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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.
New Polling Shows More Australians Want Scott Morrison Deported Than Novak Djokovic
Australians are getting a stark reminder about how value is
actually created in an economy, and how supply chains truly work. Ask
chief executives where value comes from and they will credit their own
smart decisions that inflate shareholder wealth. Ask logistics experts
how supply chains work and they will wax eloquent about ports, terminals
and trucks. Politicians, meanwhile, highlight nebulous intangibles like
“investor confidence” – enhanced, presumably, by their own steady hands
on the tiller. The reality of value-added production and supply is much
more human than all of this. It is people who are the driving force
behind production, distribution and supply. Labour – human beings
getting out of bed and going to work, using their brains and brawn to
produce actual goods and services – is the only thing that adds value to
the “free gifts” we harvest from nature. It’s the only thing that puts
food on supermarket shelves, cares for sick people and teaches our
children.
Given the Government’s treatment of women and refugees, Peter Dutton’s comments in the Sydney Morning Herald are pure hypocrisy.
ON 10 JANUARY, Minister for Defence and Leader of the House Peter Dutton told the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age that he found it “quite remarkable”
that sports stars and celebrities weren’t using their status to
criticise China’s human rights abuses and their treatment of women.
If Peter Dutton wasn’t a minister in a government that has kept refugees in detention for nine years and if his workplace of Parliament House didn’t have one-third of its employees having experienced sexual harassment, then his criticism of sports stars and celebrities wouldn’t be so difficult to stomach.
But as a man who described Brittany Higgins’ rape claim as “he said, she said”, Peter Dutton is nothing but an opportunistic hypocrite.
The LNP created the laws that dictate Djokovic needs to be deported.
It seems Hawke will retire with Covid before deciding and nothing will
happen.
In breaking news, there is no decision on Novak Djokovic. No,
that’s it. That was the lead story in most news bulletins tonight. They
could have added that there’d been no decision about a range of things
like the integrity commission, the religious discrimination bill, the
election date, the purchase of water bombers for bushfires, the
resignation of a minister… But there’s only one story about nothing you
can do per bulletin…
The Seawolf-class submarine’s nuclear propulsion plant was not affected, the US Navy said.
France
A group of former US officials and experts has written to the
US president, Joe Biden, warning the deal could threaten US national
security by encouraging hostile nations to obtain highly enriched
uranium (HEU). At the same time, the former Australian prime minister
Malcolm Turnbull says if Australia does buy the submarine reactors
without a domestic nuclear industry – and therefore the nuclear
expertise – it will be “more plug and pray” than “plug and play”. The
former Nato deputy secretary general Rose Gottemoeller has called on
Australia to make a new deal with France to use their uranium, which is
not weapons grade. That would heal the rift with France and ease nuclear
proliferation fears, she said.
The fact that Peter Costello's Ch9 have no evidence of what IBAC is doing never prevents them ( I don't really know, Nick McKenzie etal ) printing bullshit as fact. All their "journalists" need say is"according to sources and records obtained by The Age." Needless to say these sources, and they are wide and varied, remain unnamed and tightly held. Yet the journalists would have us believe they are inside the very minds of the IBAC commissioners and know them better than they know themselves. "The Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission now intends to hold public hearings into"....
The greater liklihood however is that Matthew Guy is back and the LNP dirt brigade has become more active in order to boost Guy's seemingly tougher stance in opposition than Michael Obrien's. Little Matt needs a boost given the shellacking he took at the last election.
The problem for The Age is that they need to be providing news for all Victorians and not just a few. We have noticed that the print version now looks more like a LNP leaflet than a newspaper purchased for it's crosswords,word puzzles and Sodoku.
Victoria’s
anti-corruption commission will hear evidence during about how public
grants to ethnic groups were used for political purposes.
