Andrew Bolt's Blog,20/7/15; Bolt pleads for the poor rich; Beat the drums of war for Abbott's domestic sake; Abbott's assault on Slipper; Just a small mine according to Bolt, but an informed reply by a reader;

 

 

 

 

 

The kind of tolerance that makes citizens too terrified to speak

Doesn't Bolt exhaust himself defending Reclaim Australia and the UPF or find himself caught between a rock and a hard place when these groups members are singled out by police for their Jew hating sloganeering? Apparently not  anti- Antisemitism is fine  as long as it's coupled with the Islamophobic and anti Asian message. It's a total package of hate.  

More important is the numbers of people involved and the importance Bolt gives  to these extremists trying to get media  attention. It's just Bolt's chance to  sell the fear deny the justified reaction that racism causes whenever openly displayed. This isn't a matter of free speech but vilification of 3% of decent Australians. It's an action that promotes prejudice and  the discrimination that comes with it.

 

 

 

 

Column - If Bishop insists on charging for these rorts, she must go

Link Paywall to Herald -Sun

 "So where is Prime Minister Tony Abbott?" 

The Liberal Party has rapidly taken down Tony Abbott's response when Peter Slipper was accused I wonder why? Bolt never refers to it.  Transcript Of Abbott's Assault On Slipper Over Parly Expenses Removed From Liberal Party Website

 

Tony Abbott Doorstop: Peter Slipper MP
21/04/12
TONY ABBOTT:
The Speaker is the guardian of parliamentary standards. The Speakership is one of the most important offices in the Parliament. The Speaker is there to uphold the integrity of the Parliament and now we have very, very serious allegations against the incumbent Speaker, allegations of sexual harassment and allegations of potentially criminal misuse of entitlements. These are very serious allegations indeed. Yes, the Speaker is entitled to the presumption of innocence but he does have quite a lot of explaining to do.
It’s also very important that the Prime Minister act to ensure the integrity of the Parliament. The Speaker is only in that office because the Prime Minister used her numbers late last year to install him. The Prime Minister, to uphold the integrity of the Parliament, needs now to require the Speaker to step down until these matters are resolved.  It’s also incumbent upon the Australian Federal Police to swiftly investigate the potentially criminal allegations that have been made against the Speaker.
I can’t underestimate the seriousness of this. The Speaker is required to maintain parliamentary standards and yet there are now these extremely serious allegations against the Speaker himself. So in order to maintain the respect and the reputation of the Parliament, in order to preserve the integrity of the Government and our institutions, it is very important that the Prime Minister act swiftly to require the Speaker to step aside and it’s very important that the Australian Federal Police quickly investigate these matters so that they can be resolved as soon as is humanly possible.
QUESTION:
So these aren’t the first allegations against him. Should this have been dealt with a long time ago?
TONY ABBOTT:
Well these are matters that have been referred to a court. These are matters where legal documents have been lodged. These are matters that are now to be the subject of proceedings in court, so these are of a vastly more serious and substantial nature than anything that has been alleged against Mr Slipper in the past.
QUESTION:
After everything that’s been going on with Craig Thomson, I suppose the question is, you know, where to from here? Does she need to make a stand now?
TONY ABBOTT:
Well this does go to the integrity not just of the Parliament but of the Prime Minister and of the Government. The Prime Minister cannot wash her hands of this business the way she has tried to wash her hands of the allegations concerning Mr Thomson because Mr Slipper is no mere backbencher. Mr Slipper is the Speaker of the Parliament. Mr Slipper occupies a very, very important office. He is the guardian of the standards of the Parliament, the protector of the reputation of the Parliament and now there are these extremely serious allegations against him and that’s why the only proper way forward is for the Speaker to step aside while these allegations are being dealt with. If he doesn’t do so voluntarily, the Prime Minister should indicate that she will require him to step aside until these matters are resolved.
QUESTION:
Do you have any thoughts on who should take his place while the investigation is ongoing?
TONY ABBOTT:
Well, as a matter of ordinary parliamentary procedure, if the Speaker is unable to take the chair, the senior Deputy Speaker automatically would take the chair.
- See more at: https://newmatilda.com/2015/07/18/transcript-abbotts-assault-slipper-over-parly-expenses-removed-liberal-party-website#sthash.mUTmQzzr.dpuf

