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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.
Dutton and Morrison claimed to be the genius behind saving Australia from terrorists, criminals, and children and their mothers who threaten this country. Flip the coin and they are the saviours of the drowning these drowning guilty. They are also among the politicians that cried falsely "baby overboard" and refused the ALP's exchange policies with Malaysia preferring to pay Cambodia $50 million for resettling one refugee while refusing NZ any resettlement gratis.
The fact that they were noted for calling asylum seekers "illegals" against UN agreements we signed and refusing them the degree of health care even accorded POWs during the 2nd world war shows the degree of moral and ethical value Australia holds up as an example to the rest of the world. The fact that it's Scott Morrison who started the silence of "on-water matters" is now our PM shows Australia hasn't ever felt so much shame since the days we claimed to have discovered an empty Continent in order to steal the land off the original peoples here for 60,000 years and it does not stop there. (ODT)
The number of asylum seekers arriving by air rose last month despite
federal government attempts to halt the trend and respond to fears that
tens of thousands of foreign workers are being "trafficked" into
slavery. An average of 77 people a day claimed protection after
landing at an Australian airport during November — higher than previous
averages — reigniting debate overexploitation of the visa system.
Member for Lyne Dr David Gillespie, Member for Higgins Dr Katie Allen, Member for Bowman Dr Andrew Laming and Member for Reid Dr Fiona Martin MP voted
for these medical decisions to be returned to politicians and
bureaucrats, rather than remain with their own professional colleagues. In case you missed the significance of that, four medical
professionals, including a paediatrician (Allen) and a psychologist
(Martin), voted to give the power to assess the medical conditions of
seriously ill adults and children to non-medical professionals.
The Market is being manipulated in a cash grab from the aged and superannuants. Australia's rich want their inheritance early. The drop in interest rates is forcing the sale of properties and the shift of cash into the casino of the wealthy the stock market. Company tax cuts has seen companies buying back their own shares and forcing the price up not investing in growth or jobs. The LNP has been forcing pensioners into the high-risk stock market against their wishes proving the myth of the free market. (ODT)
Investing in gold and high-risk shares and selling the family home before they intended to are some of the ways retirees are trying to stay afloat as paltry returns on cash deposits force them to reassess their finances.
The man accused of pressuring government psychiatrists to
alter their reports and prevent on mental health grounds the
extradition of an alleged paedophile to Australia has been promoted to
Health Minister of Israel
Yaakov Litzman's appointment was
confirmed in a cabinet meeting on Friday, despite the Zionist Federation
of Australia warning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the appointment would amount to a "slap in the face" to the Australian
Jewish community.
He is the second person on the island to set himself on fire in two weeks, amid a worsening mental health crisis. The 31-year-old Indian man, who had "severe" health issues, was turned away from the island's health clinic on Friday, Manus detainee Shamindan Kanapadhi said.He had been denied medical treatment for a long time, Mr Kanapadhi said. "Stressed" and "anguished", he self-harmed before locking himself in his room in the island's Hillside compound and setting it on fire about 1pm.
Australia's Concentration Camp Australia's Shame. It will take a lot of years for Australian Politics to live this down Dutton doesn't care, what's mental illness or two? However what might otherwise have been. The refusal of the NZ deal makes it even worse. What is worse is Dutton and the LNP have encouraged desperate peoples to take to boats from Africa to South America on the basis of saving people from drowning!!!
Imran Mohammed 22 just graduated from high school jailed by the LNP for 5 years in Australia a country that stole opportunity from many people for little more than political self -interest rather than National Interest and Pride Australia's shame. (ODT)
The multi-billion-dollar Emissions Reduction Fund is under review and one idea being considered is to use taxpayer money to subsidise power generators, including coal-fired stations.
SCREAMS, POLICE: BORIS HAS A PROBLEM
Johnson's confrontation with his latest girlfriend should make Conservative MPs panic about making him Prime Minister: "Police were called to the home of Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, ... after neighbours heard a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging... Symonds could be heard telling Johnson to 'get off me'."
Bolt's favourite for becoming the new UK PM has always been an unsavoury character with an explosive personality and he's proved it. Boris doesn't have a problem he is and always has been the problem. He wanted to be PM over and above working for Great Britain which in all probability will become Little Britain (ODT)
The Guardian reports police went to the home of the MP and his partner after a neighbour heard an argument.
The witnesses heard extremely threatening voices the smashing of plates and a woman demanding Johnson to leave. The male may well have been likened to John Sekta turs of phrase. Imagine the reporting and opinions from Murdoch press and Sky if it had been Sekta.
