Anonymous ID: 1d7bec Aug. 23, 2018, 8:03 p.m. No.2719065   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9208 >>9554 >>9730

=Scott Morrison voted next prime minister of Australia after defeating Peter Dutton 45-40 – politics live

 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/aug/24/liberal-spill-malcolm-turnbull-peter-dutton-scott-morrison-liberal-spill-politics-parliament-live

Anonymous ID: 1d7bec Aug. 23, 2018, 8:20 p.m. No.2719273   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9369 >>9554 >>9730

Royal commission: Morrison is living in a parallel universe

 

22 April 2018 — 12:00am

 

Beam me up! I hope Treasurer Scott Morrison and Financial Services Minister Kelly O'Dwyer feel comfortable in their parallel universe, where years of their government's denial, delay and hiding of the truth of financial sector rip-offs are suddenly transformed into sanctimonious outpourings of dismay when exposed to the harsh light of the royal commission's exposure. The rest of us in Starship Enterprise feel duped and bullied; worse still, we have little faith that any proposed sanctions will effect any worthwhile or permanent cultural change.

 

https://www.theage.com.au/national/royal-commission-morrison-is-living-in-a-parallel-universe-20180421-h0z2g8.html

 

SCOTT MORRISON

Scott John Morrison (born 13 May 1968) is an Australian politician who is the Prime Minister-designate of Australia and the Leader of the Liberal Party. He has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2007, representing the Division of Cook in New South Wales.

 

Morrison was born in Sydney and studied at the University of New South Wales. Before entering Parliament he worked in tourism, including as director of New Zealand's Office of Tourism and Sport from 1998 to 2000 and as managing director of Tourism Australia from 2004 to 2006. He was also state director of the New South Wales Liberals from 2000 to 2004. Morrison was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2007 federal election.

 

After the Liberal Party was elected to government at the 2013 election, he was appointed to cabinet as Minister for Immigration and Border Protection in the Abbott Government.[2] In that capacity he was responsible for implementing Operation Sovereign Borders. In 2014 he was appointed Minister for Social Services after a cabinet reshuffle.[3] Subsequently, when Malcolm Turnbull replaced Abbott in September 2015, Morrison was appointed Treasurer of Australia.[4]

 

In August 2018, it was reported that he would contest the leadership of the Liberal Party against Peter Dutton in the event of a spill being called. Following the calling of a leadership spill on 24 August, Morrison was elected Leader of the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister.[5]

 

https://www.revolvy.com/page/Scott-Morrison

Anonymous ID: 1d7bec Aug. 23, 2018, 8:30 p.m. No.2719369   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>2719273

Cont.

 

'They don't like you': Scott Morrison warns big banks to absorb new tax

https://www.smh.com.au/national/they-dont-like-you-scott-morrison-warns-big-banks-to-absorb-new-tax-20170510-gw1i6y.html

 

Scott Morrison admits banks will find 'any way they can' to make customers pay for tax

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/14/scott-morrison-admits-banks-will-find-any-way-they-can-to-make-customers-pay-for-tax

Anonymous ID: 1d7bec Aug. 23, 2018, 9:05 p.m. No.2719639   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9743

The Nuclear Option – Hot Swampy Heat: The Week Washington Officially Lost Its Collective Mind

 

The entire media-political-government-power complex camped along the Potomac River in this fetid August heat officially lost its collective mind this week.

 

In an orgy of political drama playing out in courtrooms up and down the Acela corridor, President Trump’s lawyer and his one-time campaign manager stand convicted of various crimes. In this fever worse than Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, President Trump — therefore — has been officially declared guilty by association!

 

Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager for six minutes during the summer of 2016, was found guilty of a host of crimes dating back more than a decade relating to his various business ventures, none of which has anything to do with President Trump.

 

What is interesting about the case against Mr. Manafort is that prosecutors had declined to pursue some of the charges way back when. But that was BEFORE Mr. Manafort betrayed the political establishment by working for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.

 

Once he committed that cardinal sin, all bets were off.

 

That is why so many people see this whole crusade as a dangerous and dishonest political prosecution. It is not Paul Manafort that people care about. It is the idea that Mr. Manafort got shoved through a political-criminal meat-grinder all because he worked for Donald Trump.

 

Where was this prosecutorial zeal when it came to Hillary Clinton and her illegal bathroom email server or all the obvious global pay-to-play shakedowns by the Clinton Foundation?

 

If people in Washington honestly want to understand the hostility and distrust American voters have for their federal government, they must admit that this stinks to the high heavens.

