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It’s a dang good thing we’re winning the cricket because the
government has collapsed. Scott Morrison’s Team Australia has left the
health system to fail; the virus is out of control, tracking and testing
has crashed, and Liberal Party corporate mates Harvey Norman and
Chemist Warehouse are profiteering. Michael West looks at the price of
Scomo’s “personal responsibility”.
After
being held at Melbourne Airport for hours, the world No.1 has been told
his visa has been rejected and that he will be flown out of Australia
later today.
THE ADVICE FROM NATIONS COMING OUT OF SUMMER AND FACING A RESURGENCE. THE STATES HAVE BEEN LEFT TO DEAL WITH COVID WITH MORRISON CHEERING AND BOOING FROM THE SIDELINES
The UK
In the UK, daily case numbers are hovering around the 40,000
mark, with weekly deaths now averaging over 1,000. Boris Johnson’s
government has faced criticism for its COVID approach since its
so-called ”freedom day” in July, which included the scrapping of mask
mandates and the end of most restrictions. About 68 per cent of the
total population is double-vaccinated, ranking it 18th out of the 38
OECD countries. Australia is 14th on the list, with 70 per cent of the
total population fully vaccinated.
The US
Some states in the US have had loosened restrictions for more than six months.
COVID cases are sitting at a 7-day moving average of 83,000, with an average of 1,100 deaths a day across the country.
With one of the highest vaccination rates in
the world, the tiny island nation had planned for a phased reopening
once 80 per cent of the eligible population were fully dosed.
But over the past two months, it has faced its
steepest curve of infections and deaths of the pandemic so far, with
daily case numbers rising to a seven-day average of about 2,700 and 13
deaths a day.
The EU
Is facing a resurgence and facing more lockdowns and stricter mandates
Former prime minister Paul Keating submitted the following
opinion piece to The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in response to an
article written by their international editor, Peter Hartcher.
This is the Deputy PM he leads a Party with 4% of Australia's votes but the Nationals have 16 seats in our Parliament. Liberals 60 ALP 68 the Greens with 13% of the vote have 1 seat and this is what we call REPRESENTATIVE
The
delivery of misinformation continues from the mouth of the Beetrooter
(Barnaby Joyce) unabated. How gullible does he think we actually are as
a voting public? I know there are quite a few amongst us that believe
everything that is put before them and rely on the Murdoch 'journalists'
and I call them that with tongue in cheek. This report was printed in
The Guardian.
Fact check: Barnaby Joyce claims a Labor government would ‘jack up interest rates’
This
is Gold. This is the EU. This is Italy. This is Multiracial Italian
Pride. This is what Murdoch Media rails against in Australia the UK and
the USA.
The lie continues. Abbott didn’t "Set Up a Trade Deal” with China
the ALP did well before Abbott came along. Mr Nope inherited it just after he was elected and claimed it as his. He has since stolen it as part of his legacy. He now want's to dny it. Our relationship
with China today would be significantly better than it currently is
under the LNP. Mind you,Tony Abbott was a role model and precursor for
Trump, teaching him how to run a democracy into the ground, with his nope
nope nope strategy and which the GOP still employs today. Abbott however,
was little more than a backroom Liberal Party puppet whereas Trump stole the Republican
Party from the traditional leaders and heads it today.( ODT )
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told a British audience that there is no way he would sign a trade deal with China today.
A death Andrew Bolt fails to acknowledge in his demand to be free from lockdowns. The MFer is free. He's been an isolate for decades but demands others shouldn't be. Bolt's become a mental dwarf a syndrome of his isolation.
Adriana Midori Takara was just 38 when she died from COVID-19 this
week. She was only a year older than I am and had no underlying health
conditions. Her first COVID test was negative and then a few days later,
when she was tested again, it was positive. Ten days later, she was
dead.
An
investigation into three Israeli strikes from May's deadly
conflict finds the nation breached international law when it targeted
areas without military objectives.
Australia has been doing much the same for over 200 years
The KKK should be understood not just as a white supremacist
organization, but as an employers’ organization: it violently resisted
the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought
to keep the black masses toiling in submission.
Here is a sure sign that Bolt's support is flagging and his ratings have flopped. The most holidayed blogger,commentator and podcaster needs to rest after having been so isolated and over produced. He's come back fresh as stale mouldy bread with his one trick act and obsession with you've guessed it "can't leave Bruce alone Pascoe". Bolt's very being seems to hang on the hate he has for a white man identifying as black. My reasoning is that only a true racist would get so fired up.