An Australian whose social psychology shows the distinct elements of the social confusion of most Australians that indicates passive racism that still exists among most Australians but she also reveals our diversity. Clearly, racism reveals itself in moments like Kennerly found herself. She raised abuse and the worst of facts to smear demonstrators not demonstrating about those facts but Australia Day. That was her racism. Price is working hard to play within a set of rules laid down by a Colonial past and her racism is reflected in the duality of her position. She has experienced both worlds and has chosen the dominant. Unlike Cate McGregor who as a transgender person clearly sees the misogyny experienced by women in our dominant white male culture. Why does Bolt support Price but deny McGregor because Cate is right speaking from oppression and Price is white and not. She's certainly not Stan Grant or Adam Goodes that's for sure.
Cook wanted to know how many scientific papers accepted the premise that most global warming was caused by human activity. Only 78 out of 11,944 studies – or 0.7% – were explicit in rejecting that, against 3,896 that endorsed it.
This graphic summarises the studies into scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, that look at expert opinion of either climate scientists who have published peer-reviewed climate research or peer-reviewed climate papers.
Another commentator in the Murdoch stable, Andrew Bolt, was also gushing:
‘Professor Ian Plimer destroys a popular warmist hoax.’
Not very discerning, those folk in the Murdoch media stable.
An interesting point made on the ABC tonight was the Conservative political leader who almost 50 years ago declared Climate Change a real and most dangerous reality we were facing was Margret Thatcher why? She was a Scientist!!
Kerry-Anne Kennerly and Andrew Bolt certainly don't back an Indigenous voice do they unless like Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine they agree with them? Any opposition peep from an Indigenous person will bring down a shitstorm of abuse in the form of racist bastardry smearing and tarring the 3% of Australia's diverse native communities with a single brush is their want. If Stan Grant admits to bicultural confusion normal a state of being for the majority of Indigenous Australians not living in remote communities but even then a degree of the same it's their indigeneity that Bolt blames for dysfunction. It's nothing to do with white Australia. However not so for the Dutch cultural mongrel Andrew Bolt. Yet he openly admits he never felt Australian until he was in his late 30s over half his age but now he does, did someone push a magic switch? I think he's a fake lacks authenticity and refuses to accept the diversity in all of us
When an Indigenous Australian claims that diversity as multicultural and all Australian they are called liars laggards and wastrels who aren't trying hard enough to be Aussies like Bolt especially if they claim to love their kids as much as Bolt does his. It's simply not the case in Indigenous Culture according to racists like Bolt. White Nationalists, our bureaucracy and governments have monitored Indigenous Australia for the past 200 + years and have continued to treat them as different rather than as diverse. That ingrained treatment is a trend that's racist.
Anyone backing listening to Indigenous Australians and hearing their voice, unless of course, it's Jacinta Price or Warren Mundine, knows nothing about Indigenous truth and are simply twisted left-wing boong lovers. After all, Bolt even says openly he has more claim to being Indigenous didn't you know? There are very few Indigenous Australians and those that are black need to be over 60 born before Bolt acknowledges their claim to indigeneity. Never mind that for 38 years he also felt more Dutch and only born here. Now he accuses those who do belong of not being as true blue as him.
All Bolt does is magnify his racism and a life of his own fake assimilation excusing his aloofness as shyness as a personality quirk hiding his confused bigotry based purely colour. This lack of authenticity is the very core of Andrew Bolt's racism. With the unacceptance of Australian diversity which he expects of others is why he's such an isolated unauthentic fake personality. For over half his life he felt he didn't belong. His dreaming is retirement on a Dutch Barge and he now claims he's a role model Australian.
This Australian racism has been going on for centuries and its roots are colonial. However, it's not an all Australian condition conducted by everyone all of the time but is a condition that raises it's ugly head and reveals itself to all of us sometimes and it did. (ODT) 'How bad can it be thinking the cops will arrest you because you haven't paid a bill?'
Bolt's Report is all style no content. Yet like Kennerly when confronted with the fact that he's wrong he too turns to abuse smearing and bastardry. He did it laughing at the South Sudanese having a beauty contest. He mocked Yassmin and Waleed's wife. Manners and style is Bolt trying to dominate the stage with fake authenticity. Hasn't anybody noticed when Bolt is confronted with opposition as polite as he is and really knows his subject matter? Bolt simply disappears. He shunted James Matheson off to a nebulous "times up" and ex-PM of NZ James Bolger with a timid boys silence. Bolt's produced and not very well. The ABC's Drum has a debating format without anger which makes Bolt look the preacher he is. As of Monday watch the DRUM at 6pm and laugh at Bolt at 7pm and you will come to realise just what a waste of time he is.
