Andrew Bolt's Blog,8/5/19; United after 28 years; Abbott's Truth; Yassmin and white Australia; Bolt repeats

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So the other night Justin Hemmes kindly held a fundraiser for ScoMo and the LNP at his mansion in Vaucluse.
Tell us again how cutting penalty rates is good for ''The Economy'' as opposed to ''My rich donor mates I owe a lot of favours to ''.
Photo credit: Australian Unions

Hawke and Keating reunite for the first time in 28 years to back Labor's plan

The two former Labor leaders last shared a platform on the same day in 1991, when Mr Keating resigned as treasurer to challenge Mr Hawke for the prime ministership.

• by Peter Hartcher

Tony Abbott bet me $100 the climate will not change in 10 years

 

Ms Abdel-Magied was hounded out of the country. 

Not afraid of 'getting Yassmin-ed'? You're probably white

By Sami Shah for Earshot Tue at 6:00am

Not all Australians have the same access to free speech. Don't believe me? Just look at what happened to Yassmin Abdel-Magied. And Adam Goodes. And Yumi Stynes. And, probably one day, to me, writes Sami Shah

Most people of colour working in Australian media understand that term. And almost all of us know it's only a matter of time before it happens to us.
Getting Yassmin-ed is that visceral experience of discovering that access to free speech is not equally divided amongst all Australians, and the consequences of transgression are more severe for some than others.
If you still don't know what it means, here's some context.
On Anzac Day two years ago, a young Sudanese-Australian mechanical engineer, broadcaster and writer, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, put up a seven-word Facebook post: "LEST. WE. FORGET. Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine."
And — despite the fact that she amended the words and quickly apologised — Australia lost its collective mind.

FRAN KELLY PUSHES FAKE NEWS ON 'DROWNING KIRIBATI'

How often does ABC warming crusader Fran Kelly need to be told the truth before she admits it? Today she again interviews a former president of Kiribati on Radio National Breakfast about the danger of global warming - and again falsely claims Kiribati is drowning. The science says the opposite. Is Kelly ignorant or deliberately hiding the truth?

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Repetition, repetition, repetition, Bolt's lazy way of debating climate change. He also repeated for over a decade the same deniers mantra that the planet was cooling because Roy Spencer said so. He's gone silent on that issue but never once said he was wrong.

Bolt keeps pushing research by NZ Professor Kench on Kiribati as if people from Kiribati face a false problem which is, in fact, a warming deniers false flag, simplistic and incomplete in its assumptions as Dr Kench explained. His research which was based on the historical data of the past 40 years and not on current evidence which in all possibilities has and will change again in the next 40. Kench certainly doesn't say that the changes will or make the islands more livable but merely better adaptable. In fact, he wasn't prepared to support what Andrew Bolt insists is fact, that land growth and livability are in any way connected, but dislocation is a more likely outcome. 

Bolt, we must remind ourselves of, insisted the planet was cooling and had not been warming since1998, and he has never said he was wrong. However, he has since admitted at odd moments it has really been warming. One only ever gets the sense that Bolt 1) doesn't know what he's talking about and 2) is cherry-picking data to run an argument that suits him and is totally out of sync with, the global research and the discipline of Climate Science. One fact is real that it's easy to find scientists, not specialists mind you, in the field to deny what 97% of science agrees upon. What is ensured that dissident minority get more publicity than the majority? It was a tactic employed by Big Tobacco and readily taken up by private media like News Corp for the sole purpose of profit.

Fran Kelly isn't ignorant in the slightest she's not even judgemental like Bolt who actually once sold himself as a world authority on Climate Science in a book published by the IPA. Bolt by the way we are told is a high school graduate who never majored in the sciences that's how fanciful he in fact is. Island growth as Kench says does not in any way mitigate the future problems the nation's peoples face. 

" The pursuit of this and other alternate adaptation pathways does not negate the need to still vigorously support ongoing mitigation action to curtail future sea level impacts and climatic changes on small island nations or to undertake robust efforts to better define the constraints and thresholds of habitability (such as water resources and food supply) on atoll islands. These collective efforts provide a more optimistic set of approaches to adaptation, which support the rights of atoll people to dignified lives and autonomy for future generations and maintaining the sovereignty of atoll nations." 

THE WOMAN WHO EGGED PM IS A GREEN? SHOCKED FACE

VIDEO The woman who attacked the prime minister turns out to be a Greens supporter. Big surprise. Didn't I warn Greens leader Richard Di Natale of the hatred he was whipping up? My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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Andrew Bolt has been inciting Islamophobia in Australia for over a decade resulting in the biggest mass shooting of Muslims in the Southern hemisphere. Bolt has raised anti- Muslim sentiment to record levels above that which exists in the EU, and here he is declaring egg throwing and act violence brought on by Robert di Natale. After Barcelona Bolt incited Christians to fight back with the conviction the young terrorists had. He even said he admired their strength of belief and wished Christians were the same.  Bolt ducked for cover and has since been running the Trump defence of equivalence that there is good an bad on both sides. I think shooting 51 Muslims in a mosque is somewhat different from throwing an egg.

HOW TO VOTE FOR JIM MOLAN - AND PLEASE DO

Senator Jim Molan is a great Australian who offended the Liberal faction bosses in NSW by challenging their power. They've dumped him to an unwinnable position on the Senate ticket for NSW. But Molan explains on The Bolt Report how with people power he can still beat these factional hacks. Watch and act.

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Seems Bolt's blog is in deep shit his link doesn't function or it does like Molan and the LNP
If the Liberal Party don't want you to vote for Molan and remains so factionally divided after 6 years, and the ALP so united why vote Liberal at all? Bolt says vote for Molan a good man who publicly supported Nazis in Britain because he didn't know who they were?  They nevertheless certainly sounded the sort of people he thought he ought to support and Bolt all for that as well.

 

 

I UNDERSTAND SHORTEN'S ANGER

Bill Shorten is livid about the Daily Telegraph's front page today. Despite being a Telegraph columnist, I must say this: Shorten spoke truly when he said his mother sacrificed her dream to be a lawyer, taking up teaching to help her siblings. There is no invention here. That she decades later realised her dream does not negate that sacrifice.  

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Notice Bolt doesn't actually say what was so wrong with the Daily Telegraph's front page. He merely changes the words a little like the obit writer he still is. He says "despite being a DT writer" he has to say this which suggests he's somehow broken the Murdochian leash which he claims doesn't exist and he's free. Well, he was pretty pissed when Murdoch's lawyers didn't appeal his guilty finding handed down by Mordecai Bromberg. Yes, it appears he's on a short leash and even a shorter one recently.
 Bolt remained silent after the shooting in NZ. For two days he said nothing. He didn't reprimand Sky News like most others did for running the live footage for 17 minutes. He came and said there's good and bad on both sides and he was against violence. Basically doing a Trump about equivalence. He did that above to when he accused  Di Natale of inciting the very violent act of egg throwing. He doesn't actually do the same to the Daily Telegraph, does he? He focuses on mothers instead when the Telegraph front paged Shorten as a LIAR. Bill Shorten attacks newspaper over story about his mother

Labour leader has warned the election campaign has hit a 'new low' after the article was published following his Q&A appearance.

By the way, Shorten was brilliant on Q&A. So Murdoch media played the man

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