Thursday 23 April 2020

Fighting Fake News with REAL,23/4/20; Enviroment ha caught a case of the LNP;Dutton Trump's lap dog; ABC; The Covid distraction we have No Democracy;News Corp isn't the ABC;






The Government puts business ahead of the environment

The Government puts business ahead of the environment

The writing is on the wall for the environment. And it doesn't look good.






Can coronavirus spread 4 metres?




Anna Henderson and Matthew Doran: ' "Obviously [Peter Dutton] must have also received some instructions from Washington requiring him to cooperate with the US in its propaganda war against China.
"He rarely shows his face recently, but when he does he shames Australia with his jokes (ODT)
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Former CEO and editor in chief of The Age, and ABC Friend Media Advisor, Ranald Macdonald writes that "The ABC is starved of funding. It is very much the time for the ABC to be recognised for what it offers daily for all Australians: an essential service."

Read more here>>https://www.abcfriends.org.au/time_for_starved_abcs_funding…

#ValueOurABC #EssentialABC #FundOurABC

 

 

LIB LIARS - Turncoats, Traitors and other Abbottrocities and The Australian Independent Media Network shared a link

The peoples of all the nations of the world increasingly seem to be having less to say about their own destiny.
Dictatorships in the guise of democracies have grown their crooked influence and are more interested in power than people.
Morrison has stated that the parliament will sit on a trial basis for a two-week period. Now that’s democracy for you. It shouldn’t be on trial, it should just be.

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"If I was white, if my name was John, if I wasn't Muslim, this wouldn't have happened."






 

FAKE NEWS


BARNABY JOYCE: START LIFTING VIRUS BANS NOW

Barnaby Joyce, Nationals MP and former Deputy Prime Minister,  says the cost of the coronavirus bans is horrific and the curve in squashed. Start lifting the bans immediately or risk a severe recessions. Here's his interview on The Bolt Report.
30m ago 
Well, here are two people on Australian media with reputations for telling us the truth Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Bolt. Barnaby, I never did any bonking and Bolt that woman was never my fiance both had their fingers crossed when swearing their truths.
Together were seen on Sky spouting petty opinions to a fantastically tiny audience.  Joyce is currently a member of an even smaller minor party than One Nation. While the Bolt Report is even smaller in terms of media ratings. Neither live in COVID affected areas or are productive as those they are demanding to get back to work. They remind me of the current owners of shopping malls demanding shops stay open even when there are no consumers. If there's no trade why demand a return to work?
These two are experts of nothing preaching to an audience of no one demanding real productive Australians risk themselves at work that doesn't exist. 
 Australia simply doesn't have sufficient testing equipment to go back to normal yet. However, they are demanding the workers get back to it. So what if a few die what's 3%. But it's not just 3%. Their lack of knowledge is not just on show but is criminally irresponsible. Taiwan, Japan and China are reporting second waves and that the virus has possibly mutated to a stronger version of itself.  Bolt from behind his sheltered home office is really only obeying head office Fox Corp in the USA who are leading the cry to get back to normal there. He should be sued by anyone who takes his advice and then gets the virus.


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 Note, Bolt turns to the minutest areas on the planet where Coronavirus exists to make his generalisations from that Australia. He doesn't compare Sweden Denmark and Japan does he? Japan is experiencing a second wave as is Taiwan. Sweden has been practising what Bolt suggests but it's not working well compared with Denmark or here. Bolt nevertheless claims we need to follow their example. The Dutch have and they haven't broken any records either. Actually, all Bolt is doing is being partisan with Fox News USA.
 If he really wants to impress Rupert and Lachlan he ought to mirror them and give up his salary. Which he'd never do he'd prefer to take that to his grave.
Yesterday Bolt was comparing two models that were really unrelated in an effort to make a point they were contradictory. He was trying to compare a bike with a truck as if they were the same simply because they are forms of transport. In NSW it was posited that if the ban on, I can't recall but for argument's sake say it, sitting on park benches were lifted there might possibly be 700 extra cases of the disease. In short, that ban saved us from  700 extra cases. 
The model he said, that was contradictory, was the one that projected that if there were no bans whatsoever there'd be some 36.750 extra cases. Andrew Bolt called them a contradictory and false. Yes, the bike is different from the truck. We all see that. What on earth was Bolt trying to prove?
Who would you take advice from 1) Science and medical researchers or 2) Scott Morrison who claims going back to school is safe because he doesn't want his kids at home.
It doesn't matter, does it? Of course, it does Australia under any conditions isn't safe unless we had sufficient testing equipment in place to regularly test people for the virus. We haven't even enough influenza vaccines to protect Australians from the coming flu. Combine that with the fact that the symptoms of both are similar to how the fuck can Andrew Bolt say we have sufficient testing equipment available for everyone to go back to work? He can't! He just believes as long as he's safe alls well in the world and others can carry the load and risk. Bolt's calling for Australia's Productive Labour to go back to work. He's not but is just a parasite whose entitled to stay at home.

