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<div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1020 tom d</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an all-too-literal fashion, The Donald is indeed proving to be history's "fire and fury" president.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And don't for a moment think that there was no warning about the over-the-top burning now underway in this country. After all, in 2019, parts of </font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Australia</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> were singed to a crisp in a way never before seen, killing at least 25 humans and possibly more than <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-one-billion-animals-have-been-killed-australias-wildfires-scientist-estimates-180973926/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">a billion</a> animals. <b>And that country, too, was headed by a climate-change denier, a man who once <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/09/scott-morrison-brings-coal-to-question-time-what-fresh-idiocy-is-this" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">brought</a> a piece of coal to parliament and handed it around while soothingly telling other legislators, "Don't be afraid, don't be scared."</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">https://yyy.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/09/scott-morrison-brings-coal-to-question-time-what-fresh-idiocy-is-this</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In addition, in recent years, the Arctic (of all places) has been <a href="https://www.livescience.com/zombie-wildfires-burn-arctic.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">smoking and burning</a> in an unprecedented fashion, heating its permafrost and releasing staggering amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Oh, and this June, the temperature in a <b>small town in Siberia <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-new-high-temperature-heat-record-arctic-siberia-context" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">crossed</a> the 100-degree mark for the first time.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>By the way, Russia, too, is run by a leader who <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-24/putin-is-finally-worried-about-climate-change" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">until recently</a> was a climate denier. </b>I mean, what is it about the urge of so many of us in such a crisis to support those dedicated to quite literally destroying this planet as a livable place for... well, us? (Hey there, <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-bolsonaro-amazon-fires-climate-change-united-nations_n_5d80eaa7e4b077dcbd64bd42" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Jair Bolsonaro</a>!)</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div>
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</font></div><div class="JP1Bwd PxRLn"><div class="QY30V"><div class="GepGgc" style="width:112px;height:112px"><div class="qV9w7d" style="height:112px;border-radius:8px"><div class="KNcnob" style="height:112px;width:112px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img id="dimg_1" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,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" class="rISBZc M4dUYb" alt="" data-atf="1" width="112" height="112" /></font></div></div></div></div><div class="PRsHuc"><div class="pDavDe RGRr8e"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img id="dimg_3" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAMAAAAoLQ9TAAAAD1BMVEVHcEz0DAz0DAz0DAz0DAzJ/5PtAAAABHRSTlMAmIJFT5DABAAAAClJREFUGJVjYGBiQQJMDAwMjAwgwMICphixCTAgCzAMfQFmYBgwMYOZAHZnALt2tLVKAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" class="rISBZc M4dUYb" alt="" data-atf="1" width="16" height="16" />TIME</font></div><div class="phYMDf jBgGLd"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Smoke From Bush Fires Chokes Sydney, Australian
Prime Minister Dodges on
Climate Change</font></div><div class="QbQqmb"><div class="eYN3rb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Australia's Prime Minister refused to admit a direct link between the
bushfires in Sydney and climate change. Here's what scientists say.</font></div><div class="hucR0d"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="pXUwgf Seyk7e"><span class="eNg7of"><span>
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<span class="pXUwgf Seyk7e"><span class="eNg7of"><span> hazardous smoke from raging bushfires blanket Sydney’s landmarks on Thursday, the <a href="https://time.com/5377190/why-australia-changes-prime-ministers/">Australian Prime Minister</a> refused to admit a direct link between the fires and the <a href="https://time.com/tag/climate-change/">country’s carbon emissions</a>, which are among the <a href="https://www.acf.org.au/evaluating_the_significance_of_australias_global_fossil_fuel_carbon_footprint" target="_blank">highest per capita</a> in the world.
</span></span></span></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Health officials have issued warnings over <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-50497489" target="_blank">“hazardous”</a>air pollution levels as Sydney’s Opera House was shrouded with smoke.
