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Thestalker wrote:

They weren't sealed either, just partially zipped -- or at least that's how it looked in the photo.

BTW, what is this country coming to when there's a plot to kidnap a governor because she's trying to get her state to comply with the CDC guidelines?

It wasn't just kidnap. I guess they were also ready to follow the police handbook that says that one is guilty until proven innocent and that summary executions are legal.

bruh

Tongatapu wrote:

It wasn't just kidnap. I guess they were also ready to follow the police handbook that says that one is guilty until proven innocent and that summary executions are legal.

The United States seems to be getting stranger these days. With the president expressing support for vigilante groups anti-social behavior seems to be becoming the norm.

Imperial Eden wrote:

Oh lol I sent a few nukes at someone, came back a few hours later and was completely irradiated hahaha

I think two or three years ago I created a faction with a bunch of other nations from other regions, we actually did alright until the very end.

It seems like current strategy is to take out the previous year's winner and once they're irradiated, to turn on the other much smaller factions.

What do you think of this article. Is it true?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/australians-stuck-abroad-covid/index.html

Rwandah wrote:

What do you think of this article. Is it true?

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/australians-stuck-abroad-covid/index.html

I mean yeah it's true, the borders have been closed since March I think so yeah. I haven't read much about it.
I know Australian politics isn't considered nearly as interesting US politics but there's some really colourful stuff going on right now.
The Premier (think Governor) of New South Wales fronted an inquiry about corruption to be asked a few questions about what she knew about one of her colleagues, who was being investigated for dodgy Chinese business dealings yesterday, standard practise. Anyway, they were just going through her telephone records between herself and the corrupt Minister just standard practice to see if there was anything dodgy. Anyway took everyone completely by surprise when it turned out she had had a personal relationship with him hahahaha

Imperial Eden wrote:

I mean yeah it's true, the borders have been closed since March I think so yeah. I haven't read much about it.
I know Australian politics isn't considered nearly as interesting US politics but there's some really colourful stuff going on right now.
The Premier (think Governor) of New South Wales fronted an inquiry about corruption to be asked a few questions about what she knew about one of her colleagues, who was being investigated for dodgy Chinese business dealings yesterday, standard practise. Anyway, they were just going through her telephone records between herself and the corrupt Minister just standard practice to see if there was anything dodgy. Anyway took everyone completely by surprise when it turned out she had had a personal relationship with him hahahaha

So overnight, her leadership of the state government is being thrown into turmoil.

Also, the Victorian state government commissioned private security firms to look after people coming into the state from overseas in quarantine back in June, when other states used police/the army. Basically there was this whole fiasco where the security guards were letting COVID positive people out, got infected themselves and spread it to their families, pretty much caused daily case numbers to go from 10 to 700+. There's currently an inquiry to investigate why the state government used private security when the army was offered to them by the federal government (they deny that it was offered to them), and they all conveniently "can't recollect to the best of their knowledge" being the ones to give the go-ahead to use private security. But now it's coming out who knew about it and there are resignations coming in left right and centre 😂😂

My password is united wrote:

who is that?

bruh you are imperial eden

Also interesting to get some coverage on this issue in the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/world/australia/petition-murdoch-australia-rudd.html

Imperial Eden wrote:

Also interesting to get some coverage on this issue in the NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/world/australia/petition-murdoch-australia-rudd.html

That is a very interesting article. Naturally the New York Times (NYT) would publish it because aren't they rivals with the New York Post (NYP)?

For me, the article raised more questions than it answered. Such as, if that many Australians are interested in investigating Murdock's out sized media influence, why would his media outlets be able to swing the vote? I would think it would be like in the US where I will read articles featured in the NYT occasionally but I never read the NYP, just as I rarely view Fox News. When I do it's to find out what the right is thinking, not to use them as a news source.

Rwandah wrote:

That is a very interesting article. Naturally the New York Times (NYT) would publish it because aren't they rivals with the New York Post (NYP)?

For me, the article raised more questions than it answered. Such as, if that many Australians are interested in investigating Murdock's out sized media influence, why would his media outlets be able to swing the vote? I would think it would be like in the US where I will read articles featured in the NYT occasionally but I never read the NYP, just as I rarely view Fox News. When I do it's to find out what the right is thinking, not to use them as a news source.

Oh absolutely. Tbh I only found out NYT and NYP were rivals when I read that article haha but yes it's very true, I'm pretty sure Australian media is far more consolidated than American. Australia has always been typically a more conservative nation, but it's hard to know to what extent that's because of the slant on the news it's fed. Regardless, the bias is really really obvious but nothing will be done because they control most of the mainstream media (sounds tinfoil hat-like, but it's sort of common knowledge here). Most people aren't interested or are too busy and trust that politicians are held to account but it's really really unsettling the amount of corruption that is reported by independent journalists that doesn't get a mention anywhere else.

Imperial Eden wrote:

Oh absolutely. Tbh I only found out NYT and NYP were rivals when I read that article haha but yes it's very true, I'm pretty sure Australian media is far more consolidated than American. Australia has always been typically a more conservative nation, but it's hard to know to what extent that's because of the slant on the news it's fed. Regardless, the bias is really really obvious but nothing will be done because they control most of the mainstream media (sounds tinfoil hat-like, but it's sort of common knowledge here). Most people aren't interested or are too busy and trust that politicians are held to account but it's really really unsettling the amount of corruption that is reported by independent journalists that doesn't get a mention anywhere else.

American media is pretty consolidated, too. Everywhere, it always takes independent journalists to expose corruption because mainstream media is too deeply indebted to the power structure or is actually owned by people who are part of the power structure. Noam Chomsky talks about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT9VK55Gbmw

If Australians are too busy to pay close attention, Americans are even more distracted. It's as if we ignore how the rich and the politicians are controlling our lives until one of them slips up in such an extreme fashion that we are forced to pay attention but then we never really get to the bottom of it and we forget about it much too quickly.