Democrats ‘questioning' their own party amid revelations about Biden's inner circle
Wrong Speak Publishing Founder Adam B Coleman says Democrats are 'questioning their entire party' following claims that Jill Biden's Chief of Staff wielded enormous influence over the Biden presidency.
'They are questioning: how did this man even end up in a position of power?' Mr Coleman told Sky News host Caroline Di Russo.
'Speaking for myself personally, as a former Democrat, when I saw him running for office, I asked the question as to why.
'It was very clear that he was falling apart.'
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- News.com.au
‘Terrifying': Moment MP showed deepfake nude pic of herself in parliament
A politician has described the moment she held up a doctored nude image of herself in New Zealand parliament as 'terrifying' despite knowing it wasn't real. Laura McClure has gained global attention for the brave and shocking act last month where she aimed to draw attention to the danger of AI-generated deepfake pornography. Holding up a fake nude of herself, Ms McClure told parliament that it took her less than five minutes to make the image online following a quick Google search. Ms McClure reflected on the moment as 'absolutely terrifying' when appearing on Sky News on Tuesday. She knew it wasn't real but the image looked so much like her. 'I felt like it needed to be done, it needed to be shown how important this is and how easy it is to do, and also how much it can look like yourself,' she said. Ms McClure wants to amend current legislation that makes it illegal to share nude photographs without consent to include deepfakes. 'I believe they are just as harmful, if not more, than the real thing because people can put you into all kinds of depraved videos, for example,' she said. She says the problem isn't the technology, but rather its misuse. Targeting the technology 'would be a little bit like Whac-A-Mole,' she said. 'You'd take one site down and another one would pop up.' The issue of deepfakes is particularly a concern among young people. 'Here in New Zealand a 13-year-old, a young 13-year-old, just a baby, attempted suicide on school grounds after she was deepfaked, so it's not just a bit of fun. It's not a joke. It's actually really harmful,' Ms McClure said. 'Diabolically bad': Deepfakes in Australian schools In February an investigation was launched into the online circulation of 'vulgar' AI-generated pictures of female students at Melbourne's Gladstone Park Secondary College. At the time, it was thought up to 60 students could be affected. A 16-year-old was quickly arrested and interviewed by detectives but released without charge. can reveal no further arrests have been made in the months since and the investigation remains open. Last year, AI-generated nude images featuring the faces of at least 50 female students in years 9 to 12 from Bacchus Marsh Grammar were circulated online. A 17-year-old boy was cautioned by police and the investigation was closed. The Victorian Department of Education states schools are expected to report incidents to police if their students are involved. Cybersafety expert and former police officer Susan McLean spoke to about the issue earlier this year. Ms McLean said creating sexually explicit, AI-generated images is now as easy as uploading a clothed photo of someone and choosing a pose for an app to then spit out a pornographic image, and it will only become more of a problem. Sending real or fake nude images of people under the age of 18 is a crime in Australia, but the harsh reality is, 'there is nothing any person can do to protect themselves from this,' Ms McLean told 'You have to hope that someone doesn't choose you to become a victim; you have to hope that the offender doesn't offend,' she said. She agrees the focus should not be on trying to fight the apps that create the content. Instead, she believes in educating young men on respectful and lawful behaviour. That includes being included in comprehensive cybersafety education delivered by experts in schools and parents taking responsibility to instil it into their children at home. 'You have a responsibility to keep your children safe and you have a responsibility to ensure your child is not inflicting harm on someone else,' Ms McLean said. She says demonising technology and artificial intelligence is not the answer as there are benefits, but 'in the wrong hands it's diabolically bad'. 'The harm to the victims of this crime type is ongoing, it continues, even if the images have been removed, people know they've been caught up in it,' Ms McLean said. 'They will go over this in their mind time and time again.' This particular crime type predominantly affecting female students and teachers can be quite gendered, she said, and it shows 'the extensive lack of respect that females have to put up with in society'. 'Victims of this crime need a lot of support and consistent and ongoing support. And it is never their fault whatsoever,' Ms McLean said. 'We've got to do something to change the mindset of young men who believe this is a good idea to do.' It is not just parents and schools, Ms McLean said all sections of society had a role to play, such as sports clubs calling out inappropriate remarks about women and girls in the locker room. NRL women targeted by disturbing deepfakes Last week, NRL presenter Tiffany Salmond revealed she had been targeted by a deepfake AI attack, with a recent bikini snap doctored into a fake video of her performing explicit acts and uploaded to social media. Salmond said it was both 'surreal' and 'shocking'. 'Felt important to speak up on this. Glad it's opening up a wider conversation,' she said in a video uploaded to Instagram over the weekend. 'I'll be honest, it was shocking. Having the public profile that I do, especially as a woman working in a male-dominated sport, I'm no stranger to having my looks discussed or being the subject of sometimes perverse conversations. 'But this was the first time it went beyond just chatter. 'To actually see photos of myself – ones I had posted confidently on social media – turned into videos where I'm moving and doing explicit actions, was surreal. 'If deepfakes were purely about attraction, we would see women making them about men, but we don't – and it's because in those dynamics, that power imbalance doesn't exist. 'We live in a society where men can't get enough of women's bodies, but it's only when they get a sneaky view that they weren't meant to see.' victim of a deepfake AI attack.