Tell
us the news here. And thanks so much to all the viewers who welcomed me
back to The Bolt Report last night. I appreciate your support.
Bridget
McKenzie was forced to resign in February 2020 after the “sports rorts”
affair but, as are the ways of the National Party, misdeeds are quickly
forgotten if you back the right leader at the right time. So just like
her good buddy, recently resurrected National Party Leader Barnaby
Joyce, McKenzie is back on the Coalition government front bench as
Minister for Regionalisation, Regional education and Regional
Communications.
Henry Reynolds has demolished the apologetic arguments of
conservative intellectuals, showing that the British colonization of
Australia was a crime even by the standards of its time. Reynolds makes a
powerful argument for recognizing Aboriginal sovereignty.
Yet it would appear that we’re
drawing ever closer to a world in which 3D printers build our homes, in
as little as three days. There have already been 3D-printed houses
constructed in places such as Italy, the Netherlands and the United
States, and industry experts say it’s only a matter of time before they
become more mainstream.
Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker, 19, died after being shot three times by Rolfe as four officers attempted to arrest him in the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in central Australia on 9 November 2019. Rolfe was charged with murder several days later. He received bail and appeared before the local court on Monday via video link from Canberra.
Below Andrew Bolt boosts himself failing to mention Rolfe shot Walker X3 while 4 police attempted to arrest him for breaking bail. " Judges send matters to trial if they conclude at a committal hearing
that a reasonable person might find an accused guilty of a charge based
on the evidence."
At last month’s committal hearing, the expert criminologist Dr Geoffrey
Alpert gave evidence after viewing police body-worn camera footage from
the shooting. Alpert believed the first shot Rolfe fired during a
struggle with Walker was “reasonable” but two follow-up shots were
“excessive, unreasonable and unnecessary”.
Andrew Bolt's self-promo and White racist insanity
With a proven track
record of driving the news cycle, Andrew Bolt steers discussion,
encourages debate and offers his perspective on national affairs. A
leading journalist and commentator, Andrew’s columns are published in
the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph and Advertiser. He writes Australia's
most-read political blog and hosts The Bolt Report on SkyNews each
weeknight.
This is all bullshit. Bolt's Blog is more idle than active posts often weeks apart. His blog is the very opposite of what he claims it to be "Australia's most read political blog" my ass. The Bolt Report is little more than a right-wing monologue and a promotion of Neo-fascist thinking that doesn't encourage debate or discussion. By and large Andrew Bolt is a less than average hack,a camp followerfor Murdoch's MSM in Australia which is hemorrhaging money and subscribers. The ABC stands head and shoulders over anything Bolt has to offer. Bolt is the equivalent of that WW2 Italian tank 1 forward gear and 6 reverse.
Constable
Zachary Rolfe shot dead a man who'd stabbed him and his partner. Then
the politics started,
with promises to Aboriginal protesters that "black
lives matter". Rolfe was almost immediately charged with murder, and
now hit with two more charges that have enraged fellow police.
From the start, it seemed Constable Zachary Rolfe was the victim of politics. Was he charged with murder because he was white?
Last
Friday came more disturbing developments – two fresh charges – as Rolfe
prepares to stand trial for allegedly murdering an Aboriginal criminal
who’d just stabbed him and his partner.
Whether Rolfe is guilty
will be up to the Darwin Supreme Court to decide next month, but how the
case has been handled by police and politicians smells of the politics
of Black Lives Matter.
On a Saturday in November, 2019, Constable
Rolfe went to the volatile Aboriginal community of Yuendumu to arrest
19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker.
Walker had been in jail, charged
with assaulting police and aggravated assault, and breached his
suspended sentence by returning to Yuendumu, 300km northwest of Alice
Springs.
On the Wednesday before the shooting, local police had tried to arrest Walker. He chased them away with an axe.
Andrew Bolt tends to mix the Law with Cultural myths and beliefs that whites can do little wrong morally. Consequently the Law in this case obviously has got it wrong. White culture is the right culture according to Bolt and for 200 years it has rightfully dominated and colonized indigenous Australia. The facts in this legal case bear no need of mention.Yet it was white police that collected and presented evidence which then assessed by the DPP brought the charges laid to trial.Forget the law cries Bolt the system has been influenced by racism and Black Racism to boot even though the process was conducted in the main proceduraly by white men.
