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ABBOTT VS TURNBULL: THE FIGHT FOR VALUES

My editorial on The Bolt Report - Malcolm Turnbull struggles to tidy up the mess caused by Christopher Pyne, but his leadership slides deeper into the mud. Then up jumps Tony Abbott to explain exactly how the Liberals could win.

As I said  and have been saying time has been running out and News Corp was about to drag  Tony Abbott out from the slime of his past and Andrew Bolt is about to tell us he's a changed and renewed man. He's repentant and time has come again to be winners and Caesar Tony needs to be shouldered once again. Thproblem is Abbott hasn't changed. Bolt Hasn't changed and more to the point Rupert Murdoch the USA and UK booster hasn't changed. In other words Australia has stood still because Abbott was gone and we stopped going backwards. We stood still for some time until Turnbull won the election in the meantime the Conservatives in the media didn't. It's been a serial howl and whine ever scince. However we have begun to progress. We know the NBN is a fuck up, We Know the debt  ceiling created by Abbott has been blown, We know the Abbott's cuts to Education has now placed us 39th in the world of 40 OECD counties, We know Abbott banned and tried to cut funds to and information from the ABC,  He ravaged Science in AustraliaHe savaged the unions and encouraged the casualisation of Labor He deregulated business controls and criminalized the opportunities of corporations while removing the privacy we once had. We had a paranoid Captain secluded in his own PMO because he was a reflection of what he was and believed every body was the same as he was.

What a relief when Turnbull turned up not a success but a relief and that's the begginning of opportunity ignored. But despite Abbott telling us he was only a loyal backbencher representing Warringa he was nothing but another Rudd. No he was even more he was the tail trying to wag the dog. Rudd was carried on the electorates shoulders. Abbott never will be because he 's always been seen as the snake. Destroy the Liberals he will. Bernardi realised and that the was a liar without ethics. Pauline Hanson was thrown in jail by a determined Abbott wanting her votes. He publicly kissed her and said sorry he'd changed. Andrew Bolt used to echo that promise until he's repeated it so often he stopped and spent a 3month silence on Tony until he was voted out democratically by his own party. Fuck who'd have tought it Rupert's man in the top job was dumped. What we see know is not Bolt's inner knowledge of what Abbott was about to do but what Murdoch had told his organization what they had to do. Yes and Abbott the marionette has always maintained his readiness.

This isn't a fight for values this is a dirty battle for power within a team that for the moment hasn't any value for values because Abbott's greed has always been Satan among their midst. Bob Santa Maria is laughing.

 

PYNE'S BOAST: THE PLAN REVEALED

Christopher Pyne bragged to his Left-wing faction that we might get same-sex marriage "sooner than everyone thinks". Sure enough: "Two Liberal MPs have been secretly working on a plan to legalise same-sex marriage in Australia as soon as August, with a draft copy of the laws well advanced." Never mind that this breaks an election promise.

Bolt it seems is forced to read the opposition papers to get the news of the day that a Private Members Bill was to be put forward. What an embarrassment for Bolt he and Abbott had tried to make out it was a double cross by Turnbull. Well, let's call that for what it is WRONG!!

The Liberal Party is a Broad Church or is it an extremely narrow one as Abbott and Bolt would have that the TEAM is everything and screw Individual Conscience, Screw Principles, and Screw your Electorate. For heaven sake, politicians aren't representatives they are front runners the electorate has chosen to follow like sheep. Well, Bolt what can I say but WRONG again.

 

 

 

CAN PYNE PLEASE DEFINE "WINNER"?

Turnbull loyalist Christopher Pyne gloats to his faction: "We are in the winner's circle, friends." Can Pyne define "winner"?: "The Coalition would lose 20 seats ... if the election matched the state-by-state swings shown in the quarterly Newspoll survey published this week." 

 Anti- Populist Poll lover Andrew Bolt bets his Y-fronts on Newspoll owned and bought exclusively by the News Corp for the Australian. When Ipsos says the gap between parties is 4 points it's almost guaranteed Newspoll is reporting 6. Hello, we are more than 18 months out from an election since when have the parties shown all their cards.

