The Centre-Left Australian web magazine New Matilda (NM) has been remarkable for publishing non-anonymous reader comments and trying not to censor reader views. However 2 weeks before the 2 July 2016 Australian Federal Election New Matilda started (a) automatically censoring reader comments with documenting links and (b) extensive censorship of reader comments even without documenting links. CENSORSHIP IS INIMICAL TO SCIENCE, SCHOLARSHIP, AND DEMOCRACY. Accordingly, in the public interest I have set up the website

“Censorship by New Matilda”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-new-matilda .

For details of media-derived censorship by the global Murdoch media empire, Australian Fairfax media, the Australian ABC, the UK BBC, and the Australian universities-backed web magazine The Conversation in Neocon American- and Zionist Imperialist-perverted and subverted Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia and elsewhere in the West see: “Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ; “Censorship by the BBC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/ ; “Censorship by The Conversation”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by ; “Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home ; “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ ; “Censorship by The Age”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-age ; “Censorship by ABC Late Night Live”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/ , "Censorship by ABC Saturday Extra": https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/censorship-by-abc-sat and “ABC fact-checking unit & incorrect reportage by the ABC (Australia’s BBC)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/abc-fact-checking-unit , "Censorship by The Guardian UK": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-guardian-uk , "Censorship by The Guardian Australia": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home/censorship-by-the-guardian-a , “Censorship by Crikey (Australia)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-crikey and "Censorship by New Matilda”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-new-matilda .

NM recently had a makeover and over 100,000 reader views became archived. The NM editor stated that “All of the past comments on New Matilda stories have been archived, and will not appear on the new site. This is partly because of cross-platform issues, but mostly because we wanted a clean break from the ‘comments of the past’. We simply don’t have the resources to legal and vet the existing comments – there’s well over 100,000 of them” (Chris Graham, “New Matilda 4.0”, NM, 12 October 2015 : https://newmatilda.com/2015/10/12/the-new-generation-new-matilda-we-did-a-christopher-pyne-we-fixed-it/ ).

Since I make a lot of comments on NM and my comments on other Australia media are regularly censored , I accordingly decided to record my comments on NM articles as set out below (most recent comments on top). This is a catalogue of informed views in the public interest from a much-published Australian scientist that have been published by New Matilda but which would be subject to massive censorship by other Australian media.

FROM ABOUT SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2016 - 2 WEEKS FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION ON SATURDAY 2 JULY 2016 - MY COMMENTS ON NEW MATILDA ARTICLES WITH URL LINKS TO OTHER SOURCES COULD NOT BE POSTED BUT COULD BE POSTED (WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS) WITHOUT THE LINKS. ACCORDINGLY POSTINGS THAT WERE CENSORED EVEN WITHOUT URL LINKS ARE REPRODUCED BELOW IN BOLD IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND FOR STUDENTS OF THE MEDIA.

MY REACTION AT THAT TIME - POOR FELLOW MY COUNTRY - NEW MATILDA HAS FINALLY JOINED THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

IN AUGUST 2016 POSTING WITH URLS WAS POSSIBLE AGAIN ALBEIT WITH SOME CONTINUING CENSORSHIP.

TO ITS GREAT CREDIT NEW MATILDA SEEMED TO HAVE REVERTED TO MINIMAL CENSORSHIP - IT CONTINUES TO BE REMARKABLY DISTINCT FROM MOST OTHER SERIOUS MEDIA IN LOOK-THE-OTHER-WAY AUSTRALIA IN TRYING NOT TO CENSOR READER VIEWS.

HOWEVER, IN MID-2018 IT WAS APPARENT FROM A SUCCESSION OF CENSORED COMMENTS THAT NEW MATILDA IS AGAIN CENSORING READER COMMENTS:

2018-05-23 Dr Gideon Polya comment on New Matilda article by Michael Brull re Australian complicity in the latest Gaza Massacres: https://newmatilda.com/2018/05/23/australias-shameful-complicity-israeli-atrocities-medias-determination-cover/ .

PUBLISHED COMMENT. Evil, pro-Apartheid Trump America and evil, US lackey, pro-Apartheid, Coalition-ruled Australia merit international Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as the only countries to vote against the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution to formally investigate the latest Israeli Gaza Massacres in which Apartheid Israeli soldiers have shot and killed 116 unarmed Palestinian protestors and injured about 13,000. No Israeli soldiers have been killed or wounded and no Palestinians protestors penetrated the barbed wire surrounding the Gaza Concentration Camp. Just as a galvanized world successfully boycotted Apartheid South Africa after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre (69 unarmed African protestors killed and 220 wounded), so the world must respond to the latest Gaza Massacres with BDS against Apartheid Israel and all people and countries supporting this genocidally racist obscenity, most notably racist Zionists, pro-Apartheid America and pro-Apartheid Australia. Decent, anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians will utterly reject the pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-Apartheid Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (several Labor Opposition MPs have voiced concern about the latest Israeli Gaza Massacre). Zionism is genocidal racism and the racist Zionists and all their supporters should be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan (see Gideon Polya, “Boycott Pro-Apartheid US & Australia For Backing Israeli Gaza Massacres, Apartheid, Theft & Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 22 May 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/22/boycott-pro-apartheid-us-australia-for-backing-israeli-gaza-massacres-apartheid-theft-palestinian-genocide/ ).

* 2018-05-23 Dr Gideon Polya comment on New Matilda article by Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon re the Palestinian Genocide: https://newmatilda.com/2018/05/15/nakba-day-hopes-return-burn-bright-young-palestinians/ .

CENSORED COMMENT (1). Posted comment deleted.

CENSORED COMMENT (2). My previous posted comments have been removed for whatever reason. Excellent article by Australian Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon who is a great supporter of Palestinian Human Rights. One notes that Australian Greens leader Dr Richard Di Natale has condemned the latest Gaza Massacre: “The Australian Greens condemn in the strongest possible terms this latest example of the Israeli military’s excessive use of force. Yesterday marked the deadliest day in Gaza since the 2014 war, with more than 50 Palestinians killed. We are distressed that almost 100 mostly unarmed Palestinian protestors have reportedly been killed by Israeli forces since the end of March on the border with Gaza, including at least four minors and two journalists. It is deplorable that the Liberal and Labor parties have remained silent in the face of the Israeli Government’s excessive use of force. What will it take for them to speak up? They must condemn this disproportionate response against Palestinians exercising their legitimate and important right to engage in non-violent protest. Donald Trump’s decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem is a body blow to the peace process and the Palestinian people. Trump is intent on inflaming tensions, yet the Turnbull Government has repeatedly refused to stand with the rest of the world and speak out against this move. It’s well past time for both the old parties to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel” (see Gideon Polya, “Boycott Pro-Apartheid US & Australia For Backing Israeli Gaza Massacres, Apartheid, Theft & Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 22 May 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/22/boycott-pro-apartheid-us-australia-for-backing-israeli-gaza-massacres-apartheid-theft-palestinian-genocide/ ).

* 2018-05-23 Dr Gideon Polya comment on New Matilda article by Dr Nick Riemer re the latest Israeli Gaza Massacre: https://newmatilda.com/2018/05/15/nakba-day-palestinian-slaughter-goes-path-peace-still-possible/ .

CENSORED COMMENT (1). Posted comment deleted.

CENSORED COMMENT (2). My previous posted comments were removed for whatever reason . Excellent article by Dr Rick Riemer a great supporter of Palestinian Human Rights. Pro-Apartheid Trump America and US lackey Australia merit international Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as the only countries to vote against the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution to formally investigate the latest Israeli Gaza Massacres in which Apartheid Israeli soldiers have killed 116 unarmed Palestinian protestors and injured about 13,000. Just as those who supported Nazi Germany could be reasonably described as “pro-Nazi”, so those going to great lengths in supporting Apartheid Israel can be quite reasonably described as “pro-Apartheid”. The Palestinian Genocide must end - a peaceful , humane solution informed by the post-Apartheid South African experience is for a Unitary State in Palestine with return of all refugees, zero tolerance for racism, equal rights for all, all human rights for all, one-person-one-vote, justice, goodwill, reconciliation, airport-level security, nuclear weapons removal, internationally-guaranteed national security initially based on the present armed forces, and untrammelled access for all citizens to all of the Holy Land. It can and should happen tomorrow – but won’t because of the racist intransigence of US-, Australia, US Alliance- and EU-backed Apartheid Israel (see Gideon Polya, “Boycott Pro-Apartheid US & Australia For Backing Israeli Gaza Massacres, Apartheid, Theft & Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 22 May 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/05/22/boycott-pro-apartheid-us-australia-for-backing-israeli-gaza-massacres-apartheid-theft-palestinian-genocide/ ).

2018-05-23 Dr Gideon Polya comment on New Matilda article by Chris Graham re Oz FM Bishop and the Gaza Massacre: https://newmatilda.com/2018/05/20/selective-outrage-julie-bishop-israeli-slaughter-russian-suspicion/ .

PUBLISHED COMMENT. Evil, pro-Apartheid Trump America and evil, US lackey Australia merit international Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) as the only countries to vote against the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution to formally investigate the latest Israeli Gaza Massacres in which Apartheid Israeli soldiers have shot dead 116 unarmed Palestinian protestors and injured about 13,000. No Israeli soldiers have been killed or wounded and no Palestinians protestors penetrated the barbed wire surrounding the Gaza Concentration Camp. Just as a galvanized world successfully boycotted Apartheid South Africa after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre (69 unarmed African protestors killed and 220 wounded), so the world must respond to the latest Gaza Massacres with BDS against Apartheid Israel and all people and countries supporting this genocidally racist obscenity, most notably racist Zionists, pro-Apartheid America and pro-Apartheid Australia. Decent, anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians can never vote for the pro-Apartheid Coalition (see Gideon Polya, “Boycott Pro-Apartheid US & Australia For Backing Israeli Gaza Massacres, Apartheid, Theft & Palestinian Genocide”, Countercurrents, 22 May 2018: https://countercurrents.org/.../boycott-pro-apartheid-us.../ ).

*2018-05-23 Dr Gideon Polya comment on New Matilda article by Ian McAulay re Australian taxes and equity: https://newmatilda.com/2018/05/23/morrisons-tax-cuts-explained-baby-boomers-vs-millennials-well-off-vs-battlers/ .

CENSORED COMMENT (1). The mendacious, pro-Ten Percenter Coalition has been successfully trying to deceive the rest for yonks. For most of my full-time working life I was in the $90,000-$200,000 bracket (in today's terms) but antipathic to lying greed and cognizant of the 90% I always voted Labor or Green. Negative gearing, capital gains tax arrangements, super super for the rich, deductions, GST etc have meant that for sensible Ten Percenters it was like winning a 1 million dollar lottery at least 5 times in their lifetime while many Ninety Percenters cling to the futile dream of just one 1 million dollar win in their lifetime from the weekly lottery. Poverty kills and 85,000 Australians die preventably each year - decent Australians will utterly reject the mendacious, Australian-killing Coaltion, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (see Gideon Polya, “Australia Shocked By Cricket Ball Tampering But Ignores Horrendous Australian Crimes From Child Abuse To Genocide”, Countercurrents, 24 April 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/04/24/australia-shocked-by-cricket-ball-tampering-but-ignores-horrendous-australian-crimes-from-child-abuse-to-genocide/ ).

CENSORED COMMENT (2). My previous sensible, informed, quantitative posted comments re inequity and the 10 Percent and the 90 Percent were removed for whatever reason - for an exhaustive , documented analysisof censorship, self-censorship and myopia in look-the-other-way Australia see Gideon Polya, “Australia Shocked By Cricket Ball Tampering But Ignores Horrendous Australian Crimes From Child Abuse To Genocide”, Countercurrents, 24 April 2018: https://countercurrents.org/2018/04/24/australia-shocked-by-cricket-ball-tampering-but-ignores-horrendous-australian-crimes-from-child-abuse-to-genocide/ .

2016-08-18 NM re Max Chalmers leaves https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/17/on-my-last-day-new-matilda-looks-like-a-flawed-and-vital-project/ (posted minus URLs):

Together with the marvellous Australian Left weeklies “Red Flag” and “Green Left Weekly “, Centre-Left New Matilda provides a leading, truth-telling alternative to the Yellow Press of Racist White Australia, and the generally cowardly, lying , unethical, PC racist, pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, war criminal, anti-science, anti-environment , climate criminal, terracidal Mainstream journalist, politician and academic presstitutes who dominate Australian public life. It is accordingly sad to see the excellent Max Chalmers go from New Matilda. Thanks to the cowardly Mainstream presstitutes Australian Democracy has become a Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy in which Big Money purchases people, parties, policies, public perception of reality, political power and more profits. However some criticisms can, of course, be made of New Matilda in its best interests: (1) gender balance (as observed by Max Chalmers); (2) censorship (since mid-2016 New Matilda has been actively censoring informed comments and in particular near-comprehensively blocking comments with documenting URLs; see “Censorship by New Matilda”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-new-matilda ); (3) New Matilda gives a Centre-Left view of the Mainstream narrative - but the Mainstream narrative egregiously lies by omission, noting that lying by omission is far, far worse than repugnant lying by commission because the latter at least permits the possibility of correction, refutation and public debate (any number of Elephant in the Room realities perceived by scientists and the science-informed are stringently excluded from quantitative reportage in the Mainstream narrative e.g. “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ; “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ; “Educational Apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ ; “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ; "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ; “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ; “Gas is not clean energy”: https://sites.google.com/site/gasisnotcleanenergy/ ; “Biofuel Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/biofuelgenocide/ ; “300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ; “Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ ; "Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution ; “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ; "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ; “Global avoidable mortality”: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ …

2016-08-18 NM re August disastrous for the Coalition: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/16/the-symptoms-of-malcolm-turnbulls-maladies/ .

August has been a bad look but has hardly been disastrous for the incompetent, mendacious, war criminal, anti-science, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-Apartheid, US lackey, extreme right-wing Coalition Government under Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s –clothing, lipstick –on-a-pig, 200-milion-dollar-man Malcolm “Cayman Islands” Turnbull. The Coalition is still in government, is still supported by about half the voters of Racist White Australia, and this despite 85,000/12 = over 7,000 Australians dying preventably in August, 75,000/12 = over 6,000 people dying world-wide in August from pollutants from the burning of Australian coal, thousands of refugees (including children) highly abusively imprisoned without charge or trial in off-shore concentration camps, US lackey, serial war criminal Australia still engaged in its Eighth Iraq War and Third Syrian war in a century, the not-so-slow ongoing death of the Great Barrier Reef, the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide etc etc. Indeed the worst that could happen to the variously egregiously ignorant to homicidally greedy supporters of the Coalition in the next 3 years is that it would be replaced by a Labor Government with much the same policies. Decent, humane, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the moral sludge of the bottom-of-the-barrel Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (thankfully there are at least a few Labor MPs who would show their blind granny the way to the dunny) (for appalling stats on Coalition crimes that are mostly non-reported by the Yellow press of racist White Australia see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-08-19 NM re ABC, Get-UP & Apartheid Israel: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/18/abc-and-getup-should-apologise-for-their-loyalty-to-israel-not-for-criticising-it/ . MY COMMENTS WERE CENSORED BY NEW MATILDA PRESUMABLY FOR CONTAINING THINGS THAT NEW MATILDA EVIDENTLY DOES NOT WANT ITS READERS TO READ, KNOW ABOUT OR THINK ABOUT.

Excellent article by Michael Brull. The ABC has a “balanced” position between the slavishly pro-Zionist, US lackey and hence pro-Apartheid dichotomies of Murdoch/ Fairfax and Coalition /Labor and consequently has an appallingly cowardly, unethical, and genocide-ignoring position in relation to nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist (RZ)-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, grossly human rights-abusing, Apartheid Israel. The ABC has an appalling record of censoring the humane views of anti-racist Jews while publishing false Zionist defamation of anti-racist Jews. Like the racist Zionists, the Zionist lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) and the most of the Zionist-subverted Australian Mainstream, the craven and yellow ABC is anti-Arab anti-Semitic by supporting the Zionist-backed and genocidal US War on Muslims (the ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide that includes the ongoing Palestinian Genocide) and is both mendacious and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic by falsely conflating all Jews with Apartheid Israel and its awful crimes. Decent anti-racist Jews and indeed all decent, anti-racist folk agree with the position of outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run, genocidally racist Apartheid Israel and its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers. The otherwise commendable Get-Up adopts the same craven stance in relation to neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide (90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed; 2 million Palestinian deaths from violence, 0.1 million, or from imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since the mid-1930s; 73% of Apartheid Israel’s Arab subjects are prevented from voting for the government ruling them) and the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-backed Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide ( 32 million Muslim deaths from violence, 5 million, or imposed deprivation, 27 million, since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity). For details and documentation of how this craven surrender to neo-Nazi racist Zionism is spreading to ostensibly progressive institutions see Gideon Polya, “Zionist-subverted Oberlin College Trashes Academic Free Speech And Suspends Professor Joy Karega”, Countercurrents, 10 August 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/10/zionist-subverted-oberlin-college-trashes-academic-free-speech-and-suspends-professor-joy-karega/ ).

THIS SUBSEQUENT POST WAS PUBLISHED (BUT FOR HOW LONG?):

It is not just the ABC and GetUp but also evidently New Matilda that is “soft” on nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist (RZ)-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, grossly human rights-abusing, Apartheid Israel. Censorship of anti-racist Jewish opinion about the horrendous crimes of Apartheid Israel is a very poor look – anti-racist Jewish Australian humanitarians are inescapably obliged to expose and oppose ongoing Israeli Apartheid, the ongoing Palestinian Genocide and Zionist subversion of Australian institutions. My carefully composed and documented comments about this excellent article were censored by New Matilda, presumably for containing things “new look” New Matilda does not want its readers to read, know about or think about – however they can be read on “Censorship by New Matilda”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-new-matilda .

2016-08-05 NM re Lisa Singh re-election: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/27/lisa-singh-scores-upset-in-tasmania-as-greens-nab-two-senate-spots/ .

So pleased that this decent, humane, articulate woman, Lisa Singh, was re-elected to the Senate – she represents the decent, humane, traditional Labor values of the all-too-short Whitlam era . Her opposition to the cruel bipartisan policy of abusive detention of refugees was particularly courageous and admirable. Lisa Singh’s family are Fiji Indians and I suspect that her evident humanity derives from that culture too. Indian indentured labour (5-year slaves, “girmityas” ) were cruelly exploited under the British but this led to humane, human rights-conscious centrist political activism by those eventually freed from indenture and their descendants (read “Tears in Paradise” by Rajendra Prasad and for review see Gideon Polya, “Review: “Tears In Paradise. Suffering and Struggle Of Indians In Fiji 1879-2004” by Rajendra Prasad – Britain's Indentured Indian “5 Year Slaves””, Countercurrents, 4 March, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya040315.htm ).

2016-08-05 NM re offensive Bill Leak cartoons: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/04/artistic-arse-the-great-racist-works-of-cartoonist-bill-leak/ .

These are very offensive cartoons but de rigeur for a look-the-other-way politically correct racist, (PC racist), right-wing Australia that has just re-elected the child-abusing Coalition Government and only finally responded to the shocking images of Aboriginal children being abused and tortured in custody after written report after written report from indignant observers. Boycott Murdoch media from the Herald Scum to the Strine. The Coalition Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Royal Commission (a) involves the complicit NT Government, (b) does not address horrendous nation-wide abuse of detained Aboriginal children, and (c) will ignore other massive child abuse within Australia and overseas in which child-abusing Australian Governments are complicit – see Gideon Polya, “Australia’s horrendous abuse of aboriginal children the tip of massive Australian child abuse”, Countercurrents, 30 July 2016 : http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/30/australias-horrendous-abuse-of-aboriginal-children-the-tip-of-massive-australian-child-abuse/ ).

2016-08-05 NM re One Nation’s 4 senators: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/04/pauline-hanson-gets-four-senators-david-leyonhjelm-also-returned/ .

Poor fellow my country. America is Trumping decency in public life, UK has the UKIP xenophobes, France has Le Pen xenophobes and Eastern Europe has racist neo-fascists. 4 One Nation senators will mean a daily parade of racist, bigoted, xenophobia. One Nation wants removal of not just Section 18C but the WHOLE of the Racial Discrimination Act – thus the One Nation Policy on Multiculturalism states: “Multiculturalism has failed everywhere. It is negative and divisive, a weight that is drowning our once safe and cohesive society. One Nation will abolish multiculturalism and the Racial Discrimination Act and promote assimilation, nationalism, loyalty and pride in being an Australian. As a government policy, multi-racialism encompassed measures to destroy the Australian culture. It played a large part in migrant selection in an attempt to prevent them from assimilating into Australian society. Exactly what was done and admitted to in England. One Nation intends to abolish multiculturalism and the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 based on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as it is unconstitutional. We would replace it with a policy of assimilation in which it will be made clear to all those applying to migrate to Australia that coming to Australia is a privilege that gives them an overriding, unifying commitment to Australia, to its past, current interests and future first and foremost… Discretion: This means freedom of judgement or choice to choose wisely. With the current terrorist problems this is essential. It is not intended to stereotype any group. Our policy in this regard has nothing to do with race, it is all about protecting our country from a real threat. One Nation will withdraw from UN Treaties on migration and refugees that conflict with our sovereign rights and laws” . The July 2016 Australia Federal elections returned the climate criminal Coalition Government with a likely 1 seat majority and elected Pauline Hanson and her anti-Asian, anti-Muslim One Nation Party to the Senate. Ms Hanson’s Trump-like call for a ban on Muslim immigration was supported by right-wing media personalities Andrew Bolt and Sonia Kruger with Muslim media celebrity Waleed Aly pathetically stating “Sonia Kruger isn’t evil. She’s scared”. Mainstream media lying and cowardice ensures entrenched Australian terror hysteria and anti-Arab anti-Semitism (see Gideon Polya, “Resurgent Pauline Hanson, Australian Islamophobia and Terror Hysteria”, Countercurrents, 23 July 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/23/resurgent-pauline-hanson-australian-islamophobia-and-terror-hysteria/ ).

2016-08-05 NM re Australian Debt: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/04/australias-economy-is-drifting-towards-disaster-while-no-one-is-at-the-wheel/ .

In addition to a Budget Deficit of about $40 billion per year, a Net Government Debt of about $290 billion , and huge Housing indebtedness, Australia has the wrong sort of economy – it has a massive Carbon Economy in a world that knows it must get to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by mid-century and then draw-down atmospheric CO2 from (currently) 405 ppm CO2 to circa 300 ppm CO2 . Australia’s revised annual per capita GHG pollution (in tonnes CO2-equivalnrt per person per year, taking land use into account and assuming a Global Warming Potential for methane on a 20 year time frame of 105 times that of CO2) is 52.9 (116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports) as compared to 7.4 for China and 2.1 for India (Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ). Further, the effective climate change denying Coalition is imposing a huge and inescapable Carbon Debt on young Australians and future generations (intergenerational injustice, intergenerational inequity, intergenerational crime). Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e as estimated by Dr Chris Hope from 90-Nobel-Laureate Cambridge University, Australia has a Carbon Debt of $7.5 trillion that is increasing at $400 billion per year and at $40,000 per head per year for under-30 year old Australians (see Gideon Polya, “Neoliberal Australia re-elects war criminal, climate criminal, pro-Apartheid, child-abusing Coalition Government” “, Countercurrents, 19 July 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/19/neoliberal-australia-re-elects-war-criminal-climate-criminal-pro-apartheid-child-abusing-coalition-government/ ).

2016-08-05 NM re Unisuper & dirty investments: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/22/theres-nothing-super-about-investing-in-dirty-energy/ .

It is a shame that Unisuper doesn’t go totally clean like some other super companies although in 2014 it said that it would remove fossil fuel companies from its socially ­responsible funds that year. Intelligent, informed and responsible economist and former Coalition Leader of the Opposition, Dr John Hewson , has parted ways re fossil fuels with his pro-coal, pro-gas, effective climate change denialist , climate criminal Coalition colleagues, and is a leading figure in Australia for corporate disinvestment in fossil fuels. Dr Hewson is the Chairperson of Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) which in its own words: “is an independent not-for-profit global organisation whose objective is to protect members' retirement savings from the risks posed by climate change by improving the level of disclosure and industry best practice” and a year or so ago rated the following Pension Funds as AAA in terms of climate risk avoidance: (1) Environment Agency Active Pension fund (UK), (2) Local Government Super (Australia), (3) CalPERS (USA), (4) Stichting Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), and (5) VicSuper (Australia) (for details and documentation see “Divest from fossil fuels”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/divest-from-fossil-fuels ).

2016-08-14 NM re Israeli World Vision charges: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/12/israels-trumped-up-world-vision-charges-part-1/

Excellent article on remorseless racist Zionist (RZ) human rights abuse, torture, injustice. For decent, anti-racist Australians an appalling aspect of this is that the pro-Apartheid, child-abusing, Zionist-subverted, US lackey Coalition Federal Government immediately suspended funding to World Vision in the Gaza Concentration Camp. Donations to Apartheid Israeli state terrorism and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide are tax deductible in Australia but a donation to a charity in the Gaza Concentration Camp could conceivably attract life imprisonment. Australia arguably ranks second only to the Zionist -subverted US in support of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel. Australia needs de-Nazification - decent anti-racist Australians must (a) inform everyone they can about racist Zionist attacks on human rights in Palestine, the West and in Australia, (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all its Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted supporters , (c) urge the sidelining from public life of racist Zionists (RZs) and their typically genocidally racist, and warmongering supporters, as has already happened to like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and (d) vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (while 100% of Coalition MPs back war criminal and genocidal neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel, a decent rump of perhaps 5% of Labor MPs are opposed) (see “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Zionist-subverted Oberlin College Trashes Academic Free Speech And Suspends Professor Joy Karega”, Countercurrents, 10 August 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/10/zionist-subverted-oberlin-college-trashes-academic-free-speech-and-suspends-professor-joy-karega/ ).

2016-08-14 NM re abuse of children in Nauru concentration camp: https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/12/to-the-australian-government-the-nauru-files-show-a-system-working-well/ .

The most obscene justification offered by the child-abusing Coalition Government led by Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull is that they have greatly REDUCED the number of refugee children held in detention without charge or trial and for the asserted crime of being refugees. They and the dirty, soiled, and variously from egregiously ignorant to genocidally racist people who vote for the Coalition just don’t get it – there should be NO refugee children held in detention without charge or trial. Those who ignore, obfuscate, deny, support, advocate or are otherwise complicit in the abuse of children have crossed a line separating decent humanity from Nazi-style barbarism. The US lackey, Zionist lackey, pro-war, war criminal, pro-coal, climate criminal Turnbull-led Coalition continues to trash Australia’s international reputation – decent people around the world will ponder the dichotomy of our wonderful young athletes in Rio versus refugee children highly abusively imprisoned in a remote concentration camp without charge or trial. Decent people around the world will ask themselves questions such as: should we apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against this evil, child-abusing rogue state? would we buy soap made in Auschwitz? Of course the horrendous abuse of refugee children is just the tip of the iceberg – 4.4 million adult Australian have been sexually abused as children; racist White Australia has participated in all post-1950 US Asian wars (40 million deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation); and a serial war criminal Australia is heavily complicit in the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-backed US War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror) that has been associated with about 30 million Muslim refugees and 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5 million) or from deprivation (27 million) in 20 countries attacked by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity (see Gideon Polya, “Australia’s horrendous abuse of aboriginal children the tip of massive Australian child abuse”, Countercurrents, 30 July 2016 : http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/30/australias-horrendous-abuse-of-aboriginal-children-the-tip-of-massive-australian-child-abuse/ and Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

2016-08-14 NM re Rudd for Secretary General: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/29/the-other-people-opposed-to-kevin-rudds-un-bid/ . MY COMMENTS (POSTED WITHOUT URL TO PREVENT AUTOMATIC CENSORSHIP) WERE CENSORED BY NEW MATILDA, PRESUMABLY FOR CONTAINING THINGS THAT OSTENSIBLY LIBERTARIAN AND LEFT OF CENTRE NEW MATILDA DOES NOT WANT ITS READERS TO READ, KNOW ABOUT OR THINK ABOUT.

Kevin Rudd is unfit to be Secretary General but did several good things – (1) he saved Australia from the GFC; (2) he said unsuccessfully “Sorry” (Indigenous child removal continues at record rates); (3) he unsuccessfully advocated destruction of US-protected Afghan opium crops (they continue to kill about 100,000 people each year) ; (4) he defeated the war criminal Coalition Government but none of these war criminals have yet been arraigned before the International Criminal Court over the illegal invasion of Iraq that has been associated wit 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or imposed deprivation (1.2 million), 5-6 million refugees and the generation of the barbarous ISIS; (5) he objected (albeit cravenly and mildly) to Apartheid Israel kidnapping , robbing, shooting and tasering Australian citizens and forging Australian passports (he paid the price by being removed in a US-approved , Mining Industry-funded, pro-Zionist-led Coup in 2010). Rudd unforgivably failed utterly on climate change action and is responsible for the obscene and grossly human rights-violating Pacific Solution involving refugees (including CHILDREN) being held in detention without charge or trial and for the asserted crime of being refugees. Rudd is unfit to be UN Secretary General for these reasons but most importantly because like 95% of Labor MPs he is cravenly beholden to the war criminal Americans, to the genocidally racist Zionists (RZs) and to nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel (for a recent accounts of Zionist perversion see (see “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Zionist-subverted Oberlin College Trashes Academic Free Speech And Suspends Professor Joy Karega”, Countercurrents, 10 August 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/10/zionist-subverted-oberlin-college-trashes-academic-free-speech-and-suspends-professor-joy-karega/ ).

2016-08-01 NM re Open Letter re racism : https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/01/an-open-letter-to-australias-prime-minister-and-political-leaders-on-racial-intolerance/ .

An excellent, humane letter. However one is reminded of the adage that “sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me” . The ultimate in racism is actually killing people and Australians – of whom presently 75% give their number 1 vote to the war criminal Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor) – have been involved in all post-1950 US Asian wars, atrocities that have been associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence or imposed deprivation. Since the US Government’s 9-11 false-flag atrocity in 2001, Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in 20 countries subject to Western military intervention in the 21st century now total about 27 million, with an estimated further 5 million dying from violence (see Gideon Polya,“Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

2016-08-01 NM re Hil & working poor : https://newmatilda.com/2016/08/01/the-wests-working-poor-cant-afford-to-accept-things-the-status-quo-much-longer/ .

Good article, Richard. There is every reason for ordinary Westerners to be disillusioned with neoliberal capitalism that seeks to maximize the freedom of the smart and advantaged to exploit the natural and human resources of the world for private profit. My “baby boomer” generation (born in circa 1945) and possibly, if they are lucky, our children’s generation, are likely to be the last generations that have been better off than the previous generation. For most American workers, real wages (i.e. after taking inflation into account) have been flat for decades, while the One Percenter share of annual income has steadily increased. It is now too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade temperature rise and the “baby boomers” – or more properly their homicidally greedy One Percenter rulers - have bequeathed worsening ecocide, speciescide and climate genocide to future generations with the prospect of omnicide and terracide through a worsening Climate Genocide. It is estimated that 10 billion people could perish this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed. This immense, worsening intergenerational injustice can be best quantitated in terms of an inescapable, damage-related Carbon Debt bequeathed to future generations - assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-equivalent from Dr Chris Hope, 90-Nobel-Laureate University of Cambridge, the World has a Carbon Debt of $360 trillion that is increasing at $13 trillion per year. The solution lies in Climate Revolution now rather than nihilistic escapism (e.g. see Gideon Polya, “Review Of Movie “A Bitter Lime” – Disenchanted First World Couple Escape To Third World Guyana”, Countercurrents, 1 August 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/01/review-of-movie-a-bitter-lime-disenchanted-first-world-couple-escape-to-third-world-guyana/ ).

2016-08-01 NM re juvenile detention atrocities: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/29/the-hard-questions-youth-detention-doesnt-make-anyone-safer-justice-reinvestment-does/ .

The Australian ABC TV Four Corners program revealed shocking CCTV images of Aboriginal children being horrendously abused, assaulted and tortured by prison guards in a juvenile detention centre in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT). Australia has been shocked. The Coalition Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull set up a Royal Commission to investigate the matter but this (a) involves the complicit NT Government, (b) does not address horrendous nation-wide abuse of detained Aboriginal children, and (c) will ignore other massive child abuse within Australia and overseas in which child-abusing Australian Governments are complicit. Perhaps about 1,000 Indigenous children in detention are suffering or threatened with such abuse at this moment around Australia – the Australian Federal Police should be sent in to arrest the child abusers, noting that the abuse of Aboriginal children in detention is just the tip of an horrendous iceberg of child abuse in Australia e.g. an estimated 4.4 million Australian adults have suffered sexual abuse as children (see Gideon Polya, “Australia’s horrendous abuse of aboriginal children the tip of massive Australian child abuse”, Countercurrents, 30 July 2016 : http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/30/australias-horrendous-abuse-of-aboriginal-children-the-tip-of-massive-australian-child-abuse/ ).

2016-07-24 NM re Sonia Kruger & Islamophobia: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/21/its-ok-to-be-angry-at-sonia-krugers-hate/ .

MY COMMENTS (POSTED WITHOUT URL TO PREVENT AUTOMATIC CENSORSHIP) WERE CENSORED BY NEW MATILDA, PRESUMABLY FOR CONTAINING THINGS THAT OSTENSIBLY LIBERTARIAN AND LEFT OF CENTRE NEW MATILDA DOES NOT WANT ITS READERS TO READ, KNOW ABOUT OR THINK ABOUT.

Muslim Australian lawyer Lydia Shelly was quite correct to condemn Waleed Aly for his rotten call for Australians to “empathize” with the “fear” of people like Pauline Hanson and her supporters. Waleed Aly can “empathize” with “fearful people” like Sonia Kruger and One Nation supporters till the cows come home but the ineluctable bottom line remains that (a) there must be zero tolerance for racism, and (b) “fear” engendered by terror hysteria must be countered dispassionately by the facts despite the Awful Truth being resolutely ignored by mendacious, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes . Thus there have been zero (0) deaths ever of Australians in Australia due to Muslim-origin non-state terrorist organizations; there have been two (2) deaths ever of Australians in Australia due to a self-proclaimed Muslim-origin non-state “terrorist”; in the last 40 years a total of eight (8) Australians have been killed in Australia by politically-motivated terrorists – yet 85,000 Australians die preventably each year with this being inescapably linked to the fiscal perversion of the long-term the long-term accrual cost of the War on Terror to Australia that is increasing by about $11 billion per year i.e. terror hysteria and “fear” engendered by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) –perverted Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes is killing tens of thousands of Australians each year (see Gideon Polya, “Resurgent Pauline Hanson, Australian Islamophobia and Terror Hysteria”, Countercurrents, 23 July 2016: ”: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/23/resurgent-pauline-hanson-australian-islamophobia-and-terror-hysteria/ ).

2016-07-24 NM more re Sonia Kruger & banning Muslims: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/20/pauline-hansons-bigotry-cant-be-balanced/ . MY COMMENTS (POSTED WITHOUT URL TO PREVENT AUTOMATIC CENSORSHIP) WERE CENSORED BY NEW MATILDA, PRESUMABLY FOR CONTAINING THINGS THAT OSTENSIBLY LIBERTARIAN AND LEFT OF CENTRE NEW MATILDA DOES NOT WANT ITS READERS TO READ, KNOW ABOUT OR THINK ABOUT.

The calls by Pauline Hanson, One Nation, Andrew Bolt and Sonia Kruger to ban Muslim immigrants fails the Jewish Test for Racism in which you substitute in this instance Muslim terms with Jewish terms and end up with anti-Jewish anti-Semitic statements that are utterly repugnant in a post-WW2 Jewish Holocaust context. Thus the repugnant and racist One Nation Policy of “Stop further Muslim Immigration and the intake of Muslim refugees” becomes the equally repugnant “Stop further Jewish Immigration and the intake of Jewish refugees” and “Muslims will not be allowed to be sworn in to Parliament under the Qur’an” becomes “Jews will not be allowed to be sworn in to Parliament under the Torah”. Decent people must (a) urge and apply zero tolerance for racism and lying, and (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, companies and corporations that are linked to racism and lying. Thus decent, anti-racist Australians opposed to anti-Arab anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and indeed all racism will eschew Channels 9 and 10, boycott the Murdoch media, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (see Gideon Polya, “Resurgent Pauline Hanson, Australian Islamophobia and Terror Hysteria”, Countercurrents, 23 July 2016: ”: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/23/resurgent-pauline-hanson-australian-islamophobia-and-terror-hysteria/ ).

2016-07-24 NM re Bolt & Muslim immigration ban : https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/18/andrew-bolt-asks-who-could-blame-anti-muslim-vigilantes/ .

Andrew Bolt has offensively called for constraint on Muslim immigration to Australia, reportedly stating ““no more mass immigration from the Muslim world” and “[France is] Europe's bloodiest battlefield [because] France let in the most Muslims. We are fools not to change our own immigration policies to protect ourselves” . Substitute “Jewish” for “Muslim” and we immediately see by this Jewish Test for Racism how offensive these comments are: “no more mass immigration from the Jewish world” and “[France is] Europe's bloodiest battlefield [because] France let in the most Jews. We are fools not to change our own immigration policies to protect ourselves”. Hanson started with Aborigines, moved on to Asians and is now having a field day with Muslims. There must be zero tolerance for racism and in relation to the racism of Pauline Hanson, her One Nation Party and its supporters, apologists, excusers and empathizers one can paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous poem “First they came”:

“First they came for the Aborigines , and I did not speak out—

Because I was not an Aborigine.

Then they came for the Asians, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not an Asian.

Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me”. Zero tolerance for racism and Boycott Murdoch Media (see Gideon Polya, “Resurgent Pauline Hanson, Australian Islamophobia and Terror Hysteria”, Countercurrents, 23 July 2016: ”: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/23/resurgent-pauline-hanson-australian-islamophobia-and-terror-hysteria/ ).

2016-07-24 NM re racism in Australia – an emergency: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/22/australias-racism-problem-is-a-growing-emergency/ .

Excellent statement by Amy McQuire, Michael Brull and Samah Sabawi: “We don’t have a Muslim problem in Australia. We have a racism problem, and it is an emergency. We urge readers to take this as a wake-up call, to build stronger ties across communities, and to challenge racism, whether it comes from the top or from the bottom. Attacks on Muslims are attacks on us all”. There must be zero tolerance for racism and one must firmly condemn “Establishment Muslim” Waleed Aly’s rotten call for Australians to “empathize” with the “fears” of Sonia Kruger who joined with Pauline Hanson and Andrew Bolt in wanting a ban on Muslim immigrants. The post-WW2 Jewish Holocaust Jewish Test for Racism involves substituting “Jewish” for the minority under attack – thus the repugnant and racist One Nation Policy of “Stop further Muslim Immigration and the intake of Muslim refugees” becomes the equally repugnant “Stop further Jewish Immigration and the intake of Jewish refugees” and “Muslims will not be allowed to be sworn in to Parliament under the Qur’an” becomes “Jews will not be allowed to be sworn in to Parliament under the Torah”. In 1996 Hanson started on Aborigines, moved on to Asians and is now attacking Muslims. One can now paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous poem “First they came” thus:

“First they came for the Aborigines , and I did not speak out—

Because I was not an Aborigine.

Then they came for the Asians, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not an Asian.

Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Muslim.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me”. Zero tolerance for racism and Boycott Murdoch Media (see Gideon Polya, “Resurgent Pauline Hanson, Australian Islamophobia and Terror Hysteria”, Countercurrents, 23 July 2016: ”: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/23/resurgent-pauline-hanson-australian-islamophobia-and-terror-hysteria/ ).

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2016-07-10 NM re elections & wealth inequality: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/07/the-big-election-story-the-media-missed/ .

Well-intentioned but still neoliberal Labor tinkering at the edges still preserves gross wealth inequality that damages the economy (the poor can’t afford to buy goods and services they produce) and democracy (Big Money buys votes as exampled by kingmaker Murdoch in Murdochracy Australia). Professor Thomas Piketty in his book “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” argues for an annual wealth tax to attack inequality. Indeed France has an annual wealth tax of up to 1.5% and for 1,400 years Islam has mandated an annual 2.5% wealth tax (zakat). A 1% annual wealth tax on the top 20% of households would yield A$65.2 billion each year and help save Australia’s AAA credit rating (see “1% ON 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 ). 85,000 Australians die preventably each year and thus neoliberalism-based inequality kills. Those who voted for the terracidal, pro-coal, koala-killing and Australian-killing KOALition are on a continuum between egregious stupidity or ignorance and homicidal greed (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-07-10 NM re conservative perversion of the ABC: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/06/decades-of-conservative-pressure-on-the-abc-are-paying-off/ .

Lying is forbidden in science and thus the excellent ABC Science Unit is exempted from the following comments. The ABC had a shocking record of support for the Coalition in the recent elections as exampled by the ABC plugging an alleged Labor “mediscare” campaign. The harsh reality is that the neoliberal Coalition has been gunning for Medicare since its inception and under the Abbott/Turnbull Government was significantly dismantling affordable public health and hence Medicare “brick by brick”. Turnbull’s claim of a “Labor mediscare lie” was indeed an outrageous lie in itself. 85,000 Australians die preventably each year - neoliberalism-based inequality kills. Those who voted for the neoliberal, Australian-killing Coalition are on a continuum between egregious stupidity or ignorance and homicidal greed (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ). Another example - the racist, unethical, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted, genocide-ignoring , holocaust-ignoring ABC swallows the UK Iraq Inquiry Report’s claim of 0.15 million post-invasion Iraqi deaths whereas the expert, science-based position is that 2.7 million Iraqis died post-invasion from violence (1.5 million) or from war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million) (see Gideon Polya, “Holocaust denial: UK Chilcot Inquiry whitewashes Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide”, Countercurrents, 9 July 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/07/09/holocaust-denial-uk-chilcot-inquiry-whitewashes-iraqi-holocaust-and-iraqi-genocide/ ).

2016-07-10 NM re Waleed Aly versus Steve Price over coal mines: https://newmatilda.com/2015/08/20/price-isnt-right-shock-jock-gets-it-wrong-fiery-clash-waleed-aly-over-big-coal/ .

Steve Price’s “Ten jobs is good, a hundred’s good, two hundred’s good” is an absurd reflection of the simplistic, pro-coal KOALition’s election slogan of “Jobs and growth” – it all depends upon what kind of job and what kind of growth. Indeed in a climate criminal country like Australia with a world-leading Carbon Economy most jobs and most growth means more greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and hence ecocide and speciescide leading to omnicide and terracide. Australia is among the very worst countries in terms of annual per capita GHG pollution and income-weighted annual per capita GHG pollution, although the lying by omission by oligopoly Mainstream media presstitutes (including those of the yellow ABC) ensured that this Elephant in the Room matter was not a major election issue, let alone the pre-eminent, key election issue it should have been (see Gideon Polya, “ Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm and Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ). A “sex” analogy is germane here: sex is obviously good as a basic human function vital for the continuance of humanity, but it is certainly not good if involving unprotected, unsafe sex or sex with minors, animals, siblings, parents etc. More specifically, pollutants from the burning of Australian coal exports ultimately kill 75,000 people each year, Adani’s Carmichael mine will kill about 13,000 people each year, and 10,000 Australians die from carbon fuel burning pollutants each year (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ) - properly informed, decent people who care for the lives of fellow Australians and of Humanity in general will utterly reject the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition state terrorists, carbon terrorists and climate terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (in the interests of public education I would love to provide New Matilda readers with the URL links but my posts with links are censored).

2016-07-10 NM re cattle & coal are the problem: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/08/cattle-and-coal-are-the-keys-to-the-climate/ .

Excellent, science-informed article by Geoff Russell (although I would differ over nuclear fission since the overall nuclear energy cycle can have major GHG pollution). Annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions presently total 64Gt CO2-equivalent with methanogenic livestock production and attendant land use contributing about 50%. With (a) annual emissions of CO2 per se from industry at a record high of about 32 Gt CO2, (b) a Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget of 600 Gt CO2 for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise and the world having a mere 2 years before this is exceeded, (c) atmospheric CO2 and methane (CH4) at 1 million year highs of 405 ppm CO2 and 1,840 ppb CH4, respectively, and increasing at record rates, (d) only 15 years to go before an atmospheric 450 ppm CO2 dooms world coral reefs, and (e) Humanity and the Biosphere existentially threatened by CH4 release from the warming Arctic in coming decades (5,250 Gt CO2-e), ordinary Humanity must urgently adopt a vegetarian diet to help save the Planet (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Worsening Climate Emergency And Record CO2 Emissions Demand Vegetarian Diet For All To Help Save Planet”, Countercurrents, 20 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ) - properly informed, decent people who care for their children and future generations will utterly reject the pro-coal, climate criminal COALition, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last (in the interests of public education I would love to provide New Matilda readers with the URL links but my posts with links are censored).

2016-07-10 NM re Oz swamped by climate change deniers: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/04/australia-is-being-swamped-by-climate-change-deniers/ .

As a scientist I became strongly aware of the finiteness of land, atmosphere and ocean in relation to human population as a critical issue in the 1970s and in the 1980s became aware of the seriousness of global warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However climate criminal Australia has just returned a Turnbull Government that is effective climate change denialist through climate change inaction and will use the votes of climate change denialists in the Senate to further block climate change inaction. It is already too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise .

Annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions presently total 64Gt CO2-equivalent with methanogenic livestock production and attendant land use contributing about 50%. With (a) annual emissions of CO2 per se from industry at a record high of about 32 Gt CO2, (b) a Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget of 600 Gt CO2 for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise and the world having a mere 2 years before this is exceeded, (c) atmospheric CO2 and methane (CH4) at 1 million year highs of 405 ppm CO2 and 1,840 ppb CH4, respectively, and increasing at record rates, (d) only 15 years to go before an atmospheric 450 ppm CO2 dooms world coral reefs, and (e) Humanity and the Biosphere existentially threatened by CH4 release from the warming Arctic in coming decades (5,250 Gt CO2-e), ordinary Humanity must urgently adopt a vegetarian diet to help save the Planet (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Worsening Climate Emergency And Record CO2 Emissions Demand Vegetarian Diet For All To Help Save Planet”, Countercurrents, 20 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Those who voted for the extreme right and the terracidal, pro-coal, koala-killing and Australian-killing KOALition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal greed (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ) (in the interests of sorely needed public education I would love to provide New Matilda readers with the URL links but my posts with links are censored).

2016-07-10 NM re Blainey, Pauline Hanson: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/08/trickle-down-racism-without-tony-abbott-pauline-hanson-couldnt-have-returned/ .

The race- and religion-specific pejorative comments by Pauline Hanson and others are repugnant. Re Professor Geoffrey Blainey, one of Australia’s most famous historians, he must be praised for being extremely rare among Australian historians for actually mentioning the WW2 Bengal Famine and "the loss of at least two million lives" there in his book "The Great Seesaw. A new view of the Western world 1750-2000" (Macmillan, 1988). From a quantitative perspective, the WW2 Bengal Famine (WW2 Bengali Holocaust) was the worst genocidal atrocity with which Australia has been associated - the British-imposed Bengal Famine (WW2 Indian Holocaust, WW2 Bengali Holocaust) was associated with 6-7 million Indians being deliberately starved to death by the British with Australian complicity in 1942-1945 for strategic reasons. Australia was complicit in this atrocity by withholding food from its huge wartime grain stocks. A few decent Australian historians have detailed this atrocity (Colin Mason, Tom Keneally, Gideon Polya) but with only 1 (myself) making the Australian connection using Australian wheat storage and export data for WW2. Unfortunately, Professor Geoffrey Blainey failed to mention this immense atrocity – one of the worst in human history - in his “A Short History of the World” (Viking, 2000), “A Very Short History of the World” (Viking, 2004) and “A Short History of the 20th Century” ( Penguin, 2005) (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ) and the WW2 Bengali Holocaust is similarly not mentioned in the recently published 2-volume “The Cambridge History Of Australia” (see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” Ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm and Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 1998, 2008: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/2008/09/jane-austen-and-black-hole-of-british.html ) ((in the interests of sorely needed public education I would love to provide New Matilda readers with the URL links but my posts with links are censored).

2016-06-30 NM re Greens & methanogenic livestock: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/29/cows-and-sheep-are-some-of-our-biggest-climate-threats/ . MY COMMENTS (WITH OR WITHOUT THE LINK) WERE CENSORED BUT MOSTLY SURVIVED ON RE-POSTING.

Geoff Russell is correct about the methane threat – greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution from livestock and attendant land use is 50% of global GHG pollution and the wide-ranging Greens Policy should but does not yet appreciate this (although many science-informed Greens do) . However the Greens Policy does “ Support mandatory monitoring conducted by government-selected independent assessors, including base-line testing, of: a. ground and surface water b. methane emissions”.