Gladys, whose involvement with a corrupt boyfriend where she
either deliberately ignored his behaviour or was dangerously incompetent
at noticing, resigns before an investigation and there’s a general
bashing of teeth at the unfairness of it all. This is the middle of a
pandemic and changing leaders is not something anyone should want. Dan,
who may or may not be appearing in an IBAC investigation which may or
may not be about his behaviour, is « refusing » to stand aside and «
stubbornly » continuing to lead his state and refusing to answer
questions that may be a breach of the law were he to talk about the
inquiry which may or may not exist. We’ll probably know more in the
coming days. And if it’s discovered that Andrews has appeared then it’s
only right that he should be placed in the stocks and publicly flogged,
even if he was only appearing as a witness where he is cooperating to
help bring to light branch stacking in the Labor Party. (Branch stacking
doesn’t occur in the Liberal Party; they only have aggressive
recruitment).
"Your smartphone has a built-in frailty that will force it to fail in approximately 2-3 years." Manal al-Sharif reports on...
The Right to Repair
movement has gained significant traction in the past few years.
Activists in the EU, US, and Australia aligned with the movement have
helped spur the introduction and passage of legislation to force
manufacturers to provide access to repair knowledge and tools.
France introduced an anti-waste law in 2020 that has created a repair index for electronics and appliances. Shoppers are now greeted with color-coded labels that define a product’s ease of reparability.
But
it is also up to us. To find out more, and to learn what we can all do
to combat the manipulation of Big Tech and help reduce e-waste, check
out the Tech4Evil podcast.
Compulsory voting is the only bulwark Democracy has from the cabal that currently exists here today
The
former president’s actions led to a near-revolt at the Justice
Department that receded only after senior officials warned of a mass
resignation, the report reveals.
"Trump’s decision to assassinate one of Iran’s most prominent and highly respected military leaders, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, has added yet another name to the list of people killed by the U.S. — which many rightly see as the world’s biggest rogue state. The assassination has escalated hostilities between Tehran and Washington and created an even more explosive situation in the politically volatile Middle East. As was to be expected, Iran has vowed to retaliate on its own terms for the killing of its general, while also announcing that it will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Iraq’s parliament, in turn, has voted to expel all U.S. troops, but Trump has responded with threats of sanctions if the U.S. is forced to remove its troops from the country."
The same would apply if any of the other 164 countries in which the US has a presence cried "Yankees Go Home"(ODT)
Let's be quite clear here: Thanks to a change introduced by Scott…
However, remembering that almost nothing in politics is predictable
these days, so picking the most unlikely thing and asserting that you’re
almost positive that this will happen is a surefire way to seem like a
genius.“No, no, Joe Hockey won’t win. Abbott will get up and then
almost beat Julia Gillard in the election. Yes, yes, I know that Rudd is
popular at the moment, but the polls will turn and then they’ll replace
him with Julia, who’ll eventually lose to Tony. This will be followed
by Britain leaving the EU, Trump being elected President… Yes, of the
USA, and Boris Johnson will complete the trifecta of complete morons.
Oh, sorry I forget to mention that Turnbull replaces Abbott and then
gets replaced by Morrison… What do you mean I’m completely insane and
you’ll give me good odds about any of those things happening?” So given anything is possible, let’s take a quick look back at the Morrison versus Dutton contest.
Australia's
Shame is that after 200 years this still goes on and on and these are
statistically significant deaths that go never adequately explained.
Death in an Observation room Unobserved seems a start for excuses rather
than answers. Who will be blamed and why won't the families and the
historical account get satisfactory answers? (ODT)
The family of an Aboriginal woman accused of shoplifting want to know why she died alone inside a maximum-security jail cell.
Cousin
Shaurntae Lyons said her family had since been told that Ms Nelson
Walker had been placed in an observation room, where she died....UNOBSERVED “Why wasn’t she checked every hour like she was supposed to be?” “I’ve heard that cellmates in other parts of the jail heard her go
down to medical and ask for help but the guards grabbed her and took her
back,” Ms Atkinson said. “The other girls said they could hear her yelling 'help, help, help' all night, crying out for help.
“I want the whole world to know what has happened.”