The Advertiser
2 hours ago
- The Advertiser
A landslide election victory or an unsustainable fluke?
There has been a fair amount of picking over the entrails of the Liberal Party after the election, including a lot of gazing at the navel. It has been localised and introspective. A broader historical view might be more instructive for the Liberal Party and, indeed, for Labor and the Greens. From the end of World War II until about 1980, a consensus had built up. Business liked stability and certainty and were willing to trade that for increasing regulation over how it dealt with labour, wages, the environment, safety, and competition. For steady, stable profits it was a price worth paying. Then along came Thatcher and Reagan to introduce neo-liberalism and economic rationalism. It meant deregulation, self-regulation, user pays, privatisation, out-sourcing, and tax cuts for the wealthy. The left-right politics bumbled along for a while, but basically across the democratic world the neo-liberal, economic rationalist view of the world won. Anything collective was denigrated, emasculated, and defunded - particularly unions; public education, housing and health; and utilities. Thatcher famously said that there was no such thing as "society", just individuals and the family. In short: atomise, depower, and control. Even under Clinton, Blair, Hawke, and Keating, neo-liberalism and economic rationalism still won. They just called it the third way and were not as extreme as Thatcher and Reagan, but the result was the same. The result, of course, was the replacement of what was branded inefficient, bloated, unresponsive public monopolies with even more unresponsive private monopolies which were also rapacious. And the tax cuts for the wealthy did not result in the promised bigger cake with trickle down to the poor, or for the poor to somehow rise with all boats in the neo-liberal nirvana. The neo-cons and economic rationalists just took their money and ran. Real wages and public services shrank. MORE CRISPIN HULL: Disillusion set in. But then a new set of capitalists exploited the disillusion. Enter the mega-rich billionaires and their political mouthpieces: Johnson; Trump; Le Pen; Orban; Farage. The state has deserted you, they argued. The bureaucrats in Washington, Canberra, and Whitehall have allowed your jobs to go to China. Great conspiracies - concocted from lies and misinformation - were postulated. The United Nations, Jews, Democrats, Hispanics, refugee-loving lefties, gays, blacks, trans people, MeToo feminists, pizza bar paedophiles, curriculum usurpers, climate activists, woke agendas, the Canberra bubble, and Brussels bureaucrats are destroying your white Christian culture. Notice how all the so-called conspirators are relatively powerless in society. Notice how all these "conspiracies" are not very relevant to ordinary people in western democracies who are more interested in maintaining their wages in the gig economy than culture wars. It has been an effective distraction, at least for a while. There has been a massive flip in society and politics. In the 1960s and early 1970s the Republican/Conservative wing of politics was extolling the virtues of stability and certainty while the radical left wanted to disrupt and overturn society. Now, those radical lefties are seeking a return of what the neo-cons have taken away: a return of effective, efficient and reliable government to give them quality public health and education; permanent jobs; affordable housing; an uncongested ride to work; and a future without climate catastrophe. This is a wealthy country and with some redistribution it can be afforded. Meanwhile the other side are doing what the radical left used to do: wielding chainsaws against the establishment. The neo-cons are demanding the destruction of the state so they can go ahead and pursue profit - with less or no regulation or tax - wherever and however they want to, and too bad for the broad masses of society and the environment. The Liberal Party in Australia has to somehow fit in to this seismic shift. The National Party does not have to worry. It will always have its rural seats. The Liberal Party, however, needs a new political narrative. These narratives work as follows: This is where we are (rubbish). This is where we are going (nirvana). And this is how we get there (our policies). To be credible, that narrative will have to recognise that many voters are seeing how the neo-con/eco-rat/Thatcher-Reagan-trickledown agenda and that of their billionaire successors has been a demonstrable failure for the vast mass of people in western societies. As the election showed, many voters are waking up to the neo-liberalism on steroids - Musk, Reinhardt, the mega-billionaires and big corporations - fossil, gambling, big food and so on. And they are turning away from the major parties who have been bought by them. A Liberal Party revival can only happen if it shakes off the National Party and the corporates which are demanding policies that are being increasingly