I recently sent an Open Letter to MPs about this “Annual global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions presently total 64Gt CO2-equivalent with methanogenic livestock production and attendant land use contributing about 50%. With (a) annual emissions of CO2 per se from industry at a record high of about 32 Gt CO2, (b) a Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget of 600 Gt CO2 for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise and the world having a mere 2 years before this is exceeded, (c) atmospheric CO2 and methane (CH4) at 1 million year highs of 405 ppm CO2 and 1,840 ppb CH4, respectively, and increasing at record rates, (d) only 15 years to go before an atmospheric 450 ppm CO2 dooms world coral reefs, and (e) Humanity and the Biosphere existentially threatened by CH4 release from the warming Arctic in coming decades (5,250 Gt CO2-e), ordinary Humanity must urgently adopt a vegetarian diet to help save the Planet.

For a safe and sustainable environment for all people and all species the atmospheric CO2 concentration must be reduced from the current dangerous and damaging 405 ppm CO2 to the pre-Industrial Revolution level of circa 300 ppm CO2 i.e. when (if) we reach zero carbon emissions we will still need negative CO2 emissions (atmospheric CO2 draw-down) to get back to 300 ppm CO2 through removal of about 350 Gt CO2 from the atmosphere. Unfortunately the maximum annual rate of doing this by safely sequestering available agricultural or forestry cellulosic waste per se or as biochar is roughly the same as the current annual rate of industrial CO2 pollution.

Australian Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor) Business As Usual (BAU) policies of unlimited GHG pollution through coal, gas, iron ore and meat exports constitute terracidal, anti-science climate criminality and depraved indifference. Australia is among the world’s very worst countries for annual per capita GHG pollution and climate change inaction. Labor gets some points for renewable energy uptake but the Turnbull-led Coalition is condemned for effective climate change denialism through climate change inaction compounded by societal security-endangering censorship, lying by commission and lying by omission about man-made climate change. Risk averse, science-informed Australians who care for the young, future generations and the Biosphere, will vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last” (also see Gideon Polya, “Worsening Climate Emergency And Record CO2 Emissions Demand Vegetarian Diet For All To Help Save Planet”, Countercurrents, 20 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200616.htm ).

@ Jonathan Moylan:

World Bank analysts carefully re-evaluated the contribution of livestock production to world annual GHG pollution and found that the world's annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure (Robert Goodland and Jeff Anfang. “Livestock and climate change. What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?”, World Watch, November/December 2009: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf ). Taking land use into account, the revised annual per capita GHG pollution in tonnes per person per year is 52.9 for Australia (116 if including its huge GHG-generating mining exports) as compared to 2.7 for (Gideon Polya, “ Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ) Annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution per se is a flawed measure of national culpability for this because it ignores rich countries outsourcing industrial pollution to China, and impoverished countries compelled to pollute to barely survive. A better measure of culpability is weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution taking relative per capita income into account, this revealing that Australia is the world’s third worst polluter with a score of 307 (673 if including its exported GHG pollution) as compared to 0.3 for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ). Unfortunately, while democracy ideally requires an informed electorate, NM now blocks posts with URL links so you will have to Google the article titles between inverted commas.

@ Jonathan Moylan:

Thanks for the link. Support for the World Bank analysts’ upward revision of agricultural GHG pollution paradoxically comes from a pro-livestock quarter that ostensibly denies it. Thus the Australian Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre reports that “Methane emissions from agriculture account for 11% of total national greenhouse gas emissions, with the majority coming from dairy, beef and sheep production systems”, noting that this is based on the official assumption by the Australian Department of the Environment (formerly the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency ) that the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane (CH4) relative to that of carbon dioxide (CO2) is 21 on a 100 year time frame. However Dr Drew Shindell and colleagues have re-assessed the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane at 105 on a 20 year time frame and considering aerosol impacts . Given Australia’s annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution of 600 Mt CO2-e (600 million tonnes CO2-equivalent) , the non-methane component is 600 Mt CO2-e minus 11% = 600 - 66 = 534 Mt CO2-e. However, assuming a GWP for methane of 105 (5 times bigger than that officially assumed in Australia), the methane component is 66 x 5 = 330 Mt CO2-e, and the revised total GHG pollution = 534 + 330 = 864 Mt CO2-e, with the agricultural component representing 38% of the new total (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Worsening Climate Emergency And Record CO2 Emissions Demand Vegetarian Diet For All To Help Save Planet”, Countercurrents, 20 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200616.htm ).

2016-06-30 NM re Razer anti-Green, Brull pro-Green: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/28/helen-razer-is-wrong-why-leftists-should-vote-for-the-greens/ .

Michael Brull could have been more succinct in his demolition of Razer. The wonderful, decent and humane Greens have pro-peace, pro-human rights, pro-science, pro-environment and pro-child, policies in stark contrast to the pro-war, US lackey, war criminal, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-science, anti-environment, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, pro-methanogenic livestock, speciescidal, ecocidal, omnicidal, terracidal, climate criminal, human rights-abusing and child-abusing policies of the awful, indecent and inhumane Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) . Properly informed, decent Australians will vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (there remains a small Labor Left rump with Green policies).

Of course the Greens could be more radical but they have pragmatically decided that having 16% electoral support is better than the 1% of the even more wonderful, decent and humane Socialist Alliance. Thus the science-demanded rapid return of the atmosphere to 300 ppm CO2 for a safe planet to for all peoples and all species demands rapid cessation of all fossil fuel exploitation and methanogenic livestock production but for the Greens to adopt this science-demanded program would mean electoral oblivion in look-the-other-way, dog-in-the-manger, genocidally racist, climate criminal Australia.

I have listed some 200 reasons why Australians should dump the pro-coal KOALition but unfortunately most of those reasons also apply to the Labor Right (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm and Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-30 NM re 5 Ways the Coalition are bad economic managers: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/22/five-reasons-the-myth-that-liberals-run-the-economy-best-must-die/ .

Excellent article by Costa A. The economy is about keeping people happy and healthy (all the people if you are a social humanist/democratic socialist or only the top Ten Percenters from the perspective of the neoliberal Coalition). Now the risk avoidance-based Value of a Statistical Life (VOSL) is $10 million per person and one can, by way of example, apply this costing to Costa A’s points 1 and 5. (1) Bad social values cost a lot. 85,000 Australians die preventably each year at a total cost of $850 billion (about half the annual GDP) and a cost of $100 billion for the 10,000 Australians who die each year from carbon burning pollutants. (2) The Australian gross national debt was $406 billion in January 2016 and net government debt was expected to be about $278 billion in mid-2016 . Australian Federal budget deficits are presently about $40 billion annually. The Australian net government debt was zero in the 2006/07 year, the first time in three decades. However The Rudd Government introduced substantial government indebtedness in its lauded response to the Global Financial Crisis that enabled Australia to avoid recession. Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e , the World has a Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has an inescapable Carbon Debt of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians Future generations will have to pay this inescapable Carbon Debt or suffer horrendous consequences e.g. cities will have to be drought-proofed at enormous cost; coastal towns and cities will have to be protected by giant sea walls or drown (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Informed, decent Australians who care for the lives of fellow Australians will utterly reject the pro-One Percenter, pro-coal, Australian–killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-30 NM re vote 1 Greens: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/29/policy-by-policy-the-greens-stack-up-better/ .

In short, the Greens have pro-peace, pro-human rights, pro-equity, pro-science, pro-environment and pro-child, policies in stark contrast to the pro-war, US lackey, war criminal, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-science, anti-environment, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, pro-methanogenic livestock, speciescidal, ecocidal, omnicidal, terracidal, climate criminal, human rights-abusing and child-abusing policies of the Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) . Informed , decent Australians will utterly reject the mendacious, war criminal, climate criminal, pro-One Percenter, child-abusing COALition, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-06-30 NM re failure of trickle-down: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/28/election-2016-should-australias-children-be-removed-from-the-coalitions-care/ .

The failure of trickle-down economics in America is demonstrated by the appalling conditions of African-Americans, 27% of whom live below the poverty line – African –Americans have 5 times less wealth than White Americans, 5 times less Congressional representation per capita than Jewish Americans, and suffer Segregation aka Educational Apartheid. Indeed millions of African-Americans are denied the vote under felony laws (see Gideon Polya, “Truth & Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Can Overcome Huge Inequities Suffered By African Americans Under American Apartheid”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290914.htm ). However considering Americans as a whole, over 1.5 million Americans die preventably each year, 45,000 from lack of health insurance (see Gideon Polya, “One Percenter Greed & War Means Over 1.5 Million Americans Die Preventably Each Year”, Countercurrents, 19 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190914.htm ). While zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin terrorist organization, 85,000 Australians die preventably each year and this is inescapably linked to pro-One Percenter, neoliberal policies of the Coalition and to a lesser extent the dominant Labor Right (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm). The circa 50% of Australians who give their 2-party-preferred vote to the Coalition are on a continuum between extreme stupidity and ignorance and homicidal greed. Informed, decent Australians who care for the lives of their fellow Australians will utterly reject the pro-One Percenter, pro-coal, ecocidal, koala-killing, Australian–killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-30 NM re prospective Turnbull election win: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/30/disappointment-and-dishonesty-a-turnbull-win-will-deliver-more-of-the-same/ .

Notwithstanding the latest polls, there is a faint hope from the UK Brexit result that ordinary Australians will wise up to the remorselessly pro-One Percenter, neoliberal Coalition under the oh so charming but Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, and lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull. The British working class, millions of other ordinary Brits and a swathe of British nationalists have voted for Brexit, the exit of Britain from the EU, with immigration and national self-determination being major issues. The British political Establishment, the political elites, Mainstream media, EU officials and the Americans view Brexit as irresponsible and damaging, and the Brexit supporters have been falsely maligned as ignorant, stupid, and racist xenophobes. However a view from the Left is that the Brexit vote was a courageous vote against the dominant, monolithic, socially-damaging, terracidal neoliberal agenda and a vote for national self-determination for a decent and equitable society (see Gideon Polya, “Brexit An Initial People’s Victory In The War On Terracidal Neoliberalism”, Countercurrents, 30 June 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/06/29/brexit-an-initial-peoples-victory-in-the-war-on-terracidal-neoliberalism/ ). Sadly, decades of brainwashing by the Murdoch media will very likely deliver a victory for neofascist corporatism and neoliberalism on Saturday. Informed, decent Australians who care for the lives of their fellow Australians will utterly reject the corrupt, pro-One Percenter KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-22 NM re Coalition & Medicare: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/under-turnbulls-government-health-is-becoming-a-private-affair/

In relation to the GP part of Medicare, one can consider 2 extreme boundary conditions (a) a rebate for GPs that keeps them happy enough to bulk bill all patients and (b) a zero rebate so GPs will have to charge the full amount to patients (i.e. end of Medicare in relation to payments for GP services) . The Coalition has already effectively cut the rebate to GPs by freezing the rebate for 7 years (2013-2020) i.e. it is on the path from (a) fully funded GP services to (b) the end of Medicare in relation to payments for GP services. Accordingly Malcolm Turnbull is lying himself when he declares that Labor’s assertion of the threat to Medicare is a lie because the threat is being actually realized – in relation to GP services, we are on the path to the end of bulk billing and thence to zero Medicare. Malcolm Turnbull’s “agile”, “nimble” and “innovative” casuistry would no doubt assert that Medicare was still alive if it paid merely 50%, 5% or 0.5% of the cost of GP services.

Of course the Coalition lies about climate change too. Rational risk management is crucial for societal safety and successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However the anti-science, anti-environment, pro-fossil fuels Australian Coalition Government has utterly perverted this process in relation to the worsening climate emergency through spin, lying by commission, lying by omission and censorship (for details see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

Critically, Coalition Government mendacity seriously endangers society and more so than terrorists. Thus zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australian by Muslim-origin non-state terrorist organizations whereas 85,000 Australians die preventably each year under the Coalition (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ). Accordingly, decent, science-informed Australians who care for their fellow citizens will put the Australian-killing Coalition last in the 2 July 2016 Federal elections.

2016-06-22 NM re 2016 Federal election: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/forget-fear-choose-action-a-rallying-cry-from-the-head-of-getup/

In science there is zero tolerance for lying and politician lying is utterly unacceptable in a world in which Humanity is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons (global nuclear war would wipe out Humanity ) and climate change (top climate scientists have estimated that only 0.5 billion people my survive this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed) (see the websites “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ; “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ). The anti-science, pro-coal COALition has an appalling record of lying by omission, lying by commission and censorship over the worsening climate emergency and is accordingly utterly unfit to rule as an egregious threat to national security. Thus by way of example, in 2007 Malcolm Turnbull horribly falsely opined: “The Australian government is leading the world in climate change policies” (in reality it ranks third highest in the world for income-weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution; for details see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Science-informed Australians will put the mendacious, pro-coal COALition last.

2016-06-23 NM re Medicare privatisation: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/bill-shorten-is-right-malcolm-turnbull-is-a-major-threat-to-medicare/

Excellent article by Ian McAulay. Turnbull’s agile, nimble, innovative and profoundly dishonest casuistry would have us believe that any shift of health service funding from Medicare to private insurance is not privatizing Medicare - it is, whether it is 1%, 50% or 99%. According to the ACTU: “But since their election we’ve seen the Liberals break their word and: Cut over $54 billion from public hospitals, meaning longer waiting times, fewer beds, doctors and nurses. Freeze the Medicare rebate by $1 billion, driving down bulk billing and making you pay more to see the doctor. Cut $1.2 billion from aged care – money desperately needed to ensure quality care for our ageing population. Plan to rip hundreds of millions from diagnostic imaging and pathology services, forcing us to pay much more for blood tests, MRIs and pap smears. It’s clear the Liberals are cutting Medicare benefits so they can make it more attractive to their overseas corporate backers. Look at what they’ve done just in the last year to prepare Medicare for privatisation: Outsourced the patient cancer database to Telstra, putting privacy and security at risk. Set up a Productivity Commission inquiry to investigate how to privatise vital services like domestic violence support and mental health. Established a $5 million Taskforce to investigate the privatisation of the Medicare payments system, including our private medical records.”

Privatizing health kills e.g. 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of medical insurance (see Gideon Polya, “Romney Abolition Of ObamaCare Would Kill 80,000 Americans Over 8 Years”, Countercurrents, 3 October, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya031012.htm ). 85,000 Australians die preventably each year (including 5,000 from coal burning) under the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).) The endless lying of the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition fundamentally threatens rational risk management crucial for societal safety and the life/death security of all Australians. Properly informed decent people will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-23 NM re Fake tradie Liberal ad: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/fake-tradie-would-have-made-a-perfect-liberal-mascot/ .

There is zero tolerance for lying in science because it utterly sabotages the search for “truth” (better hypotheses). Similarly there should be zero tolerance for lying in public life but Big Money ensures that in Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia the public is held hostage by lying and spin by Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes. Thus with 85,000 people dying preventably each year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ), Mainstream lying enables the Australian-killing Coalition to divert $50 billion from health services to tax cuts for the rich. With half the Australian population functionally innumerate and functionally illiterate, Mainstream lying enables the anti-child Coalition to divert $40 billion from schools to subsidies for fossil fuel burning and child-abusing religious claptrap. Those voting for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Properly informed, decent Australians (e.g. the stereotypical, highly educated inner city intellectuals) will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-23 NM re “wasted vote” myth re Greens: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/the-major-party-myth-that-stops-people-voting-for-the-greens/ .

The reality is that the Greens voters can have their cake and eat it to – they can vote 1 for the environment, human rights, children, peace and a decent society by voting 1 for the Greens, but their second preference for Labor and their lowest preference for the pro-coal COALition means that they can help keep the grossly anti-environment, human rights-abusing, child-abusing, pro-war, neoliberal and pro-One Percenter Coalition last. If Labor wins in this election it will be through Greens preferences. Indeed it is pleasant to see that formerly neoliberal Lib-like Labor seems to have re-discovered its traditional social humanist values in this election campaign, values that have been whole heartedly adopted by the Greens. Those voting (voting 1 or via second preference) for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed – the pro-coal KOALition are Sellers of Casuistry and Unconscionable Mendacity (SCUM) but their ignorant and neo-fascist supporters don’t even know what these words other than Sellers actually mean (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-23 NM re Coalition and bigotry: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/eight-time-scott-morrison-heroically-overcame-bigotry/ .

When it comes to bigotry and gender-, ethnicity-, religion- or whatever-based exclusion it is useful and extremely revealing to apply the post-WW2 Jewish Holocaust “Jewish test for bigotry” i.e. current typically extreme right wing proposals and actions involving human rights-restrictions on aborigines, Muslims, refugees, boat-borne refugees, LGBTI people, BDS-supporters (including anti-racist Jewish supporters fo BDS against Apartheid Israel) etc should merit the same repugnance as proposals and actions involving human rights-restrictions on Jews. Thus in the Coalition’s obscenely disingenuous, profligate, anti-science and implicitly homophobic $160 million Plebiscite on marriage equality, those homophobes arguing for “exclusion of gay people from marriage” must be regarded in exactly the same way as those repugnantly arguing for “exclusion of Jewish people from marriage”. Of course the Coalition bigots could respond that they are only arguing for “exclusion of some Jewish people from marriage” – to which Jewish Holocaust survivors and decendants, and indeed all decent folk informed about WW2, would respond “The post-WW2 crie de coeur of “Never again to anyone” includes never again to any Jews whether straight Jews or gay Jews”. Indeed if numbers mean anything, the Coalition bigots are far, far worse than those bottom-feeders only wanting to discriminate against gay Jews because the Coalition bigots want to discriminate against all gay people. Decent Australians who utterly reject racism and bigotry will utterly reject the bigoted, homophobic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and implicitly anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Coalition , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-23 NM re Medicare privatisation: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/bill-shorten-is-right-malcolm-turnbull-is-a-major-threat-to-medicare/

Excellent article by Ian McAulay. Turnbull’s agile, nimble, innovative and profoundly dishonest casuistry would have us believe that any shift of health service funding from Medicare to private insurance is not privatizing Medicare - it is, whether it is 1%, 50% or 99%. According to the ACTU: “But since their election we’ve seen the Liberals break their word and: Cut over $54 billion from public hospitals, meaning longer waiting times, fewer beds, doctors and nurses. Freeze the Medicare rebate by $1 billion, driving down bulk billing and making you pay more to see the doctor. Cut $1.2 billion from aged care – money desperately needed to ensure quality care for our ageing population. Plan to rip hundreds of millions from diagnostic imaging and pathology services, forcing us to pay much more for blood tests, MRIs and pap smears. It’s clear the Liberals are cutting Medicare benefits so they can make it more attractive to their overseas corporate backers. Look at what they’ve done just in the last year to prepare Medicare for privatisation: Outsourced the patient cancer database to Telstra, putting privacy and security at risk. Set up a Productivity Commission inquiry to investigate how to privatise vital services like domestic violence support and mental health. Established a $5 million Taskforce to investigate the privatisation of the Medicare payments system, including our private medical records.”

Privatizing health kills e.g. 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of medical insurance (see Gideon Polya, “Romney Abolition Of ObamaCare Would Kill 80,000 Americans Over 8 Years”, Countercurrents, 3 October, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya031012.htm ). 85,000 Australians die preventably each year (including 5,000 from coal burning) under the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).) The endless lying of the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition fundamentally threatens rational risk management crucial for societal safety and the life/death security of all Australians. Properly informed decent people will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-23 NM re Fake tradie Liberal ad: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/fake-tradie-would-have-made-a-perfect-liberal-mascot/ .

There is zero tolerance for lying in science because it utterly sabotages the search for “truth” (better hypotheses). Similarly there should be zero tolerance for lying in public life but Big Money ensures that in Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia the public is held hostage by lying and spin by Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes. Thus with 85,000 people dying preventably each year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ), Mainstream lying enables the Australian-killing Coalition to divert $50 billion from health services to tax cuts for the rich. With half the Australian population functionally innumerate and functionally illiterate, Mainstream lying enables the anti-child Coalition to divert $40 billion from schools to subsidies for fossil fuel burning and child-abusing religious claptrap. Those voting for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Properly informed, decent Australians (e.g. the stereotypical, highly educated inner city intellectuals) will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-23 NM re “wasted vote” myth re Greens: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/the-major-party-myth-that-stops-people-voting-for-the-greens/ .

The reality is that the Greens voters can have their cake and eat it to – they can vote 1 for the environment, human rights, children, peace and a decent society by voting 1 for the Greens, but their second preference for Labor and their lowest preference for the pro-coal COALition means that they can help keep the grossly anti-environment, human rights-abusing, child-abusing, pro-war, neoliberal and pro-One Percenter Coalition last. If Labor wins in this election it will be through Greens preferences. Indeed it is pleasant to see that formerly neoliberal Lib-like Labor seems to have re-discovered its traditional social humanist values in this election campaign, values that have been whole heartedly adopted by the Greens. Those voting (voting 1 or via second preference) for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed – the pro-coal KOALition are Sellers of Casuistry and Unconscionable Mendacity (SCUM) but their ignorant and neo-fascist supporters don’t even know what these words other than Sellers actually mean (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-23 NM re Coalition and bigotry: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/eight-time-scott-morrison-heroically-overcame-bigotry/ .

When it comes to bigotry and gender-, ethnicity-, religion- or whatever-based exclusion it is useful and extremely revealing to apply the post-WW2 Jewish Holocaust “Jewish test for bigotry” i.e. current typically extreme right wing proposals and actions involving human rights-restrictions on aborigines, Muslims, refugees, boat-borne refugees, LGBTI people, BDS-supporters (including anti-racist Jewish supporters fo BDS against Apartheid Israel) etc should merit the same repugnance as proposals and actions involving human rights-restrictions on Jews. Thus in the Coalition’s obscenely disingenuous, profligate, anti-science and implicitly homophobic $160 million Plebiscite on marriage equality, those homophobes arguing for “exclusion of gay people from marriage” must be regarded in exactly the same way as those repugnantly arguing for “exclusion of Jewish people from marriage”. Of course the Coalition bigots could respond that they are only arguing for “exclusion of some Jewish people from marriage” – to which Jewish Holocaust survivors and decendants, and indeed all decent folk informed about WW2, would respond “The post-WW2 crie de coeur of “Never again to anyone” includes never again to any Jews whether straight Jews or gay Jews”. Indeed if numbers mean anything, the Coalition bigots are far, far worse than those bottom-feeders only wanting to discriminate against gay Jews because the Coalition bigots want to discriminate against all gay people. Decent Australians who utterly reject racism and bigotry will utterly reject the bigoted, homophobic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and implicitly anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Coalition , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-26 NM re Brexit: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/26/a-blow-for-democracy-john-pilger-on-why-the-british-said-no-to-europe/ . COMMENT WITH LINKS CENSORED:

Excellent article by John Pilger. In short the impoverished “ordinary” Brits rejected the US-promoted propaganda of the US lackey British Establishment and its associates. It was not “racism” for impoverished ordinary Brits to demand a decent life and rule by an accountable British political system. According to eminent American economist and commentator Dr Paul Craig Roberts the US opposed Brexit because it would block US goals of (1) dominating Europe to the point of WW3, and (2) ultimately destroying London as a key financial centre. Paul Craig Roberts on “The Brexit vote – what does it mean?”: ” What does it mean? Hopefully, a breakup of the EU and NATO and, thereby, the avoidance of World War III. The EU and NATO are evil institutions. These two institutions are mechanisms created by Washington in order to destroy the sovereignty of European peoples. These two institutions give Washington control over the Western world and serve both as cover and enabler of Washington’s aggression. Without the EU and NATO, Washington could not force Europe and the UK into conflict with Russia, and Washington could not have destroyed seven Muslim countries in 15 years without being isolated as a hated war criminal government, no member of whom could have travelled abroad without being arrested and put on trial” (see Dr Paul Craig Roberts, ““The Brexit vote – what does it mean?”, Paul Craig Roberts, 24 June 2016: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/06/24/the-brexit-vote-paul-craig-roberts/ ).

Of course the same kind of US lackey presstitutes in Australia are flogging an essentially similar line in the 2016 election campaign in Murdochracy Australia of (1) lockstep with US war making , and (2) corporate domination (and notable US corporate domination by the TPP) . 85,000 Australians die preventably each year and decent Australians will utterly reject the US lackey, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted , pro-war, war criminal, pro-coal, climate criminal, KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last ((see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

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Excellent article by John Pilger. In short the impoverished “ordinary” Brits rejected the US-promoted propaganda of the US lackey British Establishment and its associates. It was not “racism” for impoverished ordinary Brits to demand a decent life and rule by an accountable British political system. According to eminent American economist and commentator Dr Paul Crag Roberts the US opposed Brexit because it would block US goals of (1) dominating Europe to the point of WW3, and (2) ultimately destroying London as a key financial centre. Paul Craig Roberts on “The Brexit vote – what does it mean?”: ” What does it mean? Hopefully, a breakup of the EU and NATO and, thereby, the avoidance of World War III. The EU and NATO are evil institutions. These two institutions are mechanisms created by Washington in order to destroy the sovereignty of European peoples. These two institutions give Washington control over the Western world and serve both as cover and enabler of Washington’s aggression. Without the EU and NATO, Washington could not force Europe and the UK into conflict with Russia, and Washington could not have destroyed seven Muslim countries in 15 years without being isolated as a hated war criminal government, no member of whom could have travelled abroad without being arrested and put on trial” (see Dr Paul Craig Roberts, “The Brexit vote – what does it mean?”, Paul Craig Roberts, 24 June 2016 ).

Of course the same kind of US lackey presstitutes in Australia are flogging an essentially similar line in the 2016 election campaign in Murdochracy Australia of (1) lockstep with US war making , and (2) corporate domination (and notable US corporate domination by the TPP) . 85,000 Australians die preventably each year and decent Australians will utterly reject the US lackey, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted , pro-war, war criminal, pro-coal, climate criminal, KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last ((see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016 and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015).

2016-06-26 NM re homophobic rabbis: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/24/we-call-out-homophobic-clerics-but-what-about-the-rabbis/ . COMMENT CENSORED WITH OR WITHOUT LINKS

Excellent article by Michael Brull. All the historicist Abrahamic religions have the Old Testament of the Holy Bible as a source document that declares “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22) and “If a man also lies with a man, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:13) and described the “collective punishment” of Sodom and Gomorrah for “some men lying with men”. The basis for these utterly disgusting and barbaric injunctions was the genocide and “populate or perish” agenda of the genocidal Israelites involving extermination of other inhabitants of Palestine and promotion of successful impregnation of women e.g. death penalty for homosexuality and the seed-spilling “sin of Onan” by which he avoided impregnating the widow of his brother Er (slain by the Lord for being wicked in His sight): “ And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also” (Genesis 38: 1-10) (see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Secret Chord” By Geraldine Brooks. Palestinian Genocide By Israelites In 1000BC And By Zionists Today”, Countercurrents, 30 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya300516.htm ).

The child-abusing Coalition provides about $30 billion annually in tax breaks and subsidies for religion and of which about $8 billion is for subsidies to religious schools (overwhelmingly Abrahamic) that are variously involved in intellectual child abuse - one third of Australian children attending Australian taxpayer-funded private schools are variously subject to religious brainwashing (intellectual child abuse) that variously teaches them to accept sexism, misogyny, sexual guilt, unsafe sex, creationism, intelligent design, anti-science miracles (e.g. virgin birth, walking on water, rising from the dead, water into wine and bread into flesh) and the right to invade, occupy, devastate and ethnically cleanse other countries. The Coalition is a fierce champion of increased taxpayer funding of private schools and has proposed continuing Federal funding of religious schools and cessation of Federal funding of state schools (except for chaplains?) (see “Educational Apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ , Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm , Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Pro-Zionist, Zionist And Apartheid Israeli Child Abuse Exposed”, Countercurrents, 21 April, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210414.htm ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor taxpayer-funded BS, racism, genocide, homophobia and child abuse will utterly reject the pro-war, war criminal, anti-science, terracidal, climate criminal and child-abusing Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

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Excellent article by Michael Brull. All the historicist Abrahamic religions have the Old Testament of the Holy Bible as a source document that declares “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22) and “If a man also lies with a man, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus 20:13) and described the “collective punishment” of Sodom and Gomorrah for “some men lying with men”. The basis for these utterly disgusting and barbaric injunctions was the genocide and “populate or perish” agenda of the genocidal Israelites involving extermination of other inhabitants of Palestine and promotion of successful impregnation of women e.g. death penalty for homosexuality and the seed-spilling “sin of Onan” by which he avoided impregnating the widow of his brother Er (slain by the Lord for being wicked in His sight): “ And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also” (Genesis 38: 1-10) (see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Secret Chord” By Geraldine Brooks. Palestinian Genocide By Israelites In 1000BC And By Zionists Today”, Countercurrents, 30 May, 2016).

The child-abusing Coalition provides about $30 billion annually in tax breaks and subsidies for religion and of which about $8 billion is for subsidies to religious schools (overwhelmingly Abrahamic) that are variously involved in intellectual child abuse - one third of Australian children attending Australian taxpayer-funded private schools are variously subject to religious brainwashing (intellectual child abuse) that variously teaches them to accept sexism, misogyny, sexual guilt, unsafe sex, creationism, intelligent design, anti-science miracles (e.g. virgin birth, walking on water, rising from the dead, water into wine and bread into flesh) and the right to invade, occupy, devastate and ethnically cleanse other countries. The Coalition is a fierce champion of increased taxpayer funding of private schools and has proposed continuing Federal funding of religious schools and cessation of Federal funding of state schools (except for chaplains?) (see “Educational Apartheid”, Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013 , Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Pro-Zionist, Zionist And Apartheid Israeli Child Abuse Exposed”, Countercurrents, 21 April, 2014 ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor taxpayer-funded BS, racism, genocide, homophobia and child abuse will utterly reject the pro-war, war criminal, anti-science, terracidal, climate criminal and child-abusing Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-25 NM re refugees: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/23/the-coalitions-border-security-lies-are-coming-undone/ . CENSORED WITH LINKS BUT NOT CENSORED WITHOUT LINKS:

It is all about choices. The people smugglers are trying to find safe haven for desperate refugees and if they could afford safer boats no doubt they would use them. The child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) claim they are trying to discourage the people smugglers by permanently damaging horrendous abuse of refugees by indefinitely and highly abusively confining them to off-shore concentration camps without charge or trial and for the asserted “crime” for being boat-borne refugees. Decent Australians who abhor child abuse and human rights abuse in general will utterly reject the child-abusing Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. Australians voting for the child-abusing Lib-Labs are vilely and unforgivably complicit in egregious child abuse and - as said by PM Kevin Rudd in relation to people trying to find safe haven for refugees - can surely be seen as “the absolute scum of the earth” who “should rot in jail” and “rot in hell” (see “Rudd wants people smugglers to “rot in hell””, ABC News, 17 April 2009 ).

Posted on Facebook, Google+ and Linked In: “It is all about choices. The people smugglers are trying to find safe haven for desperate refugees and if they could afford safer boats no doubt they would use them. The child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) claim they are trying to discourage the people smugglers by permanently damaging horrendous abuse of refugees by indefinitely and highly abusively confining them to off-shore concentration camps without charge or trial and for the asserted “crime” for being boat-borne refugees. Decent Australians who abhor child abuse and human rights abuse in general will utterly reject the child-abusing Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. Australians voting for the child-abusing Lib-Labs are vilely and unforgivably complicit in egregious child abuse and - as said by PM Kevin Rudd in relation to people trying to find safe haven for refugees - can surely be seen as “the absolute scum of the earth” who “should rot in jail” and “rot in hell” (see “Rudd wants people smugglers to “rot in hell””, ABC News, 17 April 2009: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-04-17/rudd-wants-people-smugglers-to-rot-in-hell/1653814 ). “

2016-06-25 NM re Sex Party: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/24/meredith-doig-why-im-running-for-the-australian-sex-party/ . CENSORED WITH LINKS BUT NOT CENSORED WITHOUT LINKS:

I am all for the Sex Party’s support for Marriage Equality and equal rights for LGBTI people (also supported by Labor and the Greens but variously opposed by the evil and bigoted Coalition) ) but one looks in vain for their policies on the key issues of the worsening climate emergency (to paraphrase the Greens: no sex on a dead planet) and of evil , pro-One Percenter neoliberalism versus social humanism that wants to maximize human happiness ,dignity and opportunity but is opposed by the Coalition, has been belatedly re-discovered by born-again- Labor and is supported by the Greens. Decent Australians will utterly reject the evil, terracidal , pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016 and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015).

Posted on Facebook, Google+ and Linked In: “I am all for the Sex Party’s support for Marriage Equality and equal rights for LGBTI people (also supported by Labor and the Greens but variously opposed by the evil and bigoted Coalition) ) but one looks in vain for their policies on the key issues of the worsening climate emergency (to paraphrase the Greens: no sex on a dead planet) and of evil , pro-One Percenter neoliberalism versus social humanism that wants to maximize human happiness ,dignity and opportunity but is opposed by the Coalition, has been belatedly re-discovered by born-again- Labor and is supported by the Greens. Decent Australians will utterly reject the evil, terracidal , pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).”

2016-06-25 NM re Manus island theatre: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/23/mehdi-savari-actor-prisoner-and-improbable-star-of-manus-island/ . CENSORED WITH OR WITHOUT LINKS:

This said it all: “In one instance, a Salvation Army manager responded by reminding him that he was in prison and not in an art space”. Reality check: racist, Lib-Lab White Australia indefinitely and abusively imprisons refugees without charge or trial in highly abusive off-shore concentration camps. What sort of degenerate neo-Nazi country has Australia become? In relation to the related matter of the gross violation of the human rights of LGBTI people by the Coalition that denies them marriage equality, all-smiles, charming, urbane, articulate and charming PM Malcolm Turnbull hopes for a “respectful” national conversation before the proposed $160 million Plebiscite. However there can be no “respectful;” conversation about denial of basic human rights to fellow human beings, whether they be refugees, boat-borne refugees, child refugees, LGBTI people, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous inhabitants of countries being war criminally invaded by US lackey Australia, Indigenous Palestinians imprisoned in the Gaza Concentration Camp or West Bank ghettoes by Lib-Lab Australia-backed Apartheid Israel… Australian Governments are obliged to respect all the human rights of everyone and when they deny this they lose any expectation of any “respect” or “respectful” conversation. A clarifying reductio ad absurdum is as follows: those who ignore, deny, obfuscate, support, advocate or are in any way complicit in the abuse of children have crossed the line separating decent humanity from Nazi-style barbarism whether the child abuse is of refugee children in the Coalition’s Nauru concentration camp or children subject to physical abuse, sexual abuse or intellectual child abuse in Coalition-backed religious schools. Decent Australians will utterly reject the evil, pro-coal, terracidal , anti-child, child-abusing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013 ).

This said it all: “In one instance, a Salvation Army manager responded by reminding him that he was in prison and not in an art space”. Reality check: racist, Lib-Lab White Australia indefinitely and abusively imprisons refugees without charge or trial in highly abusive off-shore concentration camps. What sort of degenerate neo-Nazi country has Australia become? In relation to the related matter of the gross violation of the human rights of LGBTI people by the Coalition that denies them marriage equality, all-smiles, charming, urbane, articulate and charming PM Malcolm Turnbull hopes for a “respectful” national conversation before the proposed $160 million Plebiscite. However there can be no “respectful;” conversation about denial of basic human rights to fellow human beings, whether they be refugees, boat-borne refugees, child refugees, LGBTI people, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous inhabitants of countries being war criminally invaded by US lackey Australia, Indigenous Palestinians imprisoned in the Gaza Concentration Camp or West Bank ghettoes by Lib-Lab Australia-backed Apartheid Israel… Australian Governments are obliged to respect all the human rights of everyone and when they deny this they lose any expectation of any “respect” or “respectful” conversation. A clarifying reductio ad absurdum is as follows: those who ignore, deny, obfuscate, support, advocate or are in any way complicit in the abuse of children have crossed the line separating decent humanity from Nazi-style barbarism whether the child abuse is of refugee children in the Coalition’s Nauru concentration camp or children subject to physical abuse, sexual abuse or intellectual child abuse in Coalition-backed religious schools. Decent Australians will utterly reject the evil, pro-coal, terracidal , anti-child, child-abusing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm ).

2016-06-25 NM re big miners as leaners: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/24/big-miners-are-the-ultimate-leaners/ . CENSORED WITH OR WITHOUT LINKS:

It is not just the $7.5 billion in annual fossil fuel subsidies, the $50 billion in tax breaks for the rich and Government failure to stop obscene tax minimization – the big miners are principally leaners by (a) having a licence to freely and terracidally pollute the one common atmosphere and ocean of all countries (greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and global warming impact on 17 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation and 10 billion are set to die this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed) and (2) air pollution from carbon fuel burning kills 7 million people each year, this including 10,000 Australians and about 10,000 Londoners and 75,000 ultimately killed by pollutants from the burning of Australian coal exports) . 85,000 Australians die preventably each year, 10,000 from carbon fuel burning pollutants, and this carnage is linked to the Australian-killing fiscal perversion of giving billions to big miners and their ilk rather than to health and education . Decent Australians who care for their children, fellow Australians and Humanity will utterly reject the corrupt, pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALtion last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

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It is not just the $7.5 billion in annual fossil fuel subsidies, the $50 billion in tax breaks for the rich and Government failure to stop obscene tax minimization – the big miners are principally leaners by (a) having a licence to freely and terracidally pollute the one common atmosphere and ocean of all countries (greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and global warming impact on 17 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation and 10 billion are set to die this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed) and (2) air pollution from carbon fuel burning kills 7 million people each year, this including 10,000 Australians and about 10,000 Londoners and 75,000 ultimately killed by pollutants from the burning of Australian coal exports) . 85,000 Australians die preventably each year, 10,000 from carbon fuel burning pollutants, and this carnage is linked to the Australian-killing fiscal perversion of giving billions to big miners and their ilk rather than to health and education . Decent Australians who care for their children, fellow Australians and Humanity will utterly reject the corrupt, pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALtion last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016 and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015).

2016-06-23 NM re Medicare privatisation: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/bill-shorten-is-right-malcolm-turnbull-is-a-major-threat-to-medicare/

Excellent article by Ian McAulay. Turnbull’s agile, nimble, innovative and profoundly dishonest casuistry would have us believe that any shift of health service funding from Medicare to private insurance is not privatizing Medicare - it is, whether it is 1%, 50% or 99%. According to the ACTU: “But since their election we’ve seen the Liberals break their word and: Cut over $54 billion from public hospitals, meaning longer waiting times, fewer beds, doctors and nurses. Freeze the Medicare rebate by $1 billion, driving down bulk billing and making you pay more to see the doctor. Cut $1.2 billion from aged care – money desperately needed to ensure quality care for our ageing population. Plan to rip hundreds of millions from diagnostic imaging and pathology services, forcing us to pay much more for blood tests, MRIs and pap smears. It’s clear the Liberals are cutting Medicare benefits so they can make it more attractive to their overseas corporate backers. Look at what they’ve done just in the last year to prepare Medicare for privatisation: Outsourced the patient cancer database to Telstra, putting privacy and security at risk. Set up a Productivity Commission inquiry to investigate how to privatise vital services like domestic violence support and mental health. Established a $5 million Taskforce to investigate the privatisation of the Medicare payments system, including our private medical records.”

Privatizing health kills e.g. 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of medical insurance (see Gideon Polya, “Romney Abolition Of ObamaCare Would Kill 80,000 Americans Over 8 Years”, Countercurrents, 3 October, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya031012.htm ). 85,000 Australians die preventably each year (including 5,000 from coal burning) under the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).) The endless lying of the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition fundamentally threatens rational risk management crucial for societal safety and the life/death security of all Australians. Properly informed decent people will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-23 NM re Fake tradie Liberal ad: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/fake-tradie-would-have-made-a-perfect-liberal-mascot/ .

There is zero tolerance for lying in science because it utterly sabotages the search for “truth” (better hypotheses). Similarly there should be zero tolerance for lying in public life but Big Money ensures that in Kleptocracy, Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia the public is held hostage by lying and spin by Mainstream media, politician and academic presstitutes. Thus with 85,000 people dying preventably each year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ), Mainstream lying enables the Australian-killing Coalition to divert $50 billion from health services to tax cuts for the rich. With half the Australian population functionally innumerate and functionally illiterate, Mainstream lying enables the anti-child Coalition to divert $40 billion from schools to subsidies for fossil fuel burning and child-abusing religious claptrap. Those voting for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Properly informed, decent Australians (e.g. the stereotypical, highly educated inner city intellectuals) will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-23 NM re “wasted vote” myth re Greens: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/the-major-party-myth-that-stops-people-voting-for-the-greens/ .

The reality is that the Greens voters can have their cake and eat it to – they can vote 1 for the environment, human rights, children, peace and a decent society by voting 1 for the Greens, but their second preference for Labor and their lowest preference for the pro-coal COALition means that they can help keep the grossly anti-environment, human rights-abusing, child-abusing, pro-war, neoliberal and pro-One Percenter Coalition last. If Labor wins in this election it will be through Greens preferences. Indeed it is pleasant to see that formerly neoliberal Lib-like Labor seems to have re-discovered its traditional social humanist values in this election campaign, values that have been whole heartedly adopted by the Greens. Those voting (voting 1 or via second preference) for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed – the pro-coal KOALition are Sellers of Casuistry and Unconscionable Mendacity (SCUM) but their ignorant and neo-fascist supporters don’t even know what these words other than Sellers actually mean (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-23 NM re Coalition and bigotry: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/eight-time-scott-morrison-heroically-overcame-bigotry/ .

When it comes to bigotry and gender-, ethnicity-, religion- or whatever-based exclusion it is useful and extremely revealing to apply the post-WW2 Jewish Holocaust “Jewish test for bigotry” i.e. current typically extreme right wing proposals and actions involving human rights-restrictions on aborigines, Muslims, refugees, boat-borne refugees, LGBTI people, BDS-supporters (including anti-racist Jewish supporters fo BDS against Apartheid Israel) etc should merit the same repugnance as proposals and actions involving human rights-restrictions on Jews. Thus in the Coalition’s obscenely disingenuous, profligate, anti-science and implicitly homophobic $160 million Plebiscite on marriage equality, those homophobes arguing for “exclusion of gay people from marriage” must be regarded in exactly the same way as those repugnantly arguing for “exclusion of Jewish people from marriage”. Of course the Coalition bigots could respond that they are only arguing for “exclusion of some Jewish people from marriage” – to which Jewish Holocaust survivors and decendants, and indeed all decent folk informed about WW2, would respond “The post-WW2 crie de coeur of “Never again to anyone” includes never again to any Jews whether straight Jews or gay Jews”. Indeed if numbers mean anything, the Coalition bigots are far, far worse than those bottom-feeders only wanting to discriminate against gay Jews because the Coalition bigots want to discriminate against all gay people. Decent Australians who utterly reject racism and bigotry will utterly reject the bigoted, homophobic, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and implicitly anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Coalition , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-22 NM re Coalition & Medicare: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/21/under-turnbulls-government-health-is-becoming-a-private-affair/

In relation to the GP part of Medicare, one can consider 2 extreme boundary conditions (a) a rebate for GPs that keeps them happy enough to bulk bill all patients and (b) a zero rebate so GPs will have to charge the full amount to patients (i.e. end of Medicare in relation to payments for GP services) . The Coalition has already effectively cut the rebate to GPs by freezing the rebate for 7 years (2013-2020) i.e. it is on the path from (a) fully funded GP services to (b) the end of Medicare in relation to payments for GP services. Accordingly Malcolm Turnbull is lying himself when he declares that Labor’s assertion of the threat to Medicare is a lie because the threat is being actually realized – in relation to GP services, we are on the path to the end of bulk billing and thence to zero Medicare. Malcolm Turnbull’s “agile”, “nimble” and “innovative” casuistry would no doubt assert that Medicare was still alive if it paid merely 50%, 5% or 0.5% of the cost of GP services.

Of course the Coalition lies about climate change too. Rational risk management is crucial for societal safety and successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However the anti-science, anti-environment, pro-fossil fuels Australian Coalition Government has utterly perverted this process in relation to the worsening climate emergency through spin, lying by commission, lying by omission and censorship (for details see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

Critically, Coalition Government mendacity seriously endangers society and more so than terrorists. Thus zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australian by Muslim-origin non-state terrorist organizations whereas 85,000 Australians die preventably each year under the Coalition (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ). Accordingly, decent, science-informed Australians who care for their fellow citizens will put the Australian-killing Coalition last in the 2 July 2016 Federal elections.

2016-06-22 NM re 2016 Federal election: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/22/forget-fear-choose-action-a-rallying-cry-from-the-head-of-getup/

In science there is zero tolerance for lying and politician lying is utterly unacceptable in a world in which Humanity is existentially threatened by nuclear weapons (global nuclear war would wipe out Humanity ) and climate change (top climate scientists have estimated that only 0.5 billion people my survive this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed) (see the websites “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ; “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ). The anti-science, pro-coal COALition has an appalling record of lying by omission, lying by commission and censorship over the worsening climate emergency and is accordingly utterly unfit to rule as an egregious threat to national security. Thus by way of example, in 2007 Malcolm Turnbull horribly falsely opined: “The Australian government is leading the world in climate change policies” (in reality it ranks third highest in the world for income-weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution; for details see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Science-informed Australians will put the mendacious, pro-coal COALition last.

2016-06-19 NM re refugees, Nauru: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/17/refugee-family-left-angry-after-a-current-affair-visits-nauru/ .

Indefinite, abusive imprisonment of children in remote concentration camps without charge or trial and simply for being boat-borne refugees is egregious child abuse in which all those voting for the Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) are complicit. Decent Australians who utterly abhor child abuse will utterly reject the Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-19 NM re Jim Casey vs Albo: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/17/jim-casey-talks-preferences-albo-and-capitalism/.

I would desperately hope that Jim Casey wins (what sort of country do we live in if he doesn't?) I cannot see decent Labor voters giving their second preference to the evil, mendacious, war criminal, climate criminal, child abusing Coalition rather than to the Greens – indecent, rotten Labor voters yes. One supposes that decent Labor voters would give their second preferences to the Greens over the huge issues of (1) refugee men , women and children highly abusively and indefinitely imprisoned in remote concentration camps without charge or trial and simply for being boat-borne refugees and (2) the pro-coal KOALition being effective climate change denialist through utterly irresponsible climate change inaction in the face of an ever-worsening climate emergency. On the basis of just these 2 issues alone, it is impossible for decent human beings to give first or second preferences to the evilly neoliberal, speciescidal, ecocidal, terracidal and human rights-abusing KOALition.

2016-06-19 NM re Parakeelia, Libs: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/16/parakeelia-privacy-and-the-need-for-a-federal-anti-corruption-body/ .

Endless Coalition deceit angers decent people but it is evidently just dandy for the circa 50% of the population who give the Coalition “2 party preferred” support and who are on a continuum between egregious stupidity and ignorance and homicidal and terracidal greed. Rational risk management is crucial for societal safety and successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However the anti-science, anti-environment, pro-fossil fuels Australian Coalition Government has utterly perverted this process in relation to the worsening climate emergency through spin, lying by commission, lying by omission and censorship. Critically, Coalition Government mendacity endangers society and thus science-informed Australians will put the Coalition last in the 2 July 2016 Federal elections.

2016-06-19 NM re coal, Qld: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/17/the-big-coal-con-car-registration-in-queensland-brings-in-more-revenue-than-coal/ . MY COMMENT WAS CENSORED.

MY COMMENTS (POSTED WITHOUT URL TO PREVENT AUTOMATIC CENSORSHIP) WERE CENSORED BY NEW MATILDA, PRESUMABLY FOR CONTAINING THINGS THAT OSTENSIBLY LIBERTARIAN AND LEFT OF CENTRE NEW MATILDA DOES NOT WANT ITS READERS TO READ, KNOW ABOUT OR THINK ABOUT.

Polya’s Second Law of Economics was inspired by the Second Law of Thermodynamics of physics and chemistry and states that “deception about the Cost of Production strives to a maximum” (see Gideon Polya, “Polya's 3 Laws Of Economics Expose Deadly, Dishonest And Terminal Neoliberal Capitalism”, Countercurrents, 17 October, 2015). The real cost of vehicles in Australia also includes 2,000 annual deaths from vehicle emission pollutants and 1,400 road accident deaths each year and all this at a Value of a Statistical Life (VOSL) of $10 million per person i.e. $34 billion annually. The real cost of coal includes 5,000 Australian deaths annually from coal burning pollutants, this costing $50 billion per year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015). Of course these realities are utterly ignored by the endlessly lying, pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition and properly informed decent people will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016 ).

