”. He is referring, of course, to the China/Taiwan situation, and he said as much: countries which don’t like his country’s
Belt and Road ties with Beijing were behind the current crisis.
Dutton however is banging the "drums of war" There must be an election coming soon
Australians had some world-class news coverage this month
when Scott Morrison slumped in a barber’s chair before thrusting a limp
sausage at unsuspecting RSL veterans, all in the name of political
journalism. Unlike other times in his career, however, this time
Morrison knew where the sharp blade was coming from.I’m no expert in
newsroom ratings, but I’m pretty sure watching a Prime Minister’s
haircut is right up there with televised earwax moulding and people who
post script-font quotes on Instagram. But, lols, it’s theatre guys,
colour and movement for all those reality-telly-Facebook comment votes,
designed to drown out that feeling of dread you get when you realise the
Australian government went to the world climate change conference to
save the planet with some Year 12 PowerPoint graphs and a gas company
paying for the coffee stand.
Morrison has changed the meaning of Prime Ministership. To him in the Game of politics there are no lies not even calling him a liar. But that doesn't really matter so go ahead because there are no rules in Morrisonland that's why there's no fucking Independant Federal ICAC.
In the 24/7 News cycle and the Game of politics anything goes. Because of the speed at which news travels, here today gone tomorrow the only excercise is to stay ahead of it. Advertisers PR people and politicians play it and it's fast as, and never ending. Winning and losing aren't even the primary goal because there isn't an end. Ergo; in Morrison's view there are no rules or lies only staying ahead of the game and surfing, controlling the media wave. That's why the fucking ABC has to go and why the Independant News "trolls" on the Social Media need to be controlled. Otherwise rorts, backstabbing, speaking in tongues supporting your crash through rollerball team of thugs, no matter what, and even rigging the system can't become acceptable. Because to Morrison like Trump politics is just a never ending Game in which they found themselves accidental leaders but not a Prime Minister or in Trump's case a President.
Scott
Morrison says he doesn’t believe he’s told a lie in public life after
French President Emmanuel Macron accused him of lying.
As the COP26 climate summit comes to a close, the Australian government has little to show for its attendance other than a seemingly battered and bruised global reputation. Australia sat out of agreements to cut methane emissions, coal use and deforestation, despite many of the world’s largest nations signing on to such commitments.
So much for AUKUS, CHUKUS seems a more apt term for this immediate
agreement where China the UK, and the US are in step, Why? It’s patently
clear. But not so for the A in AUKUS. However, given China hasn’t
invaded anyone recently and the LNP has why are they acting as if China
has? How embarrassing for Morrison whose been left out of the loop not
advised of 30 secret meetings his besty has had. He will feel the sting
of his do-nothing climate policy in the near future well before he gets
any submarines. Because America China, and the UK will invest in climate
cooperation which translates into much wider cooperation and they will
leave the climate laggard, Morrison’s Australia, out in the wilderness.
The US-China competition is much more like European rivalries
in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as between France and Britain
or Britain and Germany, where capitalist countries competed for entry
into foreign markets on the most favorable terms and for diplomatic and
military spheres of influence. Despite President Xi’s sabre rattling,
China isn’t at the point where it has taken over other countries (as the
US did most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan).
Believe it or not from the mouth of this “do-nothing” “we have a
plan”government comes the chest beating challenge to the US and China
“action is louder than words” na nana nana na!! The arrogance that
shames all Australians is something exceptional. This Australian
Government has shown it’s stripes and shamed us they have joined the
Russians and Saudis as a counter pledge in this existential game of
climate chess. While proudly crying “we don’t need to have the planet’s
best interests at heart” “That’s the Australian ( MAGA ) Way”
Foreign Minister Marise Payne says she welcomes a climate
agreement between the United States and China but it needs to be
translated into action, conceding there are still many differences
between the world’s two largest emitters.
In less than 8 years ago Tony Abbott and Andrew Robb singing and the praising China. Their enemy was Putin and their post GFC promise of "No Tax Cuts" saw them abandon the Pacific by cutting the ABC's budget and abandoning Radio Australia it's heartbeat.
What and who was it that in such a short time raised the spector of China as the Global enemy? American domestic politics. They needed an enemy and Trump found Immigration and China. How tied the LNP is to the umbilical cord of American Republicanism is seen with the speed we turned China from friend to enemy in such a short time. The catalyst for that change was Murdoch the IPA and their tool the LNP. The echo and rumble of anti-China sentiment was heard as far back as 2015-16 When China complained about the press coverage it was being given here. That become a full blown crescendo by 2019-20 when Morrison became our Accidental PM and it's even louder now.
