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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.
While Angus Taylor is telling us "Net-Zero doesn't mean no Carbon emissions" Andrew Forrest is going full tilt renewables.
Andrew Forrest and Mukesh Ambani, the richest men in India and
Australia respectively, have just gone public with renewable energy
deals on a scale previously unthinkable. As the Coalition ramps up its
fossil fuel subsidies, Tim Buckley unpacks the staggering foray by
Fortescue Future Industries into green hydrogen and Reliance Industries
into solar.
Unfortunately, the “big lie” recipe seems to have found its place in
Australia. There is no better example than the recent resignation of
former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian as a result of ICAC revealing it
was investigating whether she had been involved in ‘a breach of public
trust’ between 2012 and 2018 because of her relationship with disgraced
former MP Daryl Maguire. The mainstream media and media personalities
have tried to portray the former Premier as a victim of the “nasty ICAC”
which is really a stooge for disrupting “good” government.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is quoted saying that the former
Premier had ‘a lot more to contribute to Australian politics’ and that
‘she has tremendous support both in the Liberal Party and, I think right
across NSW’.
‘A grubby political deal is not necessarily a corrupt
one and it should be the voters that decide whether it is or not, not
lawyers applying their own subjective and vague criteria of what’s
“corrupt”… The public should decide whether its trust has been breached,
not bureaucrats.’
Berejiklian had no problems in slamming ICAC accusing it of pursuing her over “ historic matters” that had already been investigated and explained.
Non of which actually reflects the truth and Morrison is now using it to stop putting a Federal and Independant ICAC into place. Rather he's going to put a toothless body in situ instead. An Australian "big lie" is coming our way.
Where are the US billionaires, the Wall Streeters, the Big Four tax
firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC? Michael West explores the mystery of the
Pandora Papers in this first of a two-part series.
As
Victoria pursues justice for its First Peoples, we begin the search for
truth by exploring what life was like here before Europeans changed
everything.
Saving the planet is "a tax" according to Taylor while "exporting coal and increased emissions" a boon, revenue for a minority of LNP donor interests. Is there a more selfish representation of what Australia is as a nation than that offered by Angus Taylor? Is there any other nation that supports these LNP policies?
Emissions
Reduction Minister Angus Taylor has warned the the Business Council’s
plan for bigger emissions reductions are effectively a carbon tax.
The
Climate Solutions Fund is a fillip for the Government’s fossil fuel
backers and offers little in the way of energy policy reform to reduce either Australia’s emissions or power prices. Tim Buckley reports.
WHAT WE NEED IN AUSTRALIA IS TO ALL BE SLEEPING GIANTS
Mired in scandal and controversy, people simply don't trust the Government. Now is the time
for a real push for a proper Federal ICAC, says investigations editor
Ross Jones.
FAKE NEWS
GEORGE PELL: NOW EVEN CRIKEY ASKS TOUGH QUESTIONS OF THE ABC'S 'WITNESS'
It's not just the "Right" that thinks Cardinal George Pell was accused of child rape by a sole accuser who the ABC and police should have realised could not be trusted. Now the far-Left Crikey publishes two articles raising serious questions. They are by former ABC
investigative reporter David Hardaker. Why did the ABC not run such pieces itself?
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Going to the dogs the valueless part of News Corp, Andrew Bolt, not realestate.com.au. is barking. Murdoch's charity case Andrew Bolt wouldn't exist without the ABC. He's like a barnacle attached to its side a parasite feeding off it. He's doing nothing for the ever-shrinking News Corp's Print and Foxtel investments.
Why does Bolt stick to stories that have long gone past the 24/7 news cycle? Because he's lazy and never original? The rest of his work The Bolt Report is produced for him and anyone can read an autocue and wave their hands about in faux earnestness. Talk about Bolt complaining about Pell's poor treatment at the hands of the ABC Yesterday he'd virtually declared Jackie Trad guilty and had resigned when she stepped aside until an investigation was completed, unlike the LNP Angus Taylor. Yet Murdoch media ignored that and has gone to town fake news-wise.