2016-06-19 NM re Debt: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/13/the-obsession-over-deficit-promises-is-good-for-a-laugh-but-little-else/

The Australian gross national debt was $406 billion in January 2016 and net government debt was expected to be about $278 billion in mid-2016 . Australian Federal budget deficits are presently about $40 billion annually. The Australian net government debt was zero in the 2006/07 year, the first time in three decades. However The Rudd Government introduced substantial government indebtedness in its lauded response to the Global Financial Crisis that enabled Australia to avoid recession. Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e (Dr Chris Hope, 90-Nobel–Laureate University of Cambridge) , the World has a Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has an inescapable Carbon Debt of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians. Future generations will have to pay this inescapable Carbon Debt or suffer horrendous consequences e.g. cities will have to be drought-proofed at enormous cost; coastal towns and cities will have to be protected by giant sea walls or drown… (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016). Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the horrendous intergenerational theft by Carbon Debt imposed by the pro-coal KOALition, and will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-19 NM re Oz recession: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/06/australias-open-for-business-and-yet-incomes-are-down-and-were-basically-in-recession/ . MY COMMENT WAS CENSORED

Nothing like a recession to bring home to individuals what is important (home, food, basic services including health and education) and what can be sacrificed (holiday travel, and other luxuries such as public eating, drinking, and entertainment). The Coalition’s Abbott-like mantra of “Jobs and growth” begs the question: what kind of jobs, and what kind of growth? The corrupt, pro-One Percenter Coalition sees this quasi-recession as the time to further enrich the One Percenters at the expense of the rest. Thus with 85,000 people dying preventably each year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015). the Australian-killing Coalition diverts $50 billion from health services to tax cuts for the rich. With half the Australian population functionally innumerate and functionally illiterate, the anti-child Coalition diverts $40 billion from schools to subsidies for fossil fuel burning and child-abusing religious claptrap. Those voting for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016).

2016-06-18 NM re Liberals’ Parakeelia: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/16/parakeelia-privacy-and-the-need-for-a-federal-anti-corruption-body/ .

Endless Coalition deceit angers decent people but it is evidently just dandy for the circa 50% of the population who give the Coalition “2 party preferred” support and who are on a continuum between egregious stupidity and ignorance and homicidal and terracidal greed. Rational risk management is crucial for societal safety and successively involves (a) accurate information, (b) scientific analysis, and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. However the anti-science, anti-environment, pro-fossil fuels Australian Coalition Government has utterly perverted this process in relation to the worsening climate emergency through spin, lying by commission, lying by omission and censorship. Critically, Coalition Government mendacity endangers society and thus science-informed Australians will put the Coalition last in the 2 July 2016 Federal elections - see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm .

2016-06-18 NM re coal vs car registration in Queensland: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/17/the-big-coal-con-car-registration-in-queensland-brings-in-more-revenue-than-coal/ .

Polya’s Second Law of Economics was inspired by the Second Law of Thermodynamics of physics and chemistry and states that “deception about the Cost of Production strives to a maximum” (see Gideon Polya, “Polya's 3 Laws Of Economics Expose Deadly, Dishonest And Terminal Neoliberal Capitalism”, Countercurrents, 17 October, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya171015.htm ). The real cost of vehicles in Australia also includes 2,000 annual deaths from vehicle emission pollutants and 1,400 road accident deaths each year and all this at a Value of a Statistical Life (VOSL) of $10 million per person i.e. $34 billion annually. The real cost of coal includes 5,000 Australian deaths annually from coal burning pollutants, this costing $50 billion per year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ). Of course these realities are utterly ignored by the endlessly lying, pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition and properly informed decent people will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-18 NM re government debt, https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentrationCoalition & Labor: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/13/the-obsession-over-deficit-promises-is-good-for-a-laugh-but-little-else/ .

The Australian gross national debt was $406 billion in January 2016 and net government debt was expected to be about $278 billion in mid-2016 . Australian Federal budget deficits are presently about $40 billion annually. The Australian net government debt was zero in the 2006/07 year, the first time in three decades. However The Rudd Government introduced substantial government indebtedness in its lauded response to the Global Financial Crisis that enabled Australia to avoid recession. Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e (Dr Chris Hope, 90-Nobel–Laureate University of Cambridge) , the World has a Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has an inescapable Carbon Debt of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians. Future generations will have to pay this inescapable Carbon Debt or suffer horrendous consequences e.g. cities will have to be drought-proofed at enormous cost; coastal towns and cities will have to be protected by giant sea walls or drown… (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the horrendous intergenerational theft by Carbon Debt imposed by the pro-coal KOALition, and will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-18 NM re Oz recession: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/06/australias-open-for-business-and-yet-incomes-are-down-and-were-basically-in-recession/ .

Nothing like a recession to bring home to individuals what is important (home, food, basic services including health and education) and what can be sacrificed (holiday travel, and other luxuries such as public eating, drinking, and entertainment). The Coalition’s Abbott-like mantra of “Jobs and growth” begs the question: what kind of jobs, and what kind of growth? The corrupt, pro-One Percenter Coalition sees this quasi-recession as the time to further enrich the One Percenters at the expense of the rest. Thus with 85,000 people dying preventably each year (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ), the Australian-killing Coalition diverts $50 billion from health services to tax cuts for the rich. With half the Australian population functionally innumerate and functionally illiterate, the anti-child Coalition diverts $40 billion from schools to subsidies for fossil fuel burning and child-abusing religious claptrap. Those voting for the economically incompetent, climate criminal, child-abusing, pro-One Percenter Coalition are on a continuum from egregious stupidity and ignorance to homicidal and terracidal greed (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ).

2016-06-18 NM re Nauru concentration camp & media: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/17/refugee-family-left-angry-after-a-current-affair-visits-nauru/ .

Nauru is a concentration camp in which refugee men , women and children are highly abusively and indefinitely imprisoned without charge or trial simply for being boat-borne refugees. It is analogous to the Nazi German Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia that was a “nice” concentration camp about which the Nazis made propaganda films for the Red Cross showing inmate musicians and happy children. 150,000 people including 10,000 children were inmates at Terezin before being railed off to death camps like Treblinka and Auschwitz. Tens of thousands died from deprivation or violence in Terezin (see “Theresienstadt concentration camp”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp ). Indeed a dozen years ago I was in Prague and the pretty young Czech tour guide falsely asserted that there were no concentration camps in wartime Czechoslovakia.

Of course the neo-Nazi Libs and the genocidal racist Zionists (RZs) will scream at Nazi concentration camp comparisons. But the inescapable reality is that Nauru is a concentration camp albeit a “nice” one in which people are not killed and merely subjected to permanently traumatizing highly abusive indefinite detention. It must be remembered that the British invented concentration camps for Boer women and children in the Boer War (some 25,000 perished) and a Catholic nun invented barbed wire.

The 80% of Australians who presently give “2-party-preferred” support for the evil, child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) are party to egregious child abuse. Those who ignore, obfuscate, deny, support, advocate or are otherwise complicit in child abuse have crossed the line separating decent humanity from Nazi-style barbarism. It is no accident that Lib-Lab Australia is second only to Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) perverted US in supporting nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, racist Zionist–run, democracy-by-genocide, neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel that indefinitely and highly abusively confines 1 million children in the Gaza Concentration Camp which it polices by cowardly army, navy and air force bombardment (see “Gaza concentration camp”, Palestinian Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor child abuse will utterly reject the pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-18 NM re Casey vs Albo: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/17/jim-casey-talks-preferences-albo-and-capitalism/ .

I would desperately hope that Jim, Casey wins (what sort of country do we live in if he doesn't?) I cannot see decent Labor voters giving their second preference to the evil, mendacious, war criminal, climate criminal, child abusing Coalition rather than to the Greens – indecent, rotten Labor voters yes. One supposes that decent Labor voters would give their second preferences to the Greens over the huge issues of (1) refugee men , women and children highly abusively and indefinitely imprisoned in remote concentration camps without charge or trial and simply for being boat-borne refugees and (2) the pro-coal KOALition being effective climate change denialist through utterly irresponsible climate change inaction in the face of an ever-worsening climate emergency (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Criminal Coalition Government Lying Endangers Australia & Planet – Australians Must Vote 1 Green And Put The Coalition Last”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170616.htm ). On the basis of just these 2 issues alone, it is impossible for decent human beings to give first or second preferences to the evilly neoliberal, speciescidal, ecocidal, terracidal and human rights-abusing KOALition.

2016-06-11 NM re Ward vs Spurr & academic freedom: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/09/roz-ward-barry-spurr-and-what-universities-are-for/

.Academic freedom of speech is a cornerstone of university life - untruth by commission or omission sabotages the core academic functions of scholarly research, teaching and informing the public. However academic freedom of speech is under threat in neoliberal-dominated Australia not just from right-wing governments and corporate Mainstream media but also from within universities. The most recent example is the suspension (now lifted after public outcry) of La Trobe University academic Dr Roz Ward for correctly calling the Australian flag racist for containing the British Union Jack (war is the ultimate in racism and as UK or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193 and the Americans 70) (Gideon Polya, “La Trobe University Versus Dr Roz Ward, Racist Australian Flag And Academic Free Speech Threatened In Australian Universities”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060616.htm ). Most Australian universities censor through “codes of conduct” (designed to protect their “corporate brand”), and most back the universities-linked web magazine The Conversation which disgracefully censors academic opinion including anti-racist Jewish opinion critical of Apartheid Israel and the US War on Muslims (see “Censorship by The Conversation”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by ). Writing about 15 years ago in a detailed critique of academic self-censorship and censorship in Australian universities, I concluded that “we should publicly insist that universities that constrain free speech are not fit for our children” (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship ).

2016-06-11 NM re Labor mistake over 10-year-plan: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/09/labors-first-big-mistake-of-the-campaign/ .

Labor’s 10 year projection is part of its craven, post-1975, “be-like-the-Libs” persona although this year Labor has at last started being more traditional in wanting to tax the rich for a decent society. However Labor has squibbed the opportunity of an annual wealth tax as advocated by Professor Thomas Piketty that is applied in France (up to 1.5%) and by Islam for 1400 years (2.5%). John Passant has advocated an Australian “1% tax on the top 20%” to yield $40 billion annually ($65 billion by my calculation) (see “1% ON 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 ). Of course the endlessly greedy and anti-social neoliberals would howl this down which is why gutless Labor is too scared to suggest it – however the Awful Truths are that (a) the very poor whose only wealth is just-enough- money in their pocket get this paltry subsistence wealth taxed at 10% via the GST every time they go to Aldi or the Opp Shop and (b) thrifty middle class Australians whose modest assets – modest, that is, in comparison with those of 200-million-dollar-man, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull and his ilk - exclude them from the aged pension or retirement home subsidy and are thus subject to an annual wealth tax amounting to as much as $50,000 annually. Decent Australians who want both fiscal balance and a fair society maximizing human happiness, opportunity and dignity (social humanism, socialism) , will utterly reject the greedy, neoliberal Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. Those voting for the Coalition are on a continuum from the egregiously stupid and ignorant to the homicidally, ecocidally and terracidally greedy (see Brian Ellis, “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics”, Routledge , UK , 2012 and Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” By Brian Ellis - Last Chance To Save Planet?”, Countercurrents, 19 August, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190812.htm ) .

The asserted “trickle-down” of all-smiles and oh-so-charming but Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Abbott-lite, neoliberal Malcolm Turnbull is in reality like getting the very last dregs of a treacle jar; oil leakage from an old car; leakage from old age incontinence; leakage from those who can’t afford sanitary pads; diarrhoea of rubbish scrap eaters…

2016-06-11 NM re climate change & elections: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/10/this-is-the-climate-change-election-despite-what-turnbull-or-shorten-say/ .

Costa A is correct – climate change should be the number 1 election issue but unfortunately isn’t thanks to the pro-gas, pro-oil, pro-coal, climate criminal, climate terrorist, carbon terrorist Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right). Top coral expert Professor J.EN. Veron “The safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide for coral reefs is ~320 ppm [and] sets the safe limit for a healthy planet during a time of abrupt greenhouse-driven climate change”, top climate expert Professor James Hansen: “CO2 ~300-325 ppm, may be needed to restore sea ice to its area of 25 years ago” and top climate scientist Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber: “Perhaps it will not matter whether we have 270ppm or 320ppm, but operating well outside the [historic] realm of carbon dioxide concentrations is risky as long as we have not fully understood the relevant feedback mechanisms" see “300.org - return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”, 300.org: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org ).

A recently revised estimate of global annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is 64Gt CO2-e per year and simplest and cheapest means of returning to the pre-Industrial Revolution level of circa 300 ppm CO2 is removing about half of the 750 Gt C (2,753 Gt CO2-e) in the atmosphere (i.e. 2753/2 = 1,377 Gt CO2-e) by harvesting and rendering incombustible a maximum of 12 Gt C (44 Gt CO2-e) of photosynthetically-generated forestry and agricultural wood or straw waste each year – this will take 1,377 Gt CO2-e/44 Gt CO2-e per year = 31 years, assuming annual GHG pollution drops immediately from the current 64 Gt CO2-e per year to zero. Unfortunately annual GHG pollution is increasing: atmospheric CO2 is at a record 400 ppm CO2 and increasing at a record 3 ppm per year, and atmospheric methane (105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG on a 20 year time frame) is at a record 1,850 ppb and increasing at a 2-decade record of about 12 ppb per year. A catastrophic plus 2C is now unavoidable (see "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ) and the expected release of 50 Gt methane from the Arctic in coming decades will seal the fate of most of humanity (“Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ).

Decent, science-informed Australians who care for their children and future generations will utterly reject the pro-coal, climate criminal, coral-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-11 NM re Queensland approves Adani coal mine: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/10/how-adani-splits-queensland-labor/ .

Missing from Mainstream discussion in Murdoch-dominated Australia is the horrendous reality that pollutants from the burning of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal exports will KILL over 13,000 people each year. Carbon fuel burning pollutants kill 7 million people each year (WHO), this including 75,000 dying from pollutant from the burning of exported Australian coal and 10,000 Australians dying from pollutants from carbon fuel burning . Despite this, the pro-coal Turnbull KOALition Government and the Palaszczuk Queensland Labor Government have approved the Adani Carmichael mine in disgraceful and unforgivable decisions that are made more awful in the ecocidal and speciescidal context of the worst Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching and die-off due to global warming plus El Nino.

The pro-coal, speciescidal, ecocidal, anti-science, terracidal and climate criminal KOALition Government under the oh-so-charming but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Malcolm Turncoat, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott) ) has approved the Carmichael Project of the Indian Adani Company in Queensland’s Galilee Basin that is set to be the world’s largest coal mine. This flies in the face of science that says stop new coal mines and rapidly close down existing ones. Pollutants from the burning of predicted Carmichael coal exports will ultimately kill 13,400 people each year and kill over 0.5 million people in the life of the project . Burning of world-leading Australian coal exports ultimately kills 75,000 people each year. About 7 million people worldwide including about 10,000 Australians die each year from carbon fuel burning pollutants – by way of comparison the barbarous ISIS and the even more barbarous, Australia-backed US Alliance have “only” managed to kill 12,000 Iraqis annually in the post-2011 Iraqi civil war (for details of calculations see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

The annual income in USD from Carmichael coal of $3.8 billion from $63 /t coal applied to 60 Mt Coal exported annually (most of which may vanish overseas and will be tax minimized) will be hugely exceeded: (a) by a factor of about 10 times by the resultant $34.8 billion Carbon Debt from applying an expertly-determined $200/t CO2 damage-related Carbon Price to the 174 Mt CO2 estimated from 2.9 t CO2/t coal from burning the annually exported 60 Mt thermal coal, and (b) by a factor of about 25 times by the $94 billion hidden mortality-related cost from applying the $7 million per person risk-avoidance–based Valued Of a Statistical Life (VOSL) to the 13,400 annual deaths from pollutants deriving from the burning of the annual export of 60 Mt thermal coal from the Carmichael mine (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Decent Australians who care for fellow Australians, their children and future generations will utterly reject the pro-coal, Australian-killing KOALition and Labor Right climate criminals, state terrorists, carbon terrorists and climate terrorists and will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-09 NM re Ramadan letter from Government anti-terrorism unit: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/07/ramadan-greetings-to-australian-terrorists-whoops-we-mean-muslims/ .

Australia is becoming a country in which absurd reality exceeds implausible satire.

To put this latest absurdity in context, zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin non-state terrorist organization whereas 32 million Muslims have been killed by violence , 5 million, or through imposed deprivation, 28 million, in the Australia-complicit, Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims since the US Government’s false flag 9-11 atrocity that killed 3,000 people (see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115A.htm ; “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ ).

While, zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin non-state terrorist organization, under successive Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor) administrations, 85,000 Australians die preventably each year , the breakdown (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Decent, informed Australians who abhor both state terrorism and non-state terrorism will utterly reject the Australian-killing Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor) state terrorists, climate terrorists and carbon terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (see "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ) .

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2016-06-09 NM re Hanson, bigotry & section 116: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/08/we-tried-to-ask-pauline-hanson-about-one-of-her-policies-and-it-didnt-go-well/ .

Decent Australians will reject racism and bigotry. However one notes that Section 116 of the Australian Constitution is grossly and legislatively violated by the Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) through (1) tax-free status of religions that costs Australia $23 billion annually, (2) $8 billion in Federal state aid for religious schools annually , (3) tax deductibility of donations to the Jewish National Fund that is complicit in the Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel versus the possibility of up to life imprisonment for supporting an orphanage in the Gaza Concentration Camp, (4) parliament opens with a prayer to the Christian God, (5) property ownership based on the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, and (6) laws discriminating against homosexuals are informed by religious precepts deriving from genocidal and populate-or-perish psychopaths of circa 1000BCE (see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Secret Chord” By Geraldine Brooks. Palestinian Genocide By Israelites In 1000BC And By Zionists Today”, Countercurrents, 30 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya300516.htm ).

Section 116 of the Australian Constitution states: “The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth” (Australian Constitution, Section 116 http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s116.html ).

Of course the Federal funding of religious schools involves massive funding of intellectual child abuse. The one third of Australian children attending Australian taxpayer-funded private schools are variously subject to religious brainwashing (intellectual child abuse) that variously teaches them to accept sexism, misogyny, sexual guilt, unsafe sex, creationism, intelligent design, anti-science miracles (e.g. virgin birth, walking on water, rising from the dead, water into wine and bread into flesh) and the right to invade, occupy, devastate and ethnically cleanse other countries (see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents , 4 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm ).

Decent, science-informed Australians who utterly abhor racism, bigotry, genocide, religious claptrap and child abuse will utterly reject the anti-science, pro-religion, war criminal, climate criminal and child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-08 NM re Australian climate denial: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/07/climate-denial-unchanging-new-poll-reveals/ .

The blame for the dangerous ignorance of the pro-coal KOALition and its supporters lies with heavily with the anti-science Murdoch press that has 70% of Australian newspaper readership and the anti-science KOALition Government under lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull that is 50% explicitly climate change denialist and 100% effective climate change denialist through ecocidal, speciescidal, homicidal, genocidal and terracidal climate change inaction climate criminality, climate terrorism and carbon terrorism. World governments have unanimously declared that we must not exceed a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise and disingenuously say that they would like not to exceed plus 1.5C. However it is now clear that a catastrophic plus 2C is unavoidable (for expert scientific opinion see “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ; and "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ).

To restore Arctic sea ice and former coral reef viability the atmospheric CO2 must be reduced from the present dangerous and damaging over 400 ppm CO2 to a safe and sustainable circa 300 ppm CO2. There is about 2,800 Gt CO2 in the atmosphere, half due to historical fossil fuel combustion and to return it to a safe 1,400 Gt CO2 (750 GtC) via biochar (from anaerobic pyrolysis of cellulose) would cost 1,400 Gt CO2 x US$200/ t CO2-e = $280 trillion and take about 30 years at a maximum rate of presently achievable 12 Gt C (44 Gt CO2) cellulosic waste per year from forestry and agriculture (see “2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course ).

And then there is atmospheric methane (CH4) which was 1,843 ppb CH4 in December 2015 as compared to a pre-Industrial Revolution level of 700 ppb and which is steadily increasing, noting that the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CH4 is 21 times that of CO2 on a 100 year time frame but is 105 times greater than that of CO2 on a 20 year time frame and taking atmospheric aerosol impacts into account. The 50 Gt (billion tonnes) CH4 set to be released in coming decades from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is equivalent to 50 billion tonnes CH4 x 105 tonnes CO2-equivalent/tonne CH4 = 5,250 tonnes CO2-e or about nine (9) times more than the world’s terminal greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution budget that must not be exceeded if we are to have a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise. . We are doomed.

Decent, science-informed Australians who care for Humanity, the Biosphere, the young and future generations will boycott Murdoch media (see “Boycott Murdoch Media: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ), utterly reject the climate criminal, anti-science, pro-gas, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last) – zero tolerance for climate criminals who have already doomed the world to a catastrophic climate genocide.

2016-06-07 NM re Turnbull ad & legacy for children: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/06/must-be-an-election-coming-malcolm-turnbull-just-played-the-poor-dead-single-dad-card/ .

Turnbull: “This election will decide the kind of country our children and grandchildren will inherit”. Too right it will – climate criminal pro-coal KOALition policies will ultimately mean (1) continued destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, (2) continued desertification of southern Australia, (3) $100,000 degrees, (4) under-30 year old inescapable Carbon Debt increasing at $50,000 per head per year, (5) more ecocide and speciescide, (6) more Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) perversion and subversion of Australia, (7) more involvement in war criminal American wars, (8) further widening of the wealth of the One Percenters versus the Rest, (9) international Green tariffs, ICJ litigations, ICC prosecutions and Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against a climate criminal Australia that under Turnbull ranks third worst in the world for income weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution (see Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ), and (10) an increase in the already 85,000 Australians who die preventably each year, the breakdown being (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5) 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (see Gideon Polya, “La Trobe University Versus Dr Roz Ward, Racist Australian Flag And Academic Free Speech Threatened In Australian Universities”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060616.htm and (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ) .).

Decent Australians who care for the young and future generations will utterly reject the anti-science, anti-environment, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, pro-gas, pro-coal, effective climate change denialist, neoliberal, Australian-killing KOALition under oh-so-charming, all-smiles but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Mr Harborside Mansion, 200-milion-dollar-man, Malcolm Turncoat, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott) – they will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-07 NM re climate change & Sydney storms: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/06/sydney-storm-climate-change/

Climate change impacts include (1) global warming (plus 1C above 1900) will fuel an increase in storm intensity and (2) an average sea level rise of 30 cm since 1900 will increase storm impact. However (1) plus 2C is now unavoidable and Canadian earth scientists have estimated that the result of burning the world’s total fossil fuel reserves would be global mean warming of up to 10C (see Katarzyna B. Tokarska, Nathan P. Gillett, Andrew J. Weaver, and Vivek K. Arora, “The climate response to five trillion tonnes of carbon”, Nature Climate Change, 23 May 2016: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3036.html and Andy Rowell, “Scientists Warn Of 10C Warming As We “Dial Up Earth’s Thermostat”, Oil Change International, 23 May, 2016: http://priceofoil.org/2016/05/23/scientists-warn-of-10c-warming-as-we-dial-up-earths-thermostat/ ) and (2) Professor James Hansen (from NASA and 101-Nobel-Laureate Columbia University) reports that plus 2C would be disastrous – at 2C Earth would be headed back toward equilibrium Pliocene-like conditions (sea level about 25 m higher than today) (see James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato, “Paleoclimate implications for human-made climate change”: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1105/1105.0968.pdf ).

Science-informed Australians will utterly reject the anti-science, anti-environment, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, pro-gas, pro-coal, effective climate change denialist, mindlessly neoliberal KOALition under oh-so-charming, all-smiles but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Mr Harborside Mansion, 200-milion-dollar-man, Malcolm Turncoat, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott) – they will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Any Turnbull- and KOALition-betrayed young Australian voting for the KOALition is a bloody idiot.

2016-06-04 NM re Israeli fabrication: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/03/israels-paul-sheehan-moment/

An appropriate anagram for ISRAEL is e-LIARS. The Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are the new Jews and in the anti-Arab anti-Semitic West, including Apartheid Israel, are subject to endless false racist Zionist (RZ)-promoted vilification as well as egregious violence in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide of the Zionist-backed US war on Muslims (32 million Muslims killed by violence, 5 million, or through imposed deprivation, 28 million, since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity . Of course the racist Zionists (RZs) and their supporters such as the Australian Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) are also anti-Jewish anti-Semitic by falsely conflating all Jews, including anti-racist Jews with the appalling crimes of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist , democracy–by-genocide Apartheid Israel - decent, anti-racist Jews in reality are utterly opposed to the appalling crimes of Apartheid Israel and its anti-Arab anti-Semitic US, UK and Australian supporters and in Australia will vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

Thus outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman on the fight against anti-Semitism: “An all out struggle against Zionism by Jews, therefore, is also the most effective way to fight against real anti-Semitism. Furthermore, if Zionism is indeed a particularly virulent form of nationalism and, increasingly, of racism and if Israel is acting toward its captive minority in ways that resemble more and more how the Nazis treated their Jews, then we must also say so. For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow "unfair" and to charge "anti-Semitism" when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” (Bertell Ollman, “Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People”, Dialectical Marxism, 2004: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/resignation.php ).

A good example of “soft” but nevertheless dangerous Zionist misrepresentation is “The Secret Chord”, an historical novel by Geraldine Brooks, an Australian convert to Judaism and a nice-but-not-nice-enough Zionist assertedly “loathing” the ongoing Occupation but opposing the effective and peaceful strategy of Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist (RZ)-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel. “The Secret Chord” is a work of faction (fiction based on fact) that is based on the assertedly factual Biblical account of the life of a genocidal mass murderer and racist psychopath King David whose Star adorns the flag of genocidal Apartheid Israel. This novel is implicitly Zionist and like Zionism is based on egregious falsehoods – there is no non-Biblical evidence for the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon or mass Jewish Exile from Palestine, and almost no evidence for the very existence of King David. Indeed, while most Jewish Israelis descend from Berber, Yemeni and Khazar converts to Judaism, the present-day descendants in Palestine of the former Jewish inhabitants of Palestine are actually the sorely oppressed Indigenous Palestinian, and recent genetic studies have shown that there is substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi Jewish maternal lineages. (see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Secret Chord” By Geraldine Brooks. Palestinian Genocide By Israelites In 1000BC And By Zionists Today”, Countercurrents, 30 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya300516.htm ).

2016-06-04 NM re Dr Roz Ward reinstated : https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/03/roz-ward-reinstated-as-la-trobe-backs-down/ .

Good news that La Trobe University has lifted the suspension of Dr Roz Ward for telling the Awful Truth about Australian history. However the La Trobe administration gave in with bad grace, with the VC saying that lengthy legal proceedings would not be in the best interests of the university. The disgraceful suspension of Dr Roz Ward was not in the best interests of the university. The present La Trobe University administration has severely damaged La Trobe University’s excellent reputation, the reputation of its past, present and future staff and students (including me, an alumnus and a staff member for 40 years), and indeed the reputation of all Australian universities and Australia with its shocking suspension of Dr Roz Ward that attacked academic free speech, the cornerstone of academic life (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship ).

The present La Trobe University administration is not alone in attacking academic free speech, conduct that makes them unfit to run a university. Academic free speech is to universities as water is to irrigation, as one-person-one-vote is to democrats or the right to choose is to women. Zionist-subverted Sydney University recently disgraced itself by “investigating” anti-BDS Professor Jake Lynch, and Notre Dame University Australia followed the lead of Notre Dame US (that forced out world-famous anti-racist Jewish scholar Dr Norman Finkelstein at the behest of racist Zionists) in attacking Dr Sandra Nasr, lecturer in Middle East politics at Notre Dame University, Western Australia, who published an article on the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) website uncontroversially linking Old Testament Biblical imperatives of violent occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the first millennium BC to Zionist colonialism and gross human rights abuse in Palestine today. Dr Nasr was immediately attacked and falsely defamed by Zionists and the Fairfax-owned WA Today as “racist” and “anti-semitic” and the article was removed from the LSE website. To its shame, rather than defend Dr Nasr, Notre Dame said it “apologizes” for her article which it is now “addressing” (Gideon Polya, “Academic Free Speech Under Zionist Attack At Notre Dame Australia And LSE, UK”, Countercurrents, 16 December, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya161215.htm ).

War-making is the worst form of racism and under the racist Union Jack or the racist Australian flag Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193 countries, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ). Decent, pro-peace, anti-racist Australians will utterly reject the mendacious, pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-06-04 NM re suspension of Dr Roz Ward by La Trobe University : https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/03/la-trobe-faces-ultimatum-reinstate-roz-ward-or-face-court/ .

One hopes that it was not just threat of legal action but indignant public support for academic free speech that forced La Trobe University to lift the suspension of Dr Roz Ward for telling the Awful Truth about Australian history. Freedom of speech is the cornerstone of academia. The core academic ethos involves commitment to truth, reason and free speech and these elements are operationally intimately intertwined in the concept of academic freedom. Academic freedom is critical for scholarly interaction, application of the scientific method and dissemination of findings to academic scholars, professionals and the lay public. In a wider social context academic freedom enables informed, critical positive and negative feedback within organizations and society as a whole. I have analysed censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities and the last of 8 suggestions to improve things was “viii. Finally, we should publicly insist that universities that constrain free speech are not fit for our children ” (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship ).

2 decades ago Professor John Scott, a former terrific vice-chancellor of La Trobe University - a university that has a splendid record of bringing tertiary education to less privileged, non-private school Australians - has commented: “The prime roles of a university are threefold: to teach, to conduct research and to provide service, including constructive criticism, to the community . The teaching role has been severely threatened . Fundamental research is now difficult to conduct . critical comments by university staff have been censored . It is time that governments recognised that universities are not just an expensive luxury, but a highly important part of our national activity” (see Gideon Polya, “Crisis in our universities”, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National, Ockham’s Razor, 19 August 2001: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/crisis-in-our-universities/3490214#transcript and “Free university education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ).

2016-06-2 NM re La Trobe, academic, free speech: https://newmatilda.com/2016/06/01/latrobe-suspends-safe-schools-co-founder-and-academic-roz-ward-for-criticising-racist-australian-flag/

The present La Trobe University administration has severely damaged La Trobe University’s excellent reputation, the reputation of its past, present and future staff and students (I am an alumnus and taught there for about 40 years) , and indeed the reputation of all Australian universities and Australia with this shocking decision that attacks academic free speech that is the cornerstone of academic life (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship ).

There is nothing more racist than invading, devastating and ethnically cleansing other countries. The present Australian flag is certainly a racist flag and testament to centuries of genocidal British colonialism and over 2 centuries of genocidal White Australian invasion of other countries as UK or US lackeys. Racist White Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193 countries, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ).

Whereas Dr Roz Ward (who co-founded, developed and currently directs Safe Schools Coalition Victoria (SSCV)) has correctly drawn attention to the racist, blood-drenched Australian flag (her suggestion of a red flag is quite appropriate) , one notes that the 2 volume “Cambridge History of Australia” ignores 30 genocidal atrocities with which Australia has been associated (see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” Ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ).

Cowardly, craven US lackey racist White Australia under the serial war criminal and climate criminal Coalition is currently involved in its Third Syrian War and Eighth Iraq War in a century,is second only to the US in backing genocidally racist, democracy-by-genociode Apartheid Israel and via Pine Gap is targeting war criminal, civilian-killing US drone strikes in Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan… who’s next under mass murderess Hilary Clinton ? As the world’s third worst carbon polluter, racist White Australia is ecocidally and genocidally invading the atmosphere and ocean of all countries with the prospect of 10 billion deaths this century from unaddressed, man-made climate change (see Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ).

Decent Australians who utterly reject racism, war and genocide will utterly reject the serial war criminal, climate criminal, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-2 NM re MPs declaring their religion: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/27/politicians-should-have-to-declare-their-religion/ .

MPs already have to declare the financial interests of them and their spouses to make clear potential conflicts of interest. MPs should accordingly have to declare their religious (e.g. Christian , Muslim, Jewish etc) and indeed more general ideological affiliation (e.g. fascist, Zionist, neoliberal, pro-fossil fuels , pro-coal, democratic socialist) for the same reason. Example 1: all Coalition MPs and most Labor MPs support Apartheid Israel, donations towards the Palestinian Genocide by the racist Zionists (RZs) are tax deductible, and Australia is second only to the US in support of this nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid rogue state that prevents 73% of its majority of Indigenous Palestinian subjects from human rights and from voting for the government ruling them. Yet belief in equal human rights and one-person-one-vote is surely the fundamental criterion for electability in a democracy – candidates supporting Apartheid should be rejected by decent voters, who would also demand that all MPs declare a prime loyalty to Australia rather than to Apartheid Israel or to the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted America and UK. Decent Australians who are committed to equal human rights and one-person-one-vote will utterly reject the Zionist-subverted, child-abusing Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

Example 2. Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor)-backed subsidies to religion cost the taxpayer $31 billion per year of which $8 billion goes to support religious schools. The one third of Australian children attending Australian taxpayer-funded private schools are variously subject to religious brainwashing (intellectual child abuse) that variously teaches them to accept sexism, misogyny, sexual guilt, unsafe sex, creationism, intelligent design, anti-science miracles (e.g. virgin birth, walking on water, rising from the dead, water into wine and bread into flesh) and the right to invade, occupy, devastate and ethnically cleanse other countries (see “Educational Apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ ; Gideon Polya, “Australian Coalition Government Sacrifices Key Industries While Committing Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars To Carbon Pollution & War”, Countercurrents, 10 February, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya100214.htm ) . The Coalition proposed that the Federal Government only funds private schools. Decent Australians who abhor inequity, child abuse and corruption will utterly reject the child-abusing Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

Example 3. The WHO informs that 7 million people die from air pollution each year, this including 10,000 Australians killed by carbon fuel burning pollutants and 75,000 people world-wide killed by pollutants from the export of Australian coal (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ). 85,000 Australians die preventably each year from causes such as smoking, alcohol, obesity etc, the breakdown being (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ) . MPs must declare whether they are pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-alcohol etc. The Lib-Labs are clearly pro-coal, pro-gas, and pro-alcohol – accordingly, properly informed by MP declarations, decent Australians who value all human lives will utterly reject the Humanity-killing, Australian-killing, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-2 NM re West Connex, gas etc: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/30/thousands-condemn-nsw-premier-sydney-protest/ .

Rail not roads – roads kill by accidents and air pollution. . The World Health Organization WHO informs that 7 million people die from air pollution each year, this including 10,000 Australians killed by carbon fuel burning pollutants and 75,000 people world-wide killed by pollutants from the export of Australian coal (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ). In total 85,000 Australians die preventably each year from causes such as smoking, alcohol, obesity etc, the breakdown being (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ) .

It gets worse – British scientists taking NOx (NO2 and N2O) emissions into account recently reassessed pollution deaths in London (population 8.6 million) at 9,416 . However 18 million Australians (or 75% of Australia ‘s 2015 population of 24 million) live in urban areas and translating the London pollution-related mortality data to urban Australia corresponds to 9,416 deaths x 18 million/ 8.6 million = 19,707 or about 20,000 urban Australian deaths annually from air pollution. The anti-science, pro-roads, pro-fossil fuels, anti-rail , pro-coal Australian-killing KOALition has high complicity in this carnage – accordingly, science-informed , decent Australians who value all human lives will utterly reject the Humanity-killing, Australian-killing, pro-coal KOALition under all-smiles but Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-2 NM re eating meat: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/27/animals-are-not-brain-food/ .

Animal rights , humane animal husbandry and humane slaughter issues aside, 3 key points. (1) Meat eating is a highly inefficient indulgence in a variously malnourished or starving world threatened by a worsening Climate Emergency. Thus consider the following estimates of Conversion Efficiency (kg grain to produce 1 kg gain in live weight): herbivorous farmed fish (e.g. carp, tilapia, catfish; less than 2), chicken (2), pork (4), and beef (7). In 2003, 37 percent of the world grain harvest, or nearly 700 million tons, used to produce animal protein (see Gideon Polya, “Biofuel famine, biofuel genocide, meat & global food price crisis”, Global Avoidable Mortality: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com.au/2008/05/biofuel-famine-biofuel-genocide-meat.html ).

(2) 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year on Spaceship Earth with disproportionately meat-eating Americans in charge of the flight deck - annual per capita meat consumption in kg per person per year (2009) is 120 (US), 115 (US lackey Australia), and 84 (UK) versus 4 (India) , 4 (Bangladesh) and 15 (Pakistan) (“List of countries by meat consumption”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption and Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a succinct history of every country and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

(3) World Bank analysts carefully re-evaluated the contribution of livestock production to world annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and found that the world's annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure. A key element of their analysis was to use a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane (CH4) relative to that of carbon dioxide (CO2) of 72 in a 20-year time frame rather than the 25 on a 100 year time frame used by the FAO. Indeed the World Bank analysis evidently still understates the GHG pollution because NASA scientists have re-evaluated the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CH4 as 105 times that of CO2 in a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts considered (see Robert Goodland and Jeff Anfang. “Livestock and climate change. What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?”, World Watch, November/December 2009: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf and Drew T. Shindell , Greg Faluvegi, Dorothy M. Koch , Gavin A. Schmidt , Nadine Unger and Susanne E. Bauer , “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions”, Science, 30 October 2009: Vol. 326 no. 5953 pp. 716-718: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5953/716 ).

All these key matters are lost on Murdochracy Australia ruled by the anti-science, pro-beef, pro-gas, climate criminal, pro-coal KOALition led by all-smiles but Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull and under which ravenously carnivorous White Australia ranks 3rd worst in the world for income-weighted annual per capita GHG pollution (see Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ). Science-informed Australians will utterly reject the anti-science, terracidal, neoliberal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-06-2 NM re Pilger & WW3: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/30/silencing-america-as-it-prepares-for-war-john-pilger/ .

Excellent article by John Pilger. It is a great shame that the Australian readers (clients) of the lying Mainstream media and yellow press of US lackey racist White Australia are denied the benefits of reading John Pilger – if they were to read the truth-telling John Pilger they would instantly discard the degenerate, war criminal, climate criminal , pro-Zionist, US lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right). Obama is a mass murderer, serial invader, and serial war criminal but Hillary Clinton is set to be worse when she becomes president and needs to show the word and the Military Industrial Complex that she is a “real man”.

Yellow, racist, US lackey, serial war criminal Australia is deeply complicit in US war crimes. Australian intelligence targets US drone attacks on Muslim world via the joint US-Australian Pine Gap electronic spying facility in Central Australia . UN demographic data show that Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries subject to Western military intervention in 2001-2015 now total about 27 million, with a further 5 million Muslims being killed violently by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3000. There are about 60 million refugees in the world today and Muslim refugees from US-complicit wars now total over 30 million (see Gideon Polya, “Unpunished Ongoing Mass Murder By Australian And US Alliance State Terrorists Versus Life Imprisonment For Planning To Be A Jihadi”, Countercurrents,19 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190516.htm , Phillip Dorling, “Pine Gap drives US drone kills”, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2013: http://www.smh.com.au/national/pine-gap-drives-us-drone-kills-20130720-2qbsa.html and Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

Decent pro-peace people around the world are obliged to (a) inform everyone they can and (b) urge and apply as practicable Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all members of the war criminal and climate criminal US Alliance, including Apartheid Israel, and against all complicit politicians, parties, and corporations. Now is the time for zero tolerance for war criminals and climate criminals, and zero tolerance for state terrorists and corporate terrorists as well as for non-state terrorists (see “Stop state terrorism”: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ and "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ).

2016-05-27 NM re Bolt & Nova Peris: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/26/andrew-bolt-nova-peris-and-the-politics-of-walkabout/ .

Excellent article by Dr Liz Conor. NITV reported Bolt’s highly offensive comments thus : “For her now to bail, three years later in the middle of an election campaign, sort of raising stereotypes of 'not sticking to it, going walkabout,' all that kind of thing, is a disgrace, is an absolute disgrace on her part," Mr Bolt said. He then said Ms Peris represented "race politics" and asked if "race politics" had become "a new kind of racism". Mr Bolt again raised the issue of Ms Peris leaving in a live interview on 'The Bolt Report' with Warren Mundine, the chairman of the Australian Government's Indigenous Advisory Council. "Doesn't this actually feed a negative stereotype, you know that ancient one, that Aboriginals not really sticking to it? When you know that's false, and she's let the team down?" he asked” (NITV, “Bolt says Nova Peris “bailing” the Senate “raises going-walkabout stereotype”, 25 May 2016: http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2016/05/25/bolt-says-nova-peris-exit-senate-raises-aboriginal-going-walkabout-stereotype .

It is Bolt who in his own words is “ a disgrace, is an absolute disgrace”. The Murdoch media’s and Bolt’s support of the pro-war, US lackey, climate change inaction policies of the war criminal and climate criminal, pro-coal COALition is also “ a disgrace, is an absolute disgrace”. Decent pro-peace, pro-equity, pro-human rights Australians will utterly reject the war criminal, climate criminal, pro-coal KOALition, Boycott Murdoch media , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see “Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ).

2016-05-27 NM re Hartcher, Iran: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/26/fairfax-clarifies-iran-article/ .

The Iranian test firing of missiles was the least of it. The Zionist- and pro-Zionist-informed Hartcher article is extraordinary for what it does not say. The massive lying by omission by Fairfax media is far , far worse than any falsehood of commission, because at least the latter admits the possibility of public discussion. Thus, for example, (1) Iran has no nuclear weapons (Apartheid Israel has as many as 400); (2) Iran hasn’t invaded any other country for several centuries (Apartheid Israel gas invaded 12 in the 70 years of its foul, racist, serial war criminal and genocidal existence), (3) Iran wants zero nuclear weapons in the ME (opposed by Apartheid Israel, US etc), (4) Iran has no territorial ambitions (Apartheid Israel has occupied the territory of 5 countries and still occupies the territory of 3 countries), (5) Iran is a democracy, albeit with theocratic oversight (Apartheid Israel is a democracy by genocide in which 73% of its now majority Indigenous Palestinians are denied voting for the government ruling them) (for a detailed an documented catalogue see Gideon Polya, “Pro-Zionist, Pro-war, Pro-Opium, War Criminal Canadian Government Defames Iran & Cuts Diplomatic Links”, Countercurrents, 10 September, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya100912.htm )..

Of great importance to Australia, 360 Australians die opiate drug-related deaths annually due to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry and over 5,000 Australians have died thus since the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 people and ultimately led to the deaths of 32 million Muslims (5 million from violence, 27 million from deprivation) in the subsequent Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (see “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ; “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).

Decent Australians who value Australian lives and abhor war, mass murder and genocide will utterly reject the racist, pro-war, US lackey, Zionist-subverted, Australian-killing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-29 NM re Sanders, web activism & young: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/24/election-2016-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-and-help-them-taste-feel-and-see-the-truth-part-3/ .

Images and emotions can be powerful e.g. the photo of the naked Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ut#/media/File:TrangBang.jpg . However, as argued by Lord Kelvin (a father of thermodynamics and the Industrial Revolution) arguments are most powerfully posed in numbers. Thus many climate scientists, economists and activists support a transparent Carbon Price and a damage-related Carbon Price has been estimated at US$200 per tonne CO2-equivalent by Dr Chris Hope of 90-Nobel-Laureate Cambridge University (see Dr Chris Hope, “How high should climate change taxes be?”, Working Paper Series, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, 9.2011: http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/media/assets/wp1109.pdf ).

Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price of US$200 per tonne CO2-equivalent, the World has an inescapable Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has an inescapable Carbon Debt for future generations of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians. Science-informed Australians who care for the young and future generations will utterly reject the ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, climate criminal, pro-coal KOALition, Boycott Murdoch media , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see “Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ). Young Australians who support the KOALition are bloody idiots.

2016-05-28 NM re Joyce, cattle, refugees & Indonesia: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/26/no-ideas-and-no-idea-the-barnaby-joyce-show/ .

Pro-coal neoliberal Barnaby Joyce’s throwaway speculative rubbish linking cessation of live cattle exports to Indonesia to increased boat-borne refugees from Indonesia hides the immense Awful Truth that the cattle should not have been raised in the first place, let alone subjected to barbarous, inhumane slaughter at home and abroad. Thus utterly ignored in look-the-other-way, anti-science, neoliberal Australia are that (1) World Bank analysts carefully re-evaluated the contribution of livestock production to world annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and found that the world's annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure (Robert Goodland and Jeff Anfang. “Livestock and climate change. What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?”, World Watch, November/December 2009: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf ) and (2) humane pre-slaughter stunning is acceptable to Muslim halal practice but not to Jewish kosher practice (FAO, “Chapter 7. Slaughter of livestock”: http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x6909e/x6909e09.htm ).

Science-informed Australians who care for the young and future generations will utterly reject the ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, climate criminal, pro-methanogenic livestock, pro-coal KOALition, boycott Mainstream media (especially bottom of the barrel Murdoch media) , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-28 NM re Coalition climate scepticism: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/20/tinfoil-ideologues-the-coalitions-problem-with-climate-change/ .

Even more appalling than the explicit climate change denialism of the anti-science Abbott rump of the pro-coal KOALition is the effective climate change denialism thotgh climate change inaction by the KOALition Government as a whole led by Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull (Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott, Mr Harborside Mansion, Malcolm Turncoat, the 200 Million Dollar Man and one of Australia’s richest Panama- and Cayman Islands-linked investors ) . In the interests of public education I sent the following letter on the worsening climate emergency to MPs, media and fellow citizens – but the Silence has been Deafening in look-the-other-way Australia:

Dear etc,

A catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise is now unavoidable and Canadian earth scientists have estimated that the result of burning the world’s total fossil fuel reserves would be global mean warming of up to 10C [1, 2].

In 2016 we are seeing record atmospheric CO2 pollution of 400 parts per million (ppm) that is increasing at a record rate of about 3 ppm per year, worst ever coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, worst ever seasonal melting of Arctic ocean sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet, devastating wild fires in Canada linked to global warming, and record temperatures of 50C or more in some South Asian cities [3].

Australia ranks third worst in the world in terms of income-weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution but its Coalition Government has approved the world’s biggest coal mine and the Labor Opposition wants a coal to gas transition whereas gas leakage means that gas burning can be dirtier GHG-wise than coal burning [4, 5].

The world will punish a climate criminal Australia. Science-informed Australians who care for children and future generations will utterly reject the anti-science Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne

[1]. "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming .

[2]. Katarzyna B. Tokarska, Nathan P. Gillett, Andrew J. Weaver, and Vivek K. Arora, “The climate response to five trillion tonnes of carbon”, Nature Climate Change, 23 May 2016: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3036.html .

[3]. Andy Rowell, “Scientists Warn Of 10C Warming As We “Dial Up Earth’s Thermostat”, Oil Change International, 23 May, 2016: http://priceofoil.org/2016/05/23/scientists-warn-of-10c-warming-as-we-dial-up-earths-thermostat/ .

[4]. Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm .

[5]. “Gas is not clean energy”: https://sites.google.com/site/gasisnotcleanenergy/ .

2016-05-28 NM re young Australian voters: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/24/how-to-get-disenfranchised-australians-to-vote-without-even-abusing-them/ .

Young Australians have every reason to be angry with earlier generations - notably the “we’ve never had it so good”, negatively geared, home-owning, highly superannuated, lifetime-employed, Baby Boomers – who are leaving them a dismal world of entrenched unemployment and under-employment, worsening ecocide, worsening speciescide, worsening climate genocide, worsening climate emergency (a catastrophic plus 2C is now unavoidable), huge HECS Debt (whereas uni is free in 20 other countries) and a gigantic , inescapable Carbon Debt for future generations that is not even mentioned by the ABC and the rest of the lying yellow press of racist White Australia.

Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price of US$200 per tonne CO2-equivalent, the World has an inescapable Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has an inescapable Carbon Debt for future generations of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians (see "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ).

Science-informed young Australians will utterly reject the endlessly lying, thieving, anti-science, pro-coal Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Young Australians who support the climate criminal KOALition are bloody idiots, and those who don’t even bother to enrol and vote have no credibility in blaming the profligate Baby Boomers (see “Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ and "Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution ).

2016-05-23 NM re Nazi analogies: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/22/its-ok-to-compare-australia-in-2016-with-nazi-germany-and-heres-why/ .

Excellent article by Dr David Berger whose tragic family history is similar to mine. At the heart of the matter is the need to tell the truth for a decent and safe society – history ignored yields history repeated, maltreatment ignored yields maltreatment repeated and at the nightmare end of the scale, genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. Indeed at an every day level of personal safety in the home, the street or workplace rational risk management crucial for safety successively involves (a) truthful reportage to get accurate data, (b) scientific analysis (the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. Of course this protocol is endlessly perverted (these days most notably by the endlessly deceiving neoliberals, warmongers and racist Zionists) to (a) lies and censorship, (b) anti-science spin, and (c) propaganda, blame and shame with war and concentration camps the ultimate awful outcomes.