questioned and rejected. It has to rejuvenate its shrinking, ageing, mostly male membership. And Labor should know that the bell is tolling for them, too. The corporates are behind some of their unpalatable policies, inaction, or inadequate action: high immigration (causing housing and infrastructure crises); fossil fuels (the Woodside decision was a disgraceful betrayal); gambling; food labelling and so on. I thought (wrongly) that the tipping point (to end permanently major-party majority government) would come at the 2025 election. It did not. But it will come sooner or later unless there is some radical change to political donation laws that enable the corporates and billionaires to buy policies and parties for what to them are quite trivial sums. The Liberals have had an existence-threatening hiding. Swathes of electorate will not put up with emasculated government or government running the agenda of big corporate interests. The message was not that Labor won the election, but the Liberals massively lost it. On the Labor side, getting two thirds of the seats with just a third of the vote was not a landslide. Rather it was an unsustainable fluke. There has been a fair amount of picking over the entrails of the Liberal Party after the election, including a lot of gazing at the navel. It has been localised and introspective. A broader historical view might be more instructive for the Liberal Party and, indeed, for Labor and the Greens. From the end of World War II until about 1980, a consensus had built up. Business liked stability and certainty and were willing to trade that for increasing regulation over how it dealt with labour, wages, the environment, safety, and competition. For steady, stable profits it was a price worth paying. Then along came Thatcher and Reagan to introduce neo-liberalism and economic rationalism. It meant deregulation, self-regulation, user pays, privatisation, out-sourcing, and tax cuts for the wealthy. The left-right politics bumbled along for a while, but basically across the democratic world the neo-liberal, economic rationalist view of the world won. Anything collective was denigrated, emasculated, and defunded - particularly unions; public education, housing and health; and utilities. Thatcher famously said that there was no such thing as "society", just individuals and the family. In short: atomise, depower, and control. Even under Clinton, Blair, Hawke, and Keating, neo-liberalism and economic rationalism still won. They just called it the third way and were not as extreme as Thatcher and Reagan, but the result was the same. The result, of course, was the replacement of what was branded inefficient, bloated, unresponsive public monopolies with even more unresponsive private monopolies which were also rapacious. And the tax cuts for the wealthy did not result in the promised bigger cake with trickle down to the poor, or for the poor to somehow rise with all boats in the neo-liberal nirvana. The neo-cons and economic rationalists just took their money and ran. Real wages and public services shrank. MORE CRISPIN HULL: Disillusion set in. But then a new set of capitalists exploited the disillusion. Enter the mega-rich billionaires and their political mouthpieces: Johnson; Trump; Le Pen; Orban; Farage. The state has deserted you, they argued. The bureaucrats in Washington, Canberra, and Whitehall have allowed your jobs to go to China. Great conspiracies - concocted from lies and misinformation - were postulated. The United Nations, Jews, Democrats, Hispanics, refugee-loving lefties, gays, blacks, trans people, MeToo feminists, pizza bar paedophiles, curriculum usurpers, climate activists, woke agendas, the Canberra bubble, and Brussels bureaucrats are destroying your white Christian culture. Notice how all the so-called conspirators are relatively powerless in society. Notice how all these "conspiracies" are not very relevant to ordinary people in western democracies who are more interested in maintaining their wages in the gig economy than culture wars. It has been an effective distraction, at least for a while. There has been a massive flip in society and politics. In the 1960s and early 1970s the Republican/Conservative wing of politics was extolling the virtues of stability and certainty while the radical left wanted to disrupt and overturn society. Now, those radical lefties are seeking a return of what the neo-cons have taken away: a return of effective, efficient and reliable government to give them quality public health and education; permanent jobs; affordable housing; an uncongested ride to work; and a future without climate catastrophe. This is a wealthy country and with some redistribution it can be afforded. Meanwhile the other side are doing what the radical left used to do: wielding chainsaws against the establishment. The neo-cons are demanding the destruction of the state so they can go ahead and pursue profit - with less or no regulation or tax - wherever and however they want to, and too bad for the broad masses