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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.
Factcheck: Is there really a green conspiracy to stop bushfire hazard reduction? No, but the LNP are happy to spread it.
This Faux Christian Trumpster, Accidental PM has sacrificed the Nation but more so the Common Good. He will lead us to yet another war and not just one against Science but one in the Middle East that can't be won and will cost Australian lives. (ODT)
Key points:
Australians' satisfaction with democracy is the lowest it has been since the Dismissal in 1975, a new study suggests
Public trust in government is also at an all-time low, according to the study
Just over a decade ago, contentment with democracy was at an all-time high
The
backbencher was called a 'disgrace' and told to 'wake up' during the
combative encounter on British TV that will anger colleagues
The backbencher was called a "disgrace" and told to "wake up"
during the combative encounter that threatens to undermine Morrison's
efforts to reassure Australians that his government accepts the link
between climate change and extreme weather events.
We need to put some serious thought into what future life will be like under climate change. Perhaps shifting peak holiday season to the cooler months is the place to start.
Yes, there have been very large fires in the past but they weren't followed up with yet more very large fires a mere 15 years later. Normally, you'd be expecting a gap of 50 or 100 years. So the ecology is telling us that we are seeing the intervals between the fires shrinking. That is a really big warning sign. And this increasingly frequent fire activity is completely consistent with what climate modelling was suggesting. The whole system is moving to a world that is hotter, drier, and with more frequent fire activity. It's what was forecast and it's what is now happening.
Australia's
bushfires are believed to have spewed as much as two-thirds of the
nation's annual carbon dioxide emissions in just the past three months,
with experts warning forests may take more than 100 years to absorb
what's been released so far this season.
Slogans mask a shallowness of leadership skills and strategic thinking. Neither Donald Trump nor Boris Johnson should be your role model. Remember Malcolm Turnbull failed to deliver the “better government” that he promised on seizing the leadership. The die is already cast on your government and, if you continue as you have been doing, time will not be your friend. Ultimately, you will be judged on
authenticity and policy outcomes – on genuine leadership.
Given your hang-ups on the climate issue, why not come at it from a different perspective? Why not focus on challenges such as pollution, waste, regenerative agriculture and fuel security? The
effective resolution of all will involve something of a technological
revolution, with the possibility of many new jobs, and of global leadership while contributing significantly to our emissions reduction objectives.
Unlike Kevin Rudd's flawed
'pink batts' rollout, deaths caused by the Coalition's
monstrous robot debt scheme has failed to attract many mainstream media
attention, leaving it incumbent on us to tell the story. This September
the article was read by almost 44,000 people
Alan Austin's economics
pieces are immensely popular amongst readers — probably because he
actually provides facts, not spin. This October article was no
exception, being read by more than 41,000 truth fans
FRENCH-SPEAKING READERS of the Belgian news outlet RTBF.be were informed
last Tuesday about the extraordinary protest by 1,000 Australian
engineers – yes, one thousand – who are calling for environmental risk
assessment for all Australian construction projects. But here's the thing. Unless they are readers of The Guardian, Australians
will not have heard or read about this significant development. As far
as we can tell, no major news outlet has bothered to cover it.
People Are Refusing To Use Self-Checkout Because They ‘Kill Jobs’
LNP ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT COMPANY TAX CUTS & PENALTY RATE REDUCTIONS MERRY XMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR
A
new analysis has found that hospitality workers will be $16.3 million worse off on Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Day as a result of penalty rate reductions.
Hospitality and retail workers will miss out on close to $50 million
in wages over Christmas and New Year because of reductions in penalty
rates, new analysis shows. The Fair Work Commission approved the reduction which was implemented in July 2017, with further reductions phased in from July. Public holiday penalties for retail and hospitality workers were reduced from double-time and one-half to double-time and one-quarter.
Jo-Anne Schofield, national president of the United Workers Union, said
hospitality staff working hard to ensure that others can enjoy New
Year’s Day were having millions of dollars ripped from their pay packets
every public holiday.
"Public holiday penalty rates are about fairly compensating workers who forfeit spending time with family on holidays. These penalty rates are relied on by hospitality workers to
meet normal household expenses," she said. "With workers
continuing to have millions ripped from their penalty rates every
holiday, they have less to spend supporting local businesses."
LNP GOVERNMENT RESPONSE" NORMAL WEATHER" WE AREN"T DISCUSSING OR CHANGING POLICY. EXPERTS SEEM TO SUGGEST THAT THESE FIRES AREN"T THE RESULT OF WARMING YET. HOWEVER, WORSE IS YET TO COME (ODT)
Think the bushfires are bad now? It will be up to four times worse with global warming, experts warn.
