Economic figures must inform citizens, maintain their social usefulness and not become marketing instruments. Myret Zaki, journalist and author of several books on tax evasion and the end of the dollar, is publishing a new book with the explicit title, Economic Disinformation (Favre). Using numerous examples, Myret Zaki explains the motivations specific to the various producers of economic data, and invites citizens to mobilize to obtain reliable economic figures.

MYRET ZAKI: “CITIZENS ARE VICTIMS OF ECONOMIC DISINFORMATION. »

By Laurent Ottavi

05/09/2022.  Democracy

(unaccompanied, shanty-style)

I stood upon the foredeck

and hoisted up me sails

with anchor weighed we sail away

from the coast of New South Wales

to leave the Hill Song far behind

Their Siren sings to me

So from ScoMo's land I'm bound

to search for Albanese

(CH) Do you hear the Song of the Hills

singing to you and me

Let's none of us be April Fools

Let's vote for Albanese!

ScoMo has a fluffy cat

also a fluffy wife

Pacta sunt servanda: promises must be kept. This maxim was the foundation stone of the Westphalian order of nation-states, and its abandonment may mark the demise of that order. As the world witnesses the unraveling of the Pax Americana, which has maintained peace between sovereign states on the European continent for nearly eight decades, it is worth taking a look back at the broken promises that got us to this point, and the warnings issued by earlier generations of American statesmen.

What does a democracy do when a dominant news media organisation goes rogue during an election campaign?

In 2022, News Corporation is confronting Australia with this question once again, as it did in 2019, 2016 and 2013, and as it did in the United States in 2016 and 2020.

“Going rogue” here means abandoning any attempt at fulfilling one of the media’s primary obligations to a democratic society — the provision of truthful news coverage — and instead becoming a truth-distorting propagandist for one side.

BY Denis Muller

The howls of protest from business groups when Anthony Albanese suggested that the minimum wage should at least match inflation were predictable, but nonetheless disappointing (“Albanese would ‘absolutely’ support increase of 5.1%”, May 11).
In tough times we can’t afford a wage rise because it will send businesses to the wall. In good times it will fuel inflation. When the economy is growing, it will kill the fragile shoots of recovery. When it’s struggling, we all have to tighten our belts, of course starting with wage earners.
When, in their view, is it ever the right time for wage earners to catch up or share in the spoils of growth? 

Tony Judge, Woolgoolga

Network Ten sounds like it is putting together an election night panel with a difference. Once again Project host Waleed Aly will be at the desk for 10 News First: Your Decision. Election Night. He will be joined by newsreading icon Sandra Sully, national affairs editor Hugh Riminton and news presenter Narelda Jacobs.

On Wednesday Ten announced others involved include Project regular, Walkley-winning Jan Fran, the Coalition’s social services minister Anne Ruston, along with Labor shadow industry minister Ed Husic. Ten’s media release is spruiking its program as “an intelligent, engaging, insightful, interactive and informative election night”.

But there is one highly intriguing name missing from the publicity missive.

Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits?

Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit.

BY GLENN GREENWALD

La Destruction

Ceaseless at my sides, the Devil in a conflict;

Swims around me like incorporeal wrungs;

I swallow and I feel Him burn my lungs

To fill them with an eternal desire of guilt.

Knowing my great love of Art, at times He takes 

The shape of the most seductive of women,

And, with most depressing deceptive pretexts,

Accustoms my lips to abominable crimen.

He leads me thus, far from the spell of God,

Panting and broken, exhausted, to the moods

Of the plains of Languor, endless and deserted,

And throws in my eyes, filled with confusion,

As we hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kiev, it’s probably worth taking a moment to highlight how this war could have been avoided. The U.S. could have simply pledged military protection for Volodymyr Zelensky against the far-right extremists who were threatening to lynch him if he enacted the peacemaking policies he was elected president to enact.

This Government seems to have departed from a tradition of liberal conservatism and broken a fundamental continuity that has defined the Coalition since Robert Menzies.

Encouraging innovation and the rapid adoption of digital technologies can enable China to avoid middle-income trap

The first decade of the 21st century saw Western economies take the world to the brink of economic collapse. China's economic management enabled the West to recover from its self-inflicted injuries. Despite this, some commentators cling to the idea that China cannot escape the middle-income trap in which countries are unable to reach advanced economic status.

China's policy initiatives clearly show an awareness of the challenge and provide structural solutions for escaping this "trap".

By DARYL GUPPY | China Daily Global

Back in the 1960s and 1970s during the war in Vietnam, everybody knew about the “credibility gap,” which morphed into Credibility Gulch as the official story stretched ever-farther from reality.

Kiev has so far lost 30 drones, 10 helicopters, four jets, three ships, and upwards of 50 troops in failed attempts to take Snake Island, the Russian Ministry of Defense has revealed. Urged on by British advisers, President Volodymyr Zelensky personally ordered the attack and wanted to see a victory by May 9, media reported citing security sources.

Another Bayraktar TB-2 strike drone, a Turkish import, was shot down over the island on Tuesday, said Major General Igor Konashenkov, the spokesman for the Russian military. That makes nine Bayraktars destroyed over Snake Island since Saturday, he pointed out.

READ MORE:

https://www.rt.com/russia/555268-snake-island-pr-military/

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The first foreign fighters to arrive in Ukraine at the start of the war in February, 2022 were Canadians. The first foreign officer arrested by Russian forces on May 3 was a Canadian general. Clearly, Canada, although more than 6,000 kilometers away from Ukraine, has a hidden involvement in this conflict.

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Canada and the Banderites

by Thierry Meyssan