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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.
Six years ago, he shocked the world when he leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to collect every single phone call, text message and email, and pry into the private lives of every person on Earth.
Collins had used information gleaned from his position as a board member at a pharmaceutical company to alert his son, and close associates of a failed test for a new company drug before news of it became public. Federal investigators said this information prompted Collins’ family and friends to sell their shares in the company and save over $768,000 in losses.
The most fabulous piece of social engineering in modern history took a billion people from starvation feudal oppression and saved their lives in just 70 years. Meanwhile, Capitalism in the same period has widened the wealth, income and opportunity gaps like never before. While China is improving health housing education and social mobility for its citizens, the West is destroying it for theirs. Andrew Bolt in the meantime claims at what price? At what purpose basic and universal dignity.
Under the guise of freedom, Australians have in 70 years become the world's biggest per-capita polluters and are carrying the world's second greatest burden of personal debt on their shoulders. Meanwhile, the Chinese are accumulating savings leaving China as students and tourists in numbers never seen before while we are working increasing hours increasing productivity but not keeping up with the cost of living. The Chinese are sharing the profits of their increased production, while less than 10% of Australians are benefiting from theirs. What's more, the ownership of once accumulated past profits is shrinking in the West.
During the past 70 years, the Western military presence has expanded like never before. While China displays an army and military, it has only 1 base outside of its borders. The West and in particular, the US has 800 and has made it a major part of its economy. Even Australia has an unwanted presence in more countries and wants to grow as an arms exporter. China is investing in the world while we can be seen to have been doing the opposite. Timor Leste is our model of secret generosity. Greed which Andrew Bolt of course lauds or creates myths about to disguise the reality of our corrupt government actions. No matter Bolt's narratives the fact, when examined, shows China to be a modern miracle of social engineering while Australia is following Trump's model of ever-increasing militarised decay its dream of Democracy and a peoples state fast becoming a historical myth.
TRUMP WANTS AUSTRALIA TO TELL HOW IT HELPED START "RUSSIAN COLLUSION" HOAX
Australia helped to start two years of fake news about Donald Trump colluding with Russia. Now Trump wants Australia to explain how and why. So what's the problem with the Morrison Government agreeing to help him understand just what happened when Alexander Downer met George Papadopoulos? My editorial from The Bolt Report.
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Trump has also said he doesn't care if there was any Russian collusion. In fact, he doesn't care if there is any in 2020. What he wants is other countries to involve themselves in the 2020 elections only if they support him. Bolt, head up his ass, as usual, asks what's wrong with that? What's wrong, it's totally against America's constitution for a president to invite other nations to interfere in its domestic politics. It's why it's illegal for a president to hide the phone calls he makes from Congress. The problem for Morrison is he's not agreeing to help America but has agreed to help Trump. The agreement with Morrison may have been on a lesser scale compared with the conversation with Ukraine's PM asking to dig up, no manufacture dirt on a political opponent, but the intent was the same why else were the transcripts of both conversations so tightly hidden? So what's the problem with saying they were criminal and unconstitutional is the real question?
VIRTUE WARS: ANTIFA BULLIES OLD WOMAN IN WALKER
VIDEO This is what it's come to: three masked Antifa activists in Canada blocking, threatening and screaming abuse at an old woman in a walker. Activists are dangerous when they give themselves a licence to bully. It means that the more they bully even the helpless, the more virtuous they feel. Watch, as Daisy Cousens and I discuss.
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What a manufactured narrative we have here from which Andre Bolt continues to draw his wild generalisations and fantasised conclusions. Myths drawn from yet another manufactured photo opportunity the facts of which are really totally unknown. Remember Portland it wasn't an "old lady" back then that was the centre of Bolt's bullshit it was a heroic "bullied" photographer that Bolt and Cousens were all over like a rash footage they spread bullshit about. That reporter turned out to be a "fake" yes , a "fake" for which Bolt has never apologised. Andrew Bolt's Sky News draws such easy and mythical generalisations that ANTIFA, protesters are "bullies". Meanwhile, the right shoot to kill when protesting their hate and antipathies and their activities have seen a massive increase in 2019 in the number dead at their events.
