Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 2/2/16; Jews under threat by Jews; Bolt denies that conservatives are lining up behind Donald Trump but even Rupert Murdoch is. Nick Cater on Economics he and Bolt make Fairfax glow; Deflection is Bolt's job and draws attention away from NewsCorps illegal investment in war; Using stats to misinform; Abbott doing the Rudd

 

 

 

Cruz: Staunchly Anti Abortion, Flip flopped on Immigration to be against Amnesty and Refugee intake, Carpet and saturation bombing  not opposed to war crimes, Dismantle Obamacare, Outright Climate Change denier, A+ rating with the NRA, and will ignore and change the ruling on the LGBT. Cruz is the GOP Tea Party favorite for Presidential Candidate.

" thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of 2010" Apart from Bernie Sanders and his supporters, Billionaires are running this race and haven't begun to throw their money around.  But while Cruz is Bolt's early pickn you can bet he's waiting to see who Murdoch will choose to go with.After Iowa, Both Parties Are Facing Hostile Takeovers |

 

 

 

A higher GST won’t be tax reform and won’t happen

Selling the Herald Sun

And with it a circular argument as to why there won't be a rise in GST or a cut in spending. The election  won't allow for it unless of course a party manages to get control of the Senate.

A turn around without slashing spending

  Billionaire Governor Taxed The Rich & Increased Minimum Wage: Look What Happened

 Politicians being politicians always merely have their eye on the next election never what's good for the country as a whole. Short term politics does not allow for long term goals. McCrann hasn't even managed to make that clear. The biggest promoter of the short term is and has been NewsCorp because it just sells the one side the more conservative the better. NewsCorp simply wants politicians and parties beholden to it never independent of it as  does business. However their interest is not in the quality of life but the size of their profit. Isn't it  strange that Australian politicians are next to the highest paid in the world, that always passes the Senate, yet they are among the worst. They make well over what politicians with 10 times the population make and with bigger budgets. Why is that? They certainly don't seem to be the best money managers that's for sure.Under Labour  and the GFC spending was 24% ratio to GDP. In 2 years Abbott took it to 25.9%. It was John Howard who made it begin to skyrocket trying to yes buy votes.Labor can win the next election on tax reform – 

 While there is Tony Abbott, there is hope for Labor

 

 

 

 

The Australian of the Year and the new tribalism

Bolt's selling the Herald Sun

"It’s a belief about individual responsibility for individual behaviour."
"It’s still the basis of our criminal law,"

Bolt's right it is the basis of our criminal law that at the end of the day and when it comes to sentencing makes room for mitigating pleas. Pleas based on human rights and extraordinary circumstances. However what have masculinity and patriarchy to do with racism? When you come to view reality as a historical and evolving social construct you come to clearly see today is neither inevitable nor the best of all possible worlds. Power, gender, and race are simply socially constructed and any notion of social equality and human rights is seen as an existential threat to those on the upper rungs of the power hierarchy. To actually speak up against the current social hierarchy whether indigenous, a woman or an advocate of human rights is for those in power to speak up against the "natural order of things" particularly when institutional change means major change to rid us of organized social disadvantage.

Bolt believes you need to be an activist today to win awards and not a conservative those were the days when owners of small businesses like Myers were knighted nobody noticed just how many people those "Sirs" stepped on and over to crawl their way to the top. The notion of self-made men is blurred as far as Bolt is concerned however he's the voice of regret that sees awards being handed out to what he regards as the wrong people like Adam Goodes

 

 

 

Labor stirring up Jew-hatred

The obsession with the politics of Israel is not an obsession with Jews. The only obsession with Jews in this country was when the Conservative clubs of Australia banned Jews as members. The ALP and the Communist Party of Australia became the natural political home for those jewish migrants arriving here. In fact Josh Frydenberg is only the second MP in the LNP to be Jewish.

