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RaymondPierreL3

@timrichards
We all need to understand that military spending (procurement) is pretty much (aside from very few ‘black boxes’ of spends with vague descriptions covering up secret projects) open to scrutiny in Defence budget papers and reports to Parliament. But it needs work to explain it in plain language and tie it all up to deliberate defence strategies as well as getting to the papers themselves. Any good defence investigative journalist could do it, no problem.

So why do we get erroneous reporting on defence spending at all? That’s the question to ask.

And yes, the amount we spend on defence is meaningless without the how, when, what and why of it. Never more so when stupid people come out with demands to spend X$ without any logic or procurement planning behind it.

Brainfarts for propaganda and political self interests is all it is - nothing to do with well though out defence procurement planning. And who, in Australia, listens to what the septics are telling us to do anyway?

#ADF #AusPol #DefenceProcurement #Budgets

Linked article is paywalled.

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Roman ALAN

"Fortnight Friday Music " has the theme "Nowhere" for Friday June 27.

Hosts: @MarkIngs @bborn
Subject: Nowhere
Song: "Truth Hides" (2000)
By: Asian Dub Foundation (ADF)

These lyrics seem to be getting more and more appropriate: Where is the truth? Nowhere?

"Truth hides under fallen rocks and stones
At the end of a disconnected phone (that's where the truth hides)
Truth hides at the end of an unmarked street
Buried deep beneath your feet …"

Catalisa (Lisa Das) has the vocals.

youtube.com/watch?v=7lL8zsfV2D

YouTubeAsian Dub Fondation - Truth HidesBy London Records
#FortnightFridayMusic#Nowhere#AsianDubFoundation
Bongolian

John Oliver on the #ADF legal group: ‘A misleadingly friendly face on what is an utterly hateful ideology’: The Last Week Tonight host digs into the Christian conservative Alliance Defending Freedom that was behind the overturning of Roe v Wade, among other causes

#AllianceDefendingFreedom LGBTQ #theocracy #evangelicals #abortion
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

The Guardian · John Oliver on the ADF legal group: ‘A misleadingly friendly face on what is an utterly hateful ideology’By Guardian staff reporter
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Kim Perales

“JD Vance--member him?-- joins POTUS-elect Elon Musk in praising AfD, Nazis: First Elon Musk, now JD Vance. Prominent members of the incoming US government have been lending their support to the German far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD).”
-L Abravanel

Germans fact check Vance, Musk, Trump…

Read:

#USPol #GOPNazis #NeoNazis #AdF

dw.com/en/fact-check-jd-vance-

Deutsche Welle · Fact check: JD Vance is wrong about AfD, NazisBy Kathrin Wesolowski
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson supports barring trans congressional Rep f. women's bathrooms in U.S. Capitol
cbc.ca/news/world/johnson-mcbr

* anti-transgender bathroom ban/resolution by Nancy Mace (R-SC)

COMMENT: Mike Johnson was a former attorney at the viciously transphobic Alliance Defending Freedom

persagen.org >>
"mike johnson" AND transphob*
"alliance defending freedom" AND transphob*

#AllianceDefendingFreedom#ADF#MikeJohnson
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups lobby US Supreme Court case to ban gender-affirming care
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/1

* case before the U.S. Supreme Court over a TN law banning gender-affirming care
* 83 amicus briefs by 21 anti-LGBTQ+ hate & antigovernment groups

Gays Against Groomers
American College of Pediatricians
American Family Association
Family Research Council
Alliance Defending Freedom
anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience n/w

Southern Poverty Law CenterAnti-LGBTQ+ hate groups support Supreme Court case to ban gender-affirming careExtremist groups have rallied to file amicus briefs supporting sex discrimination in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court over a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care, Hatewatch has found.
#SPLC#Hatewatch#transphobia
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Nonilex

The #law firm, which is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, says its work “advances the God-given right to live & speak the Truth” & publicly describes itself as “the nation’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage & family, parental rights, & the sanctity of life.” #ADF reported >$100 million in revenue in both 2021 & 2022.

#radicalization#extremism#NewApostolicReformation
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

This article / author typify my distrust / digust of NYT

Opinion - David French: To Save Conservatism From Itself I Am Voting for Harris
nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opinion

persagen.com/docs/sources.html

Never trust the NYT:
* conservatism
* presumptive rigid binary gender assignment
* transphobia
* ...

* NYT author David French served as senior counsel to SPLC-designated anti-LGBT hate group Alliance Defending Freedom

mastodon.social/@persagen/1120
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance

The New York Times · Opinion | To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for HarrisBy David French
#NYT#ADF#conservatism
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Kriszta Satori

"apart from West #Africa and the #Sahel #IS has two other major branches - one located in north-eastern #Mozambique and the other in north-eastern #DRC - Democratic Republic of Congo. In the DRC IS originates from the group called the #ADF , The Allied Democratic Forces, they are a group of Muslim #Ugandan rebels, present in the area over three decades. In Mozambique it originates from a group known locally as Al-#Shabab - not related to the #Somali group of the same name"

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Transphobia Spreads in a “Haven” for LGBTQ Youth
thenation.com/article/society/

* hard core far-right activists taking aim at rights of LGBTQ kids in towns, school districts around Massachusetts
* Family Research Council affiliate Massachusetts Family Institute orchestrating attacks
* MFI website recommends resources for promoting religion in schools f. “our friends at Alliance Defending Freedom”

#Massachusetts #transphobia #LGBT #2SLGBTQIA+ #FRC #FamilyResearchCouncil #ADF #AllianceDefendingFreedom

The Nation · Transphobia Spreads in a “Haven” for LGBTQ YouthFor young people in Massachusetts facing queer- and transphobia, the statehouse feels very far away.
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Chuck Darwin

GOP Judges Strike Down Far-Right Religious Liberty Training Punishment

Even the Fifth Circuit said punishing Southwest Airlines with an Alliance Defending Freedom training was too much.

Last year, a federal judge in Texas appointed by Trump ordered three senior lawyers for the airline to take eight hours of training from the #ADF ("Alliance Defending Freedom")
as part of sanctions resulting from a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by a former flight attendant

The attendant, Charlene Carter, sued Southwest for firing her in 2017 after she sent anti-abortion messages to her union’s former president.
Carter argued she had been discriminated against based on her religious beliefs, and U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr ruled in her favor,
ordering she be reinstated. -- Starr also ordered Southwest to issue a statement to its employees saying that the airline “may not” engage in religious discrimination against them.

When Southwest said that it “does not” do so, Carter demanded additional sanctions against the company, to which Starr responded by requiring the religious liberty training.

Why Starr brought in the ADF is unclear, as they weren’t representing Carter and had no involvement in the case whatsoever.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for advocating laws promoting discrimination against LBGTQ people.

ADF recently represented the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case 303 Creative v. Elenis, where a web designer sued to have the right to refuse services to LGBTQ people based on an entirely fabricated premise.

The group has also fought against reproductive rights, helping to overturn Roe v. Wade

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has now ruled that the training would likely violate the lawyers’ constitutional rights and exceed the court’s authority.

Three Republican judges sat on the panel making the decision, two of whom were appointed by Donald Trump.
newrepublic.com/post/182477/go

The New Republic · GOP Judges Strike Down Far-Right Religious Liberty Training PunishmentEven the Fifth Circuit said punishing Southwest Airlines with an Alliance Defending Freedom training was too much.
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