Yes, they are more secretive but fucking more demonstrative and damaging too. They bring death with them. Guess the bullying is over once those being bullied are dead, so Bolt really doesn't bother amplifying their dirty deeds, does he? Israel is a state that sponsors death and has done a lot of it this year. Mass shooters feel enabled by the likes of the Andrew Bolt commentariat and that commentariat, in turn, feels emboldened by the chase for ratings and profit showing they are the loudest and highest-paid voices in the market of commodified opinion. They enable the right-wing bombers killers to come out in the daylight and play, and they feed off each other, while our governments allow them to sell their murderous encouragement.
Their voices have a two-edged purpose not to just enable right-wing violence which has exploded around the world and grown 278% in America alone in 2019, but they want to encourage and embolden push back from those they target to abuse like ANTIFA Muslims etc. The Bolt's of this world want to recruit violence, and the state allows them to do it and get away with it in the name of "free speech". However, they don't do the same for everyone. There are 44 Australian children, and their mothers in a Syrian refugee camp that are being punished for mistakes made maybe that were no fault of their own back then and still aren't now and Andrew Bolt celebrates their punishment by Peter Dutton as they are extremely "dangerous".Who are the bullies here?
MICHAEL MOBBS FLEES SYDNEY. FEARS WARMING DOOM IN THREE YEARS
CLIMATE PANIC This warmist hysteria is astonishing. Now sustainability coach Michael Mobbs is fleeing Sydney because he says global warming could soon destroy our civilisation: "My guess is water, energy, food, the seasons and economies will collapse in the next three to five years.” He should read my "11 Cool Facts on Warming to Calm Your Sobbing Child."
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Two men facing what science has told us is occurring neither able to change the facts only how they react to them. Bolt's in total denial of the science in a way that he's in denial of science altogether and not just climate science. Nevertheless, he is obsessed with those that aren't deniers but are listeners. They, on the other hand, aren't obsessed with him. Bolt is the isolationist of the two. A man with few friends who hides from the public has found his Bolt hole to speak outside of the city a safe place where he doesn't need to socialise or talk to anyone. Mobbs is the very reverse, an educated and erudite man unlike Andrew Bolt who facing scientific fact has decided, it's better for his peace of mind, to get out of town, and he's quite happy to talk about his reasons for it and even the doubts he has. Something you rarely if ever hear Bolt reveal. Bolt the bogan simply laughs and calls Mobbs an idiot offers no rational argument simply calls him a fool and disparages him. Who pray tell is the hysteric, the loudmouth who refuses to listen to anyone but himself? It's the person who runs an hour talk show that only invites people that agree with him on his show the anchor ready to cut people off should they for a moment disagree with him. Someone like Mobbs, however, is prepared to sit on panels like the Drum listening to and debating people with opposite views to his and still remain civilised. Unlike Bolt, he doesn't belittle them from a distance even if they are only 16.
David Koch didn't just involve himself in political discourse he manipulated it. Pro coal anti- Climate Change the Koch bros were known to be aggressive protectors of Koch Industries and invested millions to a vast network of organisations to protect them. The godfather of the "me" before "we " movement in America is dead. (ODT)
Koch was the US Libertarian Party's vice presidential candidate in 1980, and a generous donor to conservative causes.
The Koch brothers were best known for a vast political network they built that became popularly known as the "Kochtopus" for its far-reaching tentacles in support of conservative causes. The brothers founded the anti-tax, small government group Americans for Prosperity.
In Australia Murdoch's Sky News presents these good folk as the victims of the New Racism not the New Domestic Terrorists predominant in the current 251 mass shootings in 2019. Antifa is depicted as the new terrorists. However, they aren't Trumpsters and weren't involved in any of the 251 mass shootings an increase of 277% so far this year under Trump (ODT)
This is not what's reported by News Corp or Sky News Hacks in Australia and Trump targets Antifa as the domestic terrorists (ODT)
campaign to waste Portland’s time and revenue, an apparent political maneuver aimed at Mayor Ted Wheeler. “The gathering was never about bringing carnage or violence to the city of Portland, it was about financially crippling the progressive hotbed until they take action against antifa,” the gang said in a press release. This appears to be the first public admission by the Proud Boys that the group’s aim is to hobble Wheeler’s administration. The mayor has allowed these rallies to go on in the name of free speech, despite acknowledging that violence is often the only item on the agenda. It’s unclear whether the newfound transparency will have any impact on future demonstrations. In a response to HuffPost, Wheeler decried Tarrio’s statements but didn’t say whether he’d allow the group to continue to host the events in Portland: “I have one clear message to anyone who says they’re going to continue wasting the city’s resources over and over again: Stop wasting our time. Stop wasting taxpayer dollars. Stop hurting our businesses. We have a city to run and lives to lead,” he said. Although Tarrio on the video mentions another rally planned for October, no city permits have been issued as yet for such a gathering.
