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a fraud on the people….

What does a democracy do when a dominant news media organisation goes rogue during an election campaign?

In 2022, News Corporation is confronting Australia with this question once again, as it did in 2019, 2016 and 2013, and as it did in the United States in 2016 and 2020.

“Going rogue” here means abandoning any attempt at fulfilling one of the media’s primary obligations to a democratic society — the provision of truthful news coverage — and instead becoming a truth-distorting propagandist for one side.

 

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nothing new since the days of pennies and no sense (1959)…..

The howls of protest from business groups when Anthony Albanese suggested that the minimum wage should at least match inflation were predictable, but nonetheless disappointing (“Albanese would ‘absolutely’ support increase of 5.1%”, May 11).
In tough times we can’t afford a wage rise because it will send businesses to the wall. In good times it will fuel inflation. When the economy is growing, it will kill the fragile shoots of recovery. When it’s struggling, we all have to tighten our belts, of course starting with wage earners.
When, in their view, is it ever the right time for wage earners to catch up or share in the spoils of growth? 

Tony Judge, Woolgoolga

election nights are heart-attack inducers. don't fret though scomo's gotta go…...

Network Ten sounds like it is putting together an election night panel with a difference. Once again Project host Waleed Aly will be at the desk for 10 News First: Your Decision. Election Night. He will be joined by newsreading icon Sandra Sully, national affairs editor Hugh Riminton and news presenter Narelda Jacobs.

On Wednesday Ten announced others involved include Project regular, Walkley-winning Jan Fran, the Coalition’s social services minister Anne Ruston, along with Labor shadow industry minister Ed Husic. Ten’s media release is spruiking its program as “an intelligent, engaging, insightful, interactive and informative election night”.

But there is one highly intriguing name missing from the publicity missive.

america is blinded by its own worth……..

Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?

Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit.

 

BY GLENN GREENWALD

 

a long criminal history grounded in hate…….

 

La Destruction

 

Ceaseless at my sides, the Devil in a conflict;

Swims around me like incorporeal wrungs;

I swallow and I feel Him burn my lungs

To fill them with an eternal desire of guilt.

 

Knowing my great love of Art, at times He takes 

The shape of the most seductive of women,

And, with most depressing deceptive pretexts,

Accustoms my lips to abominable crimen.

 

He leads me thus, far from the spell of God,

Panting and broken, exhausted, to the moods

Of the plains of Languor, endless and deserted,

 

And throws in my eyes, filled with confusion,

Not A Brilliant Time

It's not a brilliant time to be
a Lib in South Australia
From ruling the state, and the whole country
they're doomed to utter failure
In Adelaide their Government fell

for many years, the US has orchestrated this proxy war…….

As we hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kiev, it’s probably worth taking a moment to highlight how this war could have been avoided. The U.S. could have simply pledged military protection for Volodymyr Zelensky against the far-right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected president to enact.

let's give the coup de grace to this moribund government…..

This Government seems to have departed from a tradition of liberal conservatism and broken a fundamental continuity that has defined the Coalition since Robert Menzies.

reaching "advanced status"….

Encouraging innovation and the rapid adoption of digital technologies can enable China to avoid middle-income trap

The first decade of the 21st century saw Western economies take the world to the brink of economic collapse. China's economic management enabled the West to recover from its self-inflicted injuries. Despite this, some commentators cling to the idea that China cannot escape the middle-income trap in which countries are unable to reach advanced economic status.

China's policy initiatives clearly show an awareness of the challenge and provide structural solutions for escaping this "trap".

 

By DARYL GUPPY | China Daily Global

 

 

the Ukrainian nazis supported by fascist USA………..

Back in the 1960s and 1970s during the war in Vietnam, everybody knew about the “credibility gap,” which morphed into Credibility Gulch as the official story stretched ever-farther from reality.

the view from russia…….

Kiev has so far lost 30 drones, 10 helicopters, four jets, three ships, and upwards of 50 troops in failed attempts to take Snake Island, the Russian Ministry of Defense has revealed. Urged on by British advisers, President Volodymyr Zelensky personally ordered the attack and wanted to see a victory by May 9, media reported citing security sources.

Another Bayraktar TB-2 strike drone, a Turkish import, was shot down over the island on Tuesday, said Major General Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian military. That makes nine Bayraktars destroyed over Snake Island since Saturday, he pointed out.

 

READ MORE:

https://www.rt.com/russia/555268-snake-island-pr-military/

 

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canada's fascists…...

The first foreign fighters to arrive in Ukraine at the start of the war in February, 2022 were Canadians. The first foreign officer arrested by Russian forces on May 3 was a Canadian general. Clearly, Canada, although more than 6,000 kilometers away from Ukraine, has a hidden involvement in this conflict.

 

RISING TENSIONS (18)

Canada and the Banderites

 

by Thierry Meyssan

 

the fascist empire of lies...

After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”.

But it’s our fate / To have no place to rest, / As suffering mortals / Blindly fall and vanish / From one hour / To the next, / Like water falling / From cliff to cliff, downward / For years to uncertainty.

Holderlin, Hyperion’s Fate Song

a sociopathic woman, or just doing her job?

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told Congress on Tuesday that, in the view of the US’ spy agencies, Russian President Vladimir Putin was gearing up for a “prolonged” conflict in Ukraine, and was looking to establish control of Ukraine’s southern coast, from the Donbass in the east to Transnistria in the west.

“We assess President Putin is preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbass,” Haines told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Haines explained that according to her “indications,” Putin is seeking to extend Russian control from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics – which collectively make up the Donbass region – along Ukraine’s Black Sea coast to the breakaway province of Transnistria on the Moldovan border.

the little jewish mama boy is out of his mind…….

MUCH OF what exists originated as an inkling in the human mind. That enslaving other people is acceptable; that it is utterly heinous. That a royal despot is the norm; that freedom, rights and self-governance is better. Conservative or left-leaning, capitalist or Marxists, sushi-lover or vegan—they’re all products of thinking.

A history of these synaptic outputs is the subject of Felipe Fernández-Armesto’s latest book, “Out of Our Minds: A History of What We Think and How We Think It” (Oneworld, 2019). It covers the range of human ideas, from prehistoric man’s preoccupations to artificial intelligence. But the focus is on topics like the emergence of scientific truth and democracy—themes that seem under threat today, with talk of “fake news” and authoritarians on the march. 

 

By K.N.C. — THE ECONOMIST

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