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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Andrew Bolt's Blog,29/8/18; A boatload of Au Pairs; Bolt's playing Academic; Trump the manner of the man; Cost of living; Ray Evans gave birth to Andrew Bolt;
Andrew Bolt is a bit of a limited thinker who seems to fear the studying or examining any subject from a perspective other than his own. He never completed the university experience but lectures us on it. He even lies in his Wikipedia CV telling us he has a University education. Fully equipped with no knowledge and such a limited and fixed outlook he could be considered a lunk, a dullard, a dolt, or simply a heavy stupid fellow. Example Bolt says "There is a cancer in our universities, where Western civilisation is trashed and dictators." Is it a sentence? If it is what does it mean? Well, it's a good start and indicator that he doesn't know what he's talking about and we all, however, understand where he's coming from.
Bolt seems to live in fear of just about all our cultural institutions. He sees no value in them as he believes they are all dominated by what he calls the cancer of the left or social aliens to his Australian way of life. Currently, our parliamentary Democracy must be cancerous too as the polls suggest it is also left-leaning as well 44/52. So Andrew Bolt's seems only satisfied in a nation where the right-wing view dominates. Where a single primary perspective rules and educators to teach it. Sounds like a dictatorship to me where individual freedom is non-existent. Bolt even knows who ought to lead us to his promised land and that's Tony Abbott.
A second reason Bolt's a dullard he has no childlike curiosity about learning, understanding or studying a topic. Questioning seems dangerous the only disciplines of value at a university are those that aren't really considered disciplines at all but are really areas of practical training Accounting, Engineering Medicine etc. Where its disciplines such as Humanities and Social Sciences that Bolt sees as cancerous as they encourage critical thinking and understanding from a variety of perspectives and encourage students to do their own evaluations of themselves and society. The notion of the Stolen Children an Indigenous history really disturbs Bolt's sense of self and seems like stranger danger to the ultra-conservatives.
Bolt says " Staff and students at Sydney University defending the North Korean dictatorship." What he does is substitutes the word "defending" in place of "studying". It's the very reason the ACT's National University was prepared to have a Western Civilisation Studies degree but not a Western Civilisations degree proposed by Tony Abbott.
It's quite clear Bolt's not interested in a broad church Liberal Party or society of any kind advocated as moderates or even conservatives like John Howard claim. His notion of education as simply singular minded training for all seems modelled on the Hitler youth movement that would ensure a continuous flow of a correct thinking new generation of Party members to govern the country with no doubt constant surveillance and re-education programs for those that strayed. From Fox News and Bolt's perspectives on everything
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): If I was taking her class, and
I took some women's studies courses in college because I wanted an easy
grade and they're so dumb it's not hard as long as you hate yourself.
JASON NICHOLS: That's absurd. Come to Maryland [University] and take one of those Women's Studies courses.
CARLSON: It's true, but let me be honest, if I stand up and I say,
you know, I am a man and how dare you attack all men on a
collective basis, how do you think I would do in her class?
[...]
NICHOLS: What is the judgement that she's making? She saying that patriarchy exists --
CARLSON: No.
NICHOLS: That women are oppressed by men, those things are true.
CARLSON: But not all women are oppressed by men. That's a lie. And
it's also a sign of mental illness to really believe that every woman is
oppressed by every man, that's like, demented. You need help if you
think that.
When cornered the escape route for conservatives tends to be " I didn't say "all" they did" and Bolt is a Fox News clone or is that clown Below are what Bolt might consider his preferred academics.
Here we have Trump echoing Bolt's sentiments on universities at Google and other search engines and threatening to do something regulatory about it
Trump has lashed out at tech companies, accusing Google and others of "suppressing" conservative voices and "hiding information" and good news. He cited no evidence for the claim, which echoes both his own attacks on the press and a conservative talking point.
This is the way conservatives and Donald Trump roll (ODT)
Informed Comment syndicates
select AFP pieces, and as I prepared this one for publication, the
difference between the reported Vietnam response to his death and […]
Truong Huy San, a prominent social critic, wrote on Facebook Sunday that
McCain’s personality helped Hanoi and Washington make amends, and said
that the country could learn from him.
“One man can only become a people’s hero when he has not just courage, but also talent and ethics.”
Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc wrote in the embassy’s condolence book. “But I think with that we had a chance to understand each other more
after the war, and you were the one that made a major contribution to
building up that link.”
Vietnam’s deputy prime minister Pham Binh Minh wrote that he hoped
McCain’s family could overcome the loss and described him as someone who
helped heal the “wounds of war”.
The Vietnam War killed an estimated 2.5 million northern Vietnamese
fighters, 58,000 American servicemen and some three million civilians
before its end in 1975, two years after McCain was released and sent
home.
You won't hear this from Andrew Bolt or Terry McCrann only that your whole cost of living is escalating due to electricity prices which isn't true. However, what is true it's created a nuisance of telephone calls from call companies trying to churn customers into different accounts. These churners are there for their profit and not the consumers benefit. Is it any wonder prices are going up along with the wasted time answering the calls encouraged by Conservative politics in this country based firmly on a scare campaign.