Shaming Sky News. and why David Speers is leaving (ODT)
The first target for O'Brien, who worked for all the commercial networks but enjoyed his greatest fame with Four Corners and the 7.30 Report on the ABC, were successive rounds of budget cuts that have been delivered by Coalition governments to the national broadcaster since 2000. These cuts, he said, had been "driven more by the desire to punish and by an ideological obsession than because the public broadcaster was inefficient. In my view, the day Jonathan Shier was appointed to run the ABC in the Howard years was the beginning of a dark time in that place."
His next target was his own profession, which had to "share responsibility for the great failures of our time", he said.
The first of those failings was on climate change. "We are still stuck in the mire of drab, dishonest arguments that will come at great cost to future generations," O'Brien said. "We, the journalists, have not cut through the fake news effectively. We have not properly held politicians to account." He then moved on to what he described as the "one big glaring gap in this nation's otherwise great story … the failure to reconcile Indigenous and non-indigenous Australia".
When he began his career, he said, Indigenous Australians were not even counted in the national census. "On paper, they didn't exist."
ANTIFA BASH JOURNALIST. THE NEW FASCISTS EXPOSED
I am stunned by a fresh example of how vicious the Left can be in attacking people they do not think are nice enough. Check this Antifa mob in Portland bashing photo-journalist Andy Ngo, throwing trash at him, and spraying him with quick-drying cement and milkshakes. All to show their superior "compassion".
Since Trump's election, Portland has been a battleground between the extremes of right and left yet here we have a report that ignores that fact entirely and Andy Ngo a regular participant is being raised up as an innocent bystander Journalist in this event. When in fact he's not. He was entirely a participant who chose to walk the gauntlet and provoke. Having done that he was crowdfunded to the tune of $60K. Panahi and Dean didn't mention that, nor did Andrew Bolt. As for Andrew Bolt, he has no proof and never did have that he was pranked by Antifa in Melbourne. He certainly wasn't a victim of any regular event that Andy Ngo found himself in. However, Bolt the attention-grabbing leech he is has tried to cast himself as an Aussie Andy Ngo and a right-wing hero here as Ngo was in Portland USA. They are so dissimilar it beggars disbelief that he has personally been editorialising it as if Portland was Carlton In Bolt's case, he was the aggressor. Ngo invited it! After Bolt was "pranked", "glittered" by two unidentified jokers unlike Ngo, Bolt went ballistic, and we witnessed a reaction verging on GBH by Andrew Bolt. He wasn't defending himself but out for revenge and simply refused to let those two pranksters get away. Kicking and punching any single king hit if connected by Bolt could have resulted in grievous harm or even death. He claimed they were Antifa his evidence was an anonymous claim it was them. For all, we know it could have been a Bolt supporter claiming to be Antifa to ensure Bolt wasn't arrested like George Columbaris. It certainly wasn't tested in court unlike the pussy cat shove George delivered to a soccer fan abusing his mother. Columbaris was found guilty, and Bolt never charged, which was very odd. No analysis is offered by Bolt as to what actually occurred in the case of Ngo who marched through a mass of protesters provoking the reaction he got. All we have is Bolt's puffed "what about me" as if he'd been unfairly forgotten, left out by Sky. He even posted his own video to show just how, unlike the two events really were. Not a word offered, in explanation, as to what and why this event in Portland or that the ultra-right Proud Boys were also there and busting for a fight. That all seems of little interest to Andrew Bolt's attention seeking. According to Ngo, his attacker stole his camera equipment. But video footage recorded by another journalist, The Oregonian's Jim Ryan, clearly shows an Antifa activist punching Ngo in the face. Others throw milkshakes at him:
Murdoch's Sky commentators Panahi, Dean and James? Others kept saying "they" when even Andy Ngo noted there was only "one" attacker the others just sprayed him.It's as if Ngo marched through the crowd for effect a paid performance.That's Sky News for youthe least trusted in Australia. Only one person, according to Ngo really "attacked him" but bugger what he said Panahi wasn't going to stop her rant. As for Bolt's"facts," the ultra-right-wing group Proud Boy's involvement wasn't mentioned, nor even the purpose of the demonstration. What's interesting is Bolt doing what he's most creating factless opinion and in this case, putting himself in the centre of the narrative. Strange that Bolt doesn't mention that 1) more than 3 groups were involved 2) Nobody it seems was arrested 3) Any details of why the demonstrations took place. 4) Leaving Sky News to their factless and biased commentaries presented as News and Information. 5) Bolt and Panahi one might well ask "who let them in"?(ODT)
At least three groups had planned rallies or demonstrations at different sites in the city, including members of the so-called Proud Boys and anti-fascist groups that include "Antifa," and the fights occurred when participants of the opposing groups met, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive
5. The Portland Event Was Set Up by Far-Right Activist Haley Adams
Facebook/Haley Adam; Haley Adams pictured on her Facebook page.