Politics is a game. Its other name is, “beat your opponent.” To…
This election, if we want facts to matter, we need to reinforce them across every social media platform we can access. We cannot rely on the MSM to their proper job. We must to do it for them, shame them, expose them for their dereliction of duty and ensure that those with whom we are in daily contact, know the facts. And we need to do it loudly. This election, facts will be important; actual facts, that is, not the ones spin-doctored to make them appear something the
Will this LNP government confiscate his prize and deem it
benefits of crime? However being an asylum seeker isn't "illegal" in
our coda of laws. We are signitories to an International Asylum Policy
agreement. Peter Dutton has been getting tings wrong lately will this be
another? (ODT)
The winner of this year's $100,000 Victorian Prize
for Literature couldn't be at the awards presentation on Thursday
evening. He was unavoidably detained elsewhere - on Manus Island, where
he has been incarcerated for more than five years.
5m The apologist of incompetence is all that Bolt is. No evidence to provide the basis for his apology other than. 1) News Corps business model and Bolt is Fox News's muppet, marionette down under. 2) Bolt rose to the position not on merit of any sort, expertise but purely on ambition and the lack of anyone else wanting to play the role of a vacuous talking head. Those around him wanted and aspired to be journalists Bolt didn't. The collection of facts, their verification and attempted analysis were an anathema to Bolt. Proofread anything he writes.
With the adviser rush out of the White House, Trump feels more liberated to act on impulse and look more to Fox News than White House staff. He wines and dines with them like he does no other.
So is it any surprise that Bolt down under simply uses the US script to deflect criticism away from the Donald? He simply draws attention away from Trump by drawing attention to the other world leaders even our own. No facts no verification no analysis of Trump even required "he's an angel".
Xi didn't make himself "dictator for life" That's Bolt's terms he was elected to be able to remain leader for more than 2 terms. Very different concept to the one Bolt's mouthing. Furthermore, the vote was unanimous just as the vote was to dump Abbott. Bolt it seems has the hard time in accepting votes even plebiscites where other certainly don't and it reflects in Bolt calling Xi a dictator and the 2900 members of the CPC calling him their Leader or President. As for the Chinese people, the 2900 members are the people's representatives.
Putin, if you recall, was and has been admired as a leader by none other than Trump who hasn't said a word against him not in any way. He sacked Tillerson because he maligned Putin and Bolt is character assassinating him why? Why hasn't Trump responded? Has Putin something over him? So why does Bolt feel it's necessary to speak up for him here? It seems he's quite confused really saying Trump is such an unappreciated genius of a leader.
No British or American justice values holding Bolt back in declaring Putin guilty even Theresa May didn't go as far as Bolt. As I have said facts, verification and their analysis are an anathema to Andrew Bolt and Judge Mordecai Bromberg thought so too when pronouncing he was guilty and a total failure as a journalist. UPDATE
What May and Bolt fail to address is the formula for the "Top Secret Nerve Gas" is freely available strange hey? " Amazon and sells for just $30. If the formula is genuine, this is probably the first time a whistleblower has provided free access to a method of producing the highly poisonous weapon." Novichok – toxic questions about chemical at the centre of the Skripal saga How was it proven to have been Russia, if nerve agents can be produced anywhere?
30m This is a false flag a PAYWALL to the Telegraph 1) One would assume Peter Taylor SC and Tribunalist is far more aware of Australian Law than Andrew Bolt 2) We are fully aware that the term "illegal" Asylum seeker has no validity in International or Australian Law and is therefore in itself an oxymoron. It is merely being used here incorrectly and biased manner by News Corp's author unknown to discourage due process and substitute it for vigilante action. Even Peter Dutton knows better than to do that. 3) Bolt's Opinion and the News Corp Article is yet another of close to 3000 Islamophobic vigilante calls made in a 12 month period. If that isn't a case of maniacal hate speech against legal refugees calling for the government to illegally break International agreements what is? 4) The full facts of the case haven't been reported what is amazing is that a case of contempt hasn't been sought. Guess that's the beauty of British Law even Muslim baiters and haters are allowed to stay and divide the nation.
Yet another sensationalist PAYWALL to the Australian
Bolt's obviously playing tag the News Corp team Paywall. One thing stands out and shows how Bolt was trained in commentary methodology by the News Corp legal team rather than any clear thinking practitioner. First, you put forward whatever suggestion you want to get across truth is totally unnecessary lies and loose facts perfectly acceptable in order to influence opinion. Research has shown lies influence more and lasts longer than the truth anyway.
