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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 09:47
‘McLibel’ pair put their view on record Skwawkbox reported last week that sources close to ‘McLibel’ activists Dave Morris and Helen Steel said that Keir Starmer, when he acted as their barrister, used undercover cop John Dines – known to them as John Barker – as his driver and ‘gofer’. Dines was ultimately exposed as […]
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 08:42
Media tune starts to change on the supposed ‘international’ definition as coalition civic organisations tell UN that it will put its own staff at risk if they approve right-wingers’ favourite tool to suppress pro-Palestinian speech A coalition of 104 civic society groups from an array of nations – including Israel – have written publicly to […]
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 08:00
What’s going on? Folks have been asking me, since this story broke, “Why is Fani Willis waiting until at least July 11 to announce her charging decision?” That’s a reasonable question–and I *think* there’s a logical explanation. Recall that last week, Willis’s office moved to disqualify a lawyer representing 10 of Georgia’s fake electors. They had two grounds: First, that she did not, contrary to representations by her then-co-counsel, communicate immunity offers to certain of her clients. Second, they revealed that in meetings with prosecutors on 4/12 and 4/14, certain of that lawyer’s clients accused another fake elector — and fellow client — of committing “acts that are violations of Georgia law.” Because of the “impracticable and ethical mess” the lawyer created, the D.A.’s office has moved to disqualify her from representing ANY of the 10 electors, all of whom were notified last year they were targets of the investigation. That means 10 people — some of whom remain targets, others of whom are cooperators or exploring cooperation — likely need new lawyers.
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 06:30
Tucker’s model is what cost them 787,500 million dollars Nicholas Confessore wrote a major Tucker Carlson expose last year which convinced me that Carlson is a man totally motivated by money and not much more. He is so venal that he will literally say anything in pursuit of his goals. This seems like a good day to post the summary of that article. The man is a blight on humanity: Night after night on Fox, Tucker Carlson weaponizes his viewers’ fears and grievances to create what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news. It is also, by some measures, the most successful. With singular influence — reaching far beyond Fox and the viewers who tune in to his show — Mr. Carlson has filled the vacuum left by Donald J. Trump, championing the former president’s most ardent followers and some of their most extreme views. As fervently as he has raced to the defense of the Jan. 6 rioters, so has he sown doubt and suspicion around immigrants, Black Lives Matter protesters or Covid-19 vaccines. A New York Times examination of Mr.
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 04:57
‘I’m proud of what we did in less than 24 hours.’ That was Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s 4 March comment this year on the time he took back in 2021 to decide on supporting the then Liberal government’s startling AUKUS agreement.  ‘Incompetent’, exclaimed former Prime Minister Paul Keating at the National Press Club the Continue reading »
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 04:56
The ‘Anzac Cloak’ smothering any matter of opinion that does not adorn the ‘Anzac Spirit’ has become pervasive. Too often, this appropriation of one facet of development of a uniquely ‘Australian’ character – rooted by the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia – has at least one of two perverted purposes: political or commercial. The Continue reading »
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 04:55
ANZAC Day, 25th April, is perhaps one of the most important national days in the Australian Calendar. Initially it commemorated the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought in World War One. In Australia now, on this day, it honours Australian men and women who served in all overseas conflicts and in peacekeeping. What has Continue reading »
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 04:54
While we’re acutely aware that the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the underlying integrity of our current economic and financial models, our infinitely greater concern must be with the inexorable progression of climate change. As physicist Richard Feynman said: ‘For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.’ The Continue reading »
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Tue, 25/04/2023 - 04:52
The passing of my distinguished predecessor, Sir Leslie Colin Patterson deserves a tribute. Leslie Patterson was one of Australia’s first cultural diplomats, being posted as Cultural Attache to the Far East by the Whitlam government in 1974, having previously served with distinction as Minister for Shark Conservation and Minister for Drought. (This was before he Continue reading »