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Van Badham

November 11 at 9:46 PM ·

It’s well known I’ve got *zero love* for the Greens - but I’m not going to cop more lies from Barnaby Joyce and the National Party.
The Liberals and Nationals have been the government of New South Wales for EIGHT YEARS.
The Liberals and Nationals have been the federal government of Australia for SIX YEARS.
The greens are a powerless minor party who less than 10% of the population vote for. They are not and *have never been* a government.
Joyce knows this. Of course he does. But he, his National Party and their coalition partners the Liberals know they are responsible for cutting funding to fire services and national park fire prevention staff. They know they couldn’t be arsed attending meetings with fire chiefs begging for intervention *back in September*. They know their own policies are driving climate change.
So they’re doing what the culpable, the complicit and the guilty ALWAYS DO in these situations:
They’re running a disinformation campaign.

The inflammometer has hit 11, but politicians aren't finished yet

We appear incapable of sensibly discussing climate change at any time, but particularly at times of natural disaster of the sort that scientists will worsen as the globe warms, writes political editor Andrew Probyn.

 

Unprecedented’: Ex-fire boss’ plea

A group of former firefighting chiefs say Australia faces “unprecedented fire danger” and immediate action is needed from our leaders.

 The 23 frontline fire and rescue chiefs are calling on governments to urgently respond to the bushfire danger they say is a consequence of climate change.

“This week’s catastrophic fires are exactly the type of disaster that emergency leaders and climate scientists have been warning about for decades and summer hasn’t even begun,” former NSW Fire and Rescue Commissioner Greg Mullins said in a statement today.
“We are in a new age of unprecedented bushfire danger.
“Climate change is the key reason why fire seasons are lengthening, fires are harder to control, and access to international firefighting resources like large aircraft is becoming more difficult.”

Meanwhile influencers against Climate Change are denying anything exceptional is happening and Insurance actuaries are saying quite the opposite. Read about the fake and twisted news below. (ODT)

Policeman charged with murder over shooting of Indigenous man

Constable Zachary Rolfe, the son of a prominent Canberra couple, has been charged over the death of 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker in the Northern Territory .

 

FAKE & TWISTED NEWS

WORST EVER!; WHAT'S HOT IS THIS CATASTROSPHISING

COLUMN Feel like you’ve been played? Look at the apocalyptic headlines earlier this week about the fires in NSW. “Catastrophic fire danger”. “Worst bushfire conditions ever seen”. “Unprecedented”.  “As bad as it gets”.  And global warming alarmists like Greta Thunberg fed hungrily on the cataclysmic headlines. But at the end, what really happened?

First point Andrew Bolt jumps on those who make spelling mistakes suggesting they represent a lack of education and are therefore not really worth listening to. Yet Bolt regularly misspells himself.

Ask yourselves why Insurance Companies are "catastrophizing" along with banks and commercial lenders whose actuaries have reported "abnormal events". Not "normal events" that have not decreased fire and flood claims but increased them. Bolt doesn't mention complaining and telling them that extreme weather events are on the decline? He doesn't tell them all's well and normal, and there's nothing to worry about here. 

 No, his focus, like the tobacco companies, is on discrediting the science or at a minimum create doubt. Allowing politicians to do nothing. However if for a moment he accepted the "exceptional " nature of extreme whether he'd need to accept that the trend in record-breaking events is increasing with global warming and the possibility that the increasing emission of CO2 in the atmosphere is assisting that trend. Even the possibility of an indirect relationship would necessitate action like smoking and lung cancer, which resulted in the Quit campaign. We've seen the battle that that took and there's even a greater one going on with the cry to Quit fossil fuels or transition to alternatives. 

Per head of population, we along with the Saudi's are the worlds highest emitters. The Saudis are doing something unprecedented, making their oil reserves public. Australia is the world's largest coal distributor and doesn't even care to hide the fact. Over the years, the Saudis profited, and they are letting go. Australia has simply let Multinationals in, and unlike Norway, Qatar and other resource-rich nations made money? Why hasn't Australia? These other nations are also transitioning to renewables at a greater rate than we are and not trying to opt-out of the Paris Agreement like Americas has.

TONIGHT: I WALK WHERE PELL'S ACCUSER DID. AND IT SHOWS PELL IS INNOCENT

  WHY CARDINAL PELL COULD NOT HAVE COMMITTED THESE CRIMES

COLUMN, At last, George Pell could get justice. The High Court will hear his appeal and must decide whether Pell was, as I believe, wrongly convicted of the sexual assault of two choir boys. See, Pell could not have attacked those boys at the only time Victoria's Court of Appeal said was possible.  Check where his accuser says he was just then.  

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Can you get a more twisted public media campaign based on one man's personal opinion? As an influencer, Bolt is record failure. His only real-time in the sun was just before and after the election of the LNP Government in 2013 when Tony Abbott was his patron, and we all know how long that lasted. Bolt went down, yelling "but he'll change, he'll change. He did he was no longer leader. 

As a conservative Bolt generally has respect or should have it's regarded as the justest system of law available men on this planet, and it's the process that counts not the decision. Bolt railed against it since that process found him guilty. Then according to Bolt, the law was ideologically driven. Well it's financially driven that's for sure, and Bolt's legal team walked away from any further defence, and that's why Bolt spat the dummy. He wasn't going to spend his money on his defence, but he did expect News Corp to, and they didn't believe it was worth it.

Well, not so the case of George Pell he has the funding of the very wealthy top end of town who have allowed Pell the privilege to be trailed judged in every part of that system regarded as the world's best. Bolt hasn't spent any of his time witnessing it simply criticising it from the outside and deems his personal opinion is better than the whole British Justice System. He offers no alternative process other than "I walked in the footsteps of Pell's accuser" The kid is a liar, and Pell is innocent. He may as well exchange British justice for Gypsies crystal ball.

Pell's guilt and possible innocence were evaluated and based on years of investigation. Hours of courtroom proceedings, witnesses and evidence were brought by both sides, not just one to convince the juries. Mentions and 3 court trails of increasing seniority were conducted to see if an injustice has been done to Pell or the claimant. None found for Pell.

 Andrew Bolt and mega-media backing at enormous cost are playing judge and jury and that they are wiser than British law or anyone else. Their opinion is far greater than any independent legal process. The problem isn't just Bolt's opinion it's News Corp a mega-corporate giant at the top end of town that's backing, him and just as they are doing for Donald Trump. The idea of "separation of powers" between the Church, State, Corporate world and the Law are simply discarded by those with the wealth money and power.