Andrew Bolt's Blog,8/6/15; Bolt's Yes But case for George Pell, Panahi provesIslam is a Religion of Peace; Focus on the past when the present is too embarassing ;Bolt promotes blood sports for a purpose; Sloppy as the Arctic is Bolt;
" The chairman of the Prime minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine" Mundine is not the elected represenative of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders he is the appointed Chairman of Abbott's chosen advisory council That's what Bolt simply doesn't understand nor has ears for.
"The document should sit outside the constitution and be formed
alongside a national Indigenous representative body to advise Federal
Parliament on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples, he said."
Yet Mundine and Bolt throw in the red herring that it part of the Constitution whichit is clearly not
Is this a Bolt" Yes, but " situation? Well back at you Mr Bolt Yes Bob Carr said it should be considered But he certainly didn't go about it in such sneaky fashion as Vanstone points out. He certainly didn't try to break the the party's democratic procedures and force it on them.
Link Bolt 2006, Bolt 2008 Bolt 2010, Bolt 2010
I'm sure Archie Roach was is or would be totally unmoved by Andrew Bolt's appreciation of his music. However let it be said there are a lot of conservative dick heads that sing hyms as well.
Croations killed 8000 Muslims in 1995 was there a documented policy to be found? Therefore there was no intended policy of genocide. Holocaust deniers argue the same. If documented evidence can't be found from those in authority then it's deemed no evidence exists. Verbal accounts are not a sufficient interpretation of events. It was all in the name of helping.
Until the 1960's wages for Aborigines those lucky to have jobs were so unequal as to guarantee poverty of even those lucky to have jobs. There are documented cases where two people working to support their extended families would come home to find their children had been removed. Simply because they didn't fit the Christian definition of well being. No jobs, welfare and alchohol sold by white traders ensured welfare dependant poverty. It justified the removal mostly of girls from communities. This circle of life according to Bolt was not systemic but a "life style choice" Consequence being the reduction of populations natives. Bolt would have us believe that Aborigines were given the same opportunities as everybody else in the Australian landscape.
Bolt
"there was no policy to remove children just for being Aboriginal:"
" 36 organisations helping the state’s “stolen generations” "
So let it be said that in countless cases be it Bosnia, Argentina, Chile,Spain,or WW2 where written documentation was not readily available personal testimonies were acknowledged as evidence. Canada, USA, NZ, similar actions had taken place. According to Bolt if no official policies can be found it can't have happened.
Past colonial governments attempt genocide. The international legal definition being.
(a) Killing members of the group; Bolt denies it
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Bolt denies it
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Bolt denies it
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Bolt denies it
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Bolt denies it
All actions were carried out in the name of social welfare
Link PJ Media conservative opinion and commentary website allied with Brietbart
Results however are results and the Islamist leaning Party the AKP did extremely badly. Will Erdogan accept the result? That is of more concern now. Further what does this mean for the region?
Link Powerline a rabidly conservative ezine in the US
Again Bolt remains unusually silent but has nevertheless recently supported an escalation of the war in Iraq. An escalation that would be both illegal and guarantee an escalation throughout the Middle East. Abbott however remains extremely silent about the criticisms being handed out to his current coalition leader Obama. Is it because he doesn't want to see boots on the ground or is it he can't be seen to be supporting Democrats. I suspect like Bolt Abbott is pro escalation and possibly conscription is at the back of his mind.
However the Vietnam war cost 3million Asian lives and 59,000 American. Do these warmongers really want to go down this road simply in hope of winning the next election?
Link Paywall for Murdoch
The Suadi's are our allies and we remain silent. We can criticize the Indonesians. Bolt raises no issue to the non response by Tony Abbott or Julie Bishop apparently happy to allow it to be a conscience vote. He does mention however mention foreign governments protesting why are we left out of his commentary?
All this cut and paste space filled that is quite a disjointed and meaningless collage until you come to the end. It was cobbled together so Bolt could say.
"I think Leavitt vastly exaggerates the ABC’s commitment to a “diversity of perspectives on climate change”"
However where in his cut and paste or in the Guardian does it mention that complaints were generated by named ABC staff? This blog according to Bolt's rules then remains unsourced. These days when Bolt runs a lot of "I think arguments" and it really boils down to the fact he rarely does. Think that is.
UPDATE
Link The Guardian and the Telegraph
Link Andrew Bolt...so totally unsourced
There is one thing that Bolt continuously goes on and on about and that's Yes but arguments. He says they are common to the ABC and the Left but not to the likes of staunch conservatives like himself. What does Bolt do here he runs a" yes but " argument against Saunders the victim in this case. "Yes Saunders has a horrific story to tell but" It's probably a lie according to some current academic theories. "Yes we must believe Saunders to be fair but" He is a wiley and experienced media campaigner and has been for years.