of society and the environment. The Liberal Party in Australia has to somehow fit in to this seismic shift. The National Party does not have to worry. It will always have its rural seats. The Liberal Party, however, needs a new political narrative. These narratives work as follows: This is where we are (rubbish). This is where we are going (nirvana). And this is how we get there (our policies). To be credible, that narrative will have to recognise that many voters are seeing how the neo-con/eco-rat/Thatcher-Reagan-trickledown agenda and that of their billionaire successors has been a demonstrable failure for the vast mass of people in western societies. As the election showed, many voters are waking up to the neo-liberalism on steroids - Musk, Reinhardt, the mega-billionaires and big corporations - fossil, gambling, big food and so on. And they are turning away from the major parties who have been bought by them. A Liberal Party revival can only happen if it shakes off the National Party and the corporates which are demanding policies that are being increasingly questioned and rejected. It has to rejuvenate its shrinking, ageing, mostly male membership. And Labor should know that the bell is tolling for them, too. The corporates are behind some of their unpalatable policies, inaction, or inadequate action: high immigration (causing housing and infrastructure crises); fossil fuels (the Woodside decision was a disgraceful betrayal); gambling; food labelling and so on. I thought (wrongly) that the tipping point (to end permanently major-party majority government) would come at the 2025 election. It did not. But it will come sooner or later unless there is some radical change to political donation laws that enable the corporates and billionaires to buy policies and parties for what to them are quite trivial sums. The Liberals have had an existence-threatening hiding. Swathes of electorate will not put up with emasculated government or government running the agenda of big corporate interests. The message was not that Labor won the election, but the Liberals massively lost it. On the Labor side, getting two thirds of the seats with just a third of the vote was not a landslide. Rather it was an unsustainable fluke. There has been a fair amount of picking over the entrails of the Liberal Party after the election, including a lot of gazing at the navel. It has been localised and introspective. A broader historical view might be more instructive for the Liberal Party and, indeed, for Labor and the Greens. From the end of World War II until about 1980, a consensus had built up. Business liked stability and certainty and were willing to trade that for increasing regulation over how it dealt with labour, wages, the environment, safety, and competition. For steady, stable profits it was a price worth paying. Then along came Thatcher and Reagan to introduce neo-liberalism and economic rationalism. It meant deregulation, self-regulation, user pays, privatisation, out-sourcing, and tax cuts for the wealthy. The left-right politics bumbled along for a while, but basically across the democratic world the neo-liberal, economic rationalist view of the world won. Anything collective was denigrated, emasculated, and defunded - particularly unions; public education, housing and health; and utilities. Thatcher famously said that there was no such thing as "society", just individuals and the family. In short: atomise, depower, and control. Even under Clinton, Blair, Hawke, and Keating, neo-liberalism and economic rationalism still won. They just called it the third way and were not as extreme as Thatcher and Reagan, but the result was the same. The result, of course, was the replacement of what was branded inefficient, bloated, unresponsive public monopolies with even more unresponsive private monopolies which were also rapacious. And the tax cuts for the wealthy did not result in the promised bigger cake with trickle down to the poor, or for the poor to somehow rise with all boats in the neo-liberal nirvana. The neo-cons and economic rationalists just took their money and ran. Real wages and public services shrank. MORE CRISPIN HULL: Disillusion set in. But then a new set of capitalists exploited the disillusion. Enter the mega-rich billionaires and their political mouthpieces: Johnson; Trump; Le Pen; Orban; Farage. The state has deserted you, they argued. The bureaucrats in Washington, Canberra, and Whitehall have allowed your jobs to go to China. Great conspiracies - concocted from lies and misinformation - were postulated. The United Nations, Jews, Democrats, Hispanics, refugee-loving lefties, gays, blacks, trans people, MeToo feminists, pizza bar paedophiles, curriculum usurpers, climate activists, woke agendas, the Canberra bubble, and Brussels bureaucrats are destroying your white Christian culture. Notice how all the so-called conspirators are relatively powerless in society. Notice how all these "conspiracies" are not very relevant to ordinary people in western democracies who are