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CoronaRorts: rescue measures a free kick or fee kick for the banks?

by Michael West | Mar 30, 2020

Aren't the banks lovely to let their home loan customers take a six-month break from mortgage repayments! Only one catch ... they are charging compound interest; interest on their interest. Michael West reports on the hardship of the banks versus the hardship of their...

A Moratorium is a temporary delay in time. It's not a subsidy, a permanent reprieve as is being given to support to our major non-taxpaying Corporations. The winners are the BANKS. Australians will still be even increasingly the world's biggest debtors and with larger numbers unemployed as large businesses will take the opportunity to economise. We will be slaves to a system that didn't really change. (ODT)

 The Power of Fear - Stephen Lendman


Fear is an instrument of social control and depression time and again, terrified people bow to the will of their ruling authorities even when harming their own rights and well-being. The philosopher Seneca once said that “(t)here are more things…likely to frighten us than there are to crush us. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”Edmund Burke explained that “(n)o passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”According to HL Mencken, “(t)he whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”America’s second president John Adams said “(f)ear is the foundation of most governments.

 ”As during the 2008-09 financial crisis, it’s also about favoured businesses consolidating to greater power and influence by acquiring failing enterprises at fire-sale prices. Most importantly, what’s going on is a slippery slope toward full-blown tyranny by compromising and eliminating human and civil rights on the phony pretext of protecting the general welfare. Time and again we’re lied to by our ruling authorities — notably during manufactured crises like 9/11 and now.

Coronavirus pandemic

Virgin Australia asks government for $1.4b loan to help it survive

This is Virgin asking the Government to become a shareholder unlike Nationalisation Virgin is trying to sell itself take the money and run leaving the government with their bad debt. Nationalisation is when a government takes over the Airline rearranges the Executive wages and shareholder dividends at the true written down book value. Not the value requested by the Airline. Sounds more like a sales scam by aboard dead in the water and desperate.(ODT)

 

The government could convert the loan to an ownership stake in Australia’s second largest airline if not repaid in two to three years, according to a well-placed source

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"How come everyone has turned into a running enthusiast?" An Italian mayor shouts out in a video to tell citizens to stay at home. #Coronavirus

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 FAKE NEWS

 When Andrew Bolt yells back "it's maybe only the flu get out, work" he's promoting activities directly counter to what the governments have now made law. Isn't he actively endangering Australian lives? Surely he should be taken off air prosecuted or his advertisers simply stop supporting him. He's an effective danger to Australia (ODT)

ONLY THE ABC COULD SAY THE ECONOMY DOESN'T COUNT IN THIS CRISIS

This is the economics editor of a state-funded ABC that will not lose a single job from the shutdowns: "People around the world are dying alone Stop talking about the economy. We live in a community not an economy... And learn a lesson from Italy Choose love over hate." There are actually two things wrong in that tweet, apart from the punctuation.

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Yesterday Andrew Bolt boldly said "Marxism doesn't work" when Marxist and Socialist countries were faring so much better than America and Australia in combatting the virus. Bolt uses the word "Economy" ideologically and certainly not in terms of what it, in fact, is a descriptive for various "types of systems" and the system he refers to is what he calls an unregulated "free market" Capitalism which no longer exists in Australia and certainly isn't free. We are an Oligarchic Capitalist economy run by 1% of elites.
 Of course, the "economy" counts in this crisis because it can't cope and it should be "changed" not "saved" which is what Andrew Bolt is really saying " Save the Oligarchy". Real Change that entails pro-life are far too costly and have no place in the policies of Oligarchic Capitalism and even the moderate changes to save the system that accept the death of societies marginals are better than the death of our current economic system. 

 The fact is why are left-leaning economies like China, Vietnam, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and so many other more socialist countries performing better than we are in this crisis and far better than Bolt's ultra- role model the USA.