Australian
National University Climate Change Institute professor Mark Howden on
Tuesday said global warming would make dangerous bushfire events more
likely.
What China does we openly criticize and do the same secretly while telling Australians "there's nothing to see here" only benefit. It's not just a matter of scale.
The Chinese have been increasingly liberated and are free to tour and study around the world boosting Western tourism and their Education Economy. That's bad according to us but we'll sure take that money but won't celebrate that freedom. Instead, we condemn it. "They're spies. They cheat. They're lowering standards" Yet in the past 6 years, we've seen the rapid and secret acceleration of our surveillance. The increased reduction in Australians able to travel overseas and greater suspicion of those studying in China. Want to go to America come to Australia give us your Social Media ID first.
Something odd is going on when Sam Dastyari is forced to resign for his association with the Chinese and Gladys Liu isn't. She's almost forced to stay in Politics. Liu and Frydenberg were caught cheating the last election but found "not guilty" because their cheat was judged not to have had any effect on the election outcome. Could the same be said of a bank fraudster who managed to get a $1000 from the CBA? I thought and was lead to believe an attempt or even a conspiracy to commit a crime was a crime whether successful or not in this country. (ODT)Josh Frydenberg and Gladys Liu's election win cleared
Secrecy
surrounds the network, its use and how many times people have been
mistakenly flagged as potential criminals, with facial recognition
technology having proved significantly inaccurate in overseas
jurisdictions.
One minute our LNP Government are saying "Bushfires are a State responsibility" next Scott Morrison is launching an inquiry into "controlled burns" Australia your being conned (ODT)
The
federal government has called a second inquiry in two years into
land-clearing and prescribed burning practices, despite such policies
falling outside Commonwealth jurisdiction.
Thanks to franking credits, the $52 billion in tax paid by
Australia’s largest corporations is not actually received by the Tax
Office.Upon releasing its report, the ATO’s Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Saint
did note the “significant increase of $6.6 billion in tax payable” by
large corporations to $52.3 billion. There was SILENCE all round.
Perhaps it was because a slew of the world’s largest corporations were
still paying zero income tax in Australia. There was nothing from US oil
giant Exxon, despite its $9 billion in revenue, nothing from Chevron
either, or Rupert Murdoch’s News Australia Holdings again this year;
nothing from a bunch of coal giants, still relentlessly chewing through
tax losses from Australia’s overly generous tax regime. Credit is also due the Government. Although, under former PM Tony
Abbott, it originally claimed there was no need for a Senate inquiry;
multinational tax avoidance was not a problem, it soon changed tack and
reformed. But there is a long way to go to achieve tax fairness.
reinforces, I think, what a monstrosity hard borders really are.
To function they invent categories. The worthy and unworthy, even going
as far as to assign dehumanising “points” to prospective migrants.
Perhaps the only thing worse than the hard border itself is the
in-between places it breeds: Australia’s offshore detention centres; the
Mexican borders towns where refugees and asylum seekers are sent to
await their application’s fate; the Greek holding camps where Africa and
the Middle East’s desperate and hungry hang their hopes on the remote
promise of a future in northern or western Europe.
Australia has laws that make no sense. No sense at all. If you attempt to rob a bank and fail apparently you will get off. Particularly if you've won Lotto after your efforts.
If you don't plan to and rob a Mars Bar but do on the spur of the moment and are Aboriginal and under 16 you will get 6 months.
The details of my argument might be sketchy but the principles shown here are basically correct. (ODT)
Liberal MPs Josh Frydenberg and Gladys
Liu will keep their seats after a court dismissed a challenge to their
election wins — but a senior party official could still face further
action for authorising misleading election signage in their seats.
In a year of crippling drought,
bushfires, and a bitterly fought federal election campaign, one
repeatedly debunked claim stood out among the rest. RMIT ABC Fact Check
wraps up the year that was in fact checking.
MEMO TO GUARDIAN: CALLING ME 'LUNATIC' AND 'CRIMINAL' WON'T CHANGE MY MIND
COLUMN
The Guardian Australia quoted several paragraphs I wrote and said I'm a
“denier” of facts. Yet it didn't identify one error in the many facts
I’d cited about global warming. Nor did its readers. But they did say
I’m an “infant”, “lunatic”, “unhinged”, “criminal”, “liar”,
“bullshitter”, “idiot” and “parasite”. Strangely, this won't change my
mind.
