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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
SHOW US THE MINUTES OF THESE SO CALLED MEETINGS THAT WOULD SOLVE IT
Australian
Border Force commissioner Michael Outram has countered a key Victorian
government claim about travellers from NZ in an escalating dispute over
who is responsible for the international arrivals.
Mr
Outram told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra the meeting at
Melbourne Airport last Friday at 2pm discussed the issue of passengers
from New Zealand and heard no objections from Victorian officials.
"I
am unaware of any objections being raised through any of those
discussions or meetings that occurred," Mr Outram told the hearing.
This
is why *hundreds of thousands* of Australians are demanding a royal
commission into the activities of Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp. Even for
them, this is next level political disinformation. I had to look this up
to convince myself it was real.·
These two election results show a renewed support for the left. But how much can we really read into it?
Corruption is as bad as the days of the Rum Rebellion. The LNP are deregulating, giving more power to the Corporate foxes while ignoring the results of the Royal Commissions. They're going after Unions on non-Union matters despite the Royal Commission conclusions that there was NOTHING TO SEE. Meanwhile, the Corporate world was found systemically GUILTY in every way and is being left untouched, and we watch on with politicians lining their pockets having been promised rewards at a later date for their assistance while in office. The Canberra swamp in the meantime continues to grow. 500 Mining jobs in the ACT and no mines is an example. Does the public even know? (ODT)
Poor conduct by principals and CEOs has resulted in Australia's corporate culture in need of a change, writes Kim Sawyer.
Nearly every day we see evidence of bad corporate conduct at Royal Commissions like the Banking Royal Commission or in individual company collapses. There is a recurring problem. It seems company regulations don’t matter, at least not for some. Culture is a vague term. Culture generally refers to values. A good corporate culture is represented by things like transparency, honesty, perhaps even social responsibility — characteristics that seem to have disappeared from the corporate balance sheet. Medcraft was not alone in calling for cultural change. It has been recommended by every inquiry into corporate practice for the last 20 years; for example, the 2014 Financial System Inquiry. Yet there is little evidence that Australia’s corporate culture is changing.
Turnbull resigned, he wasn't booted out or "dumped" as PM. The only person to shame themselves is Andrew Bolt, who suggests Turnbull tried to "save " his skin. Well, how about stating the obvious Andrew Bolt given Abbott and Dutton the least trusted members of the Liberal Party were out to knife him in the back and Abbott really believed by not resigning he could get revenge and "save his legacy" with a comeback.
Frankly, Bolt has no idea what might have occurred if Turnbull hadn't resigned. However any good PM and politician would have got all the information one could if faced with the same situation Turnbull found himself in, and he would naturally get it both formally and informally from whoever and wherever he could. Tricks, well they are only alive in Bolt's "fantasy land". One wonders why he persists going after a man who was the victim?
Self-aggrandisement springs to mind. Let's face it Bolt certainly wasn't a media star during the last election, was he? He wasn't a media person of any note. Mainly the one yelling out that the Turnbull's were out to get Abbott, of course, they were at least Alex was, and he didn't deny it. Abbott was annihilated, and his media buddy Bolt pissed off out of the country immediately after as if he was depressed, down and out with the lack of attention. But he's back now and still with little improvement to show for his holiday. So it seems he's craving attention and needs a stunt a cause of his own and it's the same old same old, save Abbott and help him get his revenge.
He's boringly focused on what seemed more like Abbott's revenge and the Turnbulls the target. They became ordinary Australians, everyday citizens after the PM's resignation entitled to do whatever they wanted. Alex Malcolm's son focused on cleansing the Liberal Party of Tony Abbott, and he helped do it well. It was a landslide. Unlike Turnbull Abbott, remained a dead weight sniping at his own leader when he promised publicly he wouldn't. A more traitorous activity you couldn't want for and totally out of step with tradition. Isn't tradition what conservatives hold in high respect and hold on to? Not, in this case, it seems, Not Abbott nor his sycophant promoter Andrew Bolt. He was back in the day his apologist but went to the back bench of media when Abbott was dropped and remained his pit bull when anyone was caught dissing Abbott.