Having done that to legally protect oneself put in a get out clause at the very end knowing full well it doesn't have to be read and usually isn't. All this has been calculated with as much attention to influence as a Woolworths Supermarket layout. and here it is "However Scotland Yard said there was no evidence to suggest a link to Salisbury. A 68 year old Russian could have died anywhere in the world from any cause and a suggestive and meaningless correlation made for the purpose of maligning Russia and Putin for little more than taking the attention away from Donald Trump. Was any attention given to his retracted promise to raise the age of gun buyers in the US after the mass shooting of school kids by a teenager with a legally purchased A15 weapon of war? Or the Stormy problems he's facing at the moment. Or the number of senior advisers he has leaving the Whitehouse. Or the need he has to turn to Fox News and Murdoch for help? Read on down below!!
In a decision Trump declared he "made all by himself" he's sacked his secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Bolt has broken all records of hiring and firing than any other President before him or any other world leader in fact since Stalin and here we have Bolt saying "he had good reasons" as if he knows the direction of this man's mind. Needless to say, Bolt's reference is Murdoch Media. "The undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, Steve Goldstein, released an extraordinary statement saying Mr Trump never explained to Mr Tillerson the reason why he was fired."
"The undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, Steve Goldstein, released an extraordinary statement saying Mr Trump never explained to Mr Tillerson the reason why he was fired."
What we have here is images of the movie Caine Mutiny and Captain Queeg'
Stranger still "Tillerson was the only one in the administration yesterday who said Russia was “clearly” involved in the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the UK." is that Bolt's "good reason"?
Labour has been said to have "Economic Policies Driven by Envy " according to Corman the Finance Minister and Bolt are reinforcing that here when he says "this will cost."
Neither he or Corman have referred to the facts that the LNP are proposing Corporate Tax cuts that even Corporations have said won't be directed to employee's wages or the increase of jobs. In a time of increased GDP Corporations have made unprecedented profits of over 20% and Labor's wages have decreased when adjusted to living costs. There has been a massive increase in the casualisation of the workforce with a concomitant loss of benefits.
Corporate heads have publicly admitted that their tax cut gains will be directed to shareholders and buy back shares. So who are we Jealous of in this politics of envy? The wealthy the well to do the 10% of the nation that's the Politics of envy. The unproductive rich getting richer and yelling your jealous to the 90% of the productive labour of the nation that's been deprived of a fair share of the increased GDP. The engine that drives the nation is being called jealous and a dangerous cost by these two unproductive fat cats who expect they can put up another painting on their walls. Yes, Bolt a "dangerous cost" to him.
TELFORD SCANDAL: "1000 GIRLS" ABUSED AND RAPED
In Britain, investigating another scandal of mainly Asian men raping hundreds of white girls: "Chief Constable Simon Bailey asked: "What culturally drives this?" In Egypt: "A female Islamic professor... claimed that Allah (God) makes permissible for Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women in order to ‘humiliate’ them."
The quote actually was "could have been" that Bolt refers to as "were"!!
Bolt has to shift his scandal reports from place to place because if he stays on a single subject for too long it doesn't stand scrutiny. Because the questions and facts will become too difficult to explain. So cases of sexual abuse in Indigenous Australian communities are sensationalized and framed to blame black and Indigenous Culture. Then rapidly shift to Rotherham in the UK to malign Islam as if it were the base for child grooming crime in the UK then to Telford However if you actually examine what went on in the UK as a whole you'd soon realize the anti- Mulsim bias Britain First bias in the reporting. Bolt even jumps to Egypt to find a quote that is useful to the cause of one brush tarring of Islam. Useful because it's done by a woman of course. He and Jim Molan were once great supporters of Britain First whose leaders have been jailed.
Bolt doesn't raise the issue of the history of child sexual abuse in Britain at all. The grooming by respectable MPs, Religious orders or even secular organizations involved with children like the scouts does he. It apparently doesn't exist in his White Christian communities of the UK.
Remember when Bolt reported the No Go Zones of the EU headlined by Breitbart. Those Mythical Zones like Birmingham UK and EU where locals couldn't go without a visa. Areas that good souls like Bolt just couldn't go, all a lie!! When that was highlighted Bolt just silently snuck away having planted his racist seeds of hate in the minds of his followers and ignorants. Breitbart if I recall apologized or was it the author of the false flag study because the report was declared BS, little more than a right-wing political fire starter as are these on Rotherham and Telford also are.