The “Him Too” event was set up by activist Haley Adams, who goes by the monikers “Rebel Barbie” and “Divas4Trump” on Facebook. In a statement on her Facebook page regarding the June 29 events, Adams said that her event had been a “success” and that they had “a peaceful event.” Adams had earlier reposted Ngo’s photos showing his injuries. In the caption, Adams wrote, “Stand against domestic terrorism.”
Adams wrote that members of Antifa had “attacked our policemen, journalists and innocent citizens of Portland.” Adams then said that Portland’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, would “ignore the crisis.” On her Facebook bio, Adams says that she lives in the “cesspool of Portland, Oregon.”
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The leftwing march evolved from an early afternoon rally in a downtown park organised as a counter-protest to two rightwing events. The rally organised by local group PopMob began as a vegan milkshake-themed rally and dance party, in response to rallies announced by the Proud Boys and by a group led by Haley Adams, a local rightwing figure. Adams’ event attracted around 25 people.
With significant backing from rightwing media and political figures, by late Saturday a crowdfunding website for Ngo had raised more than $60,000.
Notable by his absence on Saturday was the local rightwing figurehead Joey Gibson, who had announced that he would be leading a second amendment rights rally in Goldendale, Washington.
After a violent incident at a Portland bar, Cider Riot, after May Day celebrations, Gibson was the subject of a million dollar lawsuit brought by the bar’s owners.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/30/portland-police-cement-milkshake-leftwing-rightwing-protests There are just so many things that don't get said by Sky News, mainly why people were actually present.
This is the pinnacle of a Roger Ailes production piece because it certainly wasn't "spontaneous". Trump did absolutely nothing at the G-20 meeting other than lie and not inspire. "We have the cleanest water in the world" he was quoted as dumb to say when cities like Flint have never recovered, and the floods in the Pennsylvania coal fields have actually washed coal dust into their water supply. Trump has ensured that the scientists of the EPA Admin can't say, that's right can't publicly announce what they'd discovered. Yet, Fox News can and do broadcast, fabricate, and invent Trump News for little purpose other than ratings. Primarily domestic but even International news for a political purpose.
To believe Trump flew into South Korea and spontaneously called Kim Jon Un to act as if their security was as flexible as they made out beggars belief. Their reality is totally fake and meant to fool and confuse their peoples alike.
11m Another whinge bet Bolt is pouring out what he's been quietly grieving about all these months. The loss of his overpaid job on 2GB and attaching himself to AlanJones as if they were the station's only heroes. He even suggests it was Bolt rather than Stever Price that brought them their high rating. As if the management hadn't done any analysis or polling to arrive at their decision. Now back from a surprise holiday of 8 weeks in the past six months, Bolt's spitting the dummy and claiming victimhood yet again. In a kneejerk reaction Bolt began his own PODCAST with his son Damian, who needless to say wasn't there to debate his dad. He was going to show 2GB, but it went down faster than the Titanic after some 5 attempts. The career of Andrew Bolt radio broadcaster was over. News Corp turned Bolt's blog into a PAYWALL a billboard advertising their mastheads and Bolt's own program but effectively removing it as an attention and self-aggrandisement site for the self-labelled headliner Bolt. It seemed as Andrew Bolt had, had his day was gone had lost his backroom shine and value and was now little more than a bleeding heart who ran to the Socialist Netherlands to lick his wounds. When he got back even his friends, the Magpies had left him.
Why Langton? Well, Marcia Langton was one of the crew of Indigenous Australians that had Andrew Bolt convicted of Racial vilification. Yet again we find Bolt with a personal interest in attacking Langton rather than a professional one.