We've been Yanked and not by Americans in general but Murdoch the IPA and the LNP in particular because American conservative Politics has become our LNP Politics. We have been dragged down and into this mire since 2013 when we were the most admired nation with the second best economy in the world during and after the GFC.
How fast it is since "we" were a Pacific Nation to now when Morrison reminds us we stand alone and behind the the skirts of AUKUS. When you can hear the LNP crying out for more stringent Voter ID, that replacement theory is being taught in our schools when we are fundamentally a White Christian Country whose immigration policies are dividing us we know we have been Yanked. Step out on to the streets and look the message was clear prior to 2013 this country was the world's most admired and the skies were blue. Nothing's changed except the LNP and the message that has come with them and their Murdoch amplifier. The LNP doesn't use Australian media the ABC. You will however always find them with Rupert the American.
My thought for the day One of the oddities of political
polling is trying to understand how 48% to 50% of the voting public
would willingly return a party that has governed so abysmally. ( John
Lord )
Fake News certainly this is!! The Age's Headline is MISLEADING to the Max!! The General suggestion that Federal MPs are throwing their weight in favor of Smith is Bullshit. Holier than thou Tudge might be along with the right of Genghis Khan Sukkar and Vulnerable JobKeeper, JobMaker failure Josh Frydenberg might but their is no suggestion that even all LNP politicians are rooting for the spoilt brat Tim Smith. Is it any wonder that The Age has been reduced to what looks like a flyer these days for Harvey Norman?
What Smith did wasn't an "accident" he chose to drive , hit stationary objects. It was just luck it wasn't people. I live in Kew, I accept accidents happen, but Tim Smith didn't have an accident and an idiot is supported by some other idiots and don't deserve to be in office either.
Federal
MPs are continuing to rally around Tim Smith, encouraging the
drink-driving MP to ‘make up his own mind’ in defiance of Opposition
Leader Matthew Guy.
If doing is being then Tim Smith showed Kew who he was.
Tim Smith will be judged in the eyes of the Law, in the eyes of his Insurance Company. In the eyes of parents whose children walk our streets expecting to be safe. However, Tim doesn't want to be accountable to his political party or any piss-weak LNP idiot politician not prepared to back him. Frydenberg, Tudge, Sukkar are some examples of who are. Those who claim this is all just a personal decision and it's up to Tim to decide not the Party he represents.
Tim Smith is calling for money donors to join his Fight Club of which the first rule is not to talk about fight club but to talk about "poor Tim" who had a stationary car and kid's bedroom attack him one fateful night whe he only had 2 glasses of wine at a dinner he didn't eat. Is Tim now going to bat for all those drink drivers that have been wrongfully sacked for being over the limit and who didn't have an altercations with stationary objects?
If
there ever was a sign that the personal responsibility of the political
class had evaporated, then the sorry show of Victoria Liberal Tim
Smith provided it.
Xi’s
announcement signals the end of coal-fired power plant development
outside China. Developing countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines,
seen until recently as sources of future demand growth for coal, are
now taking part in a program in which the Asian Development Bank will
buy coal-fired plants with the sole purpose of shutting them down. At
least as significant and somewhat more surprising has been a renewed
commitment to limit the development of coal-fired power in China itself.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Government’s
central planning agency, has released a new plan on energy consumption
that includes requiring all provinces to review already permitted
high-emissions projects, including those under construction. Combined
with the emissions trading market launched in July, this development
suggests that Xi’s stated goal of reaching a peak in China’s coal
consumption by 2026 may well be reached. China pushes for a cleaner
climate China pushes for a cleaner climate Despite escalating tensions
between nations, China is taking positive steps towards reaching
net-zero carbon emission targets. The final development of the past week
has been
Do we deserve better? Australia exports more CO2 than it emits and has countless new fossil fuel projects planned
Our political leaders will do anything to stay in positions of power,
including deceiving the voting public on urgent matters of climate
change, writes Sue Arnold. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT issue facing this
nation is not the pandemic, economic scenarios or nuclear submarines but
a perilous lack of critical thinking and analysis by political parties,
the mainstream media and a large majority of Australians.
Australians Wishing They Could Forget Scott Morrison Too
Australia a nation whose government promises the world but delivers nothing. They promised Afghanis protection, the French a deal, support to the Kurds, China free trade. They promised no cuts, climate change action, vaccine deliveries, safety to women, no secrecy, to be a good Asian Pacific citizen, now Indo-Pacific but form AUKUS a white Anglo Pacific military authority. Would you trust anything they have to say?
Morrison's a joke China has 76 subs many, yes many nuclear powered, armed and cocked and Morrison wants us to become a target in order to keep us safe and to be the front for a UK/US power base in Asia now that sounds promising and very very mercenary position.
