Archive for August, 2017
Socialism in our time? Matthias Cormann and the reds under the beds malady
Posted by John, August 28th, 2017 - under McCarthyism, Red baiting, Reds under the bed.
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Finance Minister Mathias Cormann is warning about the dangers of Labor’s “shift to the left” while Bill Shorten talks of redistribution of wealth. But is socialism on the cards for Australia? John Passant in Independent Australia reports.
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Pauline Hanson’s full burka and fighting fascism
Posted by John, August 21st, 2017 - under Fascism, One Nation, Pauline Hanson.
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Pauline Hanson cloaked her xenophobia in the cloth of liberating women, but taking her lead from Trump, her real aim is to unite the forces of fascism and white supremacy and build her electoral and social base.
You can read my full article in Independent Australia by clicking here.
The breath of tomorrow is yours – a poem
Posted by John, August 16th, 2017 - under Poems, Poems for a new world.
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The breath of tomorrow is yours I stand with the illusionists And those who have illusions Well, those card men and women Who trick us to waste two dollars To survive Not two billion to thrive And the illusioned? What do we say to them? That two dollar card games are tricks? They […]
War, love and marriage equality
Posted by John, August 14th, 2017 - under Equal love, Marriage equality, North Korea, Plebiscites, War.
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The Turnbull Government’s requirement for a postal plebiscite on marriage equality but not for sending troops to North Korea only reinforces the importance of voting ‘yes’, says John Passant in Independent Australia.
Highway robbery, terrorism and the Commonwealth Bank
Posted by John, August 8th, 2017 - under Commonwealth Bank.
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It has been alleged the CBA funded terrorism, so why isn’t CEO Ian Narev being held incommunicado and without charge under Australian terrorism laws? I ask in Independent Australia.
Our Parliament is in crisis over a section 44 technicality – not inequality
Posted by John, August 5th, 2017 - under Constitution.
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Our Parliament is in crisis over s 44 technicality – not inequality The s44 fiasco has already taken decent Senators but forcing Roberts out to be replaced by Hanson’s sister is hardly democratic reform, I write in Independent Australia