Tony Abbott Doorstop: Peter Slipper MP
21/04/12
TONY ABBOTT:
The Speaker is the guardian of parliamentary standards. The Speakership is one of the most important offices in the Parliament. The Speaker is there to uphold the integrity of the Parliament and now we have very, very serious allegations against the incumbent Speaker, allegations of sexual harassment and allegations of potentially criminal misuse of entitlements. These are very serious allegations indeed. Yes, the Speaker is entitled to the presumption of innocence but he does have quite a lot of explaining to do.
It’s also very important that the Prime Minister act to ensure the integrity of the Parliament. The Speaker is only in that office because the Prime Minister used her numbers late last year to install him. The Prime Minister, to uphold the integrity of the Parliament, needs now to require the Speaker to step down until these matters are resolved.  It’s also incumbent upon the Australian Federal Police to swiftly investigate the potentially criminal allegations that have been made against the Speaker.
I can’t underestimate the seriousness of this. The Speaker is required to maintain parliamentary standards and yet there are now these extremely serious allegations against the Speaker himself. So in order to maintain the respect and the reputation of the Parliament, in order to preserve the integrity of the Government and our institutions, it is very important that the Prime Minister act swiftly to require the Speaker to step aside and it’s very important that the Australian Federal Police quickly investigate these matters so that they can be resolved as soon as is humanly possible.
QUESTION:
So these aren’t the first allegations against him. Should this have been dealt with a long time ago?
TONY ABBOTT:
Well these are matters that have been referred to a court. These are matters where legal documents have been lodged. These are matters that are now to be the subject of proceedings in court, so these are of a vastly more serious and substantial nature than anything that has been alleged against Mr Slipper in the past.
QUESTION:
After everything that’s been going on with Craig Thomson, I suppose the question is, you know, where to from here? Does she need to make a stand now?
TONY ABBOTT:
Well this does go to the integrity not just of the Parliament but of the Prime Minister and of the Government. The Prime Minister cannot wash her hands of this business the way she has tried to wash her hands of the allegations concerning Mr Thomson because Mr Slipper is no mere backbencher. Mr Slipper is the Speaker of the Parliament. Mr Slipper occupies a very, very important office. He is the guardian of the standards of the Parliament, the protector of the reputation of the Parliament and now there are these extremely serious allegations against him and that’s why the only proper way forward is for the Speaker to step aside while these allegations are being dealt with. If he doesn’t do so voluntarily, the Prime Minister should indicate that she will require him to step aside until these matters are resolved.
QUESTION:
Do you have any thoughts on who should take his place while the investigation is ongoing?
TONY ABBOTT:
Well, as a matter of ordinary parliamentary procedure, if the Speaker is unable to take the chair, the senior Deputy Speaker automatically would take the chair.
- See more at: https://newmatilda.com/2015/07/18/transcript-abbotts-assault-slipper-over-parly-expenses-removed-liberal-party-website#sthash.mUTmQzzr.dpuf

Column - Mad campaign against a mine that will feed us

Link paywall to the Herald - Sun

" AUSTRALIANS have a crippling case of supermarket syndrome"Bolt

Bolt is  calling us stupid and ignorant against his greater wisdom. This once 18 year old uni failure calls the youth of today even more ignorant than he was. His case and point a " a medium-sized coal mine on the Liverpool Plains.". Given that the aquifier to Australia's largest water resource in our most fertile farmland has already been breached by mining only ignorants  could consider it happening again. Farmers and scientists are left out of Bolt's equation because he'd be then hard pressed calling them rabble. However the Aquafier is 70 meters deep and the proposed mine 300 meters.

A rare comment  printed by a reader of Bolt's blog

 Andrew, your continued support of the Shenhua Watermark open cut coal mine is both naiive and ignorant.  Your remarks on the Bolt Report yesterday showed a serious lack of scholarship and understanding of this issue and the coal seam gas industry which you also support.  Your claim yesterday that this proposed mine will not damage aquifers in the area is absurd.  The mine will be 300m deep and the aquifer is 70m below the top of the ridge.  Agriculture relies on water from aquifers and this mine will affect the aquifers as does CSG.  May I suggest you do some research before making any more comments.  May I also suggest that if this mine and others like it are approved, you switch from growing tulips to vegetables in your garden.  

