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NO MORE MONEY BUSINESS Reveal who donates more than a grand to your campaign — that’s the challenge from Victorian MP Helen Haines, The Age reports, as the fallout over donations from coal millionaire John Kinghorn to independent MP Zali Steggall continues. Haines says she’ll list every donation above $1000 on her website each quarter, and anything above the official threshold of $14,500 within just five days (!), demanding all sides of Parliament do likewise. At the moment donations are revealed eight months after the end of the financial year.

Source: Crikey Worm: A grand plan for donations

 

With 98% of Canada's truckers vaccinated this so called "freedom demonstration" isn't what it appears to be. It's made up of a diverse group of protesters. It's however financed and organized brought together by social media to foment chaos not just in Canada. Canberra is the the most vaccinated city in the world and we are seeing the same. This is occurring in the West and very similar groups are in play and they aren't ANTIFA or WOKE. However, they want it to seem Western democracies are destabilized. Murdoch media isn't in Canada but it's certainly giving and enormous amount of attention to promoting the Canadian event as caused by dictator Trudeau. The "freedom marchers" however comprising of neo-Nazis ,Nationalists, Right-Wing extremists, Qanon armed and using children as sheilds. Which families use their children as shields and describe themselves " freedom protesters"? It's very much something else whent they come armed. More akin to the organized riots on Jan 6th. To whose advantage one might well ask? Meanwhile Putin has 170k troops on the Ukraine border acting out the novel Collateral. Will he create a false flag?

Fox News and Tucker Carlson has been up close and personally praising the "ordered" leadership of the governments in Hungary and Russia praising the leadership styles of Orban Putin and yes Trump who loves Vlad. They keep their people "safe". Trudeau and the West oppress. Putin and China don't want to be seen in the same light as Trudeau not oppressors but leaders of peaceful but protective national interest. However there is a sense of "false flag to all of what's happening now. It's not spontaneous it takes organization and vast sums of money involved. The spread and incitement over the internet has the mark of 2017 when the Russian's dedicated to have Trump elected with their dark-cyber presence.

 Putin assassinates, imprisons and manipulates his control of Russia witha n iron fist and a State media that is a mirror image of Fox News. The encroaches and takes over of countries in order "Save Russians" and installs his puppets,Belarus now the Ukraine. Chaos is the false flag an that takes money and moral support. At the moment China is lending it's support to Russia. What's currently happening isn't a truckers protest, but it's organized, heavily financed and has been seen before. Yes the Americans do and Trump did the same in Latin and Central America. However, Fox News isn't helping Biden or America and Tucker Carlson seems more a branch of a Russian English speaking State Media than an agent of News.

It is fitting that the Prime Minister chose to strum away on a simple ukulele the tune of a well-known song this week, without having practised, learnt the words or informed himself of the subject matter, and without any apparent embarrassment. His performance is a metaphor for the Coalition Government he leads.

Source: Coalition gaffes galore to the tune of an off-key ukulele

 

Morrison is at war and Peter Dutton is our Defence Minister. He sent our best sip to Tonga and it broke down now a week has gone by and he’s managed to deploy 129 personnel to aged care. This is a government that has surrendered not one that’s capable of keeping anyone safe let alone a Nation

More than a week after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that up to 1700 ADF personnel would be sent to help fill clinical and support roles in aged care homes, only a handful of the nation’s more than 2600 facilities have received military assistance.

Official ADF data shows there were just 129 personnel on the ground helping fill staff shortages in the sector on Tuesday, including 18 in NSW and 50 in Victoria.

 

Source: Aged care still waiting for ADF support as homes close amid staff shortages

FAKE NEWS

 

ROY SPENCER ON GOOGLE PUNSIHING HIM FOR REP | Herald Sun

 For years Andrew Bolt turned to Roy Spencer a renowned Meteorologist  to tell us the planet was Cooling. That eventually changed to "it's not warming as fast as Climate Science is saying or predicting" If you take that single year 1998 as ground zero you get a false impression from the 30year average. Even Andrew Bolt was forced to change his tune denying he ever said the planet was cooling. Science has moved on and left Spencer and Bolt in it's wake as has the global media except for Murdoch media, Andrew Bolt and the likes of Roy Spencer. Yet again he's been provided the platform by Andrew Bolt for a reunion.