No Bolt is merely an opinionator an average one who lost his patron Tony Abbott ex-PM and with it any hope of boosting his ratings. Like Trump today Bolt boringly and routinely repeats the same cycle of subjects on his lazy susan of topics, his old carousel of dead ideas on which he's been making a living off year in and year out and no longer relevant. Raising Abbott, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels Indigenous Australians, Sudanese, Islam, Gender roles, Universities, The ABC, Free Speech all easy with which to create division as a smokescreen ignoring the material world and the economics of the nation in which we live.
Veteran journalist Margo Kingston accuses Alan Jones of a smear campaign against media organisation Al Jazeera after he sided with Pauline Hanson in the aftermath of the How to Sell a Massacre documentary.
Jones works for Sky Channel an arm of Murdoch Media. Did he ever challenge News Corp because the Saudi Prince Alaweed and billionaire had a significant shareholding in Murdoch's companies?
Has he ever mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is on the board of Genie Oil and has major investments in illegal oil exploration in the Israeli occupied territories of Syria's Golan Heights which Trump has just declared as legally held?
Why does News Corp only write positive stories on Israel never the factual, yet negative ones? Why is it that Jones never declares Sky Channel, a suspiciously biased organisation?
Funny how easily someone Murdoch staff readily yell "fake news". But in defence of Pauline Hanson give us a break!! (ODT)
How will One Nation retaliate?
The question remains, however, what One Nation will do in its preference decisions, as opposed to what the Coalition does. At the 2016 election, One Nation in Queensland adopted different "how to vote" cards in different electorates, sometimes suggesting split tickets to its voters, depending on whether they were disgruntled Labor or Liberal voters, or whether, as in the case of Wyatt Roy, there were scores to settle. In response to Scott Morrison's declaration on preferences, Senator Hanson said on Thursday that "you, Prime Minister have just handed the keys to The Lodge to Bill Shorten, Di Natale and the CFMEU. You're a fool". This sits rather uneasily with the fact that what she is suggesting is that her party's own preference decisions might not achieve exactly that result. Senator Hanson's ultimate interest, however, rests not in who wins control of the House of Representatives but whether she gains another seat in the Senate and, with it, a balance of power position akin to the one that her colleagues were discussing so lustily in America. This is the real election that voters in Queensland will be determining when they look into the eyes of One Nation on polling day.( Lara Tingle)
What One Nation deny and the denials Bolt Jones and Sky support (ODT)
The
comments were broadcast at the tail end of part two of last week’s Al
Jazeera documentary on One Nation, the compelling result of the covert
recordings. “You cannot, in life, and
especially in politics… take into account everybody’s emotions,” Ashby,
Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, tells Rodger Muller, the undercover
operative he believes is the head of an Australian gun rights lobby
group. The men, accompanied by One
Nation's Steve Dickson, are about to board a plane back to Australia,
having completed their piss-powered bumpkins' tour of the odious
Washington gun lobby, trying to solicit cash and pick up tips on how to
weaken Australia’s gun laws. Advertisement
LNP organizing the safety of the parliament couldn't organize a chook raffle (ODT) A firm given the $14 million job of upgrading critical security at Parliament House in Canberra is in disarray with allegations of cocaine use, a sideline in an Uber-style app for escorts, debts to Russian friends and the intervention of a Morrison government minister. Almost a year after the $75 million state-of-the art upgrade to protect MPs from acts of terrorism was due to be completed, the marble entrances of Parliament remain shrouded in scaffolding and 400 businesses across Australia are owed $21 million.
Read about Scott Morrison's organising abilities to keep us safe (ODT)
“So many things that he does the cameras don’t see,” Tani Rickle says.
Please don't turn your back on him
He'll knife you
“These far-left activists want to weaken our borders, make our electricity bills more expensive, and divide our nation with the politics of identity and race.”Abbott
He started TEAM AUSTRALIA. But All Citizens aren't included. Muslims Africans Lebanese, LGBTQIs
By focusing on lobbyists, Omar suggests that America’s interests are corrupted by a small clique. The truth is far worse.
