Fighting Fake News with REAL,29/1/21; Threat or Warning? Mining Tax; What's a Fair Share? Julian Assange & the LNP's want to control & manipulate media

 

 

 

Foreign relations

‘The end of our civilisation’: 

Putin raises prospect of global conflict Speaking to the World Economic Forum, Putin warned the coronavirus pandemic and widening economic inequality had created parallels to the 1930s and said a failure to deal with those tensions helped spark World War II.

Wendy Morton, the British government’s Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, told Parliament there would be “no normalisation” of relations while Russia destabilised Britain and Western allies.

US President Joe Biden raised concerns about the jailing of Navalny during the first phone call between both leaders on Tuesday.

 

‘An additional and fair contribution’: time for a mining super-profits tax

Politics

Bernard Keane

 

We need to talk about Twiggy… and Gina, and probably Tony

Business

Stephen Mayne 

How much is too much when it comes to the profits of one company and one man?

Assange: What Australia is not doing to save its citizen and media freedom

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Julian Assange |

Given its inaction on the Assange case, Australia risks being remembered as a complicit ally in the war on journalism launched by the Trump Administration.

FAKE NEWS

 

 

RACE BAITERS ARE A HEALTH HAZARD

Race baiters only hurt those they claim to help. Brendan O'Neill: "We are now reaping the whirlwind of the politics of grievance. The tragic news that many black Britons are cagey about the Covid vaccine is proof, surely, of what happens when you tell a section of society over and over again that they live in an institutionally racist country." 

According to Andrew Bolt it Trumpism, fake facts, and a Murdochian media that supports bullshit is far better than revealing that a nation is divided by the sociological, demographic and epidemiological data. Be it America the US Australia or even the planet it's too dangerous to reveal institutional and systemic racism if it exists and is a reality. Because it threatens the power structure of any failing democracy.

To substantiate and tell the nation the truth which minorities generally already know by their experience will have a negative outcome for the system  because it reveals a greater problem than just a virus. 

To hide the truths like Trump did  appears to be a  better strategy as far as Bolt is concerned and is meant to show he's not racist.  His "Race Baiters" are those who have collected the data and evidence, the scientific researchers who are the health hazard because revealing the truth is according to him worse. The fact is that Andrew Bolt's a racist who supports that the "many" Black Britons O'neill refers to  are the majority who are incapable of dealing with reality. O'Neill's "many" are in fact a "few" and that's his racist attitude.  (ODT)

 

THESE RACISTS ARE INSANE. AND DISHONEST

At least the old racists owned up to be what they were. The new racists just pretend they aren't: "A Los Angeles school plans to host segregated 'dialogue sessions' in an attempt to foster 'inclusion'  and fight against racism." Yeah, and war is peace, right? 

We know Andrew Bolt's a racist but is he "new" or "old" the very notion there is  good or bad racism just confuses the issue of the systemic nature of racism. History quickly reveals that. Slavery was abolished in the US but racism wasn't and it took on a different form. Indigenous Australian rights were only recognized in the 1960s yet systemic racism continues and has been culturally reinforced by the Bolt's of our world. 

Bolt likes us to believe reverse racism exists a semantic twist that carries no weight. It's whether or not the actions of people are intended to change the systemic nature of a racist social structure that has been historic and self evident that seems to be the most important. But that's not what Bolt is addressing here. His name calling only and seems to have him on the back foot.(ODT)

LET QUEENSLAND PAY FOR WHAT QUEENSLAND BROKE

Queensland broke its tourism industry with its absurd virus bans. Now it wants the rest of us to pay: "Annastacia Palaszczuk called on the federal government for a JobKeeper extension to prop up her ailing tourism industry." That's the problem with our federation. The rest of us compensate some states for their stupidity. 

We are a diverse nation Victoria pays more tax that other states but unlike Andrew Bolt we don't sound like secessionists. But the Bolt is after all a Trumpist unless he's ruler of  the Federation and the Union he simply doesn't want to be part of the nation. (ODT)

ALBO SACKS WARMING EXTREMIST MARK BUTLER. BUT TOO LATE

Good, of course: "Anthony Albanese will move Mark Butler from the contentious climate change and energy portfolio in a shadow cabinet reshuffle aimed at soothing internal divisions destabilising his leadership." But Albanese's mistake is not dumping the extremist Butler. It's been in  waiting so long that it now looks desperate.

Bolt knows what it's like in the LNP and wants us to somehow believe it's worse in the ALP. However it's not. The ALP isn't the LNP. (ODT)

NO, AGE READERS, THESE ARE NOT THE LESSON OF THE HOLOCAUST

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg co-authors an article asking that the Holocaust be never forgotten. That triggers the most amazing whattabout-ism - not to mention hysteria, climate catastrophism and wild moral relativism - in today's The Age.  Read and weep for our future. And for that of Israel.

Rather than defend Israel Bolt simply turns to it's critics. It seems he has no arguments in it's defense. Israel is an Apartheid State. It is illegally occupying and colonizing other peoples lands. It's only vaccinating Jews in a pandemic. The parallels are so obvious Bolt won't even go there. (ODT)