Andrew Bolt's Blog,1/7/15. The Greeks were ripped off by Wall st and are blamed; Hockey one: Will those in charge be blamed for the riots?; Bolt is pissed Obama's riding Abbott's unicorn;

 

 

 

The ABC is kidding us with this inquiry

Link Murdoch's Churnalist digital News.com

Has anybody noticed how Corporate  people in the Media Industry hate Non Corporate journalists. 10 Compelling Reasons You Can Never Trust The Mainstream Media

 

How obvious is this when Bolt tries to character assassinate one of Australia's most respected and trusted broadcasters Ray Martin who we the public all know and have known for over 30 years for his integrity in the Industry.

 Shaun Brown Brown began his broadcasting career with the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in Perth in 1970. He later worked as a reporter, presenter and producer with Television New Zealand (TVNZ), as well as a current affairs producer and presenter at the BBC. In 1994, TVNZ appointed him Managing Editor, News and Current Affairs. He was made Head of TV One in 1997. In 2001, he was appointed Head of Television on an annual salary reported to be $340,000, responsible for running both TVNZ channels. Brown held this TVNZ position for nine months before the position was eliminated by chief executive Ian Fraser.He joined SBS as Head of Television in January 2003.

 "I suspect the ABC board has deliberately commissioned a whitewash. In no way can the Government accept this inquiry as serious. " Bolt

 Browns experience in the industry is unsurpassed particularly at the senior levels of the industry worldwide. Bolt's experience remains at a much junior level and has really never moved except in notoriety.Bolt can't seem to curry any favour for his comments other than within the Newscorp hive and then only amongst the extrme right wing news casters and commentators. 

We aren't exactly aware of Bolt for much other than his lap dog support of the business interests of his Corporate master Rupert Murdoch and Abbott propagandist. Does Bolt feel he qualifies to sit on the review panel? One notices he doesn't make a suggetion.

Bolt belongs to the Journalists against Journalism Club " To this club, the best journalism is not the kind that challenges power or even merely sheds light on the inner workings of government; it is about protecting power and keeping the lights off.". It's not about doing this as a principle for all of us either it's doing it for ones side only

Bill Shorten caught without his briefs

Link Paywall pulling Bolt the paperboy's strings.

Just how many Bills has rushed through Parliament that have been passed in principle but will never be used because actually will prove them an even headache. Because the unwanted reality is in the detail. We've noticed Abbott is fine in the sloganeering. Is Labour about to let him hang on the inability of Abbott to explain or even execute it in detail?

 

What ABC bias?

Does Bolt even understand the industry in which he participates?" The ABC’s Lateline promotes the God of the Left, riding from heaven on a rainbow:"

Tea Party moron Andrew Bolt doesn't know the meaning of satire, irony or humor.  It's why when he tries he seems such a klutz and schmuck.The ABC is using a meme that dates back to 2008 it's a meme suggesting Obama for a change has had an exceptionally positive run. It's the same meme Bolt uses verbally symbolizing the miraculous rise of Abbott only without tongue in cheek.  Bolt actually sells and sweats on Abbott's reincarnation which with every breathe goes awry because of Abbott falls off his bike. Bolt is such a corporate but in reality isolated dork.

ABC insists - er - even bigots have a right to speak, you know

Link Murdoch's Telegraph

Bolt grabs a distortion and runs with it like a dog with a bone. The ABC our public broadcaster is not the public censor nor is it their charter. Bolt the bigot and advocate of free speech was charged under the RDA not Newscorp. I agree what Mullah said may need examining by none other than George Brandis. But then too so does Steve Ciobo MP, Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt because they have all broken Australian law and International convention. 

The ABC is there to show us what the public attitude is on any issue and to show varying opinion on it. It's to do it in an informative and entertaing way. The distortion Bolt presents is that the ABC is obliged to make character judgements on those allowed to speak. When conservatives are given room to speak on Q&A and they differ with Abbott Bolt re -brands them and calls them lefties, Malcolm Turnbull being the stand out example. If lefties are on who disagree with their party line he doesn't re-brand them as conservatives. He invites and pays them be on  the Bolt Report to show how Shorten is askew Martin Ferguson a favorite . Nothing for Bolt is about issues it's only about sides

 

The Greeks run out of other people’s money

 Link SMH, Powerline USA radically conservative ezine, & Instapundit Glen Ryenolds also writes for WSJ Murdochs conservative Journal

Typical conservative thinking ignores and blames the victims even pain is shared unequally.