The very notion of Jews stirring up Jew hatred must apply if Markson raises the issue of Israeli politics. However Stop asking whether Israel is Jewish or democratic The only question is whether Israel can still become a true democracy. What's surprising Markson was arrested for being a journalist in an area that was meant to be a state secret.  The hospital and medical support given to Syrian terrorists  by Israel. Terrorists we loudly claim to be our enemy the al-Nusra Front. The truth in Israel is  that equality and true democracy is an existential threat. It's not Jews that are a danger but the extreme right wing Israeli terrorists and the government of Israel itself.When equality is the biggest existential threat of all | 

Jews need no help in turning the tide against themselves when one of their own Israeli Rabbis puts out messages like this.  But you'd never hear this from Bolt.

  Israeli Rabbi Calls for Execution of Palestinians – International Middle East Media Center

 

 

 

 

 Trump is no conservative. Well, he wasn’t yesterday, anyway, and may not be tomorrow

" Mark Kenny of the Sydney Morning Herald claims Donald Trump is ”ultra-conservative”, confirming how little this political commentator knows about US politics or political philosophy."Bolt

Bolt  shows just how obtuse he in fact is because the Queen of ultra-conservatism in America Sarah Palin has endorsed Trump as the Republican Presidential Candidate. So according to Bolt she isn't a conservative either. Who is Ted Cruz? In the words of an ex Aus Liberal President John Elliot "pigs arse" GOP may be confused and divided but Trump is gaining support yes from the ultra-right tea party and that's not any left wing part of the party. Bolt's simply taking the most extreme Breitbart news line They  simply make it up. Their stories aren't true. Breitbart News Targets Wrong Michael Goldfarb For Criticizing Donald TrumpThey were caught out recently with yet another major blunder and ignored it. The only truth is that Trump can't be trusted. However the Ultra-Conservatives are lining up behind  him and so is Fox News who recently gave him free media space to the value of $1mill . Donald Trump & Fox News: Timeline Of A Relationship

The History Of Sarah Palin And Donald Trump's Mutual Admiration Society

 The Right-Wing Noise Machine Implodes Over Trump -- And The GOP Gets Burned

 

 Donald Trump prior to Iowa caucuses vote

UPDATE  

Cruz stuns Trump in race for US presidential nomination in Iowa

 

 

 

The ABC: on the side of the big-spending politician and activist

Bolt however is on the side  of the Corporate tax avoiders and the worlds largest illegal war mongers. Who when it all comes to be said and done  cost this country more out of pocket and left us holding the bag. Take for example the coal mines that are about to close leaving us high and dry with their clean up bills. The Bolt's of this world never talk about these costs but it's the wage earners of Australia that will pay. What has wasted  money in greater quantities than the creation of imaginary fear of terror and invasion and who more than Bolt and NewsCorp has sold it? The unnecessary  invasion that we had to currently join on the other side of the planet to save us is on it's way to being a $1 billion ++ cost. The increasing spend on internal social controls for some minor citizen activism isn't played up the activism is? What costs this country more corporate tax avoidance or a few citizen  welfare cheats? You don't have to be a CPA to do those the sums. 

Nick Cater is wrong the Government merely collects our money to pay for our ABC which is by law independent of government no matter the political flavor and it is the most trusted news source in this nation. 84% of us trust and support it. It would be amusing to suggest NewsCorp ,Terry McCrann and Andrew Bolt are the major sources of economic knowledge we have. Both are totally mentally vacant when it comes to   numbers and their interpretation Fairfax runs them raggard. Here is Cater saying not enough time has been devoted to economics on the ABC"So what does excite AM? A rough count of stories covered over the past three months shows Islamic terrorism is top of the list, although the broadcasters are reluctant to use the “I” word. The coverage is heavily spiced with cautionary tales about Islamophobia."  The ABC is diverse and he focusses AM.  Has anybody done a count on NewCorp's attention to economics? If they did they'd see it's no reasoned analysis, not by Bolt  that's for certain. Only one or two mentions a month when Terry has something to say and Andrew thinks he understands enough to give him a plug. Even more amusing when does Nick Cater do  deep  economics? Nick Cater seems to have been caught rummaging around for something to attack  the ABC with. It is strange maybe the ABC should cut those programs that have given and continue to give Cater the little media profile he in fact has over and above working for ultra conservative think tanks as a spin doctor.