Whether hundreds rather than millions are being violated, the truth must be told and decent people cannot compromise on human rights abuse on a small scale or a large scale. Thus there are only a few score children left in the Lib-Lab (COALition and Labor) Nauru concentration camp but Australia is second only to the similarly Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted US in support of Apartheid Israel that highly abusively confines 4.7 million Indigenous Palestinians (half of them children) without human rights in the Gaza Concentration Camp (2 million) or West Bank ghettoes (2.7 million; see “Boycott Apartheid Israel”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/ ; “Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ; “Jews Against Racist Zionism”:https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ ; “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ ; “Palestinian Genocide”:https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; “Apartheid Israeli state terrorism: (A) Individuals exposing Apartheid Israeli state terrorism & (B) Countries subject to Apartheid Israeli state terrorism”, Palestinian Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/apartheid-israeli-state-terrorism ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor racism, war, concentration camps, human rights abuse, child abuse and Apartheid will utterly reject the pro-war, child-abusing, pro-Apartheid Israel Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-05-23 NM re Lib-Lab concentration camps: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/16/alp-candidate-backs-offshore-concentration-camps-for-the-greater-good/ .

Excellent article by Michael Brull. The key point he makes is that “He [Michael Freelander] was right. We are torturing children. And they are in concentration camps” . That is Australia’s shame and anyone voting for the COALition or Labor is voting for the torture of children in concentration camps, no matter that they are voting thus for “border security”, “to stop drownings at sea” or to “stop the people smuggler’s business model”. Those who ignore, obfuscate, deny, excuse, encourage, support, advocate or are otherwise complicit in child abuse have crossed the line separating decent Humanity from Nazi-style barbarity. Decent Australians who utterly abhor child abuse will utterly reject the human rights –abusing, child-abusing Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

Of course when it comes to horrendous Nazi-style crimes by racist Lib-Lab Australia the refugee children being traumatized in concentration camps is the least of it. Australia has been complicit in all post-1950 US Asian wars (40 million Asian deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation). Five allegedly jihadi Australians have been recently charged with allegedly making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities, an offence carrying punishment of life imprisonment. However successive Coalition and Labor Australian Governments have yet to face the International Criminal Court for actual involvement in the horrendous and ongoing US War on Muslims in some 20 countries that has been associated so far with over 30 million Muslim refugees, and 32 million Muslim deaths from deprivation (27 million) or from violence (5 million) since the US Government’s false flag 9-11 atrocity that killed 3,000 – a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide (see Gideon Polya, “Unpunished Ongoing Mass Murder By Australian And US Alliance State Terrorists Versus Life Imprisonment For Planning To Be A Jihadi”, Countercurrents, 19 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190516.htm ).

Of course back in WW2 Australia was up to its neck in Nazi-style atrocities. Thus before WW2 pro-fascist warmonger Liberal leader Robert “Pig Iron Bob” Menzies permitted Australian pig iron exports to Japan as it was raping China (40 million Chinese killed, 1937-1945) and during WW2 by withholding food from its huge wartime grain stocks, racist White Australia was complicit in the 1942-1945 Bengal Holocaust in which the British deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons, this atrocity being associated large-scale military and civilian sexual exploitation of starving women and girls on a scale commensurate with the "comfort women" abuses of the Japanese military in WW2 (see “Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya”, Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ; Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a succinct history of every country and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ; Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now available for free perusal on the Web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor racism, war, mass murder, concentration camps, human rights abuse, child abuse, Apartheid and war crimes will utterly reject the pro-war, child-abusing, pro-Apartheid Israel, war criminal Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-05-23: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (vs UK poet Kate Tempest) on Q&A: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/20/ayaan-hirsi-ali-the-acceptable-extremist/ .

I heard pro-war, pro-US, pro-Apartheid Israel, Islamophobe and anti-Arab anti-Semite Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Q&A and she initially came across as quite reasonable in urging everybody to ignore “political correctness” and firmly object to appalling extreme Sharia practices of forced marriage, genital mutilation of women, misogyny, and stoning for apostasy. She was also spot on in advocating sanctions against Saudi Apartheid: “Free will. I think if liberal societies could mobilise citizens and mobilise their governments to treat Saudi Arabia the way we treated South Africa and bring them to their knees and make them see that the segregation that they practice of men and women and the degrading of people who are not Wahhabis in that society is degraded to something low, if not entirely killed or imprisoned or in some other way tortured - so if that dark continent - sorry, that dark kingdom is recognised for what it is and if it were to be confronted with the same sanctions as South Africa, I think it would not only improve Saudi society, it would probably improve the entire Muslim world.” No mention of boycotts of Apartheid Israel however, and right at the end she trashed her credibility when she revealed her true colours by supporting America’s genocidally horrendous invasions of the Muslim world (see Q&A transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4440860.htm ).

Pro-war Ayaan is a great admirer of Apartheid Israel that denies the vote to 73% of its now majority Indigenous Palestinian subjects, opposes Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, has tried to convert to Judaism but was unsuccessful in her attempt and wants to try again (Times of Israel: http://www.timesofisrael.com/islam-critic-floats-judaism-conversion/ ) and in interview with the Israel National News declared “We must stop demonizing Israel and learn from it” (see Israel national News : http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/18336#.V0I89uQre70 ).

As a Dutch MP who supported the illegal and war criminal invasion of Iraq Ayaan should face the International Criminal Court for involvement in the horrendous and ongoing US War on Muslims in some 20 countries that has been associated so far with over 30 million Muslim refugees, and 32 million Muslim deaths from deprivation (27 million) or from violence (5 million) since the US Government’s false flag 9-11 atrocity that killed 3,000 – a Muslim Holocaust and a Muslim Genocide (see Gideon Polya, “Unpunished Ongoing Mass Murder By Australian And US Alliance State Terrorists Versus Life Imprisonment For Planning To Be A Jihadi”, Countercurrents, 19 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190516.htm ).

The Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted ABC continues its policy of “manufacturing consent” for the horrendous and genocidal polices of the US Alliance and Apartheid Israel supported by the war criminal Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right). However decent, informed Australians will utterly reject the US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel, war criminal Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-05-20 NM re “A Lover’s Country”: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/19/key-humanitarian-political-issues-a-lovers-country/ .

“A Lover’s Country” is an important, well-written and eminently readable novel by academic and human rights activist Stuart Rees based on the real life event of the award of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize in 2003 to Palestinian writer, scholar, legislator and activist Hanan Ashrawi that aroused the ire of the ferocious Australian Zionist Lobby and its Mainstream journalist, politician and academic supporters that dominate media and public life in Australia (and elsewhere in the West) by lying, subversion, perversion, cajoling, censorship, threatening, defamation, litigation and intimidation. The heroes of “A Lover’s Country” are a non-Jewish academic, his anti-racist Jewish human rights activist lover and of course the Palestinian people. From a literary comparison perspective, the nuanced dialogues remind one of Jane Austen and the 3 terrific sex scene descriptions outdo Henry Miller (for review see Gideon Polya, “Review: “A Lover's Country” By Stuart Rees – Overcoming Zionist Perversion Of The Mainstream Palestine Narrative”, Countercurrents, 27 April, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270416.htm ).

This is an election year in Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted Australia and, economic and social policies aside, the fundamental criterion for electability must be commitment to one-person-one-vote democracy. Yet about 100% of Coalition candidates and 90% of Labor candidates support Apartheid Israel, making Australia second only to the US as a supporter of this nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, racist Zionist-run, Apartheid rogue state which denies the vote and all other human rights from 73% of its now majority Indigenous Palestinian subjects. The decent Greens demand human rights for Palestinians and are firmly opposed to racism, genocide and Apartheid. Decent Australians who oppose racist Zionist perversion of Australia (especially anti-racist Jewish Australians) will utterly reject the racist, pro-Apartheid Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Racist Zionism and Israeli State Terrorism threats to Australia and Humanity”, Palestinian Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/racist-zionism-and-israeli ).

2016-05-20 NM re Labor getting it together: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/19/labor-finally-got-story-straight/ .

Good article by

According to John Passant: “Replace the GST with a wealth tax and increased income tax rates on the rich and capital… Here are a few examples with very rough guesses about revenue to make up for the loss of GST revenue of around $45 billion. The top 20% own 62% of Australia’s wealth, which is in total about $6 trillion. So they own roughly $4 trillion. The bottom 20% own less than 1%. So a wealth tax of 1% on the top 20% (none of whom will be workers but rather capitalists and their managerial class and upper middle class) would yield, by my calculations, $40 billion a year. What better way to get those who have benefited the most from the 2 decade long boom to help all of us survive the coming recession?” (John Passant, “Abolish the GST and tax the rich instead”, En passant, 19 May 2013: http://enpassant.com.au/2013/05/19/abolish-the-gst-and-tax-the-rich-instead/ ).

The average adult net wealth in Australia in 2014 was US$431,000 ( Credit Suisse, “Global Wealth Report 2014”: https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fileID=60931FDE-A2D2-F568-B041B58C5EA591A4 ) , in 2015 the adult Australian population was 18.297 million (World Population Division 201 Revision: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/ ), and the current exchange rate is about 1 A$ = 0.75 US$.

Accordingly, the net wealth of Australia (excluding children) is US$0.431 million per adult x 18.297 million adults = US$7.89 trillion which corresponds to US$7.89 trillion x 1 A$/ 0.75USD = A$ 10.52 trillion.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2014): “The top 20% of households when ranked by their level of wealth, owned 62% of total [net] household wealth in 2013–2014. By comparison, the bottom 20% of households, owned less than 1% of all [net] household wealth” (Australian Bureau of Statistics, “Income and wealth distribution”, 2014: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/6523.0~2013-14~Main%20Features~Income%20and%20Wealth%20Distribution~6 ).

Thus the net wealth of the top 20% is 0.62 x A$ 10.52 trillion = A$6.52 trillion or A$6,520 billion and a 1% annual wealth tax on the top 20% of households would yield A$65.2 billion each year.

2016-05-18 NM re ABC self-censorship: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/16/election-2016-the-abc-of-how-balance-takes-over-our-minds-and-how-to-take-it-back-part-ii/

Excellent article by Dr Lissa Johnson. The ABC, like the Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right) and Mainstream media, has been subverted and perverted by the Neocon American and Zionists Imperialists (NAZIs) and consequently the yellow, racist ABC presstitutes routinely lie by commission and egregiously lie by omission. Lying by omission is far, far worse than lying by commission because at least the latter admits the possibility of discussion. Numerous examples of ABC lying and censorship can be given but the ABC reaches the bottom of the barrel when it routinely censors anti-racist Jewish opinion critical of Apartheid Israel’s ongoing Palestinian Genocide (90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed of Indigenous inhabitants, 2 million Palestinians killed by violence, 0.1 million, or through Zionist-imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since the 1930s) and steadfastly refuses to report the horrendous dimensions of the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims that is an ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in 20 countries subject to Western military intervention in 2001-2015 in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims now total about 27 million, with a further 5 million dying violently) (see “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; "Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm).

For lying and censorship by the ABC, by its raddled presstitute mother the UK BBC, and by other Mainstream media see “Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ; “Censorship by the BBC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/ ; “Censorship by The Conversation”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by ; “Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home ; “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ ; “Censorship by The Age”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-age ; “Censorship by ABC Late Night Live”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/ , "Censorship by ABC Saturday Extra": https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/censorship-by-abc-sat and “ABC fact-checking unit & incorrect reportage by the ABC (Australia’s BBC)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/abc-fact-checking-unit , "Censorship by The Guardian UK": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-guardian-uk , "Censorship by The Guardian Australia": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home/censorship-by-the-guardian-a and “Censorship by Crikey (Australia)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-crikey .

Just one of thousands of examples that can be given – in 2011 the yellow, racist, genocide-ignoring and holocaust-ignoring ABC reported that “tens of thousands” of Iraqis had been killed in the war criminal US Alliance and Australian occupation and last week it upped this to circa 240,000; however the reality from the perspective of expert epidemiologists, statisticians and demographers is vastly higher. 2003-2011 Iraqi deaths totalled 2.7 million from violence (1.5 million) or from war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million), with 5-6 million refugees and 0.8 million under-5 year old infant deaths (90% avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention that demands that an Occupier must provide life-sustaining medical and food requisites to the conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”. Alan Greenspan, who served as chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades (2007): “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil” (Peter Beaumont and Joanna Walters, “Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m”, The Observer, 16 September 2007: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline ; "Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ).

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2016-05-18 NM re elections & penalty rates: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/17/labor-wont-pay-any-penalty-for-greens-attacks-over-rates/ .

What a sick spectacle – the endlessly greedy, endlessly inhumane, endlessly dishonest, child-abusing, anti-science, neoliberal, pro-coal KOALition under Mr Harborside Mansion, 200-million-dollar-man, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull wants to simultaneously rip penalty rates off impoverished young workers and then claim it is doing them a favour by this policy increasing the number of poorly paid part-time jobs. Of course KOALition abuse of young people is much worse than this. Thus, for example, university education can and should be free (and is so in about 20 countries) but young Australians are saddled with a dishonestly applied average HECS Debt of circa $20,000 and the Turnbull-Abbott regime wanting $100,000 degrees (see “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home and Gideon Polya, “Free University Education Via Accredited Remote Learning – All Education Should Be Free For All”, Countercurrents, 31 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310116.htm ).

It gets even worse. Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e, the World has a Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has a Carbon Debt of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians (see “Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ ). Young people and those who care for them will utterly reject the child-abusing, young-abusing, neoliberal KOALition under Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Abbott-lite, Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Young people who vote for the child-abusing, young-abusing, neoliberal KOALition are bloody idiots.

2016-05-18 NM re coal & conflict of interest: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/16/new-super-council-administrator-accused-of-conflict-of-interest-over-coal-and-national-party-roles/ .

Conflict of interest in a state, NSW, that made conflict of interest an art form 2 centuries ago, is the least of it. Utterly ignored by mainstream media, politicians and academics is the horrible reality that coal burning kills. Thus the World Health Organization (WHO) informs that 7 million people die from pollutants from carbon fuel burning each year, this including 10,000 Australians, 5,000 Australians who die each year from the effects of coal burning pollutants, and 75,000 people world-wide who die each year from the effects of pollutants from the burning of Australian coal exports. By way of comparison, the barbarous ISIS and the equally barbarous US Coalition kill “only” 12,000 Iraqis each year in the endless Iraqi Civil War (see “Stop climate crime”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-climate-crime and “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ). Decent Australians who value the lives of fellow Australians and of all fellow human beings will utterly reject the pro-coal, anti-science, Australian-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-15 NM re Albo, Casey & elections: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/11/anthony-albanese-reflects-daily-teles-values-greens-taunt/ .

Jim Casey’s “overthrow capitalism” is short-hand for “overthrow neoliberal capitalism” which has not just failed the poor but threatens Humanity and the Biosphere with near-terminal catastrophe. Thus Professor Simon Springer (Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada , has cogently argued the case for utterly rejecting the inhumane evil of neoliberalism in an article provocatively entitled “F--- neoliberalism” [I have politely edited out Dr Springer’s indignant use of the F word] that has the succinct abstract: “Yep, f--- it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don’t need it”, commences “F--- neoliberalism . That’s my blunt message. I could probably end my discussion at this point and it wouldn’t really matter. My position is clear and you likely already get the gist of what I want to say. I have nothing positive to add to the discussion about neoliberalism, and to be perfectly honest, I’m quite sick of having to think about it. I’ve simply had enough. For a time I had considered calling this paper “Forget Neoliberalism” instead, as in some ways that’s exactly what I wanted to do. I’ve been writing on the subject for many years…” and concludes “Ultimately neoliberalism is a particularly foul idea that comes with a whole host of vulgar outcomes and crass assumptions. In response, it deserves to be met with equally offensive language and action. Our community, our cooperation, and our care for one another are all loathsome to neoliberalism. It hates that which we celebrate. So when we say “f--- neoliberalism” let it mean more that just words, let it be an enactment of our commitment to each other. Say it loud, say it with me, and say it to anyone who will listen, but most of all mean it as a clarion call to action and as the embodiment of our prefigurative power to change the f---ing world. F--- Neoliberalism” (see Simon Springer, “F--- neoliberalism”, Academia: https://www.academia.edu/23908958/Fuck_Neoliberalism?auto=view&campaign=weekly_digest and

Gideon Polya, “Canadian academic: “F--- neoliberalism”, MWC News, 14 May 2016: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/58847-f-neoliberalism.html ).

Greed-driven neoliberalism is currently the dominant economic philosophy globally but has driven Humanity to the edge – a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise is now essentially inevitable, 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year, 7 million people die annually from air pollution and as many as 10 billion people will die this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed. We can only save Humanity and the Biosphere through implacable zero tolerance for deadly neoliberalism and remorseless neoliberals. Decent Australians who care for their children, Humanity and the Biosphere will utterly reject evil, destructive and deadly neoliberalism espoused by the anti-science, war criminal and climate criminal Lib-Labs (the pro-coal KOALition and pro-coal Labor) , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Save Humanity And The Biosphere Through Zero Tolerance For Deadly Neoliberalism And Remorseless Neoliberals”, Countercurrents, 13 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130516.htm ).

2016-05-15 NM re Europe spurning refugees: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/13/if-europe-turns-its-back-now-the-concept-of-refugee-will-cease-to-exist/ .

The UNHCR in an Introductory Note to its setting out of the Refugee Convention: “The Convention is both a status and rights-based instrument and is under-pinned by a number of fundamental principles, most notably non-discrimination, non-penalization and non-refoulement. Convention provisions, for example, are to be applied without discrimination as to race, religion or country of origin. Developments in international human rights law also reinforce the principle that the Convention be applied without discrimination as to sex, age, disability, sexuality, or other prohibited grounds of discrimination. The Convention further stipulates that, subject to specific exceptions, refugees should not be penalized for their illegal entry or stay. This recognizes that the seeking of asylum can require refugees to breach immigration rules. Prohibited penalties might include being charged with immigration or criminal offences relating to the seeking of asylum, or being arbitrarily detained purely on the basis of seeking asylum. Importantly, the Convention contains various safeguards against the expulsion of refugees. The principle of non-refoulement is so fundamental that no reservations or derogations may be made to it. It provides that no one shall expel or return (“refouler”) a refugee against his or her will, in any manner whatsoever, to a territory where he or she fears threats to life or freedom” (see “Convention and Protocol relating to the status of refugees”: http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.html ). Of course this is utterly violated by the human rights-abusing and child-abusing Australian Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor) and now the EU has been infected by the same rotten Lib-Lab Australian disease.

Basic humanity aside, I am biased in this matter because my father, 2 uncles and an aunt were pre-war refugees from fascist Hungary and to my knowledge only about a dozen of my wider family survived the Jewish Holocaust in Hungary (1944-1945). Decent Australians who value human rights and child rights in particular will utterly reject the human rights-abusing and child-abusing Australian Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

Of course missing in public discussion in the West about refugees is that of the world’s 60 million refugees over half are Muslim refugees variously generated by US- and Australia-backed, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel, by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted US and by its similarly perverted racist lackeys like Australia. PM Kevin Rudd declared that those trying to find safe haven for refugees (the so-called “people smugglers”) were “scum of the earth who should rot in hell” – how then doers one describe those who generated 35 million Muslim refugees in the first place?

2016-05-15 NM re Open Letter to Turnbull and Dutton: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/04/an-open-letter-to-malcolm-turnbull-and-peter-dutton/ .

Excellent letter by Liam McLoughlin. Of the world’s 60 million refugees over half are Muslim refugees variously generated by US- and Australia-backed, racist Zionist-run and genocidally racist Apartheid Israel, by the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted US and by its similarly perverted racist lackeys like Australia (see “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ and “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ). PM Kevin Rudd declared that those trying to find safe haven for refugees (the so-called “people smugglers”) were “scum of the earth who should rot in hell” – how then doers one describe those who generated 35 million Muslim refugees in the first place and indeed are still generating Muslim refugees? Thus Australia has been involved in all America’s post-1950 Asian wars (40 million Asian deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation ) and under the Abbott-Turnbull Government engaged with Labor backing in Australia’s 7th Iraq War and Third Syrian War in a century. Decent Australians who are utterly opposed to human rights abuse, child abuse and war crimes will utterly reject the war criminal and climate criminal Lib-Labs (pro-war and pro-coal KOALition and Labor ) , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

The defeated Germans in 1945 adopted a CAAAA (C4A) protocol of Cessation of the killing, Acknowledgement of the crimes, Amends and Apology for the crimes and Assertion “never again to anyone”. Shameless, pro-Zionist, US lackey, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted, PC racist, Lib-Lab Australia is comprehensively violating C4A and is still busily complicit in helping the US mass murder Muslims from Libya to Pakistan. As correctly perceived by Malcolm Fraser (former Coalition PM) this blind, uncritical support of violent US policy is “foreign policy folly” and against the interests of Australia’s national security (Malcolm Fraser, “Slavish devotion to the US a foreign policy folly for Australia”, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 December 2010: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/slavish-devotion-to-the-us-a-foreign-policy-folly-for-australia-20101213-18vec.html ).

Report on the “Iraq war is largely about oil” opinion of leading Republican economist Alan Greenspan as post-invasion Iraqi deaths from violence were expertly estimated at 1.2 million (2007): “The man once regarded as the world's most powerful banker has bluntly declared that the Iraq war was 'largely' about oil. Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and retired last year after serving four presidents, Alan Greenspan has been the leading Republican economist for a generation and his utterings instantly moved world markets. In his long-awaited memoir - out tomorrow in the US - Greenspan, 81, who served as chairman of the US Federal Reserve for almost two decades, writes: 'I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.' In The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, he is also crystal clear on his opinion of his last two bosses, harshly criticising George W Bush for 'abandoning fiscal constraint' and praising Bill Clinton's anti-deficit policies during the Nineties as 'an act of political courage'. He also speaks of Clinton's sharp and 'curious' mind, and 'old-fashioned' caution about the dangers of debt. Greenspan's damning comments about the war come as a survey of Iraqis, which was released last week, claims that up to 1.2 million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq - lending weight to a 2006 survey in the Lancet that reported similarly high levels. More than one million deaths were already being suggested by anti-war campaigners, but such high counts have consistently been rejected by US and UK officials. The estimates, extrapolated from a sample of 1,461 adults around the country, were collected by a British polling agency, ORB, which asked a random selection of Iraqis how many people living in their household had died as a result of the violence rather than from natural causes” (Peter Beaumont and Joanna Walters, “Greenspan admits Iraq was about oil, as deaths put at 1.2m”, The Observer, 16 September 2007: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline ).

2016 -05-14 NM re Duncan, Turnbull & poor: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/12/the-pursuit-of-duncan-storrar-reveals-the-savagery-of-australias-class-warfare/ .

Hurrah for Duncan who also made the key point that he pays tax every time he goes to the supermarket. Neoliberalism (espoused by Turnbull’s KOALition) seeks to maximize the freedom of the smart and advantaged to exploit the human and natural resources of the world to maximize personal profit, with an utterly dishonest claim of “trickle down” benefits for the less smart and less advantaged. In contrast, social humanism (social democracy, democratic socialism, the welfare state) involves sustainably maximizing human happiness, opportunity and dignity through evolving national and international social contracts for the betterment of all people and the irreplaceable Biosphere (biodiversity) on which they depend.

In Australia the obscenely neoliberal, ecocidal, terracidal, and pro-One Percenter Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (aka the pro-coal KOALition) has over-reached in its appalling wealth transfer from the poor to the rich to the extent that a Right wing-dominated, neoliberal Labor Opposition has been forced to actually return to traditional Labor social humanist values in this election year and - despite Murdoch media domination in Murdochracy Australia - may garner enough support from young, poor, sick, elderly, educated, pro-environment and pro-Humanity Australians to gain office with the help of preferences from the decent, pro-Humanity, pro-environment Greens in Australia's compulsory preferential voting system.

Greed-driven neoliberalism kills but is currently the dominant economic philosophy globally and has driven Humanity to the edge – a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise is now essentially inevitable, 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year, 7 million people die annually from air pollution from carbon fuel burning, and as many as 10 billion people will die in a Climate Genocide this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed. We can only save Humanity and the Biosphere through implacable zero tolerance for deadly neoliberalism and remorseless neoliberals.

Decent, science- informed, pro-Humanity and pro-Biosphere Australians will utterly reject evil, destructive and deadly neoliberalism (85,000 Australians die preventably each year), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. An Australian 0.1% annual wealth tax applied to One Percenters would raise $35 billion each year. Globally, after identifying assets relocated offshore (e.g. via Panama and the Cayman Islands by Australia’s 200-million-dollar-man PM Malcolm Turnbull), a 4% annual wealth tax (cf France’s up to 1.5% , Islam’s 2.5% and Professor Thomas Piketty’s proposed up to 10%) could prevent the 17 million avoidable deaths each year in the horrendous Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust (Gideon Polya, “Save Humanity And The Biosphere Through Zero Tolerance For Deadly Neoliberalism And Remorseless Neoliberals”, Countercurrents, 13 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130516.htm ).

2016-05-14 NM re ALP stalwart & Nauru: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/13/a-member-since-1947-i-now-stay-quiet-about-my-connection-to-labor/ .

Excellent, humane article by Jim Macken. It is extraordinary that decent Australians are actually having to protest the highly abusive imprisonment of refugee children and their mothers in off-shore concentration camps by the child-abusing Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right). Those who ignore, obfuscate, deny, suggest, advocate, urge, support or are other wise complicit in horrendous abuse of children and their mothers have crossed the line separating decent Humanity from Nazi-style barbarity. I cannot stand the foul disingenuousness of the child-abusing Lib-Labs when they say that they are saving refugees from drowning in “the people smugglers business model” through discouragement via hihgly abusive indefinite detention of refugees in concentration camps.

A reductio ad absurdum is that 85,000 Australians die preventably each year, the breakdown including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) - but nobody is suggesting that those selling unhealthy food, cigarettes or booze should be discouraged from doing so by deprivation of their human rights and indefinite detention with their children in off-shore concentration camps.

Decent Australians who utterly reject child abuse will utterly reject the dirty, child-abusing, mother-abusing Lib-Labs who have trashed Australia’s reputation – they will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-05-14 NM re religion’s role in the politics of envy: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/13/religions-role-in-the-politics-of-envy/ .

A useful article by Brian Morris but it ignores the key Abrahamic religions of Judaism ( usury permitted although forbidden to pre-Calvinist Christians) and Islam ( usury forbidden but a mandatory 2.5% wealth tax applies for charitable and religious purposes – no wonder, oil and genocidally racist Zionism aside, why the war criminal and neoliberal One Percenters back the genocidal US War on Muslims). The One Percenters now control 50% of the wealth of the world, and as revealed by French economist Professor Thomas Piketty, the One Percenter share of annual income in Anglosphere countries is steadily increasing. Professor Piketty argues that this hugely disproportionate wealth distribution is damaging for democracy (money buys votes) and for the economy (the poor cannot afford to buy the goods and services they produce) and he suggests a progressive wealth tax of up to 10% to ensure a return to democracy and to humane, sustainable economics (see Thomas Piketty, “Capital in the Twenty-first Century”, Harvard, 2014 and Gideon Polya, “Key Book Review: “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” By Thomas Piketty”, Countercurrents, 01 July, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya010714.htm ).

Australia sorely needs an annual wealth tax of circa 1%, noting that secular France has an annual wealth tax of up to 1.5%, Islam demands an annual wealth tax of 2.5%, and an annual global wealth tax of 4% would abolish the 17 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation (Gideon Polya, “4 % Annual Global Wealth Tax To Stop The 17 Million Deaths Annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm and “1% ON 1%: annual one percent tax on One Percenter wealth”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 ).

Decent, science- informed, pro-Humanity and pro-Biosphere Australians will utterly reject evil, greedy, terracidal, destructive and deadly One Percenter neoliberalism personified by nimble and agile, ex-Goldman-Sachs banker, Panama- and Cayman Islands –investing, 200-million-dollar-man, and Mr Harbourside Mansion PM Malcolm Turnbull under which 85,000 Australians die preventably each year – decent ordinary Australians will utterly reject rule by and for the One Percent, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. An Australian 0.1% annual wealth tax applied to One Percenters would raise $35 billion each year ( Gideon Polya, “Save Humanity And The Biosphere Through Zero Tolerance For Deadly Neoliberalism And Remorseless Neoliberals”, Countercurrents, 13 May, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya130516.htm ).

2016-05-14 NM re NSW civil liberties crackdown : https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/13/bairds-civil-liberties-crackdown-will-be-felt-in-day-to-day-life/ .

I’m all for exquisite civil liberties and also for exquisite Laura Norder but one notes that the NSW Coalition MPs belong to a mass murdering, mass paedocidal, pro-Zionist, US lackey, war criminal gang known as the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition (aka the pro-coal KOALition) that illegally invaded Iraq in 2003 with the consequence in 2003 -2011 of 1.5 million violent Iraqi deaths, 1.2 million Iraqi avoidable deaths from war-imposed deprivation and 0.8 million under-5 year old Iraqi infant deaths, 90% avoidable and due to gross violation of Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention that demands that an occupier must provide life-sustaining medical and food requisites to the conquered Subjects “to the fullest extent of the mean available to it”. And they didn’t stop there with Afghanistan, Syria and Australian involved via Pine Gap in targeting war criminal drone strikes in Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and who knows where else (if journalists knew and reported it they would go to jail for 10 years) (see Bill Rawlings, “I could go to jail for this next month” , Civil Liberties Australia, 28 August 2014: http://www.cla.asn.au/News/i-could-go-to-jail-for-this-next-month/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; and “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ).

John Valder (a decent Australian, former president of the federal Liberal Party of Australia, former chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange, a founding member of the 'Not happy John!' campaign against former PM John Howard and called for Howard to be tried as a war criminal over the illegal invasion of Iraq (2004): “"Bush, Blair, and Howard, as leaders of the three members of the coalition of the willing, inflicted enormous suffering on the people of Iraq. And, as such, they are criminals. I believe the only deterrent to a repetition of the Iraq situation is punishment in some form as war criminals" (John Valder quoted in “Howard is a war criminal, says former colleague”, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July, 2004: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/18/1090089035899.html ).

Decent Australians who respect state, federal and international law will utterly reject the human rights-violating, civil liberties-violating and international law-violating KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-11 NM re Waleed Aly’s award: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/10/waleed-aly-and-the-cult-of-celebrity-the-caveats-for-entering-club-media/ .

Excellent article by Chris Graham. Waleed Aly is a charming and intelligent Muslim in a society with entrenched Islamophobia and it is likely that his charm, intelligence and Mainstream narrative as a popular, cricket- and footie-loving Aussie Mossie may have saved thousands of Australian Muslims from being publicly attacked and abused. However the problem with Waleed is his very Mainstream status and commitment to the highly flawed Mainstream narrative as reinforced by the Logie award. Thus, for example, the Mainstream narrative of look-the-other-way, US lackey, pro-Zionist Australia utterly ignores Australia’s participation in the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims, the ongoing Iraqi Genocide, the ongoing Afghan Genocide, the ongoing Somali Genocide, the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, the ongoing Syrian Genocide and the ongoing Muslim Genocide and Muslim Holocaust in which 32 million Muslims have been killed by imposed deprivation (27 million) or by violence (5 million) in 20 countries invaded by US Alliance forces since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity (see “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ and Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

2016-05-11 NM re Shorten & election campaign: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/09/its-only-day-one-and-robot-bill-shorten-has-already-short-circuited-my-synapses/ .

Chris’ article is rather unfair on the New Bill Shorten who (a) has had a marked makeover and now presents much better, less shifty and as more confidence-inspiring than before, and (b) notwithstanding some rotten common policies with the pro-war and pro-coal KOALition (e.g. on coal exports, US wars, maltreatment of refugees), differs markedly from neoliberal, lipstick-on–a–pig, Abbott-lite Malcolm Turnbull in espousing a traditional Labor pro-equity support for renewable energy, Gonski, hospitals, Medicare, marriage equality, superannuation reforms, negative gearing reforms and capital gains reforms and in opposing retrospective super changes. Under the New Bill Shorten, Labor seems to have made a forceful return to cogently defending traditional pro-equity values. Nevertheless decent, pro-equity, pro-human rights and pro-environment Australians will hope for a Greens preferences-based Labor victory, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-11 NM re voter gullibility: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/09/election-2016-why-people-will-vote-for-their-own-destruction-and-how-to-stop-them-part-i/ .

Excellent article by Dr Lissa Johnson. She is dead right (dead bring the operative word) that climate change action should be the key issue at this election but will be ignored by the speciescidal, ecocidal, terracidal, climate criminal and pro-coal KOALition and its supporters who drag their knuckles on a continuum between moronic stupidity and homicidal greed. World wide each year pollutants from fossil fuel burning kill about 7 million people (75,000 alone from the burning of Australian coal exports) (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ) and pollutants from carbon fuel burning kill about 10,000 Australians each year (the breakdown being 5,000 from coal burning, 2000 from vehicle exhaust and 3,000 from other burning) (see Gideon Polya , “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

However the world is facing a worsening and potentially catastrophic Climate Genocide . Thus both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming i.e. 10 billion people are set to die in a worsening Climate Genocide (see “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ). Climate criminal Australia under the KOALition is the world’s 3rd worst greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter on an income- weighted annual per capita GHG pollution scale (Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ).

Rational, numerate, decent, pro-equity, pro-human rights and pro-environment Australians will utterly reject the depraved, homicidal, Australian-killing and corrupt indifference of the climate criminal, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Young people who vote for the KOALition are bloody idiots – they are voting for the destruction of their future.

2016-05-05 NM re subs: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/02/periscope-up-common-sense-down/ .

$50 billion for subs to assist child-killing US imperialism abroad is $50 billion not available to save Australian lives at home - under both Coalition and Labor Governments some 85,000 Australian die preventably each year with 4,000 being Indigenous Australians, this being linked to the moral and fiscal perversion of Coalition and Labor commitment to a circa $150 billion long term accrual cost to Australia of the Neocon American- and Zionist-Imperialist (NAZI)-backed US War on Terror that since 2001 has killed 32 million Muslims, half of them children, through deprivation (27 million) or violence (5 million) in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s false flag atrocity on 9-11 (experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ and Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

The breakdown (involving some overlaps) of the 85,000 annual Australian preventable deaths includes (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Unlike Nazi Germany in the 1940s, today citizen ignorance is no excuse because the Awful Truth is now just a few mouse-clicks away – those voting for the Australian-killing KOALition are party to the passive murder of thousands of fellow Australians each year, noting that since 1788 zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin terrorist organization. Decent Australians who value the lives of fellow Australians and indeed of all Humanity will utterly reject the Australian-killing KOALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-04 NM re VCs, budget: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/03/vice-chancellors-humiliated-as-deregulation-dropped-but-funding-cuts-renewed/ .

All but one of the university bosses – grossly overpaid, parasitic refugees from scholarship – went along with the KOALition fee deregulation plan and now have been spurned for their trouble, copping further savage budget cuts without the ability to gouge more from students. Of course one of the biggest lies of all by lying-by-omission Mainstream journalists , politicians and academic presstitutes relates to the falsely asserted need to rip off students – while every nation vitally needs a large, well-supported complement of scholarly and scientific experts, it is unjust to force impoverished 20 year olds to pay for it. University education can and should be free. Many countries, both rich and poor, have made tertiary education free for their citizens (and in some cases also for non-citizens) , the list including (GDP per capita in US dollars in brackets; UN data, 2014): Argentina ($12,645) , Brazil ($11,387), China ($7,617), Cuba ($7,274), Czech Republic ($19,470), Denmark ($61,294), Ecuador ($6,346), Estonia ($20,122), Finland ($49,678), France ($42, 802), Germany ($47,966), Greece ($21,414), Iceland ($52,048), Libya ($6,602), Mauritius ($9,945), Norway ($97,226), Scotland ($24,060), Slovenia ($23,954), and Sweden ($58,856) (see “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ).

Of course the thieving HECS Debt is the least of it. Assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e, the World has a Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia has a Carbon Debt of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians (see “Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ ).

Sensible, informed students will utterly reject the neoliberal KOALition war criminals and climate criminals who are so egregiously ripping them off, dishonestly bequeathing them huge debts at the commencement of adult life and an increasingly horribly degraded planet – young people should revolt (peacefully of course), utterly reject the lying and thieving, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see "Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution ).

2016-05-04 NM re Budget: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/03/the-stasis-budget-morrison-takes-from-health-and-education-but-gives-little/

Here is the poor-bashing, sick-bashing, women-bashing, youth-bashing, environment bashing union-bashing KOALition Budget from the perspective of the ACTU (more reasons (why we need unions): Quote “”Medicare: They have not reversed the cuts to Medicare meaning we will have to pay more to see a doctor and for vital tests like x-rays, blood tests, ultrasounds and pap smears.

Our hospitals: $54.1 billion has been cut from our hospitals. This is a devastating amount of money and will cost us longer waiting times, fewer beds and less doctors and nurses.

Our schools: They have broken an election promise to provide the extra Gonski funding our schools need to ensure every child has a great education. They have effectively cut $54 billion from our schools.

University degrees: They have refused to rule out $100 000 university degrees and deferred a decision until after the election. On top of this $4.7 billion has been cut from our universities.

Jobs: Their plan is jobs paying less than the minimum wage for young people, at $4 an hour jobs plus Newstart. There is no jobs plan whilst TAFE continues to be cut.

A fair tax system: Big corporations have been given huge tax cuts. Already 580 major companies pay no tax at all. All Scott Morrison did was close a few small loopholes, leaving the rest wide open.

People earning under $80,000 get nothing but cuts.

The damage has not been fixed and now the election will be a referendum on Medicare, hospital funding, $100,000 uni degrees, Gonski schools funding, jobs and a fair tax system” End quote.

Of course cutting health funding actually kills Australians, 85,000 of whom die preventably each year, including 5,000 from coal burning (Gideon Polya , “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm and “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

Decent Australians who care for their fellow Australians will utterly reject the Australian-killing KOALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-04 NM re UNSW & fossil fuel investment: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/02/leaked-review-urges-unsw-come-clean-ethical-investment-policy/ .

The UNSW bosses (grossly overpaid, parasitic refugees from scholarship) are betraying UNSW students in 2 major ways: (1) by investing in fossil fuel companies that are destroying the planet in the name of insatiable neoliberal greed (it is now very unlikely that the world can avoid a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise; see "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming and “Divest from fossil fuels”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/divest-from-fossil-fuels ) and

(2) by charging so grossly excessive tuition fees that urgent inspection by ASIC and ICAC is needed - current on-campus undergraduate education can be provided at 10% of the current cost using part-time academic teaching staff and at 1% of the current cost simply through provision by experts of minimum-cost, accrediting examination of student understanding of the top quality courses (Massive Open Online Courses, MOOCs) put on the web for free by top universities like 157-Nobel-Laureate Harvard and 85-Nobel-Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology (see Gideon Polya, “Free University Education Via Accredited Remote Learning – All Education Should Be Free For All”, Countercurrents, 31 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310116.htm and “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ).

Of course divestment from fossil fuels is not the only divestment required of UNSW and numerous like Australian universities who (1) variously collaborate with universities of nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy –by-genocide Apartheid Israel and (2) are complicit as members and backers with evidently pro-Zionist censorship by the Australian taxpayer-funded, universities-backed and academic-based web magazine The Conversation. (see Gideon Polya, “Australian Universities Complicit With Pro-Zionist Censorship And Genocidal Israeli Militarism”, Countercurrents, 24 May, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya240512.htm ) . All decent people and organizations should apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel, the terracidal climate criminals destroying the planet and against all individuals and organizations supporting these variously genocidal obscenities.

2016-05-04 NM re fossil fuel subsidies : https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/26/govt-urged-to-pull-the-handbreak-on-fossil-fuel-industrys-7-7-billion-free-ride/ .

Professor Peter Brooks is quite correct with his comparison of the deadly tobacco industry with the deadly fossil fuel industry:

(1) World wide each year smoking kills 6 million people (5.4 million smokers 0.6 million passive smokers; see WHO, “Tobacco”: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs339/en/ ) as compared to pollutants from fossil fuel burning killing about 7 million people (75,000 alone from the burning of Australian coal exports) (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

(2) In Australia each year, smoking kills about 15,500 people as compared to pollutants from fossil fuel burning killing about 10,000 Australians each year (the breakdown being 5,000 from coal burning, 2000 from vehicle exhaust and 3,000 from other burning) (see Gideon Polya , “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

(3) Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming i.e. 10 billion people are set to die in a worsening climate genocide (see “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ). Climate criminal Australia under the KOALition is the world’s 3rd worst greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter on an income- weighted annual per capita GHG pollution scale (Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ).

(4) By way of comparison the barbarous ISIS non-state terrorists and the equally barbarous US Alliance state terrorists only manage to kill about 12,000 Iraqis each year (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ). By giving subsidies of $7.5 billion each year to the fossil fuel industry, the KOALition Government state terrorists (carbon terrorists, climate terrorists) are complicit in the annual deaths of 75,000 people worldwide and 7,000 in Australia due to fossil fuel burning. However that is also $7.5 billion away from annual health funding in Australia, noting that 85,000 Australians die preventably each year (Gideon Polya , “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm .

Sensible, humane, numerate Australians who care for Humanity will utterly reject the pro-coal, anti-science, ecocidal, terracidal, neoliberal, Australian-killing KOALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-04 NM re ACF, Adani, Hunt & High Court: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/03/adani-case-coal-mines-approved/ .

A person handing a loaded AK-47 to a murderous, crazed teenager is complicit by depraved indifference in the subsequent carnage. Australian coal exports kill 75,000 people each year and the proposed Adani Carmichael share of this carnage is estimated to be over 13,000 deaths annually and over 500,000 deaths in the life-time (no pun intended) of the mine (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

Australian law evidently permits Australian corporate terrorism and Australian Government state terrorism, permitting Australian commercial- or US Alliance-linked mass murder of foreigners overseas (Australians participated in all post-1950 US wars, these being associated with 40 million Asian deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation; see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html ). However one hopes that the High Court will accept the ACF’s cause-and-effect argument of GHG pollution from the burning of exported Australian coal killing Australian coral and the Great Barrier Reef through ocean warming and acidification.

In the meantime, decent Australians who care for the Biosphere and fellow Humanity will utterly reject the pro-coal, anti-science, anti-environment, ecocidal, , speciescidal, terracidal, coral-killing and Australian killing KOALIition under all-smiles but lipstick-on-a-pig, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, climate criminal Malcolm Turnbull – decent Australians will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-02 NM re subs versus climate change: https://newmatilda.com/2016/05/01/submarines-and-power-stations-only-one-of-them-is-useful/ .

Useful article by Geoff Russell. Make plough shares not swords. Near-future underwater sub-targetting missiles are likely to make all these subs liable to immediate destruction before they are even built. The issue of subs versus climate change action becomes starker when viewed quantitatively. Some key points:

(1) The subs will cost $50 billion but this ignores (a) compounding interest payments associated with a gross Australia government debt that has reached $400 billion under pro-One Percenter “200-million-dollar-man” Malcolm Turnbull and (b) an additional inescapable associated Carbon Debt of about A$17 billion (assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e, the World has a Carbon Debt of US$360 trillion that is increasing at US$13 trillion per year, and Australia (GDP about US$1,500 billion or A$2 trillion) has a Carbon Debt of US$7.5 trillion (A$10 trillion) that is increasing at US$400 billion (A$533 billion) per year and at US $40,000 (A$53,000) per head per year for under-30 year old Australians (see “Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ ).

(2) 100% renewable energy for Australia could cost up to A$370 billion:

(a) The Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) plan for 100% renewable stationary energy for Australia by 2020 (Zero Carbon Australia by 2020, ZCA 2020) involves 40% wind energy, 60% concentrated solar thermal (CST) with molten salts energy storage for 24/7 baseload power, biomass and hydroelectric backup (for days of no wind and low sunshine) and a HV DC and HC AC national power grid. The BZE scheme was costed at $370 billion over 10 years, with roughly half spent on CST, one quarter on wind and one quarter on the national electricity grid.

(b) Seligman scheme. A scheme for 100% renewable energy for Australia has been set out by top electrical engineer Professor Peter Seligman (a major player in development of the bionic ear). Professor Seligman’s scheme involves wind, solar thermal, other energy sources, hydrological energy storage (in dams on the Nullabor Plain in Southern Australia), an HV AC and HV DC electricity transmission grid and a cost over 20 years of $253 billion.

(c ) Wind power. Ignoring cost-increasing energy storage and transmission grid costs and cost-decreasing economies of scale for a 2- to 10-fold size increase, here are 2 similar cost estimates for installation of wind power for 80% of Australia’s projected 325,000 GWh of annual electrical energy by 2020: (1) 90,000 MW capacity, 260,000 GWh/year, $200 billion/10 years (10-fold scale-up from GL Garrad Hassan) and (2) 96,000 MW, 260,000 GWh/year, $144 billion (2-fold scale up from BZE ) (see section H, “2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course ).

Sensible, numerate, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the fiscally irresponsible, economically illiterate, warmongering, anti-science, pro-coal, climate criminal KOALition under all-smiles but lipstick-on-a pig Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-05-02 NM re trucks & road deaths: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/29/turnbull-sends-australia-down-a-dangerous-road/ .

Excellent article by Michael Aird and a devastating argument for (a) why we need unions, (b) why all Australian workers need safe working conditions, and (c) why decent Australians who care for their fellow Australians should utterly reject the union-bashing, pro-One Percenter, neoliberal, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, Australian-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

Australian road deaths in 2009 involving vehicle drivers, vehicle passengers, pedestrians, motor bikes and bicycles totalled 1,417 (2009) and about 1/3 involved trucks. Global warming as well as pollution and road safety considerations dictate a rapid shift to sensible and sophisticated public transport powered by renewable energy, with the phasing out of the private vehicle and trucks where feasible. Note that annual Australian deaths from vehicle exhaust pollutants total about 2,200 annually (recent London data suggests that this may be a considerable under-estimate), is much greater than the death toll from vehicle accidents. The climate criminal Abbott-Turnbull KOALition Government favours building roads over rail-based public transport which is 20 times more energy efficient and vastly less deadly. (Gideon Polya , “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm and “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

Of course the depraved indifference of the neoliberal, Australian-killing KOALition state terrorists to preventable Australian deaths doesn’t stop there – about 85,000 Australians die preventably each year thebreakdown (involving some overlaps) of the 85,000 annual Australian preventable deaths includes (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6) 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-04-28 NM re Anzac day: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/26/on-anzac-day-dissent-and-political-correctness/ .

We must honor those who served our country – but those war criminal politicians who repeatedly send honourable and courageous soldiers off to illegal, unjustified, immoral and women- and children-killing wars should be exposed and punished by the ignominy of such public exposure. As UK or US lackeys White Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the UK 193, France 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12 (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm and “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ). Of these invasions 30 have been associated with genocidal atrocities (including the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide) that are religiously ignored by the lying, genocide-ignoring, holocaust-ignoring, politically correct racist (PC racist) Mainstream journalist, politician and academic presstitutes of look-the-other-way White Australia. The war criminal Allied invasion of Turkey in 1915 exacerbated Turkish xenophobia and precipitated the Armenian Genocide that commenced on 24 April 1915, the eve of the first Anzac Day, and killed 1.5 million Armenians (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ). For all the incessant Australian media war coverage , almost no Australians are aware that in the “just war” of WW2 with over 2 million Indian soldiers serving on the Allied side, the British with Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons. Australia was complicit in this atrocity by withholding food from India from its huge wartime grain stores. This atrocity was associated large-scale military and civilian sexual exploitation of starving women and girls on a scale commensurate with the "comfort women" abuses of the Japanese military in WW2 (see “Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Bengal famine) writings of Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ). Properly informed, decent, pro-Humanity Australians will utterly reject the women- and child-killing Coalition warmongers, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-04-28 NM, Brull re Zionists: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/07/jews-journalist-junkets-why-australian-media-covers-palestine-so-badly/ .

Excellent article by anti-racist Jewish Australian Michael Brull. For an expose of Zionist machinations in Australia see “A Lover's Country”, an important, well-written and eminently readable novel by academic and human rights activist Stuart Rees based on the real life event of the award of the prestigious Sydney Peace Prize in 2003 to Palestinian writer, scholar, legislator and activist Hanan Ashrawi. This Peace Prize award aroused the ire of the ferocious Australian Zionist Lobby and its Mainstream journalist, politician and academic supporters that dominate media and public life in Australia (and elsewhere in the West) by lying, subversion, perversion, cajoling, censorship, threatening, defamation, litigation and intimidation. The heroes of “A Lover's Country” are a non-Jewish academic, his anti-racist Jewish human rights activist lover and of course the Palestinian people (for review see Gideon Polya, “Review: “A Lover's Country” By Stuart Rees – Overcoming Zionist Perversion Of The Mainstream Palestine Narrative”, Countercurrents, 27 April, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270416.htm ).

What can decent people do to rapidly effect justice for the Palestinians ? Decent people everywhere must (a) inform everyone they can; (b) urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and all of its racist supporters just as the world successfully applied sanctions to bring down Nazi-style Apartheid in South Africa; and (c) counter Zionist perversion of Western democracies by urging that racist Zionists and the neo-fascist supporters of Israeli Apartheid be sidelined from public life as has already happened to like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan.

