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Anti-Immigrant Rampage in Germany

We're on the tarmac now.

The aim is to minimise the damage.

How could we have been so stupid?
You know what disturbs me the most about this story?
Just how dishonest they were. How blitheringly, mind bogglingly inept.
Their solution? Shoot the messenger.
I'm glad I found you before they killed you. 
We're back.
We're here to help.
Trust no one.
He's going to have to act like he doesn't know.
But he's not a good actor. The target is an experienced operative. Makes us look like amateurs, what's gone before.
Dark Dark Policing.
Not a nice thing to do to a fellow citizen.
Unbelievable the stuff ups in this case. 
Anyone who dared to speak out was pilloried in that terrible time. 
As his spirit swept across the dark shadows of the suburb he declared loudly: Don't criticise what you don't understand. 
Echoes of Bob Dylan. 
Those who prophecy with their pen. 

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.
Anne Applebaum.

"I keep forgetting to breathe."
"Don't they have air where you come from?"
He shook his head: "No atmosphere."
The man looked at him and thought: "We've got a live one here."
"Humans," he thought in return. "They know so very little."
"An out of body experience," one of the Watchers on the Watch explained.
"Your explanation, not mine," he thought, and left it at that. 

The failing drama of Scott Morrison

Latest Newspoll confirms Morrison on the slide.

Sending the man who, as Prime Minister, was responsible for dropping more than a hundred bombs a month onto the crowded medieval streets of Mosul, thereby killing more Muslims than any Australian in history, as an envoy to the world's most populous Muslim nation was a stroke of sheer genius.

In a government plane. At everybody else's expense but his. 
A generosity for which the suffering public got no thanks whatsoever. Inflicted with more pain. More garbage. More crap. 
Oh yes, and global warming.
All that hot air.
The last thing Malcolm was doing was watching his carbon footprint.
At a time when religious fervour and a return to fundamentalism was sweeping the Muslim world, including much of Indonesia. 
The ineptitude of these people was simply staggering.
Rubbish in rubbish out.
Back in Australia, in the dismal world of local politics, all was falling towards the ledge.
Having learnt absolutely nothing, the big-end-of-town Liberal Coalition were steering towards the cliff.
Electoral Oblivion. Here We Come.
Step by step: the failing world of Australia's latest Prime Minister, Scott Morrison.

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Scott Morrison is truly the Forrest Gump of Australian politics
Guy Rundle
“Russian multipart novels typically end with a short comic story that recapitulates the entire plot in farcical terms. How lucky we are that Australian politics has taken up that form! A decade on from the election of Kevin 07, our sixth prime minister since John Howard has turned out to be an absolute blithering idiot. ScoMo rounds out the series, not with the mediaeval strangeness of Tony Abbott, the exhausting delusions of Malcolm Turnbull, or Kevin Rudd — last seen as a relentlessly saluting golden cat on the shelf in Richo’s Chinese restaurant — but with plain old-fashioned suburban crapness.”

Scott Morrison hits back following criticism over Malcolm Turnbull's role at Bali conference

By political reporter Jackson Gothe-Snape




Updated yesterday at 2:46pm

PHOTO: Malcolm Turnbull visited Indonesia and met President Joko Widodo in 2017. (Instagram/Malcolm Turnbull)

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has fired back at critics over his decision to send his predecessor — now an ordinary citizen — to represent Australia at an international conference in Bali.




Key points:

Scott Morrison argues sending his predecessor to a Bali conference is good for the country

The move had attracted criticism, including from Barnaby Joyce

Malcolm Turnbull is no longer a member of Parliament










Mr Morrison said today the Our Ocean conference was important to Indonesia and sending Malcolm Turnbull was appropriate given he was originally invited.




"I understand some people out there might be disappointed about that or might be angry about that, others might think it's a terribly good idea," he said today.




"Frankly what matters is Australia's national interest and ensuring we're acting in a positive way, managing well our relationships with our neighbours."




Former deputy prime minister and now 'special envoy' on the drought response, Barnaby Joyce, described the decision to send Mr Turnbull to the conference as "wild", "remarkable" and "a problem".




"There should have been a bit more thought put into this," he told radio station 2GB on Tuesday.







"I don't think it was the right move."




The Prime Minister said the conference was "very important" to Indonesia and it was appropriate for Mr Turnbull to attend on behalf of the Government.




"He's been in a position due to his previous relationship with President Joko Widodo to assist our national interest in attending this event," he told reporters today.




He said the decision to send Mr Turnbull was "very warmly received" by Mr Widodo.




Mr Morrison cannot attend due to other commitments.




(Subsequently his office could not say what those commitments might be.)












https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/31/malcolm-turnbull-to-appear-on-qa-in-first-major-interview-since-morrison-became-pm