Unless you are given to parlour games that never end, it is nearly impossible to avoid concluding that the U.S. was either directly responsible for the Nord Stream I and II sabotage or supervised those who were. (more…)
Category: Media
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What’s next for Xi’s China?
The Western media have done Xi a great favour: they have bestowed upon him low expectations. Many Western observers, including thoughtful ones, believe that the great China growth story is over, because China is now ruled by an incompetent and isolated leader. Xi will shatter their expectations. (more…)
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Roy Morgan survey: Who is the most distrusted media brand?
The latest Roy Morgan Trust and Distrust survey has listed the most distrusted media brands in Australia. Which brand came out on top? (more…)
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The Storm is Here: can Australia prevent the conspiracy sphere metastasising into fatal disease?
Sometimes it takes a war correspondent to cast light on what is happening at home. (more…)
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The Pentagon builds a network in our Department of Defence amidst media silence
It is more than inter-operability and inter-changeability with the US military. Anthony Albanese and Richard Marles need to break up the American network in our Department of Defence that the Washington Post has exposed. (more…)
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Stan Grant and China knowledge: how do we measure up?
Stan Grant’s recent article on China demonstrates that our media’s knowledge of China is less than adequate. We do not need to say anything about the other self-described ‘China experts’ in the Australian media who are far less qualified.
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Principled conduct? Shaoquett Moselmane and the NSW ALP
On October 19, before a crowded public gallery and in a packed Upper House of the NSW parliament, Labor MP Shaoquett Moslemane gave his valedictory speech. He did so with dignity, with no bitterness and with gratitude to his many supporters. His standards in public life have been impressive. His treatment by powerful operatives has been disgraceful. (more…)
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Captive media: what does the submarine scandal tell us about our “defence correspondents”?
Why did no Australian media outlet tell us the easily discovered truth about the compromising of the integrity of the Australian submarine decision process revealed by US journalists last week? (more…)
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Some overlooked questions about the Medicare fraud hullabaloo
The ABC’s 7.30 Report is not inclined to sensationalism. Why on earth then did they turn a possibly valuable story on Medicare into a sensationalist one? (more…)
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Author of The Australian’s editorial on Jerusalem: Identify yourself and defend your views
The Editorial appearing in The Australian entitled “Labor’s Israel decision gets worse” on the 21st of October demands an answer. The author of the Editorial is not identified but I would invite that person to identify himself. (more…)
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News Corp is normalising fascistic politics
The radical right, and in particular, Murdoch’s News Corp, are laundering the dirty ideas of the people deploying fascistic politics to make them seem normal “conservative” thought. (more…)
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In Asian media this week – Xi’s China narrative ‘largely true’
In Asian media this week: different views on what Xi said – and did not say – in his national party congress report. (more…)
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The most powerful weapon the West gave Ukraine: notes from the edge of the narrative matrix
It’s pretty wild how the US is sending armoured vehicles to Haiti to help quash the exact sort of uprising it’s been actively trying to create in places like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Hong Kong. (more…)
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We need an all-party declaration of support for the ABC
Now is the time to consolidate the ABC’s role permanently by enshrining the national broadcaster, through an all-party Declaration, as an institution that’s integral to our democracy and to which all citizens have a right. (more…)
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The Australian electorate is being misled by its media
A well informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy. Yet, on China, Australians are being misled by our mainstream media.
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Alex Jones’ $1.5 billion loss reignites free speech debate
The AU$1.5 billion dollar payout that conspiracy-monger Alex Jones is being forced to pay to the families devastated by the Sandy Hook massacre is the check on “free speech” that we all need to discuss. (more…)
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The War in Ukraine: A report from Moscow
At last count there was only one English speaker reporting the war from the Russian side. For this recent visitor to Moscow, Mr Putin’s war hardly seemed to exist. No soldiers are marching the streets. The TV featured endless food shows. (more…)
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The changing world order with declining western influence
White Man’s Media misses it again. The recent meeting of the Shanghai Cooperative Organisation held 15-16 September 2022 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (more…)
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Watch Stella Assange slap the mustache off John Bolton’s war criminal face
Stella Assange just delivered a beatdown on one of her husband’s persecutors that was so scorched-earth demolishing I feel like I need a cigarette after watching it. (more…)
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Dr Aran Martin appointed as Editor of Pearls and Irritations
At Pearls and Irritations we are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Aran Martin to the position of Editor. (more…)
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Asian Media – Chinese car makers go electric
In Asian media this week, new child sex abuse allegations against Timor’s Bishop Belo.
Plus: India removes abortion rights discrimination; Facebook complicit in Rohingya ethnic cleansing; Chinese carmaker buys into Aston Martin; North Korea fires missile over Japan; Court’s arithmetic leaves Prayut in power; and Bongbong’s weekend getaway goes viral (more…)
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News Corp tied into extreme right wing CPAC
Last week a group of Neo Nazis performed their salute while protesting a youth Queer event in Melbourne’s Moonee Ponds. The police stood by, allowing the intimidation as an exercise in free speech, despite the fact that Victoria has made displaying the swastika illegal. (more…)
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It’s only a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ when the US Government is accused of the likely sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines
The western political/media class has been dismissing as “conspiracy theories” all claims that the US is likely responsible for last month’s sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, even while levelling the exact same accusations against Russia without ever using that term. Which probably says a lot about the way that label has been used over the years, if you think about it. (more…)
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Optus privacy policy vague, full of holes
I was a midwife at Optus’ conception and birth. So it gives me no joy to watch Optus’ privacy predicaments. As a long time privacy law practitioner, I have a particular insight into Optus’ responses to the massive haemorrhage of the personal data of half the Australian adult population. (more…)
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Australian media think that only China has a human rights problem
Australia has a mixed relationship with the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Irritation, dismissal and even the occasional openly hostile comment, have registered. But in 1994, the Toonen decision filtered through the Australian legal process, leading the federal government to remove archaically noxious provisions in the Tasmanian criminal code criminalising sodomy. (more…)
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What kind of Republic? Who will campaign for it?
The passing of the Queen has reawakened the Republic issue. A quite varied number of responses appeared in the media recently. That is a most heartening by-product of a sad event. (more…)
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Mexico honours Julian Assange
Julian Assange’s family, his father John Shipton and his brother Gabriel Shipton, have returned from Mexico where they were invited to attend the celebrations of Mexico’s Independence Day by the Mexican President, Andreas Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is affectionately known as AMLO from his initials. (more…)
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The best journalists are persecuted and despised
The best western journalists are overwhelmingly despised while the worst are acclaimed millionaires. Western civilisation is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don’t seek widespread approval. It’s worthless. (more…)
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A feast of new reading outside the grip of corporate Western media: Part 2 – Asia
Australian mainstream media is generally lacking in coverage of Asia, with occasional fly-in-fly-out-shock-horror or dependence on Reuters or AUKUSWORLD news sources. This isn’t consistent with any claim to be an advanced member of our region. We can however turn to local newspapers in the region.
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Right wing media outraged by Australia’s Covid 19 response
While there are demands from right wing commentators for a Royal Commission into Australia’s mishandling of the “essentially innocuous” SARS-Cov-2 virus, in reality Australians continue to die from infection while the distressing and prevalent morbidity associated with infection is becoming clearer and clearer. (more…)