Monday 6th of May 2024

Gus Leonisky's blog

amazing budget if you live that long...

budget pud...

The Coalition will have to win re-election if it is to deliver its long-touted surplus, which the Budget tips to be $7.1 billion next financial year. 

mueller's trumpets...

telling the world

Mueller’s Record of Framing Innocent People – Part One

Eric Zuesse


boiling the kettle of global warming with a denialist weatherman...

clouds

The new science adviser to President Donald Trump wants to usher in a new golden era of U.S. science—but with less gold from the federal government.

 

victim of selective editing, entrapment and a political attack by al-Jazeera in co-ordination with the ABC? good...

needs

Pauline Hanson has claimed One Nation is the victim of selective editing, entrapment and a “political attack” by al-Jazeera in co-ordination with the ABC, in her first public appearance since an explosive secretly filmed documentary was revealed.

brexitations...

brexitations...

The mystery is how this woman without qualities, with all her incapacities, infelicities and ineptitudes, ever came to hold the highest office. Or why she wanted it. No one made her do it, greatness was not thrust upon her; indeed, it’s said she planned for it all her life.

 

 

trusting the news "of the world"...

media

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a "do over" about "one nation" doing deals in the USA with the NRA and the koch bros is in the public interest...

koch bros

One Nation MP Mark Latham, who was elected to NSW's Upper House at the weekend, has attacked an investigation into the party's stance on gun laws as a "do over".

sub plan to the main game, with robbery included.

robbery

After over a month of fierce clashes in the last stronghold of Islamic State in Baghuz village, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have announced “final defeat” of the terror group.

squandering gold to fight for the poor little squirrels...

squirrels

The firing of Morris Dees, the co-founder of the S.P.L.C., has flushed up uncomfortable questions that have surrounded the organization for years.

 

the great divide...

class

America’s Apartheid of Dollars

Forget race: the real dividing line is class, with identity politics there to distract us into submission.


By PETER VAN BUREN


“See, in America we have this thing about ‘people of color.’ POC. I think you’re one.” That was me explaining all things American to a visitor. He was actually from Spain, so he was Spanish, not Hispanic. We were trying to figure out whether he was a POC.


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