dicky

After yet another explosive report by the ABC’s Four Corners on Monday night, accompanied by a sordid tale from Network 10 of male Coalition staffers getting their jollies on the desks of female MPs, Scott Morrison staged a media confessional on Tuesday morning in an attempt to change the narrative.

What narrative?

jen

NATO chief: Melting Arctic ice could heat up geopolitics

With China and Russia expanding their military presence in the Arctic, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told DW melting ice could increase geopolitical tensions and show the "security impacts of climate change."

"The melting of the ice in the Arctic could lead to the heating up of geopolitical tensions between different powers in the world," Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told DW’s Alexandra von Nahmen in an exclusive interview ahead of an in-person meeting of NATO foreign ministers.  

scomo...

Holding a press conference inside Parliament House, the Prime Minister defended himself against criticism stemming from his justification for his response to the Brittany Higgins rape allegation and how his wife had told him to imagine it was his daughter.

"Criticise me if you like for speaking about my daughters, but they are the centre of my life. My wife is the centre of my life," he said.

But he also angrily rejected questions from journalists suggesting he may have lost control over the ministerial staff.

no entry...

Biden team searches for new ways to slow border surge

The administration is sending sterner warnings to would-be migrants and devising alternate pathways for legal entry. But it’s unclear whether it will be enough.

By Sean Sullivan and Seung Min Kim

Read more at the WaPo...

glasshouse

In attacking the moral character of Russia’s president and China’s human rights record, the Biden administration opened the door for a critical examination of America's own troubled history.

By Scott Ritter

transhumanism

Our universe exists through the relative integrity of substances, that are mostly transforming from hot to cold while expanding in the space/time field.

voyage

I buy books by the kilogram and some people give me theirs. I have had this book for a while but had not really gone into it for being too busy... (my excuse for being lazy)... The dedication at top: To all Esq., with the author's kind regards signed: Emile Wenz fils.

This was my introduction to a quiet family that has had some unsung influences on the way things are... Let's start with Paul Wenz, Émile's brother...

musing...

Peta’s musings (above) in the Sunday Telegraph (21/3/2021) ring hollow… She was in charge of keeping the most misogynist Prime Minister of Australia ever, on the throne: Tony Abbott. Her pedigree is rightwing and that’s it. For her, anything left of Genghis Khan is a commie plot of weeds. 

giles

In late February last year, Rebekah Giles, one of Australia’s rising stars of the law, threw a party at Reign, the champagne parlour and bar in Sydney’s landmark Queen Victoria Building.

The occasion celebrated the launch of her boutique law firm, Company (Giles). Author Kathy Lette formally opened the evening as corks popped and toasts were made to Giles, who has overcome extraordinary personal odds, to join the top ranks of the nation’s legal fraternity.

hiding

The organisers of Monday’s women’s rally outside Parliament House have hit back at a Liberal MP’s claim that Prime Minister Scott Morrison couldn’t attend the march because of security issues.

On Saturday Liberal MP Jason Falinski told the ABC that Scott Morrison couldn’t hoin the March 4 Justice for security reasons.

“He is the Prime Minister of the country and there are security issues around those sorts of issues, about him going into big crowds,” Mr Falinski said.

foreign votes

A new report from the US National Intelligence Council assesses that most of the governments the US-centralized empire has targeted for destruction are guilty of seeking to interfere in the nation’s 2020 election.

Ahem.

wapo

If you're like Gus and pay attention to (accidental) details you could be amazed at the amount of delicate transformations that is used by media to first tell you lies, half-truths and also tell you nothing... But then when one media supporting something finds faults in the others, all hell breaks loose...

This from the "other" Post (New York Post):

jen

NATO is looking to the future.

clowns

Should Russia take US clowning seriously?

Putin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov called White House spokesman Josh Earnest's remarks about the Russian president "outrageous and offensive." In a recent press conference, Earnest stated that the US administration was sharing the view about Putin's corruptness.

Dmitry Sudakov

29.01.2016

"We hope that our American colleagues will give us some explanations on that," Peskov said.

"Such insults in the address of the head of state, such obviously unfounded insults, are hard to analyze. For us, it is even impossible to imagine. I would be honest with you, if I said something like this about the US president, I would be fired," Peskov said.

weather

Humanity relies on two main streams of existence in a specific environment. This has been defined in the past as nature and nurture. In more explicit terms, our DNA dictates who we physically are and our social constructs influence the stylistic understanding of our relationships.