IS THIS RISK REALLY WORTH TAKING, JUST TO SAVE YOUR JOB, YOUR SAVINGS, YOUR HOME, YOUR SANITY?

Yesterday your chance of being one of the people newly infected by the coronavirus was about 1 in 4 million. SO DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOME!!  
3h ago 
Andrew Bolt rarely does leave home out of paranoia that he just might be seen and abused like he incites others to do to Muslims Africans and now the Chinese. The risk isn't catching Covid-19 but the spread rate when and where social distancing is simply allowed to be an individual choice.
Bolt is echoing Murdoch media's Trump partisan approach throughout the Anglosphere. The USA currently runs a semi-voluntary program and is drifting to one resembling Sweden's "herd immunity" efforts to combat the disease. Sweden's lack of success, however, isn't mentioned nor is China's Taiwan's and Japan's report of a second wave beginning.
Bolt's greatest failure is to demand "end the bans now" while we haven't sufficient testing equipment to even test our frontline medical staff on a regular basis to ensure their safety. All his protests coming from the safety of his own isolation. Advertisers are just as irresponsible for sponsoring this dangerous shit. 
 
The ALP deserves far more attention and praise for their more considered approach to the medical advice we are being given us daily. Let's face it Murdoch media was encouraging us to take Hydroxychloroquine a not fit for purpose medication to beat Covid-19. Their Trumpster justification "what have you got to lose" People have already died and research has indicated that their advice if followed would increase not decrease deaths. So after weeks of promoting it they seem to have backed off since being threatened with possible lawsuits.

VIRUS OF THE MIND: A GREAT SICKENING IN OUR UNIVERSITIES

I pity even academics who lose their job. But Tony Thomas's account of a university-funded seminar on tree humping,"white fragility" and "honouring" soil suggests some jobs won't be missed: "Melbourne University’s Hacking the Anthropocene was ... 'challenging the toxic and corrosive logics of racial and extractive capitalism.'" UPDATE: Link fixed.
29m ago 
Pity Bolt has no pity or empathy for academics the majority who have no tenure and whose education has left them in debt and with not casual jobs but "precarious" jobs. Jobs that have become increasingly precarious as universities became businesses rather than the places of free education they once were. Even when education was free Andrew Bolt couldn't manage to graduate. He's been anti-tertiary institutions ever since.
The sickening of our universities has been their increasing privatisation of them and the efforts of people like The Ramsay Foundation and Tony Abbott's government to interfere with the running of courses within them by less than a legitimate process of appointment. Politicisation by third parties that lobby and support governments are the Great Sickness

FAKE FIXES TO FAKE PANICS: 200 VENTILATORS FOR EVERY VIRUS VICTIM NEEDING ONE

Governments are boasting about solutions to a crisis that isn't what they claimed: "The federal government has set a target of having 7500 ventilators [for the coronavirus crisis]... The extra 3260 ventilators that have now been supplied will be held by the federal government in the COVID-19 national stockpile." Patients today on ventilators: 32.
23/04/2020 
200 ventilators used, you can use one to share them around. Along with all the other equipment. Just sanitise and share. It seems Bolt hasn't a clue why we haven't sufficient equipment now and for the future, he still seems to believe you don't need to stockpile for any emergencies other than Defence and security. The stupidity is, no matter what equipment we stockpile for defence, we still can't stand alone and Bolt can't guarantee Trump will come to save us. ABF, AFP, Police Bolt always complain are never sufficient for his purposes and readily believes need to be expanded. But not our health housing or jobs. Bolt isn't crying to get everyone back to work that choice should be in the hands of the employers but emergency social welfare should be reversed to drive the workforce to be forced back. Will Murdoch's workforce be the same when staff do come back? No, I don't think so and nor does Bolt who believes he's safe as he was on 2GB. Imagine if he found himself as a private podcaster. Oh, he was after 2GB he lasted 5 weeks.


VIRUS SHOCK: RUDD'S GOVERNMENT PANICKED LESS THAN MORRISON'S

This COVID-19 virus kills almost only the old and/or sick, so we should have just protected the vulnerable. The Swine Flu also killed children, yet the Rudd Government ordered no shut-down: "The Rudd Government, surprisingly, ignored the worst of the models while still planning for up to 6000 deaths... By the end of 2009... there were 191 dead."
23/04/2020

Bolt really does deflect from the very central issues of the spread rate of a virus that's never been seen before and the lack of capacity to carry out testing for all. It's well and good to be an expert from your lounge room Bolt but the execution needs clarity. How do you choose to test an ever-increasing volume of people on a regular basis when the front line workers can't even be tested.
Rudd didn't order a shut down because the rate of spread didn't require it. Trump didn't and by the time he did it was too late and now the US has 33% of the worlds infected cases and the highest number of deaths more than 25%.
Given there were no ventilators stockpiled by the economic rationalists who claimed it was a waste as they did the desalination plant applying the same logic but not so wheat and wool subsidising private enterprises but not public given now second and third waves are predicted is idiocy in the extreme. But it's the logic Bolt always supports bailouts for the private and tax cuts for the public.

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