Britain is a Multicultural country and consequently, crime is multicultural sexual crimes are too and aren't as Bolt makes out mostly Muslim and justified by Islam. Imagine the grooming the Catholic clergy did for over 50 years Telford and Rotherham simply fade to little more than what they are extremist right-wing fuel poured on Islamophobic Politics.
" What have we discovered over 50 years? That 25 "white" girls could have been approached for sex by Asian men. The Police response "This was one of the first national complex critical investigations into grooming offences. It centred on historic offending in Telford and Wrekin and ultimately resulted in seven men being jailed for a total of 49 years. Imagine the number of clergy jailed in that period of time alone or the number that ought to have been put away. Bolt doesn't.
One wonders why Bolt references the BBC News for a report put out by the Sunday Mirror which took the place of Murdoch's once slag sensationalist rag the News of the World shut down due to the "Hacking Scandal" in 2011 when we saw Murdoch doing an Alan Bond and playing old man unable to remember anything. Get the drift what a recovery!
Tessa Sullivan said she felt "very pleased" after an investigation into Mr Doyle on Tuesday upheld four allegations against him, including that he grasped her breast.
But she says she won't run for public office again, despite the findings, and has criticised former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett for jumping to Mr Doyle's defence.
‘‘It is a huge vindication after 11 weeks of waiting,’’ she told ABC Radio on Wednesday.‘‘Four findings of gross misconduct really display the vulgarity and the disgusting actions by Robert Doyle towards us.’’
YOU WON'T HEAR THIS FROM BOLT The Bolt Report is structured not to do this unlike the TAB
Their reaction seems a tad hysterical, after all they can white wash their statues just as they’ve attempted to white wash the history behind them. For example, this statement from Macquarie is never seen on or around statues raised in his honour: Statues of Lachlan Macquarie and Captain James Cook were graffitied by protesters last week, in an action the most cowardly prime minister in Australian history described as “cowardly.” Angry criticism erupted from the most unexpected of quarters, confirming that the privileged mind governs both the left and the right when it comes to challenging the…
Tuesday 29 August 2017 1 A Government that deserts its duty of care for humans in its charge is one that is devoid of a moral compass that includes basic decency. That an Australian Government could possibly do what it now proposes is really beyond any acceptable standard of Australian governance. Shame, Turnbull shame. Shame,…
Is Bolt for real? The minute you hear Bolt attack a person personally then you know he's on the back foot defending a side and not a principle. Destroy a peoples language steal their children and in as little as 4 generations you will have obliterated their history and shredded their culture. The only history available is the history of the literate when the only people with pen and paper are said to be the historians and they are the invaders.. Any historian worth his salt is aware that history of Australia can be told from any number of perspectives and in any number of ways not just written. However the wholesale destruction of language ,culture and families destroyed as Bolt says is recorded with good intent no matter how you put it you obliterate their history. Bolt could well take his single minded fascist, Reclaim Australian and UPF attitude and apply it to the Aztecs, the Incas and even the Mayans. He could run the same argument tell us that the history of Mexico is only Spanish because it's the only written record. In the same way as Bolt history is being defended in the American South by who? None other than American Nazis, American KKK and American Ultra right racist whites with the backing of Fox News. When Afro Americans stand up and feel offended by that white man's tale and record of the South , they do so because Andrew Bolt's here in Australia what Fox is doing there slapping the American Dan Sultans down in just the same way as Bolt has done here. Bolt may not drive his luxury vehichle into a crowd of protestors but he calls them cowards for not being on his side of the symbolic barricade.
