Fighting Fake News with REAL 20/2/22; John Pilger, Frydenberg, Grace Tame,

 

 

Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the U.S. and Britain.

Source: JOHN PILGER: War in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda

In a slightly different context, press thuggery could be called out for “slut shaming”. They are the equivalent of schoolyard thugs. The bullies caught “getting even” with girls far smarter. Theirstock in trade genderism was used on Julia Gillard in much the same way sniggering at her “Looks” and the clothes she wore, trying to capture the most unflattering shot. Yes, the media are exactly what they claim not to be, and that’s genderist, biased and to the extreme. Murdoch once built his paper business on “page 3 girls” tide of opinion and women turned the tide. But he didn’t really change did he. Then, propaganda is his real business and corporate media are all applying that business model and they’re doing it for Scotty. However, then along came Grace.

Grace Tame has written an open letter calling out the media for publishing an old photograph of her with a bong which she labelled an “unnecessary shaming stunt”. “To every media outlet who sought to discredit me by publishing THAT photo,” the former Australian of the Year began the lengthy sequence of posts on Twitter. “Although my humour and strength remain intact, I’d be lying if I said it didn’t let me down.” Ms Tame said her status as a prominent campaigner for victims of sexual assault should have made media outlets think twice before publishing the snapshot. “Not just as an individual, but more so as an advocate of the survivor community,” she continued.

Source: Grace Tame hits out at media for ‘unnecessary shaming stunt’

 

 Frydenberg isn't comfortable for over a month his face as occupied the largest billboards at Kew Junction but he's remained unsighted. Meanwhile Independent challenger Dr Monique Ryan has been extremely active and engaging with the electorate. Kew is very similar to Warringah let's hope it's actually the "same". It is an educated, wealthy and politically attentive electorate that swung 16% against Frydenberg last time and he's performed worse these past 3 years. Kooyong saw the State LNP's MP Tim Smith fall on his sword after shaming himself. Frydenberg has crashed as well and more than once but in so many other ways injuring people.

It was a single recommendation: pass both bills. But in the dying days before the federal election, it was ignored, leaving victims of financial misconduct left high and dry on the political scrapheap in another week of political mudslinging and point scoring. The recommendation, released in a report this week by the Senate Economics Committee, was to pass laws to introduce a compensation scheme of last resort and a financial accountability regime.

Source: Source: Dudded customers thrown on the political scrap heap as promises broken

It was an Australian citizenship challenge no other, pitting an ordinary citizen against the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the

What happens when you bet the house against one of our leading politicians?

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 The measure of the Morrison Government : While Traesurer Josh Frydenberg is out there telling us the “fundamentals are good” the reality is the very opposite and we have been on a major slide since 2014.

The decline of political and corporate standards in Australia over recent years is not just in the imagination of some critics. Transparency International released its annual corruption report yesterday which gives Australia the lowest score and global ranking since the series began in 1995.

Source: Australia hits new low on Transparency International Corruption Index – Michael West Media

  

 

 "A friend of ours inherited a RAT from their parents"

Fears many young Australians may never own their own RAT 

 

 

 

Isn't this a mirror image of Australia with Subs and Tanks but Morrison's refusal of domestic deployment against Covid-19?

 The Individual vs Government and Corporate control.

 In the world of "free speech" it must be said Spotify isn't an Individual actor and any idea that they are in a free market of ideas is ludicrous and an oxymoron. That doesn't exist except on the fringes. The very notion that Spotify a Corporation is an Individual came into being in 1984 when the American Senate passed Citizens United Act and allowes Corporations to act as political Individuals. The Capitalist Democracy was validated and reinforced, declared arena of "Fake Speech" and opened the flood gates of the cash for comment industry. Where ratings and propaganda became "the product" for sale to moneyed and corporate interests of America. Interests that certainly strengthened the growth of corporate control and control of the media industry in America.

 Murdoch put his foot on the accelerator to become the biggest influencer, and cash for comment distributor of Fake News, not just in America, but the English speaking world. With new technologies providing space for sattellites, the Rogans and other Right-Wing spruikers of the world to grow and perform for wealth and find a niche. A niche supported by concentrated wealth that allowed corporations like Spotify to make the Capitalist choice, not for any idea, but rather it's bottom line and share price. They aren't here for the betterment of any Nation or Common Good so fuck off Neil. There is a moneyed right-wing market to pander to not a disparate left or progressive one. There is no such thing as misinformation as far as they are concerned only product and advertising and investor money. 