more interested in maintaining their wages in the gig economy than culture wars. It has been an effective distraction, at least for a while. There has been a massive flip in society and politics. In the 1960s and early 1970s the Republican/Conservative wing of politics was extolling the virtues of stability and certainty while the radical left wanted to disrupt and overturn society. Now, those radical lefties are seeking a return of what the neo-cons have taken away: a return of effective, efficient and reliable government to give them quality public health and education; permanent jobs; affordable housing; an uncongested ride to work; and a future without climate catastrophe. This is a wealthy country and with some redistribution it can be afforded. Meanwhile the other side are doing what the radical left used to do: wielding chainsaws against the establishment. The neo-cons are demanding the destruction of the state so they can go ahead and pursue profit - with less or no regulation or tax - wherever and however they want to, and too bad for the broad masses of society and the environment. The Liberal Party in Australia has to somehow fit in to this seismic shift. The National Party does not have to worry. It will always have its rural seats. The Liberal Party, however, needs a new political narrative. These narratives work as follows: This is where we are (rubbish). This is where we are going (nirvana). And this is how we get there (our policies). To be credible, that narrative will have to recognise that many voters are seeing how the neo-con/eco-rat/Thatcher-Reagan-trickledown agenda and that of their billionaire successors has been a demonstrable failure for the vast mass of people in western societies. As the election showed, many voters are waking up to the neo-liberalism on steroids - Musk, Reinhardt, the mega-billionaires and big corporations - fossil, gambling, big food and so on. And they are turning away from the major parties who have been bought by them. A Liberal Party revival can only happen if it shakes off the National Party and the corporates which are demanding policies that are being increasingly questioned and rejected. It has to rejuvenate its shrinking, ageing, mostly male membership. And Labor should know that the bell is tolling for them, too. The corporates are behind some of their unpalatable policies, inaction, or inadequate action: high immigration (causing housing and infrastructure crises); fossil fuels (the Woodside decision was a disgraceful betrayal); gambling; food labelling and so on. I thought (wrongly) that the tipping point (to end permanently major-party majority government) would come at the 2025 election. It did not. But it will come sooner or later unless there is some radical change to political donation laws that enable the corporates and billionaires to buy policies and parties for what to them are quite trivial sums. The Liberals have had an existence-threatening hiding. Swathes of electorate will not put up with emasculated government or government running the agenda of big corporate interests. The message was not that Labor won the election, but the Liberals massively lost it. On the Labor side, getting two thirds of the seats with just a third of the vote was not a landslide. Rather it was an unsustainable fluke. There has been a fair amount of picking over the entrails of the Liberal Party after the election, including a lot of gazing at the navel. It has been localised and introspective. A broader historical view might be more instructive for the Liberal Party and, indeed, for Labor and the Greens. From the end of World War II until about 1980, a consensus had built up. Business liked stability and certainty and were willing to trade that for increasing regulation over how it dealt with labour, wages, the environment, safety, and competition. For steady, stable profits it was a price worth paying. Then along came Thatcher and Reagan to introduce neo-liberalism and economic rationalism. It meant deregulation, self-regulation, user pays, privatisation, out-sourcing, and tax cuts for the wealthy. The left-right politics bumbled along for a while, but basically across the democratic world the neo-liberal, economic rationalist view of the world won. Anything collective was denigrated, emasculated, and defunded - particularly unions; public education, housing and health; and utilities. Thatcher famously said that there was no such thing as "society", just individuals and the family. In short: atomise, depower, and control. Even under Clinton, Blair, Hawke, and Keating, neo-liberalism and economic rationalism still won. They just called it the third way and were not as extreme as Thatcher and Reagan, but the result was the same. The result, of course, was the replacement of what was branded inefficient, bloated, unresponsive public monopolies with even more unresponsive private monopolies which were also rapacious. And the tax cuts for the wealthy did not result in the promised bigger cake with trickle down to the poor, or