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Locking down against Murdochracy

August 28, 2021 Opinion by Greg Ray They say that in crises people show their true colours. It is especially true of leaders, who can either blossom into greatness or shrink into cowardly mediocrity. It is also true of media outlets, as evidenced by the Murdoch empire. The Murdoch empire fought during the bushfire crisis to make it all about "arsonists" and "greenies" - anything except climate change. Now, in the Covid crisis, it seems to me to be desperate for us to "open up" and "live with the virus". I don't subscribe to any Murdoch…

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Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch. Symptoms of our times. Photos from Wikimedia commons.

Are the wheels falling off everything?

THERE are times, like this week, when it feels to me as if the wheels are falling off just about everything. The US election looms like an iceberg ahead. In a nominally democratic system based on voluntary voting, the name of the game has become voter-suppression, with the Republicans using every dirty trick imaginable to prevent people from being able to exercise their theoretical rights. Cutting the number of polling places, urging armed goons to patrol among voters, changing rules and systems to stop postal votes being counted – the list goes on and on. A…

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Read more about the article How to destroy an economy and create a recession: a beginner’s guide
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How to destroy an economy and create a recession: a beginner’s guide

So you want to wreck an economy and cause a recession? Well fair enough. It’s good to have a dream. But wrecking an economy can take years, so if that’s really your goal you might have to resign yourself to working as part of a team and chiselling away at a small area at a time, setting things up so that when conditions are right, the economy you have in your sights will be ready to collapse in a cloud of dust. Fortunately you will always have lots of people ready and willing to help in…

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