Thursday 30 January 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL 30/1/20 Truth in Humour; Fake Facts noted








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Most Coronavirus Cases Caused By Arson, The Australian Claims – The Shovel

 

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Morrison Says Australians Quarantined On Christmas Island Will Be Processed As Quickly As Possible And Can Expect To Be Off The Island Within 14 Years – The Shovel

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CLIMATE EXTREMISTS HIJACKING OUR COUNCILS

Tony Thomas says 30 per cent of Australians have a council that's declared a climate emergency: "Climate zealots... are targeting councils as the easily penetrated underbelly of Australian politics. It’s not hard for determined agitators to... take over the council and then redirect its spare staff, funds and powers." Here's how. 
Tony Thomas, Tony Abbott, Andy Pitman, Andrew Bolt quotes all of these, and he doesn't have an issue with any of them. Abbott and Thomas are wrong and don't have a problem with Andrew Bolt but would never admit they all have one with Pitman. Pitman, a scientist, admits he was wrong, but Andrew Bolt denies it or at least doesn't address the fact that Pitman has even said it.
Bolt denies he was ever a denier merely a sceptic. Abbott still swings, and Thomas simply takes the stand of a denier. All can be found voicing on biased media organisations. For years Bolt told us over and over that the planet wasn't warming but "cooling" He's dropped that old bit of bullshit because the scientific evidence has been too much. Instead, he's reduced "warming", and it's supporters to being little more than to a new religion while he ran about yelling the planet was cooling claiming it was the rational conclusion drawn from 3% of scientists, scientists all he seemed to know. However, he overlooked that his 3%, weren't climatologists yet they had 50%, if not more, of the voice in the media, particularly Murdoch's Media.

Andrew Bolt published an article three days ago claiming climate change will be “good” for the environment and, really, the place is burning down, dude. Enough, just ENOUGH.
This is me writing on the subject of Bolt in the Guardian, because the alternative was to yell and more than a bit smashy-smashy.
WARNING: Contains a brief history of climate denialism that may indeed make you A BIT CROSS.
  On cue, the megaphones insist this nightmare will be good for us.
Take it from one of the selectively misquoted credible scientists: global heating is not heralding a new agricultural prosperity, these forces are causing forests to burn, not to bloom. They can’t offer solutions. The propaganda of a new denial is all they’ve got.

MINISTER PUNISHES TRUTH: SACKS PASCOE WHISTLEBLOWER

How can we trust Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt, when he sacks an adviser who’s told him the truth? Incredibly, Wyatt has sacked whistleblower Josephine Cashman, who’d told him “Aboriginal historian” Bruce Pascoe was not actually Aboriginal, which seems obvious. Don’t we expect more respect for truth from a Minister?
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Typically Bolt has, since his return, been accused directly of publishing crap and misinformation by several respected writers. In Bolt fashion, he simply ignored the cry of "false facts" attributed to him, knowing the 24/7 news cycle will have saved him. As for Bolt's reputation as a writer and media commentator, it couldn't get any lower. His legacy will be held up as the worst of the cesspool sludge to be found in the public space. Nobody will argue that it ought not to be allowed, but it will be argued why it is and by whom. In that regard and only that regard, Andrew Bolt will have been doing a service to future of media because as sure as hell he's not doing one for the present, and he makes the past shine.
GetUp is funding bill boards and posters to message Advertisers who support News Corp Sky News and the likes of Andrew Bolt that allow them to spit in our face.
 As for Cashman well she and Bolt publicly accused and attributed a letter to an Aboriginal elder accusing Bruce Pascoe of being a fraud. A letter denied and shown to be a cut and paste fake published by Andrew Bolt as genuine. The Minister sacked Cashman for her role in supporting Bolt in his smearing of Pascoe and his published bullshit. Note no mention of any of that is made by Bolt of his involvement in Cashman's sacking.

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