As for genocide language isn't fixed it too changes over time Hitler didn't kill all Jews and neither did the Spanish kill all the Aztecs or Incas to simply say that therefore genocide wasn't committed is a farce. Bolt is calling for cultural genocide daily of Aborigines ,Muslims and South Sudanese Australians he simply doesn't want them here they all offend him. Bolt simply plays with language and words in order to escape reality maybe it's murder but it's not genocide he says. What a load of crap taking the motive out of Macquarrie's land grab. Bolt reduces and make Aboriginal death as watered down and meaningless so it could be argued that there is no historic record of genocide just as there is no historic record of a stolen generation nor any record of any massacres where there was no mention of it in pen and ink.Governor George Arthur's biggest regret was as colonizers there was never any official attempt at making a treaty with any of the indigenous tribes here like other British colonies and today Australia remains the only colonized nation without one. So bolt goes on his merry way saying the history of Australia was neither genocidal or brutal no laws were broken look it up. Well Governor George Arthur disagrees strongly Andrew Bolt Bolt's posturing is much the same posturing the Dutch did after the war to tell the world what heroes they were in their efforts to save Jews. With closer examination over time it became obvious in the 1980s the truth was being covered up and a suitable myth was being created and that the Dutch in fact killed a greater percentage of Dutch Jews than even Germany did and the number one most notorious town was Aalsmeer the very town Bolt's parents came and where his family still live. Myth is no stranger to Andrew Bolt and it's not strange he never talks about it.Bolt's posturing here is much the same historically covering up guilt with myth in order to avoid the shameful truth. Already we've seen history change the Captain Cook generations of kids were told "discovered Australia" Well he may have not discovered it or may not have been the first to discover it. But he was the first to discover the East coast says Bolt. Maybe that's even too generous. Well he discovered Botany Bay then and lied . He said nobody lived here. Bolt allows false facts he doesn't see them as a slippery slope in avoiding a more knowledgeable version of our history at all. Knowledge isn't what what matters to Bolt it's the continuous bullshit of a fable that justifies the history of Australia from the top down. Isn't that what What Andrew Bogut said to Bolt's face and Dan Sultan said on Q&A? Why didn't Bogut offend Bolt like Dan did? Because Bolt is a two faced C--- That is also the sign of a man on his back foot struggling to grapple with the truth . Whether he likes it or not the next generation will continue to rewrite history and make it a more understandable reality for all Australians. What the intent was not to have a treaty and the 200 years of consequences it had later needs examining rather than protecting those who regard themselves as mythical and deluded patriots of our misconceived past. Dan Sultan is just another stepping stone along the way to change. By the way Dan has Aboriginal,Afghan and Anglo heritage that alone makes him more typically Australian than Andrew Bolt by a country mile.
The Lost Generation Scammed. Where is their promised opportunity?
The universities that are the hardest to get into may not be delivering the best experience or employment outcomes for their students, new research shows. Conservatives Meritocratic Scam. The myth that the cream floats to the top. Creation of a lost generation. Andrew Bolt was a university dropout who floated in and out of journalism and made it to the top without merit or debt just connections. To even suggest to kids they can do it today is selling them a myth. Opportunity comes with who you know not what you know. It's no coincidence Bolt's son works for the IPA.
Bolt fails the simplest of comprehension tests Katherine Murphy didn't tell her colleague Sarah Martin that there was a "place for her in hell" at all. She in fact agreed with Martin that she too had been in the press gallery herself. However she quoted Madelaine Albright who said there was a special place in hell for women who didn't help other women as a principle and not directed at Martin at all. Bolt's either dumb which I believe he is or a misogynist just stirring the pot for laughs which I also think he's doing. The combination of the two makes him a dork.
However I should point out the Feminist movement in the 60's and 70's was much more allied to the the Marxist concept of radical change brought on by a much more primitive form of Capitalism of the day and a drive for a more socialist equality for all. It however has been usurped by upper class women fighting over the the spoils and privileges held white males in a Capitalist society. It's reflected when Bolt has the habit of saying how he has to take his family on holiday how he has to bring home the bacon while putting his family under threat by working from home. How is it there is never a we in his me conversation?
A Bolt seems to think 100s rioting on Berkley's campus is significant and worth writing about when 500,000 people marched in Barcelona on the weekend in unity against those Bolt called brave men. Half a million marched for unity and not the division Bolt entertains himself with.
Like Trump he extracts the values involved to suggest there is an equivalency between Nazis the KKK and groups like Vanguard America when there is no eqivalency whatsoever Bolt does the same when he claims terrorists are brave men prepared to lay down their lives and the 500,000 marching for unity are cowards. There truly are psychopathic signs in Bolt's opinions.
Bolt calls on the notorious Roy Spencer to deny the unprecedented nature of Hurricane Harvey that it was just unexceptional Hurricane. Well Donald Trump certainly doesn't agree with either of them and nor does the infamous Roy Spencer who Bolt turns to because Spencer actually agrees that Harvey dropped an unprecedented amount of water over a larger area than most Hurricanes do and caused an exceptional amount of damage. Once again it seems Bolt doesn't bother to even read his reference thoroughly. O simply throws it out expecting others no to read it.Hurricane Harvey and Climate Change: Here Are the Facts | Climate Reality
" This week, our hearts are heavy and our thoughts are with everyone affected by Hurricane Harvey. As climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann wrote, “[W]e can’t say that Hurricane Harvey was caused by climate change. But it was certainly worsened by it.”
Andrew Bolt complains of workers scamming welfare and pensioners getting too much
Conservatives keep stum about employer theft. It's why we need Unions.