Thus Australia is having a Federal election this year and the fundamental, necessary criterion for electability is surely unequivocal commitment to one-person-one-vote democracy. However 100% of the governing Coalition MPs and 90% of the Labor Party Opposition MPs support Apartheid Israel that excludes 73% of its Palestinian subjects from voting for the government ruling them. Australia is second only to the US in supporting Apartheid Israel. In contrast, the Australian Greens unequivocally oppose racism and Apartheid. Accordingly, decent, informed, anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australian voters will utterly reject the US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel Lib-Labs (Liberal Party-National Party Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-04-28 NM re negative gearing: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/26/investment-properties-for-one-year-olds-the-coalitions-response-to-housing-inequality/

The Sydney Morning Herald reports: “A report by the Grattan Institute released on Monday found the top 10 per cent of earners collect nearly 50 per cent of negative gearing tax deductions and three-quarters of all concessionally taxed capital gains…There's another factor often overlooked in the debate about negative gearing: only about one in every 10 taxpayers benefit from it, regardless of income level. And that proportion using negative gearing drops to only 8 per cent of those with a taxable income of less than $80,000. The upshot? The 90 per cent of taxpayers who don't negatively gear are paying more tax than they otherwise would need to, so that the small minority of taxpayers who do negatively gear can enjoy the benefits” (see Matt Wade, “Budget 2016: Who benefits most from negative gearing?”, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 2016: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/budget-2016-who-benefits-most-from-negative-gearing-20160426-gof4xf.html ). Properly informed, the egregiously ripped-off 90% will utterly reject the pro-Ten Percenter and pro-One Percenter Coalition under all-smiles 200-Million-Dollar-Man Malcolm Turnbull (I’d be smiling too…) , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last – if they don’t, they are bloody idiots.

2016-04-28 NM re Greens, Buffet Tax and minimum 35% tax on $300,000 and above: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/27/greens-target-high-income-earners-with-buffett-rule-policy-to-return-billions-to-budget/ .

A Buffet Rule involving a minimum 35% tax on (employee?) incomes of $300,000 and above is a great idea from the Greens that if ever implemented would really test the skills of the tax minimization industry. Problem is that 70% of the 99 percenters are brainwashed by the Murdoch media and it is likely that roughly half will be too stupid or too ignorant to vote against 200-Million-Dollar-Man Malcolm Turnbull’s pro-One Percenter policy of socialism for the rich. Kept under wraps in One Percenter-run, look-the-other-way Australia is that connected with the Coalition’s socialism for the rich policies, 85,000 Australians die preventably each year (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ). Properly informed, sensible Australian 99 Percenters will utterly reject the Australian-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-04-28NM re Canadian Leap: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/27/the-canadian-plan-that-could-help-australia-beat-neoliberalism/ .

Excellent article by Liam McLoughlin. Democracy in the West that should reflect the basic desires of the people has been steadily perverted and converted to Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy by One Percenter Big Money that purchases people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality, political power and thence more power and profit for One Percenters. The West is in the grip of merciless neoliberalism that demands maximal freedom for the smart and advantaged to exploit the human and natural resources of the world for private profit rather than for public good. In stark contrast, decent, humane people argue for social humanism (democratic socialism) that through evolving intra-national and inter-national contracts aims to maximize the happiness, opportunity and dignity of all people (see Brian Ellis, “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” , Routledge , UK , 2012 and Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics - Last Chance To Save Planet?”, Countercurrents, 19 August, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190812.htm ). The Leap could include an annual wealth tax of 1% applied only to the top One Percenters (1% on 1%) that would in effect be a science-mandated Carbon Tax (a tax on net wealth from a Carbon Economy) which politically would surely be extremely acceptable to the Ninety Nine Percenters. Perhaps the decent, pro-equity and pro-environment Greens can suggest “1% on 1%” for a landslide victory (see “1% ON 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters” website ( https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 ).

2016-04-25 NM re Anzac Day: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/24/anzac-day-weve-said-thanks-enough-its-time-to-move-on/ .

Excellent article by Chris Graham. As UK or US lackeys White Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the UK 193, France 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12 (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm and “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ). Of these invasions 30 have been associated with genocidal atrocities (including the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide) that are religiously ignored by the lying, genocide-ignoring, holocaust-ignoring, politically correct racist (PC racist) Mainstream journalist, politician and academic presstitutes of look-the-other-way White Australia. The war criminal Allied invasion of Turkey in 1915 exacerbated Turkish xenophobia and precipitated the Armenian Genocide that commenced on 24 April 1915, the eve of the first Anzac Day, and killed 1.5 million Armenians (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ).

2016-04-25 NM re 350.org & Newcastle: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/24/sketching-the-fight-bill-mckibben-on-how-to-take-down-the-fossil-fuel-companies/ .

The latest shocking global temperature data indicate that it is now too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade temperature rise. Annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution per se is a flawed measure of national culpability for this because it ignores rich countries outsourcing industrial pollution to China, and impoverished countries compelled to pollute to barely survive. A better measure of culpability is weighted annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution taking relative per capita income into account, this revealing that the worst polluters on this basis include the rich Anglosphere countries of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland, with climate criminal Australia ranking third worst (Gideon Polya, “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ). It is time for zero tolerance for terracidal climate criminals. Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the climate criminal, anti-science, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, coral-killing, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-04-25 NM re coal killing Great Barrier Reef: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/21/greenpeace-australia-carbon-exports-killing-reef/ .

Leading coral scientists have found that coral starting dying off when CO2 reached 320 ppm . The atmosphere has now reached 405 ppm CO2 with this presently increasing at the record rate of 3 ppm CO2 per year (see 300.org: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org and “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ). The pro-coal, coral-killing KOALition under Abbott-lite, Abbott in sheep’s clothing, cherry on a dump, cherry on top of a compost heap, lipstick on a pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Malcolm Abbott, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Turncoat) has utterly betrayed young Australians, Australia, Humanity and the Biosphere. It is time for zero tolerance for terracidal climate criminals. Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the climate criminal, anti-science, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, coral-killing, pro-coal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

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2016-04-25 NM re Howard’s legacy: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/22/how-john-howard-made-it-impossible-for-the-liberal-party-to-govern/ .

Australia has a profoundly corrupt political system that at its heart involves (a) bribing the voters and (b) deception of the public by lying, oligopoly Mainstream media (much US-owned). In the 2007 election Labor (a) roughly matched the Coalition bribes without having to run up a deficit and (b) had the support of Kingmaker Rupert Murdoch. Since 2008 the Australian Budget has been in deficit (currently circa $40 billion per year) with no amelioration in sight (see: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/government-budget ) and people are rapidly wising up to oh so charming, agile and nimble but Abbott-lite, Abbott in sheep’s clothing, cherry on a dump, cherry on top of a compost heap, lipstick on a pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Malcolm Abbott, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Turncoat) who as a leading climate criminal has betrayed himself, Australia and the World. The solution is to tax One Percenter wealth – assuming that the One Percenters own 50% of Australian wealth then an annual wealth tax of 1% applied only to the top One Percenter (1% on 1%) would yield $70 billion annually and be extremely acceptable to the Ninety Nine Percenters. However the fly in the ointment is that Australia is a Plutocracy, Kleptocracys, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy in which Big Money purchases people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality and hence votes, more political power and more profit in an obscene, corrupt and deadly positive feedback loop. Perhaps the decent and cleanskin Greens can suggest “1% on 1%” for a landslide victory (see “1% ON 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters” website ( https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 ).

2016-04-19 Guardian re truck pay and safety: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/apr/19/expert-rebuts-report-that-found-little-to-no-link-between-truck-driver-pay-and-safety .

If I had to choose between (a) Professor Belzer, an academic expert on the link between driver remuneration and highway safety, and (b) the pro-coal, pro-fossil fuels, anti-science, spin-driven, anti-equity, neoliberal KOALition led by Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing Malcolm Turnbull, I would choose Professor Belzer any day.

85,000 Australians die preventably each year under the derelict, pro-fossil fuels KOALition Government, this including 10,000 Australian dying annually from the effects of pollutants from carbon fuel burning (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths , Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm and Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

Decent Australians who care for the lives of fellow Australians will utterly reject the derelict, neoliberal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-04-19 Guardian re 100% RE: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/19/modelling-shows-move-to-100-renewable-energy-would-save-australia-money .

Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) estimated a $350 billion cost for 100% renewable energy and Professor Peter Seligman costed his proposals for 100% RE at $253 billion (see section H, “2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course ).

Missing from public discussion in look-the-other-way Australia is that (a) 10,000 Australians die annually from the effects of pollutants from carbon fuel burning (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ) and at a risk avoidance-based Value of a Statistical Life (VOSL) of about $10 million per person, this amounts to an annual cost of $100 billion, and (b) applying a damage-related cost of carbon pollution at $200 per tonne CO2-equivalent, Australia has a Carbon Debt of $7.2 trillion that is increasing at $385 billion per year and at $38,500 per person per year for under-30 year old Australians.

In prosperous Australia the total wealth is about US$14 trillion and, if we assume that half (US$7 trillion) is owned by One Percenters, then a one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters (“1% on 1%”) would yield $70 billion annually and pay for 100% renewable energy in 5 years (see (“1% ON 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 ) .

Decent Australians who care for the lives of fellow Australians and for young Australians in particular will utterly reject the derelict, neoliberal, anti-science, pro-coal KOALition under Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-04-19 Guardian re Loewenstein, Palestine: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/18/mike-bairds-motherhood-statements-on-palestine-dilute-the-politics . Comments closed before I could post.

Excellent, humane article by outstanding anti-racist Jewish Australian Antony Loewenstein. Numerous anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals in Australia and around the world also demand human rights for the sorely oppressed Palestinians (see “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ and “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ ).

The Abbott-Turnbull Government has shamefully made Australia second only to the US in support for nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel which rules over a majority of Indigenous Palestinians of whom 73% have no human rights and cannot vote for the government ruling them (see “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

Decent, patriotic , anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish Australians who believe in human rights for all and one-person-one-vote will utterly reject the pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid, anti-democracy Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-04-19 NM re Uluru: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/18/not-content-with-wrecking-the-environment-greg-hunt-is-now-desecrating-sacred-sites/ .

At the heart of the continuing maltreatment of Indigenous Australians, the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, the ongoing Aboriginal Ethnocide and the shocking life expectancy gap (see "Aboriginal Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/home ) , is lack of RESPECT for Indigenous Australians by many right-wing White Australians as illustrated by Greg Hunt’s offensive decision about Uluru.

Of course this Koalition offensiveness is not just directed at Indigenous Australians of whom 4,000 die avoidably from deprivation each year (see “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective ) . The US lackey Koalition has made Australia a party to all post-1950 US Asian wars in which 40 million Indigenous Asians have died from violence or war-imposed deprivation (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ). The Abbott-Turnbull Government has shamefully made Australia second only to the US in support for nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel which rules over a majority of Indigenous Palestinians of whom 73% have no human rights and cannot vote for the government ruling them (see “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

Decent Australians who do respect Indigenous Australians and support human rights for all will utterly reject the endlessly offensive, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Indigenous Koalition, vote 1 Green and put the Koalition last.

2016-04-17 NM re Abbott assertions: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/28/eight-revelations-from-tony-abbotts-openly-pro-war-crimes-quadrant-essay/ .

Tony “terra nullius” Abbott has falsely asserted that Australia was “nothing but bush” before the British invasion and further asserts “Unlike France or Britain, we lack a colonial past to complicate the present” but that assertion is belied by the Awful Truth. As UK lackeys or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193, France, 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12. History ignored yields history repeated and look-the-other-way, serial war criminal, racist White Australia is consequently now into its Seventh Iraq War and Third Syrian War of the last 100 years. Australian colonial rule over PNG left an impoverished country that is now suffering disaster from poverty, drought, corruption, HIV AIDS and TB (Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ). White Australia’s colonization of Australia qualitatively represents the worst genocide in human history (see “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ”, Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm ).

2016-04-17 NM re Turnbull slogans: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/13/workers-bad-banks-good-the-official-top-10-slogans-for-turnbull-2016/ .

Australians should adopt a slogan of “One percent on One Percenters” (1% ON 1%, or an annual 1% wealth tax on One Percenters) AGAINST pro-One Percenter Malcolm “Cayman Islands” Turnbull who according to the Sydney Morning Herald has several nest eggs in the Cayman Islands from his over A$200 million net worth: “Malcolm Turnbull has taken a pummelling in Parliament over his personal investments in a Caribbean tax haven, including two registered at a Cayman Islands address described by US President Barack Obama as "the biggest tax scam on record". The Prime Minister's investment portfolio was raised in the Senate before dominating question time on Wednesday as he insisted that all his offshore investments are "taxed in full in Australia" (see: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-attacks-malcolm-turnbull-over-investments-in-cayman-islands-tax-haven-20151014-gk8pg9.html ). Ordinary Australians appalled by gross inequity and One Percenter use of tax havens will utterly reject the pro-coal, climate criminal, pro-war, war criminal, pro-One Percenter KOALition under all smiles but Abbott-lite, Abbot-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig, cherry on a dump, cherry on top of a compost heap Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-04-17 NM re Turnbull backflips: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/12/agile-government-turnbull-has-notched-18-backflips-in-just-seven-months/ .

Backflip Number 18. Malcolm Turnbull (2005) “I believe we should continue to increase the resources devoted to overseas aid” (see “International Needs Australia”: http://www.internationalneeds.org.au/News/News-Detail/ArtMID/414/ArticleID/369/Malcolm-Turnbulls-promise-of-Australian-Aid?gclid=CjwKEAjwxce4BRDE2dG4ueLArHMSJADStCqMSsSR_IfpT3K26N6JD7XKlT9IdVLZos2QViywzC4UXRoCKSLw_wcB ). However the percentage of Australia’s national income spent on foreign aid has dropped from a recent peak of 0.35% under Labor (2012-2013) to 0.25% under Turnbull (2015-2016) as compared to about 1% for Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg (see Daniel Flitton, “The blind truth of Australia’s foreign aid cuts” , Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2015: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-blind-truth-of-australias-foreign-aid-cuts-20151210-glk3e9.html ; List of governments by development aid”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governments_by_development_aid#Official_development_assistance_by_country_as_a_percentage_of_Gross_National_Income_in_2013 ).

All smiles and charming but Abbott-lite, Abbot-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig, cherry-on-a-dump, cherry-on-top-of-a-compost-heap Malcolm “Cayman Islands” Turnbull has also betrayed himself, Australia and the World by approving the world’s biggest coal mine that will massively contribute to CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans, threaten the Great Barrier Reef and be associated with 13,000 deaths annually from coal burning pollutants and 0.5 million such deaths in the life of the project (WHO says that pollutants from burning carbon fuels kill 7 million people each year; see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ). Decent Australians who value human life, Humanity and the Biosphere will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016 -04-17 NM re maltreatment of the unemployed: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/15/coalitions-6-6-billion-jobs-program-sees-spike-in-complaints/ .

The appalling maltreatment of the unemployed and other gross abuses by the pro-One Percenter Abbott-Turnbull Government can be terminated very simply if 51% of the voters were to elect MPs dedicated to a modest reining in of the grossly rich One Percenters.

Thus a mere 51% of the population could conceivably (!) elect a government committed to an annual 1% wealth tax to be only applied to the top 1% (slogans: “1% on 1%” or “One Percent On One Percenters”). Thus in Australia the total wealth is about US$14 trillion and if we assume that half ($7 trillion) is owned by the One Percenters then “1% on 1%” would yield $70 billion annually – lots of jobs, school buildings, hospitals, hospital beds, clinics, teachers, teaching aides, doctors, nurses, paramedics, child care centres etc.

Another key notion is that of a tax haven amnesty akin to a gun amnesty - the One Percenters are given 1 week to publicly declare all off-shore wealth or face confiscation of all assets.

2016-04-13 NM re Bank RC: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/12/bad-banks-the-penny-finally-drops-for-electioneering-bill-shorten/ .

The US lackey, pro-Zionist, neoliberal Labor Right, like the US lackey, pro-Zionist, neoliberal KOALition, has always been protective of Big Money but with a succession of Big Money scandals and an election to win, a Royal Commission into the banks was a good move. Let’s not forget that there are some decent, pro-equity, and dare I say socialists in the Labor Party, and accordingly decent pro-equity Australians will utterly reject the profoundly corrupt, corporatist KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-04-13 NM re proposed draconian changes for unemployed: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/05/malcolm-turnbull-escalates-his-war-on-the-poor-and-unemployed/ .

With these draconian proposals, all-smiles and oh-so-charming but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s clothing, cherry-on-a-dump, cherry –on-a-compost–heap, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull shows utterly unacceptable contempt for fellow Australians down on their luck and for impoverished young Australians in particular. Decent Australians who want a fair go for all will utterly reject the obscene, merciless and un-Australian neoliberal extremism of the KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Rather than persecution of the poor there should be immediate effective action against corporate and One Percenter tax dodgers, tax avoiders, tax evaders and tax minimizers e.g. an annual 1% wealth tax applied only to the One Percenters of Apartheid Australia (One Percent Off One Percenters) (see Gideon Polya, “4 % Annual Global Wealth Tax To Stop The 17 Million Deaths Annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm ).

2016-04-17 NM re Abbott assertions: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/28/eight-revelations-from-tony-abbotts-openly-pro-war-crimes-quadrant-essay/ .

Tony “terra nullius” Abbott has falsely asserted that Australia was “nothing but bush” before the British invasion and further asserts “Unlike France or Britain, we lack a colonial past to complicate the present” but that assertion is belied by the Awful Truth. As UK lackeys or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193, France, 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12. History ignored yields history repeated and look-the-other-way, serial war criminal, racist White Australia is consequently now into its Seventh Iraq War and Third Syrian War of the last 100 years. Australian colonial rule over PNG left an impoverished country that is now suffering disaster from poverty, drought, corruption, HIV AIDS and TB (Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ). White Australia’s colonization of Australia qualitatively represents the worst genocide in human history (see “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ”, Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm ).

2016-04-17 NM re Turnbull slogans: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/13/workers-bad-banks-good-the-official-top-10-slogans-for-turnbull-2016/ .

Australians should adopt a slogan of “One percent on One Percenters” (1% ON 1%, or an annual 1% wealth tax on One Percenters) AGAINST pro-One Percenter Malcolm “Cayman Islands” Turnbull who according to the Sydney Morning Herald has several nest eggs in the Cayman Islands from his over A$200 million net worth: “Malcolm Turnbull has taken a pummelling in Parliament over his personal investments in a Caribbean tax haven, including two registered at a Cayman Islands address described by US President Barack Obama as "the biggest tax scam on record". The Prime Minister's investment portfolio was raised in the Senate before dominating question time on Wednesday as he insisted that all his offshore investments are "taxed in full in Australia" (see: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-attacks-malcolm-turnbull-over-investments-in-cayman-islands-tax-haven-20151014-gk8pg9.html ). Ordinary Australians appalled by gross inequity and One Percenter use of tax havens will utterly reject the pro-coal, climate criminal, pro-war, war criminal, pro-One Percenter KOALition under all smiles but Abbott-lite, Abbot-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig, cherry on a dump, cherry on top of a compost heap Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-04-17 NM re Turnbull backflips: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/12/agile-government-turnbull-has-notched-18-backflips-in-just-seven-months/ .

Backflip Number 18. Malcolm Turnbull (2005) “I believe we should continue to increase the resources devoted to overseas aid” (see “International Needs Australia”: http://www.internationalneeds.org.au/News/News-Detail/ArtMID/414/ArticleID/369/Malcolm-Turnbulls-promise-of-Australian-Aid?gclid=CjwKEAjwxce4BRDE2dG4ueLArHMSJADStCqMSsSR_IfpT3K26N6JD7XKlT9IdVLZos2QViywzC4UXRoCKSLw_wcB ). However the percentage of Australia’s national income spent on foreign aid has dropped from a recent peak of 0.35% under Labor (2012-2013) to 0.25% under Turnbull (2015-2016) as compared to about 1% for Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg (see Daniel Flitton, “The blind truth of Australia’s foreign aid cuts” , Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2015: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-blind-truth-of-australias-foreign-aid-cuts-20151210-glk3e9.html ; List of governments by development aid”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_governments_by_development_aid#Official_development_assistance_by_country_as_a_percentage_of_Gross_National_Income_in_2013 ).

All smiles and charming but Abbott-lite, Abbot-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig, cherry-on-a-dump, cherry-on-top-of-a-compost-heap Malcolm “Cayman Islands” Turnbull has also betrayed himself, Australia and the World by approving the world’s biggest coal mine that will massively contribute to CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans, threaten the Great Barrier Reef and be associated with 13,000 deaths annually from coal burning pollutants and 0.5 million such deaths in the life of the project (WHO says that pollutants from burning carbon fuels kill 7 million people each year; see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ). Decent Australians who value human life, Humanity and the Biosphere will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016 -04-17 NM re maltreatment of the unemployed: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/15/coalitions-6-6-billion-jobs-program-sees-spike-in-complaints/ .

The appalling maltreatment of the unemployed and other gross abuses by the pro-One Percenter Abbott-Turnbull Government can be terminated very simply if 51% of the voters were to elect MPs dedicated to a modest reining in of the grossly rich One Percenters.

Thus a mere 51% of the population could conceivably (!) elect a government committed to an annual 1% wealth tax to be only applied to the top 1% (slogans: “1% on 1%” or “One Percent On One Percenters”). Thus in Australia the total wealth is about US$14 trillion and if we assume that half ($7 trillion) is owned by the One Percenters then “1% on 1%” would yield $70 billion annually – lots of jobs, school buildings, hospitals, hospital beds, clinics, teachers, teaching aides, doctors, nurses, paramedics, child care centres etc.

Another key notion is that of a tax haven amnesty akin to a gun amnesty - the One Percenters are given 1 week to publicly declare all off-shore wealth or face confiscation of all assets.

2016-04-13 NM re Bank RC: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/12/bad-banks-the-penny-finally-drops-for-electioneering-bill-shorten/ .

The US lackey, pro-Zionist, neoliberal Labor Right, like the US lackey, pro-Zionist, neoliberal KOALition, has always been protective of Big Money but with a succession of Big Money scandals and an election to win, a Royal Commission into the banks was a good move. Let’s not forget that there are some decent, pro-equity, and dare I say socialists in the Labor Party, and accordingly decent pro-equity Australians will utterly reject the profoundly corrupt, corporatist KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-04-13 NM re proposed draconian changes for unemployed: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/05/malcolm-turnbull-escalates-his-war-on-the-poor-and-unemployed/ .

With these draconian proposals, all-smiles and oh-so-charming but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s clothing, cherry-on-a-dump, cherry –on-a-compost–heap, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull shows utterly unacceptable contempt for fellow Australians down on their luck and for impoverished young Australians in particular. Decent Australians who want a fair go for all will utterly reject the obscene, merciless and un-Australian neoliberal extremism of the KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Rather than persecution of the poor there should be immediate effective action against corporate and One Percenter tax dodgers, tax avoiders, tax evaders and tax minimizers e.g. an annual 1% wealth tax applied only to the One Percenters of Apartheid Australia (One Percent Off One Percenters) (see Gideon Polya, “4 % Annual Global Wealth Tax To Stop The 17 Million Deaths Annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm ).

2016-04-07 NM re Turnbull & universities: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/07/on-education-policy-turnbull-has-learnt-everything-and-nothing-from-tony-abbott/ .

From my expert, 40 year career, university academic perspective, the Elephant–in-the-Room realities utterly missing from public discussion about uni fees and uni deregulation in look-the-other-way Murdochracy and Lobbyocracy Australia are that:

(a) Australia needs a complement of scientific and scholarly experts for a variety of health, economy, security and prestige reasons but impoverished 20-year-olds should not have to pay for it;

(b) top quality undergraduate tuition can be provided at 10% of the current cost by using casual academics and for 1% of the current cost by simple expert examination of the understandings of students studying Massive Open Online Courses ( MOOCs) put on the web for free by top universities like 157-Nobel-Laureate Harvard and 85-Nobel-Laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and

(c) university education can and should be free, as it is in many other countries (see Gideon Polya, “Free University Education Via Accredited Remote Learning – All Education Should Be Free For All”, Countercurrents, 31 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310116.htm ).

Thus many countries, both rich and poor, have made tertiary education free for their citizens, the list including (GDP per capita in US dollars in brackets; mostly UN data, 2014): Argentina ($12,645) , Brazil ($11,387), China ($7,617), Cuba ($7,274), Czech Republic ($19,470), Denmark ($61,294), Ecuador ($6,346), Estonia ($20,122), Finland ($49,678), France ($42, 802), Germany ($47,966), Greece ($21,414), Libya ($6,602), Mauritius ($9,945), Norway ($97,226), Scotland ($24,060) and Sweden ($58,856). In addition, Chile ($14,528) gives free university education to students from its 50% poorest families and in Nigeria ($3,203), university education is free for Science, Education and Technology students. However in stark contrast, free university education is presently rejected by the rich, pro-One Percenter, neoliberal Anglosphere countries of Australia ($62,290), Canada ($50,169), Ireland ($53,648), New Zealand ($44,189), UK ($46,461) and the US ($54,306) (see “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ).

Now the pro-coal, pro-One Percenter, anti-equity KOALition Government under the oh-so-charming but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Malcolm Turncoat, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott) has in effect proposed “$100,000 degrees” in an Orwellian perversion of the above realities.

Decent Australians who want maximum opportunity for all young Australians will utterly reject the anti-education, anti-science, anti-equity, anti-child KOALition and will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last. Shorten Labor is well ahead of the Turnbull KOALition on equity, health and education, and one notes that the major Western political leaders Bernie Sanders (US) and Jeremy Corbyn (UK) both espouse free university education .

2016-04-07 NM Brull re J.K. Rowling: https://newmatilda.com/2015/11/01/an-open-letter-to-jk-rowling-from-michael-brull-on-palestine/

I've never read JK Rowling and, after her ignorant and thoughtless support for the nuclear terrorist, democracy-by-genocide, serial war criminal, genocidally racist, neo-Nazi, Apartheid rogue state Israel, I never will until she finds out what she has been deceived into supporting.

Of 12.4 million Indigenous Palestinians, 6 million are refugees excluded on pain of death from entering Palestine and of 6.4 million Indigenous Palestinian subjects of a democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel (and who represent a majority of Israeli subjects), 4.7 million (73%) are not permitted to vote for the government ruling them and are highly abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration Camp or West Bank ghettoes without charge or trial but for the asserted “crime” of being Indigenous Palestinians living in the land of their forebears for millennia to the very dawn of agrarian civilization (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition-Ruled Apartheid Australia Backs Apartheid Israel & Rejects Descriptive “Occupied” For The Occupied Palestinian Territories”, Countercurrents, 11 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya110614.htm ; “Boycott Apartheid Israel”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/ ; “Gaza Concentration Camp”:https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ; “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ .“Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

The genocidally racist Zionists and their supporters (e.g. the pro-Apartheid Israel KOALition in Australia) should be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan.

2016-04-05 NM re Waleed Aly, invasion: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/04/dissecting-the-anatomy-of-racism/ .

As UK lackeys or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193, France, 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12. History ignored yields history repeated and look-the-other-way Australia is consequently now into its Seventh Iraq War and Third Syrian War of the last 100 years. In the century after the British invasion in 1788 the Australian Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million through dispossession, deprivation, introduced disease and violence. Since 1788 some 2 million Indigenous Australians have died untimely deaths, White Australians have destroyed 600 out of 750 distinct Australian Aboriginal groups (and associated languages and dialects) and of the remaining 150 all but 20 are endangered, this qualitatively representing the worst genocide in human history (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ; “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ; “Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ”, Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm ).

Of course the genocidal invasions world-wide by Australians (some ongoing) are resolutely ignored by Mainstream media, politicians and academics and the One Percenter-tolerated Mainstream narrative (e.g. see Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” Ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm ). Mainstream genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial ands holocaust denial because at least the latter admit the possibility of public discussion.

2016-04-05 NM re Palaszczuk approval of Carmichael: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/04/queensland-labor-australias-largest-ever-coal-mine-is-sustainable/ .

This was a disgraceful and unforgivable decision by the Palaszczuk Labor Government made more awful in the context of the worst Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching and die-off due to global warming plus El Nino. Decent Australians who care for their children and future generations will utterly reject the pro-coal KOALition and Labor Right climate criminals, and will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (there are a few pro-environment Labor Left MPs).

The pro-coal, speciescidal, ecocidal, anti-science, terracidal and climate criminal KOALition Government under the oh-so-charming but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull (aka Malcolm Turncoat, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott) ) has approved the Carmichael Project of the Indian Adani Company in Queensland's Galilee Basin that is set to be the world's largest coal mine. This flies in the face of science that says stop new coal mines and rapidly close down existing ones. Pollutants from the burning of predicted Carmichael coal exports will ultimately kill 13,400 people each year and kill over 0.5 million people in the life of the project (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

The annual income in USD from Carmichael coal of $3.8 billion from $63 /t coal applied to 60 Mt Coal exported annually (most of which may vanish overseas) will be hugely exceeded: (a) by a factor of about 10 times by the resultant $34.8 billion Carbon Debt from applying an expertly-determined $200/t CO2 damage-related Carbon Price to the 174 Mt CO2 estimated from 2.9 t CO2/t coal from burning the annually exported 60 Mt thermal coal, and (b) by a factor of about 25 times by the $94 billion hidden mortality-related cost from applying the $7 million per person risk-avoidance–based Valued Of a Statistical Life (VOSL) to the 13,400 annual deaths from pollutants deriving from the burning of the annual export of 60 Mt thermal coal from the Carmichael mine (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-04-05 NM re Jonathan Sri elected Greens councillor in Brisbane: https://newmatilda.com/2016/04/02/where-to-next-after-greens-stunning-brisbane-council-election-win/ .

Congratulations on your election, Jonathan. However one hopes that despite the brainwashing by the mendacious, bottom-of-the-barrel Murdoch media, one hopes that public sentiment is much stronger than merely being “unsatisfied with mainstream politics”. It is no longer morally acceptable to vote for the pro-war, pro-Apartheid Israel, war criminal, child-abusing, human rights-abusing, pro-coal, pro-gas, speciescidal, ecocidal, anti-science, anti-environment, terracidal and climate criminal Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right) - decent Australians who care for their children and future generations will utterly reject the pro-war, pro-coal KOALition and Labor Right war criminals and climate criminals, and will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-04-1 NM re Daily Telegraph on invasion of Australia : https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/31/daily-tele-uncovers-academic-invasion-plot-20-years-too-late/ .

Decent Australians utterly fed up with racism, dangerous falsehood, lying by commission and lying by omission by Australian mainstream media presstitutes should eschew lying Mainstream media in general and more specifically “Boycott Murdoch Media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ .

The Awful Truth: before the British Invasion in 1788, Indigenous Australians had been living in Australia for about 60,000 years. There were 350-750 different tribes and a similar number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but about 20 are endangered. After the brutish British Invasion, the Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million in 1788 to about 0.1 million in the first century through introduced disease, deprivation and genocidal violence. The last massacres of Aborigines occurred in the 1920s but no Treaty has ever been signed. Indigenous Australians were only counted after a referendum in 1967 and were finally given some protection by the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. In 1998 about 4,000 Aborigines out of an Aboriginal population of 500,000 died avoidably every year but the avoidable death rate has declined from 0.8% pa in 1998 to 0.6% pa in 2013, with still circa 4,000 annual avoidable deaths out of a population about 670,000. Indigenous Australians are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (Gideon Polya, “Film Review: “Utopia” By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia”, Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm ; Gideon Polya, “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”, Aboriginal Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective ; “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/home ).

2016-04-01 NM re Turnbull trainwreck: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/31/trainwreck-tax-turnbull-government/ .

This proposal starkly reveals the far right, anti-equity, anti-child, anti-Australian, pro-One Percenter neoliberalism of all-smiles but Abbott-like, Abbott-in-sheep’s clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull. The oh-so-charming Malcolm Turncoat’s “agile”, “ nimble” and “innovative” solution to Abbott’s appalling $80 billion defunding of Education and Health is to hand significant taxation to the states without any increase in revenue, and make the states responsible for the KOALition’s massive de-funding of these key public services.

Of course massive de-funding education and promotion of Educational Apartheid (the Federal Government under Turnbull’s scheme would solely fund private schools) has the potential to ruin lives, specifically (a) the majority of children attending state schools will be more disadvantaged and (b) children attending religious private schools will continue to be subject to Federal Government-subsidized intellectual child abuse involving the foisting of egregious falsehood on children e.g. gender discrimination, sexism, homophobia, misogyny, sexual guilt, racism, jingoism, creationism, intelligent design, other religious clap-trap (virgin birth etc) and the right to invade, devastate and ethnically cleanse other countries (see Gideon Polya, “37 Ways Of Tackling Australian Educational Apartheid And Social Inequity”, Countercurrents, 22 May, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya220513.htm

Turnbull’s dishonest ploy to keep Abbott’s $57 billion decrease in health funding will actually kill Australians, of whom 85,000 presently die preventably each year, the breakdown (involving some overlaps) including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal,

Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Decent Australians who care for children and the lives their fellow Australians will utterly reject the pro-One Percenter, pro-war, war criminal, pro-coal, climate criminal, child-abusing, Australian-killing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-31 NM re coral reef bleaching: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/29/the-great-barrier-reef-supports-69000-jobs-to-save-them-we-must-make-a-choice/ .

The species extinction rate is over 100-1,000 above normal and Australia is a world leader in species extinction (speciescide) , deforestation (ecocide and speciescide), coral reef destruction (ecocide and speciescide) and man-made climate change contributing to this. Thus the habitat of the extremely endangered orange bellied parrot includes Tasmanian forests subject to logging (ecocide and speciescide) . The Great Barrier Reef is endangered by ocean warming and acidification effects of GHG pollution as well by adjacent agricultural and coal mining and shipping activity (ecocide and speciescide) (Phillip Levin, Donald Levin, “The real biodiversity crisis”, American Scientist, January-February 2002: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-real-biodiversity-crisis and Frances Pike, “Australia: world leader in deforestation and species extinction”, Independent Australia, 3 June 2015: https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/australian-logging-and-the-end-of-species,7788 ) .

Decent pro-environment Australians will utterly reject the pro-coal, pro-gas, ecocidal, speciescidal, anti-science, anti-environment, climate criminal, coral-killing KOALition under the oh-so-charming, all-smiles but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Malcolm Turncoat, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull – they will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “25 Ways World-Leading Climate Criminal Australia Threatens Planet And Invites Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060615.htm ).

2016-03-28 NM re Palestine: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/25/bt-selem-reveals-video-of-israeli-soldier-executing-wounded-palestinian-man/ .

To put this 1 murder of a Palestinian in context, each year about 5,000 Palestinians die at the hands of racist Zionists (RZs) from violence, 800, or from imposed deprivation, 4,200. Since the mid-1930s, about 2 million Indigenous Palestinians have been killed by racist Zionists (RZs) through violence, 0.1 million, or through imposed deprivation, 1.9 million (see “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

Things would be vastly better if the entity ruling all of Palestine were a genuine democratic government based on 1 person 1 vote and not the genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel that denies the vote to 73% of its now 6.1 million Indigenous Palestinian subjects (who now outnumber the Jewish Israeli subjects of Apartheid Israel).

This has an important bearing for Australia in which the racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic KOALition under the oh-so-charming, all-smiles but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull has made Australia the world’s second best supporter of Apartheid Israel after Zionist-perverted America. The racist Zionists (RZs) and their supporters should be sidelined from public life as have been like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan.

The bottom-line for all political candidates in a democracy is that they unequivocally support 1 person 1 vote. Decent anti-racist Australians who believe in 1 person 1 vote and who abhor racism, fascism and Apartheid will utterly reject the pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel , anti-democracy KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-28 NM re terror: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/26/jihad-not-really-about-religion/ .

Useful article. The Paris and Brussels atrocities can be seen as politically-inspired (rather than religiously-inspired) “blowback” for horrendous crimes committed by the US Alliance state terrorists against the Muslim world from West Africa to South East Asia. Indeed there is considerable evidence for massive US Alliance backing of Muslim-origin non-state terrorists from Afghanistan in the 1980s to the US, UK, France, Turkish, Qatari and Saudi “pipeline war” in Syria today. Non-state terrorism and state terrorism are both evil. Both state terrorism and non-state terrorism are utterly abhorrent to decent, pro-peace people (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ , "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/.../statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and Robert J. Kennedy Jr, “”Syria: another pipeline war”, EcoWatch, 25 February 2016: http://ecowatch.com/.../robert-kennedy-jr-syria-pipeline.../ ).

While the evil of non-state terrorism has been largely successfully countered in Western countries by top-down state action involving education, high technology intelligence, intranational and international intelligence sharing, and skilled counter-terrorism forces, countering the vastly more deadly evil of state terrorism(notably US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism) requires peaceful, bottom-up action by billions of ordinary people world-wide: (a) to expose and oppose state terrorism by informing everyone they can; (b) to demand rigorous and universal state respect for the UN Charter, International Law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Convention, the UN Genocide Convention, the Rights of the Child Convention and indeed all UN human rights conventions;(c) to urge and apply the peaceful approach of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries involved or complicit in state terrorism, including war crimes and state sponsorship of non-state terrorism.

The appalling Paris atrocity (130 killed) has led war criminals Hollande and Obama to call for the destruction of the barbarous but indigenous ISIS Sunni rebels i.e. genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention. A major report by 3 physician organizations recently estimated that 2 million Muslims had died in the US War on Terror but UN data show that Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries subject to Western military intervention in 2001-2015 now total about 27 million, and violent Muslim deaths since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity total as many as 5 million, this demanding peace now and ICC prosecutions of the state terrorists responsible for this Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (see Gideon Polya , “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor both non-state terrorism and state terrorism will utterly reject the war criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, KOALition state terrorists who have engaged US lackey and Zionist lackey Australia in its Third Syrian War and its Seventh Iraq War in a century – they will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-28 NM re Junaid, terror: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/26/re-defining-us-versus-them-in-the-fight-against-terrorism/ .

Good article. The principal beneficiary of Muslim-origin non-state atrocities against Westerners is Zionist-perverted America in its War on Terror that in reality is a War on Muslims and a war fro resources and hegemony. The US has invaded 70 nations, subverts all other countries and has an appalling record of using non-state terrorists and state terrorists in support of its vile wars. Thus there has been massive US Alliance backing of Muslim-origin non-state terrorists from Afghanistan in the 1980s to the US, UK, France, Turkish, Qatari and Saudi “pipeline war” in Syria today. Non-state terrorism and state terrorism are both evil. Both state terrorism and non-state terrorism are utterly abhorrent to decent, pro-peace people (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ , "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and Robert J. Kennedy Jr, “”Syria: another pipeline war”, EcoWatch, 25 February 2016: http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/25/robert-kennedy-jr-syria-pipeline-war/ ).

While the evil of non-state terrorism has been largely successfully countered in Western countries by top-down state action involving education, high technology intelligence, intranational and international intelligence sharing, and skilled counter-terrorism forces, countering the vastly more deadly evil of state terrorism(notably US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism) requires peaceful, bottom-up action by billions of ordinary people world-wide: (a) to expose and oppose state terrorism by informing everyone they can; (b) to demand rigorous and universal state respect for the UN Charter, International Law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Convention, the UN Genocide Convention, the Rights of the Child Convention and indeed all UN human rights conventions;(c) to urge and apply the peaceful approach of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all people, politicians, parties, companies, corporations and countries involved or complicit in state terrorism, including war crimes and state sponsorship of non-state terrorism.

Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in countries subject to Western military intervention in 2001-2015 now total about 27 million, and violent Muslim deaths since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity total as many as 5 million, this demanding peace now and ICC prosecutions of the state terrorists responsible for this Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (see Gideon Polya , “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ).

Decent Australians who utterly abhor both non-state terrorism and state terrorism will utterly reject the war criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, KOALition state terrorists who have engaged US lackey and Zionist lackey Australia in its Third Syrian War and its Seventh Iraq War in a century – they will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-25 NM re cows, methane: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/24/cowspiracy-or-is-there-a-deeper-problem/ .

Excellent article by Geoff Russell. World Bank analysts have carefully re-evaluated the contribution of methanogenic (CH4-producing) livestock production to world annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and found that the world's annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure (see Robert Goodland and Jeff Anfang. “Livestock and climate change. What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?”, World Watch, November/December 2009: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf ; “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.co/site/methanebombthreat/ ) .

The latest shocking global temperature data indicate that it is now too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2 degrees Centigrade temperature rise. Annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution taking methanogenic livestock and other land use into account is an useful measure of national culpability for this disaster (Gideon Polya, “ Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ) but ignores rich countries outsourcing industrial pollution to China, and impoverished countries compelled to pollute to barely survive.

A better measure of culpability is weighting such annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution estimates taking relative per capita income into account, this ranking a climate criminal Australia 3rd worst in the world for GHG pollution with a weighted score of 307 tonnes per person per year as compared to about 0.3 for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh (Gideon Polya , “Exposing And Thence Punishing Worst Polluter Nations Via Weighted Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution Scores”, Countercurrents, 19 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190316.htm ).

Decent, science-informed Australians who care for their children and future generations will utterly reject the pro-coal, pro-gas, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal , climate criminal KOALition , vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-24 NM re Pilger on Hillary and Trump: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/23/john-pilger-why-hillary-clinton-is-more-dangerous-than-donald-trump/ .

Outstanding , anti-racist Jewish American writer William Blum (author of the best-selling “Rogue State”) is in agreement with John Pilger that racist, pro-Zionist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Zionist lackey and mass murderess Hillary Clinton is worse than the odiously bigoted Donald Trump who hasn’t had the opportunity (yet) to kill millions of innocent people (2016): “If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump. My main concern is foreign policy. American foreign policy is the greatest threat to world peace, prosperity, and the environment. And when it comes to foreign policy, Hillary Clinton is an unholy disaster. From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Honduras the world is a much worse place because of her; so much so that I’d call her a war criminal who should be prosecuted. And not much better can be expected on domestic issues from this woman who was paid $675,000 by Goldman Sachs – one of the most reactionary, anti-social corporations in this sad world – for four speeches and even more than that in political donations in recent years. Add to that Hillary’s willingness to serve for six years on the board of Walmart while her husband was governor of Arkansas. Can we expect to change corporate behavior by taking their money?” article (William Blum, American exceptionalism presents an election made in hell”, Anti-Empire Report, 11 March 2016: http://williamblum.org/aer/read/144 ) .

As exposed by John Pilger, US nuclear terrorism under war criminal Obama is truly terrifying. Our world is acutely threatened by nuclear weapons, poverty and man climate change. A comprehensive Nuclear Weapons Ban is needed to avoid an accidental full-scale nuclear catastrophe and a consequent Nuclear Winter that will wipe out most of Humanity and the Biosphere. Every person must stand up for Humanity and the Biosphere in the One Percenter War on Terra. The Australia Government under US lackey and warmonger but all-smiles, lipstick-on-a-pig is strongly opposed to a nuclear weapons ban and appears moving to approving air-borne as well as ship-borne nuclear weapons in Australia (see “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ). Decent Australians will utterly reject the US lackey, Zionist lackey, nuclear terrorism-complicit, war criminal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

John Pilger (outstanding expatriate Australian journalist) (2016): “ The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The cost over thirty years is more than $1 trillion. A mini nuclear bomb is planned. It is known as the B61 Model 12. There has never been anything like it. General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, “Going smaller [makes using this nuclear]weapon more thinkable” (John Pilger: why Hillary Clinton is more dangerous that Donald Trump”, New Matilda, 23 March 2016: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/23/john-pilger-why-hillary-clinton-is-more-dangerous-than-donald-trump/ .

2016-03-24 NM re Turnbull, union corruption: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/23/malcolm-turnbull-has-staked-his-future-on-a-half-baked-union-hatchet-job/ .

Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull is putting forward draconian, grossly human rights-violating, union-bashing legislation on the basis of unspecified union corruption that can and should be dealt with by the police and better still by the police acting on the investigations of a non-discriminatory National ICAC dealing with ALL corruption. However the most egregious corruption in Australia is that of the pro-coal KOALition itself.

Thus re climate change inaction in Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia, 350.org recently observed: “Despite more than two decades of talking, our climate is at a crisis point because our leaders have allowed themselves to be captured by the fossil fuel industry. Since the last elections the fossil fuel industry have donated more than $3.7m to the major political parties. In exchange, Governments have forked out more than $7.7bn in taxpayer subsidies to the industry -- more than our total foreign aid budget. That equals a return on investment for the fossil fuel lobby of more than $2000 for every $1 they donated. If our politicians are serious about climate change, then they need to stop taking money from and giving money to the big polluters. That's why we are calling on politicians on all sides of the aisle to stand up and sign the Pollution Free Politics Pledge” (see 350.org, “Pollution-free politics”: https://campaigns.350.org/efforts/pollution-free-politics ). If it were India, Indonesia or China it would be called gigantic, entrenched corruption.

Decent Australians who value human rights will utterly reject the utterly corrupt, climate criminal, war criminal, human rights-abusing and child-abusing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-25 Crikey re Turnbull, ABCC: http://www.crikey.com.au/2016/03/22/when-will-the-government-stop-lying-about-the-abcc/?wpmp_switcher=mobile .

The KOALition deception re the ABCC goes further than productivity claims. Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull is putting forward draconian, grossly human rights-violating, union-bashing legislation on the basis of unspecified union corruption that can and should be dealt with by the police and better still by the police acting on the investigations of a non-discriminatory National ICAC dealing with ALL corruption. However the most egregious corruption in Australia is that of the pro-coal KOALition itself.

Thus re climate change inaction in Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia, 350.org recently observed: “Despite more than two decades of talking, our climate is at a crisis point because our leaders have allowed themselves to be captured by the fossil fuel industry. Since the last elections the fossil fuel industry have donated more than $3.7m to the major political parties. In exchange, Governments have forked out more than $7.7bn in taxpayer subsidies to the industry -- more than our total foreign aid budget. That equals a return on investment for the fossil fuel lobby of more than $2000 for every $1 they donated. If our politicians are serious about climate change, then they need to stop taking money from and giving money to the big polluters. That's why we are calling on politicians on all sides of the aisle to stand up and sign the Pollution Free Politics Pledge” (see 350.org, “Pollution-free politics”: https://campaigns.350.org/efforts/pollution-free-politics ). If it were India, Indonesia or China it would be called gigantic, entrenched corruption.

Decent Australians who value human rights will utterly reject the utterly corrupt, climate criminal, war criminal, human rights-abusing and child-abusing KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-18 NM re Sydney U cancels Ali Abunimah lecture: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/18/university-of-sydney-silences-prominent-palestinian-journalist/ .

Censorship is anathema to decent academics (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship ) .

The University (?) of Sydney in its cowardly and unprincipled censorship is simply reflecting the craven position of the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted and perverted Australian Mainstream journalists, politicians and academics that is well illustrated by that of the ABC. Thus on 2016-03-12 ABC RN Saturday Extra had an interview with an Apartheid Israeli journalist on Merkel and refugee policy: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/german-elections/7240898 . I made following comment in response to a truth-telling and humane comment by one Nick Lindsley but it was of course CENSORED by the genocide-ignoring ABC:

“Well said Nick Lindsley. Of 12.4 million Indigenous Palestinians, 6 million are refugees excluded on pain of death from entering Palestine and of 6.4 million Indigenous Palestinian subjects of a democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel (and who represent a majority of Israeli subjects), 4.7 million (73%) are not permitted to vote for the government ruling them and are highly abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration Camp or West Bank ghettoes without charge or trial but for the asserted “crime” of being Indigenous Palestinians living in the land of their forebears for millennia to the very dawn of agrarian civilization” (see “Censorship by the ABC”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-abc ).

2016-03-16 NM re plus 1.35C: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/15/after-a-record-breaking-february-theres-only-one-word-left-for-australias-climate-policies-treason .

Meteorologists Dr Jeff Masters (co-founder of wunderground) and Bob Henson (2016): “NASA’s analysis showed that February ran 1.35°C (2.43°F) above the 1951-1980 global average for the month… Drawing from NASA’s graph of long-term temperature trends, if we add 0.2°C as a conservative estimate of the amount of human-produced warming that occurred between the late 1800s and 1951-1980, then the February result winds up at 1.55°C above average. If we use 0.4°C as a higher-end estimate, then February sits at 1.75°C above average… we are still committed to at least 0.5°C of additional atmospheric warming as heat stored in the ocean makes its way into the air… In short, we are now hurtling at a frightening pace toward the globally agreed maximum of 2.0°C warming over pre-industrial levels” (Jeff Masters and Bob Henson, “February smashes Earth’s all-time global heat record by a jaw-dropping margin”, Weather Underground, 13 March 2016: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/february-smashes-earths-alltime-global-heat-record-by-a-jawdropping ).

Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull has betrayed himself, Australia, the young and the world with his effective climate change denialist climate change inaction policies.

Science-informed, sensible Australian will utterly reject the traitorous, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-fossil fuels, anti-science, anti-environment, effective climate change denialist, and climate criminal KOALition climate terrorists and carbon terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-14 NM re Ali Abunimah: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/14/on-eve-of-australian-speaking-tour-palestinian-journalist-still-waiting-for-visa-approval/ .

What a disgraceful trashing of Australia’s international reputation that the pro-Zionist, PC racist (politically correct racist) , pro-war, war criminal, pro-coal, climate criminal, US lackey KOALition Government under lipstick-on-a-pig, Abbott-lite Turnbull readily permits a notorious Israeli war criminal and child-killer to visit Australia but gives the run-around to an eminent pro-peace and pro-human rights Palestinian American, Ali Abunimah.

A politically correct racist (PC racist) Apartheid Australia under an extreme right wing, pro-Zionist, US lackey KOALition government has moved to be the world's leading supporter after the US of race-based, nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel.

The right-wing, pro-Zionist, pro-war, pro-coal, terracidal and frighteningly Orwellian Australian KOALition Government has announced that it will no longer refer to what the whole world refers to as the Occupied Palestinian Territories as “occupied” – notwithstanding the horrible reality that these territories have been manifestly, illegally and highly abusively occupied by Apartheid Israel since 1967 in gross violation of International Law, repeated UN Resolutions and major humanitarian conventions.

Outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman of New York University has stated that “The Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis” The Zionists are also the worst anti-Jewish anti-Semites in the world today by falsely conflating the genocidal crimes of Apartheid Israel with all Jews, including what one hopes is a majority of anti-racist Jews.

The anti-racist civilized world cannot tolerate nuclear terrorism, racism, genocide, Apartheid, anti-Arab anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism, and will surely respond by applying Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) not just against genocidally racist Apartheid Israel but against all Apartheid Israel-supporting Apartheid Australian people, politicians, parties, collectives, companies and corporations.

All decent Australians, and especially all anti-racist Jewish Australians, will utterly reject the pro-Apartheid KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition-Ruled Apartheid Australia Backs Apartheid Israel & Rejects Descriptive “Occupied” For The Occupied Palestinian Territories”, Countercurrents, 11 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya110614.htm ).

2016-03-14 NM re Black Americans & Australians: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/13/blacklivesmatter-the-crisis-of-being-black-in-america-and-australia/ .

Excellent article. Indigenous Australians are far worse off than African Americans in relation to health, education, jobs, wealth, imprisonment. The avoidable Indigenous Australian death rate is 1.0% - 0.4% = 0.6% as compared to 0.4% pa for impoverished South Asia and 1.0% for impoverished sub-Saharan Africa but occurring in one of the world’s richest countries (per capita income $83,000 per head per year) i.e. 0.6% of 670,000 = 4,020 or about 4,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably from deprivation every year (see “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”, Aboriginal Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective ). Some appalling African American statistics:

1. African Americans living in poverty (27%) is at a record high.

2. African Americans are disproportionately impoverished, poorly paid and lacking in health insurance.

3. African American wealth is about 5 times lower than that of Whites.

4. The Black-White discrepancies (jobs, wealth, poverty) has been locked in for 50 years.

5. Millions of African Americans are excluded from voting (e.g. felony laws mean that nearly 80% of adult African American males in Chicago are denied the vote) .

6. African Americans and Hispanic Americans have about half their “fair share” of representatives in Congress and 5-6 times less Congressional representation than Jewish Americans.

7. African Americans are 8 times more likely to murder and 6 times more likely to be murdered than Whites.

8. African American males are disproportionately involved in violent crime.

9. African American Congress representatives and leaders substantially betray African Americans, anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, human rights and Palestinians, and back genocidally racist Apartheid Israel 's Palestinian Genocide.

10. Educational segregation and Educational Apartheid are now entrenched in America

11. Hugely disproportionate imprisonment of African American males (see Gideon Polya, “Truth & Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Can Overcome Huge Inequities Suffered By African Americans Under American Apartheid”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290914.htm ).

2016-03-12 NM re Turnbull & science : https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/10/behind-the-glossy-ads-turnbulls-ideas-boom-looks-more-like-a-bust/.

Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-cloth, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, like his predecessor, is fundamentally anti-science as reflected in the following BAU, pro-coal, pro-fossil fuels, anti-science KOALition policies

1. Effective climate change denialism through climate change inaction and support for Big Coal projects .

2. Opposition of rapid transit to renewable energy.

3. Massive downsizing in CSIRO.

4. Slashing science research funding.

5. $7.5 billion annual subsidies for fossil fuels.

6. Removal of support for the Climate Commission (now the independently funded Climate Council) .

7. Wanting to destroy or cripple the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) , the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Department of Climate Change (subsumed into a catch-all Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education by Labor) .

8. Slashing funding for education.

9. Slashing funding for universities

10. Wanting to hugely increase university fees when in actuality there should be free university education (see “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ).

11. Wanting a $160 million plebiscite on marriage equality when a plethora of negligible- cost scientifically-based surveys indicate 75% support for the proposition.

12, Anti-science spin and mendacity.

13. Pro-censorship (anathema to science) (see Gideon Polya, “Censorship in Australian universities”, MWC News, 29 October 2012: http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/22488-gideonpolya-censorship.html ).

14. Retention of defence-related laws imprisoning scientists for up to 10 years for mentioning to non-Australians any of thousands of things on a no-speak list (Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Whackademia” Reveals Parlous State of Australia 's Censored, Under-funded & Dumbing-down Universities”, Countercurrents, 14 December, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141212.htm and Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship .

Sensible Australians will eventually wise up in droves to the casuistry of Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-cloth, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-03-10 NM re Labor, Greens & Left: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/10/more-vanilla-is-not-the-solution-for/.

As one who loves and is inspired by the progressive best of America, it is great to see that via Bernie Sanders social humanism (democratic socialism) is alive and well with massive public support in neoliberalism-dominated America. His policies of free university education, universal health care, climate change action and greater social equity are shared by British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Australian Greens.

When Canadian PM Justin Trudeau was asked why half his Cabinet were women he simply replied: "It's 2015".

Likeminded Australians will utterly reject the pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey, war criminal, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-science, anti-equity, anti-environment, climate criminal, human rights-abusing, child-abusing and neoliberal Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the neoliberal KOALition last.

2016-03-12 NM re Joyce & Windsor: https://newmatilda.com/2015/07/10/windsor-mulls-return-politics-amid-joyce-floundering-over-shenhua/ .

Good on Tony Windsor. Barnaby Joyce is Deputy PM of a pro-coal KOALition Government that has utterly betrayed Australian farmers, Australia and indeed the world by its pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-fossil fuels, anti-science, ecocidal, speciescidal, anti-environment, climate change inaction, climate criminal and anti-agriculture policies culminating in Malcolm Turncoat’s decisions to approve the Shenhua coal mine in the Liverpool Plains, Australia’s richest agricultural region and to approve the Adanai coal mine in the Galilee Basin with associated huge coal exports via the iconic Great Barrier Reef.

The pollutants from the burning of exported Australian coal are estimated to kill 75,000 people annually. The pollutants from the burning of coal from the Shenhua and Adani projects are estimated to kill each year about 2,200 and 13,400 people, respectively (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

Leading US climate scientists James Hansen and Makiko Sato from 104-Nobel-Laureate Columbia University (2016): “We conclude that continued business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions will begin to make low latitudes inhospitable. If accompanied by multi-meter sea level rise, resulting forced migration and economic disruption could be devastating” – those voting for the effectively climate change denialist Turnbull KOALition are not just “bloody idiots” but ecocidal, speciesciodal, homicidal and terracidal “bloody idiots” (see James Hansen and Makiko Sato, “Regional Climate Change and National Responsibilities”, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, 1 March 2016: http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/02/29/regional-climate-change-and-national-responsibilities/ ).

Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the war criminal ands climate criminal KOALition led by Australia-, agriculture -, Humanity- and Biosphere- betraying Barnaby Joyce and lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-10 NM re immigration, holocaust and “allegedly”: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/09/immigration-boss-defends-nazi-germany-statement-with-fresh-angry-rant/ .

Just when we thought the dirty, soiled, racist, human rights –abusing and grossly child-abusing Immigration Department couldn’t get any worse, it comes out with “allegedly” in relation to “public numbing and indifference” of German citizens toward “state abuses” in Nazi Germany.

Ella Blum was a child and thence a nurse (in WW2) during the Nazi era in Germany and in her book “A Billionaire’s Daughter” gives an eye-witness account of “public numbing and indifference” to Nazi state abuses in pre-war Germany and her ignorance as a nurse of Nazi atrocities during the war. Indeed Ella Blum wrote her book as a warning to Western people today against creeping fascism and human rights-abuses due to state and media propaganda. As a teenager in Nazi Germany she was a dutiful, a-political student who day-dreamed when forced to listen to Hitler speeches at school and was evidently like a typical normal, a-political Australian school kid today. Anti-Jewish anti-semitism only became a serious issue in her family when her father was mocked at work because “Blum” could be seen as a “Jewish” name – he recognized the danger and promptly joined the Nazi Party.

In 1945 many of the defeated Germans declared that “they didn’t know” and adopted a CAAAA (C4A) protocol involving Cessation and Acknowledgement of the crimes, Apology and Amends for the crimes and Assertion “never again to anyone”. However in US lackey Australia, there is no Cessation, Acknowledgement, Apology, Amends or Assertion “never again” in relation to massive endemic child abuse within Australia that has directly impacted over 4 million now adult Australians, and the passive mass murder of millions of circa 10 million Muslim children this century in the genocidal, Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims (see “Australian And Western Mainstream Media Ignore Massive And Deadly Western Child Abuse In War And Peace”, Countercurrents, 9 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090316.htm ).

Those who ignore, minimize, obfuscate, suggest, support, promote or are otherwise complicit in crimes against children have crossed the line between decent Humanity and Nazi-style barbarism. Decent Australians who have not succumbed to Mainstream media-secured “public numbing and indifference” in relation to gross child abuse by the obscene, war criminal, climate criminal, child-abusing KOALition, will vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-10 NM re Abbott, Savva & Credlin: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/08/niki-savva-tony-abbott-peta-credlin-juicy-affair/ .

Excellent article by Ben Eltham. The woeful Mainstream media coverage of the Savva book and Abbott-Credlin is yet another example of Australian Mainstream obsession with the irrelelevant (did they or didn’t they?) while resolutely ignoring crucially important Elephant in the Room realities (e.g. ongoing ecocidal, speciescidal and terracidal KOALition climate criminality and the serial war criminality of the KOALition commencing Australia’s Seventh Iraq War and Australia’s Third Syrian War in 100 years under Abbott) (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ).

One is reminded of Diane Langmore’s biography of Maie Casey (wife of Lord Richard Casey, a wartime governor of Bengal, 1944-1946, and later GG of Australia, 1965-1969 ) in which she devotes a mere 40 words to the WW2 Bengal Famine (the 1942-1945 WW2 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death, this being accompanied by large-scale military and civilian sexual abuse of starving women and girl ) while running a persistent innuendo of an unknowable lesbian relationship between Maie Casey and her husband’s secretary ( see “Bengali Holocaust writings”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ; page146, Chapter 14, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now available for free perusal on the Web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ ; and Langmore, D. (1997), “Glittering Surfaces. A Life of Maie Casey” (Allen & Unwin, Sydney).

Another example is the fixation on Cardinal George “I didn’t know” Pell – another “did he or didn’t he?” Australians are quite rightly upset because the Catholic Church hierarchy failed to act to expose and stop long-term, egregious child sexual abuse of about 40,000 Australian children by Catholic Church personnel. However look-the-other-way Australia resolutely ignores 4.4 million Australians adults who have been sexually abused as children, and the deaths this century of 11.9 million under-5 year old infants and 15.8 million avoidable deaths (half of children) in Muslim countries being war criminally violated by pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey Australia (see Gideon Polya, “Australian And Western Mainstream Media Ignore Massive And Deadly Western Child Abuse In War And Peace”, Countercurrents, 9 March, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090316.htm ).

Decent Australians will not be deceived by this sort of offensive voyeuristic irrelevance and will utterly reject the war criminality and climate criminality of the KOALition under both Tony Abbott and Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-10 NM re Labor attacking Greens: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/09/labor-credibibility-ends-as-trainwreck-blows-up-in-their-face/ .

Labor should not be misleadingly attacking the Green hands that feed them – if Labor wins in the coming 2016 election it will be through Greens second preferences that overwhelmingly go to Labor.

Decent Australians who are utterly opposed to racism , Apartheid, war, carbon pollution, speciescide, ecocide, climate genocide, gross social inequity, human rights abuse and child abuse will utterly reject the politically correct racist (PC racist), pro-Apartheid Israel, pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey, serial war criminal, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-carbon pollution, anti-science, anti-environment, climate criminal, pro-inequity, neoliberal, human rights-abusing, and child-abusing Lib-Lab (KOALition and Labor Right) state terrorists, carbon terrorists and climate terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (there is a decent minority of Labor Left people whose views are in accord with those of the Green Left Greens) (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ , "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-03-07 NM re Trump & Jews: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/05/donald-trump-hates-muslims-but-what-about-the-jews/

Trump’s “crime” seems to have been in alluding (quite correctly) to disproportionate Jewish political power in the US (e.g. 5 times higher per capita Congressional representation than Black or Hispanic Americans; see Gideon Polya, “Truth & Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) Can Overcome Huge Inequities Suffered By African Americans Under American Apartheid”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290914.htm ) – what should be properly be described as huge domination of politics in Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted Amerika by traitorous and genocidally racist Zionists (see Gideon Polya, “American Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths And $40 Trillion Cost Of Israel To Americans”, Countercurrents, 27 August, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270813.htm ).

Donald Trump is a racist religious right Republican (R4) and a oafish bigot, xenophobe, and anti-Arab anti-Semite but fundamentally he is just as anti-Jewish anti-Semitic as equally evilly pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian Hillary Clinton (or indeed the Australian KOALition and Labor Right, aka the Lib-Labs) by backing the genocidally racist Zionists that endlessly and falsely defame decent anti-racist Jews who resolutely agree with outstanding anti-racist Jewish scholar Professor Jared Diamond who in his in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers (see “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/home ).

Thus as reported by the genocidally racist Jerusalem Post, Trump has declared: “[Kerry and Obama] selling Israel out… “[Israelis have] always been there for us and we should be there for them… [Israelis] are the only stable democracy in a region that is not run by dictators. They are pioneers in medicine and communication and a close fair trading partner… “[he] would do more for Israel than anybody else… We love Israel. We will fight for Israel 100 percent, 1,000 percent. It will be there forever… [Iran nuclear deal] a disaster” that could threaten Israel’s survival…You truly have a great prime minister in Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s a winner, he’s highly respected, he’s highly thought of by all. Vote for Benjamin – terrific guy, terrific leader, great for Israel” (see Eytan Gilboa, “Analysis: Donald Trump, Israel and the Jews”, The Jerusalem Post, 28 December 2015: http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Donald-Trump-Israel-and-the-Jews-438335 ).

Evil, mendacious, pro-Zionist Hillary Clinton is just as bad as Trump (or indeed the Australian Lib-Labs) in (a) anti-Arab anti-Semitism and (b) anti-Jewish anti-Semitism in (a) supporting the Zionist –backed US War on Muslims in which 32 million Muslims have died from violence, 5 million, or imposed deprivation, 27 million, since 9-11 (Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ) ) and (b) supporting nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide and falsely defaming anti-racist Jews by falsely conflating horrendous Apartheid Israeli and Zionist crimes with all Jews).

2016-03-07 NM re Labor & Gay rights: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/04/50394/

Like the KOALition, Labor has a dirty and unconscionable record on refugees and on a plethora of other matters from war criminal wars to climate criminal climate change inaction. However Labor is good on Marriage Equality whereas on Marriage Equality (and on so many other matters), the KOALition under Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Malcolm Turncoat, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull has the regressive, dishonest and sectarian Abbott policies of opposing a KOALition conscience vote in Parliament and advocating an anti-science, grossly wasteful and hate-inspiring, $160 million plebiscite.

Ultimately, in the voting booth, decent, anti-bigotry Australians will utterly reject the variously mendacious, human rights-abusing and homophobic KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-04 NM re Howard, Abbott, Turnbull: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/03/tony-abbott-is-back-doing-what-hes-best-at-wrecking-governments/

Good to see the KOALition tearing itself apart – from the bigoted, homophobic Religious Right crazies to anti-science, Abbott-lite, lipstick-on-a-pig Turnbull they are all tarred with the appalling war crimes of the Howard Governments.

Decent Australian John Valder, former Federal President of the Liberal Party, (2004) "Bush, Blair, and Howard, as leaders of the three members of the coalition of the willing, inflicted enormous suffering on the people of Iraq. And, as such, they are criminals. I believe the only deterrent to a repetition of the Iraq situation is punishment in some form as war criminals" (“Howard is a war criminal, says former colleague”, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 2004: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/18/1090089035899.html ).

Noting by way of comparison that the German WW2 Jewish Holocaust and the British- and Australia-complicit WW2 Bengali Holocaust were associated with 5-6 million and 6-7 million deaths, respectively, Howard and the KOALition are up to their armpits in the blood of the ongoing, post-1990 Iraqi Genocide and the ongoing, post 2001 Afghan Genocide that are associated with deaths from violence or imposed deprivation totalling 4.6 million and 5.6 million, respectively (see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Afghan Holocaust Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ; “Bengali Holocaust: (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya”, Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ).

Of course the KOALition, today under all-smiles, oh-so-charming but Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, is utterly unrepentant for the appalling crimes of the KOALition under Howard and indeed is presently involved in Australia’s Third Syrian War and Seventh Iraq War in 100 years. Decent pro-peace, pro-Humanity Australians will utterly abhor war crimes and utterly reject the pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, US lackey, serial invader, and war criminal KOALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-04 NM re Pat Dodson: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/02/patrick-dodson-father-of-reconciliation-announced-as-labor-replacement-for-departing-senator/ .

It is great that such an eminent Indigenous leader as Pat Dodson will now have a national platform as a Senator to plead the case for justice for Indigenous People EVERYWHERE and specifically (1) an end to the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide in Australia and other countries and (2) an end to the endless genocidal invasions and mass murder of Indigenous Peoples overseas by the racist, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey, warmongering, war-making, and war criminal Lib-Lab (KOALition and Labor Right) state terrorists.

Thus, for example, there are shocking comparative statistics on hugely disproportionate Canadian and Australian imprisonment of Indigenous people. I dread to find what the Canadian figures are but (1) forced removal of Australian Indigenous children from their mothers is at an all-time high , and (2) it can be readily determined from the 2015 and 2016 Closing the Gap Reports that about 4,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year from deprivation and dire circumstances deriving from what the marvellously articulate Stan Grant has called “the weight of history”. Yet Lib-Lab (KOALition and Labor Right) Governments will spend millions of dollars saving the life of just one (1) non-Australian round-the-world yachtsman who has deliberately and knowingly put himself/herself into acute danger (for details see Gideon Polya, “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”, Aboriginal Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective and “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/home ).

Of course Canada and Australia both have an appalling record of invading other countries and devastating other Indigenous societies. Thus over the centuries Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to Canadians 25, the British 193, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 (see Gideon Polya, “President Hollande And French Invasion Of Privacy Versus French Invasion Of 80 Countries Since 800 AD”, Countercurrents, 15 January, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya150114.htm and Gideon Polya, “Congress Of Vienna 2015 For Global Stability Fails To Address Key, Existential Nuclear, Poverty And Climate Change Threats”, Countercurrents, 12 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya120116.htm ).

It should come as no surprise that (1) Australia and Canada initially joined with the US and New Zealand in refusing to endorse the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Australia eventually signed up under PM Rudd and breath-of-fresh-air, “it’s 2015” PM Justin Trudeau is set to change Canadian policy) and (2) Australia and Canada vie for being the strongest supporter after the US of nuclear terrorist, genocidally racist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel and its ongoing genocide of the Indigenous Palestinians (see Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

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2016-03-04 NM re Bernardi, Turnbull, early elections: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/02/malcolm-turnbull-not-going-early-election-proof/ .

The Trump-like, in-your-face, bigotry, homophobia, Islamophobia, warmongering and climate change denialism of the KOALition Religious Right crazies should not be allowed to mask the horrible reality that the KOALition Religious Right, the politically correct racist (PC racist) remainder of the KOALition and indeed the PC racist Labor Right have essentially the same utterly repugnant policies on a wide range of important matters e.g. they are all pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Indigenous, US subservient, warmongering, war making, war criminal, human rights-abusing, child-abusing, pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-oil, pro-fossil fuels, effective climate change denialist and anti-youth through climate change inaction, anti-environment, speciescidal, ecocidal, anti-science, neoliberal, corporatist and climate criminal state terrorists.

As summarized succinctly above, Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott, Malcolm Turncoat and lipstick-on-a pig Malcolm Turnbull overwhelmingly has the same illiberal, racist, war criminal and climate criminal agenda as the KOALition Religious Right crazies, he just does a clever job of masking the utterly unacceptable awfulness with a veil of oh-so-charming, oh-so-polite, oh-so-nice casuistry that thank goodness now appears to be wearing thin.

Decent Australians who abhor war and human rights abuse, and who care for their children, Humanity, the Biosphere, and future generations will utterly reject the war criminal, climate criminal and dangerously anti-science Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-04 NM re KOALition Christian Right & safe schools: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/02/cory-bernardis-queer-theory/ .

Put simply the KOALition Religious Right crazies are not just bigots, homophobes, climate change deniers and warmongers, they are profoundly IGNORANT bigots, homophobes, climate change deniers and warmongers. Missing in all of this is the humane bottom line that no child should be bullied or made to feel unworthy, least of all for LGBTI reasons arising from the lottery of genetics (genes and gene expression ) and epigenetics (environmental impact on gene expression) over which they have had zero control.

I believe that was the only atheist non-Catholic at a Catholic School and 8 times a day for 4 years remained standing when everyone else knelt before the statue of the Blessed Virgin (I thought that joining in the ritual would disrespect their religion) but I was never bullied (an older boy, the son of a wealthy grazier, tried it on once at the tuck shop queue and I responded in one automatic fluid action of punching him in the face, an action that surprised him, me and no doubt everyone else). However as an outsider and as an atheist who was inspired by the moral teachings of Jesus I did feel very sorry for an extremely feminine boy in the class who was subject to daily ridicule and would have greatly benefited if there had been a Safe Schools booklet 60 years ago.

Indeed at the Woolworth’s fast checkout the other day, a young lad check-out assistant was horribly berated by a middle-aged man who declared: “ You have a dead-end job and no future” . I told the young assistant: “You have a much better future than him”.

Decent Australians will be disgusted by the failure of Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Abbott, Malcolm Turncoat and lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull to slap down the anti-child homophobia and bigotry of the KOALition Extreme Right and indeed by the human rights-abusing and child-abusing policies of the Turnbull-lead KOALition that impact all Australian children (via lying, Educational Apartheid, and environmental vandalism) , refugee children confined without charge or trial in concentration camps, and all future children (via Australia’s disproportionate contribution to global warming and climate genocide; see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 04 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ; Gideon Polya, "Years Left For Zero Emissions By Country – Half Have Exceeded Their Share Of The World's Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget", Countercurrents, 27 February, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270216.htm ).

2016-03-04 NM re Turnbull’s betrayal of progressive views: https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/03/terminator-turnbull-the-progressive-malcolm-myth-that-just-wont-die/ .

Not mentioned in this catalogue of extreme right wing positions of the Turnbull KOALition is the pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, pro-Apartheid, US lackey, warmongering and war criminal stance of the KOALition under Abbot-lite, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull – Australia is now war criminally into its Third Syrian War and Seventh Iraq War in 100 years and vies with Canada for being the biggest supporter of genocidally racist, nuclear terrorist, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel after the US (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

One notes that according to International Law a country can only invade another if (1) it has UN approval, (2) is invited by the government of that country, or (3) it has been attacked by that country, and then only after extensive negotiations. Turnbull Australia violates all of these criteria over the Third Syrian War and arguably also over the Seventh Iraq War (it was invited by the government installed by the US after the Americans imprisoned, tortured , killed or exiled the secular Baathists and other Iraqis they didn’t like).

The ongoing, post-1990 Iraqi Genocide and the ongoing, post 2001 Afghan Genocide are associated with deaths from violence or imposed deprivation totalling 4.6 million and 5.6 million, respectively (see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Afghan Holocaust Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/).

Australians voting for the KOALition are accomplices to appalling war crimes that bear comparison with the war crimes of Nazi Germany. Decent Australians who abhor war, human rights abuse, and war crimes will utterly reject the war criminal KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-02 NM re Howard and “cowed” conservatives : https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/01/john-howards-christian-right-feels-silenced-and-theyre-telling-anyone-wholl-listen/ .

Decent Australian John Valder, former Federal President of the Liberal Party, was not “cowed” when he stated (2004) "Bush, Blair, and Howard, as leaders of the three members of the coalition of the willing, inflicted enormous suffering on the people of Iraq. And, as such, they are criminals. I believe the only deterrent to a repetition of the Iraq situation is punishment in some form as war criminals" (“Howard is a war criminal, says former colleague”, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July 2004: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/18/1090089035899.html ).

I was disgusted but not surprised to see the dirty digger Murdoch’s bottom-of-the-barrel The Australian editorializing the other day in praise of Howard’s “cowed” line.

Noting by way of comparison that the German WW2 Jewish Holocaust and the British- and Australia-complicit WW2 Bengali Holocaust were associated with 5-6 million and 6-7 million deaths, respectively, Howard and the KOALition are up to their armpits in the blood of the ongoing, post-1990 Iraqi Genocide and the ongoing, post 2001 Afghan Genocide that are associated with deaths from violence or imposed deprivation totalling 4.6 million and 5.6 million, respectively (see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Afghan Holocaust Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ; “Bengali Holocaust: (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya”, Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ).

Of course the KOALition, today under all-smiles, oh so charming but lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, is utterly unrepentant for the appalling crimes of the KOALition under Howard and indeed is presently involved in Australia’s Third Syrian War and Seventh Iraq War in 100 years. Decent pro-peace, pro-Humanity Australians will utterly abhor war crimes and utterly reject the pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, US lackey, serial invader, and war criminal KOALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-03-02 NM re Fairfax false story about Muslims: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/28/paul-sheehan-another-empty-voice-in-a-cacophony-of-hatred/

This was an appalling instance of utterly false reportage - evidently due to failure to check the story - that no doubt stirred up a huge amount of anti-Arab anti-Semitism and Islamophobia (as if there were not enough of this obscene and deadly bigotry already in Australia and the West in general).

Such bigotry has permitted the post-9-11 US War on Terror and is greatly exacerbated by actual atrocities by Muslim-origin non-state terrorists (e.g. the recent Paris atrocity in which 130 were killed). Indeed these terrorist atrocities make the Muslim-origin non-state terrorists of the greatest assistance to Zionist-backed, genocidal US imperialism in the Muslim world. .

Indeed a major report by 3 physician organizations recently estimated that 2 million Muslims had died violently in the Zionist-backed US War on Terror since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity (I would suggest more like 5 million) but UN demographic data show that Muslim avoidable deaths from deprivation in 20 countries subject to Western military intervention in the period 2001-2015 now total about 27 million, this demanding peace now and ICC prosecutions of those responsible for this Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ) .

Of course these appalling realities of the ongoing Muslim Holocaust are utterly ignored by the US lackey Yellow Press of racist White Australia in a process of ongoing genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring that is far , far worse than repugnant genocide denial or holocaust denial because the latter at least permit the possibility of public discussion.

Decent pro-peace, pro-Humanity Australians will utterly abhor war crimes, eschew the mendacious, politically correct racist (PC racist), pro-war Mainstream media, and utterly reject the pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, US lackey, serial invader, and war criminal KOALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ , "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and “Manufacturing Consent. The political economy of the mass media” by Professors Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky) .

2016-03-02 NM re Islamophobic press: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/28/paul-sheehan-is-only-one-part-of-a-big-fairfax-problem/ .

Excellent article by Michael Brull. Anti-Arab anti-Semitism against 300 million ethnically Arab Semites and 1,500 million largely culturally Arab Semitic Muslims, and anti-Jewish anti-Semitism against 15 million largely culturally Semitic Jews are 2 sides of the same repugnant anti-Semitic coin. While anti-Jewish anti-Semitism was driven underground in Australia after the revelations of the WW2 Jewish Holocaust, public and private anti-Arab anti-Semitism is entrenched in Australia thanks to racist Zionist RZ) and US perversion and subversion of Mainstream media, politicians and even academics to the ends of promoting the Zionists -backed US War on Muslims in which 32 million Muslims have died from violence and 27 million from deprivation in 20 countries subject to Western military intervention since the US Government’s false flag 9-11 atrocity in which 3,000 perished (see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ; “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ ).

Just as being “Christian” in Australia covers a huge spectrum from the “just Christmas, Easter, weddings and funerals” majority to Cardinal George “I didn’t know” Pell , so Muslims cover a huge range. Thus we recently attended the funeral of a sorely missed, much-loved and much-admired Muslim-origin woman who had made a huge contribution to womens’ rights, human rights and gender issues in her high profile professional area of international banking and development. Yet of the several hundred mourners, mostly Muslim relatives, only about 3 women wore the hijab and only 1 man wore the garb of a haji (one who has gone to Mecca). However while necessarily respecting the non-Muslim funeral arrangement wishes of the departed, key celebrants were courteously at pains to acknowledge and be inclusive of the numerous practising Muslims at the funeral - courtesy and respect that is missing in anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic KOALition Australia.

Professors Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their seminal book “Manufacturing Consent. The political economy of the mass media” (1988) describe and document the “propaganda model” whereby Mainstream media are active accomplices in endless US Establishment war-making (due to which 40 million Asians have died from violence or violently-imposed deprivation in post-1950 US Asian Wars, in all of which US lackey Australia has been complicit). Anti-Arab anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are similarly key propaganda elements in the ongoing US War on Muslims. Indeed due to their awful crimes, Muslim-origin non-state terrorists are the best assets of genocidally destructive US imperialism.

One notes that until 2014, zero (0) Australians had ever been killed in Australia by Muslim-origin non-state terrorists, whereas Australians have invaded 85 countries, and is an active participant in the US War on Muslims in which 32 million Muslims have died from violence or imposed deprivation since the US Government’s false flag atrocity on 9-11, 2001 that killed 3,000 people ( see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ).

2016-02-23 NM re Pell & Catholic Church in Australia: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/22/can-australian-catholicism-save-itself-from-its-ultra-conservatives/ .

While the Catholic Church in Australia may be in the grip of ultraconservatives like Abbott’s pal Cardinal Pell, the Catholic Church as a whole is led by a scientifically -trained Green Left Pope Francis who has progressive, science-based views on climate change and the abolition of poverty that - apart from his opposition to birth control - appeal to secular, humanist atheists such as myself.

Indeed if you Google “Green Left Pope” you will find at #1 the following castigation from Paul Kelly of the by the bottom-of-the-barrel, Murdoch-owned newspaper “The Australian” : “Popular Pope Francis is certain to enhance his moral authority and celebrity status with an encyclical that offers the greatest moral valida­tion to the deep green-progressive stance on global climate change, inequality and the immorality of market-based economics. This is an astonishing document. Page after page reveals Francis and his advisers as environmental populists and economic ideologues of a quasi-Marxist bent. The language is vivid, almost hysterical. Profound intellectual ignorance is dressed up as honouring God. Forget the apologias that play down the historic import of this encyclical. For conservative Catholics in Australia such as Tony Abbott and his Catholic backers this document offers only a relentless ­repudiation of their ethical framework and policies. This sweeping interpretation of Catholic moral­ity demands a searching criticism to offset the wild applause” (Paul Kelly, “Green-left Pope Francis endorses a flawed view of progress”, The Australian, 24 June 2015; you have to pay to read this diatribe ).

However you will also find great praise for a Green-Left Pope Francis from the science-informed social humanist quarter. Thus Green Left Pope Francis' agenda for massive and urgent climate change action includes the proposition that the environmental and social cost of pollution should be “fully borne” by the polluters (Section 195, “Laudato si’”) i.e. that a full, damage-related Carbon Price be emplaced on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in order to prevent “millions of premature deaths” (noting that dire estimates are that 10 billion people may die this century in an already worsening climate genocide if climate change is not requisitely addressed) . Armed with this authoritative moral advice, the billions of Humanity might save themselves and the Biosphere by demanding that the polluters must pay in full by a Wealth Tax (for historical GHG pollution) and a Carbon Tax (for ongoing GHG pollution) with a consequent radical shift in wealth, economic power and democratic say that has upset his neoliberal critics like Paul Kelly, Catholic Jeb Bush and Cardinal Pell.

A scientifically-trained, chemically-trained and science-informed Green Left Pope Francis recognizes a looming climate “catastrophe” and “millions of premature deaths” from carbon burning pollutants, demands massive decarbonisation and conversion to renewables starting “without delay” “in the next few years”, rejects Carbon Trading as a dishonest “ploy”, advocates a “fully borne” Carbon Price (Carbon Tax) on polluters, proposes “boycotts” to bring neoliberal polluters to heel, and suggests “intergenerational solidarity” to address the worsening intergenerational injustice inherent in climate change inaction. Green Left Pope Francis' demand in his 2015 Encyclical “Laudato si'” for massive urgent action now is precisely that urged by scientists both individually and collectively. Thus the Synthesis Report of the March 2009 Copenhagen Scientific Climate Change Conference concluded that “Inaction is inexcusable” [9] and the 2010 Open Letter by 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences, including 11 Nobel Laureates, concluded that “Delay is not an option” (see Gideon Polya “Western Mainstream Media Censor Green Left Pope Francis' “Laudato Si'” Message For Urgent Action On Climate Change”, Countercurrents, 20 August, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200815.htm ; Pope Francis , Encyclical Letter “Laudato si”, 2015: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html ; Gideon Polya, “Green Left Pope Francis Demands Climate Action “Without Delay” To Prevent Climate “Catastrophe””, Countercurrents, 10 August, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya100815.htm ).

Decent, science-informed, pro-Humanity, pro-Biosphere Catholic and non-Catholic Australians will utterly reject the anti-equity, anti-environment, climate criminal KOALition led by neoliberal, Catholic-Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Catholic Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-02-23 NM re Santos & CSG: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/22/santos-pilliga-csg-venture-looking-shakier-by-the-day/ .

Good news. Apart from objecting profoundly to the obscene, anti-science ecocide and speciescide implicit in despoiling the Pilliga, expert scientific opinion says that climate criminal Australia must stop new fossil fuel extraction. Thus the World has less than 600 Gt CO2 (600 billion tonnes CO2) in emissions left for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree C temperature rise ( would you board a plane if it had a 25% chance of crashing?) Further, the average world population in the period 2010 and 2050 will be 8.321 billion . Accordingly the per capita share of this Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget is less than 600 billion tonnes CO2/8.321 billion people = less than 72.1 tonnes CO2 per person.

Using the latest corrected data for the annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that properly accounts for land use and livestock impacts, one can determine how many years left at current rates of GHG pollution (in units of CO2-e or CO2-equivalent i.e. taking other GHGs into account) before a given country uses up its “fair share” of this Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget. Thus, for example, for Australia 72.1 tonnes CO2-e per person / 52.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year = 1.4 years left relative to 2010, noting that this analysis does not take into account historical pollution of the atmosphere. Thus Australia used up its “fair share” of the world's Terminal Carbon Pollution in 2011 and since then has been stealing the entitlement of the other countries which have not yet used up their entitlement.

Indeed the whole world is very close to using up its Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget. Thus years left before the world uses up this budget = 72.1 tonnes CO2 per person/ 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year = 8.1 years relative to 2010 and thus only about 2 years relative to 2016 (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Decent, science-informed Australian will utterly reject the terracidally neoliberal, anti-science , climate criminal, ecocidal, speciescidal KOALition led by climate turncoat, lipstick-on-a-pig Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-02-23 NM re BP off-shore drilling for oil: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/23/bp-offshore-oil-plan-to-be-probed-in-senate/ .

Leaving aside the risk of massive oil and gas spillage (as in BP’s Gulf disaster; see Gideon Polya, “Gulf oil & gas disaster, lobbyists, Obama & huge threat of natural gas (methane) to Humanity & Biosphere”, Bellaciao, 19 June, 2010: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19926 ), Australia already by 2011 had used up its “fair share” of the world’s Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget of less than 600 Gt CO2 (600 billion tonnes CO2) that can be emitted for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic plus 2 degree C temperature rise i.e. there should be no more fossil fuel extraction by climate criminal Australia.

Indeed it is estimated that at current rates of GHG pollution, the whole world has only about 2 years left relative to 2016 before this Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget is exceeded (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Science-informed Australian will utterly reject the pro-oil, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-science Lib-Labs ( KOALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-02-24 NM re Greens, Bernie & Jeremy: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/23/dethroning-the-oligarchs-how-we-can-reclaim-our-democracy/ .

Liam is unjustifiably much too hard on the Greens. The Australian Greens are very much like socialist Jeremy Corbyn in being opposed to nuclear weapons and war; wanting a better go (health, education, jobs, and safety net) for the 90 Percenters; and wanting free university education. Bernie Sanders is great in wanting universal access health care, a better go for the 90 Percenters and free education at state universities - however I presume that under the terrific and self-described “democratic socialist” Bernie the US would nevertheless retain its huge nuclear weapons stockpile, its circa 160 military bases around the world, and its variously violent subversion of all other countries.

Australia is a plutocracy, kleptocracy, Murdochracy, lobbyocracy, corporatocracy and dollarocracy in which Big Money purchases people, politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality, and thence more political power and more private profit.

PM Kevin Rudd did Australia a great service by introducing the word “scum” into polite public discourse (albeit incorrectly in relation to people trying to find safe haven for desperate refugees). Lib-Lab Australian MPs and their supporters who are bought by Big Money are simply “scum” and are “traitorous scum” when bought by foreign corporations, racist Zionists and the endlessly subverting and perverting Americans.

Decent Australians can do something – they can Boycott Murdoch Media (see “Boycott Murdoch Media” : https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ) and similar neoliberal media; they can utterly reject the war criminal, climate criminal, human rights-abusing, young-abusing and child-abusing Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right); and they can vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

A giant step towards Liam’s wonderful dream of PM Stan Grant heading a Labor-Green Government in 2016 would involve getting all eligible young and Indigenous people to vote and promulgation of the Green, Jeremy and Bernie policy of free university education - about 20 countries have seen the light and have free university education (see “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home and Gideon Polya, “Free University Education Via Accredited Remote Learning – All Education Should Be Free For All”, Countercurrents, 31 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310116.htm ).

2016-02-24 NM re Lib-Labs and “Black lives don’t matter”: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/23/trickle-down-racism-white-leaders-taught-us-black-lives-dont-matter/ .

Excellent article by Liam McLoughlin. It can be readily determined from the 2015 and 2016 Closing the Gap Reports that about 4,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year from deprivation and dire circumstances deriving from what the marvellously articulate Stan Grant has called “the weight of history”. Yet Lib-Lab Governments will spend millions of dollars saving the life of just one (1) non-Australian round-the-world yachtsman who has deliberately and knowingly put himself/herself into acute danger (for details see Gideon Polya, “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”, Aboriginal Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective and “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/home ).

However it is not just Indigenous Australians who are dying preventably in look-the-other-way Australia. Under both Coalition and Labor (Lib-Lab) Governments some 85,000 Australian die preventably each year, the breakdown (involving some overlaps) including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal,

Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Racism is as racism no matter the veneer of political correctness. Decent Australians who care for the lives of all fellow Australians will utterly reject the passive mass murder of Australians by the neoliberal, Australian-killing Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-02-24 NM re Turnbull and double dissolution: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/23/turnbull-cant-dissolve-parliament-until-his-own-house-is-in-order/ .

Abbott may be deposed and touring the world addressing extreme right troglodytes, but his regressive policies remain largely intact (dames and knights have gone but who cares?) Indeed Abbott’s political assassin Malcolm Turnbull can be fairly described as Abbott-lite, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, Malcolm Abbott, Tony Turnbull, Malcolm Turncoat and “lipstick-on-a pig” Malcolm Turnbull.

Decent pro-peace, pro-environment, anti-racism, pro-refugees and pro-equity Australians will utterly reject the pro-war, pro-Apartheid, US lackey, war criminal, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-science, anti-environment, climate criminal, human rights –abusing, young –abusing and child-abusing KOALition led by all-smiles and oh-so-charming but lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

2016-02-18 NM re Labor, Apartheid Israel, BDS: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/17/change-is-coming-to-the-alp-the-pyrrhic-victory-of-the-israel-lobbies/ .

Decent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish people around the world urge and apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel (72% of the grossly violated Indigenous Palestinian subjects of Apartheid Israel cannot vote for the government ruling them) and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide (90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinians; 2 million Palestinians killed by violence, 0.1 million, or by imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since 1936) (“Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; “Boycott Apartheid Israel”:https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/ ; “Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ).

However, according to the extreme right-wing Australian Jewish News Shorten has stated “The Labor Party opposes the BDS campaign – it has no place in our society” ( “Shorten: “ALP opposes BDS””, Australian Jewish News, 31 October 2014: http://www.jewishnews.net.au/shorten-alp-opposes-bds/38234 ). Right-wing Jewish Zionists Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby are also opposed to BDS (Rick Wallace and Stefanie Balogh, “ALP Conference 2015: anti-BDS “victory” on pro-Israel front”, The Australian (yuck!), 27 July 2015: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/alp-conference-2015-antibds-victory-on-proisrael-front/news-story/02b4fb9f6699991d44c948ea29588f82 ).

Disgustingly, Dreyfus represents the seat of Isaacs, named after Australia’s most eminent Jewish figure, Sir Isaac Isaacs, first Australian-born Governor General of Australia and who was utterly opposed to Zionism (see “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ and “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ ).

While a tiny minority of Labor MPs speak out against Apartheid Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Right-dominated Labor is evidently happy to lose votes by supporting nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, mass murdering, international law-violating, mass child abusing, serial war criminal, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel .

The Coalition is evidently about 100% behind Apartheid Israel and has trashed Australia’s international reputation by leading support for the racist rogue state and has promised to withhold Federal Funding from any academic (including anti-racist Jewish academics) supporting BDS (see “Jewish groups defend Israel boycott”, Green Left Weekly, 10 April 2011: “Boycott Apartheid Israel”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/.“Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ; “Boycott Apartheid Israel”:https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/ ; “Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ) .

The pro-Zionist, war criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic Tories in the UK (who are also vilely anti-Jewish anti-Semitic in relation to anti-racist Jews) are planning to make it a criminal offence to support BDS as have already the pro-Zionist, war criminal French “socialists” and of course Apartheid Israel (see Ben White, “Boycotting Israel isn’t anti-Semitic – but how many human rights groups need to condemn it until this is clear?”, Independent, 17 February 2016: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boycotting-israel-isnt-anti-semitic-how-many-human-rights-groups-need-to-condemn-it-until-this-is-a6876816.html ; Ali Abunimah, “Resistance to Israeli censorship grows in France”, Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2016: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/resistance-israel-censorship-grows-france ).

From a post-Jewish Holocaust, anti-racist Jewish perspective, people who opposed BDS against UK-, US-, White Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa or who oppose BDS against UK-, US-, White Australia-backed Apartheid Israel have “no place in our society”.

Decent anti-racist Jewish Australians and non-Jewish Australians who utterly abhor Apartheid, genocide and child abuse will utterly reject the pro-Apartheid Israel, genocide-ignoring, child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-22 NM re Richard Hil & evolution not revolution: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/21/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-because-it-never-arrived/ .

It is much too late for the sort of oh so English, consensual, discursive, social humanist evolution my friend Richard espouses – thus it is now too late to avoid a catastrophic plus 2C temperature rise; the world at Paris agreed to plus 2.7C while disingenuously espousing plus 1.5C; the current plus 0.9C already kills 0.4 million people annually and is already disastrous for Island nations like Fiji and mega-delta countries like Bangladesh; 17 million people already die avoidably each year but in the absence of requisite action this is set to rise 6-fold because unaddressed man-made climate change is set to kill 10 billion people this century (see “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ; “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ;“Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ).

Clearly we need rapid replacement of neoliberalism (that maximizes the right if the smart and advantaged to exploit natural and human resources for personal profit) with an evolving social humanism that seeks to maximize human happiness, dignity and opportunity with a corollary of environmental protection and cessation do the current disastrous ecocide and speciescide that is heading the world towards omnicide and terracide ( “2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course ; 300.org: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org ;“300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ; Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Social Humanism. A New Metaphysics” By Brian Ellis - Last Chance To Save Planet?”, Countercurrents, 19 August, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya190812.htm )

We need a (peaceful) climate revolution now – with zero tolerance for climate criminals such as the climate criminal Lib-Labs (KOALition and Labor Right) and their GHG polluting fossil fuel and agribusiness corporate masters; exposure and international criminal prosecution of corporate and political climate criminals; rapid cessation of GHG pollution and rapid return of atmospheric CO2 from the present disastrous 400 ppm CO2 to a safe and sustainable 300 ppm CO2 ; and a substantial annual wealth tax of circa 1-10% to help meet the inescapable Carbon Debt (assuming a damage-related Carbon Price in USD of $200 per tonne CO2-e as estimated by Dr Chris Hope from 90-Nobel-Laureate University of Cambridge, the World has a Carbon Debt of $360 trillion that is increasing at $13 trillion per year, and Australia has a Carbon Debt of $7.5 trillion that is increasing at $400 billion per year and at $40,000 per head per year for under-30 year old Australians) (see “Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ ; Gideon Polya, “4 % Annual Global Wealth Tax To Stop The 17 Million Deaths Annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm ).

My heroine is anti-racist to Jewish Canadian writer Naomi Klein for demanding both climate change action and an end of Apartheid Israel’s obscene Apartheid and ongoing Palestinian Genocide. However her passionate “This changes everything – capitalism versus the climate” fails to spell out what should be done. In similar vein Naomi Klein sits on the board of 350.org that advocate a return to a grossly insufficient 350 ppm CO2 whereas 300.org informed by the latest climate science and biology demands a return to the pre-Industrial Revolution level of circa 300 ppm CO2.

We need ecosocialism now via climate revolution now (see "Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution ).

2016-02-22 NM re Tony Windsor: https://newmatilda.com/2015/07/09/weve-sent-them-away-die-tony-windsor-lashes-out-hard-line-refugee-policies/ .

It is a no-brainer for sensible, informed, decent people that (1) you simply don’t highly-abusively imprison children on remote concentration camps with out charge or trial but for the asserted offence of being refugees; and (2) you don’t wreck Australia’s best agricultural land at the behest of climate criminal coal miners who shouldn’t be digging up coal anywhere let alone on the Liverpool Plains.

Tony Windsor evidently gets it and one hopes that he stands against spineless, 2-faced Barnaby Joyce, Deputy PM of a climate criminal KOALition Government headed by all smiles, Abbott-lite, Abbott –in-sheep’s –clothing, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull. that has approved the Shenhua Watermark in the New England Liverpool Plains (as well as the the Adani Carmichael coal mine in Queensland) – with Green and Labor preferences he should win hands down.

The Australian Turnbull Coalition Government-approved Shenhua coal mining in the agriculturally rich Liverpool Plains in New South Wales will generate 10 Mt coal compared to Australia’s present 336 Mt of annual coal exports that are associated after combustion with 75,000 deaths annually and thus will be associated with 10 Mt coal per year x 75,000 deaths/ 336 Mt coal = 2,232 or about 2,000 deaths annually (see ABC Fact Check, “Fact check: Is the proposed Shenhua Watermark coal mine located in the middle of Australia’s best agricultural land?”, 1 September 2015: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-26/shenhua-watermark-coal-mine-barnaby-joyce-fact-check/6660140 ; “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

Australia is wising up to the climate criminal KOALition headed by oh so charming master of casuistry but lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull – already the polls now put the KOALition and Labor at 50:50 (2-party preferred) . Decent Australians who abhor mass murder, environmental vandalism and egregious child abuse will utterly reject the KOALition, vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-02-22 NM re Shkreli: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/17/martin-shkreli-the-most-interesting-man-in-america-has-made-arses-out-of-the-worlds-media/ .

Mr Shkreli does seem inordinately greedy but he is only doing what the currently globally dominant but evil neoliberalism demands i.e. maximizing exploitation of natural and human resources for personal wealth. One hopes that as Chris suggested he does pour his ill-gotten gains into more pharmaceutical research.