It's common practice in most organizations that if the CEO or any executive is accused of misconduct that they stand down until an investigation is completed. MPs do it as did Arthur Sinodinos and so do corporate executives and the police. It's common practice. Any number of character witnesses could argue against this action but it's neither the time nor the place for it to happen. Bolt on the other hand disagrees with the practice his" yes but I know George and respect him" number is supposed to exonerate Pell at this time.
As Bolt questions Saunders character lets question his. Why should we listen to him? Do we really have to reveal his history of convictions for use of loose facts, lies and defamation. Do we have to say show that rhetoric is his simply his tool of trade and truth often takes a back seat? I don't think so Bolt's reputation is well known and as such he's doing Pell no favours as a Quixotic defender.The sins of the ‘fathers': Catholic Church and Abbott Government on trial
I wont ask why Bolt bounces from the Arctic to the Antarctic obviously it makes sense to him but nobody else. The Arctic ice is thinner and is breaking up giving companies like Shell the chance to to drill where once the couldn't.
WHAT YOU WONT HEAR FROM BOLT THE QUESTION IS WHY???
Link The Herald Sun 2007 relevant to the max for Bolt who advocates against history.
"Should a judge publicly really take sides with an activist in a deeply
political war with a conservative government? Or should they, as I
always assumed, at least preserve a show of impartiality?"
"Judges are appointed by the executive government, without intervention by the existing judiciary.
Once appointed, judges have tenure and there are restrictions on their
removal from office. For example, a federal judge may not be removed
from office except by the Governor-General upon an address of both
Houses of Parliament for proved misbehavior."
Here's one for the books Judges shouldn't Judge according to Bolt known and named and shamed for his "sloppy journalism". Why are they there if not to make judgement? They have been appointed by government for that purpose with full regard for their abilities and character to do just that. Any criticism of the judges is criticism of our whole legal system.
Should constant complaing be heard from those in government or from their supporters the likes of Andrew Bolt they might care to suggest a completely new system of justice for Australia. Bolt has already been convicted of defaming a judge. What should the new system be Mr Bolt? Should Bolt be allowed to submit a list of those in the justice system he feels are inappropriate? I challenge him to make that list. There still exists even here in Australia laws that pertain to contempt of court. Would Bolt should challenge them please.Anything to stop the incessant Bolt whinging
" The best option for Australia might be judicial appointments commission like
that adopted in 2006 in Britain. Fairer and more open, it has produced
judges of high quality. A similar Australian body should be established
to consult widely in preparing a shortlist of names against clearly
defined criteria. The government would select the appointee. The
commission must include people other than lawyers, who should not have a
monopoly on who runs our courts. The method of selection must reflect
the fact judges serve the community at large."
Link The Age
Yet another fantasy that could be clearly labelled sloppy commentary by Bolt. He couldn't make the mud stick to his targets Turnbull and Bishop so in order to protect Morrison he's suggesting others are calling him out. Sorry it just adds up to deflection on the part of Bolt. However the point made how is it Abbott turned his back on democracy and stood up for trying to be crafty?
Link Paywall for Murdoch
Talk about Murdoch logic Panahi tells us how more Muslims have joined IS than the Australian army and it should be of "great concern" to us all. How does one make an idiotic generalization like this? I mean it's really moronic and defies logic.
1) There are about 500,000 Muslim Australians. 350 almost half Christian converts are IS sympathisers.
2) 600 Australian defense personal are currently in the Middle East and some 29,000 non Muslims are in the ADF. It's a predominantly Christian army.
3) Therefore Christians more than any other group in Australia are ready to fight.
4) So Australian Islam is a religion of Peace. Christians on the otherhand are the eager war mongers. The coalition of Christian forces have killed some 13,000 Muslims in this current action and have been involved 1.1 billion deaths since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Stupidity however reigns supreme in Newscorp
Link Paywall for Murdoch
Another blog that actually nails how it's better to focus on the past at the moment than than face the embarrassing reality. Bolt's blogs are about anything else than the reality of this government. Particularly when it comes to the erudite remarks of Tony Abbott our suppository of wisdom and his brilliant 24 second silence when interviewed on camera.
Link Paywall for Murdoch
"This is live baiting, banned and criminalised decades ago because of the extreme levels of cruelty"
So Andrew Bolt opposes the law only when it's a case of the ABC reporting it being broken. When the ABC reports on the cruelty of live baiting in the greyhound industry Bolt takes offence not at live baiting mind you but merely ABC's reporting of it. So we can assume Bolt supports bull fighting, fox hunting, dog fights and other such brutal bloodsports. Yet I bet if you go anywhere near his pet Dutch dog a less seemingly blaze advocate for the right to kill animals will appear.
However Bolt's target in this blog isn't even the ABC it's specifically Jonathan Green. Tony Abbott's new surveillance laws ensure your privacy from the cradle to the grave is now gone. Yet with as many leaks as there are today in government and government departments imagine the damage Bolt will be able to do for his masters. The " we are just collecting metadata " is total bull the fastest growing industry today is the harvesting of personal data for the hidden persuaders. It's highly tradeable and Newscorp hackers are ready buyers and collectors. Dirt is their trade.
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