As
Sydney Covid infections spiral out of control, the efficiency of NSW’s
lauded “gold standard” contact tracing system has become ever more
critical. Cracks are appearing. Luke Stacey reports.
If it were only Bezos who thought like this, we could ground him, tax
him, and be done with it. But he is only the crassest manifestation of a
logic that pervades our ruling class: from Sen. Ted Cruz jetting off to the five-star Ritz-Carlton in Cancún, Mexico, while Texas froze to Peter Thiel planning his luxury bunker in New Zealand.
And so long as the rich and powerful continue to believe that there is
an “out there” to absorb their messes, they are going to fiercely
protect the business-as-usual machine that will keep the rest of us burning down here.
How slowly things move when the LNP were in the thick of things.
HOW IMPORTANT are the repercussions of the Ashbygate conspiracy, the one that brought Tony Abbott to power and set in train a series of disastrous coalition governments, to today’s LNP?
Does anybody care anymore?
We are about to find out.
A
decision will be made soon as to whether or not the already massive
legal debt accumulated by One Nation's James Ashby will increase.
Guaranteed not the News on Sky
Sky News agreed to pay $40,000 plus legal costs, to air an apology
during Ms Panahi’s program on Friday evening, and to publish an apology
on its Facebook page and a separate corrections page on its website.
In
a statement, Senator Hanson-Young said: “To use my family, including my
7-year-old niece, to launch a political attack is gutter politics.
The
money will be donated to the Australian Youth Climate Commission after
Sky News wrongly aired claims the Greens senator involved her niece in a
dangerous anti-logging protest.
It’s
a place where homes sell in the multi-millions and the homeless live in
makeshift camps. A place that sends a warning about what happens to
community and the natural environment when wealth takes over.
Morrison's Achievement: THE PANDEMIC OF THE UNVACCINATED
Incredibly,
a survey finds 42% of Australians believe China will attack Australia,
this despite exports to China surging 36% over in the last six months,
and despite there being no logical rationale for war with China, or an
attack by China. Marcus Reubenstein analyses the ludicrous position of
Australia’s China hawks and the mainstream media pushing their agendas.
Mohammed Haddad at Al Jazeera English
reports that in June, at least 23 countries experienced at least 122° F.
(50° […]
FACT CHECK
Federal
Nationals MP George Christensen this week cheered an apparent plan in
Singapore to treat COVID-19 like the flu. But he missed some important
qualificatio
Land managers are the primary stewards of Australia’s unique environment. Yet they receive the least government funding of any OECD country aside from New Zealand.
The environment needs immediate and sustained support.
Whatever the lure and potential of environmental markets and
certification schemes, the evidence strongly suggests private funding
should not be relied on to preserve, restore and sustain our natural
landscapes.
The environment is a public good, and requires adequate and substantial public funding.
Despite
the fact that a majority of Australians want to remain neutral in a war
between the U.S. and China, successive governments have put us in a
position where we would be dragged into war.
Sammy J, Virginia Trioli, Raf Epstein and David Astle all enjoyed big lifts as Melbourne weathered its most recent lockdown.
Meanwhile Andrew Bolt remains UNWANTED while Aunty booms.
Melbourne
University made itself look stupid by hiring fake Aborigine Bruce
Pascoe as professor of a fake discipline - "Indigenous Agriculture". Now
it looks dishonest by not sacking him after even its own publishing arm
denounced Pascoe's ludicrous untruths.
This,
coming from Andrew Bolt, who promotes himself as the most read
political blog in the country, but only posts the same psychologically
obsessed message week in and week out. has a case to answer for stalking
Bruce Pascoe. As a consequence one comes to realize the degree of
mental illness there in the community passing itself off as Bolt like
"normal". Andrew Bolt is part of a very small uneducated and blinkered
minority that find it difficult to comprehend their narrow
'Weltenschung' or "view of the world" might be wrong. That they weren't
sent by some higher force born to rule.
Melbourne
University commands International respect Andrew Bolt not even any
local other than largely ridicule. The University of Melbourne
encourages the debate Andrew Bolt so desperately demands to be shut
down. The University sponsors and encourages research, the expansion of
data collection and methodologies that leads to the transparent progress
of rational thought. Andrew Bolt denies that debate in preference for
some mystical perfection. He is a Trump style modern day TV tent
preacher without the ratings only the rantings. The modern day
equivalence found in TV evangelism and reality shows.
The
Bolt Report invites converts to share their conversion and are lit up
on his stage. His audience numbers touted as product for advertiser
money. However there are fewer and fewer. The day is coming faster than
Bolt realizes when he will be forgotten and fade away like a fog as he
has on the regional WINN channels. At best he will be a relic to be
studied by children as to what not to do and what he does do is the
opposite of clear and rational thinking.