What Andrew Bolt is really doing is covering for Abbott's bullshit on 2GB yesterday when the pre-election "No Cuts" Abbott declared it a fundamental breach of faith to break a pre-election commitment. When Abbott new Pyne was a Turnbull man but was required to reward him for the singular effort Pyne did to help Abbott become PM. You see Bolt believes if you ever worked for Labor and then said you were a conservative you could never ever be trusted again. Well, folks lets remind ourselves that that's exactly what Bolt did. Bolt with his own words has hung himself on his own petard and I believe him in this case.

    Is same-sex marriage actually good policy? According to the people for whom Conservatives like any other politician works  the polls to which Bolt is so attentive say a resounding YES

    Is breaking an election promise good policy? The question is irrelevant Turnbull isn't breaking a promise it's a Private Bill

    Is risking a split in the party a good policy? Yes because the disloyalty is that the tail is trying to wag the dog and the tail needs to be docked

    Is denying the public a vote on such a big issue good policy? The question is insane the Polls say Yes and the Public are represented by their Members

    Is copying Labor a good policy? It's not a Labor Policy it's Human Rights Issue. What a stupid question

    Is devoting so much time and energy on this issue good policy? No, it should have been put to a conscience vote long ago. Why is Australia such a global backwater when it comes to Human Rights?

    Will this actually help the Government win the next election?Absolutely not.  However, it's why the Conservatives have picked the wrong battle and the moderates will be rewarded either way on this issue. One should as how this is an issue at all? We are reminded of Mr. Nope Nope Nope  Tony Abbott. Hardly a positive memory for someone who wants to come back. Will we here Bolt's mantra "but he's changed really changed"?

CAN PYNE PLEASE DEFINE "WINNER"?

Turnbull loyalist Christopher Pyne gloats to his faction: "We are in the winner's circle, friends." Can Pyne define "winner"?: "The Coalition would lose 20 seats ... if the election matched the state-by-state swings shown in the quarterly Newspoll survey published this week." UPDATE: Pyne is actually losing in South Australia.

Bolt the anti-populist political crusader turns to Newspoll and polls to show what how unpopular Turnbull is? We already know that!! However Tony Abbott is even less popular so according to Bolt, we should bring him back. However, Bolt uses the Popularity poll to prove his point which seems a total contradiction to his anti-populist stance. It's a mind-blowing carousel of contradictions particularly when the is no election in the foreseeable future only a traitorous coup where the tail is running short of time to be the dog.

 

COAL UP, GREENS DOWN

The Greens predicted: "The world is moving away from coal." The reality: "The world's biggest coal users — China, the United States and India — have boosted coal mining in 2017... Production through May is up by at least 121 million tons, or 6 percent."

What Bolt didn't tell you India and China have reduced Coal Imports and of course the major change is the USA as Trump is in power and the Koch Bros are celebrating. However what Bolt doesn't tell you is there is no rapid growth in investment in coal and the stock prices aren't soaring. This celebration is Bolt's stiff upper lip believe me if he were a coal investor he's limp everywhere else. The transition away from coal remains a world target it's FAILING.

As I said earlier bumper harvest in South Africa doesn't explain the worst droughts experienced in other parts of Africa resulting in catastrophic famine. What we see here is Bolt's privileged media platform space in operation only reporting what's favorable to his argument leaving out the numbers in refugee camps worldwide due largely to Climate Change. The civil war in Syria began due to Climate triggers and camps in Africa are due to famine. I'm sure Bolt's garden is in good shape and so the world has nothing to be concerned about.


 

CHRISTIANITY FALLS AS IMMIGRATION CHANGES US

The latest Census shows we have as many Buddhists as Muslims. So why do we never worry about Buddhist terrorists, extremist, hate preachers and bikie gangs? Meanwhile Christianity falls as rival faiths soar, largely through immigration. Is this healthy?