Andrew Bolt has a tendency an urgency, in fact, to remind us of drug and alcohol addiction among the Aboriginal communities of Australia but avoid mentioning that over 500,000 other Australians, in fact, are too. That figure is almost the total population of Indigenous Australians. Furthermore, he makes no mention of the fact that each of us knows and has known someone suffering from an addiction of one sort or another legal or illegal.
The use of just Ecstasy and Cocaine has doubled in the past 3 years which makes it highly likely that his children have used drugs of one sort or another if you take cannabis and alcohol and put them into the mix as well. Yet Bolt's focus is never on drugs used by all Australians but intensely concentrated and focused on Australia's First Nations peoples why? To be able to generalise that it's their Culture which is to blame and is somehow less than ours. The problem, however, is Bolt doesn't seem to be able to explain who it is that uses and can afford to use the vast quantities of drugs consumed in this country far more than what the small %of Indigenous users are able to afford and absorb.
If 500,000 is the estimate of current overall addicts needing help today and the number is doubling so fast, it's only logical to assume Australians of all classes are drug users. Further, there are far more addicted or and verging on addiction than even gestimated number put forward. Some possibly among or close to the holier than thou Andrew Bolt himself who he knows and helps keep their addiction secret. If it's normal for all of us to know an addict why would it be an exception for Andrew Bolt after all he says he's Australian. (ODT)
Milo Yiannopoulos is a senior editor at Breitbart.com, the “alt-right” website formerly run by Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist (Bannon is still set to speak at CPAC this year). Yiannopoulos has spent years positioning himself as the poster boy for radical “free speech,” traveling on speaking tours and doing publicity stunts that target, hurt, and harass women, people of color, undocumented students, and the transgender community, among other already at-risk groups and Andrew Bolt loves him and offers damage control on his behalf.
"On my shows: how Milo crashed and why free speech isn't an excuse" Bolt (shows? Is he still claiming Mirand's as his, most likely!!!)
Just two days after news broke that Breitbart.com’s serial harasser Milo
Yiannopoulos would speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC), the conference’s hosts have rescinded his speaking
invitation after video circulated of Yiannopoulos “condoning pedophilia.”
While CPAC is now trying to do damage control, there were any number of
reasons not to elevate Yiannopoulos before the video resurfaced. And
anyone familiar with Yiannopoulos’ persona -- including the leadership
at CPAC -- should have known that continuing to ally themselves with a
champion of the so-called “alt-right” would eventually lead to something
like this.
On The Bolt Report tonight: Milo
Yiannopoulos comes crashing down after videos show him laughing about a
priest who abused him, as well as defending older men having sex with
"boys". Why the "free speech" cause is being damaged - again. Plus
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, and Michael Kroger on a revolt in his
Victorian party. Bolt denies Milo Yiannopoulos advocates child sex | afr.com Milo Yiannopoulos loses book deal and speaking slot following child abuse comments - Donald Trump's America
and it seems there are a lot of people don't agree with Bolt who sees nothing in 13 year olds cock sucking much oldermen.
