Is Dan Andrews the new Joan Kirner?
The link is Judith Sloan for the IPA blog site Cattalaxy edited by Sinclair Davidson. It's perspective is pure conservative and as balanced as the Bolt Report.
The article reveals the ideological bias of the site, the simplistic concept that any association of workers is a criminal association holding back the advancement of progress that of Capital and it's right to profit at the expense of Labor. The secretive agreement with it's duplicitous side contract of the unresearched East West link link was simply held back due to the union sabotage of the State election rather than the vote of the electorate. That very concept is that of a class that assumes a right to rule rather than one elected to. Given that the unions are only some 12% of the work force. They certainly weren't the only voters that reflected the state's dissatisfaction.
No mention is given to the fact that Michael Kroeger explicitly blamed LNP failure on their inability to run an effective campaign informing the public of policies that spoke to the public. Basically the Naphthine government had spent the electorates trust by doing nothing for a term and then attempting to blackmail the electorate as the election dawned.
McCrann: hands off our super
McCrann is simply running with the pack. Economists in the main have said don't interfere with Super. McCrann puts it squarely from the perspective of those who thought $2 mill would be sufficient for a self funded retiree.
The Bolt Report today, April 5
Balanced show? Consists of Michael Kroeger, Sinclair Davidson, IPA, Rowan Dean, Andrew Bolt not moderating but directing right wing thought and perspectives. The audience lowest numbers on TV.
Greens dreams burned in India, as the poor get cheap power
Modi Commits to Clean Environment by Doubling India’s Coal Tax.... a Carbon Tax something you didn't hear from Bolt.
The agreement between Modi and Obama includes a range of commitments – such as working towards a successful and ambitious climate agreement in Paris, and various partnerships on clean energy, finance, climate research, and adaptation.
India and US agree: Coal is not the answer
Isn't it a pity that with coal dropping in price it will need to be sold at a loss. Now that's a good business for taxpayers to fund.
This was the evidence against Essendon?
Boring distraction to take the attention off Abbott. No News is etc
New Zeland rises as Australia declines
We have been tricked by the whingers of the right that world is in fact being run by the opposition governments. Which must be a plus because it leaves all current governments in the position of appearing to govern. Abbott can sit back and appear to be in charge. After all hes publicly appeared to say their is no crisis he's appeared to have fixed it. Everything appears ok then
A fast-ageing Iran will get desperate
Talk about right wing hawks and their continuing bullshit about WMDs. This was the very argument that Cheney Rumsfeld Bush, Blair and Howard offered in 2003 to invade Iraq to finish what Bush senior had started with Desert Storm. The Shah didn't change the demography of Iran US sactions for the past 25 years certainly did families couldn't afford to feed their kids.
The Republicans have a single solotion to Iran that's bomb it. They have 1000 justifications all stupid and fanciful Dr Strangelove couldn't do better but none that match reality. Hidden laboratories we don't know about are the same as the hidden weapons caches that existed in Iraq but never found. They don't think like us therefore never to be trusted all the ant-Islam arguments you can think of.
Sorry Iran and Iraq are and were educating women, the burka was never an essential dress code for women all lies these morons like Bolt offer as a reason to bomb a country. They are potentially in our minds aggressive. Iran has not waged a war on anyone. The only sovereign aggressor in the Middle East since WW2 have been the West and in recent times Israel and the USA with Saudi Arabia bombing Yeman this past week. Hasn't anyone considered war is good for business business runs America. War is not good for Iran it doesn't have an arms industry.
Obama has provided the best opportunity for lifting sanctions and peace in the region which ever way you look at it.
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As many have noted in the past day, a framework is only a framework.
There are plenty of tough and complicated details to sort out. The deal
may fall apart, especially with conservatives in both Washington and
Tehran—and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his
crew—sniping away and looking to subvert any agreement. But as the
heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation
experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements,
not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice"
Gatestone Institute Right Wing Lobbyist Think Tank Often Used By Andrew Bolt
The aim of the current Iranian regime is clearly to acquire a nuclear weapons capability and to retain as much territory in Iraq as possible under Shia Islamist rule, whatever the human cost. Those aims are also the reason Iran's regime is now trying to intervene in Iraq.
Iraq is currently a secular state Iran is there in the same capacity as the US to advise and assist it has no troops on the ground. However Iran garners more trust with the Iraqi Shiia and Sunni's than the US. They don't want the US there. Other than speculation Gatestone offers no evidence of Iran's clear need for nuclear weapons
Iran will doubtless be demanding that any cooperation with the West be compensated for by "concessions" permitting its nuclear weapons program.
Doubtless concessions and demands again just speculation
Involving Iran in Iraq at this point will merely alienate any Sunni allies whose assistance is much needed to defeat IS.
Tikrit was taken over and won by Shiia they have now withdrawn proving the opposite of Gatestone claims
Many people inside Iran have alerted the U.S. Administration for over two years about other industrial facilities being secretly built in Iran and not declared to the International Atomic Energy. So far, all intelligence from within Iran has been wilfully ignored by the Obama Administration.
These are the same false claims made about WMDs that justified the invasion of Iraq. Why should these be believed to be any more valid? There is no single substiated evidence produced by Gatestone. Bolt often cites them for his views
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