 So the massive drop in Christianity has absolutely nothing to do with the 2% of those practicing Islam or Buddhism. The question remains if the 54% of Australians do identify with Christianity and actually practice it or did they just tick the census box simply because of the way the question was framed.? So much for Bolt's certainty that we are a Christian Nation with Christian values or that immigration is the reason for the lapse in Christianity. He is the example of a generation that turned it's back on the church it's beliefs and values. The single Australian values as supported by our Constitution one is the freedom of faith something Andrew Bolt rails against every day. So immigration and religion should be of no consequence and our institutions are meant to support and reflect that freedom.
 Australia a Secular Parliamentary Democracy and is the only one in the world that doesn't have a Bill of Human Rights enshrined in it's Constitution. It's why we as a country should be ashamed of ourselves at the proliferation of laws that don't guarantee the equal rights of our citizens. If we did there wouldn't be the overkill on terror laws and surveillance of some citizens. Same sex marriage, equal pay for women would have been passed long ago and the long-term detention of children and asylum seekers not allowed. The ultra- conservatives wouldn't have the desperate want to throw out the AHRC which is, in fact, an independent statutory body that protects us.
Bolt talks of the Magna Carta as the foundation of our freedoms but doesn't support the separation of Church and State nor the Law and State fundamentals. That demand protection. Conservatives, in fact, want to change our electoral system. Bolt certainly doesn't believe in the privacy of the ballot box naming and shaming those he chooses to call left-wingers and Islamists in denial of their right to be whatever they want. He prefers the government have far more sway on what religions are represented foremost in our schools and that even Maths and science be regarded as little more than Humanities and Arts subjects rather than given special place. Bi-lingual education is dangerous yet no doubt he's bi-lingual. Strange all these demands fro someone who holds 2 passports yet claims to be a staunch Nationalist.

Politicians you can't be proud of, Except Morrison who looks utterly embarassed

https://www.facebook.com/climatereality/videos/10154535018986479/

Andrew Bolt's Blog,9/6/15; Bolt's Climate expert Fred Singer; Courier Mail; Bolt fudges the conclusion to a Scientific Report on Reefs; The Killing season to embarass the government; Bolt knows more than these countries; Science, Twitter good one day bad the next; Islam and Victoria

 

 

 

 

Hockey’s shocking gaffe: telling people to first get a good income before borrowing a lot of money

The only obvious thing in all of this was that the Treasurer was not addressing all or real Australians. With the mean housing price in Sydney at $1 mill there is a very few first home buyers that will fit his specifications. If the mean mortgage is $385,000 the deposit required for a Sydney property is around $650,000 to cover all expenses. Who are these first home buyers Hockey was addressing? How long does he consider it takes to build a deposit of that size?  Interest alone is almost $2000 per week so what jobs is Hockey suggesting first home buyers find? What risk do they put themselves under when interest rates go up? Where does Alice live in Hockey's Wonderland under a mushroom?

We seem to have a major National Security problem and it needs to be addressed. The citizens of this country need to be protected from their government that seems not to know what it's doing.

By the way notice how Bolt turns to Twitter for help wasn't he laughing at those that find it useful? 

Obama admits still waiting for a “complete strategy” to fight Islamic State

Link Fox News

If Obama hasn't a complete strategy in hand for training Iraqis does Abbott or are they just playing soldiers. What have we heard from Tony?

" No wonder the war against the Islamic State is being lost."Bolt

Quick to criticize but never addresses the "how " question. How would Bolt from the bleachers tackle this problem. All we have heard him say is to escalate the bombing and send in the ground troops. Override any Iraqi government request to stay out. So make it an illegal escalation. Win the hearts and minds of the Shiia Militia and the Sunni Tribes over to IS who will then take up arms against the Coalition. 

Bolt is a clown who would be happy for conscription to be reactivated as long as his sons weren't involved of course.

 

Melham quits. Now what about Bill Shorten?

Link Herald Sun

When Corporate heads roll is it incumbent on those that went before to be examined as Bolt suggests Shorten should? How far back does Bolt suggest this should happen if Liberals were involved? How far back when Labor is? Maybe Bolt would encourage a permanent Commission to just keep running until the end of days. This no doubt is an excellent inquiryone compared with that UNHRC headed by Triggs. One thing that must be said and noticed there is none of the screaming foul we've been stitched up as we  have heard from Abbott, Dutton and the Murdoch Fourth Estate. Some people accept the rules and consequences of inquiries.

Australia’s biggest borrowers are WA Liberals

And Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey who lifted the ceiling to $500 bill

 

Is there actually no evidence of man-made warming at all?

Link WUWT Watts Up With That? (or WUWT) is a blog dedicated to climate change skepticism or denial generally accommodating beliefs that are in opposition to the scientific consensus on climate change.

Here is who Bolt rolls with

 Fred Singer known for his  public denial of the health risks of passive smoking, and as an advocate for climate change denial.He is an opponent of the Kyoto Protocol, and has claimed climate models as not based on reality, and not evidence. Singer has been accused of rejecting peer-reviewed and independently confirmed scientific evidence in his claims concerning public health and environmental issues. Bolt models himself on Fred.