As far as Bolt is concerned this single case represents an attack on white Australia by what institutional black legal system? None but by a cultural bleeding hearted left wing sympathy for blacks. Hardly as there is no such thing as a "black man's justice system only a white man's. A system on any other day Bolt generally declares is colorless fair and correct. No stolen children as far as Bolt's concerned. However not in this case why? Have all the white police who collected evidence been corrupted? Has the DPP been bought and influenced by some wealthy invisible black nation? Social research shows indigenous Australians are at the very bottom of Australian society on every social metric and have no wealth or power other than that gifted them. So, to declare some weird notion of a Black Power that has influenced the legal system flies in the face of all historic evidence.
Only a white racist like Andrew Bolt can come to the conclusion that the BLM movement in Australia has influenced, shifted and changed the systemic nature of our legal system and is now victimizing whitemen some statistically significant numbers. 400 Aboriginal deaths in custody is normal for Bolt no charges laid. That's as it should be. One cop charged and Bolt's world has come apart. History shows that the likelihood of Rolfe being found guilty is highly unlikely.
What is more likely is Andrew Bolt knowing this is taking up a cause for self-gandisement. The probability of the law finding Rolfe innocent is high and will boost Bolt's failing media presence. If wrong Bolt will do what he always does simply stop chasing the issue and fade to silence. What's more important and significant is that Bolt's blog for most of his recent posts thes past months has been little about anything other than Race. His obsession with Bruce Pascoe, Critical Race Theory and Replacement theory almost his solefocus.That the dominant culture of Australia is Western Christian and White as far as Bolt is concerned. He maybe right when it comes to the powerful and elite but they are only really representative of a minority of Australia's Culture, and not Bolt's false myth that they represent and are indicative of our multicultural majority.
Mining
exports rose $100 billion in a decade, yet they now contribute
proportionally less to government coffers. And if WA had the same
royalty rate as Queensland, WA citizens would have gained an extra $47
billion over the decade. Callum Foote reports.
Google
and Facebook are yet to be “designated” under the Digital Media
Bargaining Code, leaving the Code a farce rather than the touted
“world-first reform”. Pressure on the platforms meant a small transfer
of money from them to the old media allies of the Government such as
News Corp and Nine but the essential challenge of reforms to the
“surveillance capitalism” giants remains unaddressed. Kim Wingerei
reports.
Gaming the System is what Morrison's been doing since being elected
The system failure here is in fact South Australia’s, whose hotel quarantine system
became a source of transmission. The most germane policy failure is
probably the federal government’s abject sluggishness in improving our
quarantine arrangements by building new, better specialised facilities
– something they still won’t commit to doing. Westacott went on to
place the ultimate responsibility at the feet of the national cabinet.
But the unacknowledged irony of the Victorian outbreak is that of the
three governments involved, the Victorian government’s role seems the
smallest.
But it’s far less likely to be true that even if the rollout was meeting
its original targets we’d be at a level of vaccination that would have
cut transmission significantly enough to have kept the state open. We’ve
seen this in other countries, like Singapore, with much higher levels
of vaccination than us, and who have nonetheless been forced into
lockdown.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg boasted of “more direct federal economic
support per capita going to Victoria than to any other state”, as though
that dealt with the matter. Frydenberg’s statement is true. But then
you think about the numbers: some $6760 for every Victorian, compared
with $6409 per person in NSW.
The
Victorian Government has used despicable scaremongering to frighten
Victoria into accepting a longer shutdown caused by its incompetence.
There is actually no evidence that this is a "beast" of a virus strain
that's infecting people like never before.
What madness is this? The
country’s worst government is keeping Melbourne shut down for another
week because of what seems a fake scare about a new virus strain.
The hype from the Victorian government has been astonishing, reckless and self-serving.
Chief
Health Officer Brett Sutton insists this strain of the Indian variant
is “an absolute beast” no other state has had to face.
“It has
moved faster than any other strain we’ve dealt with, and we’re seeing
transmission in settings and circumstances we’ve never seen before.”
Already your bull detector should be flashing red.
It certainly is and it's coming from the mouth of Andrew Bolt who disregards what has been said and we have been warned of by epidemiologists and virologists in India, the UK, the US and the rest of the world that have experienced the spread of these new variants. The majority of these experts have clearly indicated that the rate of spread of these new variants is faster than that experienced a year ago. Bolt is recklessly protecting the Morrison conservative government's failure to establish fit for purpose quarantine facilities and their inability to vaccinate us as was promised back in March. Currently we are lagging at 120th on the planet in the rate of vaccinations delivered which has exacerbated the current problem. We are 9 million people short of the jabs promised. Yet what we hear from Hunt is we are breaking records and from Morrison "it's not a race " and from Bolt there is only a manufactured and false concern.
