CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—ecent comments from a wealthy Australian property developer named Tim Gurner are going viral on social media right now for the unusual frankness with which he discusses the inherent conflicts of interest between the working class and employers, saying workers who’ve grown lazy and arrogant during Covid need to experience economic pain in the form of unemployment to rein them in and put them in their place. Gurner, who with a net worth of $912 million is ranked by the Australian Financial Review as the 154th richest person in Australia, made the remarks at the Australian Financial Review Property Summit on Tuesday.
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CRISTEN HEMINGWAY JAYNES—“The Amazon is in a hurry to survive the devastation caused by those few people who refuse to see the future, who in a few years cut down, burned, and polluted what nature took millennia to create,” Lula said, as The Associated Press reported. “The Amazon is in a hurry to continue doing what it has always done, to be essential for life on Earth.”
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M.K. BHADRAKUMAR—However, the list of six countries – Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE – also gives away some other important clues. For starters, this BRICS consensus is anchored in a profound Russian-Chinese understanding. Also, the BRICS is declaring itself to be a non-western grouping. There is no question that BRICS ascribes the highest importance to Africa and the Persian Gulf region, with Egypt and Ethiopia, the two ancient civilization-states, as the “lynchpin.”
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EDITOR—President Joe Biden took a few hours away from his vacation in Lake Tahoe to visit the fire-devastated island of Maui, and the reception was, well, let’s say lukewarm. Chants of “Fuck you!” greeted the presidential motorcade before Biden attended a few events to acknowledge the suffering Hawaiians at which he made his typically tone-deaf or otherwise insensitive comments. Guest host Craig “Pasta” Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss why Biden would think people who had lost everything would want to hear a story about how he once “almost” lost his cat.
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EDITORIAL—Donald Trump skipped the first debate to talk with Tucker Carlson. This simple move devastated the GOP presidential debate scheduled for the same day. The Fox News audience was simply pitiful, as those criminal clowns deserve.