There is a $2.85 billion-a-year shortfall in what employers should be paying their employees in super.
WHAT ANDREW BOLT HASN'T THE GUTS TO SAY- INFORMED NEWS AND COMMENTS Unless that happens, the very loud conservative minority in our parliament will continue to hold the country back in the last century.They have already wasted 10 years. How long will it take them to come up with a policy that works?
Yet again this government has been caught with its pants down. It legislates laws in the full knowledge that they wont pass a challenge in the High Court and then reneges when challenged.They really couldn’t give a stuff about the suffering they have caused to these poor people.My thought for the day“Politicians who change their minds aren’t necessarily seeing the light. They might just be feeling the heat.”John Lord
The real disaster was the quick and silent back down of the secrecy Abbott put in place that held a threat over anybody who spoke up about the conditions of asylum seeker in detention. The high court case took over two years to be heard and that lag allowed the torture force transparancy to be silent. Bolt calls this moral disaster a triviality compared to confusion over politicians birth certificates. The pain it has caused politicians far more newsworthy. It's a cover up happily put on the front pages of our papers compared with the disgrace that Abbott put this nation through. He trashed our reputation worldwide and he continues to do it today. War is Abbott's language invasion from the outside and from within his threat. Today he was on radio and we were at war 65% of Australians declared they had no religion or religions other than Christianity. For those who can remember there wasn't any Chicken Little attitude under Labor It was Abbott who threw the gasoline on the fire of fear he started fear that in no way was justified by the facts and the same fear he continues to use for personal political gain and revenge today sponsored by Rupert Murdoch and publicly broadcast by puppets like Bolt.
Taking the Trump line of of abstracting violence instead of dealing with the specifics excuses the actions of A white nationalist fuckwit who killed a girl and injured 19 others. Remember when Bolt kept pointing out the apologists for Muslim terror. Now he's an apologist for White Nationalist terror. There is a major difference between the right to demonstrate and justifying the right to kill. Which is what Bolt and his Nazi loving friens are doing. Bolt is following the Sean Hannity song book there is nothing original about him whatsoever. Imagine if Fields the the Republican was a Muslim what Bolt would have to say then. The major difference Bolt doesn't account for is that the history of Charlotteville is one of slavery you won't find many coloureds Muslims or gays demonstrating for the Alt-Right or being members of the KKKVanguard America or the American Nazis. The very notion Bolt and and Trumpsters hang their defense on is that Reverse Racism exists jus as Bolt keeps saying it exits here and he and his privileges are threatened by it so on that basis if one of their members like Bolt lashes out and kills someone witha sucker punch he's justified. What a crock of shit is Bolt's and Trump's argument in the defense of Alex Fields. In what world called America are Whites sytemically persecuted and treated as second class citizens and particularly in Virginia. Who are the blacks Mulims and Asians Bolt calls friends that regularly cross his ?threshhold
No Xenaphon demands the ABC be diverse interesting and ask questions. rather than deliver monologues on a single ideological theme which Bolt and crew do. The ABC remains the most trusted News source in the country and one entirely independant of government. News Corp is hemorraghing money because it no longer provides reliable news and wants to concentrate media even more today. It's produced the opposite of news and gone for celebrity culture in all aspects which is proving tobe a total waste of money. Why does Bolt plump himself up so much whe he's a waste of space and no ratings. Why does he have to say his ratings are great OFF A LOW BASE he has to disguise the truth. News Corp lost $800 mill largely due to it's Australian print investments and Sky News.
Bolt's Australia pictured above does not exist.What is the "one culture" the monoculture being suppressed? Bolt it's not a Multicultural Australia it is indigenous Australian Culture and History that has been suppressed if any. Bolt and his conservative mob have some mistaken belief that Australia is a White Western Christian Culture. 65% of Australians said they weren't Christians and had no religion in the last Census. That's a fact Bolt keeps to himself Australian Culture isn't Bolt's personal want besides he's even admitted he feels more Dutch than he does Australian. That Australia Day tells we respect that and he's allowed to feel Dutch on Australia Day, Australia Day isn't being attacked at all it's being realized and celebrated for what it is Multicultural Day. It's definitely not exclusive to Bolt's small mob alone. We aren't cabbages.
What was significant was Tony Abbott declaring this a WAR ON OUR WAY OF LIFE. That's typical of language used by the most extreme right wing groups around the world an pugilistic clarion call that suggest there on time left for any discussion. Proud of our institutions that have benefited us all? Indigenous people had no concept of private property nor have their collective ownership been recognized until the Mabo decision. Is private property the institution we all celebrate or just some of us? What benefits and justice has British Law provided First Nation people other than Intervention and manipulation that ensured the poverty we see today?
