from Crikey …

For all the talk yesterday of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's state income tax proposal representing a major reform to the federation, it's hard to see it as anything other than a political solution to a political problem.

Donald Trump said Wednesday that women should be punished for having abortions in a hypothetical world in which abortions were made illegal in the US.

The Republican presidential frontrunner made the comments after after being repeatedly questioned on the subject by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during a pretaped town-hall event.

The Republican-dominated Mississippi state Senate approved a bill on Tuesday allowing churchgoers carry concealed firearms without a permit while also allowing churches to designate and train members to serve as armed security.

This week on CounterSpin: Wherever they come down on it, many Americans think of surveillance technology—like facial recognition—as spurring a more or less Platonic argument about the relationship between the individual and the state and/or corporations. That’s a rich enough subject for debate.

I was thinking about posting something new about the pathetic MMMM (the mediocre mass media de mierda). Actually I wanted to show white anger and rage at the lack of integrity, the lack of investigation and about the improper cosy relationship of the media with the governments, for profit and disinformation dissemination. 

from Independent Australia …

It’s all very strange. Ironic, really.

Quite funny really... The Daily Telegraph, aka, the Sunday Telegraph, does its best to promote Tony Abbott today and every day... Everywhere it's the "Tony Abbott is Great" show. Everywhere it's Malcolm stinks and the Left is a bunch of bastards. Glory, glory to Abbott Tony... Pitiful attitude, but that's what the merde-och press is still pushing like a barrow of turd... as if Tony Abbott would pull off a miracle and lead this country again — into oblivion and more misery, but with greater arsitude, this time around...