Fighting Fake News with REAL; 3/11/19; Fact or fiction Blade Runner; America's decades of disaster; Well let's remember the LNP; Fake people and posturing;

The future is now

 What did the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner — and other films set in 2019 — get right and wrong about our modern world?

 

'We are peaceful yet they fire on us': Baghdad witnesses biggest day of violent protests in decades

The American Liberation of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya Yemen has been an abject failure (ODT)
 

Tens of thousands of flag-waving Iraqis swarm central Baghdad's wide boulevards demanding the root-and-branch downfall of the political elite in the biggest day of mass anti-government demonstrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

 

 The Tampa, Hicks, and Other Cases - » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Vivian Alvarez Solon case

The Cornelia Rau case

The MV Tampa case

The David Hicks case

 Continued Wednesday – The Dr Mohamed Haneef case

  Fake News & Posturing

HOW MAD IS THE MORRISON GOVERNMENT?

How to get the Morrison Government to hire you to advise it on "reconciliation". Call for racial division in the Constitution. Accuse the Prime Minister of being "complicit in mass murder". Liken former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard to Adolf Hitler.  Accuse Liberal candidate Jacinta Price of "legitimising racism". It worked for Marcia Langton! 

16m ago

 Bolt's always been one for personal revenge. If a single person has ever bested him or shown him out to be the person he really is publically, he becomes obsessed and if it's a woman more so. Miranda Devine was once a colleague the "Divine Miranda" to Bolt not so anymore after she showed him up to be the misogynistic bully he is on public radio.

Marcia Langton falls into the same category but even more so. She's neither a colleague nor a friend. Of Indigenous descent and an Academic she showed Bolt up for what he is when he was judged guilty of racial vilification under the RDA which it might be added wasn't her doing at all but Bolt's own folly. He simply refused to say sorry and had the Human Rights issue judged in court.  When pronounced guilty even the News Corp lawyers agreed to leave it at that.

Bolt's been venting his spleen at Marcia Langton ever since. Quite simply Marcia she has made it her right to speak up and complain about the 200 years of hidden Australian history that imported and adopted Colonial social structures and cultural attitudes that have proved so prejudicial and harmful to Indigenous Australians over the centuries. The consequences of which are still seen today in every social metric.

Any Langton complaint or revelation is seen by Bolt as an indication of "Reverse Racism" and of which he's a poor, wealthy, white victim. Bolt seems to believe he "suffers" because of his merited station which he earned and those that didn't are his enemy. Racial division already exists in the Constitution, which Bolt conveniently fails to mention. Good Aborigines are those that side with Bolt. Any PM that for a moment is prepared to listen or hire a complainer or is not ultra Right like he is won't get his support for being or even appearing to be a listener.
Now as for Howard sounding like Hitler Remember when Big Day Out banned the Australian flag at their events in 2006-7 because of the 2005 Cronulla riots and the flag became a symbol that enabled violence and disrespect. Bikinis Tees tits painted with the flag became a challenge and a divide that Morrison claimed as a political opportunity. Howard said he'd enshrine in law that the Australian flag wasn't able to be banned in any place or at any event. That was a Hitleresque statement of encouragement for the jackbooted right to do some kicking. 

PETER FITZSIMONS INVENTS HISTORY: THE TRUTH ABOUT CARLTON'S WINE

I wouldn't trust Peter FitzSimons' history books when he can't even correctly describe events where he was actually present: "I was in the bowels of the Westin Hotel when Mike Carlton was shaping up to throw wine over Piers Akerman – trying to stop the unfolding catastrophe – Mike, NOOOOO! And only narrowly failing. Great days!" Let's fact-check. 

Bolt bragging and making out he was one of the boys back then. The fact he FAILED tells the real story. The details, the memory and who was and was not the centre of attention is in the telling and I doubt "Mike" didn't even come close to stopping because of his mate Andrew... who? Oh, the belly dancer's minder who once to work for Labor that prick whose NOOO was only silent and in his head if at all real. He's the guy who keeps telling us he's  Soooo Shy so it needs some context.

However, Bolt's personal memories are so removed from the historical fact that his ex-fiancee almost sued him for defamation. History isn't a tale owned by one person it's a collection and the work and effort put in to discover that collection of perceptions at a time. Work that Fitzsimons is prepared to do and Bolt has never done just criticized for personal reasons.