ALAN JONES AT 79 ESCAPES HIS IDIOT ENEMIES
Can Alan Jones' haters hear themselves as they gloat over his resignation from 2GB? Chris Masters warns they'll get him: "Without
the bully pulpit he is at last disarmed." The man is 79, retires a
winner, and still, they dream of finally getting him? Besides, he's still on Sky, and Masters is a fool who thought saying Jones was gay would hurt him.
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"Still on SKY," says Andrew Bolt which is on the rapidly sinking SS Foxtel the most expensive subscriber nothing to offer service in Australia. It's Murdoch's Titanic with subscribers abandoning ship. Sky is definitely not a Foxtel drawcard. Yes, everything is STILL on Sky even David Speers abandoned it for a larger and more respected profile on the ABC.
WHY THE ROYAL COMMISSION'S FINDINGS AGAINST PELL ARE SO WRONG
Monica Doumit's takedown of the royal commission's findings against Cardinal George Pell is devastating. What a disgrace those
findings are, and shame on the journalists who gleefully swallowed
them.
Royal Commissions, The Australian British based Judicial System, The DPP, The Police, Australia is "SO WRONG" But Andrew Bolt and Pell are right. Bolt and his mate Pell are like those two Catholics in heaven who think they are the only two there.
HOW LIBERALS CAN BEAT THE VIRUS AND LOSE THE ELECTION
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg: "Australians know there is no
money tree." They do?: "On top of the 1.3 million on JobSeeker, there’s
another 5.5 million on JobKeeper." The Liberals may soon pay for their
money tree: "A cliff is looming in September when the JobSeeker payment
is due to halve and the JobKeeper allowance cuts out." And Labor sniffs it.
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The echo of a moron in a straightjacket yelling "politicians have beaten the virus"? Even the notion that the virus has been beaten by politicians is so Trumpish and Quixotic it's mentally retarded. The Human race hasn't beaten the virus at all some have simply got out of it's way better than others and not all by any genius or enlightened decisions on their part either. The only thing that might beat the virus is science. However, LNP lead by Tony Abbott shredded that possibility. We once had world-renown research base in Roya Parade Parkville the CSIRO. Cutting Scientific research budgets was Abbott's way of beating Climate Change. We might guess with certainty if he were still leader he would have done it again for the Pandemic as Trump has. If only he could shut Fauci and the CDC up.
Job Keeper, Job Seeker welfare cop a Bolt's bashing surprise, surprise but not the bashing workers cop from corporations and business culture and the stealing of billions in wages and Super payments without anyone jailed. The cuts to penalty rates benefit them but increase the "precariousness" of jobs all of which just might be considered an additional tax cut or indirect corporate welfare for businesses on top of the legitimate cuts they received. CEOs don't produce more just their wages and bonuses.
Without demand, there is no supply required. People without money to survive can't spend so it's up to Bolt the whinging Dutchman with pockets full to stop spending his ill-gotten gains overseas and start spending here in Australia. Lead the way Bolt and do it in public and see how much your appreciated.
ZOMBIE ALERT! Energy Minister Angus Taylor has once again repeated a misleading claim on inheriting an "emissions deficit" from Labor. RMIT ABC Fact Check explains why it's misleading.
We have growing electricity demand, a coal exit or a policy ... to encourage renewable energy I can’t see it happening,” McConnell said.
Tristan Edis, from consultancy Green Energy Markets, earlier this year found clean energywould provide 35% of Australia’s total electricity needs within two years as solar power transformed the national energy market. But he said the pace was unlikely to continue as things stand. “We don’t see the economics of the energy market supporting significant levels of investment in large-scale wind and solar beyond this year without some sort of reward for greenhouse gas abatement.”