The public debates in which Singer has received most criticism have been about second-hand smoke and global warming. He has questioned the link between second-hand smoke and lung cancer, and has been an outspoken opponent of the mainstream scientific view on climate change; he argues there is no evidence that increases in carbon dioxide produced by human beings is causing global warming and that the temperature of the earth has always varied. A CBC Fifth Estate documentary in 2006 linked these two debates, naming Singer as a scientist who has acted as a consultant to industry in both areas, either directly or through a public relations firm. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists—along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg—who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

^Singer is funded by foundations and oil companies. She writes that he has been a paid consultant for many years for ARCO, ExxonMobil, Shell, Sun Oil Company, and Unocal, and that SEPP has received grants from ExxonMobil. Singer has said his financial relationships do not influence his research. Scheuering argues that his conclusions concur with the economic interests of the companies that pay him, in that the companies want to see a reduction in environmental regulation. Forget About the ‘Hiatus’—Warming of the Earth Has Continued

 

What kind of government did Queenslanders accidentally vote in?

Link Paywall To Murdoch

Given Murdoch's Courier Mail has no competition in Brisbane. Isn't it strange it's connected directly to all the dirt being dragged up against Labor politicians. It's actively collecting stat decs from volunteers promised we don't know what to sign them. Ex Murdoch staff now connected with the LNP are actively involved in dirt slinging campaigns. Gavin King with troubles of his own with regard honesty was very energetic in collecting dirt on Billy Gordon which has been proved not only wrong but contrived.

The Courier Mail was very much in the forefront of the Peter Slipper debacle which destroyed the man and his family only to be proved wrong. With more to be revealed about how Slipper's accuser  James Ashby who was seduced by the LNP with broken promises.

Notice how careful Bolt is with these revelations they always come from a troll after which Bolt  always throws in his escape clause. Stench anyone?

Now less reason to believe the acid scare, too

 “But the reefs appear to be thriving despite acidification and bioerosion, and we want to understand why,” says Shamberger.

Science is an on going activity of asking and finding out the why of things. For Andrew Bolt it's a conclusive activity in that if an unexpected event does occur it's proof all science is wrong. After all Newtons Laws of Motion don't really explain everything. Nevertheless Bolt has no hesitation in sending his kids to the doctors or his dog to the Vet. If his garden is sick he'll make inquiries with horticulturalists. However if a doctor says we need to investigate further he doesn't shut the door in their face as does here. 

What Bolt never does is actually give the full conclusion of any report. He uses what he can feed his own conclusion rather than use the complete scientific one as presented.

The conclusion that  actually was derived from this report of Pulau was that while most global reefs were being degraded by increased acidity Pulau was against trend and needed to be investigated more not that Palau proved the science to date was wrong as reefs were being degraded. Big difference Mr Bolt

'On the one hand, the results of this study are optimistic,' Cohen says. 'Even though many experiments and other studies of naturally low pH reefs show that ocean acidification negatively impacts calcium carbonate production, as well as coral diversity and cover, we are not seeing that on Palau. And that gives us hope that some coral reefs—even if it is a very small percentage—might be able to withstand future levels of ocean acidification. But there's also a cautionary side, even for those coral communities able to maintain their diversity and growth as the oceans become more acidic, increased rates of bioerosion and dissolution seem inescapable.'

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp

'On the one hand, the results of this study are optimistic,' Cohen says. 'Even though many experiments and other studies of naturally low pH reefs show that ocean acidification negatively impacts calcium carbonate production, as well as coral diversity and cover, we are not seeing that on Palau. And that gives us hope that some coral reefs—even if it is a very small percentage—might be able to withstand future levels of ocean acidification. But there's also a cautionary side, even for those coral communities able to maintain their diversity and growth as the oceans become more acidic, increased rates of bioerosion and dissolution seem inescapable.'

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp

 

'On the one hand, the results of this study are optimistic,' Cohen says. 'Even though many experiments and other studies of naturally low pH reefs show that ocean acidification negatively impacts calcium carbonate production, as well as coral diversity and cover, we are not seeing that on Palau. And that gives us hope that some coral reefs—even if it is a very small percentage—might be able to withstand future levels of ocean acidification. But there's also a cautionary side, even for those coral communities able to maintain their diversity and growth as the oceans become more acidic, increased rates of bioerosion and dissolution seem inescapable.'

