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Friday, 28 September 2018

Aussie and NZ TREASON

A look at Australian and New Zealand government role in “Russian collusion”

Sunday, 26 August 2018

Bashar Assad survives yet another one of his enemies

Is ‘Assad curse’ to blame for Aussie PM Turnbull’s ousting? Meme-magic strikes again…

RT,

25 August, 2018

Malcolm Turnbull’s sudden exit as Australia’s prime minister has resurrected a popular internet meme which honors all the world leaders who demanded that Syria’s Bashar Assad “must go,” only to been shown the door themselves.

A supporter of the US-led ‘anti-terrorist intervention’ in Syria, Turnbull had on several occasions called for a regime change in Syria and for a “transition from Mr Assad and from his leadership.”

Now, it’s Turnbull who’ll be packing his bags, after being usurped by fellow Liberal Party MP Scott Morrison on Friday. But was Turnbull’s ignominious exit the result of poor polling and a rebellion within the party? Or is Bashar al-Assad harboring some weapons-grade meme magic?

According to certain corners of the internet, it’s the latter. The classic ‘Who must go?’ meme has kept a running tally of the multifarious American, European and Gulf leaders who over the past seven years have called for Assad’s ousting, and will now need to be updated.

Turnbull takes his place alongside former leaders like the UK’s David Cameron, France’s Francois Hollande and the US’ Barack Obama, who all left office or suffered defeat and embarrassment at the polls after issuing the familiar refrain “Assad must go.”

The Assad ‘curse’ does not discriminate between those in power and those looking to get in. Hillary Clinton might as well have called off her campaign four years before her eventual defeat at the hands of Donald Trump when she said in 2012 “The world will not waver, Assad must go.”

Was Barack Obama’s departure from the White House the result of constitutionally-defined presidential term limits? Nope, classic Assad.

The only question remaining is where the Syrian leader could possibly have acquired such powerful meme-weaponry? From none other than Donald Trump himself, obviously. According to some basement-dwelling 4chan users, Trump was elected after his supporters harnessed the power of meme magic, mostly by sharing pictures of a cartoon frog called Pepe.

READ MORE: ‘Pepe the Frog’ classed as a hate symbol

Since then, they’ve noted that Trump’s opponents can’t seem to stump him. Trump’s supporters on reddit compiled a massive list of every time an opponent tried to defeat or embarrass Trump, only to wind up losing. For example, when actor Kevin Spacey called Trump a “disease” in 2016, it was clearly the Trump curse that led to him being accused of sexual assault and made a Hollywood pariah. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg losing $17 billion in one day? The Trump curse. Stormy Daniels filing for divorce? The Trump curse strikes again.

The message is clear. Mess with meme magic at your own peril.

Friday, 24 August 2018

Political crisis on both sides of the Tasman

UPDATE: Wait – what? Simon Bridges expense leaker came from inside National and is now threatening self harm???

The Daily Blog,

24 August, 2018

This is a ticking time bomb now and the National Party MP either steps down themselves to end this or Bridges pushes ahead, outs the MP himself and then risks that MP hurting themselves.

What a devastating exclusive from Radio NZ…

Exclusive: Text plea to call off Bridges expense leak inquiry
It’s a major development in the saga over who leaked Mr Bridges’ expenses and raises huge questions about the stability of his leadership and disquiet among National MPs.

Sources have told RNZ Mr Bridges and the Speaker Trevor Mallard both received an anonymous text message last week from a person claiming to be responsible for leaking the information to Newshub.

The author of the text warned they suffered from mental health problems in the past and said being exposed publicly could push them over the edge and put their life at risk.

…well, well, well.

How do we know the leaker is a National Party MP?

The text, which RNZ has not seen, detailed a number of conversations and pieces of information from National caucus meetings over a period of weeks in an attempt to prove the author was a National MP.

So the leak came from inside National and now the person who leaked it is desperate to shut down the inquiry before they are outed and are suggesting that if they are outed they will commit self harm???

This is a ticking time bomb now and the National Party MP either steps down themselves to end this or Bridges pushes ahead, outs the MP himself and then risks that MP hurting themselves.

What a meltdown.

Then again, a Machiavellian person desperately wanting to stop this investigation and needing to throw the whole thing off would make this kind of claim wouldn’t they?

This makes Australia’s current political self-mutilation look mild in comparison.

UPDATE: It is NOT an MP

I think this might be satire - lol

TURNBULL RESIGNS: “I want to spend more time with my family trusts”

Chaser.com.au,

22 August, 2015

Admitting he has no hope of holding onto the Federal leadership of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull resigned this morning. An emotional Turnbull told reporters he would head back to his native country of Cayman Islands, where he could spend more time with his family trusts.

“It has been a privilege and an honour to be Prime Minister of Australia. I really will be adding it to my LinkedIn profile as soon as I get home,” he said, adding that he might get some good speaking gigs out of it in the coming years. “I hear the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has some spare cash to throw around.”

“I’d like to think that my government is a government that has been in touch with ordinary, everyday billionaires. The battler billionaires.”

Listing all of his legislative achievements while in office, Malcolm Turnbull said, “That’s it for my prepared remarks.”

Australia leadership crisis: Scott Morrison is the PM

Scott Morrison is the new leader of the Liberal Party and the thirtieth prime minister of Australia

He won in the second round of voting, 45-40, against Peter Dutton. Julie Bishop was knocked out in the first round of voting.

Party whip Nola Marino told reporters gathered in Canberra there was an "overwhelming" vote in favour of Josh Frydenberg as deputy leader.

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