This has absolutely nothing to do with marriage equality and is nevertheless a lie about research. But that's Bolt. "So for thousands of years of human civilisation we have raised children wrong, by forcing them to live with mum and dad." Bolt
That's totally wrong for a start. Andrew Bolt admires Israel so much yet he doesn't know a thing about the place. The center of child raising in the Israeli Kibbutz was not mum and dad nor was it the extended family. So much for Bolt's Anthropological buul. Variations in child rearing have been fully documented and the roles adults played in the lives of children varied in differing cultures.
"The overwhelming body of scientific research suggests children raised by same-sex couples do at least as well as those raised in heterosexual families.I doubt facts actually matter to Carmody, but this claim is false. It is not only inherently implausible, but demonstrably untrue: Bolt Yet another lie by Bolt. Colmbia University's study of 79 research papers spreading over 3 decades proves Bolt's talking out of his cake hole. The consensus among these studies proved there was no difference and some suggest better child rearing was found among same sex couples simply because they were wealthier and both parents participated in child rearing more enthusiastically as household activities were better shared.Bolt is talking rubbish as usual.
Note Bolt asks to consider "a selection" of studies and not all studies done. Yes of the 79 studies looked at 5 or 4% had some level of agreement with Bolt which was explained. However 96% didn't didn't agree with him whatsoever Bolt's. squeezing marshmallows into his money box his box being the conclusion he wants proved which in this case is 4% of studies are more convincing than the 96% consensus. Isn't that what he does with Climate Change that 3% are more convincing than 97% consensus among 14,000 studies reviewed.
How many times has Bolt slammed people for interviewing a Muslim or those he calls apologists one and all Waleed Aly, Yassmin etc all get labelled and identified with some negative stigma or streeotype rather than any focus on what is being said or in what context. When Murder and mayhem are committed by right wing fascists what has Bolt to say he reads and watches Fox News and reproduces the message. He takes and looks to the right wing media for his cues. In this case, what has Trump done he's blamed the victims. What has Bolt done the same. Some have gone to the extent of saying James Alex Fields was the victim justified in his actions goaded by demonstrators. The man's parents have accused Feilds of being a prick far from innocent but a card carrying Republican a Nazi, White Nationalist intent on murder and mayhem far from the innocent frightened boy Bolt's alt-right claim. Bolt doesn't mention the parents what would they know he's written them off because they no longer fit the apologist line that Fields ought to be excused. That he was only a little bit violent the rest was a terrible accident. He had every reason to defend himself in the circumstance because those fighting for equality in America were persecuting him and his rights to hate. All one has to ask imagine what Bolt and Trump would be saying if Fields had been converted to Islam.
Bolt's video"could not be played" why? Would it be a case of loose facts? There isn't a word on the Yarra Council in Bolt's Post. We heard Bolt referring to an International Incident of huge consequence we have initiated with NZ. He made this "incident" as large as if we'd sent a missile over Nth Korea. If any thing was blown up it's Bolt's distraction and using a piece of trivia as we'd started WW3. Why is he doing it?
Well it distracts from the government pulling back from the High Court declaring Abbott's lack of transparency and threat to jail and arrest whistle-blowers distributing any information about Australia's Guantanamo imprisonment and torture of Asylum seekers illegal. That decision to drop Abbott's law was rescinded to avoid an embarrassing High Court decision they certainly didn't want that on the front pages either domestically or internationally.
As for the Council rigging polls this post promised has also been withdrawn.
The passive racism of Australian media is borne of arrogance, ignorance, fear and fragility
IF KENNERLEY IS A RACIST, WHAT DOES THAT MAKE PRICE?
An Australian whose social psychology shows the distinct elements of the social confusion of most Australians that indicates passive racism that still exists among most Australians but she also reveals our diversity. Clearly, racism reveals itself in moments like Kennerly found herself. She raised abuse and the worst of facts to smear demonstrators not demonstrating about those facts but Australia Day. That was her racism. Price is working hard to play within a set of rules laid down by a Colonial past and her racism is reflected in the duality of her position. She has experienced both worlds and has chosen the dominant. Unlike Cate McGregor who as a transgender person clearly sees the misogyny experienced by women in our dominant white male culture. Why does Bolt support Price but deny McGregor because Cate is right speaking from oppression and Price is white and not. She's certainly not Stan Grant or Adam Goodes that's for sure.