Andrew Bolt's Blog 7/1/16; When death doesn't count; Bolt blames people like himself a descendant of migrants for increased crime. and yes he does have a conviction; Gayle or Dutton who is the main event?; The real Trade Unions; Corporate crime; Dick Smith's public theft; TPP the consolidation and legitimisation of of corporate crime;

 

Cole Miller And Trevor Duroux: Some One-Punch Deaths Are Good For Media Business, Some Not-So-Much 

2 dead only one was worth reporting.

 

 

 

Cologne attacks: mayor lambasted for telling women to keep men at arm's length

Cologne smells yes of a right wing anti- Asylum seeker beatup. In a world of CCTV and and mobile cameras that capture everything live in public places

" According to police and witnesses, the perpetrators were of North African and Arabic appearance, although neither the identity nor origin of any of them has so far been established."

" The government and local politicians have been at pains to point out there is no evidence that refugees were involved in the attacks. “There’s no evidence that we’re dealing here with people who are refugees,”"

About 1,000 men were gathered on the square in front of the city’s main station on Thursday night, although only a small number of them are believed to have been involved in the attacks.

 

 

Dear Uncle Malcolm, if you really respect women — SACK DUTTON NOW

Chris Gayle is just a sideshow a distraction to the main event that the conservatives want us to ignore Peter Dutton and Jamie Briggs. If Turnbull lets Dutton stay he's confirming the Liberal Party's sexism. 

However in a world in which social reality is framed by men and the class nature of that framework remains denied the majority of everything we do is sexist. Without acknowledging the historical class nature of that sexism one simply takes for granted that gender discrimination is a social and biological norm. Bolt's flattering of Mel Mclaughlin was just as sexist as Gayle's. The question surely should be why is Gayle getting the greater attention by the media? The uproar over sleazy sportsman Chris Gayle's harassment of TV reporter Mel McLaughlin highlights the double-standards of the Turnbull Government, says [...] 

 Peter Dutton is, to use his own words, more or less, a mad fucking wanker, writes John Passant.  

The female bosses destroying the image of ‘union thugs’ forever 

 What you don't find in the Murdoch MSM the reality of the Australian Union Movement


  A rise in female bosses like Ged Keaney and Caterina Cinnani means the face of the union movement now looks a lot more like Australia than the front bench

China's impossible trinity and America's reality check portend a rocky 2016

There is no "free market" when banks  are both lenders and sellers  and too big to go broke.

 Anyone who thinks Monday's share market meltdown might be a case of one-off new year jitters is likely to be in for an unpleasant surprise.

 

Dick Smith and the folly of gift cards (or 'unsecured creditor' cards)

 There's a Royal Commission into Union Corruption but Corporate Crime is regarded as a one off event.

 Let Dick Smith's woes be a lesson to us all. There's a good chance that when you buy a gift card, it will end up being only a gift for the retailer.

 

 

 

Corporate America increases pressure on U.S. Congress to speedily ratify TPP

Global consolidation of corporate control spells  the end of Democracy

 A flurry of big business endorsements appears aimed at building congressional momentum for the Trans-Pacific mega-deal. Sarah Lazare from Common Dreams [...] 

 

US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements