Goofy climate-obsessed big-government types always get everything wrong. And when they do, they expect everyone else to pay for it. Take the Australian Council of Social Services, for example.The core mission of ACOSS is demanding more welfare money and then complaining it’s not enough. But, like all good leftist organisations, ACOSS also runs a handy sideline in climate alarmism.
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“Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing our planet,” ACOSS proclaims.
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“Australia faces major climate change risks unless we begin to … transition to a low carbon economy. The cost of inaction is by far greater than the cost of action.”
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Oh, really? We’ll come to the issue of cost in a moment, but first let’s hear some more from our climate-worrying welfare boosters:
Labor Senator Kristina Kennelley who lobbied for the inquiry to focus on so-called right-wing extremism has floated the idea of a second-tier extremism list of groups who aren’t violent but are nationalist and oppose mass immigration and multiculturalism.
Italy experiences surging illegal migrant numbers
As of April 20, the Italian Ministry of the Interior registered nearly 8,600 arrivals, while the previous year, it was less than 3,300 individuals
Yohaness, from Eritrea, prays with other migrants as they arrive at the coast of Italy on board the Spanish NGO Open Arms vessel after being rescued in the Mediterranean sea, about 8 miles south Italy on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Italy has allowed a Spanish-flagged charity ship with 265 rescued migrants aboard to anchor off Sicily on Monday. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)
The number of illegal migrants who arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean Sea more than doubled in 2021 compared to the same period last year. As of April 20, the Italian Ministry of the Interior registered nearly 8,600 arrivals. In the previous year, authorities reported less than 3,300 individuals in this period, while two years ago, it was around 650.
More than 1,200 immigrants said they were Tunisians, and approximately the same number of people said they came from the Ivory Coast. Another 930 people claimed to emigrate from Bangladesh, stated the Italian Interior Ministry. A little more than 1,200 people were unaccompanied minor refugees.
According to current statistics from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the central Mediterranean route is the most frequently used one, followed by the western one from Morocco to Spain. On the other hand, migrants use the route via Turkey the least in recent months.
The professor of international relations at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, assumes that this has something to do with the political situation in the countries of origin.
New curriculum teaches cultural diversity, dumps ‘Christian heritage’
A revised Australian curriculum would give greater weight to the nation’s diversity and to First Nations culture, but less emphasis on “Christian heritage” in the study of civics and citizenship.
A review has found the existing curriculum did not include enough “truth telling” about the experience of First Nations Australians since European settlement, and put too much emphasis on the period before contact with Europeans.
One of the authors of a 2014 review of the curriculum criticised the focus on diversity, arguing it denied the dominant Western liberal character of Australian life.
Children will also begin to develop digital literacy from their first year of school, instead of within the first three years, and learn to critique their own “digital footprint” by year 10.
The revision – put out for consultation on Thursday – will reduce the amount of learning content by about 20 per cent in an effort to declutter the current curriculum.
‘No Justice, No Peace’ — Antifa, Communists, BLM Rally in London on May Day
Antifa, communist, Black Lives Matter, feminist, labour union, and environmentalist activists rallied in London on Saturday to mark International Workers’ Day, or May Day.
The May Day march, which was organised by the radical feminist organisation Sisters Uncut in conjunction with the BLM-style splinter groups All Black Lives UK and the 4 Front Project, as well as the “racial justice education” group No More Exclusions, saw thousands of far-left activists take to the streets of London.
Thousands of leftist activists marched through London to protest against the proposed policing bill as well as the “racist” system in Britain on May Day, May 1st, 2021. (Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart News)
Thousands of leftist activists marched through London to protest against the proposed policing bill as well as the “racist” system in Britain on May Day, May 1st, 2021. (Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart News)
Aside from celebrating the communist holiday, the ‘Kill the Bill’ demonstration was also against the proposed Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill, which seeks to grant police greater powers to break up “disruptive” protests in Britain.
The protest began at noon in Trafalgar Square in central London, where leftists carried Socialist Worker signs and activists handed out far-left pamphlets, including from the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).
Covid vaccines are causing strokes, among other things.
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.–Thomas Sowell
People bashing Joe Rogan for handing out vaccine advice because he is not a “doctor” are the same people who take Bill Gates Vaccine advice…. the Harvard dropout, software guy.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has been included in a group of doctors nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in addressing the coronavirus pandemic. The list of this year’s nominees includes 43 candidates.
Dr. Zelenko achieved worldwide prominence for treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine and zinc, finding that mortality dropped 8-fold with use of those two substances. He says treatment with hydroxychloroquine and zinc within first 5 days reduces death rates by 85%.
“Basically, the main element of this treatment approach is zinc,” he said in an interview. “Zinc inhibits a very important enzyme called RNA dependent RNA polymerase or replicase. It basically stops the virus from replicating or copying its genetic material, essentially reducing the amount of virus.
Travel bans are no longer “xenophobic and racist” – Does anybody mind spelling out what’s different this time around?
Bet you didn’t know that Britain was black before it was British:
“Academic excellence is connected to whiteness”
China is “laughing their heads off” at the United States deliberately “dumbing themselves down” as critical race theory embeds itself in American schools, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. The state of Virginia has moved to eliminate all accelerated mathematics courses before the 11th grade as part of “equity focused learning”. Ms Panahi said the move would prevent high achieving students from advancing as they usually would in the school system. “China must be laughing their heads off at the US deliberately dumbing themselves down,” she said. “It’s pretty racist and regressive to suggest academic excellence is connected to whiteness.”
Communist personality worship: Megyn Kelly discovered this in a bookstore on the Upper East side:
Critics of proposed changes to Victoria’s anti-vilification laws have warned they could give the state government unfettered powers to censor free speech and risk radicalising schools, police and courts with “extreme anti-Australian ideology”.
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Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam said recommendations under consideration by the Victorian government could potentially make any speech unlawful as they relied on the experience of harm by the complainant.
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“This is not only the most anti-free speech law ever proposed since section 18C, it will be many times worse,” he said.
“The recommendations give the government unlimited and arbitrary power to censor mainstream opinions.”