Chinese
dictator Xi Jinping last week gave a frightening speech on the
anniversary of his communist party. Frightening, because paragraph after
paragraph was just like the big anniversary speech given by Adolf
Hitler, two years before World War II.
The world must not ignore this: Last week’s big anniversary speech by China’s dictator sounded very much like Hitler’s.
So don’t be surprised when the shooting starts.
Xi
gave his speech in Beijing on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese
Communist Party, at a ceremony featuring soldiers goosestepping, Nazi
style.
It was frightening enough that Xi threatened “foreign forces” he’d “crack their heads and spill blood”.
Worse,
was that in paragraph after key paragraph he pushed the same buttons
Hitler pushed in his speech in 1937 on the fourth anniversary of his
Nazi dictatorship.
All the same evils are there. The appeals to
race. The paranoia. The inflammatory poking of a mortified national
pride. The fake appeals for peace, and gory threats of blood. That sound
of a whiner, grown big and now scary-daring himself to fight.
Reading them side-by-side, how can anyone think we’re safe? (ANDREW BOLT)
Hitler
and China have nothing in common. Hitler grew out of the failure of
Democracy. Germany a divided nation captured singularly controlled media
and a government performance that promoted the antithesis of Democracy
for the rule by one man. Hitler was allowed to grow by allied nations
due to their constant appeasement and compromise of allowing Hitler to
grow. Even Left wing USSR failed to contain him.Had they done so, much much earlier, WW2 would never have happened and Hitler would have failed.
China's
growth and history came from the liberation of a starving nation
needing to free itself from imperial bondage and a nations refusal to be
colonized like India by a rapacious Western Imperialism that offered
opiate addiction in exchange for tea and cheap labor. Since 1948 the
world has seen China transform itself and lift it's people up. While the
national dream of free market capitalism Andrew Bolt so dearly clings
to has seen the majority of its citizen's lifestyles diminished.
Housing, health, education and wealth distribution, over the past 75
years, has progressed for the Chinese but not so for the West.
Infrastructure in China has improved while here it's decayed. The ruling
minority have little to be proud of and in desperation need to
constantly create fake "enemies" in order to tell us "they are "keeping
us safe". In China we a grassroots enthusiastic nationalism born out of
the positive changes they have experienced in their history. The US and
Australia on the other hand are currently desperate and need to
manufacture a fake nationalism just as Hitler once did in Germany with
pomp ceremony secret police and surveillance one dictated from the top
down. Bolt's ideal nation where an elect and not freely elected rule.
Let's
face it Marx's explanation and description of the history Capitalism
and the individual's position in it is far more illuminating than any
the conservatives have offered. It's why his manifesto continues to be
the most read on the planet after the bible that offers myth as a world
view. Andrew Bolt would have it burned if he could just as Hitler did.
Instead
he and a minority ultra-orthodox right or 1 percenters promote division
in the form of "culture wars" to distract the diverse masses from the
economic division that is the true nature of the Western belief in
Capitalism. It's distraction that hides the fact that the world is in
fact dominated by as few as 10 multinational corporations to which our
governments are beholden to for their power. Paid puppets and in
Australia represented by the cabal of LNP, Murdoch media and the IPA.
How few people is that really? Very little from the Melbourne Club of
old really that once ruled this country. Their focus today is on the
maintenance of power by surveillance and policing to keep us from
uniting, protesting or criticizing the economic system under which we
live. They have in effect accelerated the reduction of our freedoms
since 2013 at as fast a rate as China has been liberating their
citizens. And whatsmore have been doing it in plain sight. Bolt's voice
is the paid and scripted ideological voice denying what we in the West
have all witnessed and benefited from is China's progress as well.
However not all of us have shared in those benefits and the
conservatives are hell bent on keeping it that way.
Simon
Birmigham without denial admitted that the LNP rorts were a justifiable
action as the LNP won the election. Bridget McKenzie is back as is
Barnaby Joyce. Morrison, Dutton, Frydenberg, Tudge, Succhar, Now they
are all intent on improving the life of the minority not the majority of
Australians and they are failing badly.
Tell
us the news here. On The Bolt Report on Sky News at 7pm: we're too
fraidy-cat for the tourists now flocking to Europe, Cardinal George Pell
vindicated, and Joe Biden confirms he's suffering memory blanks. Plus:
sshhhhh, but where did that global warming go?
The answer to that global warming question is up above. We know you rarely go out!
Would this be reported in the Murdoch Press or SMH? Will AG Cash attend to this or is this something to be ignored? Having lost the referendum on Marriage Equality this "law"seems one of based more on sour grapes and revenge returning to Go and the freedom to Discriminate. 
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