Andrew Bolt's Blog;18/8/18 While Bolt deals in rumours and cloak and daggers Fairfax tells it the way it is; The Australian Road to Tyranny; Rabid Zealots wish to rule this Democracy;

 A showdown is looming between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull

 Obviously, Andrew Bolt hasn't the inside rail when it comes to what's going on in politics. While he flounders with "unnamed conservatives" and "rumours" the Fairfax papers don't and aren't afraid to name those men hidden by Bolt. In fact, it appears Bolt got hold of the Fairfax articles and has used them as if they were his opinion simply leaving out the names and adding the word rumours.  (ODT)

Abbott still suffers from the wounds inflicted on him when Malcolm Turnbull toppled him as prime minister in September 2015, which means the pain from the past shapes the Liberal Party’s looming decision over its future.   Turnbull approves radical NEG redesign in bid to prevent backbench revolt
UPDATE
" Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has declared his support for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after 24 hours of furious speculation about a leadership spill and a dramatic redraft of the government’s energy policy." Fairfax
" Contrary to some reporting, the revised position agreed by ministers does not abandon the government’s commitment at the Paris talks on climate change, keeping the 26 per cent target agreed by Mr Abbott as prime minister in 2015." Bolt
Yes, you guessed it Bolt's just twisting the truth for Tony. Whatever happens, Bolt will claim some sort of victory for his dog in the race even if he runs last.


 

  'No way to run a government': Abbott slams Turnbull's revised energy plan

  Abbott hasn't changed. Since when are flexibility and the ability to change according to the circumstances, not in the  National Interest? Since when is blind winning at all costs not the tyrannical mind of a rabid self-absorbed zealot, a sociopath? Wars don't end with annihilation but compromise. Not with destruction but elected solutions in which Abbott hasn't any interest, that's obvious. Winning at all cost is a game not a service to others. Politics isn't a game it's a duty of service and Abbott seems to have lost that. I suspect he never had it. He'd rather take the country over a cliff than give an inch. Australia seems to be his personal Jones Town, Waco Texas and the Liberal Party cult central that needs a hiding to hell from Abbott. He's back to being a climate denier not because he believes it's a solution to a greater problem but it's the only imagined KO punch he has for Turnbull, stuff the country. Let's ride to hell in a handbasket. The man a sociopath a crazed pitbull.  " ASPD diagnosis is only given when symptoms happen for an extended period and don’t change because of punishment or lifestyle changes. Someone who’s selfish may show these behaviours for a short while, but feel bad about them or change their behaviour over time or because of punishment. " Abbott's never changed. (ODT)

"Let Labor be the people who rabbit on about emissions and renewable power and saving the planet," he said.
"I say no, no, no. Let's create a real contest, not a false consensus. Let's fight the Labor Party on this - it's the only way to win the election," Mr Abbott said.

One wonders just how Abbott resolves family disputes we know how he resolved disputes with friends. Just ask Peter Slipper. Joe Hockey, Pauline Hanson and others. "  he won’t cop criticism from people who only have jobs because he allowed it."
  Like Treasurer Scott Morrison and acting-PM Mathias Cormann essentially telling him to keep his trap shut. Abbott said

He criticised his colleagues for not bothering to read his speech on immigration and said if the government had its priorities right it would listen to him, a man “who knows more about winning elections than anyone in the parliament”. Now is that a team player?

ANOTHER VICTORY LIKE THIS WILL DESTROY TURNBULL

Paul Kelly is puzzled to see Turnbull now fighting to save his leadership: "The extraordinary irony of the week is that Turnbull and Frydenberg scored a critical partyroom victory on Tuesday for their energy policy but saw victory turn into chaos." Hmm. Maybe "victory" isn't the right word, then.

10m

More intellectual commentary from Andrew Bolt. A PAYWALL  and redefining the word "victory" simply to stick it to a real journalist and even another News Corp insider Paul Kelly. It would seem Bolt's starved of ideas. Even his Bleak House commentary with IPA boss is reduced to a single repetitive sentence. "A cinematic meditation on love and duty" It's amazing how that phrase can summarise a 900-page Dicken's novel and be called an analysis which could have been written on the back of a postage stamp. But then it's good Bolt shows himself up as to why he never cut the mustard at Adelaide Uni. As for top download take point no numbers nor over what time it's been top. We are all aware of just how Bolt self-promotes. A superstar on Sky News as long as you don't look at what actually occurring in all of the Australian media when you discover hardly anyone is watching.

ABBOTT RISING

Peter van Onselen in 2016: "It’s very unlikely Abbott will be leader again." Peter van Onselen today: "While I doubt the party would turn to Abbott immediately, in time it could."

1h7 Andrew Bolt once bagged out Onslelen as a "weathercock" is he repeating that here today or saying he's an astute conservative commentator? One can only guess because reading Bolt you can never be certain. I thought the ABC was fatally biased against the Mad Monk. How many time have we heard just that from Bolt that "Abbott's Rising" to witness a failed souffle

 Anning and Latham fight for a white male privilege 'final solution'

Soutphommasane accorded that Australia's success as a multicultural society is under threat. This threat is not from extreme factional groups or mask-wearing fascists, it is from the mainstream of Australian public life.
The real danger, he argued, comes from “dog-whistling politicians” and “race-baiting commentators” eager to harness populist attention through the careless “mixing of race and politics”. Just about a week later, Senator Fraser Anning proved how devastatingly true that was when he called for a “final solution” to “ethnocultural diversity” in Australia in his maiden speech.

