Saturday 28 April 2018

Andrew Bolt's Blog,28/4/18; Fundamental questions left unanswered; Luck of dreaming;



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To stop people dying, we must make it easier for them to live

 

No, Sweden Does Not Have the Highest Suicide Rate | Psychology Today

 


Worth a Read The Nordic Theory of Everything compares the meaning of Individual Freedoms in the USA with the Nordic North. It brings into focus the social model  Australia takes for granted is irrationally following. Do we invest in the well being of our most valuable resource Australians? These are fundamental questions Andrew Bolt certainly doesn't ask but nor do our Governments (ODT)



  Palestinian medics evacuate a protester injured during the Great Return March in Gaza. April 20, 2018. (Mohammed Zaanoun / Activestills.)

 You’re far more likely to be killed protesting in Gaza than firing a rocket | +972 Magazine

 At least 40 unarmed Palestinians — including two journalists — have been shot and killed by Israeli sharpshooters and snipers in the vicinity of the Gaza border fence since March 30, including two journalists. At least 1,500 others were wounded by sniper gunfire, according to the United Nations data from earlier this week.

More than 40 Palestinians have now been killed by Israeli fire in the March of Return protests.
Israel says many of the dead and wounded have links to the military wing of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza.
But the ongoing deaths in Gaza did not dominate debate in Israel this week.
What many were talking about was the decision of Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman.
 Natalie Portman, Netanyahu, and Gaza: Israelis bristle at criticism from 'one of their own' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Bolt has little good to say about the Dream Time of Indigenous peoples nor peoples not Christian Western, conservative or rich. He claims to have found his true Australian spirit while dreaming of a Dutch barge. Australia is really only a place to have made his filthy lucre to dream of buying or renting.
 It's a Lucky Country if you take aim to marry up the social ladder because merit sure as hell didn't do it for him. Think of all that wasted talent most of which isn't given the chance to dream of Dutch barges while someone with no talent can simply by schmoozing or being born at the rainbow's end.




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If there's a benefit to be had Ultra Conservatives will grab it and declare it was all due to them. Greed to grab the whole cake and not share it is the monopolist's gameplay if anything happens to go wrong then throw the bad bit's away and blame others. However, while South Korea remains on the path of diplomacy giving credit to all sides Bolt along with the Trumpians declare it all their own a very typical attitude but one more often seen on the domestic front where they claim the good and blame the bad on others wherever possible. Has Bolt even considered Nth Koreas reasons for coming to the table with Sth Korea? Sanctions from China play no part in his reasoning only childish word games have taken pride of place childish as Bolt's above banner. 







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I do remember Jim Bolger ex- NZs conservative PM laughing at Andrew Bolt in that ABC program along with a constitutional lawyer when he tried to insist he was indigenous too and therefore race didn't exist and therefore we were all equal and should be at peace with the world as it is. The essence has always been that while settler countries neither need recognition or treaties and only Australia has got that right because the minute white men stepped off the boat 230 years ago they too were indigenous. Bolt flips the argument and says that it's been indigenous Australians since invasion day that has been racist, divisive and those boat people have been the victims. Bolt basically argues the failure of Aboriginals to join Team Australia that's at fault. A narrative is all Bolt has the data and history the evolution of structured disadvantage and lack of opportunity are simply ignored and those that complain in fact make those that don't the disadvantaged.
All Bolger had to do was laugh at Bolt's stupidity and he crawled into respectful silence. While all Australians would like to believe they are equal to show their talent history and 230 years show the opposite. 
 For over forty years Bolt admits he didn't identify as Australian frankly I don't believe he even does now. There was a time he didn't claim indigenous rights felt he had more opportunities in the Netherlands than he had here and that he was really an outsider. Until he got a leg up the social ladder, not through merit but marriage and life took a turn but not through any talent or skill he had. However, he still remains very much on the fringe of what it means to be Australian and still dreaming of the Netherlands a true nowhere man it seems.

Mind you Bolt likes to insist we are all equal and able to to be upwardly mobile. He's the first to declare those that complain aren't on his board. Equality however only comes with the freedom of true merit to shine and equality of opportunity at birth. Bolt claims that what is in place now from the getgo the luck to be born to privilege power wealth is the result of talent and if not are worthy of inheritance this is not simply a random accident of birth. Unfortunately the structure of Australian Society says otherwise and is such that it precludes individual freedom or talent to shine general well-being without free  child and parenting support, free education, health, sufficient well being guaranteed for everyone at all levels does not provide for true equality individual freedom and meritocracy to work but rather provides the potential for the resentment anxiety, stress and tension that makes Bolt say he's a victim. If basic resources aren't available at all levels to free up individuals to be who they are and to flourish on merit then wellbeing fails. Nordic countries have been doing it since the 60s and have been succeeding. America once the land of opportunity is failing and at an accelerated pace. Bolt sees America despite its problems of Racism and widening wealth gap as the model to follow. It fails to make sense and Indigenous Australians more than anyone know that systems failure.
So just because the colour is blurred and not black or white racism has no place in identifying societal dysfunction and therefore Bolt is really and indigenous, woman, whose more talented generous deserving and wiser than most.




