George Papadopoulos sinking the slipper into former CIA Director, John Brennan.
Replying to @JohnBrennan
John: all the assets you weaponized against me are being outed in London, Canberra and Rome. Mifsud, Halper, Downer, Tawil etc. congress has the names, my testimony and foreign governments are now cooperating with the Trump administration to out the rest. Good luck.
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1108469718933897217
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Wow! In the wake of what happened in Christchurch what Australia need is stronger gun laws and those wankers are trying to weaken it! #OneNationAustralia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/26/one-nations-james-ashby-filmed-lobbying-for-20m-in-nra-donations-to-weaken-australias-gun-laws
Deep hole in Australia and NZ
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One Nation's James Ashby filmed seeking $20m from NRA to weaken Australia's gun laws
Al-Jazeera journalist posing as gun campaigner films senior party figures in Washington DC soliciting financial support to help One Nation seize the balance of power
Senior One Nation figures James Ashby and Steve Dickson have been caught seeking millions of dollars of political donations from US gun rights group the National Rifle Association in a bid to seize the balance of power and weaken Australia’s gun laws.
The revelations are contained in an al-Jazeera investigation which used hidden cameras and a journalist posing as a grassroots gun campaigner to expose the far-right party’s extraordinary efforts to secure funding in Washington DC in September.
The footage captures Dickson, the party’s Queensland state leader and formerly a Liberal-National minister in Queensland, and Ashby, Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, endorsing NRA counter-attack lines in the event of a gun massacre.
The investigation is likely to damage One Nation both because the party was publicly supporting the proposed ban on foreign political donations at the time and because weakening gun laws has become even more politically toxic in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack.
The trade minister, Simon Birmingham, has seized on the revelations to argue One Nation is a “risk to Australia’s national harmony” and the ban on foreign donations. The expose adds fuel to an internal Coalition brawl about preferencing One Nation at the upcoming federal election.
In the footage, Ashby suggests his aims in meeting the NRA are to ask the group “to rally their supporters within Australia”, adding “I’d love to get my hands on their software … [and] if they can help us with donations, super”.
In a meeting with Rodger Muller, who posed as a gun rights advocate from the fake lobby group Gun Rights Australia, Ashby suggested that $10m of funding would help the party “pick up eight Senate seats”.
Dickson suggested that with the balance of power One Nation will “have the testicles of the government in our hand at every given stage”.
“And guns, in the scheme of things, are still going to be the be-all and end-all,” he said.
Ashby and Dickson met with senior NRA officials to discuss funding, gun laws and communications strategy, including NRA media liaison Lars Dalseide who offered advice on what to say in response to mass shootings.
Dalseide suggested pro-gun politicians should “shame” opponents with lines such as “How dare you stand on the graves of those children to put forward your political agenda?” Dickson replied: “I love that.”
In response to the line “If your policy, isn’t good enough to stand on itself, how dare you use their deaths to push that forward”, Ashby commented “that’s very good, very strong”.
Muller also recorded a meeting between the One Nation staffers and representatives from Koch Industries, which funds various conservative causes in the US.
Before the meeting Muller asked the pair how much money they would seek. Dickson suggested $10m, a demand which Ashby promptly doubled to $20m.
There is no evidence One Nation was successful in its efforts to solicit funding from the NRA, Koch Industries or any of the other American groups the pair met on their trip.
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/26/one-nations-james-ashby-filmed-lobbying-for-20m-in-nra-donations-to-weaken-australias-gun-laws
http://archive.fo/cC8fa
How to Sell a Massacre P1 | Al Jazeera Investigations
A three-year Al Jazeera investigation into the U.S. gun lobby has uncovered an effort by an Australian political party to seek millions of dollars in political funding while offering to soften strict, anti-gun laws in Australia.
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit used concealed cameras to track ‘Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’, a right-wing, anti-immigration party, as representatives travelled to Washington, D.C. to hold meetings with the National Rifle Association and other lobby groups, as well as the energy giant Koch Industries.
One Nation’s Chief of Staff James Ashby was accompanied on the U.S. visit by Steve Dickson, the party’s leader in the Australian state of Queensland and a candidate in upcoming Australian elections.
Ashby and Dickson were recorded seeking up to $US20 million for their election war chest while promising to soften laws, put in place following a massacre in Australia in 1996.
The strict Australian gun laws have often been condemned by the NRA.
Al Jazeera approached all the groups and individuals featured in this programme. None responded to our findings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYyX7O02yOg