Andrew Bolt's Blog, 9/9/15; Suddenly Bolt turns Climate Denialists into Scientists by calling them Sceptics easy isn't it; True Story; We are no longer a Secular Democracy; News Corp's 2 fundamentalist lies; Christians or nobody; CFMEU What ChAFTA is missing; Bolt's zealot's view of a drowning;

 

 

 

 

Icelanders are also offering to pay for the airfare of 11,000  refugees. Why Does Tony Abbott have to brag? We aren’t the biggest and the best!!!! We aren't Texas. There are only 330,000 Icelanders.

Jeb trumped

All with the help of Rupert Murdoch ,Trump and Fox News. However who  is the parasite and who is the Host?

Is this of concern to Democrats ????  Trump & Palin promoted on Fox

2016 Republican Presidential Nomination

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A chance to have sceptics rule the Climate Change Authority

Bolt's excited. Maybe Dr Lomborg might be appointed to head the CCA. 5 Vacancies provide the opportunity for LNP political management. Will 5 Global science experts be appointed? I hardly think so.  Bernie Fraser quits Climate Change Authority after difficulties with Hunt

 

 

 

 

Are three quarters of refugees usually men?

No maybe the fact that the figures only show arrivals by sea has skewed those figures.   Syria’s refugee crisis in numbers

 10 truths about Europe's migrant crisis - The Guardian

Fewer Syrians and Iraqis are in fact coming across the Mediteranean. More are traveling overland. The fact is neither Bolt nor anyone in Australia can make a studied analysis better than those who are in EU and front line. These registrations still need processing.

The fact remains that Australia's budget is twice that of the UN's putting refugees in detention and resettlement in Cambodia than the UN spends on care 

 

Trying to follow what is going on in Syria and why? This comic will get you there in 5 minutes.

 

Icelanders are also offering to pay for the airfare of the refugees. Why Does Tony Abbott have to brag? We aren’t the biggest and the best!!!! There are only 330,000 Icelanders.

 

 

 

The best help is help that works best

Links the ABC, SMH

If the Titanic were going down Bolt's call to the lifeboats would be Christians first and not anything else. It would be the end of the separation of Church and State as we know it. We would be deemed a Christian and not a Secular Democracy. Maybe Bolt and his kind would have it in the constitution. It then opens up the door to later make it  a Protestant  State.

 So the UN would no longer select people according to need but according to faith first and  you would have to have the documents to prove it?  Desperation would only be of secondary importance, and you can jump the cue thank you very much. Only the true god faring "elected" wanted.

" But have politicians of the Left learned from that mistake? Or are they so obsessed with seeming good that they will expose future Australians to harm?"

Italians, Jugoslavs, Jews,Vietnamese,even the poms felt the sharp sting of being called wogs and not good enough when they first arrived. However never the sting and  disparagement that Bolt hands out to the Lebanese half of who by the way are Christians.

" But there are already more refugees than we can possibly help, so choices must be made - as they always have been."

What Bolt fails to distinguish is the difference between immigration and "humanitarian aid" when "according to need" is the main priority for selection. Bolt  distorts facts and situations to fit his  anti-Muslim scheme of things. He searches the English speaking media for reports of criminal acts in western countries no matter how few as long as they are committed by a Mulsim or someone who can be assumed Muslim practicing or not to use  as  evidence  to blame the faith for that criminal activity. Politics, socio economic circumstances, gang culture  insanity are all shoved aside to claim Islam as the true culprit. Bolt the self claimed non racist non tribalist rationalist  presents us at our worst. He presents the Australian Character in the worst possible way and loves it. Why not for any justifable principle but for a political side.

 Abbott went kicking and screaming

Australia to accept 12,000 refugees

 Read This Before the Media Uses a Drowned Refugee Boy to Start Another War

Icelanders are also offering to pay for the airfare of the refugees. Why Does Tony Abbott have to brag? We aren’t the biggest and the best!!!! There are only 330,000 Icelanders.

 

 

Compassion bingo: we have a new winner

Links News Corp Miranda Devine Troll Peter BH

"Why this insane desire to see Australia as evil, when it’s in fact the most generous:"

" For the same reason there is this horror in the Left of bringing in only Christian refugees from Syria - Christians like those terrible people who founded modern Australia."

There are two fundamental lies here. Firstly the ALP is not against Christian refugees but recognizes as a secular state we signed and agreement asking the UN not to selectively cherry pick refugees on the basis of their faith but on need. The UN picks the most desperate cases on the basis of need. If they happens to be Christian because they are the most persecuted then  Christians will be first in line. Why start making things harder for ourselves and the UN because you want the prettiest of single women or only those that speak English. It becomes a Clayton's humanitarian offer. ISIS does that.

  The second lie is a simple fact check.The stats show Australia is not the most generous of countries on the planet as Abbott claimed. Why say it when it's simply not true. As an OECD member it lags in the middle of the pack. Even on Tony Abbott's statistical measures it's not top of the pack. Under the circumstances lying with statistics is morally corrupt. In fact it's  reprehensible at all levels.