Before agreeing to release nearly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine, President Donald Trump extorted a promise from his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to appear on American television and act out a script prepared for him by Trump’s aides, the top American diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, told the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor testified to the House of Representatives as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Tuesday, and a release of his prepared remarks showed that he has blown the case against the president wide open. While most of the damning evidence of Trump’s wrongdoing has been public for nearly a month now, Taylor’s account provides revealing details and confirms the most damaging inferences a reasonable observer would have had about the Ukraine scandal. Here are seven key details in his remarks:
COLUMN The monstrous self-pity of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, caught last weekend on TV, shows how close the royal family has come to self-imploding. Why are so few of the family worthy of being royals? And their defence via "close sources" - that they "singlehandedly" were "modernising" the royalty shows exactly their problem.
The absurd commentary of Andrew Bolt reveals itself here. Did Princess Margret destroy the Monarchy, Did Prince Andrew and Harry and Meghan won't either. Did all of these Royals hate the press and say so of course, they did. The press, including Bolt, have used them for the laziest form of profitable thoughtless press possible and Andrew Bolt proving it here and now. The press has scandalised the royals for-profit and other reasons throughout history the are camp followers.
However, should Meghan and Harry win their defamation cases, people like Bolt will be forced to think about what they write? Mordecai Bromberg brought Bolt to heel along with News Corp lawyers telling Bolt they wouldn't appeal. At the time we saw what " monstrous self-pity " was, and it's all that was heard from Andrew Bolt as nobody supported him. Celebrities have recently been seen to fight back and despite the expense have won. The damage won't be to the Royals but the media.
OUR BIG RENEWABLES SPEND: NOT JUST POINTLESS AND PAINFUL, BUT UNINSPIRING
So much money, so little effect, and no-one follows our
lead: "Australia has spent 11 times the global average on renewable
power .. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, which represent about 1.3
per cent of the global total could start to fall from next year
following a boom in wind and solar power investment to three times that
of Germany."
If Australians have spent 11 times the global average on renewables what's it to Andrew Bolt it's in the main private and not government spending and it largely to counter the price of electricity maintained by the government and power wholesalers. Bolt's fretting about what his neighbours are doing what a wanker he is. The boom is in investment the side effect has been the lowering of emissions and the cost of electricity production. One wind turbine counters the emissions it creates in 6 months and has a life expectancy of emission-free energy production for 25 years at a production cost far less than coal. So if someone invests in renewables he's making a profit and if his source of energy is also renewables his cost of electricity is at an all-round PROFIT which cant be said for coal lover Bolt who claims that's uninspiring.
34 trillion dollars available rejected by Taylor who bought $80 mill worth of nothing from his rowing mates and tried to have grasses redefined for the family. The man who works for himself while we pay.
Except, despite what Taylor has claimed, investors are actually calling on governments to put in place policies that will support a transition away from fossil fuels, including the reintroduction of a carbon price, a phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies and an end to thermal coal. A collection of 477 global investors have issued a joint statement ahead of a meeting of G20 leaders in Osaka, calling on governments to do more to tackle climate change and plan for a world without coal. Specifically, investors have called on governments to “put a meaningful price on carbon” and to “phase out thermal coal power worldwide by set deadlines.” The group of investors, that manage a combined $US34 trillion in investment assets, with signatories to the statement including Australian investment managers, including Australian Super, Cbus, Hesta, First State Super, IFM Investors and BT Financial Group. During his tenure as federal energy minister, Angus Taylor has overseen a period of increasing greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and has raised fears among members of the COAG energy council that he has no plans for reducing emissions in the electricity sector and may disengage with the council altogether on the issue of emissions policy.
Self-Interest always comes first in the LNP's Church; it's simply a Conservative Entrepreneurial and Free market principle. Me before We. (ODT)
Key points:
The Statement of Ministerial Standards says that for 18 months after they leave office, former ministers will not lobby members of the Government on matters they had dealt with as a minister
Senator Patrick said Mr Pyne's new role did not pass the pub test
He said Mr Pyne was hired due to his insider knowledge
There’s plenty of international competition for the top of the medal count for outstanding achievement in bastardry so how does our own contingent of awfulness stack up against the might of Team USA led by a ludicrous, tangerine blowhard and Team UK who’s grooming a dishevelled, bloated smurf as their Chef de Mission?
