Talking Turkey
“The Washington Post” thinks that “democracy dies in darkness”, but in Turkey it has been under a slow and steady assault by the ruling party in broad daylight for the …
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Gals Against Humanity
As part of the usual spray directed at the conservative half of Australia, “refugee, racial justice, Palestine campaigner” Sarah Saleh observes about Tony Abbott His existence altogether is offensive. “There is a …
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Red stars in their eyes
Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at an event to which tickets cost between US$1325 and $1650: …
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Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the least tolerant of them all?
A fascinating map and a fascinated study published in “The Atlantic” magazine. You can always quibble with the methodology, but for what it’s worth: We might expect some groups to …
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Cortez versus Xochitl: Democrats party like it’s 1519 again
As the Republican Party becomes ever more Trump, the Democrats continue their steady march towards socialism: House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. …
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Red on Red over Venezuela
“It’s not real socialism” is happening right now in once the wealthiest country in Latin America: Maduro’s supporters halted and set ablaze two trucks loaded with aid driven through barricades …
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The price to pay for slavery
In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …
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Weimar without Nazis
Repeat after me: America today is not like Germany in the 1930s. The Republicans are not Nazis. Trump is not Hitler. To say, as so many otherwise seemingly intelligent and …
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Worst homophobe ever
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay “Empire” sort-of-a -star, Donald Trump now goes and does this: …
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ISIS MILFs want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a noose or a bullet if they had the misfortune to …
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Journalist commits career suicide by stating the obvious
CBS News foreign correspondent and a 60 Minutes regular gets interviewed by a retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland for his podcast (a monster at 3 hours and 40 minutes) and in the …
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Socialism as a Millennial religion
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed that history repeats itself, the first time as a tragedy, …
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$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting
No one gives a shit anymore; after all, what’s another trillion between bipartisan friends? The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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So much for that right-wing propagandist Murdoch
One major disservice that the mainstream media does through its political bias and negativity is that it neither prepares its audience for or explains to it events and trends that …
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Don’t give them your tired and your poor
Gosford’s finest continues to deliver, this time with this insightful critique of American society gleaned from “The Hunger Games”: #KidsOffNauru is great, but sending them to #USA commits them to …
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No, “Blade Runner” and “The Running Man” did not predict 2019
I normally rate “The New York Post” as far as tabloids are concerned but this feature on the prophetic side of the 1980s dystopian science-fiction reads more like something out …
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Of course they should
American TV journalism legends apologises for stating an opinion: NBC News personality Tom Brokaw, who has returned to regular on-air commentary after a brush with #MeToo issues, has run into more controversy …
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Is it me or is music shit?
It’s day after Australia Day, so Australia’s taxpayer-funded hipster national radio station Triple J has run its Hottest 100 songs of the previous twelve months. They are voted by the …
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The 24 hour media rule
The mainstream media – and the social media – are so good at generating instant outrages that I now have an informal rule: try not to comment on any new …
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