Andrew Bolt's Blog 17/3/17; Bolt's sour grapes; Andrew Bolt promoting himself without any links to facts; Disparaging Gillian Triggs;

 

 

HOLLAND MOVES RIGHT

The ABC spins the Dutch election result: "Voters in the Netherlands ... have turned their back on the anti-establishment populist candidate Geert Wilders." Really? Check the results.

Just how unconvincing is Bolt? The polls predicted a Hanson landslide the polls predicted a Wilders boil over win. Bolt predicted a huge win for both of them.

The result  Wilders didn't sound as if he won. He didn't  even suggest he'd accomplished what he'd hoped for. The Greens certainly did sound as if they won. The whole of Europe didn't seem to be declaring a Wilders won or that there was a massive swing to the right. Bolt actually sounds like he was a member of the Dutch Socialist Left who lost ground.  There wasn't any partying in the Bolt household.

As for the ABC they provided the feeling as well as the facts of the Dutch election they didn't spin it at all. The reflected the disappointment of the populist right who were poll front runners and performed surprisingly worse than expected. 

TURNBULL'S PLAN COSTS MORE POWER THAN IT ADDS

This claim about Malcolm Turnbull's $2 billion Snowy scheme is misleading: "Turnbull ... said the project will increase power output by 50 per cent."  In fact, using electricity to pump water up hill to make hydro electricity when it falls takes 20 per cent more power than it creates. It is an expensive battery. Wouldn't a generator be more useful?

  If Andrew Bolt proved to be as much an expert on Hyrdro Power as he does to be a predictor of the outcome of the Dutch Election we'd all be going to hell in a hand basket. Here we have Bolt commenting on Hydro Power while promoting his show and disparaging Turnbull at the same time. However Turnbull didn't create the energy crisis in as much as Tony Abbott ignored it for the sake of opposition to Julia Gillard. The crisis was a politically created one. How else can a country of 24mill with more power resources than the rest of the world be incapable of having sufficient energy? We don't get the royalties Norway gets. We squandered the savings made. We don't even collect the  taxes Japan gets for our gas. This isn't Turnbull's creation. We privatized on a promise of cheap power and were lied to. Now we rely on the promises of privateers working in the interests of only some Australians not all Australians and Bolt is talking technology. 

What is even more odd Bolt directs us to a link to Professor Blakers who writes nothing but a positive report on Hydro storage his article makes no mention of the negative effects Bolt's talking about. Is Bolt the expert on power as well as everything that moves. He's certainly silent on the failure of the populist right in Europe.

 The great gas robbery is happening before our eyes. But what can we do about it? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

GILLIAN TRIGGS AT BOB BROWN EVENT

What else can Gillian Triggs do to discredit the Human Rights Commission she leads? She has misled the Senate, persecuted innocent students, undermined free speech, led biased inquiries and now this: "Triggs ... [is] speaking at a fundraising event for former Greens leader Bob Brown." Resign now.

  "Liberal backbencher Eric Abetz said the event appeared to contravene the Public Service Code of Conduct..." Abetz   Of course Bolt would quote the man who also told us abortions lead to cancer. They are a pigeon pair if ever there is one.If Gillian Triggs even suggested that clean air was preferable to breathe than polluted these two would be on her to resign. Yes Abetz can give Australians medical advice contrary to all scientific research and be praised by Bolt for doing it especially if it meant the disparagement of Triggs.