There is no free market of ideas where Public Broadcasters struggle for existence and Corporations like Rupert Murdoch's try to rid nations of Public Broadcasters like the BBC and the ABC in Australia. Propaganda is the core business of Fox and Sky News. Rogan is just a Camp follower. Follow the flow of money and you find Faux News in a Capitalist Democracy. Just as Brendan O'Neil is in the UK and Andrew Bolt is in Australia.

Read the Australian Main Stream The Age etc and what will you see is that "Neil Young isn't genuine" "He's done it before" "It's his schtik" he's old likeable but confused etc etc. Brendan O'Neil saw his opportunity in his article titled  "Hippies for Censorship" in his camp follower rag Spike. All cash for commenters tolerated  maintaining the illusion of a free market of ideas in Capitalist Democracies where they are definitely not. They add to the confusion to distract from the illusion mainstream media spins.

Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after he left the music streaming service with a stark choice: it’s me or Joe Rogan. Spotify chose Rogan. In a now-deleted letter on his website, the 76-year-old artist accused Spotify of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines through its most popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Young, who has a long history of political activism, accused Spotify of profiting from misinformation about COVID-19 and asked that they either remove his entire music catalog or Rogan’s podcast series.

Source: Neil Young To Spotify: It’s Me Or Joe Rogan. Spotify Chose Rogan | IFLScience

 Grace and Neil feel the rage

Conclusion: Nous Sommes Grace Tame The lesson from this is that activism need not be bricks through windows, or even fiery rhetoric. Through her simple facial expressions and the fire in her eyes, Grace Tame has conveyed the outrage of the considerable segment of the population that has, to put it mildly, an unfavourable opinion of The Lodge Occupant. As much as her critics like to complain about her ‘lack of civility’, it is precisely that lack of civility, the idea of not being ‘the good little girl’ that makes her statement so powerful.

Source: Grace (Un)Tame(d) Provokes Conservative Outrage – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Conservative, camp follower Brendon O'Neill is always desperate for attention spins his misinformed message that all’s well with the world and the free market of ideas. Neil Young is an old Hippie that's just lost his way. You will find him a guest on Murdoch media trying to make a name for himself and impress the the bigger players in the market place of ideas which aren't free or in his case informed.

Hippies are the most disappointing subculture, aren’t they? They always let you down. They cut their hair, become therapists or corporate sustainability advisers, and before you know it these people who wanged on about Woodstock for 50 years are being paid a fortune by The Man to badger me and you. Just look at Neil Young. The one-time cocaine-stained hero of LA’s alternative scene, singer of angry songs about Vietnam and the Kent State massacre, participant with Crosby, Stills and Nash in the Freedom of Speech Tour of 2006, is now basically pleading with a huge corporation to silence people he doesn’t like. From protest singer to agitator for capitalist censorship? What a fall.

Source: Hippies for censorship – spiked

Grace Tame’s refusal to appease Morrison with a smile has set off a typical reaction from privileged, middle-aged men, including Peter van Onselen whose smug arrogance and sexism should no longer be tolerated by Channel 10.

Source: Peter van Onselen’s misogyny should be taken off air

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Who is the target?

 

Grace Tame’s ability to give voice to the voiceless and hold the powerful to account has earned her Crikey’s highest honour.

Source: In a year of deception, one voice stood out: Truth-teller Grace Tame’s

Who is that guy with Grace?

2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame yesterday met with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and she did not smile at him. In fact, Ms Tame used powerful body language and a steely side-eye to convey her disdain and contempt for the man.

Source: What is required of a woman if she wants a seat at the powerful men’s table? That she smile. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

And it’s not as though the government was bristling with policy ideas that have had to be shelved. It did miss out on producing a budget surplus, but when the same thing happened to the Rudd government because of the global financial crisis, this was proffered by the Coalition as proof that Labor was unfit to hold office.

Unsurprisingly, the Coalition does not now make the same claim about itself.  Our national politics now seems so small.  Under Morrison, our national government has defined itself as chiefly a political operation. It’s designed to manage issues as they arise and otherwise do as little as possible. It’s a caravan that rumbles from election to election, waving problems away with slogans until it’s forced to take action.

Meanwhile, it throws small lumps of ideological red meat to its party base and media friends with such things as its constant undermining of universities, the ABC and industry super funds.

Source: Federal election 2022: Australians will pay the price of politics for politics’ sake