for the poor to somehow rise with all boats in the neo-liberal nirvana. The neo-cons and economic rationalists just took their money and ran. Real wages and public services shrank. MORE CRISPIN HULL: Disillusion set in. But then a new set of capitalists exploited the disillusion. Enter the mega-rich billionaires and their political mouthpieces: Johnson; Trump; Le Pen; Orban; Farage. The state has deserted you, they argued. The bureaucrats in Washington, Canberra, and Whitehall have allowed your jobs to go to China. Great conspiracies - concocted from lies and misinformation - were postulated. The United Nations, Jews, Democrats, Hispanics, refugee-loving lefties, gays, blacks, trans people, MeToo feminists, pizza bar paedophiles, curriculum usurpers, climate activists, woke agendas, the Canberra bubble, and Brussels bureaucrats are destroying your white Christian culture. Notice how all the so-called conspirators are relatively powerless in society. Notice how all these "conspiracies" are not very relevant to ordinary people in western democracies who are more interested in maintaining their wages in the gig economy than culture wars. It has been an effective distraction, at least for a while. There has been a massive flip in society and politics. In the 1960s and early 1970s the Republican/Conservative wing of politics was extolling the virtues of stability and certainty while the radical left wanted to disrupt and overturn society. Now, those radical lefties are seeking a return of what the neo-cons have taken away: a return of effective, efficient and reliable government to give them quality public health and education; permanent jobs; affordable housing; an uncongested ride to work; and a future without climate catastrophe. This is a wealthy country and with some redistribution it can be afforded. Meanwhile the other side are doing what the radical left used to do: wielding chainsaws against the establishment. The neo-cons are demanding the destruction of the state so they can go ahead and pursue profit - with less or no regulation or tax - wherever and however they want to, and too bad for the broad masses of society and the environment. The Liberal Party in Australia has to somehow fit in to this seismic shift. The National Party does not have to worry. It will always have its rural seats. The Liberal Party, however, needs a new political narrative. These narratives work as follows: This is where we are (rubbish). This is where we are going (nirvana). And this is how we get there (our policies). To be credible, that narrative will have to recognise that many voters are seeing how the neo-con/eco-rat/Thatcher-Reagan-trickledown agenda and that of their billionaire successors has been a demonstrable failure for the vast mass of people in western societies. As the election showed, many voters are waking up to the neo-liberalism on steroids - Musk, Reinhardt, the mega-billionaires and big corporations - fossil, gambling, big food and so on. And they are turning away from the major parties who have been bought by them. A Liberal Party revival can only happen if it shakes off the National Party and the corporates which are demanding policies that are being increasingly questioned and rejected. It has to rejuvenate its shrinking, ageing, mostly male membership. And Labor should know that the bell is tolling for them, too. The corporates are behind some of their unpalatable policies, inaction, or inadequate action: high immigration (causing housing and infrastructure crises); fossil fuels (the Woodside decision was a disgraceful betrayal); gambling; food labelling and so on. I thought (wrongly) that the tipping point (to end permanently major-party majority government) would come at the 2025 election. It did not. But it will come sooner or later unless there is some radical change to political donation laws that enable the corporates and billionaires to buy policies and parties for what to them are quite trivial sums. The Liberals have had an existence-threatening hiding. Swathes of electorate will not put up with emasculated government or government running the agenda of big corporate interests. The message was not that Labor won the election, but the Liberals massively lost it. On the Labor side, getting two thirds of the seats with just a third of the vote was not a landslide. Rather it was an unsustainable fluke.
Sky News AU
4 hours ago
- Sky News AU
Pauline Hanson vows to call out the ‘hypocrites and liars' within the Labor Party
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson discusses the fire risk of wind turbines in regional areas and criticises the Labor Party for their renewable policies. 'I've got no time for them whatsoever,' Ms Hanson told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. 'It's a joke, it really is a joke, and the people of Australia need to wake up to this and understand. 'I'll keep raising these issues, asking questions and show the government for what they are, nothing but hypocrites and liars to the Australian people.'
