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Murdoch Media Launch 'Coup' To Take
Down Australian Prime Minister
YOUR
NEW REALITY
Friday September 7, 2007
Australian
conservatives and neocons
are furious that prime minister John Howard, now facing annihilation
in the coming elections, won't do the right thing and step aside before
he destroys the political party that gave them so much power and influence.
So
grim are the polls for the Howard government right now that if they
went to an election tomorrow, the prime minister and most of his cabinet
would be swept away, spelling the end of the control of the Australian
government by conservatives and neocons for a decade or more.
Pundits are predicting there remains only 80 days until the next federal
election. The 'coup' plotters in Murdoch's media empire in Australia still
believe there is time to change leaders and salvage what they can from
the wreckage of the looming election.
But Howard is fastidiously hanging onto his leadership. Bouyed by his
hosting of the APEC summit of 20 world leaders, Howard has been signing
huge energy deals with China, negotiating sales of nuclear fuel with Russia
and hopes to announce a world-shaking 'Sydney Statement' on climate change,
to replace the Kyoto agreement, and gaining a firm commitment from China
to reduce emissions.
Howard thinks all this will be enough to win back the favour of Australian
voters. But the neocons view Howard as a loser, beyond hope.
Howard still believes he can win the coming election. But the neocons
don't want to take that chance. If he loses, they lose everything. They
view Howard as a dangerous liability, despite a record on economic management
that they will praise ceaselessly. They see Howard as sheer political
poison. He has to go.
So Rupert Murdoch's Australian media empire, which controls more than
70% of all Australian newspapers, is going to force
Howard to step aside before it's too late :
Today, John Howard is facing an impossible to ignore chorus
of wailing and whining from the once-faithful and worshipful - Quit, hand
over, disappear. Do It Now.
The Australian conservatives and neocons are not just panicking. They're
pissing their pants in fear. They're one more devastating poll away from
looking for volunteers to load up a suicide vest and go give the prime
minister an explosive hug goodbye.
They know this is End Game territory. They're terrified that come 2008
they will be the Australian equivalent of the American Republican Party
- shattered by defeat, awash with scandal and infighting and coming apart
at the seams in a grisly self-slaughter so appalling to watch that even
die-hard enemies can no longer bare to look and have to turn away from
the hideous spectacle.
Key Murdoch journalists and commentators have given him less than a week
to announce his resignation. They're now
clearly stating this in Murdoch newspapers.
Whatever they have planned for Howard if he doesn't resign is going to be
gruesome indeed. For Howard, and for Australian politics.
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