However, this time it's about money and not really anything new about climate science. It's about how Google has "victimised" Spencer. If you Google Roy Spencer he's all over Google like sunburn is after a 36 degree day lying naked in the sun. He's neither a victim nor been cancelled. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find any arguments against him. He's been forgotten!! Being demonetized just means he's dropped below Google's threshold for payment. Well. it's long after his hey day and the attention he got in the years after 1998 are over. Furthermore the attention Bolt tried to grab for himself as a contrarian are over too. They are both obviously cooling while the planet is not. Andrew  Bolt back in the day was promoted as an "expert" back then when the IPA published a book of "false facts". Today they too have been demonetized and am sure nobody is buying or paying attention to the book.

Yes, Andrew Bolt and Roy Spencer are reliving their gory days of undeserved attention. The graph above makes no reference to the 10 hottest years on record and those being in the last decade. Besides Bolt and Spencer pay absolutely no attention to any data or the average after 1998. Spencer says he's been treated like a "Liberal Arts Major" and not as a scientist. Well he is standing with Andrew Bolt who is less than one and  has no "Major" at all other than contrarian.

Andrew Bolt doesn't invite any scientists that have argued against what was once the Christie and Spencer show. Christie left. The only people Bolt invites to trumpet their ideas on Climate Science tend to be unqualified anti-science sceptics on along with a sprinkling of scientists are are generally not experts in the field but are monetised and associated with well known wealthy organizations like the Koch Bros andthe Heartland Foundation that argue against warming, News Corp also being one.

Still the very fact that today Industry, Banks, and Investors around the world have all turned against man made CO2 emmissions found to be the major cause of global warming speaks to the fact that Andrew Bolt and Roy Spencer were simply talking to themselves.

Social media giants are increasingly censoring debate – and now Google is punishing one of the world’s top climate experts. Professor Roy Spencer runs one of the five big measurements of world temperature, some say the most authoritative, at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. His work has been widely cited in the scientific literature and has won him the American Meteorological Society’s Special Award.

Source: ROY SPENCER ON GOOGLE PUNSIHING HIM FOR REP | Herald Sun

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Palaszczuk and Berejiklian let it rip and describe the real Scott Morrison

Thursday was the day Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk finally had had enough of Scott Morrison. She announced she was not waiting any longer for the Prime Minister to work with Queensland. In January, Palaszczuk decided that Queensland needed to dump the failed system of hotel quarantine and build its own cabin-style facility. But when she pitched this to Morrison, he was unsupportive.

 Even Berejiklian is fed up with the PM, who she privately regards as an ‘evil bully’

 Whether it’s climate change, the pandemic or the Afghanistan evacuation, a determined lack of urgency defines our national government.

Inertia is the Morrison government’s personality disorder - and it keeps dawdling to destruction

 

 His best friends are Anon Freaks and Morrison says he didn't know and it's a coincidence

  

 

 

WRONG TARGET

 

Their model Australia their fear Germany. Can you believe their arguments? Unions stifle innovation, quality and progress. Simply compare Australia Canada and Germany and their corporations. Mercedes, BMW are all backward corporations with their boards of 50% union representation.

  Founded by Canada’s most powerful business lobbyists, bankers, and oil companies, the Coalition for a Better Future is crafting a plan to attack workers and reorganize the post-pandemic economy in the interests of the rich.

Some of Canada’s Biggest Capitalists Are Plotting an Attack on Canadian Workers

 

Banks are profiteering from the Reserve Bank's bail-out fund by betting on their own bonds. Michael West investigates a very...

Verging on Ponzi: how the banks are rorting the RBA’s big bail-out fund

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg appears to have thrown the most important findings of the banking royal commission under a bus, in glorious double-speak. On Thursday he issued a direction to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission through what is known as a statement of expectations. It is very different from the previous such statement, issued in 2018. This one includes an entirely new clause, placed right at the top. The government expects ASIC to: identify and pursue opportunities to contribute to the government’s economic goals, including supporting Australia’s economic recovery from the COVID pandemic.  ASIC’s description says it is a regulator whose job is to “take whatever action we can, and which is necessary, to enforce and give effect to the law”. From ‘why not litigate’… It’s how the royal commission saw ASIC’s role.