Defending George, Milo and bullshit peddled as something else. In other words you can say whatever you want and if that causes someone to kill it's not your responsibility because words can't hurt incite or inspire. Yet Bolt has accused the actions of so many who were "inspired" by the speech of he demands action be take against some "inspirers" but not against all because some should be protected by the right of free speech. Anyone advocating ISIS is a worthwhile cause has no right to be protected but should be bombed but apparently Milo advocating the right of older men to have sex with young boys is fine "Why the "free speech" cause is being damaged again (and beware, the
headline on the clip below is not accurate, since Milo actually rejects
pedophilia):"Bolt Bolt take note like Trump is claiming this as fake news" What of the inspiration Bolt it's okay for someone to say "Screw Bolt's daughter" If somebody did it and was inspired by the message it's don't shoot the messenger is that the logic behind free speech? It seems the conservatives in America don't agree with you and certainly not Milo.What is the man saying above. Bolt says he believes he's entitled to say whatever he wants and bugger the consequences. America doesn't think so. neither does Bolt but he pretends he defends everyones rights to say what they want even for inspiration's sake. I say he's talking frog shit." While Yiannopoulos is no longer speaking at the event, CPAC did announce
another speaker on Monday: someone who was caught on tape bragging
about sexual assault and then managed to win a presidential campaign."Media MattersUPDATEBolt's editorial Free speech works and Milo has listened and said sorry. No mention of the paid contracts lost not due to the left but the astonishment of the right and organizations that are rapidly trying to distance themselves from him. You say lets think this through "If you can" how patronizing is that comment to your own team. Milo is on the edge of losing his job at Breitbart think that through "if you can" $$$$$ How much is this man trying to inspire going to lose? Can he say enough sorries to make it go away? Your editorial was begging for forgiveness when you have none and go for the jugular when people in the audience of Q&A say things that you find easy to attack when theirs no money to be lost on their part you dig in the heel and grind and say your an advocate of 'free speech'. Speech is free between equals. Debating and it's rules ensure that. Outside of a moot there is no 'free speech' Section 18C goes a small way to improve that. Apparently your umbrage to what happened to you reflects that you you feel entitled to lie and and you are offended that the protection of Cultural capital was neutralized. When these factors were accounted for and the equality of speeches were evaluated you lost. That's justice in the civilized world Mr Bolt
Andrew Bolt reveals himself to be a serious Trumpster today Trumpsters are letting the world know Sweden is covering up the truth with fake news. The media and government are hiding the facts on immigrant crime in Sweden. Andrew Bolt is echoing much the same alternative news "It's frightening not just because we cannot actually find proof that global warming is producing the predicted catastrophes."Bolt "the real disasters are produced by global warming alarmists"BoltYesterday Andrew Bolt would have us believe VW was the victim and not the perpetrator of fraud when found guilty. If that were true then yes Andrew Bolt is an indigenous Australian as well. 'JeSuisIkea': Trump's comments confuse Swedes as supporters cry cover-up | US news | The GuardianDoes Bolt see himself as some sort of free spirit like Cool Hand Luke or Randle P McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest character? Well if he does I can assure you he's not because he's much more like Max Candy in Cape Fear or David Koresh suicidal cult leader. His work colleagues while right wing are even beginning to see him as dangerous a Gobellian loon. Miranda Devine has him destroying any notion of journalism reasoned news. She sees him turning the front pages and media into little more than a war of unverifiable opinion all in the name of free speech. Bolt is a fully fledged Trumpster who believe in the man and his method that anything said needs no verification because his followers will simply believe it to be true. However Bolt is losing respect as fast if not faster than Donald Trump. We don't have the history of religious fervour the USA has. We don't have a David Koresh like figure who believed himself to be a prophet. Current research has shown we don't ache for the level of 'free speech' that Bolt does. We actually want to retain Section 18C that demands civility and a level of fact. We aren't Trumpsters who find god in men like the DonaldBolt won't tell you this but his favorite Right Wing Comedian genius and Breitbart editor who he promotes on his show the Bolt Report Milo has been dropped like a burning hot coal by US conservatives because of his promotion of pedophilia. Will Bolt jump declare it "fake news" and rise publicly in his defense as he did George Pell? Conservatives Shocked To Discover That Milo Yiannopoulos Is A Terrible Human Being Bolt like Trump is flipping turning the argument to nonsense trying as best he can to obscure any notion of truth.