Risk; Andrew Bolt seems to believe that he knows more than the medical experts and virologists who clearly say we don't know enough about COVID-19 yet, but Bolt claims he does, Yet he offers no coherent evidence for his certainty. Bolt claims all we need to do is a) test as many people as possible b) separate the vulnerable for their protection and c) leaving us to treat those few infected. The fact that experts at every stage of Bolt's simplistic logistic plan say it's not feasible and every location different doesn't bother him, why? Simply because his childlike wants and demands come from a mind living down the rabbit hole.
 The lack of knowledge makes Bolt's proposition of herd immunity unfeasible. Would Bolt encourage his own family, not to social-distance risking themselves the those they come in contact with? All on Bolt's negligent flip of a coin? Whose supports? He doesn't say. Is it his friends at the IPA? Is it the Dutch who don't seem to be succeeding in their efforts? It's certainly not the USA other than the Murdochian office. Even Trump has given up dropping bans and returning to normal. Bolt's only support is from those who believe in Mussolini's Corporate Fascist State and the Oligarchs who believe when they say jump everyone in the State asks how high? Particularly the productive engine of the economy, labour. The rest merely being unimportant dross incidentals in the greater scheme of things, profit.(ODT)

VIRUS SPREAD IS SLOWEST YET

The spread of the coronavirus is slowing to a crawl: "As at 6:30am on 31 March 2020, there have been 4,359 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia. There have been 266 new cases since 6:30am yesterday." That is a record low growth rate of just 6.6 per cent, compared to our high of 35 per cent. 

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Remember when Andrew Bolt was trying to convince us that the" Planet was Cooling" not warming he's doing the same here " Virus is the slowest yet" However compared with the rest of the world's 196 Nations Australia ranks in the top worst not best. It's so easy to play with statistics when not comparing them with anyone else. Note Bolt isn't referring to the exponential growth which remains unknown he's referring to the limited testing we have only been able to do to date. Has Bolt been tested? If he's practising what he preaches we'll be seeing more of Andrew Bolt out and about on our streets(ODT)

STUDY: VIRUS DEATH RATE MAY BE NO WORSE THAN FLU

 A Stanford University study suggests the real death rate from the coronavirus may be no worse than the flu. I talk to Professor Jay Bhattacharya. UPDATE: More reason to question the claimed death rate: "Scientists [said] possibly two-thirds of deaths... have been from people who would have died of their underlying conditions."

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That may or may not be true but its "exponential growth" makes it a pandemic. Bolt's doing a Trump and a Fox New's editorials supported him. However, that was last weeks news. Trump's changed again given Wall St wasn't supporting his argument. Wall St knows what an exponential rate is as do epidemiologists and there is no "maybe" about the spread in the US. Trump it seems isn't a gambling man so he flipped and telling everyone to "stay home". Bolt's just a media hack he doesn't seem able to keep up, he doesn't care he just needs to fill space and he takes his framework from Fox News. Soon we will be listening to Bolt raising the benefits of contagion and pandemics as he does the benefits of global warming but he's waiting for head office to lead.(ODT)

VIRUS GROWTH SLOWS, FEWER SICK IN VICTORIA: NOW TO PULL BACK ON CRIPPLING BANS

The virus spread has slowed fast. Victoria recorded its first drop in people sick now. Doubts grow about the virus's lethality. Meanwhile, the economic devastation will destroy families and cripple our future. Now to start a switch: to quarantining the sick, protecting the old and letting the rest go back to work. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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This is such an easy statement for a media hack to make as if Victoria and Australia's logistics were capable of what Taiwan was able to. We don't even have the basic testing equipment available to begin to do what Bolt suggests. The growth rate on the Mornington Peninsula alone proves that when people congregate for the purpose of isolation the area is one of the highest with "known" cases and they aren't doing what Bolt proposes being Taiwan.

What doesn't Bolt seem to understand about trying to protect a medical system that can't cope when he says alright fuckers "back to work" Which industries, in particular, Andrew Bolt the Airlines, Opening our borders for Tourism and Education? Be specific and tell us who. Strange this is the voice of Aof Australia's most self-isolated man telling Australia to hit the streets, (ODT)

NASTY VIRUS: ABC HOST WISHES TRUMP DEAD; MEDIA ACCUSE HIM OF KILLING

Warning! This coronavirus is making some on the Left sick with hatred of Donald Trump. An ABC host hopes the virus infects Donald Trump, while celebrities accuse Trump of killing people with fish cleaner. I talk to Daisy Cousens. Watch.

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Daisy Cousens and Andrew Bolt are "fish cleaner" applied to the brain. Bolt's go back to work cry is a pro-death call so it's not surprising they are trying to cover not for Trump's idiocy but Tucker Carlson on Fox News that like Bolt promoted it's use to a broader public that resulted in a man's death. Bolt knows the experience because he's caused Muslims to be abused assaulted and massacred. He's recently assisted in the assault of Chinese and he's called Christians to fight with the commitment of terrorists. The ABC is a godsend in comparison to what Cousens and Bolt have to offer the Australian public (ODT)