The smoke around Sydney and the north-coast is set to settle and remain
in the area for the rest of Thursday, fire officials <a href="https://twitter.com/NSWRFS/status/1197416172045553669" target="blank">said</a>. Members of the public, especially those with respiratory health issues, are <a href="https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/air/understanding-air-quality-data/air-quality-index" target="blank">advised</a> to avoid all outdoor physical activities.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fires have devastated large areas of the country
since Oct. 20. New South Wales has seen the most severe and dangerous
fires, with <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-50497489" target="_blank">six people killed</a>
and around 1.7 million hectares burned. Climate Change has played a key
role in the bushfires, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has said. They
said: “Climate change is influencing the frequency and severity of
dangerous bushfire conditions in Australia and other regions of the
world.”</font></p></div><div class="hucR0d"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="pXUwgf Seyk7e"><span class="eNg7of"><span>
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<span class="pXUwgf Seyk7e"><span class="eNg7of"><span>However, amid the bushfire crisis, Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime
Minister has argued that there is no direct link between Australia’s
greenhouse gas emissions and the severity of the fires burning across
the country. He told <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/pm-denies-failure-to-prepare-for-bushfire-threat/11723838?section=business" target="_blank">ABC AU</a>
during a radio interview on Thursday that there was no “credible
scientific evidence” that cutting carbon emissions could reduce the
severity of the fires.</span></span></span></font></div></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17.0240001678467px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Australian opposition leader demands transcript of phone call after Trump asked country’s prime minister to help discredit Mueller probe</b></div><div>
</div><div>Written by Alex Henderson October 2, 2019</div><div>
</div><div>President Donald Trump is widely unpopular not only in heavily Democratic areas of the United States, but also, in many countries that have been long-time U.S. allies — including Australia, where opposition leaders are demanding the release of a transcript of Trump’s phone conversation with Prime Minister Scott Morrison.</div><div>
</div><div>Opposition leader Anthony Albanese, according to France 24, is demanding to know what information Morrison shared with Trump during their conversation. Albanese and others in <b>Australia’s Labor Party fear that the country’s federal government might be used to help attack Trump’s political rivals in the U.S</b>., and Morrison’s office acknowledged on Tuesday that the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Australian prime minister offered to “assist and cooperate” with an investigation Trump hopes will discredit assertions that the Russian government helped his 2016 campaign.</span></div><div>
</div><div>France 24 quotes Albanese as saying, “The prime minister needs to explain exactly what went on here. He needs to release any transcript and information which is out there…. The prime minister needs to make a full statement.”</div><div>
</div><div>Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ABC Radio Canberra, would not say what “material and information,” if any, was exchanged during Morrison’s phone conversation with Trump and noted, “It’s not my practice to comment on the use of intelligence to secure material.” But Payne did stress during the interview that any cooperation between Trump and the Australian government would go only “as far as is appropriate.”</div><div>
</div><div>Morrison became the leader of Australia’s Liberal Party in August 2018, and Albanese became the leader of Australia’s Labor Party earlier this year.</div><div>
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</div><div>The Trump Administration’s relationship with Australia got off to a rocky start in February 2017, when Trump angrily hung up on former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (who led the Liberal Party in 2008/2009 and again from 2015-2018) during a phone conversation.</div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As
Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN climate summit last week reverberates
across the world, claims by critics over her mental state are alarming.
Thunberg has described herself as having “Asperger’s”, an autism
spectrum disorder, and describes it as her “superpower”.</span></font><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But politicians and broadcasters appear to have confused the disorder with <b>mental
illness – a label used throughout history to label and potentially
stigmatise “difficult” women who are told they need bed rest, medication
or incarceration.</b> Even today, doctors are more likely to diagnose women than men with depression, even when they present with identical symptoms.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Advocates for people with autism have pointed out the disorder is not linked to mental illness.
Yet
commentator Andrew Bolt wrote of Thunberg, “I have never seen a girl so
young and with so many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a
guru”.
“She seems chronically attracted to apocalyptic visions, to
fear,” he wrote, describing her as “chronically anxious and disturbed”.
Thunberg is ‘not the messiah, she is an extremely anxious girl’, Bolt says.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not-for-profit
organisation Beyond Blue defines anxiety as stress or worry which
occurs “without any particular reason or cause”. Therefore by diagnosing
Thunberg with anxiety, men are pathologising Thunberg’s concern about
the environment and dismissing her fears as baseless and the result of
mental illness.
History is littered with examples of this. Former
Coalition minister George Brandis in 2015 famously called Labor
frontbencher Penny Wong “shrill” and “hysterical” after she interjected
during his Senate address – implying her comments were due to feminine
mental instability.
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So too, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggested climate change fears were a type of pathology.</b>
Following Thunberg’s UN speech he declared that the climate debate
subjected children to “needless anxiety” and suggested they needed more
“context and perspective” on the issue. “We’ve got to let kids be kids,”
he said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here,
Morrison is implying that Thunberg’s anxiety is somehow contagious.
This is offensive to people with anxiety disorders – and offensive to
passionate and vocal women.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Camilla
Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame
Australia and Meg Vertigan, Lecturer in English and Writing/ Academic
Advisor, University of Newcastle
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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