2 dead only one was worth reporting.
Cologne smells yes of a right wing anti- Asylum seeker beatup. In a world of CCTV and and mobile cameras that capture everything live in public places
" According to police and witnesses, the perpetrators were of North
African and Arabic appearance, although neither the identity nor origin
of any of them has so far been established."
" The government and local politicians have been at pains to point out
there is no evidence that refugees were involved in the attacks.
“There’s no evidence that we’re dealing here with people who are
refugees,”"
About 1,000 men were gathered on the square in front of the city’s main
station on Thursday night, although only a small number of them are
believed to have been involved in the attacks.
Chris Gayle is just a sideshow a distraction to the main event that the conservatives want us to ignore Peter Dutton and Jamie Briggs. If Turnbull lets Dutton stay he's confirming the Liberal Party's sexism.
However in a world in which social reality is framed by men and the class nature of that framework remains denied the majority of everything we do is sexist. Without acknowledging the historical class nature of that sexism one simply takes for granted that gender discrimination is a social and biological norm. Bolt's flattering of Mel Mclaughlin was just as sexist as Gayle's. The question surely should be why is Gayle getting the greater attention by the media? The
uproar over sleazy sportsman Chris Gayle's harassment of TV reporter
Mel McLaughlin highlights the double-standards of the Turnbull
Government, says [...]
Peter Dutton is, to use his own words, more or less, a mad fucking wanker, writes John Passant.
The female bosses destroying the image of ‘union thugs’ forever
What you don't find in the Murdoch MSM the reality of the Australian Union Movement
A rise in female bosses like Ged Keaney and Caterina Cinnani means the
face of the union movement now looks a lot more like Australia than the
front bench
There is no "free market" when banks are both lenders and sellers and too big to go broke.
Anyone who thinks Monday's share market meltdown might be a case of
one-off new year jitters is likely to be in for an unpleasant surprise.
There's a Royal Commission into Union Corruption but Corporate Crime is regarded as a one off event.
Let Dick Smith's woes be a lesson to us all. There's a good chance that
when you buy a gift card, it will end up being only a gift for the
retailer.
Global consolidation of corporate control spells the end of Democracy
A
flurry of big business endorsements appears aimed at building
congressional momentum for the Trans-Pacific mega-deal. Sarah Lazare
from Common Dreams [...]