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-06-diverse-coral-persist-bioerosion-escalates.html#jCp

Rudd saved us from nothing but a balanced budget

Link Paywall for Murdoch

Seems the LNP are worried about the truths to be revealed in a TV show the ABC's The Killing Season. If all media is just Spin what is Andrew Bolt?

No to being ruled by judges

Link The Australian Link Paywall for Murdoch

Gillian Triggs makes an observation and as far as Bolt is concerned it's a statement. But he doesn't say so directly that's just too dangerous. I don't know who Michael Sexton is but is he wiser than these Nations that have a Bill of Rights? The make up over 50% of the global population.

Countries that do have a Bill of Rights

* Magna Carta (1215; England)
* Bill of Rights 1689 (England) and Claim of Right (Scotland)
* Virginia Bill of Rights (June 1776)
* Preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence (July 1776)
* United States Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution (Completed in 1789, ratified in 1791)
* Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789; France)
* Basic rights and liberties in Finland (1919)
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
* Fundamental rights and duties of citizens in People's Republic of China (1949)
* European Convention on Human Rights (1950)
* Fundamental Rights of Indian citizens (1950)
* Canadian Bill of Rights (1960)
* Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982)
* New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (1990)
* Human Rights Act 1998 (United Kingdom)
* Constitution of South Africa Chapter 2: Bill of Rights (1996)
* Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000) 

Barrage against Triggs is contemptible

 

 

The science is weak but the faith is strong

Link Paywall for Murdoch

Bolt has plenty of rhetoric and is definitely like a fish out of water when it comes to Climate Science.  He flip flops around so much. There is 97% consensus of scientists in the  field. Only 3% that don't but are extremely vocal and ally themselves with the fossil fuel industry and media. It's where the money is. There is no profit in media organizations just  reporting news there is far more to be made in advocacy against the science.

143 countries of 196 agree with the science even the Australian government though less than 12 months ago Abbott called it "crap". However politics has forced his hand and he has moved from denier to sceptic. 

Media advocates reveal themselves to be little more than paid hookers when they come out saying the most stupid things like Bolt.  He declared Fukushima and Chernobyl now safe from any medical consequences of radiation.. However if asked to go there with this new found knowledge he'd  always find an excuse not to.Where are the Fukushima alarmists now? - News.com.au 

Bananas deadlier than Fukushima | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt ...

However will Bolt prove his point and go to either not on his life .

 

Hiatus? What hiatus? Scientists show no slow down in global warming.

Slacktivists rage, but tourism to Bali soars

Link The Herald Sun

What to make of Bolt's blog? Today he's telling us that the Twittersphere is useless. Yesterday he was complaining that it was vicious platform loaded with Abbott haters casting their shadow widely. Every other day he refers to it as if it was his most treasured source of gossip for his blogs.

 Remember when he blamed it for the Napthine Government's downfall. That Labour's far better use of social media was the cause of the LNP defeat. Now he's laughing at those that use it.

 The man just shows he hasn't any idea with what he's doing and that the media has made him and not he it.  Andrew Bolt just happened to be in the right place at the right time and jumped to make a Faustian Pact. Not everyone would.

If lesson one isn’t Islam, it won’t work

Link Paywall for Murdoch

" I have little faith in “deradicalisation” programs, especially when they are proposed by a government and a police force which claim jihadism has nothing to do with religion:"

Bolt has every faith in the $22 million Brandis method of radicalization prevention. Teaching English, Australian Rules and Banjo Patterson . But he has no faith in the police or the state in which he chooses to live in why? It's a Labour state. We'd be only too happy to see him move but he won't.

 How is it that members of the extreme sects can deradicalize without the help of anyone? Countless persons have left Scientology and various other extreme Christian groups why can't a group of misinformed kids have changed their minds. Oh because then Tony Abbott would have to find another divisive cause and there aren't too many that come so neatly packaged. It has been documented that Scott Morrison declared Muslims readily usable for political advantage after he saw the onset of the Cronulla riots. Morrison knew all it takes is to capture some of those swinging voters not all back and fear and the creation of a domestic enemy is a tried and true method. It worked with the Cold War and then again with Vietnam and now it's Islam and we are surrounded. Never mind what it does to Australian lives