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  1. 'Do better': Albanese issues stern criticism of AFL in wake of Swans scandal
    By Paul Johnson

    The Prime Minister has called on the AFL to "do better" in response to the Sydney Swans scandal engulfing the league.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/alb

    #FederalGovernment #Sport #AustralianRulesFootball #CommunityandSociety #PaulJohnson

  2. Sussan Ley took America's 'road to nowhere', it helped her find herself again
    By Paul Johnson

    Sussan Ley left Australia after being ousted as Coalition leader. Her trip to the US saw her find an enhanced pride in the success of Australian multiculturalism.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/sus

    #GovernmentandPolitics #Liberals #PaulJohnson

  3. 'Zip': Hanson has no answers for challenges facing Australia, says Rudd
    By Paul Johnson

    Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has no real answers for the issues facing Australians but he does believe AUKUS submarines are a good thing for the nation.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/kev

    #Government #OneNation #WorldPolitics #PaulJohnson

  4. 'Take them seriously': CFMEU administrator on Setka threats
    By Paul Johnson and Marina Freri

    CFMEU administrator Michael Crosby has opened up on threats from John Setka, cast doubt on a statement made by former Victorian premier Jacinta Allan and questioned the value of royal commissions,

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/cfm

    #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #Unions #PaulJohnson #MarinaFreri

  5. 'I'm ruling it out': Taylor categorically kills off One Nation coalition talk
    By Paul Johnson

    Coalition leader Angus Taylor has renewed his criticism of Pauline Hanson's party and categorically ruled out any alliance with them.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/ang

    #Liberals #OneNation #PaulJohnson

  6. 'Twenty minutes or so': The blunt warning of China's nuclear capability
    By Paul Johnson

    Victor Gao, the vice-president of a major Chinese think tank, conducts some sabre-rattling in the wake of China's missile test in the Pacific.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-08/chi

    #ForeignAffairs #NuclearWeapons #DefenceForces #PaulJohnson

  7. .> ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded #Israel for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and #PalestinianCivilians (quoted by #WolfBlitzer, #JerusalemPost, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the #TerroristCancer," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the #TerroristPolicies Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating #PLOEfforts to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See #FatefulTriangle, Pirates & Emperors, and #NecessaryIllusions.
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    .> The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27
    - https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-contents.html
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    https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-c02-s07.html#SEC2.5

    #NoamChomsky in #DeterringDemocracy on #PaulJohnson #NormanPodhoretz in #WSJ #WallStreetJournal #PiratesAndEmperors

  8. "This whole thing, it just makes me want to weep. It just makes me despair... It rather looks like we’re going to totally waste the money on this in producing a rail at a cost of tens of billions which will get you from Birmingham to central London less quickly than you can do at the moment."

    IFS director Paul Johnson savages HS2 as a whole. And he's right - it should never have happened in the first place.

    #HS2 #IFS #PaulJohnson

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

  9. Make it Friday night whenever you like with the single release show for Disco Brutus (F.L.O.) from me, Dr Hitchcock. Not only can you hear my latest song in all it’s #Synthwave glory but you can get on down to classic #80s style #Electro from #Cybotron, Computor Rockers, #TheEgyptianLover, DJ Icey and Dynamix II as well as modern #Acid from Nathalie Capello, Vonda7, LO'99, and #PaulJohnson and a brand new track from #TheChemicalBrothers. Phew...

    

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