"I’ve heard of the gap between perception and reality, but this is ridiculous. According to the experts, increased competition among supermarkets, department stores and other retailers is holding down prices in a way we’ve rarely seen before. This fits with the consumer price index, which showed prices rising by just 2.1 per cent over the year to June. Over the past three years, the annual increase has averaged even less: 1.8 per cent." the reason many people are having trouble making ends meet is that their wages aren’t growing much either. We’re used to wages rising a bit faster than prices, but that hasn’t been happening for the past four years.
And I believe the internet increases the emphasis on price competition, rather than the emotive advertising and marketing big business prefers. Digital disruption is bad news for the workers in disrupted industries – including journos – but don’t let anyone delude you: it’s almost always good news for consumers."
IN HONOUR OF RAY
Ray Evans was a giant. He courageous in fighting for causes important to civilisation - reason, freedom, the dignity of the individual. He was a powerhouse behind the HR Nicholls Society, the Bennalong Society, The Samuel Griffiths Society and more.
With the H.R. Nicholls Society (industrial relations), the Samuel Griffith Society (constitutional issues), the Lavoisier Group (climate change), and the now-defunct Bennelong Society (indigenous affairs), Evans pioneered a new political form on the right in Australia: the single issue advocacy group. While think-tanks such as the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies, along with Quadrant magazine, have campaigned for the conservative cause on a variety of fronts, each of Evans’ groups identified a particular issue of concern, then single-mindedly used their political skills and connections to change the trajectory of the relevant debates.
Dog whistler Ray evens lunch should be a hoot for the SkyNews after dark crowd and their handful of followers. It's not something Andrew Bolt generally advertises unless of course, he's centre stage. Then it's really all about him and he will let the world know.
Descriptives for Evans and the HRN have been many " anti-union cohort"‘‘political troglodytes and economic lunatics’’ ‘‘the industrial relations branch of the Ku Klux Klan’’,Even John Howard, who devoted much of his political career to industrial relations reform along similar lines, found their agenda too radical and ‘‘politically unrealistic’’.
He described environmentalism as ‘‘a form of religious belief""denied the science of climate change" argued that self-determination policies from the 1970s onwards were a disaster for indigenous people, Evans argued that the High Court’s Mabo judgment ‘‘delegitimises the British settlement of Australia’’ and ‘‘brings into question the authority and legitimacy of the Australian nation and consequently of the High Court itself’’.
However with the advent of the rise of Tony Abbott Conservatives would like to believe his influence and ideas he once promoted, considered radical and controversial, are now standard among mainstream conservatives. Well yes if you regard the extreme fruit cake minority as representative but then they remain far from mainstream even today having witnessed the attempted coup by his followers. We can see the extremity of his views as un-Australian as exemplified by Andrew Bolt a media advocate. Evans influence on Aus politics might be regarded as profound by some but then so was Isil generally to these over reactors. It's now obvious the revivalist group Andrew Bolt belongs to.
Along with the 1.39 million Chinese that now visit Bali annually. It seems Bolt's friend's investment is about to sink and Bolt can't even be relied upon to tell the rapidly changing truth about Bali. That it's fast becoming a poor investment for the wealthy elite of the world and Australians are abandoning the place. I thought Bolt believed in the honesty of the Marketplace and not the need to pimp it up. He was very reluctant to go there and now he pimping it. Bali is facing change and no amount of elite manipulation will change that. The Balinese learnt that years ago when the Javanese took control of their island and now it's the European elites and businesses that can't manipulate that change to favour them. Particularly if they need Andrew Bolt's help. He can't even spell Denpasar.
It goes to show how isolated Bolt is no audience to speak of and so far Right that he's calling the majority of the Liberal Party Left. That must include Abbott whose said he'd stand behind Morrison. So if Bolt is as close to him as he claims he's calling him a liar. Actually, he's calling all Australia Left-Wing and saying he's integrated. If the Liberal Party consists of some 40,000 members and the majority of those Bolt calls left-wingers what's he talking about when he boasts of his Right that wouldn't lick Turnbull's boots will he lick Turnbull's man Morrison's like Tony? No, he won't lick anyone's boots apart from Rupert's, Gina's a very select few and a dead man Ray Evens's in a true sense a cabal. It seems there are more sympathisers for Isil than for Bolt among Australians than there are for this ingrate. He certainly has his back to the wall, hasn't he? Without Murdoch's Wall of Sound Bolt would simply disappear.
Boosting Peta Credlin, while whacking 13 other women "moles" seems to somehow suggest Abbott has done something more than just revenge in his personal vendetta. The battle has been a total loss for his party. Julia Banks is an intelligent woman who won the only seat for the Liberals in Victoria and Bolt gives her a beating which alone speaks for itself. No mention of the standover merchants that applied the thumb screws to get 43 signatures by playing liar's poker and threatening the women of the Party to join them. Bolt's joined them in a post-coup kicking, why? Simply because he can and wants declare that the Liberal Party's failure is deserved for not doing what the tail demanded. It shows Bolt doesn't believe in Abbott's call for peace at all and who better knows the man?
Peta Credlin far from being an example of a team player proved to be the very opposite and was a key instrument in Tony Abbott's downfall. What a Party the Liberals are they have forced Abbott onto Australia's First Peoples to "Educate" them. What a horrific thought he "educated" them when he was PM cut their budget by $ 0.5 Billion a lesson well learnt but forgotten or a cynical it seems by Morrison.
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