The One Percenters now own half of the wealth of the world but this has an awful impact on human avoidable mortality – thus 17 million people die avoidably each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related a history of every country since Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

Mr Shkreli is but one of over 3 million One Percenters in the US where an estimated 1.7 million people die preventably each year under neoliberal One Percenter rule, and an estimated 25 million Americans have died thus since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed 3,000 people and was the excuse for subsequently killing 32 million Muslims by violence (5 million) or imposed deprivation (27 million) ( Gideon Polya, “West Ignores 11 Million Muslim War Deaths & 23 Million Preventable American Deaths Since US Government's False-flag 9-11 Atrocity”, Countercurrents, 9 September, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090915.htm and Gideon Polya,“Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115A.htm ).

Of course the same obscenity obtains in look-the-other-way Australia where there are a 240,000 remorselessly greedy and selfish One Percenters (this number notably including Australian PM, all-smiles, lipstick-on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull) and 85,000 people die preventably each year (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

2016-02-22 NM re nuclear weapons: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/11/in-nuclear-diplomacy-double-standards-abound/ .

A nuclear exchange would wipe out most of Humanity (current population about 7 billion) , successively through the initial instantaneous destruction of cities, subsequent deaths from burns and radiation sickness from radioactive fallout, and finally through a “Nuclear Winter” decimating agriculture, photosynthesis and photosynthate-based life in general. While imposing deadly Sanctions on Iran (that has zero nuclear weapons and repeatedly states that it does not want nuclear weapons and wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East), the US (7,315 nuclear weapons) is boosting its nuclear and conventional forces in Asia and Australia and continues to pour billions of dollars of military aid into the war criminal, genocidally racist, ethnic cleansing and nuclear terrorist rogue state of Apartheid Israel that reportedly has up to 400 nuclear weapons. The upper estimates of stored nuclear weapons are as follows: US (7,315), Russia (8,000), Apartheid Israel (400), France (300), UK (250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea (less than 10). India , Pakistan and North Korea have not ratified the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) (see “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ).

Complete nuclear disarmament in accordance with a Nuclear Weapons Ban is technically possible. 122 countries now support a complete Nuclear Weapons ban and this is also supported by the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, the World Council of Churches and the International Trade Union Confederation. However a Nuclear Weapons Ban is opposed by nuclear-armed countries and their compliant lackeys.

Thus, for example, while Australia has no actual nuclear weapons of its own, it has hosted nuclear tests and testing of nuclear weapons delivery systems, hosts nuclear armed war ships, plays a key role in US nuclear terrorism through its Pine Gap joint US-Australian communications facility, and under the present pro-war, pro-Zionist, US lackey Coalition Government slavishly supports US and Israeli war policies and is doing its best to oppose a Nuclear Weapons Ban.

Thus the Sydney Morning Herald reported (2014): “ In October 2013, according to the documents released under freedom-of-information law, Australia refused a request by New Zealand to endorse a 125-nation joint statement at the United Nations highlighting the humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.'' Australia objected to a sentence declaring that it is in the interest of humanity that nuclear weapons are never used again, ''under any circumstances''. A group of 16 nations, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa and New Zealand, have been working to highlight the humanitarian effects of nuclear weapons. That diplomatic campaign is intended to lay the ground for negotiation of a convention that would prohibit nuclear weapons - putting them in the same category as chemical and biological weapons, which are already prohibited under international law… declassified documents have revealed that the government's primary concern is that a nuclear weapons ban would ''cut across'' Australia's reliance on US nuclear deterrence” (Philip Dorling, “Australian diplomats frustrated nuclear weapons ban”, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March 2014: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-diplomats-frustrated-nuclear-weapons-ban-20140309-34fgg.html ) .

Decent Australians who abhor mass murder and nuclear terrorism will utterly reject the pro-nuclear, pro-Apartheid Israel, pro-Zionis, US lackey, war criminal Lib-Labs (Koalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Koalition last.

2016-02-22 NM re Koalas and KOALition: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/18/will-mike-baird-learn-from-campbell-newmans-koala-killing-clearing-laws/

Decent Australians who love Australian landscapes, ecocystems, flora and fauna will utterly reject the Koala-killing Koalition (KKK), vote 1 Green and put the KOALition last.

2016-02-22 NM re Labor, Koalition, negative gearing , taxes: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/16/labor-has-seized-the-policy-initiative-as-turnbulls-ideas-boom-blows-up-in-his-face/

The latest polls show KOALition and Labor at 50:50 (2-party preferred), this suggesting that the Australian public is wising up to the pro-One Percenter Koalition that seems unable to address the worsening budget deficit. In contrast, Labor has at least proposed to confine property negative gearing to newly built property, thereby cutting back on socialism for the well-off, encouraging new housing and lowering the cost of housing. The anti-equity, neoliberal, pro-One Percenter Koalition won't say what it will do as it tiptoes around enriching the top One Percenters and top Ten Percenters while attempting to fool the electorate.. Despite the charm and casuistry of all-smiles, Abbott-in-sheep's-clothing Turnbull, he is lipstick on a pig (a charming face to rotten inequity) and hopefully a majority of Australians will wise up to the obscenity of the Koalition's "socialism for the rich".

The Koaltion’s "socialism for the rich" via pro-One Percenter neoliberalism means that 85,000 Australians die preventably every year, the breakdown including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

An annual wealth tax of only 0.1% applied to Australia’s $13.6 trillion wealth would raise $13.6 billion each year (see Gideon Polya, “4 % Annual Global Wealth Tax To Stop The 17 Million Deaths Annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm ).

Decent Australians who value the lives of fellow Australians will utterly reject the obscene inequity of the Australians-killing Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-22 NM re poor, rich & tax reform: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/22/rob-the-poor-pay-the-rich-tax-reform-in-the-age-of-oligarchy/ .

“Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by French economist Professor Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, France) is a very readable, information-rich, must-read book about the basis of capital accumulation inequality past, present and future. In short, notwithstanding the expansion of democracy and social welfare in the 20th century, the world's wealth is overwhelmingly concentrated the hands of the rich. Thus, according to Oxfam “[Its] report, Working for the Few, shows that the wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one per cent; the other half to the remaining 99 per cent”. Professor Piketty argues in this important book that current wealth inequality endangers democracy and economic sustainability and proposes a progressive annual wealth tax to address the danger (for review see Gideon Polya, “Key Book Review: “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” By Thomas Piketty”, Countercurrents, 1 July, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya010714.htm

This wealth and income inequality is increasing in Australia. Thus according to “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, the share in total income of the top 1% in France, Germany, Sweden and Japan declined from about 20% in 1910 to about 8% in 1950 and thence remained low (Figure 9.3, p317). In contrast, in the US, Canada, the UK, Canada and Australia a similar decline occurred from about 20% in 1910 to 6-9% in 1970 but after 1980 the One Percenter share of total income variously increased to 10-18%. A similar pattern obtains with the top 10% in these countries, a phenomenon that Piketty describes as “the rise of the supermanager: an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon” (Figures 9.2-9.8, pp315-324).

An annual wealth tax of only 0.1% applied to Australia’s $13.6 trillion wealth would raise $13.6 billion each year (see Gideon Polya, “4 % Annual Global Wealth Tax To Stop The 17 Million Deaths Annually”, Countercurrents, 27 June, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya270614.htm ). However it won’t happen until the pro-One Percenter Koalition is kicked out in Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy Australia in which Big Money purchases politicians, parties, policies, public perception of reality, political power and more profit.

The poor haven’t much to give but the One Percenters and Ten Percenters have and wouldn’t notice a 0.1% annual wealth tax. Decent Australians who want decent lives for all fellow Australians will utterly reject the obscene inequity of the pro-One Percenter Koalition, vote 1 Green and put the Koalition last.

2016-02-21 NM re hottest years & GHG pollution: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/19/january-2016-hottest-ever/ .

All Australians from the impoverished unemployed to QCed One Percenters understand the legal consequences of being caught driving with 0.05% or more alcohol in the blood, but evidently 46.5% of Australians steadfastly ignore or deny the environmental consequences of CO2 rising from less than 0.03% (300 ppm CO2) for circa 1 million years before the Industrial Revolution to over 0.04% (400 ppm CO2) now.

Ignorance and stupidity are no excuses in either scenario but while being caught with 0.05% or more alcohol in the blood will merely lead to a fine and demerit points, in the 0.04% CO2 case the consequences will be dire and inescapable for young people today and future generations and indeed about 0.4 million people already die from climate change already each year (see DARA, “Climate Vulnerability Monitor. A guide to the cold calculus of a hot planet”, 2012, Executive Summary pp2-3: http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2012/ ; and DARA report quoted by Reuters, ”100 mln to die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate”, 28 September 2012: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/26/climate-inaction-idINDEE88P05P20120926 ).

Informed by the expert opinions of climate scientists and biologists, the fundamental position of 300.org is that “There must be a safe and sustainable existence for all peoples and all species on our warming-threatened Planet and this requires a rapid reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to about 300 parts per million” (US-based 350.org has an insufficient goal of no more than 350 ppm CO2) (see 300.org: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org and “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ).

Sensible, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the Business As Usual (BAU), pro-coal, pro-gas, climate criminal Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right) , vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

Young people voting for the climate criminal Lib-Labs are “bloody idiots” (to use the words of the Traffic Accident Commission).

Eventually the climate criminal Lib-Labs and their climate criminal corporate masters will be brought to justice before national and international courts (see “Stop climate crime”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-climate-crime ; “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ; “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ (state and corporate complicity in worsening climate genocide and 7 million annual air pollution deaths from carbon fuel burning); "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ).

2016-02-21 NM re nuclear energy, nuclear waste: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/17/south-australia-could-be-sitting-on-100-year-nuclear-gold-mine/ .

Re nuclear waste, nuclear power and “a requirement for near zero CO2 energy”:

(1) In our present-day Carbon Economy the overall nuclear cycle - from mining and processing uranium oxide ore and building plants to eventual safe disposal of radioactive waste and decommissioning of nuclear plants – is a major CO2 polluter. Thus physicist and energy expert Dr Mark Diesendorf (Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales) re nuclear energy and associated CO2 pollution: “The nuclear industry has widely disseminated the false notion that nuclear energy emits no greenhouse gases. The truth is that every step (except reactor operation) in the long chain of processes that makes up the nuclear fuel “cycle” burns fossil fuels and hence emits CO2. The emitting steps are uranium mining, milling fuel fabrication, uranium enrichment, construction and decommissioning of the reactor, and waste management … The subsidy to nuclear power is almost as much as the full cost of wind power in Britain… Contrary to the claims of the nuclear industry, Van Leeuwen and Smith find that total CO2 emissions from the nuclear fuel chain based on low-grade uranium ore are comparable in magnitude with emissions from a gas-fired power station” (see Mark Diesendorf, “Behind Howard's dangerous nuclear push”, Green Left Weekly: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/34973 ; Gideon Polya, “25 Ways World-Leading Climate Criminal Australia Threatens Planet And Invites Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060615.htm ).

(2) Indeed as high grade ores are used up, the CO2 pollution from the overall nuclear cycle (using existing, non-fast breeder technologies) will steadily increase.

(3) “Near-zero CO2” is not good enough – we need massive negative CO2 emissions. Thus informed by the expert opinions of climate scientists and biologists, the fundamental position of 300.org is that “There must be a safe and sustainable existence for all peoples and all species on our warming-threatened Planet and this requires a rapid reduction of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration to about 300 parts per million” (US-based 350.org has an insufficient goal of no more than 350 ppm CO2) (see 300.org: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org and “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ).

(4) Decent, pro-peace, pro-human rights Australians will not countenance Australia storing the radioactive waste from nuclear terrorist countries such as the US, UK, France and no doubt also democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel – it would pollute our country, endanger our citizens, further degrade our civil liberties and make us further complicit with the evil nuclear terrorism if these nuclear terrorist rogue states. Indeed if we were to store radioactive waste of other countries we should insist that we would only store waste from countries not possessing nuclear weapons (“Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ).

(5) Sensible, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the remorselessly mendacious, Business As Usual (BAU), pro-coal, pro-gas, climate criminal, war criminal, human rights–abusing Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right) and their plans for more corporate and centralized non-renewable nuclear Big Energy (in contrast to Germany’s move to decentralizing , locally-controlled renewable energy) – they will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-21 NM re WA to criminalise protest”. https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/19/backing-business-western-australia-criminalise-protest/ .

This latest gutter WA move is outrageous and demands national and international action to prevent WA becoming a fascist police state.

This is the same foul, climate criminal, human rights-abusing, rogue Coalition government that has proposed to accelerated Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide by closing 150 remote Indigenous communities (see “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ).

There should be national and international Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against a racist and fascist WA.

Voting Coalition means voting for racism, Aboriginal Genocide, Aboriginal Ethnocide and gross abuse of human rights and civil liberties.

Decent anti-racist, pro-human rights, pro-democracy Australians will utterly reject the mendacious, corrupt, climate criminal, war criminal, human rights –abusing, corporatist, anti-democracy, neo-fascist Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-21 NM re NSW, koalas: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/18/will-mike-baird-learn-from-campbell-newmans-koala-killing-clearing-laws/ .

This is Coalition-sanctioned ecocide and speciescide that should not be tolerated by decent people. It is also theft of the national estate that makes the pro-One Percenter KOALition utterly unfit to rule. What a joke – conventionally embezzle, steal and bribe NSW-style and ICAC will get them, but legislated theft, ecocide, speciescide, omnicide and even terracide is just dandy.

The neo-fascist Coalition is given to wrapping itself up in the Flag and falsely declaiming about who is a fair dinkum Aussie or not. Thus “Australia” is surely the mix of Australians , the Australian landscape, Australian ecosystems and Australian species. Yet the anti-science, anti-environment, climate criminal COALition has made Australia a world leader in ecocide, speciescide and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution that will ultimately end up with omnicide and terracide (see Gideon Polya, “25 Ways World-Leading Climate Criminal Australia Threatens Planet And Invites Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060615.htm and Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ).

Further, under the anti-Australian, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey, traitorous, un-Australian Coalition 85,000 Australians die preventably each year, the breakdown including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

Decent, genuinely patriotic Australians who love fellow Australians and the Australian environment will utterly reject the mendacious, corrupt, climate criminal, neo-fascist, anti-Australian, un-Australian and Australian-killing Koalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-18 NM re babies, refugees, Nauru: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/17/voters-split-on-sending-babies-to-nauru/ .

The sign by the “Let them stay” protester says it all: “I CAN’T BELIEVE WE HAVE TO PROTEST THIS!!!!!!!” But then this is look-the-other-way Australia in which child abuse is horribly entrenched on a huge scale. As variously reported by expert researchers, about 25% of Australian adults (34% of women, 16% of men and 4.4 million in all) have suffered child sexual abuse (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm ).

Of course Australia is not alone in this – thus the “Little Children are Sacred” Report (pp234-236) refers to studies in America indicating that 25% of females and 10% of males experience childhood sexual abuse (see Gideon Polya, “Sectarian Australian Mainstream Ignores Horrendous Child Sexual Abuse Of 4.4 Million Australians”, Countercurrents, 15 November, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya151112.htm ). About 50% of Israeli children recently surveyed reported suffering child abuse with 17% reported suffering child sexual abuse. Of the 1.8 million Occupied Palestinians in the Apartheid Israeli-blockaded Gaza Concentration Camp over half (52.5%, 0.9 million) are children who are highly abusively confined without human rights and without charge or trial and for the asserted crime of being Indigenous Palestinians living in a tiny part of the country inhabited continuously by their forebears for thousands of years to the very dawn of agrarian civilization (Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Pro-Zionist, Zionist And Apartheid Israeli Child Abuse Exposed” , Countercurrents, 21 April, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210414.htm ).

Those who ignore, deny, obfuscate, permit, accept, support, advocate or are otherwise complicit in horrendous abuse of children have crossed the line separating decent Humanity from Nazi-style barbarism. Those who vote for the Coalition or Labor are inescapably complicit in gross child abuse, Decent Australians who utterly abhor child abuse will utterly reject the child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (there are a few decent Labor MPs – notably Melissa Parke, Maria Vamvakinou and Senator Lisa Singh, who object to the Lib-Lab state abuse of refugee children).

2016-02-18 NM re Minchin, Pell, child abuse: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/17/watch-tim-minchins-george-pell-ditty-helps-raise-thousands-to-fly-abuse-survivors-to-rome/

Hidden behind the $0.5 billion Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and an upper estimate of about 40,000 children sexually abused by Catholic Church personnel in the last half century, is an even more appalling reality – as variously reported by expert researchers, about 25% of Australian adults (34% of women, 16% of men and 4.4 million in all) have suffered child sexual abuse (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm ).

Further, the “Little Children are Sacred” Report (pp234-236) refers to studies in America indicating that 25% of females and 10% of males experience childhood sexual abuse (see Gideon Polya, “Sectarian Australian Mainstream Ignores Horrendous Child Sexual Abuse Of 4.4 Million Australians”, Countercurrents, 15 November, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya151112.htm ). About 50% of Apartheid Israeli children recently surveyed reported suffering child abuse with 17% reported suffering child sexual abuse. Of the 1.8 million Occupied Palestinians in the Gaza Concentration Camp blockaded by Lib-Lab Australia-backed Apartheid Israel, over half (52.5%, 0.9 million) are children who are highly abusively confined without human rights and without charge or trial and for the asserted crime of being Indigenous Palestinians living in a tiny part of the country inhabited continuously by their forebears for thousands of years to the very dawn of agrarian civilization (Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Pro-Zionist, Zionist And Apartheid Israeli Child Abuse Exposed” , Countercurrents, 21 April, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210414.htm ).

And then there is the appalling abuse of refugee children by off-shore detention in a remote concentration camp that is supported by both the Coalition under all-smiles, oh-so-charming, lipstick-on-a-pig Turnbull and Labor. Those who vote for the Coalition or Labor are inescapably complicit in gross child abuse. Decent Australians who utterly abhor child abuse will utterly reject the child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-18 NM re Labor, Apartheid Israel, BDS:

Decent anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish people around the world urge and apply Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel (72% of the grossly violated Indigenous Palestinian subjects of Apartheid Israel cannot vote for the government ruling them) and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide (90% of Palestine ethnically cleansed of Indigenous Palestinians; 2 million Palestinians killed by violence, 0.1 million, or by imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since 1936) (“Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; “Boycott Apartheid Israel”:https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/ ; “Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ).

However, according to the extreme right-wing Australian Jewish News Shorten has stated “The Labor Party opposes the BDS campaign – it has no place in our society” ( “Shorten: “ALP opposes BDS””, Australian Jewish News, 31 October 2014: http://www.jewishnews.net.au/shorten-alp-opposes-bds/38234 ). Right-wing Jewish Zionists Mark Dreyfus and Michael Danby are also opposed to BDS (Rick Wallace and Stefanie Balogh, “ALP Conference 2015: anti-BDS “victory” on pro-Israel front”, The Australian (yuck!), 27 July 2015: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/alp-conference-2015-antibds-victory-on-proisrael-front/news-story/02b4fb9f6699991d44c948ea29588f82 ).

Disgustingly, Dreyfus represents the seat of Isaacs, named after Australia’s most eminent Jewish figure, Sir Isaac Isaacs, first Australian-born Governor General of Australia and who was utterly opposed to Zionism (see “Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ and “Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ ).

While a tiny minority of Labor MPs speak out against Apartheid Israel and its ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Right-dominated Labor is evidently happy to lose votes by supporting nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, mass murdering, international law-violating, mass child abusing, serial war criminal, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel .

The Coalition is evidently about 100% behind Apartheid Israel and has trashed Australia’s international reputation by leading support for the racist rogue state and has promised to withhold Federal Funding from any academic (including anti-racist Jewish academics) supporting BDS (see “Jewish groups defend Israel boycott”, Green Left Weekly, 10 April 2011: “Boycott Apartheid Israel”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/.“Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ; “Boycott Apartheid Israel”:https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/ ; “Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration ) .

The pro-Zionist, war criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic Tories in the UK (who are also vilely anti-Jewish anti-Semitic in relation to anti-racist Jews) are planning to make it a criminal offence to support BDS as have already the pro-Zionist, war criminal French “socialists” and of course Apartheid Israel (see Ben White, “Boycotting Israel isn’t anti-Semitic – but how many human rights groups need to condemn it until this is clear?”, Independent, 17 February 2016: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boycotting-israel-isnt-anti-semitic-how-many-human-rights-groups-need-to-condemn-it-until-this-is-a6876816.html ; Ali Abunimah, “Resistance to Israeli censorship grows in France”, Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2016: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/resistance-israel-censorship-grows-france ).

From a post-Jewish Holocaust, anti-racist Jewish perspective, people who opposed BDS against UK-, US-, White Australia- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa or who oppose BDS against UK-, US-, White Australia-backed Apartheid Israel have “no place in our society”.

Decent anti-racist Jewish Australians and non-Jewish Australians who utterly abhor Apartheid, genocide and child abuse will utterly reject the pro-Apartheid Israel, genocide-ignoring, child-abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-18 NM re negative gearing: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/16/theres-nothing-abstract-about-negative-gearing-renters-like-me-feel-its-burden-every-day/

Labor has at least proposed to confine property negative gearing to newly built property, thereby cutting back on socialism for the well-off, encouraging new housing and lowering the cost of housing. The anti-equity, neoliberal, pro-One Percenter Coalition won't say what it will do as it tiptoes around enriching the top One Percenters and top Ten Percenters while attempting to fool the electorate into giving them over 50% of the 2-party-preferred vote. Despite the charm and casuistry of all-smiles, Abbott-in-sheep's-clothing Turnbull, he is lipstick on a pig (charming face to rotten inequity) and hopefully a majority of Australians will wise up to the obscenity of the Coalition's "socialism for the rich".

Pro-One Percenter neoliberalism means that 85,000 Australians die preventably every year, the breakdown including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

Decent Australians who value the lives of fellow Australians will utterly reject the obscene inequity of the Australians-killing Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-18 NM re John Hirst, Australian history : https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/16/remembering-jb-hirst-a-very-different-historian/ .

“Australian History in 7 questions” by John Hirst (Black Inc, Melbourne, 2014) purports to summarize Australian history by answering 7 key questions, a flawed enterprise from the outset. Hirst's book is entertaining and interesting but ultimately fails through Eurocentrism, Anglocentrism and denial - . Australian history becomes an aren't-we-nice, White, Anglo Australian history that ignores Anglo Australian involvement in 30 genocidal atrocities of which some, like the over 2-century, post-1788 Aboriginal Genocide, the 1-century, post-1914 Iraqi Genocide and the post-Industrial Revolution Climate Genocide are continuing today. John Hirst and his fellow Australian, American and British historians are simply operating in an entrenched academic culture of denial in Anglo historiography (see Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne , 1997, 2008), now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ ) .

John Hirst is not alone in his white-washing of history. Thus the recently-published, authoritative Cambridge History of Australia similarly ignores 30 genocidal atrocities involving Australia of which qualitatively the worst was the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide (2 million untimely Indigenous deaths from violence, 0.1 million or from imposed deprivation, 1.9 million) and quantitatively the worst was the 1942-1945 Bengali Holocaust in which the British with Australian complicity deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in Bengal, Assam, Orissa and Bihar (Australia was complicit by withholding food from its huge wartime grain stores from starving India) (see Gideon Polya,”Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” Ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm ; Gideon Polya, “ Australia and Britain killed 6-7 million Indians in WW2 Bengal Famine”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm ; Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ; and “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ).

Genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial and holocaust denial because at least the latter admit the possibility of debate.

2016-02-18 NM re nuclear waste storage: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/16/royal-commission-nuclear-power-unviable-waste-storage-lucrative/ .

Commissioner Kevin Scarce’s comment that “That being said, we believe, based upon the evidence given to the Commission, that nuclear is a low-carbon energy source. It’s comparable with other renewable technologies” is utterly wrong on 2 counts:

(1) Australia is a major exporter of uranium, the overall nuclear cycle being associated with major GHG pollution. According to the World Nuclear Association: “Australia's known uranium resources are the world's largest – 31% of the world total. In 2014 Australia produced 5897 tonnes of U₃O₈ (5000 tU). It is the world's third-ranking producer, behind Kazakhstan and Canada. All production is exported”. However in a Carbon Economy the overall nuclear cycle - from mining and processing uranium oxide ore and building plants to eventual safe disposal of radioactive waste and decommissioning of nuclear plants – is a major CO2 polluter. Thus physicist and energy expert Dr Mark Diesendorf (Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales) re nuclear energy and associated CO2 pollution: “The nuclear industry has widely disseminated the false notion that nuclear energy emits no greenhouse gases. The truth is that every step (except reactor operation) in the long chain of processes that makes up the nuclear fuel “cycle” burns fossil fuels and hence emits CO2. The emitting steps are uranium mining, milling fuel fabrication, uranium enrichment, construction and decommissioning of the reactor, and waste management … The subsidy to nuclear power is almost as much as the full cost of wind power in Britain… Contrary to the claims of the nuclear industry, Van Leeuwen and Smith find that total CO2 emissions from the nuclear fuel chain based on low-grade uranium ore are comparable in magnitude with emissions from a gas-fired power station” (see Mark Diesendorf, “Behind Howard's dangerous nuclear push”, Green Left Weekly: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/34973 ; Gideon Polya, “25 Ways World-Leading Climate Criminal Australia Threatens Planet And Invites Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060615.htm ).

(2) Existing nuclear energy is not a renewable technology and its GHG pollution will steadily increase as high grade ores run out.

The adumbrated “lucrative” waste disposal industry for Australia involves (a) making Australia complicit in the obscene nuclear terrorism as well as polluting industrial origins of the waste; (b) highly dangerous transport of highly radioactive, long-lived waste from the other side of the planet to inland Australia; (c) no doubt trampling on the wishes of Indigenous and other affected Australians; (d) necessitating police-state violations of civil liberties to achieve a low probability of malicious disruption , especially in transit; and (e) adding to Australia’s disproportionately dirty, greed-driven role in polluting Australia and the world (see Gideon Polya, “25 Ways World-Leading Climate Criminal Australia Threatens Planet And Invites Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060615.htm and Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ).

2016-02-16 NM re Adani & Coal: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/15/behind-the-spin-adani-and-coal-are-in-trouble/ .

Science says that all fossil fuels must be kept in the ground as outlined below.

The World has a Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget relative to 2010 of less than 600 Gt CO2 (600 billion tonnes CO2) in emissions for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree C temperature rise (would you board a plane if it had a 25% chance of crashing?) The average world population in the period 2010 and 2050 will be 8.321 billion . Accordingly the per capita share of this Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget is less than 600 billion tonnes CO2/8.321 billion people = less than 72.1 tonnes CO2 per person.

Using the revised data for the annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that properly accounts for land use and livestock impacts, one can determine how many years left at current rates of GHG pollution (in units of CO2-e or CO2-equivalent i.e. taking other GHGs into account) before a given country uses up its “fair share” of this Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget. Thus, for example, for Australia 72.1 tonnes CO2-e per person / 52.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year = 1.4 years left relative to 2010, noting that this analysis does not take into account disproportionate historical pollution of the atmosphere. Thus climate criminal Australia used up its “fair share” of the world's Terminal Carbon Pollution in 2011 and since then has been stealing the entitlement of the other countries which have not yet used up their entitlement (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Indeed the whole world is very close to using up its Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget. Thus years left before the world uses up this budget = 72.1 tonnes CO2 per person/ 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year = 8.1 years relative to 2010 and thus only about 2 years left relative to 2016 i.e. science says that after 2018 we must keep all fossil fuels in the ground.

A further consideration is that 7 million people die from air pollution each year, this including 75,000 dying from the effects of pollutants from the burning of Australian coal exports and 10,000 Australian dying annually from carbon fuel burning pollutants. Burning the Adani Carmichael coal can be estimated to (ultimately) kill 13,000 people each year and 500,000 people over the lifetime of the mine – by way of comparison, barbarous ISIS non-state terrorists and the equally barbarous US Alliance state terrorists (including Australian state terrorists) have been killing about 12,000 Iraqis each year (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths and scroll down to Australia).

Yet the Adani mine has been approved by anti-science, anti-environment climate criminals Greg Hunt and all-smiles, “lipstick-on-a-pig” Malcolm Turnbull. Decent Australian will utterly reject the pro-coal, humanity-killing, Australian-killing COALition, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-16 NM re Albrechtsen, Indigenous: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/15/hypocrisy-has-a-new-name-and-its-janet-albrechtsen/ .

I detest the Murdoch media and their ilk (see “Boycott Murdoch Media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ) but am a purist when it comes to free speech and am very nervous about any constraints on free speech (e.g. 18C), although I deeply appreciate the position of those supporting 18C, especially Indigenous Australians. In short, freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that is crucial for both scholarly research and democracy. However people abusing this fundamental freedom by falsehood, genocide denial, genocide ignoring, holocaust denial, holocaust ignoring, racial vilification and incitement to violence should simply be punished by the ignominy of public exposure of their ignorance, racism and depravity – in addition, public vilification and incitement to violence are variously punishable as offensive behaviour, breaches of the peace, threats to commit violence etc .

Indigenous Australians have been subject to an Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide that is continuing (2 million untimely Indigenous deaths from violence, disease or deprivation since 1788; presently 4,000 Indigenous avoidable deaths from deprivation annually and record forced removal of children from their mothers ; see “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”, Aboriginal Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective ) . This ongoing Aboriginal Genocide bares comparison with the ongoing Palestinian Genocide that is similarly ignored by Australian Mainstream media: 2 million Palestinian deaths since 1936 from violence, 0.1 million, or from imposed deprivation, 1.9 million; presently 5,000 Palestinians are killed by violence, 1,000, or deprivation, 4,000, each year; see “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

Greg Barnes writing in Crikey about Janet Albrechtsen and the Indigenous Palestinians (2009): “The Israelis have clearly learnt a thing or two from the Soviets. They understand how important it is to roll out the red carpet for the media, by offering them carefully choreographed trips to Israel and in return ensure that their spin on events is planted in the minds of the western media. The Israelis also know that they have the upper hand in this game, because the impoverished Palestinians will not be able to outdo them when it comes to lavishing hospitality on a willing media. That the Israeli propaganda strategy of handpicking journalists and others to come to Israel works was made abundantly clear when The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen visited Israel last November as a guest of the Israeli government and New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. Albrechtsen wrote a blog while she was in Israel and guess what — there is not one sympathetic word for Palestinians. Instead she berates the Palestinians for filling their children with hate, bangs on about rockets, and condemns the Rudd government for giving aid to the Palestinians. No doubt the Israeli Embassy in Canberra and their colleagues in Tel Aviv would have thought the trip they gave Ms Albrechtsen was money very well spent” (see Greg Barnes, “Israel’s “useful idiots” in the Australian media”, Crikey, 27 May 2009: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/27/israels-useful-idiots-in-the-australian-media/?wpmp_switcher=mobile ).

Nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist–run, genocidally racist Apartheid Israel is a democracy by genocide - of Apartheid Israel’s 6 million Indigenous Palestinian subjects, 72% are excluded from voting for the government ruling them by the minority but dominant 5.9 million Jewish Israelis. In this election year, Australians who are committed to democracy will utterly reject the pro-Apartheid Israel Mainstream media, MPs, and pro-Zionist, Murdoch-backed, all-smiles, “lipstick on a pig” PM Turnbull – they will instead vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-16 NM re 7-Eleven, worker exploitation : https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/15/7-eleven-worker-rort-lawyers-call-mandatory-education-program/.

Shocking revelations that demand compensation and legal retribution. A powerful example of why all workers should join a union ( I have been a member of a union for over 40 years). Further, decent Australians who believe in a fair go, a decent society and the rule of law will utterly reject the neoliberal, anti-equity, pro-One Percenter, union-bashing Coalition led by all-smiles, oh-so-charming, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, lipstick-on-a pig Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-15 NM re Shorten and “extreme centre”: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/13/the-hollow-man-and-the-real-leaders-of-the-opposition/ .

Excellent article by Liam Mc Loughlin. The pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-fossil fuels, anti-science anti-environment, climate criminal, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey, war criminal, human rights-abusing and child-abusing COALition and Labor Right-dominated Labor (collectively aka the Lib-Labs) are almost indistinguishable policy-wise except that “extreme centre” Shorten Labor is bit more supportive of renewable energy and a more equitable taxation system.

The Labor Right policy of gross abuse of refugee children is utterly disgusting and the child-abusing Labor Right and child-abusing COALition are the bottom-of-the-barrel for decent people for whom state-sanctioned child abuse is utterly unthinkable

Decent Australians who utterly reject environmental vandalism, war, racism, mendacity, civil rights abuse, human rights abuse and child abuse will utterly reject the Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

Symptomatic of the “extreme centre” in neoliberal, corporatist, Lib-Lab-dominated, child-abusing Australia is that even the no-brainer of “free university education” - that has been adopted by about 20 variously rich or poor countries and can and should be national policy in Australia in the 21st century as it was thanks to Whitlam Labor in most of the the 1970s and 1980s - is completely off the national agenda whereas it is a major policy plank of self-described socialists Democrat Bernie Sanders in the US and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the UK (for details see Gideon Polya, :”Free University Education Via Accredited Remote Learning – All Education Should Be Free For All”, Countercurrents, 31 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310116.htm and “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home .

2016-02-15 NM re animal husbandry-derived disease, lettuce etc: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/13/the-lettuce-was-framed-a-salmonella-and-other-meat-byproducts-explainer/ .

Excellent article by Geoff Russell. 4 points:

(1) As adumbrated at the end of the article, antibiotic resistance from use of antibiotics in animal husbandry is a major threat . The ABC: “Australia imports about 7 hundred tonnes of antibiotics annually. More than half of that goes into stock-feed, about 8% is for veterinary use, leaving only one-third for human use… Antibiotics are used widely in food animals as growth promoters and to prevent and treat infection. Avoparcin, a glycopeptide related to the human last line drug Vancomycin, is used in Australia as a growth promotant in pigs, chickens and feedlot cattle. Virginiamycin is used as a growth promotant but also for treating resistant human bacteria” (see ABC, “Antibiotics use in agriculture re”” : http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/antibiotics/agriculture.htm ).

(2) GHG pollution is a major threat to Humanity and World Bank analysts in carefully re-evaluating the contribution of livestock production to world annual GHG pollution have found that the world’s annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure. A key element of their analysis was to use a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane (CH4) relative to that of carbon dioxide (CO2) of 72 in a 20-year time frame rather than the 25 on a 100 year time frame used by the FAO. Indeed the World Bank analysis evidently still understates the GHG pollution because NASA scientists have re-evaluated the GWP of CH4 as 105 in a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts considered (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ; “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ).

(3) Packaging and thence national merchandising of contaminated vegetable matter expands the impact of infection.

(4) International free trade agreements widen dissemination of disease and protect multinational corporations rather than consumers.

Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject neoliberal, corporatist Lib-Labs who actively and passively put corporate profits ahead of the health, and will accordingly vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-15 NM re marriage equality: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/12/nationals-mps-comments-equating-same-sex-relationships-to-ram-sex-slammed-as-reprehensible/ .

More ignorant offensiveness from the National Party that is a key part of the pro-war, war criminal, anti-science, anti-environment, climate criminal, human rights-abusing child-abusing Coalition.

Dr Kinsey of Kinsey Report fame found that 37% of men in the U.S. had achieved orgasm through contact with another male after adolescence and 13% of women had achieved orgasm through contact with another woman , as opposed to later Australian researchers finding that about 9% of women and 6% of men in Australia had homosexual experiences (see “Demographics of sexual orientation”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation ).

While homosexuality is a perfectly normal and common human behaviour, one notes that the National Party vote in Australia is only about 4% (see National Party of Australia”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia#Historical_electoral_results ).

While most of the Nationals are vociferously opposed to unexceptional same sex marriage between loving and consenting adults, there is no such outcry over the horrendous child abuse that results in an estimated 25% of Australians adults (34% 0f women and 16% of men) – 4.4 million in all- who have suffered child sexual abuse (for details and documentation see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Child Abuse By Pro-war, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Governments”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya041213.htm ). And of course the Nats remorselessly support the horrendous abuse of refugee children by the Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right).

Decent, humane Australians will utterly reject the troglodytic, knuckle-dragging, homophobic Coalition , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-11 re Hunt’s award: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/10/watch-scott-ludlam-rips-greg-hunt-for-award-it-sounds-like-his-mum-made-up/ .

Australia is in a never-ending Orwellian nightmare in which utterly implausible satire has become horrible reality - what's next, the Sydney Peace Prize for war criminal John Howard to add to his UNSW honorary doctorate?

Decent, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the knuckle-dragging, pro-war, pro-Zionist, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey, war criminal, pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-environment, CSIRO-trashing, university-trashing, student-trashing, anti-science, ecocidal, speciescidal, terracidal, climate criminal, human rights-abusing, child-abusing, neoliberal, corporatist Lib-Lab (COALition and Labor Rght) state terrorists, carbon terrorists and climate terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-11 NM re Dubai, UAE, Hunt award: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/10/7-times-greg-hunt-proved-best-minister-world/ .

Re the “World’s best Minister” award to climate criminal Greg Hunt of climate criminal and war criminal COALition Government of climate criminal Australia from the climate criminal and war criminal Dictator of the climate criminal UAE, it is useful to consider the annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution (tonnes CO2-e per person per year) of relevant countries, the world average being 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e / 7.137 billion people in 2013 = 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year): Belize (366.9), Guyana (203.1), Malaysia (126.0), Papua New Guinea (114.7), Qatar (101.8), Zambia (97.5), Antigua & Barbuda (85.6), UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (82.4), Panama (68.0), Botswana (64.9), Liberia (55.0), Indonesia (53.6), New Zealand (53.2), AUSTRALIA (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports), Nicaragua (51.2), Canada (50.1), Equatorial Guinea (47.5), Venezuela (45.2), Brazil (43.4), Myanmar (41.9), Ireland (41.4), United States (41.0), Cambodia (40.5), Kuwait (37.3), Paraguay (37.2), Central African Republic (35.7)… China (7.4), Burkina Faso (7.3), Bosnia & Herzegovina (7.2), Kenya (7.1), Dominican Republic (7.1), Senegal (7.0)… Bangladesh (2.7), Egypt (2.6), Niue (2.6), Pakistan (2.5), Morocco (2.5), Djibouti (2.4), St Vincent & Grenadines (2.4), Armenia (2.3), Maldives (2.1), India (2.1), Cook Islands (2.1), Vietnam (1.9), São Tomé and Príncipe (1.9), Comoros (1.6), Solomon Islands (1.4), Kiribati (1.2), Tuvalu (1.2)(see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Climate criminality is in direct proportion to annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution, and the UAE and Australia are among the world’s worst climate criminal countries. Decent, science-informed Australians who care for their children and future generations will utterly reject the terracidal, climate criminal COALition, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-11 NM re Closing the Gap: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/10/white-lies-and-black-lives-malcolm-just-widened-the-credibility-gap/ .

The avoidable death rate (avoidable deaths as a percentage of population per year) is the difference between the observed death rate and the death rate expected for a decently governed demographically comparable population (for details see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ).

The mortality rate is 1.0% pa for Indigenous Australians and 0.6% for non-Indigenous Australians (Figure 11, Overall mortality rates by Indigenous status: NSW, QLD, WA, SA and the NT combined 1998‑2031, page 43, “Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2016”: http://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/closing_gap_report_2016_fully_accessible_0.pdf ).

For non-Indigenous Australia the observed death rate is 0.6% pa which is about what is expected for a low birth rate, high life expectancy society and hence the avoidable death rate is about 0.0% (crudely put, old people die and the older the population the higher the expected death rate).

However the Indigenous Australian population (population 670,000) has a very youthful demographic and a median age of 21.8 years (cf Bangladesh 25.8, India 26.9 and Pakistan 23.2 years ) as compared to non-Indigenous Australians 37.6 years (cf Austria 43.3, Belgium 41.9 and the UK 40.5 years, countries for which the avoidable death rate is about 0.0%) (see “Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, June 2011”, ABS, 2011: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 ; Median age, “World Population Prospects: the 2012 Revision”, UN: http://esa.un.org/wpp/unpp/panel_indicators.htm ).

The observed death rate in decently governed Developing Countries with a demographic similar to that of Indigenous Australia is about 0.4% per year (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ) and thus the avoidable Indigenous death rate is 1.0% - 0.4% = 0.6% as compared to 0.4% pa for impoverished South Asia and 1.0% for impoverished sub-Saharan Africa but occurring in one of the world’s richest countries (per capita income $83,000 per head per year) i.e. 0.6% of 670,000 = 4,020 or about 4,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably from deprivation every year.

As repeatedly demonstrated, if a non-Australian round-the-world lone yachtsman gets into trouble through deliberate risk taking the Australian Government will spend millions of dollars for the rescue – but no such largesse for Indigenous Australians dying avoidably at the rate of 11 per day c/- racist White Australia.

Decent, anti-racist Australians will utterly reject this intentional passive homicide of 4,000 Indigenous Australians each year by racist Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor Right) state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-10 NM re budget, GST, Turnbull: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/09/could-the-tax-debate-bring-teflon-turnbull-unstuck/ .

Typical, disingenuous, deceptive casuistry from oh so charming but Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, “lipstick-on-a-pig” Malcolm Turnbull: “We are not, the Government is not yet persuaded that in the context of Australia today, such a tax mix switch would give an adequate growth, adequate improvement in economic activity”. Translation: “We and our One Percenter backers want a 15% GST but Labor’s anti-GST campaign has so far been too successful”.

The bottom line is a Coalition-imposed A$40 billion 4-year short-fall in health costs in one of the world’s richest countries that paradoxically suffers 85,000 preventable deaths annually, the breakdown including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) (Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

Solution: The average wealth in Australia is US$0.402 million per person = US$0.402 million x 1.41 A$/1 US$ = A$0.567 million per person (see “Aussies the world’s richest people: Credit Suisse”, SMH, 9 October 2013”: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/aussies-the-worlds-richest-people-credit-suisse-20131009-2v7qy.html ) and accordingly Australia’s total wealth is A$0.567 million per person x 24 million persons = A$13.6 trillion = A$13,600 billion.

An annual wealth tax of a mere 0.1% would yield A$13.6 billion per year.

Unfortunately the pro-One Percenter Coalition wouldn’t dream of putting Australian lives before One Percenter wealth acquisition – decent Australians who value the lives of their fellow citizens will utterly reject the pro-One Percenter, neoliberal Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-10 NM re Australian Human Rights Commission, Armenian Genocide, genocide denial: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/09/australian-human-rights-commission-embraces-genocide-deniers/ .

For anti-racist Jews, and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians, the core moral messages from huge WW2 atrocities - the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation, including all but a dozen of my wider family in Hungary), the largely ignored Polish Holocaust (6 million killed, half Christian, half Jewish), from the more general but largely ignored WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Russian, Byelorussian, Polish, Ukrainian, Serb, Jewish and Gypsy dead), the forgotten UK- and Australia-complicit WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million Indians starved to death, 1942-1945; see: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ) and the WW2 Chinese Holocaust (40 million Chinese died from Japanese occupation, 1937-1945) - are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”.

“Holocaust” implies a huge number of deaths and “genocide” is specifically defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” Genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are far, far worse than repugnant genocide denial and repugnant holocaust denial because at least the latter admit the possibility of public discussion.

However genocide ignoring and holocaust ignoring are disgracefully widespread today, as exampled by widespread ignoring of most WW2 genocide and holocaust atrocities (-apart from the Jewish Holocaust ), and the state-decreed Turkish ignoring and denial of the Armenian Genocide (1.5 million killed) as well as of the post-WW1 genocide of Anatolian Greeks, Kurds and Syriac Christians, and a post-WW2 Kurdish Genocide. Indeed ISIS-supporting Turkey is presently engaged in a continuing Kurdish Genocide and a Syrian Genocide (0.3 million Syrians killed, a comparable number killed by war-imposed deprivation, and 12 million refugees).

Genocide ignoring is entrenched in the West. UA- and Zionist-subverted Western Mainstream media ignore the ongoing Palestinian Genocide ( that has been associated with 2 million Palestinian deaths from violence , 0.1 million, and from imposed deprivation, 1.9 million, since 1936) and the US Alliance-imposed carnage in the Muslim World e.g. 2.7 million Iraqi deaths through violence (1.5 million) or war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million), the ongoing Afghan Genocide, and 32 million Muslim deaths through violence (5 million) or imposed deprivation (27 million) since the US Government’s false flag atrocity on 9-11 (see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ; “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide” : https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).

Shame on the Australian Human Rights Commission for compromising its otherwise exemplary work and reputation. Decent Australians will utterly reject the genocide-complicit and genocide-ignoring US lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (a few decent Labor MPs have taken a stand against Apartheid Israel’s human rights abuse and what anti-racist Jewish and non-Jewish scholars call the ongoing Palestinian Genocide).

2016-02-08 NM re Tim Wilson, Brull, Israel, Roosh: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/07/rooshs-unspeakable-awfulness-and-freedom-commissioner-tim-wilsons-unashamed-hypocrisy/ .

Excellent article by Michael Brull.

Excellent article by Michael Brull. Censorship short-circuits scholarship in general and in particular science which is fundamental for rational risk management vital for societal safety and successively involves (a) untrammelled acquisition of accurate information, (b) scientific analysis that involves the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk (see "Gideon Polya Writing": https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/ ). Those who advocate censorship are endangering human rights and rational risk management vital for societal safety. Tim Wilson should be immediately sacked as Human Rights Commissioner.

There are physically harmless vile words on the one hand and physically damaging vile deeds on the other - as the old adage has it: “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me”. What an Orwellian disgrace that the human rights-abusing child-abusing, climate criminal and serial war criminal Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) – people who should be arraigned before the International Criminal Court – assume the right to shelter Australians from “harmless vile words”.

According to the Tim Wilson website Tim Wilson was a “Participant in the 2013 Ramban Israel Fellowship Program run by the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council” (see “Tim Wilson” : http://www.timwilson.com.au/about-tim ) and visited Apartheid Israel recently as part of a evidently right-wing and pro-Zionist delegation – according to the ABC: “An Australian-led delegation to the West Bank featuring Minister Christopher Pyne, former speaker Bronwyn Bishop, Labor MP Tim Watts and Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has been criticised by a minister in the Palestinian Authority, who said the group had "false information" and were "not well educated"… All the delegates were visiting Jerusalem for two days as part of an annual Australia-UK-Israel leadership dialogue to discuss the challenges facing Israel and how attendees can best support the Jewish state [sic]. Mr Wilson said the group "quizzed" the Palestinian Prime Minister and Education Minister about a range of topics. Palestinian Education Minister Dr Sabri Saidam described the meeting as "very explosive and very challenging" and said the group had asked "rude and blunt" questions… "Mr Netanyahu was one of the first people that Malcolm Turnbull rang after he become Prime Minister three months ago"” (“Delegation to West Bank led by Christopher Pyne “not well-educated”, local minister says” ”, ABC News, 17 December 2015: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/australian-delegation-to-west-bank-'very-explosive'/7032084 ).

From an anti-racist Jewish perspective, Apartheid Israel is not a “Jewish state” – it is a nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide, Apartheid rogue state that grossly defames all decent anti-racist Jews (anti-Jewish anti-Semitism) by insisting in the name of a “Jewish state” that of its Indigenous Palestinian subjects (that now outnumber Jewish Israelis) 72% (half being children) have zero human rights, are confined without charge or trial to the Gaza Concentration Camp or West Bank Bantustan ghettoes, have an annual per capita income of $2,811 (14 times lower than the $38,261 of Israelis) and about 5,000 are killed by racist Jewish Israelis each year ( 1,000 by violence and 4,000 through imposed deprivation; the ongoing Palestinian Genocide has been associated with 2 million Palestinian deaths from violence , 0.1 million, and from imposed deprivation, 1.9 million) (see “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; “List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita ).

All anti-racist Australians - including all anti-racist Jews in particular - will utterly reject the racist, grossly human rights-abusing, US lackey, pro-Zionist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (there are a few decent, anti-racist Labor MPs whose views are in accord with humane anti-racist Jewish opinion).

2016-02-09 NM re Aboriginal rejection of Recognition: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/08/recognise-rejected-historic-meeting-500-black-leaders-unanimously-opposes-constitutional-recognition/.

Excellent reportage by Chris Graham on a very important event that appears absent from the Mainstream media of White Australia. Mere formal recognition of existence is no substitute for a belated Treaty (see "Aboriginal Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ).

Further, “Recognition” should include not only mere recognition of existence but recognition of what happened to Indigenous Australians and indeed what continues to happen to them. In short, as UK lackeys or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193, France, 80, the US 70 and Apartheid Israel 12. In the century after the British invasion in 1788 the Australian Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million through dispossession, deprivation, introduced disease and violence. Since 1788 some 2 million Indigenous Australians have died untimely deaths, White Australians have destroyed 600 out of 750 distinct Australian Aboriginal groups (and associated languages and dialects) and of the remaining 150 all but 20 are endangered, this continuing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide qualitatively representing the worst genocide in human history (Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ).

Decent anti-racist Australians will utterly reject the disingenuous casuistry of the serial invader Lib-Labs (the war criminal Coalition and Labor Right who are now into Australia’s Seventh Iraq War and Third Syrian War) , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-09 NM re Assange: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/08/julian-assange-hero-and-villian/ .