How often have we heard Bolt say "I'm an individual treat me like one" My position is no your not Andrew Bolt. Your socialization your history and your patterns of behavior make you predictable and recognizable as a person not of class but of a 'class' in society. The problem however you are totally misguided. You may network with the business and political class but your not one. Yes your a tool in both ways. That however can't be said of newly arrived immigrants that haven't found their place. Yes criminal exist but all immigrants and refugees aren't criminals as you suggest and as Trump suggested in his dumb remark about Sweden. Are you implying Rita Panahi has the seeds within her that are a danger to us? No well I do for reasons other than her Iranian heritage. She displays the same values that you do false ones that have you kid yourself about the value of 'me' over and above 'we' in social thinking. That criminal didn't commit crime because he was Iranian as you are not a prick because you are Australian it's because what you and he do have in common is selfishness and not selflessness.
"The two are actually incompatible, in the opinion of many students of Islam." Bolt Is Bolt slipping he's actually acknowledged the nature of opinion but supports one by his fact less use of "many" There is 1.6 billion Muslims in the world with "many" differing opinions but Bolt only has a single focus a very narrow focus because he he has a preconditioned conclusion. He takes the opinion of Hirsi Ali "sharia law is among the most dehumanizing, demeaning and degrading for women ever devised by man:"Bolt avoids revealing or even explaining why of the 50 majority Muslim Countries There have been so many women Muslim leaders and MPs. Why it has been in fact in the most populous of Muslim nations. Long before Australia had its first. Why is it that Andrew Bolt leaves this hidden in his eagerness to prove Muslim women are all repressed? Does Bolt find that in Tunisia woman's the right to legal abortion since the 70s and their right to equal pay is repressive? Kurdish women fight along side men hardly an indication they are property. It's the narrow and selected focus that gives Bolt away Iran is not the center of the universe of Islam there are more than 40 nations that prove Bolt Hirsi and Lyons wrong and Bolt's refusal to acknowledge that fact just reinforces that free speech is merely his claim on the right to misinform. As much as Trump did in his claims about "did you hear what happened in Sweden"
Bolt quotes Miranda Devine for support she is the last person to argue for Andrew Bolt's form of journalism. She is totally against unverifiable fact less opinion taking the place of verifiable news.
"After last night I again wonder why conservatives go on Q&A
to be sneered at by the host, overtalked by a stacked panel and jeered
by carefully curated audience of feral haters, primed to boo."BoltThis is coming to you form Andrew Bolt whose Bolt Report has a sneering host delivering his opinion piece each night which doesn't exist on Q&A. Stacked Panel I'd say Bolt's format of Bolt and friends is what's regarded as a 'stacked panel' Bolt can't get an audience because his show needs anally tight production values allowing Bolt to cut his interviewees off if they get too clever for him. What we see here is not self promotion because that is too difficult it's pathetic act of trying to downgrade the opposition. However Andrew Bolt's fast losing friends even News Corp personnel are turning against Australia's only Trumpster.Miranda Devine, Paul Kelly and others aren't standing too close to the Andrew Bolt style of bullshit
What Bolt calls debate. "After Trump suggests a non-existent terrorist attack took place in
Sweden, supporters claim the media is covering up migrant crimes" Reported by Fox News According to Trump the Swedes don't even know what's going on. However in fact the only truth is that there has been an increase in immigration. The crime rate has dropped over the past decade and no terrorist act has occurred. Trump's White House media are in a daily scramble just trying to shore up and explain away Trumps bloopers and Andrew Bolt pretends there aren't that many. because he simply ignores them as he did with Tony Abbott he's practiced. There is no debate if there's no reality there's just mind games.
Obviously clear thinking was never on any syllabus that Bolt addressed. He wasn't the sort of person to simply drop out of university. Others noticed his lack of ability and his ego stopped him from trying and learning along the way so he failed.
Imagine if there was a vote on whether andrew Bolt was of value or not simply imagine if his blog weren't so anally moderated and his Bolt Report so strictly produced. How long would he last if it weren't for the curtain he's behind.
Wait a minute two days ago it was Bolt having a tantrum that Anna Bligh applied and was appointed. Predicting that the banks foresaw a Labor Party win. Today there seems to be some sort of turn around suggesting Bolt is confused. However you won't hear that from him. " It’s actually something of a (small) compliment to the Coalition." McCrann
