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[wonzo]

e: smfh

 

[Rubixcuba]

I saw that headline earlier and combined with the Courier Mail's from yesterday about Clive Palmer and the Chinese, the amount of racial fearmongering by News Corp this week is staggering.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Media Watch is going to be awesome this week.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Media Watch is going to be awesome this week.

I wish Media Watch wasn't so awesome. They're only as good as their material, after all, and the fact that their material comes virtue of the dailies on this country having devolved into party press propaganda rags is just so depressing.

 

[Dryk]

That's strange, because one of the top stories in the local nightly news yesterday was about a man who stabbed his son to death for apparently no reason. Doubt we'll be hearing about that for the next three years.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

I love Fact Check so much.

Then again, it was pretty obvious to... oh, I dunno... everybody when he says that carbon schemes are being phased out worldwide.

I swear to fuck he's either a compulsive liar or exists in his own snowglobe of shit.

I wish Media Watch wasn't so awesome. They're only as good as their material, after all, and the fact that their material comes virtue of the dailies on this country having devolved into party press propaganda rags is just so depressing.

Totally. It's almost a bit like saying "this car full of innocent children crashing into a flaming bus is going to be awesome to watch".

 

[Yagharek]

Media Watch is going to be awesome this week.

MEDIA WATCH IS BIASED! Biased against newscorp I say!

That is what the response will be.

 

[Jintor]

Here's some words by some guy

http://heathenscripture.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/meet-australia-the-traitor-who-turns-you-in/

 

[wonzo]

Penny Wong going in hard.

 

[Arksy]

Penny Wong going in hard.

It's a fair point, at least it would be if it weren't so bloody hypocritical. They did they exact same thing again and again when they had power.

 

[Dryk]

It's a fair point, at least it would be if it weren't so bloody hypocritical. They did they exact same thing again and again when they had power.

I'd wager she'd be vocally against it behind the scenes, but you'd never convince her to point that out during an official speech. Too bad it rings hollow if you don't.

 

[Yagharek]

Here's some words by some guy

http://heathenscripture.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/meet-australia-the-traitor-who-turns-you-in/

The line about "well why not go to North Korea" is a salient one, because in the current environment an Australian interception of NK refugees on a boat would see them sent back to North Korea. They've already done the moral equivalent of it with the Sri Lankan one.

 

[lexi]

Mr Christensen began his speech by acknowledging he was not a scientist or climatologist but was a fan of the television series Star Trek, pointing out he only liked the original "before the show went all liberal ... and started saving whales".

SMFH seriously.

 

[Dryk]

SMFH seriously.

What a fucking moron, "We have 5 years to act" doesn't mean "We're fucked in 5 years". We outlawed CFCs 30 years ago and the ozone hole is only just now moving past peak size.

 

[jgminto]

Never been so proud to be a TNG fan.

 

[Yagharek]

SMFH seriously.

What is it with proudly uneducated anti-science fucks who think calling something "liberal" is an insult? Are they that proud of their own profound stupidity, or are they truly and utterly clueless? When did it become a badge of honour to be a fucking moron?

 

[jgminto]

The Prime Minister says asylum seeker policy will not be held "over a moral barrel" by the attempted suicide of people being held in detention.

What a gross human being.

Greens spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young says the situation is "appalling". "It's a little hard to succumb to moral blackmail when you're already morally bankrupt," she said.

HA!

 

[wonzo]

 

[Yagharek]

Shots fired.

 

[Shaneus]

HA!

Motherfucking SNAP.

 

[lexi]

Speaking of snaps:

“Conservatives around the world are taking action on climate change, including Britain and Germany. It’s in the DNA of conservatives to hand on a better world to your children and I hate that Australia is letting down conservatives around the world.”

 

[Fredescu]

Here's some words by some guy

http://heathenscripture.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/meet-australia-the-traitor-who-turns-you-in/

Thanks for sharing this by the way. Have read it a couple of times now. It's a funny contrast to the Tele headline.

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

It’s in the DNA of conservatives to hand on a better world to your children

What? Since when?

 

[Yrael]

It’s in the DNA of conservatives to hand on a better world to your children

 

[Tommy DJ]

So basically the message here is that not even the conservatives like Tony Abbott? Is there a single group that this government hasn't pissed off?

 

[lexi]

Guys I'm pretty sure what you're doing is like the Arksy batsignal.

Btw, we can stop worrying, it was only 'minor self-harm incidents'!'

 

[Omikron]

I think this is interesting as well re Qantas and the carbon tax removal

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-...ices-did-not-go-up-will-not-come-down/5584794

 

[Jintor]

well it wouldn't matter how much self harm it is anyway since we don't respond to moral blackmail ammirite

 

[hidys]

SMFH seriously.

God damn it HOW CAN HE NOT LIKE THE VOYAGE HOME??? What is this nonsense.