 

"Seventeen government MPs spoke during the party room meeting, with most urging Mr Abbott to recognise that Australians have softened and were now inclined to do more for refugees than in the past.
One MP said the mood in the room was mostly positive, with MPs urging Mr Abbott to ignore calls for piecemeal action or to restrict the intake by such means as accepting Christians only.
Yet others said the government should restrict any special intake to women and children, with the underlying message being "no more Muslim men".
Before the meeting, conservative firebrand Liberal senator Cory Bernardi angered many by questioning the refugee bona fides of the family of the drowned Syrian toddler whose image has gone around the world."
 Icelanders are also offering to pay for the airfare of the refugees. Why Does Tony Abbott have to brag? We aren’t the biggest and the best!!!! There are only 330,000 Icelanders.

 

 

Take in Syrians - or else

Links, The Age, News Corp paywall,

What a shit stirrer Andrew Bolt is. There are two separate issues here what effect bombing in Syria will have and the intake of more refugees.

1 Bombing in Syria does not guarantee the absence further civilian deaths which may or may not have consequences domestically. There is no guarantees that people wont be angered. We interned Australian Japanese and Germans during WW2. and didn't trust them as Australians As minorities they were persecuted post WW2 by good old Aussies through to the 60s. Bolt's carrying that same bigotry against other Australians  only because of their faith. All for the sake of boosting Abbott's standing in ratings 45: 55

2 As for refugees and how they are chosen isn't Australia's choice we signed an International agreement. The UN selects those most in need not by Faith. If it happens that  Christians, Yazidis and Mandaeans are the most persecuted then they will be at the head of the line and among the majority to come.  Abbott railed against queue jumpers and now Andrew Bolt is promoting it. However if Australia is a secular nation it ought to reflect that and not have  a selective refugee program as Tony Abbott is advocating. A program against the spirit of the UN that goes against the notion of universal human rights and is simply divisive. If Bolt supports that he's throwing all principles out the window. Furthermore it's simply dysfuntional UN hasn't time to cherry pick among the desperate. 

 Why people are fleeing Syria: a brief, simple explanation – Vox

 Icelanders are also offering to pay for the airfare of the refugees. Why Does Tony Abbott have to brag? We aren’t the biggest and the best!!!! There are only 330,000 Icelanders.

 

 

How Shorten sells CFMEU trash

The Chinese Mega- Dairies are allowed to import Chinese workers unskilled tested and without offering Australians jobs why? Don't Australians know anything about dairy products? What happened to those Australians who were incorporated into these conglomerates? Do they still have jobs? Specific cases just might clarify matters rather than just the generalised political polemics we hear fro Bolt and the LNP.

Seven Eleven have been screwing 457 visa holders for years illegally will the Chinese be allowed to do it legally now?

  There's no requirement that Australians get job offers first in these dairies.

  There's no requirement for any sort of skills testing on some 10+ occupations

The ALP and the Unions aren't against ChAFTA but ChAFTA is incomplete on these matters. Just a "trust us " it's all ok.

 

 

 

The truth doesn’t count in this refugee debate

Links Michelle Grattan, news .com .au , Advertorial Bolt Report

There is only one truth as far as Andrew Bolt is concerned and that's the Bolt truth. He rants against Left tribalism whatever that means. Basically it encompasses anyone that disagrees with him. Yet he supports Israel and talks of principles and not sides. How tribal is that?  Obviously "do unto others as you'd want others to do unto you" is not a principle he holds nor  the universal dignity of man or rights.  His extreme right wing Conservative stance just ignores these principles. he sides with others that do so as well. Isn't that choosing sides. 

Bolt's defense of his idiotic argument about the primary motive that caused Aylan's drowning was his need for a dentist shows and proves his pedantic need to find some sort of moral high ground by disparaging a tragedy and pretending it to be something otherwise. Bolt found his answer in the words of a grieving sister in Canada who if she said they were as poor as church mice would have had Bolt calling them economic refugees. He did so in a less than novel way saying they needed a dentist. There are dentists in Turkey Bolt. European trained dentists in Turkey who are cheaper than in Europe. To try that as a deflection really shows up your IQ and manipulation of the horror

The fact was the Kurdi family was skint had just seen their only wealth destroyed in Kobani and  were persecuted as an unwanted minority in Turkey is totally ignored by Bolt and Bernardi who simply have no shame when it comes to trying to win political points. The Kurdis  were a paperless family not out of choice but because they were Kurds. As such unrecognized by any sovereign state as " registered refugees". Relatives in Canada sent them money not for teeth but to get to Europe in the hope of getting to Canada. 

Bolt simply can't admit that because if he does the inherent stupidity of blinkered story and argument simply falls apart. His world view as is Bernardi's is "god's will be done" for we are the chosen and shouldn't really interfere.. He argues the same with Climate Change. In fact this line of thought fuels his irrational anti-humanist conservative stance that makes him believe he's one of god's chosen, one of the elect. Bolt says he's agnostic yet when his lips move he's a zealot as much a zealot as any fundamentalist.

 Icelanders are also offering to pay for the airfare of the refugees. Why Does Tony Abbott have to brag? We aren’t the biggest and the best!!!! There are only 330,000 Icelanders.