Sunday 28 April 2019

Andrew Bolt's Blog,28/4/19; Swinburne, Melbourne, Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka; Lest we forget Yassmin; Chasing Chinese Votes; NRA Trump;






SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING: WILL THE NEW YORK TIMES BLAME ITSELF?

The New York times blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Democrat Gabrielle Giffords by a crazy man of the Left because her campaign had run a map with alleged "cross hairs" over Giffords' state. So does the Times now take responsibility for the shooting at a California synagogue just two days after it published an anti-Semitic cartoon?

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Here is Bolt accusing the NYT of what he's been regularly doing and on a much larger and intense scale for years raising the level of hatred of  Australian Muslims to a fever pitch after he saw how effective Alan Jones's call to war against the Lebanese was in Cronulla in 2005. The NYT ran a cartoon. Bolt has written and raised Caine against Muslims with hundreds no thousands of articles, radio commentaries, podcasts and TV editorials in what seems a concerted effort to create violence.  He was the voice of anti-Muslim sentiment for  Australia's largest media corporation. There is no equivalence between NYT's cartoon and Bolt, and he's accusing them of encouraging a specific hate crime.
Now in Sri Lanka, the family of a suicide bomber who helped kill 250 odd people and injure many more have pointed at Melbourne as the city in which Abdul Mahommed became radicalised. He spent 4 years as a student here at Swinburne. In a city where you can't escape Andrew Bolt's hate messages. Unlike Bolt's accusation of a single cartoon by the NYT might have been the cause of the shooting at the Californian Synagogue The Sri Lankan claim seems more likely as does the one about the Australian shooter in NZ particularly as Australia and Melbourne where Andrew Bolt exists as a version of anti- Islamic muzak.
 Is Bolt distracting and deflecting attention away from himself here by pointing at the NYT cartoon? Getting on the moral high ground won't save him. The level of anti- Islamic noise he's been involved in at the behest of News Corp, Sky News and 2 GB along with a chorus of others would make Melbourne seem the centre of radicalisation in the Southern hemisphere. They all ducked for cover however after Christchurch. Bolt was silent for three days coming out trying on Trump's equivalency defence of the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville that everybody is the same, and there's good and evil on both sides.
 Bolt's intent is radicalising and division no matter which side does something stupid as long as someone does erupt. So then it can be reported as evidence of fear and danger in the wider community, why? For the ultra-conservative political agenda that Abbott, Dutton and Morrison loved to create. News Corp's political, anti-Multicultural strategies are there to assist the ultra-conservative cabal of the IPA and the extreme right-wing of the LNP. They help the tail to wag the dog which has backfired. Have you noticed how Abbott has hardly been mentioned in any elections recently? Calling the NYT out is hardly the pot calling the kettle black  There isn't any equivalence or attention drawn away from what Andrew Bolt News Corp or Sky and what they did during Christchurch and for years before. They were being paid to stir the pot of hate and do it hard, and they did. Christchurch and SriLanka a consequence where Murdoch media's name is often raised now and will be associated with these events in years to come. Bolt can't escape that or his involvement in Islamophobia over the years. Bolt won't blame himself, will he? He won't even raise the issue of his responsibility but he will nevertheless point to others as a distraction.
Yet, it was Andrew Bolt who supported One Nation and condemned Al Jazeera capturing One Nation in the USA trying to raise money on the promise of softening our country's gun laws. How twisted is this man who will sell his soul for a few sheckles to support his and his masters ultra-conservative ideology. Bolt is closely connected to the IPA and works for News Corp and calls friens the most right-wing politicians like Tony Abbott we have who represent the most conservative elements in our Capitalist society.


One report has linked the Sri Lanka bomber Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed to terror recruiter Neil Prakash, pictured.


  Easter Sunday bomber radicalised in Australia, Sri Lanka PM suggests | World news | The Guardian 

The strength of News Corp Hatred and Religious vilification in Melbourne may just have radicalised the Sri Lankan suicide bomber. Will the AFP and National Security take a closer look at those that are known to publicly disparage Islam and Muslims? Does Andrew Bolt have anything to answer when it comes to spreading Islamophobia? (ODT)

Sri Lanka’s prime minister says investigators of Easter Sunday’s deadly string of suicide bombings are aware of “some militancy going on in Australia” and believe one of the attackers may have been radicalised while studying in the country.
Ranil Wickremesinghe told Guardian Australia that Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, who undertook a postgraduate degree at Melbourne’s Swinburne University in 2009 and left the country in 2013, appeared to have been influenced by extremist ideas during that period.
“That’s how the family feel,” Wickremesinghe said at his prime ministerial residence in Colombo. “We know there is some militancy going on in Australia among the Muslims. Australia has been out there fighting [in the war on terror].”

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The American Tragedy: Veteran Rams Hindu Family, thinking they were Muslims, in Sunnyvale

You won't hear this from Andrew Bolt a Christian thanking God not a Muslim for his terrorist opportunity


On Tuesday, he had plowed into 8 people in an intersection in Sunnyvale, California, particularly aiming at a South Asian family who he assumed to be Muslims. They weren’t. The names indicate that they are Americans of Indian Hindu heritage (a minority in the US of about 1 million people). The veteran has been charged with a hate crime and with 8 counts of attempted murder.
Witnesses say that after his crime he acted strangely, saying “Thank God for giving me this opportunity!” and “I love you, Jesus, I love you, Jesus.”


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The pen is mightier than a shoe or phone the violence more significant and in the case of the ultra-right more harmful. Both the voice of ISIS media and the sound of Andrew Bolt are evidence of this. They have hit their targets and have angered and radicalised people on both sides of the divide not matter which in the hope of making an impact of one sort or another to fuel hate and division in the communities they might reach. Throwing words to fuel violence and fear in communities where neither exists to promote division. They have been successful more than a phone. Bolt's also in the case of Israel lied and coloured stories to hide the violence that's being done. Why is it that what he fails to point out is just as evil because it's just as much a justification for crimes against humanity as what it is he is trying to accomplish. Sky News live broadcast of the Christchurch massacre is a perfect example of broadcasting to radicalise and do so for profit. 

 Shooting death: Gunman on the run as SES continues search for evidence

Shooting death: Gunman on the run as SES continues search for evidence




A gunman is still on the run, and emergency services are scouring a park in Melbourne's south-east more than 24 hours after a fatal shooting.

There has been a month of murder and mayhem and Bolt hasn't raised a comment. African and Muslims shot along with Caucasians, and Andrew Bolt is silent because there has been more crime and death committed by "his" frightened Australians than by his unwanted immigrants. Those he loves saying and asking "who let them in?". Unfortunately for these peaceful Muslims and African who aren't aren't regarded as equals by Andrew Bolt they remain as the unwanted Australians in his racist and ethnocentric mind.

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Lest We Forget Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Lest We Forget Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Two years ago Yassmin Abdel-Magied got herself into trouble for saying ‘Lest. We. Forget. (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine …’

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