Frontline workers in aged care remain and were never prioritized. They were offered the "dregs" or left overs of vaccinations not given or refused by those in aged care. Only 2% of Australians have been fully vaccinated when as many as 70% of adults have been fully covered already in some 10 American states and 57% of Americans have had the dose across a country of 330 Million despite vaccinations not being mandated.
In typical form Bolt who like a QAnon dipstick and religious fanatic is going out of his way to throw doubt on the issue to complicate our efforts by bellowing out his disbelief about what has been openly agreed on by the world of medical experts. It's an echo of what he does when declaring Climate Change still remains in doubt. We have seen who he supports and its not the Victorian government. The LNP gets Bolt's backing when it comes to climate change a swell in fact he believes Morrison is doing to much. Well just a short while ago Mathias Corman our Minister for finance was supporting this media idiot in creating doubt today he's done 180 degree turn and is now declaring climate change and carbon emissions a the worlds greatest problem and has joined the world of science he once opposed. What it goes to show is these blowhards simply can't be trusted.
Lets face it Morrison would actually love Victoria not to be locked down his job is of primary importance to him more than workers or businesses in that Labour State he knows he can't win. A state taking it's advice from Public Health experts who Andrew Bolt gives the finger. Besides we know Morrison's mantra is "it's not my job" "I'm not holding the dose" and "I don't want to encourage lock downs" unless of course the news focuses too closely on him then he folds.
UPDATE
"We don't have to fear this virus" Morrison's words having been first to be vaccinated sounding like Trump. He's been to NZ and is now copying Jacinda but with far far more bureaucracy involved.
A
government agency says it's found another 10,000 members of the "Stolen
Generations". Or has it found 70,000 fewer? More reason to ask just who
was stolen.
A quiz, to test how you’ve been misled.
Guess how many Aboriginal children were of the “stolen generations” – stolen by racist whites.
Is
it “up to 100,000” as claimed in 1997 by the Human Rights Commission
and by the ABC? Up to 25,000, as claimed in 2006 by Professor Robert
Manne, citing an Australian Bureau of Statistics survey?
At least 33,600, as claimed in 2019 by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey?
At least 13,800 (counting only survivors aged over 50), according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in 2018.
No, wait, at least 27,200 people aged over 50, said this same institute on Wednesday?
What is the point that Bolt is making that he's "right" and everyone else is wrong? That there is some confusion on the historic record and Bolt is right for declaring "stop the research", "stop the inquiry" there were no "stolen children"? What is he actually offering?
The Dutch post WW2 declared they were heroes in their protection of their Dutch Jews. For 40 odd years that was the story told and taught until in the 80's studies and research carried out by Jews themselves proved that the Dutch were in fact Europe's most active and enthusiastic country in assisting the Germans in transporting their own Dutch Jews to the concentration camps and gas chambers even more so than the Germans. So much so only 20% survived. Well without that critical examination of the historic facts being posited by the Dutch at the time that history would never have been rewritten.
There were no doubt Andrew Bolt's about in those days too denying those findings and criticizing any critical investigation taking place and protesting that these new facts revealed be taught in the classrooms of Dutch schools. That if done, it would have enormously negative effects on the new post war generation of Dutch kids, being taught "self-hate". What a load of bullshit Bolt is trying on to come up with and to insist, along with the Minister for Education Tudge, that any reexamination of our history shouldn't take place because we will begin hate ourselves for being white and a new racism be established. The German kids don't hate themselves today and they certainly aren't fucked in the head because of the atrocities their forefathers committed. There are neo-Nazis but they are in step with Bolt or shoul I say he is in step with them?
The numbers don't matter but children were "stolen" the practice was systemic and an industry was imported and developed because of that attitude. Our white christian colonial system simply saw aboriginal Australians as lesser people. Bolt still does hold that view today. That attitude didn't originate here. It came with the first white person to step on the shores of this continent .It was Imperialistic Christian White and Colonial and it already had over 200 years head start in it's making before hand. It came with an arrogance and an ability to kill at a distance with a gun and do to people of a different color and culture whatever they wanted. Laying down a history that, with critical examination today, is fast proving to be as false as the one the Dutch created post WW2.
Is it a coincidence that Andrew Bolt is a dual citizen of both countries and is applying the same arguments they did of their beneficence? For Christ sake don't teach the kids the truth it will fuck them right up if they are christian or white.They might stop believing in their god given right to ruleand tread privileged and heavily over this land
But under concerted attack from the federal opposition on Thursday,
Mr Hunt acknowledged that 16 of Victoria’s 598 aged care homes had not
had any doses delivered to either residents or workers.
Morrison's Australian Dream