A poor and grossly misleading article by Mathew Kenneally who seems to assume that the US, UK and Sweden are decent, law-abiding countries. They are not – the US and UK are serial war criminal , nuclear terrorist, grossly human rights-abusing, mass murdering rogue states and Sweden is a supposedly neutral but commercially complicit party as, for example, revealed by the evil, gross and ongoing Swedish violation of world hero Julian Assange.

The degenerate, racist UK and US illegally invaded Iraq 13 years ago and ended up killing 2.7 million Iraqis through violence (1.5 million) or war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million) (see (see “Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ) , have managed to kill 32 million Muslims through violence (5 million) or imposed deprivation (27 million) since the US Government’s false flag atrocity on 9-11 (see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm ) and hold 1.5 billion Muslims in their evil, violent thrall - these same degenerate, racist rogue states with dirty, complicit, business -as-usual Sweden would surely have no qualms about rendition of 1 individual, namely World hero Julian Assange (already arbitrarily detained for 3.5 years without charge or trial in the Ecuadorean Embassy), to the same highly abusive life imprisonment in an American hell-hole imposed on that other world hero Chelsea Manning.

Decent Australian will respond to this vileness by Boycotts Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against the UK, US and Sweden and will utterly reject the US lackey, Assange-betraying Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) , vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-09 NM re Turkey, Syria, academic freedom: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/01/turkey-has-begun-arresting-academics-for-speaking-out-against-state-violence/ .

The worst state crimes are genocide and invasion of other countries (see "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ) and Turkey has been repeatedly guilty of both awful crimes in the last century. Thus Turkey has invaded Iraq, Syria and Cyprus and has been involved in the gemnocide agsitn the Greeks (post-WW1), Armenians (1915-1923; 1.5 million Armenians killed ), Syriac Christians (post WW1) and Kurds (post WW1 and in recent decades). One notes in fairness that White Australians have invaded 85 countries with 30 of these atrocities associated with genocide (Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ).).

In the 21st century US ally Turkey has continued these invasions, continued the Kurdish Genocide and 5 years ago commenced a Syrian Genocide and Syrian Holocaust with massive support for Syrian rebels including ISIS (0.3 million Syrians killed, a comparable number killed through war-imposed deprivation and 12 million Syrian refugees) (see “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).

Apartheid Israel’s defense minister, war criminal Moshe Yaalon, has alleged that the Islamic State terror group has long been funded with “Turkish money” (see “Israeli defence minister says ISIS funded with “Turkish money””, RT, 26 January 2016: https://www.rt.com/news/330204-israel-turkey-isis-oil/ ), noting that Apartheid Israel buys ISIS oil from Turkey. Muslim-origin non-state terrorism is the greatest asset of Freanch, UK and US (FUKUS) imperialism and Apartheid Israeli imperialism, and ISIS (that arose out of the US invasion of Iraq and US promotion of rebellion in Syria) is no exception.

Turkey has long persecuted and imprisoned scholars who refer to the Armenian Genocide . Because the Turkish Penal Code stated: "A person who publicly insults the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly, shall be punishable by imprisonment of between six months to three years", Nobel prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk was charged with violating this law in an interview. After prosecution commenced Pamuk public stated : "I repeat, I said loud and clear that one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey. " In the end he was not imprisoned because of international outcry but was fined (see “Orhan Pamuk:, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Pamuk ).

Thanks to the war criminal, US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), while dual national Australians visiting Syria or Iraq could face lengthy imprisonment and even cancellation of citizenship, dual national Turkish or Israeli Australians can freely travel to Turkey or Israel, join the military, commit atrocious war crimes and indeed commit atrocities against Australian citizens. Decent Australians who abhor both non-state terrorism (e.g. the barbarous ISIS) and state terrorism (e.g. UK state terrorism, US state terrorism, French state terrorism, Turkish state terrorism, Saudi Arabian state terrorism, Qatari state terrorism, UAE state terrorism, Jordanian state terrorism, Australian state terrorism, Canadian state terrorism, and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism) will utterly reject the US lackey Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor Right) state terrorist, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-09 NM re Ruddock, human rights: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/08/personal-reflections-of-philip-ruddock-minister-baby-kisser-all-round-human-rights-abuser/ .

Excellent article by Chris Graeme about Phillip Ruddock, an extreme right wing, human rights –abusing , neoliberal politician I have detested for nearly all my adult life. Making Ruddock a human rights advocate is liking making the Fox a spokesperson for the chooks. However Chris Graeme missed out 12 of Ruddock’s crimes against Humanity in addition to his complicity in gross human rights abuse of refugees. :

(1) As a Coalition MP from 1973 onwards he supported the US Indo-China War (18 million deaths from violence or war-imposed deprivation) (Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related a history of every country since Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

(2) As Attorney General he introduced the Marriage Legislation Amendment Bill to prevent any possible court rulings allowing same-sex marriages or civil unions.

(3) As Attorney General he was party to the NT Intervention and the exclusion of Indigenous Australians from the provisions of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act (see Gideon Polya, “2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective ).

(4) As a Coalition MP he was party to the 1990-2003 Sanctions against Iraq that killed 1.7 million Iraqis (half of them children).

(5) As Attorney General he was complicit in the war criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq in (2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence, 1.5 million, or from war-imposed deprivation, 1.2 million; 2003-2011; see “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).

(6) As a Coalition MP he is complicit in the recent illegal invasion of Syria and Iraq (Australia’s Third Syrian War and Seventh Iraq war in a century; Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ; Gideon Polya,“Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115A.htm ).

(7) As a pro-coal Coalition MP he is complicit in 75,000 deaths annually linked to the burning of Australian coal exports ((see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

(8) As a pro-fossil fuels Coalition MP he is complicit in the worsening Climate Genocide (that currently kills 0.4 million people annually but which with climate change inaction is set to reach an average of 100 million annually this century (“Climate genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

(9) As a pro-carbon fuels Coalition MP he is complicit in 10,000 Australians deaths annually from carbon fuel burning (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths ).

(10) As a Coalition MP he is a party to draconian attacks on Australian liberties by anti-terrorism laws despite zero (0) Australians having ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim non-state terrorist organization.

(11) As a Coalition MP he has a significant responsibility for 85,000 preventable Australian deaths annually or 1.2 million such deaths since the US Government’s 2001 false flag atrocity on 9/11 (Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

(12) Wearing an Amnesty badge despite this appalling record.

Good riddance to Ruddock. Of course Ruddock was merely a distinguished part of a serial war criminal, climate criminal, human rights –abusing, US lackey, pro-Apartheid Israel, neoliberal Coalition team (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

Decent Australians will utterly reject the human rights-abusing Coalition, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-08 NM re Julian Assange: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/07/julian-assange-versus-a-culture-of-arrogance/ .

Excellent article by Professor Stuart Rees. World hero Julian Assange has been arbitrary detained for 3.5 years without charge or trial in the Ecuadorean Embassy and if he leaves he faces the same highly abusive life imprisonment in an American hell-hole imposed on that other world hero Chelsea Manning.

Utter British hypocrisy is revealed by the freedom of mass murderer and war criminal Tony Blair who is complicit in the deaths of 2.7 million Iraqis from violence (1.5 million) or war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million) due to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq by the US, UK and US lackey Australia (see “Iraqi Holocaust Iraqi Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ). Ditto American and Australian hypocrisy over the freedom of Bush and Howard while Julian Assange is indefinitely imprisoned for exposing their crimes.

In his 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance speech anti-racist Jewish British writer Harold Pinter stated: “We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought. Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice” (Harold Pinter, “Art, Truth And Politics”, Countercurrents, 8 December, 2005: http://www.countercurrents.org/arts-pinter081205.htm ). 2.7 million? More than enough , I would have thought. The worst crime of all is to illegally invade another country (see "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ and “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ).

Decent Australians who abhor mass murder and war crimes will utterly reject the Julian Assange-betraying, US lackey, war criminal Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last, noting that all-smiles, charming and intelligent but “Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing”, “Howard-in-sheep’s-clothing” and “lipstick-on-a-pig” Malcolm Turnbull has blood on his hands over Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and other Muslim countries currently being devastated by the US with Australian assistance (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ; Phillip Dorling, “Pine Gap drives US drone kills”, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 July 2013: http://www.smh.com.au/national/pine-gap-drives-us-drone-kills-20130720-2qbsa.html ).

2016-02-08 NM re Wilson, censorship, Roosh, Brull: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/07/rooshs-unspeakable-awfulness-and-freedom-commissioner-tim-wilsons-unashamed-hypocrisy/.

Excellent article by Michael Brull.

Excellent article by Michael Brull. Censorship short-circuits scholarship in general and in particular science which is fundamental for rational risk management vital for societal safety and successively involves (a) untrammelled acquisition of accurate information, (b) scientific analysis that involves the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk (see "Gideon Polya Writing": https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/ ). Those who advocate censorship are endangering human rights and rational risk management vital for societal safety. Tim Wilson should be immediately sacked as Human Rights Commissioner.

There are physically harmless vile words on the one hand and physically damaging vile deeds on the other - as the old adage has it: “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me”. What an Orwellian disgrace that the human rights-abusing child-abusing, climate criminal and serial war criminal Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) – people who should be arraigned before the International Criminal Court – assume the right to shelter Australians from “harmless vile words”.

According to the Tim Wilson website Tim Wilson was a “Participant in the 2013 Ramban Israel Fellowship Program run by the Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council” (see “Tim Wilson” : http://www.timwilson.com.au/about-tim ) and visited Apartheid Israel recently as part of a evidently right-wing and pro-Zionist delegation – according to the ABC: “An Australian-led delegation to the West Bank featuring Minister Christopher Pyne, former speaker Bronwyn Bishop, Labor MP Tim Watts and Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has been criticised by a minister in the Palestinian Authority, who said the group had "false information" and were "not well educated"… All the delegates were visiting Jerusalem for two days as part of an annual Australia-UK-Israel leadership dialogue to discuss the challenges facing Israel and how attendees can best support the Jewish state [sic]. Mr Wilson said the group "quizzed" the Palestinian Prime Minister and Education Minister about a range of topics. Palestinian Education Minister Dr Sabri Saidam described the meeting as "very explosive and very challenging" and said the group had asked "rude and blunt" questions… "Mr Netanyahu was one of the first people that Malcolm Turnbull rang after he become Prime Minister three months ago"” (“Delegation to West Bank led by Christopher Pyne “not well-educated”, local minister says” ”, ABC News, 17 December 2015: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/australian-delegation-to-west-bank-'very-explosive'/7032084 ).

From an anti-racist Jewish perspective, Apartheid Israel is not a “Jewish state” – it is a nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide, Apartheid rogue state that grossly defames all decent anti-racist Jews (anti-Jewish anti-Semitism) by insisting in the name of a “Jewish state” that of its Indigenous Palestinian subjects (that now outnumber Jewish Israelis) 72% (half being children) have zero human rights, are confined without charge or trial to the Gaza Concentration Camp or West Bank Bantustan ghettoes, have an annual per capita income of $2,811 (14 times lower than the $38,261 of Israelis) and about 5,000 are killed by racist Jewish Israelis each year ( 1,000 by violence and 4,000 through imposed deprivation; the ongoing Palestinian Genocide has been associated with 2 million Palestinian deaths from violence , 0.1 million, and from imposed deprivation, 1.9 million) (see “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; “List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita ).

All anti-racist Australians - including all anti-racist Jews in particular - will utterly reject the racist, grossly human rights-abusing, US lackey, pro-Zionist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (there are a few decent, anti-racist Labor MPs whose views are in accord with humane anti-racist Jewish opinion).

2016-02-07 NM re Wollongong & anti-vaccination PhD: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/07/anti-vaccination-cranks-versus-academic-freedom/ .

Excellent article by Chris Graeme with a sensible anti-censorship conclusion. Vaccination saves lives and is a crucial public health measure e.g. the scourge smallpox has now been completely eradicated and polio almost so (fundamentalist responses to CIA perversion of vaccination programs means that polio survives in Northern Pakistan as a continuing threat to Humanity) . That said, censorship is antithetical to scholarship in general and to science which is fundamental for rational risk management vital for societal safety and successively involves (a) untrammelled acquisition of accurate information, (b) scientific analysis that involves the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk (see "Gideon Polya Writing": https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/ ).

Unfortunately censorship is alive and well in Australia through (a0 draconian libel laws, (b) more recently anti-terrorism laws that apply draconian long-term custodial punishment for anyone seeing, reading, saying or supporting things that Lib-Lab (Coaltion and Labor ) state terrorists don’t like (see and (c) massive censorship by Mainstream journalist , politician and academic prresstitutes (see “Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home ; “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ ).

The University of Wollongong was involved in a converse controversy a decade ago when it tried to get rid of its most famous scientist, Ted Steele, for his telling the media about examples of appallingly low standards in relation to research student assessment. Wikipedia: “Edward (Ted) J. Steele is an Australian molecular immunologist formerly with the University of Wollongong, now listed as a visiting fellow at Murdoch University. Steele's research has led a resurgent interest in the French scientist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, the man who developed the first theory of evolution, pre-dating Charles Darwin by fifty years. Steele was also the subject of a dispute with the University of Wollongong, which led to his widely publicized dismissal, court-ordered reinstatement and subsequent undisclosed financial settlement by the university” (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Steele ).

There is massive censorship within Australian universities that can be circumvented by open and free university education (see Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship and “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ) .

2016-02-07 NM re whaling: https://newmatilda.com/2015/01/27/if-japan-hated-sea-shepherd-wait-until-they-see-whats-steaming-towards-them-2016/ .

Killing beautiful, sentient and endangered whales is abhorrent and should be stopped but look-the-other-way Australians must be made to see that the climate criminality of Australia under successive Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor Right) governments is a far greater threat to whales than the presently limited Japanese whaling. Thus greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution leads to global warming and decreased Antarctic sea ice with the successive consequences of decreased sea ice-associated algae, decreased krill and decreased krill-eating animals, notably whales (see Sections C and D, “2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course ).

Climate criminal Australia compares poorly with Japan in this respect. Thus the revised annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in tonnes CO2-e per person per year is as follows: New Zealand (53.2 ), Australia (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports), Canada (50.1), Ireland (41.4), and United States (41.0) versus Japan (10.7), the world average being 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e / 7.137 billion people in 2013 = 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Thus whale-killing Australia’s annual per capital GHG pollution is 5.9 times greater than the world average (13 times greater if including Australia’s huge GHG Exports) whereas Japan is a mere 1.2 times the world average.

Decent Australians who really want to save the whale should utterly reject the pro-coal, pro-gas, pro-fossil fuels, pro-methanogenic livestock, anti-science , anti-environment, speciescidal, ecocidal, terracidal, whale –killing, climate criminal Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-07 NM re ABC, Turnbull & NBN censorship: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/04/false-balance-labor-goes-after-turnbull-over-abc-secret-tapes/ .

The cowardly, craven and unethical ABC presstitutes maintain a “balance” between the mendacious, extreme right-wing Libs (Liberal Party-National Party Coalition) and the mendacious Labs (dominated by the Labor Right) . The truth is another thing entirely. For examples of ABC censorship see: “Censorship by ABC Late Night Live”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/ , "Censorship by ABC Saturday Extra": https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/censorship-by-abc-sat and “ABC fact-checking unit & incorrect reportage by the ABC (Australia’s BBC)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/abc-fact-checking-unit .

Of course the ABC is not alone in censoring reality which is the sine qua non of Western Mainstream media, politicians and academics in the Western democracies that have become unfortunately become Plutocracies, Murdochracies, Lobbyocracies, Corporatocracies and Dollarocracies in which the Big Money of the dominant One Percenters buys people, presstitutes, politicians, policies, parties, preferment, public perception of reality, votes and political power – see “Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ ; “Censorship by the BBC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/ ; “Censorship by The Conversation”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by ; “Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home ; “Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ ; “Censorship by The Age”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-age "Censorship by The Guardian UK": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-guardian-uk, "Censorship by The Guardian Australia": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home/censorship-by-the-guardian-a and “Censorship by Crikey (Australia)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-crikey ; and Gideon Polya, “Current academic censorship and self-censorship in Australian universities”, Free University Education: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/academic-censorship .

Decent Australians committed to effective free speech that is vital for democracy will utterly reject the mendacious Coalition led by the oh so charming and articulate but “lipstick-on a pig” Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-07 NM re Joshua Gilbert, farmers, and land use: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/02/47884/ .

A useful and well-intentioned article by Joshua Gilbert. However some key points about land use must be made that are resolutely ignored in the Mainstream narrative of look-the-other-way Australia:

(1) World Bank analysts carefully re-evaluated the contribution of livestock production to world annual GHG pollution and found that the world's annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure. A key element of their analysis was to use a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane (CH4) relative to that of carbon dioxide (CO2) of 72 in a 20-year time frame rather than the 25 on a 100 year time frame used by the FAO. Indeed the World Bank analysis evidently still understates the GHG pollution because NASA scientists have re-evaluated the GWP of CH4 as 105 in a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts considered (see Robert Goodland and Jeff Anfang. “Livestock and climate change. What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?”, World Watch, November/December 2009: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf and Drew T. Shindell , Greg Faluvegi, Dorothy M. Koch , Gavin A. Schmidt , Nadine Unger and Susanne E. Bauer , “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions”, Science, 30 October 2009: Vol. 326 no. 5953 pp. 716-718: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5953/716 ).

(2) Revised annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution for all countries were calculated in tonnes CO2-e per person per year with some notable values being those for the world (8.9), New Zealand (53.2 ), Australia (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports), Canada (50.1), Ireland (41.4), the United States (41.0), China (7.4), Bangladesh (2.7), Pakistan (2.5), India (2.1), Cook Islands (2.1), Kiribati (1.2), and Tuvalu (1.2) (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

(3) SE Australia’s Eucalyptus forests are the best forest carbon sinks by far in the world and must be left if we are to seriously try to reduce atmospheric CO2 from the currently catastrophic 400 ppm CO2 to the pre-Industrial Revolution level of circa 300 ppm CO2 required of a safe planet for all peoples and all species (see 300.org: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org ; “300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm ; Heather Keith, Brendan G. Mackey and David Lindenmayer, “Re-evaluation of biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forests”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci,, vol. 106, no. 28, pages 11635–11640: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/28/11635.long ; and Gideon Polya, “Forest biomass-derived Biochar can profitably reduce global warming and bushfire risk”, Yarra Valley Climate Action Group: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/forest-biomass-derived-biochar-can-profitably-reduce-global-warming-and-bushfire-risk ).

(4) The ignorant, neoliberal National Party and Liberal Party troglodytes should be backing farmers against the fossil fuel burners but instead are doing the reverse. Sensible, science-informed Australians will utterly reject the anti-environment, anti-science Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-06 NM re Pilger, Assange: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/05/freeing-julian-assange-john-pilger-on-the-final-chapter/ .

Excellent article by John Pilger. Until world hero Julian Assange is free and safe from American state terrorists decent people around the world should urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Sweden, the UK and the US and all those supporting these degenerate rogue states in their persecution of Julian Assange.

In Australia decent people will utterly reject the cowardly, unprincipled, US lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) who have ignominiously betrayed Australian citizen Julian Assange and his children - decent Australians will vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-4 NM re refugee children, High Court: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/03/your-child-our-prison-island-bill-shorten-is-here-to-save-the-non-refugee-children/ .

Decent Australians utterly abhor child abuse and accordingly will utterly reject the child abusing, Lib-Lab (Coalition and Labor Right) policy of indefinite and highly abusive imprisonment of child refugees in offshore and on-shore concentration camps – decent Australians are accordingly morally obliged to vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last (there are a few humane Labor MPs e.g. Melissa Parke, Maria Vamvakinou and Senator Lisa Singh).

It is shocking that 58% of Australian women support the charming, articulate, all-smiles, lipstick -on-a-pig Malcolm Turnbull who heads a bottom-of-the-barrel Coalition government retaining Abbott’s primitive neoliberal agenda including the indefinite and highly abusive imprisonment without charge or trial of child refugees in offshore and on-shore concentration camps

And as for “Your child, our future”, education is a basic human right and ALL education should be free. Free university education has been adopted by about 20 variously rich or poor countries for all or a substantial proportion of their university students. However the Anglosphere countries (the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand) ) are peculiar in imposing a huge and unjust Education Debt (HECS Debt) on university students as well as imposing a huge and inescapable Carbon Debt on young people through disproportionately huge greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However Accredited Remote Learning (ARL) via Free Universities (FUs) (e.g. an Australian Free University) can circumvent this pro-One Percenter, neoliberal perversion – see Gideon Polya, “Free University Education Via Accredited Remote Learning – All Education Should Be Free For All”, Countercurrents, 31 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya310116.htm and “Free University Education”: https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home ; Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

2016-02-04 NM re “saving refugees from drowning”: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/04/if-we-let-the-babies-stay-who-knows-what-could-happen/ .

Excellent article by Ben Eltham – collective draconian punishment of thousands of refugees for the crimes of those few helping them find safe haven (aka people smugglers) is evil, monstrous and illegal.

The “we are saving refugees from drowning” argument of the morally bankrupt, child abusing Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) is fatuous when one considers the 85,000 Australians who die preventably each year from a variety of preventable causes, the breakdown (involving some overlaps) including (1) 26,000 annual Australian deaths from adverse hospital events, (2) 17,000 obesity-related Australian deaths, (3) 15,500 smoking-related Australian deaths, (4) 10,000 carbon burning pollution-derived Australian deaths, (5). 4,000 avoidable Indigenous Australian deaths, (6). 5,600 Australians die alcohol-related deaths, (7) 2,100 Australian suicides, (8) 1,400 Australian road deaths, (9) 630 Australian opiate drug-related deaths with 570 linked to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry, and (10) 300 Australian homicides (80 being of women killed domestically) .

Successive Australian Liberal Party-National Party Coalition or Labor Governments, including the Turnbull Coalition Government, have failed to take urgent steps to mitigate this carnage. Indeed driven by Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) terror hysteria, successive Australian Governments have slashed human rights and committed to a long-term accrual cost of the War on Terror of $11 billion annually despite zero (0) Australians have ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin terrorist organization (see Gideon Polya, “Coalition Climate Crimes & 200 Reasons Why Australia Must Dump Pro-coal, Pro-war Coalition PM Malcolm Turnbull”, Countercurrents, 1 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya011115.htm ).

It gets worse. Burning of Australia’s annual coal exports (336 Mt in 2015 out of the world total production of 7,823 Mt coal) is associated with 0.5 x 336 Mt coal x (3.5 million deaths/ 7,823 Mt coal ) = 75,000 deaths annually (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths and scroll down to “Australia”). About 10,000 Australians die from air pollution each year that is sanctioned by the COALition Government – annual deaths from Australian state terrorism, corporate terrorism, carbon terrorism and climate terrorism that are commensurate with annual deaths in the Iraq Civil War (barbarous ISIS versus the equally barbarous US Alliance) (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ and "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ).

Those Lib-Labs complicit in this carnage will eventually end up before the International Criminal Court but before that happens decent Australians will utterly reject the child-abusing and Australian-killing Lib-Labs, vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-01 NM re Australian GHG pollution: https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/01/australias-emissions-rise-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-and-were-comparable-to-china-and-india/.

The pro-coal, pro-gas Australian COALition Government has zero credibility in relation to the worsening climate emergency. Australia is among the world’s worst countries for annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution.

World Bank analysts have revised annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollutions upwards by 50% to 64 billion tonnes CO2-e by properly accounting for land use for animal husbandry and the same approach has been used here to properly re-calculate annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution for all countries in (tonnes CO2-e per person per year, the world average being 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e / 7.137 billion people in 2013 = 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year), the worst being : Belize (366.9), Guyana (203.1), Malaysia (126.0), Papua New Guinea (114.7), Qatar (101.8), Zambia (97.5), Antigua & Barbuda (85.6), United Arab Emirates (82.4), Panama (68.0), Botswana (64.9), Liberia (55.0), Indonesia (53.6), New Zealand (53.2), AUSTRALIA (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports), Nicaragua (51.2), Canada (50.1), Equatorial Guinea (47.5), Venezuela (45.2), Brazil (43.4), Myanmar (41.9), Ireland (41.4), United States (41.0), Cambodia (40.5), Kuwait (37.3), Paraguay (37.2), Central African Republic (35.7).

China (7.4) is 7 times better than Australia and the best countries include the following climate change-threatened countries: Pakistan (2.5), Morocco (2.5), Djibouti (2.4), St Vincent & Grenadines (2.4), Armenia (2.3), Maldives (2.1), India (2.1), Cook Islands (2.1), Vietnam (1.9), São Tomé and Príncipe (1.9), Comoros (1.6), Solomon Islands (1.4), Kiribati (1.2), Tuvalu (1.2) (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Science-informed Australians will utterly reject the pro-coal, pro-gas, anti-science, climate criminal Australian COALition Government, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-01 NM re coal: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/22/47157/ .

Each year carbon fuel burning - the burning of coal, gas, oil and biomass - causes 7 million premature deaths (untimely deaths, avoidable deaths, excess deaths, avoidable mortality, excess mortality, deaths that should not have happened). About half these deaths occur due to Outdoor air pollution.

Accordingly, notionally assuming pollutants from the burning of coal being responsible for 50% of the Outdoor air pollution deaths, we can estimate that burning of Australia’s annual coal exports (336 Mt in 2015 out of the world total production of 7,823 Mt coal) is associated with 0.5 x 336 Mt coal x (3.5 million deaths/ 7,823 Mt coal ) = 75,000 deaths annually (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths and scroll down to “Australia”).

While air pollution kills 7 million people each year, annual deaths from climate change are estimated as “only” 0.4 million - however this is predicted to rise to an average of 100 million deaths per year this century if man-made climate change is not requisitely addressed (see “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ).

About 10,000 Australians die from air pollution each year that is sanctioned by the COALition Government – annual deaths from Australian state terrorism, corporate terrorism, carbon terrorism and climate terrorism that are commensurate with annual deaths in the Iraq Civil War (barbarous ISIS versus the equally barbarous US Alliance) (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ and "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ).

Science-informed decent Australians will utterly reject the Australian-killing COALition state terrorists, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-01 NM re Bob Brown & Tasmanian forests: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/27/bob-brown-why-risked-jail-protecting-lapoinya/ .

Full marks to the wonderful Dr Bob Brown for defending beautiful Tasmania’s irreplaceable temperate rain forests from the COALition environmental vandals. 5 key points:

(1) SE Australia’s Eucalyptus regnans forests are the best forest carbon sinks in the world and on that basis alone should to be logged (see Drs Heather Keith, Dr Brendan Mackey, and Dr. David Lindenmayer (ANU), “Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forests”, PNAS July 14, 2009 vol. 106 no. 28 11635-11640: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/28/11635.abstract?sid=c2645cfb-f32c-4e89-8323-5bf507db88a0 ; Frances Pike, “Australia: world leader in deforestation and species extinction”, Independent Australia, 3 June 2015: https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/australian-logging-and-the-end-of-species,7788 ) .

(2) The highest national annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution (tonnes CO2-e per person per year, the world average being 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e / 7.137 billion people in 2013 = 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year), the worst comes from logging : Belize (366.9), Guyana (203.1), Malaysia (126.0), Papua New Guinea (114.7), Panama (68.0), Liberia (55.0), Indonesia (53.6), Nicaragua (51.2), and Equatorial Guinea (47.5), as compared to Australia (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports) (see (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

(3) COALition environmental vandalism threatens a climate criminal Australia with Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) from an indignant world (see Gideon Polya, “Ways World-Leading Climate Criminal Australia Threatens Planet And Invites Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)”, Countercurrents, 6 June, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060615.htm ).

(4) The beauty and uniqueness of species and ecosystems is such that only the worst environmental vandals will destroy them.

(5) Dr Andrew Balmford and numerous colleagues in a key paper in Science entitled “ Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature”(2002) that : “Evidence has been accumulating that such [wild nature] systems generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exceed those obtained from continued habitat conversion. We estimate that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1” (see A. Balmford, A. Bruner, P. Cooper, R. Costanza, S. Farber, R. E. Green, M. Jenkins, P. Jefferiss, V. Jessamy, J. Madden, K. Munro, N. Myers, S. Naeem, J. Paavola, M. Rayment, S. Trumper and R. K. Turner, “ Economic reasons for conserving wild nature”, Science 297 : 950-953, 2002: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/297/5583/950 ).

Science-informed decent Australians will utterly reject the speciescidal ecocidal and terracidal COALition environmental vandals led by charming “lipstick on a pig” Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-01 NM re Barbie, plastics and the Anthropocene: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/30/barbie-high-priestess-of-the-anthropocene/ .

Our European forebears left behind little stone or ceramic steatopygian dolls (Venus figurines) of high religious significance that had huge breasts and buttocks (desirable attributes of a fat-storing mother surviving and feeding her young during the harsh winter) (see “Venus figurines”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines ). However 17,000 Australians die from obesity-related causes each year (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

For benign, life-saving use of plastics just spend a day in a hospital. Nevertheless, we have made an awful mess of the world and a catastrophic plus 2 degrees C is now inevitable, but we must still do everything we can to make the future “less bad” (see “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; "Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming ).

2016-01-23 NM re Pilger:

Excellent article by John Pilger. In the century after the British invasion in 1788 the Australian Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million through dispossession, deprivation, introduced disease and violence. Since 1788 some 2 million Indigenous Australians have died untimely deaths, White Australians have destroyed 600 out of 750 distinct Australian Aboriginal groups (and associated languages and dialects) and of the remaining 150 all but 20 are endangered, this qualitatively representing the worst genocide in human history and an Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide that is continuing ( “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ”, Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm ) .

The British have invaded 193 countries (many with the assistance of our White Australian forebears) as compared to Australia 85, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 . In view of the Aboriginal Genocide being qualitatively the worst genocide in human history, it would be appropriate to make 26 January “British Invasion Day” (see Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ).

The ultimate in racism and criminality is the invasion of other countries. Racist White Australia has done its best to emulate this serial war criminal British tradition but as a UK or US lackey has “only” invaded 85 countries. Australia under ever-smiling but “lipstick on a pig” Malcolm Turnbull is now into its Third Syrian War and Seventh Iraq War in a century (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 09 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” Ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm ).

Indeed Australia was complicit in what was quantitatively the worst British-imposed Genocide, the 1942-1945 WW2 Bengali Holocaust (Bengal Famine) in which the British deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in Bengal and in the adjoining Indian states of Bihar, Assam and Orissa. Australia was complicit in this atrocity by withholding food from India from its huge wartime grain stores (see “Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya”, Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ).

Decent, pro-peace, anti-racist, Australians will utterly reject the serial war criminal, US lackey, Zionist lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-21 NM re

Indigenous Australians call Australia Day Invasion Day for good reason. In the century after the British invasion in 1788 the Australian Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million through dispossession, deprivation, introduced disease and violence. Since 1788 some 2 million Indigenous Australians have died untimely deaths, White Australians have destroyed 600 out of 750 distinct Australian Aboriginal groups (and associated languages and dialects) and of the remaining 150 all but 20 are endangered, this qualitatively representing the worst genocide in human history and an Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide that is continuing ( “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia ”, Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm ) .

UK lackeys or US lackeys Australians have invaded 85 countries. History ignored yields history repeated and look-the-other-way Australia is consequently now into its Seventh Iraq War of the last 100 years. This appalling record, if generally known, would obscure Australia's worthy history as a world leader in achieving major humane social innovations within Australia (albeit effectively only for White Australians before 1967) such as free, secular education, free trade unions, the 8 hour working day and democratic elections in the 19th century, and female suffrage (1901) (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 09 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” Ignores Australian Involvement In 30 Genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm ).

However the British have invaded 193 countries (many with the assistance of our White Australian forebears) as compared to Australia 85, France 82, the US 70 (50 after WW2), Germany 39, Japan 30, Russia 25, Canada 25, Apartheid Israel 12 and China 2 . It would be appropriate to make 26 January “British Invasion Day” (see Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ).

The ultimate in racism is the invasion of other countries. Decent, anti-racist, pro-peace Australians will utterly reject the serial war criminal, US lackey, Zionist lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-02-21 NM re

The fundamental reason we should not eat meat is that livestock and associated land-use contributes over 50% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution (for details and documentation see Robert Barsocchini , “Leading Cause of Climate Change Is Animal Agriculture”, Countercurrents, 02 October, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/barsocchini021015.htm ).

World Bank analysts carefully re-evaluated the contribution of livestock production to world annual GHG pollution and found that the world’s annual total rose from 41.76 billion tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) as estimated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) to 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e, with livestock production contributing over 51% of the higher figure. A key element of their analysis was to use a Global Warming Potential (GWP) of methane (CH4) relative to that of carbon dioxide (CO2) of 72 in a 20-year time frame rather than the 25 on a 100 year time frame used by the FAO. Indeed the World Bank analysis evidently still understates the GHG pollution because NASA scientists have re-evaluated the GWP of CH4 as 105 in a 20 year time frame with aerosol impacts considered (see Robert Goodland and Jeff Anfang. “Livestock and climate change. What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?”, World Watch, November/December 2009: http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf ; Drew T. Shindell , Greg Faluvegi, Dorothy M. Koch , Gavin A. Schmidt , Nadine Unger and Susanne E. Bauer , “Improved Attribution of Climate Forcing to Emissions”, Science, 30 October 2009: Vol. 326 no. 5953 pp. 716-718: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5953/716 ).

Using the World Bank revision approach one can revise annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution for the worst polluting countries (tonnes CO2-e per person per year) , the world average being 63.80 billion tonnes CO2-e / 7.137 billion people in 2013 = 8.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year: Belize (366.9), Guyana (203.1), Malaysia (126.0), Papua New Guinea (114.7), Qatar (101.8), Zambia (97.5), Antigua & Barbuda (85.6), United Arab Emirates (82.4), Panama (68.0), Botswana (64.9), Liberia (55.0), Indonesia (53.6), New Zealand (53.2), AUSTRALIA (52.9; 116 if including its huge GHG-generating exports), Nicaragua (51.2), Canada (50.1), Equatorial Guinea (47.5), Venezuela (45.2), Brazil (43.4), Myanmar (41.9), Ireland (41.4), United States (41.0), Cambodia (40.5), Kuwait (37.3), Paraguay (37.2), Central African Republic (35.7) (see Gideon Polya, “Revised Annual Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Pollution For All Countries – What Is Your Country Doing?”, Countercurrents, 6 January, 2016: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya060116.htm ).

Science-informed Australians will utterly reject the pro-livestock, pro-coal, pro-gas, climate criminal Lib-Labs (COALition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-02-21 NM re

The police in Australia don't make the laws and are just doing their job (some better, some worse), upholding the laws made by politicians elected by the Australian public.

Of course in genocidally racist, nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run, democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel the police and connected agents of the Israeli state uphold racist laws enacted by the Jewish Israeli minority ruling Palestine (72% of the majority Arab subjects of Apartheid Israel are excluded from voting for the government ruling them) and often do so with egregious and murderous violence directed against the majority Arab subject population (see Gideon Polya, “Book Review: “Age Of Fools” By William Cook – Stop Neocon & Zionist Palestinian Genocide, War On Muslims & War On Humanity”, Countercurrents, 03 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya031215.htm and “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ).

The race-based war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing, robbing, piracy, kidnapping, bombing, killing, torture, women-abuse and children- abuse aside (including such crimes against Australians) , Apartheid Israel was the world number 1 this century in the Esctasy trade (see Nathan Guttman, “Israelis at center of Ecstasy drug trade ”, Haaretz, 6 April 2003: http://www.haaretz.com/israelis-at-center-of-ecstasy-drug-trade-1.13809 ) as well as in the illegal human body parts trade as exposed by Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, director of Organs Watch at prestigious UC Berkeley (see Kathleen Maclay, “UC Berkeley anthropology professor working on organs trafficking”, UC Berkeley News, 30 April 2004: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/04/30_organs.shtml ).

2016-01-02 NM re nuclear energy : https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/02/phobic-fear-no-excuse-for-sloppy-thinking-and-hanging-the-innocent/ .

This article by Geoff Russell omits several key points ( I used radionuclides in the laboratory for 40 years and instructed university students on radiation safety for 30 years):

1. A key (albeit argued) matter in radiation safety is the absence of a threshold for damaging effects of radiation i.e. the more radiation you get the more damage you get. In contrast, for toxic chemicals there is a threshold below which there is no discernible effect (this proposition was advanced by Dr Hermann J. Muller who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946 for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray mutagenesis).

2. The consequences of this “no threshold” proposition are that radiation workers take sensible routine steps to avoid increased exposure to radiation (e.g. shielding) or ingestion of radioactive material (e.g. gloves) and wear radiation detection badges to monitor dosage. Further, state regulations impose “where, what, who and how much” limits on radiation exposure for ordinary citizens, radiation workers and medical patients. The safety limits err heavily on the side of caution (e.g. with Fukushima these limits were increased to minimize further economic disruption that would have been even more dangerous to public health).

3. Societal exploitation of nuclear processes through nuclear weapons has already killed about 200,000 Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki but threatens to wipe out all of Humanity and much of the Biosphere (see “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban ; “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ; "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ; and Gideon Polya, “30 December Day Of Lamentation Over State Crime And State Terrorism - Nuclear Terrorism, Corporate Terrorism, Carbon Terrorism And Climate Terrorism”, Countercurrents, 29 December, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya291215.htm ).

4. While, for example, the Chernobyl disaster killed about 30 at the plant and caused massive evacuation in the nearby region, the “extra cancers” in Northern Europe were lost in the already huge cancer incidence affecting most of the population. However sensible, informed people are wary of nuclear power because of (a) corporate and government lying, (b) Chernobyl- and Fukushima-type accidents, (c) the waste storage problem, (d) increasingly bad CO2 emissions from the overall nuclear cycle in a carbon-based economy, (e) non-state nuclear terrorism , (f) nuclear proliferation and plutonium chemical toxicity (especially in the context of a fast-breeder-based nuclear economy or plutonium economy , and (g) the massive, continuing violation of basic radiation safety protocols (see (2) above) in the nuclear industry (e.g. waste) and in war (e.g. the US spreading depleted uranium across the Muslim world) – a useful analogy would be Australia currently spending perhaps $1 billion per year on anti-terrorism security so we are sure there isn’t a bomb on the plane (plus a further $10 billion long-term accrual cost annually on exciting terrorism by supporting the US War on Muslims) whereas until 2014 no Australians had ever been killed in Australia by a Muslim-origin non-state terrorist (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).

More:

2 points.

1. The Linear No-threshold Model for effect as a function of radiation dosage is argued about in relation to low radiation doses, especially in relation to calculating cancer risk (for various expert opinions see “Linear No-threshold Model”, Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model ). However the prestigious US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a report on the matter in 2005 and as summarized by their News Release stated: “A preponderance of scientific evidence shows that even low doses of ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are likely to pose some risk of adverse health effects, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council… . The study committee defined low doses as those ranging from nearly zero to about 100 millisievert (mSv) -- units that measure radiation energy deposited in living tissue. The radiation dose from a chest X-ray is about 0.1 mSv. In the United States, people are exposed on average to about 3 mSv of natural "background" radiation annually… Specifically, the committee's thorough review of available biological and biophysical data supports a "linear, no-threshold" (LNT) risk model, which says that the smallest dose of low-level ionizing radiation has the potential to cause an increase in health risks to humans. In the past, some researchers have argued that the LNT model exaggerates adverse health effects, while others have said that it underestimates the harm. The preponderance of evidence supports the LNT model, this new report says. "The scientific research base shows that there is no threshold of exposure below which low levels of ionizing radiation can be demonstrated to be harmless or beneficial," said committee chair Richard R. Monson, associate dean for professional education and professor of epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston” (see US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, “Low levels of ionizing radiation may cause harm”, New release; 29 June 2005: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11340 ).

2. Renewable energy can quickly, cheaply and cleanly solve the need for energy without GHG pollution, Thus see “100% renewable energy by 2020”:https://sites.google.com/site/100renewableenergyby2020/ and Section H, “2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course :

“1. The Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) plan for 100% renewable stationary energy for Australia by 2020 (Zero Carbon Australia by 2020, ZCA 2020) involves 40% wind energy, 60% concentrated solar thermal (CST) with molten salts energy storage for 24/7 baseload power, biomass and hydroelectric backup (for days of no wind and low sunshine) and a HV DC and HC AC national power grid. The BZE scheme was costed at $370 billion over 10 years, with roughly half spent on CST, one quarter on wind and one quarter on the national electricity grid.

2. Seligman scheme. A scheme for 100% renewable energy for Australia has been set out by top electrical engineer Professor Peter Seligman (a major player in development of the bionic ear). Professor Seligman’s scheme involves wind, solar thermal, other energy sources, hydrological energy storage (in dams on the Nullabor Plain in Southern Australia), an HV AC and HV DC electricity transmission grid and a cost over 20 years of $253 billion.

3. Wind power. Ignoring cost-increasing energy storage and transmission grid costs and cost-decreasing economies of scale for a 2- to 10-fold size increase, here are 2 similar cost estimates for installation of wind power for 80% of Australia’s projected 325,000 GWh of annual electrical energy by 2020: (1) 90,000 MW capacity, 260,000 GWh/year, $200 billion/10 years (10-fold scale-up from GL Garrad Hassan) and (2) 96,000 MW, 260,000 GWh/year, $144 billion (2-fold scale up from BZE ).

4. Science-demanded reduction of atmospheric CO₂ from current 400 ppm to 300 ppm requires “negative GHG emissions” achieved by cessation of GHG pollution ASAP and CO₂ reduction though re-afforestation, renewable energy driven CO₂ trapping in alkaline solutions, and biochar (as much as 12 billion tonnes carbon as biochar can be fixed annually globally from renewable energy-driven anaerobic pyrolysis of existing agricultural and forestry cellulosic waste)”.

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2016-01-02 NM re bigots: : https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/02/facing-off-against-fascists-and-racists-in-defence-of-the-anti-reclaim-australia-protests/ .

“Evil happens when good men so nothing” (variously attributed to Edmund Burke). Good on the anti-racists peacefully publicly protesting neo-fascists, neo-Nazis, racists, bigots, anti-Arab anti-Semites, Islamophobes, and xenophobes who are polluting the public space.

Unfortunately while these ignorant red-neck racists are only a tiny minority seriously misled and radicalized by like shock jocks and Murdoch media presstitutes, they are vastly out-numbered by the vastly more dangerous 80% of the voting public who vote for the violently neo-fascist , anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic , pro-war, pro-Zionist, and US lackey Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) war criminals and climate criminals who are committed to the US War on Muslims (32 million Muslims killed by violence or deprivation in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity) and to terracidal state-sanctioned corporate carbon terrorism and climate terrorism ( 7 million people die each year from air pollution and 10 billion people are set to die avoidably this century if climate change is nit addressed) (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ; "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ; and Gideon Polya, “30 December Day Of Lamentation Over State Crime And State Terrorism - Nuclear Terrorism, Corporate Terrorism, Carbon Terrorism And Climate Terrorism”, Countercurrents, 29 December, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya291215.htm ).

Decent Australians must have zero tolerance for all violent bigots and notably the racist, war criminal and climate criminal Lib-Labs, and will vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-01-02 NM: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/02/its-been-weeks-since-anyone-noticed-george-christensen-hence-this/.

The assertion of “Green racism” by this right wing, neoliberal, pro-coal MP from the Deep North turns reality on its head.

Thus it is estimated that the burning of Australia’s world leading coal exports ultimately kill about 75,000 per year (mostly in East Asia and South Asia) and that Adani’s Carmichael Mine will be responsible for over 13,000 such deaths annually and over 500,000 deaths in the lifetime of the mine (see “Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths and scroll down to “Australia”) – climate racism, state crime, state terrorism, state-sanctioned climate terrorism, state-sanctioned carbon terrorism and state-sanctioned corporate terrorism (see “Stop state terrorism” : https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ ; "State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ ; and Gideon Polya, “30 December Day Of Lamentation Over State Crime And State Terrorism - Nuclear Terrorism, Corporate Terrorism, Carbon Terrorism And Climate Terrorism”, Countercurrents, 29 December, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya291215.htm ).

Numerate, science-informed Australians will utterly reject this horrendous COALition-sanctioned corporate terrorism under charming, all-smiles, pro-coal, “lipstick on a pig” Malcolm Turnbull, vote 1 Green and put the COALition last.

2016-01-02 NM: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/02/statement-by-samah-sabawi-and-bassam-dally-re-new-matilda-article/ .

One recalls Peter’s betrayal of fellow Palestinian Jesus (Chapter 26 of the Gospel according to St Matthew (King James Version), New Testament, 75): “And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, before the cock crew, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out and wept bitterly.”

The betrayal of that wonderful Palestinian humanitarian Jesus by fellow Palestinian Peter and his subsequent Crucifixion by Jewish fanatics is mirrored today in the betrayal of humanity by the overwhelming majority of citizens in the Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted West, and is well illustrated by overwhelming denial by Australian public figures of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Apartheid Israel . The Crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans at the behest of Jewish fanatics is today mirrored by the Palestinian Genocide (2 million Palestinian killed by violence or violently-imposed deprivation since 1936), the wider, Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (32 million Muslims killed by violence or violently-imposed deprivation since 9-11), the global avoidable mortality holocaust (1,300 million people dying from deprivation since 1950 under Zionist-beholden US hegemony), and the worsening Climate Genocide that is set to kill 10,000 million people this century due to unaddressed, man-made climate change (with the climate criminal US Alliance, including Apartheid Israel and Australia, being a major contributor) (see “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ; see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html ; Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115A.htm ).

In 1880 there were about 500,000 Indigenous Palestinians in Palestine and about 25,000 Jews of whom about half were immigrants. Today 90% of the land of Palestine has been ethnically cleaned by the genocidally racist Zionists and of 12 million Palestinians (half of them children) , 6 million are forbidden on pain of death from stepping foot in their Homeland and of 6 million Palestinian subjects of Apartheid Israel only 1.7 million are permitted to vote for the government ruling them, albeit as Third Class citizens under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli laws (see “Palestinian Genocide” : http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ; UN Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, UN: http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html ; William A. Cook (editor), “The Plight of the Palestinians. A Long History of Destruction”, Palgrave Macmillan, London , 2010; Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Plight Of The Palestinians. A Long History Of Destruction”, Countercurrents, 17 June, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya170612.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Pro-Zionist, Zionist And Apartheid Israeli Child Abuse Exposed”, Countercurrents, 21 April, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya210414.htm ).

As for mendacious Zionist and pro-Zionist casuistry, it is appropriate that an anagram of ISRAEL is e-LIARS. Decent Australians who utterly reject Apartheid, genocide and human rights abuse will utterly reject the pro-Apartheid Israel Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right), vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last.

2016-01-02 NM: https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/02/in-2016-we-need-an-australian-as-our-head-of-state/ .

An Australian republic would be terrific if we lived in the best of all possible worlds but we don’t. Some key reservations below:

1. Given the power of the Murdoch media in Plutocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy, Dollarocracy Australia (70% of daily newspaper readers read stuff such as the Herald Scum) , replacing Her Majesty the Queen as Australian Head of State effectively means replacing Her Majesty with a Murdoch-supported candidate (Andrew Bolt, Jeff Kennett, Bronwyn Bishop, Tony Abbott ... ).

2. Britain is still a major power and the current relationship must surely contribute to national security – despite 1,500 million Muslims between us and Mother England, and the world’s largest Muslim nation being our next door neighbour, the politically dominant, pro-Apartheid Israel, US lackey, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) are committed to violent anti-Arab anti-Semitism and the endless Zionist-backed US War on Muslims.

3. Before we formally divorce ourselves from the UK, we need a formal court case to deal openly with the appalling crimes in the relationship. Thus as UK or US lackeys Australian have invaded 85 countries as compared to the British 193 (see Gideon Polya, “The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 – Make 4 July Independence From America Day”, Countercurrents, 5 July, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm ; Gideon Polya, “British Have Invaded 193 Countries: Make 26 January ( Australia Day, Invasion Day) British Invasion Day”, Countercurrents, 23 January, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230115.htm ; Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ) . Apart from the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, Australia’s worst UK-linked crime was complicity in the WW2 Bengali Holocasit in whoich the Britsh deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death for strategic reasons (Australia was complicit by withholding food from starving India from its huge wartime grain stores) (see Gideon Polya (2008), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” , G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2008 edition that is now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ; Gideon Polya (2011), “Australia And Britain Killed 6-7 Million Indians In WW2 Bengal Famine”, Countercurrents, 29 September, 2011: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya290911.htm ; “Bengali Holocaust (Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya”, Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ).

4. The republic is supported by lipstick-on-a –pig, Abbott-in-sheep’s-clothing, pro-war, pro-coal, anti-science Turnbull (see Gideon Polya, “Lipstick On A Pig” Malcolm Turnbull Heads War Criminal And Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Government After Parliamentary Coup”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230915.htm ).