And when was Star Trek not a "liberal" show. It has always reflected a socialist paradise.

Oh and the climate change thing.

Never been so proud to be a TNG fan.

DS9 > TNG but it was still a fantastic show.

Spoiler

Though the environmental episode (It was obviously an allegory for climate change) where in the end they had to limit the ships speed to warp 5 was pretty bad.

Speaking of snaps:

I appreciate Deben's (I refuse to use the term Lord) comments but yeah the idea that Tories want to leave a better world for "your" children is silly.

Unless of course they mean their own children in which case...

 

[Dastardly Jerks]

Arksy batsignal.

Personally I preferred Arksy Asylum over Arksy City.

 

[Omikron]

 

[Myansie]

Least photogenic politician in the world. It really is amazing how much cameras hate him.

 

[Jintor]

i hope abe didn't give him any pointers about how to subvert the constitution without calling a referendum

 

[Shaneus]

Never before have I prayed for a sudden gust of wind as much as I have when seeing that photo.

 

[roosters93]

What an utterly weird photo.

 

[mjontrix]

i hope abe didn't give him any pointers about how to subvert the constitution without calling a referendum

Don't give them any ideas...

 

[hidys]

Personally I preferred Arksy Asylum over Arksy City.

True but that Arksy Knight trailer looks pretty awesome.

 

[Dryk]

And when was Star Trek not a "liberal" show. It has always reflected a socialist paradise.

He probably never thought about the implications of the show. Or read any of the material laying it out (because that's for nerds)

 

[hidys]

He probably never thought about the implications of the show. Or read any of the material laying it out (because that's for nerds)

So he probably thinks climate science is too nerdy for him.

 

[Shaneus]

I loved the quote I heard on the radio this morning. Something along the lines of the Japanese Prime Minister saying "Japan considers Australia it's friend in trade and commerce" (or whatever) and Tony replies with "I consider Mr. Abe my friend".

What an out-and-out fucking loser.

Edit:

Mr Abbott, who earlier on Wednesday accompanied Mr Abe on a visit to the joint Australian-Japanese iron mine in the Pilbara, said the partnership with Japan had deepened in extraordinary ways in the past few days.

He said Mr Abe was his friend.

"But I actually believe that we had a deeper, deeper discussion on the flight," he said.

The pair's obviously warm relationship was emphasised by Mr Abbott's multiples references to "my friend Shinzo Abe".

Ugh.

 

[jgminto]

OTP

 

[Dryk]

DEEP discussion

Also Palmer says that his senators won't be passing the repeal bill today because their amendment didn't get in. This senate is so much fun.

 

[Mr. Tone]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/carbon-tax-repeal-gets-senate-vote-politics-live

Lazarus rises to say he has nothing to move because his amendment was circulated in a form that was not approved.

Palmer United withdraws its original amendment.

It would appear Palmer is carrying out his threat. That is, there is no deal between Palmer and government on carbon tax repeal.

Bonus! Julian Burnside accuses government of piracy over Sri Lankan asylum seekers

 

[senahorse]

 

[Yrael]

China's official news agency has slammed Prime Minister Tony Abbott for praising Japan's World War II military prowess in his welcome to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Xinhua believes Mr Abbott's admiration of Japanese war skills was appalling and "insensible" (sic) to victim countries.

"He probably wasn't aware that the Japanese troops possessed other 'skills', skills to loot, to rape, to torture and to kill. All these had been committed under the name of honour almost 70 years ago," Xinhua said in a commentary on its website.

The agency is regarded as reflecting the views of China's government.

This comes amid growing Chinese assertiveness in regional territorial disputes. Japan is also shrugging off the pacifist foreign policy it has had since its defeat in World War II.

More than any other nation, China suffered under Japan's 14-year military occupation with as many as 20 million dead.

In his address to the parliamentary sitting attended by Mr Abe, Mr Abbott cited the bravery of Japanese submariners killed in the 1942 raid on Sydney harbour.

"We admired the skill and the sense of honour that they brought to their task although we disagreed with what they did. Perhaps we grasped, even then, that with a change of heart the fiercest of opponents could be the best of friends," Mr Abbott said.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/...na-rebukes-abbott-praising-japans-wwii-skills

*sigh*

 

[Mr. Tone]

Government loses the carbon tax repeal vote.

 

[Rubixcuba]

The new Senate is amazing.

 

[Fredescu]

Government loses the carbon tax repeal vote.

Just a temporary inconvenience.

 

[Omikron]

Just a temporary inconvenience.

You would think so. Palmer wants his amendments in there. I just wonder if Abbott will actually be able to negotiate, so far he has been incapable of doing that.

 

[Mr. Tone]

Albanese:

@AlboMP
How's that pledge that you would refuse to talk or negotiate with any cross bench MPs or Senators working out for you, Tony?

Chaos as Clive bullies Abbott (Trigger warning: news.com.au)