 

Then there is former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, who has turned on the president like a scalded cur dog.

 

In case anyone wonders if Mr. Trump has lost his wickedly funny sense of humor, hold your nose and take a peek at Twitter.

 

“If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!” Mr. Trump crowed hours after Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty to a range of charges relating to his taxi cab business and law practice, including legal work he did directly for Mr. Trump.

 

Mr. Cohen’s lawyer? Lanny Davis, who became famous representing former President Bill Clinton during his endless saga of scandals.

 

Political incest, anyone? Pass the barf bag.

 

Again, this is why nobody trusts politics in America anymore. This is why people voted for Donald Trump.

 

Mr. Trump might be all these horrible things that people say about him. A loud, brutish, bullying narcissist. But at least he is NOT a Washington politician.

 

As for the charges against Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer claims Mr. Trump ordered him to pay a porn actress and a Playboy model for their silence. This, Mr. Cohen claims, is a violation of campaign finance. (Yeah, like Michael Cohen knows the first thing about campaign finance laws.)

 

And then Mr. Trump was not exactly forthcoming about it. Really?

 

Well, here is a NEWS FLASH: Donald J. Trump did pay a porn actress and a former Playboy model for their silence. And not a single person in all of America ever doubted that is exactly what happened from the first moment they heard about any of it. And they don’t care! You know why?

 

Because at least Donald Trump still isn’t a dirty, self-dealing, dishonest Washington politician.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/23/the-nuclear-option-hot-swampy-heat-the-week-washington-officially-lost-its-collective-mind/

Anonymous ID: 1d7bec Aug. 23, 2018, 9:07 p.m. No.2719654   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9741 >>9743 >>9783

Cornel West: ‘Gangster’ Trump ‘Chooses to Be Demonic’

 

Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Harvard professor and political activist Cornel West said President Donald Trump “chooses to be demonic.”

 

West said, “The important thing is he’s at a moment in these last days where it looks like brother Donald Trump, gangster, racist, misogynist—he’s a brother because he’s made in the image of God, he’s a brother because he could change. He’s not a devil. He’s a human being who chooses devilish action. He’s a human being who chooses to be demonic. He is reaching the end. He is meeting his match with brother Mueller. When Mueller lays bare and discloses the facts, Donald Trump will not just be shaking in his boots, but we’ll be saying goodbye.”

 

He added, “But he expresses something deep in the American culture. It’s very important to keep in mind from a people who have been on intimate terms with catastrophe and keep track of gangsters. He is not all by himself. He is not isolated. He reflects something in the culture. He has followers. So even after Donald Trump we have to come to terms with what’s produced him, corporate elites still running amuck, Wall Street still breaking records, stock market breaking records, wealth inequality still increasing, racial divide still deep, the homophobia and the patriarchy still running amuck. So it’s not just getting Donald Trump out of the way, but he’s on his way out seems to me.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/23/cornel-west-gangster-trump-chooses-to-be-demonic/

Anonymous ID: 1d7bec Aug. 23, 2018, 9:13 p.m. No.2719713   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9717 >>9777

Daesh in Syria Supplied with Arms by Foreign Agencies – Russian Envoy to UN

 

UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - Russia has proof that the Islamic State terror group* has been receiving weapons from other countries with the help of foreign security agencies, Russian envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia said.

 

"We have amassed evidence that weapons are being smuggled [to Syria] from outside, including through semi-legal organizations or even under protection of security agencies from other countries," he told the United Nations on Thursday.

 

Nebenzia said Russia planned to discuss ways of putting an end to weapon deliveries to Daesh at an international conference on combating illicit arms trafficking, scheduled in Moscow on September 3-4.

 

The diplomat waned that Islamic militants were about to step up inroads into government-controlled territories, primarily near the northwestern city of Idlib. He added Daesh did not shy away from using children to stage terror attacks.

 

Nebenzia also said Russian armed forces had helped free over 1,400 towns and villages in Syria and bring over 96 percent of its territory back under government control, securing the return of over 1.5 million Syrian refugees.

 

Nebenzia noted that Al Qaeda* can fill the vacuum in Syria left by retreating Daesh fighters and become a major obstacle to the ongoing peace process.

 

"Our assessment is that Al Qaeda and its allies make take the initiative, becoming an obstacle to a peaceful settlement in Syria, as Daesh continues to crumble," he said.

 

*The Islamic State (also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL or IS) and Al Qaeda are terror organizations, banned in US, Russia and many other countries.

 

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201808241067428514-daesh-syria-foreign-supplied-arms/