We know Bolt won't change his mind that's hardly news!! Bolt has spent weeks upon weeks personally and not very politely abusing in highly personal terms Bruce Pascoe and Greta Thunberg who we know won't change their minds either. Yet, they don't do what Bolt is now doing crying "poor me". He fails to focus on the issues and facts and like a Trumpster is playing the victim.
As for facts Bolt spent almost half of this Century declaring the planet was cooling "Not Warming". He spent a lot of energy telling us that the Arctic Ice was increasing and he's put a lot of effort into trying to convince us that the bushfires we are experiencing, the drought, and the extreme temperatures and broken records aren't exceptional but are normal.
Here he is saying" I've never made a single error". I think it's sufficient reason for all the expletives. They are deserved and Bolt complaining about them does make him an infant, a loser and a wanker that ought to behave the way he wants others to treat him. He certainly doesn't lead by example he talks the talk bu doesn't walk the walk.
538 Polls Show Donald Trump Winning In A Landside in 2020
The popular site for political analysis and polling, 538
is showing Donald Trump is going to have a landside victory in 2020. A
vast majority of data reveals the President’s base as being energized as
well as woefully inept spellers.
Andrew Canard is an analyst for 538. He’s certain Democrats will fall under the GOP’s geological phenomena known as a landside.
“I’ve heard the northern side of the electoral mountain is chilly,” he
stated. “Ice forms there and makes things slippery. It’s hard to see any
Democrat getting a firm footing in such an environment.”
The polls showing a devastating victory for Republicans are:
Suffuk Universtiry
Mariss Collage
ReelClare Opinion Reserch
Harris Pole
FOXNews and its viewers still don’t understand a landside isn’t a
landslide. The FOX News poll results point to a stunning win for
National Socialist German Workers Party in 2020. Data analysis from FOX
reveals Trump will win battleground states like Pennsylvania, Bavaria,
and Saxony.
Rank and file Republicans don’t understand why Democrats refuse to understand the awesome power of landsides.
“I don’t get it. Are Dumbocrats smart enough to know when they’re
getting owned?” questioned one graduate from Dunning-Kruger University.
GOP lawmakers are telling their constituents it’s just another case
of the liberal fake media being liberal and fake. Right-wing leaders are
reassuring their fans as long as they stay unreasonably angry
everything will work out fine.
It’s
well known I’ve got *zero love* for the Greens - but I’m not going to
cop more lies from Barnaby Joyce and the National Party. The Liberals and Nationals have been the government of New South Wales for EIGHT YEARS. The Liberals and Nationals have been the federal government of Australia for SIX YEARS.
The greens are a powerless minor party who less than 10% of the
population vote for. They are not and *have never been* a government.
Joyce knows this. Of course he does. But he, his National Party and
their coalition partners the Liberals know they are responsible for
cutting funding to fire services and national park fire prevention
staff. They know they couldn’t be arsed attending meetings with fire
chiefs begging for intervention *back in September*. They know their own
policies are driving climate change. So they’re doing what the culpable, the complicit and the guilty ALWAYS DO in these situations: They’re running a disinformation campaign.
We appear incapable of sensibly discussing climate change at any time, but particularly at times of natural disaster of the sort that scientists will worsen as the globe warms, writes political editor Andrew Probyn.
A group of former firefighting chiefs say Australia faces
“unprecedented fire danger” and immediate action is needed from our
leaders.
The 23 frontline fire and rescue chiefs are calling on governments to
urgently respond to the bushfire danger they say is a consequence of
climate change.
“This week’s catastrophic fires are exactly the type of disaster that
emergency leaders and climate scientists have been warning about for
decades and summer hasn’t even begun,” former NSW Fire and Rescue
Commissioner Greg Mullins said in a statement today. “We are in a new age of unprecedented bushfire danger. “Climate
change is the key reason why fire seasons are lengthening, fires are
harder to control, and access to international firefighting resources
like large aircraft is becoming more difficult.”
Meanwhile influencers against Climate Change are denying anything exceptional is happening and Insurance actuaries are saying quite the opposite. Read about the fake and twisted news below. (ODT)
Constable Zachary Rolfe, the son of a prominent Canberra couple, has been charged over the death of 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker in the Northern Territory .
First point Andrew Bolt jumps on those who make spelling mistakes suggesting they represent a lack of education and are therefore not really worth listening to. Yet Bolt regularly misspells himself.
