Saturday 16 February 2019

Andrew Bolt's Blog,16/2/19; Whacking the ABC and avoiding Sonia Kruger, Extreme climate destroying Cattle Industry and the GBR; Racism isn't colored;Scrotum face McCrann fighting for the Rich he calls the Economy; Abbott's freaked by reality;






Aerial photo of plume from Burdekin River inundating Old Reef, Stanley and Darley beyond on central Great Barrier Reef.
 The wash of pesticides and pollutants heading to the Barrier Reef due to the extreme floods and weather in Qld.

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Whacking moles by trivialising issues. No mention of the Qld cattle industry being decimated by 6-year drought and floods that have totally destroyed it. The floods that are threatening the Great Barrier Reef with pollutants. Bolt prefers to laugh instead. 500k cattle dead an estimated recovery time of a decade for an industry that we all are going to pay for and Bolt's laughing at the ABC. 
Sonia Kruger named Bolt as the foremost media person that framed her ideas when she vilified Australia's Muslim community. Defending herself at the UNHRC tribunal that found her guilty of vilification under the RDA, she named Andrew Bolt as her most significant influence. I don't think that has been reported on anything Bolt's associated with. So the question remains why hasn't he been charged? (ODT)











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Bolt's covering himself his banner certain, but his content remains a "maybe." "
"Police in Chicago have arrested two Nigerian brothers in connection with an alleged racist and homophobic attack on black actor Jussie Smollett last month."Bolt
The nub of the matter is Bolt pleads and shows his ignorance when it comes to Racism in declaring he's not a racist
Racism is colourless Australia is racist; its dominant culture is racist, and it's culture, and the internalised social psychology has been racist and drags down any institutional and behavioural efforts to change it. Racism refers to the long term, and increasing gap on all social metrics brought about by race alone. If Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price speak of Aborigines needing welfare they are racist of the kind that Bolt defends so hard. Charity cases requiring care rather than poverty case due to lack of opportunity reflecting the differential of power and hierarchy between races coupled with the assumed naturalness of that state of being.
Bolt so blinded by his own white superiority he tries to excuse it by pointing out this can't be a racist event because the perps might just have been Black and therefore couldn't have been Trump supporters, Homophobes, or racists. Suggesting Smollett's a liar, or he's the racist and whites are his victims.
Ignorance Andrew Bolt is no excuse. We heard you mocking the South Sudanese women for little more than their looks with your son on IPA radio December 2018
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 The Economy here is another word for the "rich" Labor will attack "Capital" something most working and productive Australians don't have and whose income hasn't or wealth has only increased some 2-3%  while their job security and benefits have been "clobbered". The banks and financial protection and debt creation sectors have hit them as hard as charging 22% interest ++ while the tax minimising and evasion industries and been fingered in the Panama Papers in 2016 for laundering and criminal tax evasion. Now there's a nice package for you McCrann is defending capital that dosh that sits and grows on the back of the work and productivity of Labor 90% of Aussies. That alone would want you to vote Labor, wouldn't it? Did you know the LNP promised transparency naming and shaming those evaders and 2 years later they and Treasury deny it?

"The three big ones are the franking credits clawback, the attack on negative gearing and the doubling of capital gains tax. But as they say in the ads, there’s more, much more."McCrann

Franking credits, on "self-managed", super well for a start only the wealthy are a statistically significant category in that group. They get the cash back from the government because their dead money went into companies that paid tax.  Negative gearing suits them as well because it minimises income tax of those that have too much when ordinary Australians don't. It's all protection for the wealthy getting wealthier that McCrann is arguing for. Sure it's a carrot for workers to invest in a second home finance sector is all about debt creation and risk.  Workers incomes are still rarely high enough to benefit from any negative gearing, and any downturn crushes the bejeezus out of them. Yet again McCrann's merely arguing for the rich, not the Economy.
Doubling Capital Gains tax is a no brainer for fairness when 90% of Australian workers don't have Capital. The restructuring of "fairness" to those that are productive from those that aren't would, in fact, boost the economy not shrink it. How many jobs does it take to sell a $500,000 tax-deductible Bently bought with the capital gains compared if half were taxed and put into Education or Health?
By the way the wealthy aren't putting that money into Fossil Fuels, it's nice to see, but their names can still be found in the Panama Papers about which nothing has been done. In 2015 the LNP government offered them an amnesty fancy that something else McCrann fails to mention.


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This year is the 50th anniversary of the jailing of Australian Clarrie O’Shea, Tramways Union (Victoria) State Secretary and Vice Chairman of Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist-Leninist.
It promoted a general strike and ended the penal powers used against unions at that time. One million workers stopped work under the slogan “Free Clarrie and repeal the penal powers”.
How diminished have the unions been since then? (ODT) 

Wren's week: Abbott's fantasy world, Wilson's corruption and Medevac

Wren's week: Abbott's fantasy world, Wilson's corruption and Medevac

 

First off, Tony Abbott. He’s a man rightly under pressure. Utterly incompetent as PM and, as time has progressed, he has lurched further and further to the fruit-loop Right. By all accounts, he has delivered very little for his Warringah electorate over the 25 years he’s spent in Parliament. His wealthy Northern Beaches electorate has been dominated by the aging blue-rinse and pearls set who were welded to the Liberal Party. That set has been slowly dying off though, and the demographics have changed.
Unfortunately for Tony, he hasn’t. Voters now want action on climate change, compassionate treatment of refugees and other more progressive initiatives. Suddenly, Abbott, by his own admission, is in the fight of his life against a well-funded quality independent Liberal candidate, Zali Steggall.

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall says Bolt in his gilded cage.
When you're syndicated by News Corp around Australia to the tune of 3++, mill people 27,000 sales of your book online and/or in stores amounts to a strike rate of less than 1% hardly a success for something that wasn't a 'book' in the first place but a collection of old crap in a cover. Whose Vanity has the mirror screaming failed failed failed failed? Given the list of authors Bolt has pointed to who had absolutely no such support as Bolt he looks the clown he is. It's always about access to resources, and all one can say about Andrew Bolt he has Murdoch and the IPA a privilege no authors have. Alone and on his own, he'd have no reach and be on the bottom of that ladder.
It must be noted. Bolt's also been promoted by Sonia Kruger as a significant influencer and enabler of her mindset to be vilifier of Muslims. I wonder whether her legal team will suggest her appealing this Tribunal outcome in the courts. Bolt's News Corp gilt-edged legal team folded after he was convicted. Bolt didn't blame them; he accused the judge Mordecai Bromberg of political bias for finding him guilty and had a massive dose of sulks. I believe it was because News Corp failed to waste more money trying to defending him.  With all that publicity less than 1% hit rate on book sales is pathetic.

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