Fighting Fake News with REAL 1/2/21 Morrison is Announcement Central as was Trump; The ALP is attacked for it's Democracy; America's Citizens United is here in the form of the IPA

 

 

Newspoll: Coalition and Labor neck and neck

 

 

 Morrison makes yet another "announcement". He keeps his "announcement " Dept at the top of their game

Morrison to announce $1.9 billion for vaccine rollout, as Coalition and Labor level in Newspoll

 

The latest global Corruption Perception Index (CPI) rankings places Australia at 11 out of 180 countries.

For almost 20 years, Australia ranked in the top ten (least corrupt) countries. In 2012, Australia ranked seventh with a score of 85. By 2018, it had fallen to 13th with a score of 77. In the latest 2020 rankings, it has also scored 77.

Being ranked 11th out of 180 is relatively good. But falling by eight points is not good. It is a wake-up call and raises serious questions about the ethical underpinnings of politics in this country.

Australia no longer in top ten global anti-corruption ranking

Still after Brexit, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison and everything else that’s happened, betting on the most unlikely result would have made some people rich!

Joel Fitzgibbon Helps Albo Show Who’s In Charge! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

Citizens United is alive and well in Australia and it's voice is the IPA

When the Australian Electoral Commission drops its political donations data tomorrow, it will almost certainly show that corporate donations are rising at an alarming clip and that Australia is tracking the US. Stephanie Tran and Michael West report on the extraordinary rise of money in politics.

Whither Democracy? Political donations triple as AEC prepares 2021 data drop – Michael West

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CHINA THREATENS WAR, BECAUSE IT THINKS IT WILL WIN. NO WONDER

China's dictator isn't an idiot. He is threatening war over Taiwan for one simple reason. He thinks he can win it. Bad news is that he's right. So get ready for huge trouble.

Has Sinophobic Andrew Bolt ever written a pro China commentary? Australia hasn't just threatened war  it has joined them since Korea then followed by Vietnam why? We  thought we would win them. However we have lost every one we have joined because we chose the wrong side and had no justifiable reason for being there. We chose to join America in the belief that should anyone attack us America would step in and save the day. We are slow to learn they haven't won any wars either. Furthermore that belief was shattered when Trump came along. He ensured all trust was gone. However not in Andrew Bolt's mind eye.

What nations has China attacked since WW2 compared with the ones we have? Shit Abbott wanted to take us to the Ukraine. He wanted us to be part of NATO symbolically spending millions of welfare dollars restoring and enlarging war memorials to show the European world we saved them.

One day China will control Taiwan as it has Hong Kong but not by war but by the fault of history. After all can Bolt say these territories weren't Chinese?

The question that needs to be asked is over the years who has prodded the dragon harder than Murdochians and why? Is it simply because China kicked Rupert and his media thugs out? It seems so. He goes about claiming his ex wife Wendy Deng was a Chinese spy. Which indicates he's a China hater and that better explains why Andrew Bolt is too. He says these things knowing it doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong. It pleases Rupert. However it sure as hell has fucked our relationship with China and has hurt a hell of a lot of Australians and not just the ethnically Chinese. Good on you Andrew Bolt.

 
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AN ABC WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE CAPITOL RIOT? REALLY?

ABC board member Joe Gersh makes the most desperate argument yet for spending $1 billion a year on a bloated and biased ABC: "It is worth asking whether recent events in the US would have attained the momentum they did if they had a strong independent national broadcaster such as the BBC or the ABC."

If the US had  an Independent National Broadcaster as trusted and as for as long as the ABC has been on our national landscape the answer would be a definite yes. But Bolt doesn't dare compare apples with apples.  He  calls  the ABC "biased and bloated". Yet their annual budget in today is terms is the equivalent of what they had in 1984 when our population was far less. If anyone questioned Abbott they were called Left by Bolt and we were meant to assume he was right and never wrong. Now that's biased questioning isn't. Attention to Cimate Change is meant to be Left Wing. Who ever says that is an idiot  who ahs his head frimly up his own arse. 

Bloated is Murdoch media can it  claim the same success as the ABC on less than a 20% budget increase  in 36 years of operation. Ask Andrew Bolt if he's been that efficient, What was  his wage in 1984 and what is it now? So then ask whose bloated and biased.

Trumpist's like Bolt claim unity and one Australia only if and when everyone agrees with them. He really is a Trumpist even modelling himself on the ex-president with his linked social media accounts making out he's everywhere. The only reason Bolt wants the ABC gone is that so few pay him any attention. If we didn't have the ABC we'd have seen even more Australians radicalized to an extreme right in a campaign typical of ISIS. It's the very existense of responsible and diverse news that stops the propaganda Bolt dishes out from being believed.The ABC is neither an enabler nor radicalizer of anyone unlike Bolt and his team of phonies.

Bolt certainly ducked for cover and went silent post the Christchurch massacre when they were accused of filming it live like an ISIS beheading. It was suggested the bloodbath occured because the shooter's hero was Blair Cotteral who was given so much free airtime by Andrew Bolt and Sky. They were enablers of right-wing  radicalization Today ASIO freely admits the extreme right are the biggest domestic terrorist threat to Australia and not the Left. Bolt and his guests have been their inspiration and inspired violence for years.

PERTH SHUT. MOVE THE QUARANTINE HOTELS INTO THE COUNTRY

Why are quarantine hotels in big cities, if our answer to any breakout is to shut them down?: "Nearly two million people across Perth are this morning waking to their first of five days in hard lockdown after a hotel security guard testing positive to COVID-19." But that's not the only stupidity.

It's apparent Andrew Bolt isn't just an anti-vaxxer but a pandemic denier as well who doesn't believe the safe road is the best or cheapest in the long run. Don't we wish his retirement plan to live in Amsterdam came true . He could then begin to write his first fantasy story in Double Dutch. After all it's what we have been suffering all along.  He knows far more than science as a guide to best actions to take

 

VACCINES ALONE WON’T SAVE US FROM THE VIRUS

The vaccines may not be as good as we were told, and the coronavirus is mutating fast. That means we can't just keep shutting down cities while we wait for a vaccine to save us. We have to live with the virus and stop being blind to possible treatments like - yes - hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

Australia is among the best at having dealt with coronavirus. Anti-Catastrophist Andrew Bolt has turned catastrophist why? Bolt hates Tim Flannery and calls him an alarmist over Climate. However he's the alarmist when it comes to the pandemic saying it's going to overrun Australia why? Has he invested in hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. He hasn't stretched to UV colon or gastro-oscopies yet but he seems to be heading that way.

The vaccines don't rid us of the virus but they temper it's extreme effects and hopefully reduce the spread which remains uncertain. However Chloroquine has been proved to be a dud by countless research. Just as Bolt's efforts to convince us the earth was cooling by quoting Spencer's research which also proved to be a dud. When Bolt passes will his children change their names? That would be effective to kill and stop his embarrassment dead in it's tracks?