Ask yourselves why Insurance Companies are "catastrophizing" along with banks and commercial lenders whose actuaries have reported "abnormal events". Not "normal events" that have not decreased fire and flood claims but increased them. Bolt doesn't mention complaining and telling them that extreme weather events are on the decline? He doesn't tell them all's well and normal, and there's nothing to worry about here.
No, his focus, like the tobacco companies, is on discrediting the science or at a minimum create doubt. Allowing politicians to do nothing. However if for a moment he accepted the "exceptional " nature of extreme whether he'd need to accept that the trend in record-breaking events is increasing with global warming and the possibility that the increasing emission of CO2 in the atmosphere is assisting that trend. Even the possibility of an indirect relationship would necessitate action like smoking and lung cancer, which resulted in the Quit campaign. We've seen the battle that that took and there's even a greater one going on with the cry to Quit fossil fuels or transition to alternatives.
Per head of population, we along with the Saudi's are the worlds highest emitters. The Saudis are doing something unprecedented, making their oil reserves public. Australia is the world's largest coal distributor and doesn't even care to hide the fact. Over the years, the Saudis profited, and they are letting go. Australia has simply let Multinationals in, and unlike Norway, Qatar and other resource-rich nations made money? Why hasn't Australia? These other nations are also transitioning to renewables at a greater rate than we are and not trying to opt-out of the Paris Agreement like Americas has.
WHY CARDINAL PELL COULD NOT HAVE COMMITTED THESE CRIMES
COLUMN, At last, George Pell could get justice. The High Court will hear his appeal and must decide whether Pell was, as I believe, wrongly convicted of the sexual assault of two choir boys. See, Pell could not have attacked those boys at the only time Victoria's Court of Appeal said was possible. Check where his accuser says he was just then.
15m ago
Can you get a more twisted public media campaign based on one man's personal opinion? As an influencer, Bolt is record failure. His only real-time in the sun was just before and after the election of the LNP Government in 2013 when Tony Abbott was his patron, and we all know how long that lasted. Bolt went down, yelling "but he'll change, he'll change. He did he was no longer leader.
As a conservative Bolt generally has respect or should have it's regarded as the justest system of law available men on this planet, and it's the process that counts not the decision. Bolt railed against it since that process found him guilty. Then according to Bolt, the law was ideologically driven. Well it's financially driven that's for sure, and Bolt's legal team walked away from any further defence, and that's why Bolt spat the dummy. He wasn't going to spend his money on his defence, but he did expect News Corp to, and they didn't believe it was worth it.
Well, not so the case of George Pell he has the funding of the very wealthy top end of town who have allowed Pell the privilege to be trailed judged in every part of that system regarded as the world's best. Bolt hasn't spent any of his time witnessing it simply criticising it from the outside and deems his personal opinion is better than the whole British Justice System. He offers no alternative process other than "I walked in the footsteps of Pell's accuser" The kid is a liar, and Pell is innocent. He may as well exchange British justice for Gypsies crystal ball.
Pell's guilt and possible innocence were evaluated and based on years of investigation. Hours of courtroom proceedings, witnesses and evidence were brought by both sides, not just one to convince the juries. Mentions and 3 court trails of increasing seniority were conducted to see if an injustice has been done to Pell or the claimant. None found for Pell.
Andrew Bolt and mega-media backing at enormous cost are playing judge and jury and that they are wiser than British law or anyone else. Their opinion is far greater than any independent legal process. The problem isn't just Bolt's opinion it's News Corp a mega-corporate giant at the top end of town that's backing, him and just as they are doing for Donald Trump. The idea of "separation of powers" between the Church, State, Corporate world and the Law are simply discarded by those with the wealth money and power.
If you were labouring under the belief that women are free to express ourselves in 2019, last week’s episode of Q&A should put paid to that.
The panel consisted of five women and one non-binary person and was chaired by veteran broadcaster and presenter, Fran Kelly. The ABC apparently received over 200 complaints about bad language and what was interpreted by some viewers to be an incitement to violence. This “incitement” was, in fact, Egyptian-born feminist, journalist and writer Mona Eltahawy asking a rhetorical question about how many rapists we have to kill before men stop raping us. Hardly an incitement to violence, more a profound expression of intolerable frustration at the unwillingness of governments and institutions to adequately protect women and children from sexual assault. ABC Managing Director David Anderson declared there would be an investigation into whether the program had breached editorial standards. Chair Ita Buttrose has confirmed that the episode will be pulled from all platforms and will not be repeated. Quite why Ms Buttrose would make this arbitrary decision prior to the commencement of an investigation is something of a mystery.
