Google threatens to withdraw search from Australia and Facebook to remove news posts. These are not idle threats. Is propping up old media with grants gouged from Google good public policy? It delivers cash for Rupert Murdoch but does it serve consumers? Kim Wingerei reports.

 
A QAnon protest in Washington DC in October 2020 (Image: Sipa USA/Graeme Sloan)

In Australia though, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is still refusing to make any comment on the close friendship that exists between the family of Scott Morrison and a family which includes two of Australia’s leading QAnon followers.

As Biden acts, the prime minister stays silent on QAnon (and his family friend)


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Australia is out of the top ten in global anti-corruption rankings — why?

Adam Graycar, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University


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Navlany’s Arrest, Rudy’s Lawsuit, and the QAnon Caucus Chair—The Wee

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Jennifer Horn (@NHJennifer), John Sipher (@john_sipher), and Mike Madrid (@madrid_mike) join Ron Steslow (@RonSteslow) to break down the arrest of Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny and the protests around Russia last weekend, the $1.3 billion lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against Rudy Giuliani, and Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s history of endorsing conspiracy theories and violence against Democratic politicians.

Fake News

 

“I’M NOT DYING!” “DEFINE CORONAVIRUS!”

Sure, I believe in evidence-based scepticism. But the internet and our new hyper-partisanship has unleashed a tsunami of loopy conspiracy theories on both the Left and the Right.  Check how this poor doctor is having to stop a dangerously ill man's relatives from denying him treatment for his coronavirus. Even the wheezing patient insists he's OK.

 Bolt drip feeds bullshit in his blogs  and often for days on end. Bruce Pascoe  and today it's reinforcing Brendon O'Neill story from yesterday.

Yesterday Bolt was decrying the lack of "evidence based scepticism" of London Blacks for refusing to be vaccinated. Basically he was blaming them for the evidence of the systemic nature of the disparity in the numbers of people in the UK and the US not being vaccinated because of their color. It's typical of a white racist to claim white innocence and blame the blackman for his or her circumstance. He does it to Indigenous Australians regularly. Their ignorance and their reverse racism according to Bolt is what's to blame.

Bolt today declares he's a believer in "evidence based scepticism" reinforcing the fact that while he's not an ignorant others are of both political persuasions but not walking back on the fact that yesterday it was the blacks in the UK that were unique and exceptional for their racist ignorance no matter who they voted for. Bolt today leaves color out of his equation and example but it's still there. (ODT)

 

 

 

GIVING THE BLM RIOTERS AND ARSONISTS A PEACE PRIZE

Reward the seeming:  "The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize." Ignore the doing: "The U.S. experienced 637 riots between May 26 and Sept. 12, and 91% of those riots were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement."

Strange isn't it the Police  CIA, FBI, and ASIO, all institutional and reputed National Security bodies list the BLM riots as "protests" whereas even during the Trump era the Right-Wing extremist violence has been increasingly seen as "organized" reinterpreted as domestic terrorism and a much larger threat.

Bolt nevertheless believes in collective punishment that any individual committing a violent act at a BLM protest is evidence that everyone present is justifiably to blame. But not so when National Security bodies note that organized right-wing violence is the greater threat. So yes the BLM movement has claim to be a global peace movement. Bolt's stats don't reflect what it is the worlds most reputed security bodies are saying.(ODT  

FRANCE WARNS BRITAIN AGAINST A VACCINE IT WANTS MORE OF

 France's president claims the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine barely works on the aged. This is the vaccine that France - with the European Union - is desperately trying  to get more of, and wants Britain to use less of. Here's more proof Britain was right to leave the EU.

Bolt is deflecting and distracting our attention away from the fact that Pfizer and Astro- Zeneca carpetbagging their vaccines for the largest profits. They are capitalizing on the pandemic. Before they had secured patents they were being most generous and vocal about production, price and servicing the world. Generously promising to license manufacture and maximize distribution for $3-4. Those it seems were only Trump and Morrison like verbal announcements which have now evaporated and become a limited supply for the best price leaving the poorest nations without any vaccine until 2024. The US 20 million was a fake promise by Trump and now all nations scrambling to get sufficient doses for their citizens.

The fact that there is now evidence, and Bolt believes in "evidence", he has as much said so today. Data that Astro-Zeneca has proved to have limited effacacy among the aged. This is a science based reason to review it's distribution on real medical grounds.

 Bolt however without any logic sees fit to totally jump off the scientific train of logic to start name throwing and abusing the French President. By calling him and then the EU bullies and self serving on irrational grounds and playing dirty tricks. Ergo Bolt says well done Britain for Brexit fuck the pandemic. He's like Abbott, Trump, Morrison, use whatever you want just cheer for your side screw any logic or principles (ODT)