Category: Middle East
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How long will Malcolm last?
How long will Malcolm Turnbull last as prime minister? … Tony Abbott wants his old job back but Liberal MPs aren’t rallying … Australia’s sickening fiasco in Afghanistan … World’s newest nation becomes failed state … When Abbott talked up DIY terrorism … Rupert Murdoch’s slaughter of Fairfax … Great Crashing Bores continued … Prime Minister…
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The coup in Brazil
Impeachment of Brazil’s first female president masterminded by CIA … Coalition betrays marriage rights … Israeli journo gives verdict on Zionist state … Rupert Murdoch never changes … One Nation unredacted – Great Crashing Bores 11 continued … Coup in Brazil is bloodless … so far When the CIA launched its successful coup against the…
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Turnbull – a fumbling fizzer
Prime Minister Turnbull on a hiding to nothing pursued by three zealots, Tony Abbott, Cory Bernardi and Kevin Rudd … UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn being pursued too – by avenging Blairites … Turkey torn apart by two autocrats, President Erdogan and religious intriguer, Fethullah Gulen … Great bores continued … Turnbull – a fumbling…
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Baton change at Murdoch empire
Rupert Murdoch takes voluntary redundancy at News …. Murdoch’s anti-beard psychosis explained … why his sons Lachlan and James have grown beards … the demise of Roger Ailes … Julie Bishop and Tanya Plibersek support Julia Gillard-destroyer Kevin Rudd … Great bores continued … Baton change at Murdoch empire Rupert Murdoch’s two sons, Lachlan and…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Fine Cotton “patsy” John Gillespie named in Panama Papers … the Kerry Packer connection revealed … ATO should try something new – collecting taxes … dangers for Malcolm Turnbull in marathon campaign … Mystery man in Panama Papers When the Panama Papers scandal was serialised around the world in April, the media in Australia highlighted…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Wall Street takeover: Donald Trump becomes the US Republican Party – Tony Abbott believes in life after death – How Clintons and Blairs evade tax – Why Russia is murdering ISIS in Syria The Donald swoops on GOP Donald Trump, a New York real estate developer and former casino owner, this week succeeded in taking…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook
Canberra’s Leaking Season is prelude to a fresh Killing Season … Media bosses curb farewell parties for ex-staff … Why Egypt’s sale of Red Sea islands has ignited street protests … ASIC is a banks lapdog not a watchdog Cabinet leak hits Turnbull amidships On the day that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull released his timetable…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Turnbull commits hara-kiri
Malcolm Turnbull’s time runs out … London author savages Tony Blair … The Spectator attack on Assange backfires … Boris changes his tune on EU What is it with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and taxation policy? His GST plan collapsed under universal criticism, he fled from tinkering with the negative gearing rort and now he’s…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Sub-prime Australia
Late Traffic News Long overdue road safety signs spotted on a main road near the Bruce Highway in Queensland declare: DON’T SLEEP AND DRIVE Australia’s sub-prime economy is sinking fast In 2008, sub-prime mortgages brought the US banking system and Wall Street to their knees. Thousands of mortgagees were kicked out of their homes, businesses…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Senior Oz army officers recruited by Arab regimes
Federal governments over the past decade have fed Australians the story that there are no Aussie “boots on the ground” in various parts of the Middle East. Those were lies. For the record, let’s understand that Australian “special forces” and other branches of the ADF are operating either officially or unofficially in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,…