RED TOO WHITE FOR ABC. BUT NOW LOOK
Column This week’s radio ratings confirm identity politics drives even ABC audiences mad. Last year the ABC dumped former Skyhooks star Red Symons for being a white male. The white bloke with an Australian accent was replaced by a brown one with a thick Pakistani accent and by a woman. Now check the ratings.
No Joke: Capitalism, Australian Identity and The Threat to Unity - New Matilda
A most essential read for understanding the Australian context by Mike Dawson and his diametrically opposite non thinker Andrew Bolt
"So here we are, with our parliament in stalemate, wavering at the crossroads. One of the two paths leads out of the jungle. The other is a dead end. That’s where all the screeching is coming from. The kings of the jungle don’t want us to leave. They like it here.
The rest of us need to decide. Because the jungle is not going to civilise itself."
Capitalism
"It’s a parasite, the ancient pathogen of rent-seeking. No need for invention or contribution. Just identify something lots of people depend on. Housing, utilities, jobs, transportation, health, education, credit. Then give your support to politicians who will help you extract a premium for nothing.
We carry this sickness in our body politic. When it flares up, it turns back the clock on the lives of ordinary people, as it is doing today. And it invites us, through spurious mythologies of origin and identity, to forget about the “fair go” and compete in a race that’s stacked against us.
Yes, Australia is still a benign place to live compared to much of the world. But the point is that’s changing. We’re slipping fast, down in the economic expectations of the IMF, down the OECD rankings for health, education and social security, and down the international indices of wellbeing."
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Yesterday and the day before Andrew Bolt was on a dedicated witch hunt. He wasn't after a single child molester but entire cultures he claims supports them " the Nigga Culture" in his mind that we call Indigenous Australia. He then moved to the other side of the planet the UK to take his blunt racist club to his child molesting Muslim Culture. Never once for a moment did Bolt consider the sexual molestation of his own precious White Christian communities and how rampant and organized it was. Organizations both religious and secular groomed children for sex at a greater rate than any others and the male patriarchy that allowed men to feel free to treat women and children as they wished.
Bolt remained silent on Melbourne's mayor Robert Doyle but defends George Pell when Catholics inside the Church, in general, were well aware of the molestation and black practices that occurred within the church.
Pell, it's Australian leader and a member for 60 years pleads not guilty and ignorance even as an enabling accessory to these dirty deeds. Bolt nevertheless defends Pell how? By shaming the victims why? It's simple for a single purpose the defence of Pell sells papers while the defence of Mayor Robert Doyle doesn't. Media practice according to Bolt is the money, not the truth. The reporting doesn't attract as wide and as ready an audience as defending Pell. Pell who yes might be personally innocent of molestation but throughout his 60 year time served in the church to maintain ignorance and silence shows him to be an enabler. The silence practised commonly throughout the churches history allowed it to flourish. Bolt might as well have stood up and said the police never took bribes and its leadership was innocent because they were entitled to claim ignorance.
Bolt protects Pell and his method is typical of his social psychology "slut bash" the victims. It's the way of our court defence system our pay for PR system the adversarial nature of our justice system. It's not the search for truth but the battle to win or lose. No mention by Bolt what the church lawyers did to those who proved to be victims all those actions were also overseen by Pell and accepted as necessary tactics in defence of Mother Church. The Sargent Schultz defence doesn't hold water I'm afraid that's why Pell is in court.
BILL SHORTEN'S FIGHTBACK
Bill Shorten's huge tax grab on dividend income risk's being his version of John Hewson's infamous Fightback: a bold policy document that gives the other side lots of ammunition. Hewson was destroyed by Paul Keating - but is Malcolm Turnbull a Keating? These side-by-side blurbs by two fine analysts on The Australian put the contest well.
One thing you notice when Bolt opens his mouth he doesn't define who the winners and losers actually are. Not like the Finance Minister Corman who claims the ALP's policy is driven by envy. It's quite logical isn't it that 90 % of the Australian population receive less than nothing from the share of Australia's increased GDP. The fairer redistribution of wealth is not envy. Bolt doesn't do quite the job Corman does dancing like Rumpelstiltskin on the productive Labour of this country yelling "you're just jealous"
Bolt going back to 2001 shows just ho back to the future he wants to be. Times change standards change only Bolt doesn't. He's no snag. Blair and Bolt Bevis and Butthead the team that thinks it's funny mocking women. Notice Bolt's silence on our ex-Lord Mayor and ex-Liberal leader.
TRUMP AN ANGEL COMPARED TO XI, PUTIN
Column Ddonald Trump has fired his secretary of state and again we’re told to panic. “Trump is on a dangerous path,” trembles The Guardian. But the hatred of Trump that transfixes the elites blinds many to the superpower leaders who menace us most. As the past two weeks confirm, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China make Trump seem an angel.
Is Bolt repeating yesterday or changed something? No not at all Trump whose fired 40 members of his Whitehouse Staff has left the White House in a shambles and Bolt the Murdoch apologist down under claims Trumps an angel when compared with the Murdoch attacks on Putin and Xi. Guess they believe Trump's silence is being diplomatic and his praising of Putin and Xi clever. He's even praising Little Rocket Boy now. Bolt hasn't touched Trump's history of chaos that according to Fox News is Fake News and the only Real News is Fox.
TERRORISTS WIN AT THE MCG
We were told we wouldn't let terrorists change the way we live. They lied: "Cars will be locked out of the MCG precinct for AFL blockbusters and other major sports events this year, due to fears of terrorist attacks. No public parking will be available outside the ground in Yarra Park for marquee matches including next week’s season opener."
RUSSIAN SPIES KICKED OUT
A new Cold War: "Russia has vowed to strike back after Britain moved to banish 23 Russian spooks... [British Prime Minister Theresa May] said Russia had shown 'contempt and defiance' in the aftermath of an attempt to kill ex-spy Sergei Skripal and warned that the poisoning represented 'the unlawful use of force by Russia'."
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