Andrew Bolt's Blog,28/1/19; Australia stands out as unique. The only Nation without a treaty; Bolt certainly can't assist an intelligent electorate;

There’s a Better Battlefield for the War Against Trump’s Lies: the Courts

Trevor Aaronson — Jan. 27

The Truth-O-Meters aren't working. Instead, public interest groups are suing the Trump administration using the Information Quality Act.

There’s a Better Battlefield for the War Against Trump’s Lies: the Courts

Trevor Aaronson — Jan. 27

The Truth-O-Meters aren't working. Instead, public interest groups are suing the Trump administration using the Information Quality Act.

Tens of thousands take part in Invasion Day protests – in pictures

 

Politics

1. 'Time to act' on climate change: Olympian to take on Abbott for his seat

   
   Australia's most successful alpine skier, Zali Steggall, vows to be "a voice for the sensible centre" and accuses Tony Abbott of being set in his ways when it comes to climate change while announcing she will contest his Sydney seat of Warringah at the next federal election

 

It's up to an 'educated and intelligent electorate' to settle Abbott's fate

Abbott's challenger Steggall calls the former PM a 'handbrake on progress' 

 

ABC, The Drum

Ahead of its reveal today in Melbourne of its 2019 schedule, ABC TV has flagged a number of moves.
ABC current affairs panel show The Drum will move to a new timeslot on ABC TV in 2019 with an expanded format.
 The Drum will run for an hour from 6pm AEDT as a lively lead-in to the flagship ABC 7pm News, replayed at 7pm AEDT on the ABC News channel.

Julia Baird and Ellen Fanning will continue to share hosting duties during the week.

Patricia Karvelas has an expanded role from 4pm weekday afternoons on the ABC News channel. Karvelas will deliver viewers news-breaking interviews and analysis of politics and national affairs.

Jeremy Fernandez and Karina Carvalho will host the ABC News channel from 8pm to 9.45pm.

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NEW ETHNIC CRIME GANG IN SYDNEY

We're imported yet more ethnic crime gangs I hadn't noticed before: "The Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, described as the most ruthless and deadly in the world, has joined forces with the increasingly dangerous Nigerian crime network in Sydney to carry out large-scale drug importation."

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Organized Crime is as Multicultural and Multinational as the opportunities available to it as was once the Italian Mafia yet Bolt tends to make out it's "ethnically and often religiously specific". He tends to suggest and wants us to believe crime is cultural. His real intent is purely divisive bigoted and racist and a strategy for his Goebbelian conservative agenda. 
Back in the 80s, Amsterdam was the centre for manufacturing rave party drugs like MDA and shipping them around the world in a very organized fashion. Bolt wouldn't have been up in arms declaring it to be "ethnically and specifically Dutch". Yet he has done today accusing crime to be indicative of Indigenous Culture, African Culture, Islamic Culture but not White Christian Anglo Saxon Culture and highly organized. Unless of course its a trade union like the CFMEU.
 It tends to prove Bolt's an unbridled bigoted racist and ethnocentric little else. All crime deserving attention is racial. It's not an opportunistic activity and entrepreneurial opportunity provided differently to different groups by the very nature of our total social structure and to that extent organized. 
Historically at it's safest and with the greatest rewards, it's been conducted businessmen and governments via corruption and the use of just a pencil when the opportunities arose. Our current Royal Commission has revealed that. In the past, it was the Lebanese in the days of hash but that's vanished while the hash is still out there in Lebanon Morocco and Afghanistan. The CIA and Americans and Surfers did Buddha sticks in the 60s and 70s in during the Vietnam War. Anyone and everyone has a propensity for crime, the type is simply determined by the opportunity and our social structures. Today it's cyber growing and very multicultural. White collar corporate crime is the most costly and damaging in Australia. It's also the least policed and generally, the least reported by men like Bolt. It's in the control of the 1% those that Andrew Bolt sees as role models for the Australian way of life. How often have we seen Bolt's mate Abbott receive unwarranted cash and simply give it back? How many times has he gotten away with it? 

WEAPONISING CLAIMS OF SEX ABUSE: WOMAN LOSES CUSTODY

 Another reason not to assume an allegation is fact: "A mother has lost custody of her daughter for 'demonising’' the girl’s father as a sexually abusive 'monster'... Judge Norah Hartnett ruled that the girl had not been sexually abused by her father, as the mother was 'not a credible witness’'."

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PAYWALL 

Sensational and confusing banners are meant to draw people into subscribing to News Corp mastheads. What does Bolt's banner mean? 

Probably that men are victims of false claims by women according to Bolt who attempts to make out exceptions like this are the rule. Yes, the case is a reportable exception and it is reportable in as much it shows that the rule is, in fact, women tend to be the victims of abuse proved and not false.

VICTORIA NOW THE BIGGEST GREEN JOKE

COLUMN Victoria is now an even bigger joke than South Australia, becoming our second blackout state thanks to global warming madness.It sits on vast deposits of coal — enough for electricity for hundreds of years. Yet last Thursday and Friday it somehow managed to run out of electricity, just like some third-world country. Just like South Australia.