Michael McCormack says those trying to link climate change and bushfires are "woke greenies" — but mayors from fire-ravaged areas of NSW say there is no doubt in their minds that the devastating blazes tearing through their communities are a result of climate change.
As Sydney braces for its first-ever day of catastrophic fire danger, it's worth recapping what scientists think about the links between bushfire risks and a warming world. Is there a link with climate change?
Australian news
Barnaby Joyce says people who died in NSW fires most likely 'voted for the Green Party'
The former deputy PM was addressing his comments relating to the Greens and their position on backburning when he told Sky News: “The two people who died were most likely people who voted for the Green party.” He was referring to people who died in the bushfires in New South Wales.
FAKE and TWISTED NEWS
GREENS GO MAD. BLAME SCOTT MORRISON FOR CLIMATE AND FIRES
The Greens claim global warming is causing the NSW fires, and blame Prime Minister Scott Morrison personally. Here's the science that shows their claim is sick and so wrong that it's deranged. The Greens are just exploiting a tragedy to peddle a fake scare and a fake cure. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
5m ago
How massive is Bolt's ego? Declaring "What Pitman said when he thought I was, wasn't listening"" Bolt doesn't mention California why? He does, however, the cold snap on the East coast Coldest weather on record in America" With a collection of media grabs rattled off at speed Bolt attacks Warmists for their "cut and paste" efforts to support Global Warming. Andrew Bolt is the "fool" when he makes out that Global Warming is a single factor that can be denied when it comes to bushfires. However, as far as science is concerned, Warming isn't a "single cause". It's always been far more complicated than that and trends have indicated "warming" is an indirect addition not to just any single event but a "Trend" that's been occurring globally.
It's ever so easy to ignore California's unprecedented bushfires the worst on record. Or the continued burning of the Amazon. The unique dryness of the Qld rain forest. However, it's not as easy to ignore the TREND to EXTREME weather which is increasing along with warming and emission levels in the atmosphere. Comparing individual events on particular dates just doesn't cut it. PITMAN was right when he corrected himself and omitted the word DIRECT. That there is no "direct" connection between Global Warming and extreme weather just as there is no direct connection between smoking and lung cancer. Bolt has grabbed on Pitman's admitted error like a drowning man onto a straw and has hung onto it like a PITBULL. The same as deniers did working for big Tobacco.
As for the politics, Bant and warming activists are on opposite sides of the fence to Bolt's whose yelling back-patting and cheering on his team of idiots like McCormick ignoring the real Science that takes into account Trends and not just single events.
On Trend, the planet is warming. Bolt was the idiot that spent years telling us it wasn't that planet was cooling. Now even he is admitting at is "slightly" but denies any significant or direct effect on the earth. Science isn't the only discipline that takes into account TRENDS actuaries do to, and Insurance Companies and Business react on those studies and premiums are going up not down which Bolt logic that everything is better should reflect but doesn't. Premiums have gone up not just due to inflation like your medical insurance if you're a smoker. However, because of the indirect effect of Climate Change and the trend in the intensity of extreme weather. Business, finance and global politics are paying attention to these Trends which Bolt claims should be ignored because "weather is weather" just as they once did "cancer is cancer" denying any connection between smoking and lung cancer. Bolt's preaching isn't stemming the tide of change which like the oceans, is rising. (ODT)
Dare I say Adam Bant agrees what is being said here that our politicians have ignored the effects of the build-up of fuel and other conditions over recent years. States that have also been indirectly affected by Climate Change. Bolt seems to be supporting Bant who said it's time governments stopped ignoring these real issues a stopped saying what we keep hearing so often from politicians and Andrew Bolt " the weather is the weather" and that it's only the "belief" in climate change that makes things SEEM worse rather than are WORSE.
If as Bolt and Abbott claim global warming is good, it accelerates green growth then here is Bolt saying the increased fuel-ready to burn is the result of Climate Change coupled with politicians ignoring the fact. The wind patterns in our weather don't operate in isolation either. Greens don't "benefit" from bushfires, but it certainly fuels their arguments more than they do Andrew Bolt's just calling them scaremongers to be ignored.
Reverse Genderism and Systemic Feminism don't exist but an understandable reaction to Systemic and "toxic masculinity" does. It's reflected in all our institutions whereas Bolt's "toxic femininity" the reaction anger and the demand for change isn't the same. There isn't even an equivalence. One wonders why Bolt even tries to stir the pot other than to maintain the status quo. We have heard him complaining that he's the only breadwinner in his family. Yes whinging that he had to take his family on holiday. That's what Bolt deems female domestic violence is and it's equivalent to male.