Australia lead the way to this global shame and application of concentration camps (ODT)
Neither country is a stranger to indefinitely imprisoning innocent or untried people. Australia’s innovation – one taken up in Europe as well as the United States – was in beginning in earnest to dismantle an always-fragile global consensus on the proper treatment of refugees. Australia turned that on its head when it started down the road of arbitrarily punishing those fleeing war, violence and persecution. When conservatives then aggressively politicised that fact, they created a model. The Australian experience suggests that once established, such camps are difficult to dislodge within the routines of national politics. To disestablish these camps anywhere, we need to oppose them everywhere.
Bolt proves that he's simply a hypocrite choosing cases that suit him to defend others to attack. His so-called "free speech" argument doesn't hold water given his history of calling for the sacking of people for voicing their opinions. Where was Bolt when Yassmin posted her opinion on Twitter Bolt was busy calling for her sacking from the ABC and any other contract she had. So much so he was a voice that hounded a very bright and educated Australian out of the country. (ODT)
Bolt throws some figures in the air, and they are the "facts" facts which in fact nobody has researched other than the Russians or then the Soviets for political reasons. The Soviets were really the only ones to know what the death numbers really were. Andrew Bolt today swears by them.... how hypocritical don't you think? We know they were concerned because they have a 30k restricted zone from Chernobyl in place today even after they sealed off the reactor which will be required to be sealed and resealed off for the next 600+ years.
Yet Bolt is suggesting Nuclear Power is the cheapest source of power today despite economist estimates of renewables being 40 times less and going down. Have we heard him say that the Russian scientists were overcompensating the damage and figures he still quotes from 1987 and as a result should remove the protective cover that was put over "the still burning reactor" today?
Bolt uses what we only know was reported at the time of the accident and immediately after 32 years ago.
Well given science has direct knowledge of what occurred when the bombs were dropped over Japan and the long term consequences of that event and given that Chernobyl was much bigger than that as the equivalent of 40+ times more comparisons and probable extrapolations can easily be made that are far more accurate than any denial Bolt has to offer.
What Bolt is doing is the same as the deniers model used that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Unless a 100% connection can be established, the anti-smoking argument remains unfounded, and he's applying it to Chernobyl. Lobbyists for Tobacco made fortunes for years and still do. Science and Epidemiology base their conclusions on the most likely outcomes being the most probable, not Bolt's required 100% causal evidence. Guess he doesn't care if his kids smoke?
The opinionator is little better than the Round-Up salesman who claimed it was safe to drink and when offered some ran for cover. Sorry, Bolt is a braggart and blowhard whose arguments for Nuclear Power carry no weight based on his safety rationale. He also claimed Fukushima is safe pounding his chest and saying he'd holiday in both those places without the need for any extra precaution defying the general consensus of science yet again that they remain far more dangerous than we all think.
So much so the Trump Administration has stoped American scientists to even publicly reporting their research findings on issues like Climate, Pollution or the most effective or ineffective sources of energy production.
It's no coincidence that Murdoch Power is only a success in Australia and the US they exist in the UK but don't have the traction the have there to resist the onslaught of the money supporting renewables. In fact, among the OECD countries and the world, we are known for being the most self-interested resisters.
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23m " Marxism sure isn't dead - not at Melbourne University, where it is now wearing the clothes of the global warming movement."Bolt
Of course, it is as is Islam and Capitalism; that's what universities are about, and we have 10% of what is regarded as the world's best. But Bolt wh never got a degree somehow hints they aren't. How and what does he actually base his opinion on? What establishes him to be above world opinion judged on established criteria and internationally recognized? A Walter Mitty complex it seems along this Tony Thomas whose reputation is no greater than Bolt's. Karl will be remembered well after these two's bones have melted and their graves have grown over and no visitors. I doubt even Bolt's children will keep visiting his.
Energy Minister Angus Taylor says the Coalition inherited a 755 million tonne emissions "deficit" when it came to office, and that it had since been turned around by 1.1 billion tonnes. Fact Check finds that to be misleading.
