The context to my article below is today’s extreme media, and Dutton’s and the Albanese government’s hysteria regarding the appearance of the Hezbollah flag at this week’s protest against the Gazan genocide and bombing of Beirut in Melbourne. Unbelievable. The Albanese government is engaging in totalitarian newspeak and doubly so, has the hysterical Victorian Premier Continue reading »
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Innocent citizens in Gaza (80 % of whom are refugees), the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen are being blown to bits in horrific numbers. But it is Palestinian refugees across the region who have been the principal target of this horrific war machine for over 76 years. Continue reading »
Australia’s de facto Prime Minister, according to the ABC and News Corp, Peter Dutton, has today issued an edict that when he becomes official PM he will anoint low-rating Sky News Australia host, Peta Credlin, Governor General of Australia. ”Peta... Read More ›
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation last week that would block $20 billion of U.S. weapons sales to Israel.
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It doesn’t matter who the president is, the Deep State is running the USA. If you want to interpret American foreign policy its all about power as the central objective – and hegemony. And they really believe they are doing the right thing. David Sacks and a panel from the All in Podcast speak with Continue reading »
The parlous physical and mental health of David McBride and disturbing revelations about conditions at the Alexander Maconochie Centre prison in Canberra are a national disgrace. Yet the only media outlet to cover this story is the free Canberra newspaper, City News. When I asked two editors of national newspapers why they won’t investigate McBride’s Continue reading »
The All-Ords was in a sideways trading range between early February and early August and then dived. Since then, it has not only rebounded but escaped its former range ceiling and is now trading at a record high. The next chart shows that American S&P 500 index has been on an upward trajectory all this Continue reading »
One should never feel sympathy for a politician caught in a rule-in rule-out game. Perhaps the period should be after the eighth word, but there is something spectacularly dumb about foreclosing on policy options even when they are not under active contemplation, narrowing the range of debate and allowing its terms to be set by Continue reading »
It must be so disappointing to be in the left faction of the Australian Labor Party. First, its guy, the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is not being very left of anything. Second, a progressive agenda seems to have popped off the list of anything important. Third (wimps), members of the left faction aren’t criticising their Continue reading »
The default for people who are older and near the end of life when they suffer an acute deterioration is often hospitalisation. They are placed on a conveyor belt - ambulance, Emergency Department (ED), hospital, often ending up on life support in the intensive care unit. Continue reading »