Bolt's been on a crusade for over a week now on a daily campaign to denigrate 5 women who appeared on Q&A and the ABC a moronic campaign of abuse of Fran Kelly largely claiming her incompetence her fear when radical women get together they spew "toxic feminity". The "toxic feminity" if it at all exists is the Victorian attitudes and mindset Daisy Cousen's parodies. That no longer really exist in modern-day Australia It's unusual to see a union of 5 women on the show that certainly is a threat to the dominance of men running Bolt's little overproduced obsolete production that supported News Corp's $306 mill quarterly loss. Bolt's in the business of promoting himself as sooo much better than Fran Kelly.
Let's rmind ourselves he tried to do that to Miranda Divine and was sent packing so much so he's no longer got a radio gig.
Deputy PM says linking bushfires to climate change is 'woke capital-city greenies ravings' – politics live
The fact that weather extremes have been a record-breaking global phenomenon, particularly in their intensity suggests there is an element of Global warming involved and a shift in weather patterns and extreme events accompanying them. The actuaries in Insurance Companies sure think, so premiums aren't getting cheaper. Conservatives aren't arguing against these premium rises or the actuarial results but are insisting that weather extremes are fewer. (ODT) I’m confident that our national government, when the smoke and dust settles, will finally see the obvious and understand the word “unprecedented”. I’m sure it will then start to take decisive action to tackle the base cause – greenhouse emissions - then use the high moral ground to lean on other countries to also do the right thing.
Inventing the wheel; offshore wind farms are a given throughout the world and have been for decades. This headline makes it sound as if we are head of the global scientific pack rather than the Australian when in fact we have been global laggards when it comes to renewables.Not so the States it seems (ODT)
Australia's the first offshore wind farm is being proposed for the south coast of Gippsland − with enough power for more than 1.2 million homes
All show when body Cameras' only real applications are as toys for police, family pics, and somewhere to put taunting EAD stickers (ODT)
Victoria Police guidelines say that officers have the discretion to decide if or when they choose to switch the device on or off, and what to provide to courts and lawyers.
Fake and Twisted News
FRAN KELLY SAYS SHOULD HAVE CONFRONTED ONE OF FOUR DEFENDERS OF VIOLENCE
ABC host Fran Kelly admits she should have confronted one of the four panellists on Q&A who defended or even called for violence: "I needed to challenge the assertion that killing men is the answer to violence against women." But what about the activist who called on Aborigines to "burn stuff"? Kelly is still silent.
COLUMN The ABC has declared war on our culture: broadcasting calls for political violence, broadcasting cheers and applause for an attack on a conservative columnist, and now programming new shows to hype the climate scare, savage the Catholic church, promote Aboriginal grievance and bizarrely reinvent Aboriginal history
It's quite clear why News Corp posted a huge financial loss. When their best and brightest spend a week reporting and repeating the same message on the same topic for a whole week and does it so often it stretches into the whole year you don't have a News Paper let alone a TV show capable of competing on any level. All you get is a lazy arsehole who hopes he can stay relevant but isn't.
Simply look back through the week and see if even find any different banners. Fran Kelly and Q&A have been the subject od Bolt's complaint the whole week. Is he pretending he's a whistleblower? The same can be said of the 11,000 scientists an argument that makes Bolt look like a statistical moron. Some could say "Mickey Mouse" was put into the survey simply to gauge its reaction and Bolt is the sucker that chewed on the gratuitous morsel. After all 6 errors in 11,000 isn't proof of anything other than Bolt's plagiarised somebody else's argument or he's as dumb as we think.
As for the ABC declaring war on Culture is really saying The ABC reminds us that Multiculturalism exists and is a way of life in Australia ridiculing those that believe they are the actual owners of Australian Culture. "Hyping the Climate Scare": given the majority of Australians actually believe in Climate Change and the frantic frenzy is heard 50% of the time in the media and is really only the voice of 3% the "Hyping" isn't the sound of informed comment reported on the matter. Simply look at Bolt's banner, and you will see the BS in his assertion. The ABC didn't "invent" the criticism of the Catholic Church, Aboriginal grievance or reinvent Aboriginal History. It reports that these grievances exist and there are Australians who believe they have some validity.
Bolt, on the other hand, spent the week yelling liar, liar pants of fire and News Corp wonder why they are making a loss?
Behrouz Boochani, voice of Manus Island refugees, is free in New Zealan