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Bolt takes advantage of Victoria's issues with the recent blackouts but makes no mention it's was due to the inability of coal-fired power to deal with the power surges due to the extreme heat. Reports show that even the best and most up to date coal-fired technologies can't cope. Bolt makes no mention of that inconvenient fact. A repetitive factless argument is there, yes to persuade us not to listen to analysed or investigated facts. Experts it seems, fail to attract the donors to the politics that runs the Murdochian business model "show me the money".

Power plant failure validates coal inefficiency

OOPS somebody has tripped and erased this inconvenient truth (ODT)
ONE OF AUSTRALIA”S newest and most efficient “supercritical” coal-fired power plants – CS Energy’s 750MW Kogan Creek Power Station on the Darling Downs in Queensland – tripped unexpectedly on the weekend, taking out 500MW of generation out of the mix for several hours on a hot Saturday afternoon.
Now, this is neither particularly unusual or even newsworthy, as Hugh Saddler has explained here, coal plants regularly “trip”, even the newest ones. And while inconvenient for the market operator and not great for wholesale prices, this rarely leads to customers losing power.
It does, however, go to the point that coal power – regularly and vigorously championed by the Federal Coalition as the only reliable source of “fair dinkum power” – is not necessarily all that reliable. Particularly not in the heat.

Coal

Germany to End its Coal Industry, Go Green, within 20 Years

Clean Energy Wire

ONLY WHITES ARE RACISTS IN THE MEDIA

Apparently only whites can be racist and misogynist. Here are three troubling new examples. First, when Aiia Maasarwe was murdered this month, there was much media talk of a toxic white male culture. But then police charged an Aboriginal man.

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1)  There is a toxic white male culture. Historically, Sociologically and Culturally it's shown to be true by countless research and factual evidence.
2) Clementine Ford repeats what has been found to be true above.
3) Women of colour are targeted at higher rates is Bolt's quote there is no evidence of that other than in the indigenous community which Bolt tells us is culturally specific. He wants to draw the conclusion yet again that an Aboriginal killed a Palestinian Israeli and therefore Clementine Ford is somehow racist?
Bolt is an idiot the majority of violence committed in Australia against women is committed by white men it's a fact it's true and it's a historical and sociological reality. There is consequently no reverse racism in addressing that general fact.

UN SAYS BOAT TURN-BACKS 'DON'T WORK'. BECAUSE THEY DO

Really?: "The UN refugee agency’s ­Indonesia chief, Thomas Vargas, [said] turn-back policies... to prevent boatloads of asylum-seekers reaching Australia 'just don’t work'." You need to understand the UN's definition of "work" is to let boats come: "rescuing them, bringing them to safety and then figuring out how best they can be helped".  

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 Given the numbers of "boat people" compared to the 300,000 people that come here have been relatively so small the turnback policy has merely been a political rather than a humanitarian strategy. We all know it to be what it is and both our governments should be ashamed. It's never been an invasion if so it's been one more by women and children than men. Calling asylum seekers "illegals" incarcerating them for more than 5 years watching many deaths and others driven mentally insane is hardly a cost-effective humanitarian approach to saving people.  Bringing them here rather than sending them back is more humanitarian in anybody's eyes and saves them from drowning too so what is Bolt on about.

FLANNERY BACKS ANTI-ABBOTT CANDIDATE. AND GETS JOB

STRANGE COINCIDENCE Uh oh: "Former world champion skiier Zali Steggall will place climate change at the centre of her campaign to seize the seat of Warringah from... Tony Abbott, naming... Professor Tim Flannery as a key supporter." Suspicious timing: the Australian Museum also gives Flannery a job. But didn't this alarmist predict the rains would never fill our dams?  

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Defending Abbott this will be a long blog I bet. Of course, it is but as for Warringah, IT's ABOUT TIME  and the prediction that it was going to happen not a dud. If one compares Bolt and Flannery as the specialists of prediction Bolt has over the past 20 odd years spent telling us the planet is cooling. That Abbott was going to strengthen our economy and be a world leader. In fact, he did the quickest reversal in our political history and we have been suffering ever since. Running Flannery down hasn't shown climate change deniers have won electoral support anywhere other than from their donors in the IPA which they then pour into Rupert Murdoch's business model which runs on gains at any cost. His failing print and other businesses are propped up by sport and overseas money while large are hardly stand alone given the LNPs latest candidate and Sky News personality was sponsored to the tune of $250k by none other than the LNP. Doesn't that necessitate asking who else is sponsored in that fashion?

As for Science, it's not about prediction alone it's constant testing that brings on progress unlike conservative lack thereof which is intent on keeping things as they are for the Fossil Fuel Lobby. Doing so Abbott has backed himself into a corner. He can't go any further backward nor can he go forward and is losing the mindset of his electorate which was 73% in favour of Marriage Equality and is in the majority demanding something be done about Climate Change. Here's an opportunity for Bolt to do what he promised to, invite James Matheson back to continue their discussion if he dares. Bolt cut Matheson short last time because he couldn't compete with intelligence. I'm sure Zali is as bright as Matheson too but then Bolt hasn't the audience has he so there is no reason to assist Bolt's image is there?