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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: koods]
#26421510 - 01/07/20 05:01 PM (4 years, 22 days ago) |
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Qld?
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: pineninja]
#26421555 - 01/07/20 05:21 PM (4 years, 22 days ago) |
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Nah Perth, Northern Territory and Melbourne
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: koods]
#26421558 - 01/07/20 05:25 PM (4 years, 22 days ago) |
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My father in law was a psychiatrist in Perth. Then his wife died, he moved to NY for a while and lived with his daughter until he picked up a guy from Honduras half his age in a bathhouse and they moved back to Australia.
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: koods]
#26421570 - 01/07/20 05:35 PM (4 years, 22 days ago) |
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50%... you're being overly conservative.
I'm in Qld, on the edge of coal country + in an area full of retirees... there are next to zero Islamic people here but the racism is full on, the climate change denial is full on, it IS the redneck centre of Australia.
Pauline Hanson I don't like George Brandis but I applauded him in my lounge room when he told this redneck racist to wake up. However here in Qld her white Nationalist political base is growing.
Clive Palmer We also have Billionaires who have brain farts and think they should run for office. Clive thinks he can buy whatever advise he likes when it comes to science.
Bob Katter Basically Bob's just plain fucking crazy. The scary part is his electorate keeps voting for him.
It's fucking embarrassing.
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Twiggy Forrest contributes $70 million to bushfire appeal. Champion He's done this sort of thing before too.
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It cost him $70 million for me to learn who he is
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: koods]
#26424116 - 01/09/20 08:09 AM (4 years, 20 days ago) |
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He's awesome
I love the ABC
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/14/media/murdoch-australia-climate-crisis-coverage/index.html
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Rupert Murdoch's son lashes out against Fox and his father's other news outlets for climate change coverage
London (CNN Business)Rupert Murdoch's son and his wife are lashing out against his father's sprawling media empire for how it covers the climate crisis, especially in light of the fires raging in the family's native Australia.
In the past year James Murdoch has stepped away from the family's business — and its politics. He and his wife Kathryn have made statements that set them apart from the Murdochs' conservative bent. In comments first made to the Daily Beast, a spokesperson for the couple said "Kathryn and James' views on climate are well established and their frustration with some of the News Corp and Fox coverage of the topic is also well known." "They are particularly disappointed with the ongoing denial among the news outlets in Australia given obvious evidence to the contrary."
Murdoch's News Corp owns a large chunk of Australia's media, and has been criticized for coverage that suggested the fires are no worse than they were in the past, or that they are caused by arsonists, not climate change. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who has also downplayed the fires' connection to climate change, has been largely supported by Murdoch's papers in Australia, most of which endorsed him in the last election. Some commentators and hosts on Fox News have also blamed the fires on arsonists. It's not the first time the younger Murdoch, who left the family business but continues to sit on News Corps' board, has criticized his father's company. But this is one of the strongest condemnations yet. In an interview last September with the New Yorker, James said "There are views I really disagree with on Fox." The same month Kathryn spoke to The New York Times about the couple's climate activism (Kathryn has also long been active on Twitter on the subject.)
The criticism aimed at Rupert Murdoch's news outlets is also coming from within the company. Last week Emily Townsend, a commercial financier manager for News Corp in Australia, sent an all-staff email accusing News Corp of a "misinformation campaign" in relation to the fires to "divert attention away from the real issue," climate change, according to the Guardian. "I find it unconscionable to continue working for this company, knowing I am contributing to the spread of climate change denial and lies. The reporting I have witnessed in the Australian, the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun is not only irresponsible, but dangerous and damaging to our communities and beautiful planet that needs us more than ever now to acknowledge the destruction we have caused and start doing something about it," she wrote. A spokesperson for Fox did not respond to a request for comment on James and Kathryn's statement.
News Corp, which declined to comment, has previously denied it has helped promote climate change denial, telling The New York Times last week the company has "recognized Australia is having a conversation about climate change and how to respond to it." The Australian, one of News Corp's papers and a target of critics who say it's been downplaying the link between climate change and the fires, defended itself in an editorial over the weekend, writing "in our coverage, The Australian's journalists report facts about how to tackle bushfires and about how to deal with the impact of climate change. Second, we host debates reflecting the political division that exists in Australia about how to address climate change without destroying our economy."
