Anonymous ID: a41910 Oct. 4, 2021, 10:12 p.m. No.14724251   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4264 >>4277

Prime Minister Scott Morrison reveals who won’t be coming into Australia until 2022

 

Days after announcing international travel will be back on the cards for vaccinated Australians within weeks, a crucial group won’t be allowed in until 2022

 

“The first cab off the rank is Australians. Australian citizens and residents who were vaccinated, they will be able to travel overseas and return. And if you are double vaccinated overseas and you are an Australian resident or citizen, you will be able to travel under those arrangements,” he told the program.

 

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/prime-minister-scott-morrison-reveals-who-wont-be-coming-into-australia-until-2022/news-story/1c98e8c5ac487323ccaf913d6ecd6b44

Anonymous ID: a41910 Oct. 4, 2021, 10:14 p.m. No.14724259   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4265 >>4614

Biden Says 'Reckless and Dangerous' Republicans Risking Disastrous Default Amid Debt Ceiling Debate

 

On Monday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) suggested that Republicans would likely support a debt ceiling hike in exchange for Democrats nixing US President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. The offer is unlikely to be entertained by Democrats.

Biden told reporters on Monday that he cannot guarantee that the US government will not breach its $28.4 trillion debt limit. The US president claimed Republican support is necessary to raise the debt ceiling before "paying what we already owe" due to the actions of previous administrations.

 

"So, let’s be clear: Not only are Republicans refusing to do their job, they’re threatening to use the power, their power to prevent us from doing our job - saving the economy from a catastrophic event," the US president said.

"I think, quite frankly, it’s hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful," he added, noting that Republicans received Democratic support in voting to raise the debt ceiling under the previous administration.

 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued an open letter to the US president on Monday, emphasizing that Biden, "for two and a half months," has been aware of the GOP's conditional position on the debt ceiling.

 

"[S]ince your party wishes to govern alone, it must handle the debt limit alone as well," the Senate Minority Leader said, signaling that Senate Republicans will not lend any votes toward the debt ceiling hike.

He suggested Democrats had been "sleepwalking toward significant and avoidable danger" over the past several months.

 

https://sputniknews.com/20211005/biden-says-reckless-and-dangerous-republicans-risking-disastrous-default-amid-debt-ceiling-debate-1089669240.html

Anonymous ID: a41910 Oct. 4, 2021, 10:39 p.m. No.14724320   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4325

Crossword clues and bullying – the influence of Australia’s pro-Israel lobby unveiled

 

The intimidating power of Australia’s pro-Israel lobby limits what mainstream media outlets dare publish about Israel and forces self-censorship on editors and journalists alike, writes John Lyons in his latest book Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism’s toughest assignment. Kim Wingerei reports.

 

In 2019, Fairfax Media’s Sydney and Melbourne mastheads made an error. In the daily crossword section, the answer to the clue “Holy land” turned out not to be six letters starting with an I, as some would expect, but nine letters: Palestine. So affronted was the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) that they demanded an investigation.

 

Fairfax acceded, blamed the error on an external contractor and apologised to Colin Rubenstein, executive director of the AIJAC.

 

This is just one of many examples which John Lyons uses to illustrate the power of a lobby group so influential it can force changes to Government policy, hound journalists out of their jobs and pressure the ABC board to justify the appointment of foreign correspondents.

 

John Lyons is an experienced journalist. Currently the head of investigative journalism at the ABC, his 40 years in the media include being editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Middle East correspondent for The Australian and winning one of his three Walkley Awards for “Stone Cold Justice”, a Four Corner’s episode which exposed the human rights abuses in Israel military courts.

 

His earlier book Balcony over Jerusalem covered his six years of witnessing the tragedies and contradictions of a region which has suffered more armed conflict than any other since World War II.

 

In his latest book released this weekend (at 85 pages, it’s closer to essay size), Lyons focuses entirely on the Israel-Palestine conflict and specifically how pro-Israel lobbyists seek to control the narrative for the Australian audience.

 

He makes the point several times that the press in Israel is far more overtly critical of the policies of Israel’s Government than is the media in Australia, including how the regular flare-ups in the West Bank are covered.

 

To the AIJAC it’s a war of words. It is a battle to control how and what is said.

 

For example, Colin Rubenstein and his fellow lobbyists are particularly sensitive about using the word “occupation” in reference to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories. But as the lieutenant colonel responsible for Israel’s army operations in the occupied territories quips:

 

If this is not occupied then the media has missed one of the biggest stories of our time, (Israel’s) withdrawal from the West Bank!

LC Eliezer Toledano, Israel Army

 

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/crossword-clues-and-bullying-the-influence-of-australias-pro-israel-lobby-unveiled/