It was a quiet moment the evening of the last presidential election when a mainstream journalist told me they were frightened of Romney winning, as they thought he must. One would never have known it from the impenetrable wall that was the front mainstream journalists had put forward. Romney was an unknown quantity to the media, as they had campaigned against him without looking at who he was. They had made much of his religion, but they hadn't considered how healthy it would be to have a GOP President who wasn't from the mainstream Christian lobby. But they portrayed Romney as being weird. Romney is a GOP insider who could have been trusted to run a GOP administration which would aim to cut spending. But the mainstream media only put forward a scare campaign. Obama was reelected in 2012 without his policy agenda being vetted. And the same is happening now for Hillary.

A player in the media campaign is Julian Assange with Wikileaks. Another in Russia is Snowden. Exactly what Snowden is doing right now is not known. He may be leaking to Wikileaks. Thing is neither of these figures are reliable to the public. All they can do is expose details that need to be weighed and understood. In the past, mainstream media have not used material from Wikileaks responsibly. People have died, innocent people, people unrelated to the material leaked, when rumour and innuendo from low level political cables was leaked. And around the world, Islamo fascists felt entitled to run amok. Not much need be said for Islamo fascists to run amok. In fact, mainstream media seems to support Islamo fascists with a steady diet of hand wringing over lots of things that aren't true, related to same sex marriage, US culture, US army activity, AGW, Monsanto, nuclear power, Palestinian terrorism, and many things beside that are often made up. The former Soviet Union used to run the peace movement which US Democrats tapped into with mainstream media to weaken GOP Presidential government. Compare the outrage of Nixon deleting less than twenty minutes of audio tape and the silence of Hillary deleting her emails. Only, Nixon had had authority, whereas Hillary had not. But in each case a Democrat led congress provided spin.

Assange admitted that his leaks were why the US Government wanted to kill him. Only the US Government did not want any such thing. But Hillary might have. The leaks now harm the Clinton campaign. But Assange is not doing the people a favour. He is acting as a gatekeeper just as the mainstream media have. The character of Hillary is known by those who follow politics. One does not even have to have watched Fox to follow that balanced service's work. How long has Assange sat on what he now leaks? Maybe if US media functioned without bias hen the Obama administration would not be so unbalanced and Hillary would not now be the threat she is, because Democrats would have thrown up a better candidate. But for the media, this is tribal. They want, because they want. Principle does not matter. I don't expect to hear from that journalist again, this time around. But I bet you he is sad, and fearful. He does not know who Trump is, but he expects Trump to win. But he would never report that.

I suggest Red Gum ward vote for David Daniel Ball. And, after asking your local councillor about their views on Trump, Same Sex Marriage and Greyhounds, try and find out what it is they will do to make garbage collection cheaper and more efficient. Ask how they will make business more profitable. Ask what they will do to help address crime. Ask what they will do to improve public transport issues locally.