Fighting Fake News with REAL 7/11/21; Bla Bla Bla, Greta defines Scott, Michale West Media, Alan Jones

 

 

18 year old Greta Thunberg nailed shamed and revealeled Scott Morrison , his  Plan, and slogan “The Australian Way” with her simple rebuttal ” Bla Bla Bla ”

The Paris Agreement doesn’t even mention coal, oil or gas, which is why a movement has been launched for a Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation treaty, modeled on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Much of the energy and direction in the climate justice movement is coming from young people around the world. Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swede who sparked the global Fridays for Future student strike movement, slammed the decades-old climate negotiations at a “Pre-COP” in Milan last month: “Build back better, blah, blah, blah. Green economy, blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050, blah, blah, blah….This is all we hear from our so-called leaders: words that sound great but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises.” These global youth leaders, including Brianna Fruean from Samoa and Vanessa Nakate of Uganda, bring personal, frontline experiences with the climate emergency and a deep commitment to intersectional organizing and global justice to their work. “It’s now up to people,” Asad Rehman concluded. “People power is the only solution that’s left.”

 At COP26, It’s People Power vs. Fossil Fuel Dinosaurs | The Smirking Chimp

For all the benefits wrought by the information revolution, social media has become a tool of dictators. Its profit-driven, surveillance-based business model favours those with deep pockets and deadly motives. In the first of two articles, cybersecurity expert and human rights activist Manal al-Sharif suggests way to invent the digital world for the better.

 Social media: time to turn around the weapons – Michael West Media

 

It’s always about the money and Jones at 80 no longer warranted the cost.

Culture has little or nothing to do with Sky before or after dark, they are paid influencers and are selling a product. Selling a product boosted by overseas financing as they are failing to impress here. Murdoch has Americanised Australian politics. The staff they employ tend to be on their last legs, they represent the past, and certainly not the future. Like Jones Andrew Bolt has seen better days but never because he was a talent rather than a loyal corporate leech a tic too frightened to try out anywhere else he fed off the Murdochian teat. When he did try independence he failed. As we saw when he dragged his poor son Dom into The Andrew Bolt self-produced podcast that lasted 5 episodes.

When News Corp unveiled plans for Piers Morgan to headline an international prime time talk show we flippantly said “Move over Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones and Peta Credlin – there is a new conservative loudmouth in town”. Sadly, for one of these Australian conservative loudmouths at least, our prediction appears to have come true.

Andrew Bolt says Alan Jones’ poetic departure not cancel culture as Sky finds ‘room for Piers Morgan’ | Amanda Meade | The Guardian

  Role Model of a Murdochian Commentator

Fighting Fake News with REAL 11/10/21; Scott Morrison's fear of ICAC; Facebook & anonymous users; Net Zero by 2050; Trump's Biographer;

 

Framing an anti-corruption body as the bad guys is Orange Donnie-level gaslighting. The capo dei capi of the most corrupt federal government in our history is cashing in on the martydom of St Gladys d’Berejiklian, seeing a chance to sell his omertà as a virtue. Gladdy, his “very good friend“*, had been persecuted by ICAC, she was a victim – he would not be distracted from his good works by such unjust scrutiny. *not his very good friend Ever the opportunist who trades on punching down Smirko shortly thereafter took a populist dig at social media with some performative outrage at anonymous trolls, some of whom besmirch the reputations of the alleged rapists, the sex pests and stalkers, the sousers and spivs whose presence he relies upon to stay in power.

Smirko’s been selling farts as rainbows since his brief gig as a child actor. In spruiking NSW’s rampant Delta outbreak as the gold standard that is leading the way out of the pandemic he’s betting the house that the born-every-minute schmucks are as thick as the curtains in a ground floor bordello and that they outnumber those voters with either a conscience or a functioning cerebrum. The problem is that he may be right – the gushing over St Gladys has no doubt chuffed the PMO’s Goebbels-Riefenstahlists and their RWNJ pamphleteer chums from the Murdoch sewers.

 Malice in Blunderland – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Does that mean journalists boosting the LNP will need to reveal their ” anonymous sources so often quoted when smearing Dan Andrews or suggesting IBAC leaks that he’s being investigated? Will Peter Costello be declared a “publisher” and be treated like Julian Assange. It seems a case of trying to sleepwalk Australia to fascism and insist Facebook and Twitter join him.

The federal government may try to force Facebook to gather more identification information on their users and hand it to authorities if asked, as part of Scott Morrison’s latest square-up to the social media giants. It potentially opens the door for the government to consider a controversial plan for Australians to provide 100 points of identification to keep their social media accounts – a suggestion that privacy advocates condemned. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce last week suggested that Facebook and Twitter could be treated as publishers under Australian law.

 Government may try forcing Facebook to identify anonymous users

 

 Angus Taylor has already begun to run the coal and gas washing schemes as we complain with funds guaranteed to fossil fuel miners when loans aren't extended by the banks.

A poorly executed long-term target, however, is meaningless at best and a greenwashing ploy to prolong the fossil fuel industry at worst. It is almost certain that Morrison’s target will fall into the latter category.

Any commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050 is a fraud if gas and coal are allowed to expand.

Net zero by 2050 is a fraud if fossil fuels flourish

 Trump revived Archie Bunker without really trying because he is Archie and a time will come to put Archie back with Roseanne as they aren't 21rst Century America.

 "All in the Family" is touted as the series that brought reality to prime-time TV entertainment. The lead character, Archie Bunker, is a loudmouthed, uneducated bigot who believes in every stereotype he has ever heard. His wife, Edith, is sweet but not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

At a rally in Iowa on Saturday, Trump proclaimed that he was trying to “keep America great,” but that America isn’t great right now. “Well, he really is kind of babbling and incoherent, but that’s what people show up for,” he explained. “So, when he says make America great again, again, you have to ask, well, if he did it the first time, it really wasn’t a very good job. Eight months later, it needs to be redone. It didn’t quite stick, this greatness that he gave us.” “It was over nine months. The shelf life on the greatness wasn’t very long, I guess,” said Acosta.

Trump biographer ridicules Donald for being branded a ‘loser’ after 2020 loss and being bumped from Forbes – Raw Story – Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

 

“He will not win,” Luntz said. “If Trump runs again he will be nominated by the Republicans, but he will never be elected president because there are too many people who hate him.

“Trump is the most popular Republican by far, but he can’t win a general election because in the end politics is about persona as much as it is about policy, and his persona is unacceptable to too many people.”

Donald Trump will never be president again, says renowned pollster Luntz