And no, I am not a greenie or socialist or even a xenophobe.  I am simply sick and tired of the ignorance of most commentators on this matter.

Centaur of Regional NSW (Reply)
Mon 20 Jul 15 (08:32am)
 

Another flight Bishop will have to defend

Link paywall to the Herald - Sun 

Where is Tony Abbott the troops are restless?

There were two sets of protesters on the street. The media savaged the more peaceful

Link Bolt's blog and selected fan Unsourced

Bolt's more peaceful Reclaim Australia members caught in the act of throwing bottles at anti-Racists. Is this legal or attempted  GBH. Damn left media is so biased showing this photo.

Apparently wearing the Australian flag as a mask is a sign loyalty these days and if worn in a 7/11 one shouldn't feel afraid they're 'good ole boys'.

 Bolt's whinge against the left media is a bit ludicrous as The Age certainly gave the event no attention at all  today but then News Corp is everywhere as is Bolt. So serious was this event attention Bolt has given it was not really for Melbourne readers.

Could Bolt feel anymore comfortable in generating his media lie ."One side denounced the Islamic State that has beheaded civilians, murdered gays and raped women; the other tried to attack those worried by the danger." The side he's praising did nothing of the kind. They don't care about the Middle East it's an excuse to show their Antagonism to Islam in Australia, Antagonism to Halal Certification and yes Asian Immigration in general to Australia.  They want a return to the White Australia Policy and that is Racism.  The police removed 2 of these good people Bolt supports  off a bus in Melbourne because of their anti- Semitic slogans. Yes Bolt your team are Jew haters  and you the friend of the Jews condones them. Reading his complaint it seems  Bolt is a racist with a shrill meter.

 

Violent Christian mob attack Muslims doing Eid prayer in Indonesia’s Papua

 

More taxes, cries a Liberal leader

Link Murdoch's Paywall 

"this sounds too much like just another grab for even more taxes to underwrite massive social welfare spending, with the bill sent to the “rich” who already pay for most of the country’s spending:"

Bolt never addresses the widening income and wealth gaps that justify "billing the rich" The myth of the "trickle down " effect is just that an ideological myth. According to Bolt values like the equality health and welfare of Australian citizens are values we can ill afford. However Bolt's case the "we" are those that in the past 25 years have become exceedingly richer while the middle class has been shrinking and the poor and working poor growing. Remember Hockey's truth "the poor don't drive cars" Even Bolt's boss Rupert speaks out against the burgeoning wealth gap that threatens the undoing of  Corporate Capitalism's progress. Murdoch sees it as the biggest danger and advocates that the gap be reduced. However you wont hear that from Bolt

Saudis arrest 400 over Islamic State plot

Link The Australian & SMH

Bit of a stretch suggesting Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop have exclusive rights to the crystal ball of military strategy. Abbott said he was sending troops to the Middle East to  Degrade and Destroy ISIS and hinted it was going to be a simple exercise. Over a year later ISIS has not only survived our brave leaders onslaught of words and bombs but has survived in increasing numbers. 

ISIS and Abbott seem to be on the same page they both want to escalate the war for their own domestic reasons. They both want more coalition troops on the ground so that the Sunni tribes and Shiia militias might be encouraged to unite to remove the foreign invaders and the governments they support and ISIS wants to destroy. No matter what, ISIS wants to escalate this fight and take it to all Middle Eastern countries. In particular those countries currently ruled by Western supported autocrats which both Shiia and Sunnis oppose. Oppose not for religious reasons but the poverty and lack of opportunity they inflict on the majority of  Arabs and Persians alike. It's the underlying factor that unites them.

"The Islamic State really does threaten to be as big a danger as Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop say - and that many on the Left refuse to believe:"

Bolt is merely stating the obvious but trying to suggest Abbott has some special powers as leader. To date all Abbott's been doing has been using the Middle East conflict for his own domestic advantage. He has been dividing Australia as was suggested by Scott Morrison after the Cronulla Riots.

 The Left know as well as anybody what's going on except they are realists. That what's occurring is a peculiarly Middle Eastern rebellion and not a East West one however that narrative  suist the the common cause of Abbott and ISIS and is what Bolt is helping to promote. In a nutshell they are traitors  to Australians on and all. Islam: the ‘Open Civilisation’ confounds closed minds:

 Violent Christian mob attack Muslims doing Eid prayer in Indonesia’s Papua