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What an idiot Andrew Bolt is The graph fails to show the 50 year trade embargo placed on Cuba by America and it's allies. Of course Cuba became poorer with the fall of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. America didn't change it's embargo on trade. T Yes folks it's the way Bolt likes to argue with selected facts only he fails to even begin to ask what Cuba was like before the revolution. No comparative metrics here on housing, health education and social welfare of the Cuban people. Nothing on infant mortality the extension of life that would be revealing too much. Unlike America there is no under class of Cubans thrown in jail for poverty. However tax evasion is a crime in Cuba more so than a duty in America and Australia. Cuba Before the Revolution | Jacobin
The easiest thing to do is criticize countries like Cuba and China in earlier times. However Bolt really is incapable of producing on going criticism purely out of very selective facts. " Cuba slipped down the world income distribution. Current
levels of income per capita appear below their pre-revolutionary peaks.". Of course it did the Western world embargo crippled it.
Bolt typically omits the modern day miracle and the rise of China from a nation of starving people to one with the fastest growing middle class on the planet. he doesn't mention the wealth and income gaps that existed he specifically turns to figures that omit that and the corruption that existed in the Batista regime. Cuba hasn't been the Castro's private fuedal domain. They didn't become wealthy on the backs of fellow Cubans. But Bolt turns to Florida for his proof of Cuban Revolution failure. He doesn't mentions the Rust belt Americans who now go there as tourists and come back amazed to find a country of happy people where doctors get paid less than taxi drivers and aren't trying to escape or seek asylum from their country. Of course some, a minority are seduced by the consumer bling they see tourists wearing. Bolt's consumed by wanting more as well and he's 1%er in Australia that's the shame because unlike Cubans he does walk on the bodies of fellow Australians to get it. We are fast becoming a nation where the biggest crime is citizens being arrested for being poor. That doesn't happen in Cuba.
"Pope Francis called this kind of journalism based on
rumors “terrorism”. What would journalism based on lies with the
deliberate aim to discredit the revolutionary government be called?
There’s no name for this."
Trump farewells Castro: "brutal dictator"
27 Nov A one eyed view from Andrew Bolt from his land of "me" about Cuba a land of "we". Who does he quote none other then Donald Trump. Bolt makes no mention of the higher rate of literacy in Cuba it's free Education Health and housing. Nor does he mention the 50 year trade embargo on Cuba by the the USA that forced poverty on the nation. Despite the hardship enforced on it homelessness wasn't an issue in Cuba as it is on the streets of America. Cuba produces and exports more doctors, medical professionals and teachers to third world countries and is the first to do so when trouble strikes. I produces medicines like Ventolin for it's people for 0.10cents where as Corporate Pharma in the US ensures it retails for over $100 dollars. There is no Thunder storm Asthma deaths in Cuba or emergencies on the scale we saw here. Vaccinations in Cuba are free and basically 100% of the population are covered for the essential ones unlike America or even here where we still have to pay.
Abbott: good that Turnbull's dropped innovation and agilty
Tony Abbott is right, telling Sky News that
it's good the Turnbull Government is "no longer talking about
innovation and agility".
27 Nov Yes it's Bolt and Abbott call for not only innovation and agility to be dropped but want to ensure math and science in education above the basics be made voluntary and not essentials. Because no doubt the are tools that aid logic and skepticism as approaches to problem solving over and above opinion and morals and politics that then deliver blind values. Compulsory Maths and science are far too Socialist for Andrew Bolt too China too Russian and too Cuban. It's easier to manipulate a dumb electorate without the skills to question the rational behind economic and social policies put foward as necessities in an environment of fear constructed shamefully by the likes of Andrew Bolt. He can then simply when women are raped it's simply their own fault. Oh did I hear Bolt didn't say that the Grand mufti did. But Bolt did say that Aboriginal Culture enables them to live in some of the worst conditions on this planet and it's their own fault. Isn't that the same. You don't hear Scientists saying things like that on a regular basis do you.
Linda Burney: Aborigines did not immigrate here.
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney, herself
with Scottish as well as Aboriginal ancestors, writes a nasty note to
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton that reinvents the history of people
like her:
History revised
27 Nov
This is the sort of childish rhetorical idiocy that Bolt turns to that makes him the racist he is. It's why he was treated by the ex Conservative PM of NZ as a simple and naieve child and why the Constitutional lawyer saw him as irrelevant when he attempted to talk about the Constitution. Both people put jack in his box and he went quietly. It's plain to see on the ABCs Recognition Yes or No. Bolt was a total limp Dick.
But like all wind bags he's never empty and deflated for ever and here he is again declaring Aboriginal history irrelevant on one hand because genetics have killed it for the now bastard race. and anyway 40,000 years doesn't make them any better colonists we are all immigrants and title is rally British law bugger Mabo
Bolt argues Canada NZ, America and Israel are settler nations but they are on the wrong side of history as are all Commonwealth nations . Australia is the shining light the leaders because we are the only country among these that haven't any treaty with their first peoples. Why because Bolt publicly declares he's more indigenous than Linda Burney if she happens to be alive and younger than him and born here. That's all it takes folks to talk nonsense turn to rhetoric and remove the substantive meaning we have applied to history the constitution and our laws and why people who are experts in all these fields including international law look at Bolt and just politely smile and move on without bothering to pat him on the head.
In the photo above Linda doesn't look comfortable and Bolt well he look just as he presents
Carlton turns Christians into Muslims to prove Dutton wrong
To prove Immigration Minister Peter Dutton
is wrong about Muslim Lebanese migration, former ABC reporter Mike
Carlton shows us several Christian Lebanese who have made good. Is
Carlton dishonest or simply stupid?
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