The Road to Fracist Anning

And as I indicated in the Facebook post, “The Road to Anning” has not surfaced overnight. Along the way to getting to that piece of unmitigated and unfettered racism that was his maiden speech, we have had a Parliament that has:

• continued to treat refugees abhorrently;
• continued to preside and perpetuate discrimination against people of Aboriginal heritage and ancestry in a systemic fashion;
• given voice to such people as Pauline Hanson and others who continue their campaigns of hatred towards anything non-Anglo-Celtic; and
• allowed racism to exist in its various manifestations along the way.

Anning is not a new phenomenon. He is but a by-product of a society that places little or no value on diversity.

  Beware of rabid zealots - » The Australian Independent Media Network

 Usurpers Trynnising Australia and diminishing Democracy (ODT)

 Let’s remind ourselves of the meaning of ‘zealot’. Historically, it denoted a member of a fanatical sect in Judea during the first century AD that militantly opposed the Roman domination of Palestine. Today it describes a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals.
We still have zealots in our midst. This piece exemplifies two instances of zealotry: the zealots that deny the reality of anthropogenic global warming, and those that cling tenaciously to trickle down economics.
PHILLIP ADAMS' GUIDE TO HANDLING TERRORISTS: PRETEND NOT TO SEE

The ABC's "unbiased" Phillip Adams set an astonishing standard for wishing to ignore what doesn't suit: "If only we could have infuriated bin Laden by ignoring 9/11." 

14m

SBS GETS ITS VICTIM GROUPS CONFUSED

SBS News sends an  update email yesterday claiming Muslim footballers showed solidarity with each other over an alleged slur of Jews: "Subject: Muslim footballers come together after Final Solution slur " Hmm  Which raises another question: why didn't the AFL also have two Jews show solidarity at the MCG last night?

30m

 Is Bolt really that upset that not having 2 Jews centre ring doing the coin toss at the AFL was a slur on Judaism because two Muslims paid their respects to multiculturalism instead? The bigger slur is Bolt pretending to be a friend of the Jews without ever apologising for what his forefathers actually did in the Netherlands and then spent years trying to falsify history. Now that's a slur. The Dutch actually practised genocide and the "final solution" of 60% of their own citizens 114,000 to be accurate. Bolt has never said sorry.

TURNBULL BACKFLIP: THE FATAL FLAW

Malcolm Turnbull's backflip has a fatal flaw - Labor could appoint the kind of yes-men who told Kevin Rudd his emissions cuts would cost us a $1 a year: "Future changes to the {targets} would have to be supported b y...the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Energy Security Board to ensure they would not increase energy ­prices."

19m

Is Bolt really so obtuse? Turnbull is being attacked on two flanks. Abbott the traitor, liar and flipper on one and the Labor Party on the other being provided with all the options. Turnbull is the only one trying to keep the LNP government on course as a functioning bill passing government. Abbott when leader never passed bills and totally pissed off his own party. He did nothing but hid behind Peta Credlin. He doesn't even have the numbers now and is relying on the ALP to join him to not move forward but simply do nothing. Abbot is Shorten's gift horse and is in the enviable position of watching Abbott trying to disintegrate Turnbull and the Liberal Party.

Who are the "10 and plus" MPs ready to cross the floor not named by Bolt there only seems to be 8 "The Liberal and Nationals MPs in the lower house who appear willing to cross the floor include Mr Abbott, Kevin Andrews, George Christensen, Andrew Gee, Andrew Hastie, Barnaby Joyce, Craig Kelly and Keith Pitt." Fairfax are they all that staunch?  Australia knows" Abbott has backed the idea of a price on carbon, called climate science “crap”, argued for an emissions trading scheme, torn down a carbon tax and promised action on the environment with a “direct action” policy. Abbott led a government that signed up to the Paris agreement on climate change and promised cuts of 26 per cent to emissions. Now he rejects the Paris agreement and calls for a retreat on the target. There is no possibility of a negotiation that satisfies Abbott’s demands. The government has no solution to prevent Abbott from crossing the floor in Parliament." Fairfax His interest in this can hardly be dubbed National. It's about as much in the Australian Interest as the re-establishment of knights and dames Aussie honours.

The only light that's ever come out of this we have seen is that Tony Abbott remains the unchanged self-interested only man he was a decade ago who single-handedly darkened the landscape of Australia with messages of fear, division, lack of action, lies, dissension and lack of communication skills within his own party. Even now he seems to think he can repeat the fluke that gave him leadership a decade ago by a single vote. He needs another Joe Hockey to assist will, Dutton?

GENERATION KNOW-NOTHING

We are deliberately creating a generation of opinionated know-nothings: "Announcing the Future of Education strategy, acting school improvement director Kris Willis said it was 'time for change'… 'Facts and figures once held as paramount in classrooms, and knowing facts and figures, is no longer relevant in today’s society,' he said "

33m
Andrew Bolt is an "opinionated know nothing" and that suggests he's way ahead of his time. How did that come about? Was it his home education in a satellite family training him not to be a "creative" and "critical thinker"? After all, he was the first born and experienced most of his education via his mother who hated Australia and never really settled. 
The education training system was put in place and Gonski was stripped of funding the result being Australia has slipped to 30th out of 41 OECD countries on the education ladder whereas Scandinavian counties rate at the top where the emphasis is placed on personalised learning that learning Bolt simply doesn't understand. 
Why is Bolt so insistent that our tertiary education system needs to leave students in debt to the tune of $100K when so many other countries are free? Even the Netherlands leaves students out of pocket by only $9k. The reason is that when a real meritocracy is in place there is a danger in the loss of privilege the privilege and entitlement in a private system where who you know is more important than what you know. That was the fundamental lesson taught to Bolt. that lead him to be a know-nothing opinionator