 

 

 

Former Islamist warns: the Left is helping extremists against the moderates

Hello it's neither the left nor right that have been called out in helping ISIS it's the West and it's illegal invasion of Iraq, bombing of Libya  and now Syria that has been called out. In deposing of Saddam, Gadaffi and with great effort Assad the West has conducted illegal wars against despots. It is that  which created the political possibility of ISIS  not just to exist but to grow. Israel and it's supporters had been advocating the destruction of the secular pan Arabic states since the 80s out of fear that Arab nationalism was the greatest united danger to Israel and the American control of the worlds greatest energy resource oil. 

This is the most fundamental and economically political  fact that is hidden or ignored by the conservative press . It tries to distract us with cultural side shows claiming it's the uncivilzed treatment of women and gays that is the core for justifying the bombing and killing of 1.5 million Iraqis and assisting in the deaths of 250,000 Syrians, it's Islam why are they so aggressive?? Is it any wonder Bolt doesn't tell us of Rupert Murdoch's investment in Genie Oil illegally drilling in  the Golan Heights Israeli occupied territory of Syria. Or that Israel is secretly assisting in the downfall of Assad and prefers to help those we call terrorists rather than the Syrian government.

Here is Bolt trivializing the very nature  of why millions  Syrians and Iraqis are displaced or dead. These aren't cultural wars but fundamentally political,economic and territorial.

"Left activists claim Islam has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism. Gay activists have been silent about Islamist terror against gays. Feminists say next to nothing about Islam’s subjugation of women, or even defend or ape it."

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Americans keep their cool in warming scare

Bolt's Source The Daily Caller

What Bolt fails to say is The Daily Caller is a politically conservative[news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney,   

In Other words the Daily Caller is a propaganda sheet and not a source of news or independant comment Emissions Rise For First Time In A Decade, Australia Now ‘Comparable To China And India’  Bolt simply doesn't want to draw attention to the fact that our Tony's Direct Action plan has turned out to be a failure. So he's turned to the most pro fossil fuel spin he could find for the day and he found it in the Conservative funded Daily Caller. The trick he's playing  is saying that Americans don't rank warming as "the most" pressing issue facing them at the moment. That terrorism ranked higher. However when you consider Fox News and the Conservative media have the greatest coverage across America it's of little surprise because they have been promoting terror and and fear above warming as the most urgent issue. They are the political allies of the Republicans and even they know that climate denialism as an issue in the US is lost.

 

Bishop attacks Abbott to save Rudd. Have the Liberals gone mad?

Link The Australian Firewall

 "Bishop didn’t know? When even I had a fair idea?" The spin  this Rupert Murdoch favoured man Abbott gets from Bolt and the conservative press is self evident. Bolt sounds like a junior  a high school  cadet reporter on the student paper saying "believe me I know" it is  his only claim to truth.

However the reality is NewsCorp made out that Abbott was having private  and secret meetings with Obama, McCain and other  important figures in the US. Abbott's team weren't denying it. When in fact he just happened to be attending an open function as an also ran and happened to be in the same room  as 200++ others .A conference held in the US yearly. He didn't get a "special"invite at all and nobody could have given a rats if he was there or not. Abbott was doing the Rudd. However it was a great opportunity for a photo shoot and a NewsCorp beat up to which Andrew Bolt will gave full energy.

Remember when Abbott backed by Bolt cried out asking why the media weren't supporting Australia. Remember how Bolt used to decry  the"disloyalty"of the media classes for not hailing Abbott as the new Caesar. What's Bolt doing now to Julie Bishop and the Turnbull government? he's white-anting them .He's doing what he accused  the media of doing for over the past 2 years being disloyal to Australia. He's disparaging the LNP simply because Rupert Murdoch hates Malcolm Turnbull because Malcolm has stood independently of Rupert and that's bad for business. NewsCorp can't profit from just being an also ran media outlet.Tony Abbott’s ‘private dinner’ with Barack Obama actually a lunch attended by dozens. NewsCorp Spin & Abbott doing the Rudd

 Flag-bearing for conservatives won’t work for Tony Abbott

 

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