The ACL and the Catholic Church are all fighting for what the NRL did in the case of Folau the right to discriminate on the grounds of religion. But not in the case of the NRL.
When it comes to an assessment of what Australians think who we admire and feel should be honored Andrew Bolt always mocks the majority choice. In fact, if awards represent who and what we value as a culture Andrew Bolt distinctly stands out as the guy at the back of the room whining and complaining while the rest of the country celebrates. One thing is for sure we don't pay him much attention and with the tools and technology given him to be heard, he's fast becoming an abject failure. His Boss Rupert Murdoch isn't faring particularly well in either the UK USA or here if the polls are any indication. His man in Australia's odds are definitely lengthening and time is running out for the Conservatives globally unless they can start a war somewhere. World honors and poll successes go to Corbyn, Marcon, Sanders Comey Merkel & Putin while the standout failures are Trump, May, Abbott, Wilders, Le Penn
Bolt sounds like Tony Abbott to me even when winning he was always declaring himself a loser. He was PM but his hands were always tied The Senate was hostile and all our institutions against him. It's why the conservatives are so intent on changing our values putting all our kids into uniforms and ensuring our voting laws and electoral system be changed. Gone are the days when who you voted for and prayed to were a matter of conscience gone are the naive days of trust, surveillance is now the center of importance if the FSB and Stasi could have neighbors watching each other why can't we? If you voted Labor once that's what will define you forever and a day. PolPot knew that and so does Andrew Bolt. He just loves it when the walls have ears after all he is a Murdoch man.
But who will take their place? May has the DUP the Christian Zionists onside and Turnbull has One Nation who will do a deal. The conservatives aren't that united when push comes to shove. That's only 3 questions.
Bolt single handedly has spoilt the Charity of having any future after hi use of them in his PR campaign to deflect the blame from him to Antifa who weren't even present. The group like Bolt merely claimed the event. Bolt, however, has claimed, owned and celebrated his mad dog violence that could have killed or seriously injured somebody. Cut the bruha and what have you got a 58-year-old man violently assaulting two pranksters for throwing glitter at him. Demand Andrew Bolt be charged after all George Colombaris was for a petty shove.
Let's put it this way the tables and chairs saved the two glitter throwers from the raging bull Andrew Bolt had they been concrete bollards Bolt would have trouble walking now. So to mock the bollards is to mock himself and Bolt does that on a regular basis because he doesn't think before moving his lips. Bolt should get in his car and prove Andrews wrong. I will in the meantime call Bolt stoned with stupidity. He's a generalizing pratt who claims we are all individuals as he is but lives his life in a world of stereotypes he is the role model of Australia of shame
No mention of Catholic I see. However given that those imprisoned are there for "terrorist activities and don't formally belong to any terrorist organization their religion is incidental because they are merely 0.001% of Australia's Muslim population. What 54 of 500,000 are significant numbers to Andrew Bolt and ISIS
One need only ask why Andrew Bolt hasn't been charged for attempted GBH in a public place. Here he is free to play judge and jury on justice in this state. Colombians used to come to Australia snatch $1mill of jewellery off unsuspecting jewellery wholesalers. The did it in epidemic proportions. If caught they'd be given bail and allowed to leave the country. More would come in and the robberies would continue. Did Andrew Bolt ever comment I doubt it. When Bolt's Sudanese Victorians amount to 50 recidivists charged on 100 offenses each often the same offense the statistics Bolt always quotes are skewed to the max to support his danger stranger commentary.
Bolt is obsessed isn't he. We never here the good old jokes Bolt tells when he stands up to talk. That must be his jihad. He simply gets straight into attacking everything blindly.
Bolt actually believes clean coal, an oxymoron, is cheaper than renewables. That Australia would be better off if science was merely voluntary and that politics, business and finance were the true driving force free to promote coal. Meanwhile Trump's plan for coal expansion in the USA seems to be taking a hit from California and other states that are turning the backs on him and signing clean enery pacts with the EU and each other independently. Trade and investment agreements with Germany and emissions target. Australia with pants down is waiting for the mining companies to order us to bend over so they can get on with the job of digging holes in the ground and shifting the profits off sure. Mining companies aren't delivering the promises of jobs either because they have turned to robotics instead.. This seems to be a game of Simon says and Bolt does except Simon mines dirty energy.