Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Andrew Bolt's blog,12/1/16; Not in Newscorp; David Bowie: Colarado increased revenue $60 mill in less tahna a year; Duttons politics and NZ; Wayne Swan's revenue advice; LNP spending cut action; World Bank and it's TPP review; China has become our everything so fast thanks to John Howard

 


Rupert Murdoch's engagement to Jerry Hall announced in the classifieds section of The Times
ABC Online - 3 hours ago
  Murdoch 84 was recently seen in the British courts doing an Alan Bond "I can't remember".
  1.78 mtrs proposes to 1.83 mtrs. High heels out for Jerry platforms in for Rup? He's 84 don't think so!
  Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will marry actress and former supermodel Jerry Hall, with the ...
 Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch

 

 

“As much as I love this country,” David Bowie says, “it’s probably one of the most racially intolerant in the world, well in line with South Africa.

 


Playing opera

Playing the violin while Rome burns

Bolt stands proud of his cultural differences from the majority of Australia but part of the diversity he decries but we allow and are proud of. He never considers the glorious music arts and other cultural influences we took in from the broad range of cultures within the Islamic tradition. He prefers to believe that it was the Protestant Ethic that gave rise to the myth of today's "free market" and the social relationships that it allows  for the best means of   distribution of wealth. Unions and big government are an anathema to natural process. This is accompanied by the myth of the charitable "trickle down" effect in order to prevent unnecessary disruption.

 However the market in reality has out grown any ethic  Bolt believes exists. The market in it's need to profit has rode roughshod over any practical ethics and self- reflection. Entertainment has taken over Saturday's and Sundays for profit and economic rationalism is the all round dominant ethic the " trickle down ' effect has been usurped by the  "trickle up" effect. Charities are non taxed businesses that pay their managers highly and their beneficiaries if at all anything. They are part of the deregulated "free market" that Bolt believes so much in.


However there is plenty of evidence that the notion of a "free market" today is a myth. But more surprisingly it  was in fact started by Mohamed and put into practice in Medina way before the Protestants thought of it. Imagine he began not only a religion but also the first non taxed truly "free market" on record. When neither Jews or Christians had one. The very core of Bolt's fantasy belief.  People could invest in the the ships of the desert Camel Trains long before they could ships at sea. Ther was nothing evil in risk and profit in Mohamed's time.However there were also ethical rules for the distribution of profit for public benefit and charity. Charging interest without responsibility or risk was forbidden. As far as Bolt is concerned there is little or nothing elite to be found in Islam.  You don't hear him wax lyrical about anything Islam. Isn't that the mind set of a vandal who just takes what he wants because he has the weapons for this short period in time?

 

 

The WorldPost

What Conservatives deny

 

 

 











Colorado’s New Marijuana Laws Bring In $60 Million In State Taxes In Less Than A Year








A Budget boom

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New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 offshore refugees a year never taken up

Why Peter Dutton?

 The Nauru detention centre from which 28 refugees have written to the NZ government seeking resettlement.

 

 

Wayne Swan: Tax avoidance impoverishes us all. Fighting it requires challenging the powerful 

Class Difference little is done

 

 

Disability pension tightening criticised

 Class difference a lot is done

 Disability support groups say the Federal Government's efforts to move people off the Disability Support Pension (DSP) are too tough.

 


TPP to barely benefit Australia

According to the world bank this is the truth

We stand to gain almost nothing from mega deal, first comprehensive economic analysis finds.

Signatories to the TPP include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam.

 

Panic, China fears spark $100b stocks wipeout

Whose money is this?

The Australian sharemarket plunges to two-and-a-half year low as doubts mount over China's economy.
 More than $100 billion in shareholder value has been torched on the ASX this year.


ASX is a slave to clumsy China


Elizabeth Knight When it comes to markets, China is like an over-sized child with enormous power.
 Elizabeth Knight.

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