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It appears the criminal activities allowed to within the Liberal party will continue. I'm glad I'm not a donor. But then it shows that the notion of the Party being a broad church doesn't hold water.
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Apparently, free speech among professors isn't allowed nor is it among Jews the award ceremony for Natalie Portman has been cancelled despite it having been announced and a cry among right-wing Israelis has gone up to deny her Israeli citizenship as well in this self-proclaimed Democracy. 40 + Palestinians are dead 1500 + wounded by IDF snipers for 300 meters from a fence. The action gets Bolt's support simply by not only his silence but his vocal support of a State that denies free speech globally and recently assassinated someone in Malaysia.  Death of Journalists Paramedics women and children was justified in simply approaching a fence. This isn't allowed to be protested if a Jew Rabbi or otherwise by the State.
Recent videos have shown Israeli snipers celebrating their kills not just talking about the possibility of them. But it seems as far as Bolt is concerned the words of professors are far worse than the actions of the IDF.
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So McCrann and Bolt according to the above banner always knew just how corrupt the banking and financial sectors were. "We circle back to my major pre-RC concerns: that the core motivation was not to make for a “better system” and “better banks” but a politically cynical exercise in bank bashing pure and simple. If we wanted to look after “victims”; if we wanted to “find” a better way of financial intermediation, there were better ways to do it."McCrann
This could better be applied to Tony Abbott's RC into the trade unions which ultimately found Craig Thomson guilty of taking some $13,000 in petty cash.
The biggest crime according to McCrann is not the millions in losses suffered by clients past present and future but revealing those crimes and the transparency of banking culture. Notwithstanding the fact that Abbott cut ASIC's budget and staff by 200 investigators at the protest of the head of ASIC. What is M'cCrann's "better" way he doesn't mention it?
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What planet is Albrectsen on saying "Conservatism is not an ideological attachment but a pragmatic endeavour to preserve institutions, ideas and values that continue to serve us well."
When currently all our institutions have been failing us for some 2 decades and Tony Abbott with his do nothing government actually not only stopped the clock but turned it backwards.
The fact there is no basic belief in "Human Dignity" evidenced by no Bill of Rights in this country allows less than the majority of citizens in this country to prevail unoppressed. However even among those there anxiety and paranoia at the possible loss of privilege.
The fact that conservatives, the IPA and New Corp see Social Policy serving the interests of the few rather than the nation is clear and evident when they hold the USA's institutions as the model on which to base future policy on Environment Education, Health, Old Age, Parenting and even our planet when on every metric since Abbott got in Australia has been going backwards down the ladder compared to other OECD countries. Nordic countries, on the other hand, are ahead of us and the USA in serving and protecting individual freedoms by ensuring the equity of opportunity so much so that one can't help understand why Australians aren't angrier. Quiet debate serves nobody when one person's foot is firmly planted on another's throat. If our Institutions are so great why are we so less equal now on all social indices Mr Bolt? Are Australians less talented or are our institutions failing us? American ones definitely are failing ordinary Americans.
I grew up in the days when a family of 4 could survive with only one breadwinner it wasn't easy and a real middle class actually existed. Children could do better than their parents. However, the wealth and income gap are getting bigger and those days are gone and it's reflected in massive private debt Australians are incurring which is no longer discretionary but necessary. Half the workforce has been casualized with the loss of benefits the fact is our institutions aren't serving us well that very statement which says they are is an oxymoron, propaganda that can only be-be found in Murdoch media that continues to run and be favored even when  broke because it certainly doesn't pay tax in this country.
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The very mention of Deep State is a line if I recall from Breitbart. News Corp currently is America's Whitehouse press and deals in the art of avoiding news distracting, deflecting attention away from Donald Trump's blunders and Andrew Bolt just their agent down under. Trump just recently in an interview on Fox News wanted to dump Michael Cohen and distance himself from him as far away as he could. Because it seems Cohen was the centrepiece of the $130,000 Stormy Daniels payment which Trump swore he knew nothing about. Trump being Trump couldn't shut up on Fox and Friends and left the panel gobsmacked and silent when he admitted that Cohen was his representative in the Stormy Daniels affair.
What to do? What to do? 1) Don't mention the self-admitted lie. 2) Call him the hero in the seeming detente with Nth Korea 3) Pull out a Comey interview and drag up Deep State. Throw mud and if none sticks at least it distracts.
However, doesn't Comey cut a different picture to Trump when being interviewed?

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