How Wall Street helped Greece go broke and it's Conservative Government jumped at it. Beware of Wall st wankers bearing gifts or derivatives   dud mortgages wrapped up as good over valued investments  to a country already in debt. The world was sold a pig in a poke. Greece's Conservatives to hold on to power were desperate to get into the Eurozone and fell for the sting and the central EU banks were happy to close their eyes. Loan Sharks and Commission agents eager for profit started the rapid downward spiral and they are still here and when the shit hit the fan we bailed them out. As pay day lenders and banks who are offering easy money to the poor at 20%-30% profit the money trap still sees cats and dogs get credit cards sent in the post.

Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps matured, and swelled the country's already bloated deficit. Instead of restructuring the financial system we bailed banks and not people out.

"At some point Greece will have to pay up for its swap transactions, and that will impact its deficit. The bond maturities range between 10 and 15 years. Goldman Sachs charged a hefty commission for the deal and sold the swaps on to a Greek bank in 2005. The bank declined to comment on the controversial deal. The Greek Finance Ministry did not respond to a written request for comment."

In 2010 Robert Sheer wrote

 "The U.S. comptroller of the currency estimates that Goldman Sachs has a derivative “credit exposure” that is a whopping 858 percent of its risk-based capital and that JPMorgan Chase is in second place at 290 percent." They sold and financed crap for commission and fees and the Greeks weren't the only buyers.

When the loan sharks went broke governments bailed them out and they have gone on to make  even greater profits but when have the repaid the debt . When the Australian Government insured the banks our interest rates went up and we paid. Isn't it time they paid us back?

Tweeter beware of the Hockey verdict

Link Paywall

Given over 50% of Bolt's blogs are paywalls, he will really be in trouble because  should be seen for what they are tawdry advertising banners for Murdoch Press. Newscorp needs all the paper boys it can muster to sell it's distorted right wing bias. 

 

The rage of journalists called out at last for their bias

Link Greg Sheridan and a Murdoch paywall

Andrew Bolt has said only last week "let the community of many be represented by the few" and he and his media drones at Newscorp are proof of the few.

"I think one of the sources of the rage so many journalists have for the likes of me is that we are now calling out this fraud, using endless evidence."

  When has the media industry at large even acknowledged Bolt in any form or shape as an industry role model? He's only ever been held up as the reverse of that to be admired. If everybody were to be given an award and  Bolt were acknowledged he'd be  the permanent NAGA. I doubt he could raise any articles that in fact championed what it is he does.

Bolt declares himself to be    - humanist, conservative, liberal, rationalist and individualist 

Humanist 
  He has philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the division of value and agency of human beings, strictly according to his own values and not at all collectively. He generally scoffs at science critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over established ideology doctrine or faith . He is in fact the very opposite of huminist belief.

Conservative Conservatives have respect for the separation of the rule of law and justice. Again all we hear is Bolt's vigilante approach to rid us of unions,  justice and any notion of equality all in order to preserve or enhance the status quo. I guess if one regarded Hitler as a Conservative or Franco then they'd most likely approve of Bolt  a tool for their media.

Liberal He's not believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Believe the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need 

Rational ; How could he be. He's totally anti-science, a non critical thinker a skeptic or cynical  based on or in accordance with reason or logic. His logic is simply based on his chosen political side.

Individualist   is a man who says: “I will not run anyone's life—nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone—nor sacrifice anyone to myself.” Yes Solipsist for him it means he's the only one. He actually must have an ego that tell him he's made it on his own and is leading a heroic life. Bolt's collective is his side to which he want's to ingratiate himself to not his audience.

Bolt live

 "Of course, the collective react badly to this rougher than usual handling. Guides to their bias do tend to get a media monstering. But the public good is worth this small pain."

The collective really pays far less attention to Bolt and what he has to say than the other way round. Bolt is obsessed with not the industry but the commerce of it. After all he's little more than a Murdoch lackey. The news and information industry will move on long after he's gone and forgotten

 

Riot police to enforce a smoking ban?

Link Herald Sun

Yes the policy makers surely know what they are doing. Absolutely idiotic regulation put into place. It was done in Mental Hospitals. However the medical staff realised the impossibility of enforcing such a measure and closed a blind eye.

Whoever chose to do it in correction facilities needs their heads read. Was even the offer of smoking alternatives provided. Given the riot it would seem not. Obviously the possibility of riots, suicide and murder aren't seen as health risks.