Last year the elder Murdoch said on a News Corp shareholder call "there are no climate change deniers around, I can assure you." And on Monday, the company announced it was donating $5 million AUD (approximately $3.45 million USD) to the Australian bushfire relief, in addition to the $4 million AUD (around $2.76 million USD) that both Rupert and his older son Lachlan Murdoch have donated to relief efforts. "It is clear that confronting the bushfire disaster in Australia requires both an immediate response and an ongoing investment in rebuilding the lives and livelihoods of those most affected by the fires across the country," Rupert Murdoch said in a statement announcing the donation. "As a company with roots in Australia and an abiding commitment to its people and communities, we are determined to help, both in this time of great need, and well into the future, as the hard work of restoration continues."
Sky News Aus are feeling the heat, good, it's about time.
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Drop Bear attacks are likely in this area... you're prepared right?
Best backpacker pick-up line EVER 
As demonstrated by 'The Bundy Bear' 2004
Edited by Stable Genius (01/15/20 10:07 PM)
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So much disinformation out there. All this lying media, Noam Chomsky explained how there is a huge effort to control public opinion. Historically, as people won rights and freedoms the ruling class realized it could no longer rely on violence to get it's way so it had to control the opinions of the masses instead.
And the media fulfils that role.
Ive never been able to shake it and I see what he means. People have all these crazy ideas and they get a lot of it from the media.
I saw people screaming about the Australian 'greenies' online over the last little while. How the fires are their fault. That and some variation of the 'rake the forest' mumbo jumbo from the USA.
How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: JohnRainy] 1
#26436037 - 01/16/20 03:32 AM (4 years, 13 days ago) |
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That NY Times article is on the money 
The only point they missed is that Australia has wasted the last decade dragging it's feet on climate change policy due to successive conservative coal hugging governments.
To watch the worst of Sky News Aus you really need to tune in for the evening bullshit opinion pieces.
Cash for comment grubs like Andrew Bolt, Chris Kenny, Paul Murray these fuckers are the problem grrrrrrr
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Here's a classic example from Chris Smith
It's the same recipe over and over and over grrrrr
First, they lay out the scene and paint themselves as the voice of reason. Then the bullshit and barbed comments get mixed in with some facts. As long as they can paint the Left/Greens as extremist loonies with no brains = job done.
Sky News, Aus style.
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The false narrative that these fires were started by arsonists pushed pretty hard in right wing media in the US
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: koods]
#26436876 - 01/16/20 01:52 PM (4 years, 13 days ago) |
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Yes I've seen a few too.
qman reported the right number as far as I'm aware.
There was certainly fires started inadvertently, around here anyway, and for many reasons.
True story, my friend and her neighbour had land cleared end of last year with the debris raked into piles about the size of a house.
The neighbour had to ring the Tree Clearing company and get them back with an excavator as one of the piles was starting to smoke/self combust
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Usually whenever Sky News Aus rips into the ABC over climate change or whatever, the ABC calmly responds to Sky as 'another news outlet'.
This time around the gloves are off.
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Media Watch Press did an excellent job on Sky News Aus/Fox/Murdoch Press and the misinformation they help spread.
It's a great compilation of the worst mouthpieces Sky has on in the evenings, the stuff they don't put on YouTube.
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I'm glad I clicked that.
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Re: Australia is burning down... [Re: JohnRainyII] 2
#26485568 - 02/14/20 02:29 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Oh man, Senator Malcolm Roberts.
Put this one in the time capsule for a museum in the next epoch. We'll take the kids there and say "Yep, this was one of the last dinosaurs, metaphorically speaking"
Check the comments in this video also. Sounds like this message board 15 years ago. Seen some of those old posts?
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#26485629 - 02/14/20 03:15 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ahahahahaha nice, you found Malcolm Roberts. Yeah he's dangerous, thank Christ he was booted from Parliament.
Sky News Aus had him on last week, I watched that!
Yeah the comments section... I think I said something to stir them up too it's a mighty fine assortment of arrogant factless fools the Sky News audience
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