…to ‘why not capitulate’

Rather than “why not litigate,” it reads as “why not capitulate” — justified by the need to identify opportunities to contribute to Australia’s economic recovery.

 Frydenberg’s directions to ASIC throw the banking royal commission under a bus

 

A long-anticipated plan to reform Australia’s electricity system was released on Thursday. One of the most controversial proposals by the Energy Security Board (ESB) concerns subsidies which critics say will encourage dirty coal plants to stay open longer. The subsidies, under a so-called “capacity mechanism”, would aim to ensure reliable energy supplies as old coal plants retire. Major coal generators say the proposal will achieve this aim. But renewables operators and others oppose the plan, saying it will pay coal plants for simply existing and delay the clean energy transition.

 As the world battles to slash carbon emissions, Australia considers paying dirty coal stations to stay open longer

 

 Why bother advertising in the Herald Sun?

Media Slow news day: the Herald Sun falls back in the pack A long-time kingpin in Melbourne print media, the Herald Sun has taken quite the tumble, falling to fourth place among News Corp’s Australian mastheads. There’s a changing of the guard in Australia’s media: long-time Melbourne circulation kingpin the Herald Sun has tumbled way down the rankings. Now, it looks like it’s not only runner-up to local competitor The Age, it’s fallen to fourth spot among News Corp’s remaining Australian mastheads.

 It’s the second blow to News Corp’s market supremacy, following the ABC’s leap to displace news.com.au at the top of the Nielsen Digital News Content rankings since the 2020 summer of bushfires. The Herald Sun — boasting an audited circulation over twice its competitor with 600,000 copies when it first merged back in 1990 — is down more than three-fourths, with 146,026 subscribers across its print and digital products, according to June 30 internal figures reported by the company to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

 It explains why Andrew Bolt has stopped blogging since 12/8/21 He knock knocked and nobody was there to sell to.

 Slow news day: the Herald Sun falls back in the pack

 

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Scott Morrison wants to introduce a 'Superannuation Amnesty' which lets bosses off the hook for penalties on ANY unpaid super since 1992 – they'll even gain a tax advantage. Do you think super thieves should be rewarded for breaking the law?

Testimony by Top Diplomat Bill Taylor on Trump and Ukraine Elicits 'Holy Sh*t' Responses From Members of Congress

"Today's bombshell testimony proves without a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump used military aid to pressure Ukraine into investigating a political rival," said Sean Eldridge, president of the group. "Republicans in Congress must do their jobs and uphold their oath to defend our Constitution by voting to impeach and remove Donald Trump."
"No one—including the criminal in the White House—is above the law," he added.

Politics

White House Spokesman Attempts To Defend Trump's 'Lynching' Remarks

 Trump's not Black; he's more likely the lyncher than the person being lynched. Typical Trump turning to Fake History for his personal benefit and defense. (ODT)

Hogan Gidley told reporters on Tuesday that Trump wasn’t “comparing what’s happened to him with one of our darkest moments in American history.”

ByJenna Amatulli

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning where he compared the ongoing impeachment inquiry against him to “a lynching,

Syrian conflict

Turkey, Russia seal deal to patrol Syrian border, oust Kurds

The deal transform the map of northeast Syria, leaving Turkey in sole control over one section in the middle of the border, while Turkey, Russia and the Syrian government will have hands in the rest.

The US pullout has proven chaotic. It ran into a new hitch when neighbouring Iraq said on Tuesday that American forces did not have permission to stay on its territory. The Iraqi announcement seemed to contradict US Defence Secretary Mark Esper, who a day earlier said the forces leaving Syria would deploy in Iraq to fight IS.

Erdogan is "a thief", Assad told troops during a visit to the north-western province of Idlib. "He stole the factories and the wheat and the oil in cooperation with Daesh [Islamic State] and now is stealing the land."
"We are in the middle of a battle and the right thing to do is to rally efforts to lessen the damages from the invasion and to expel the invader sooner or later," Assad said.

Peter Loffel, the 'kill buyer', is the face of horse racing’s unpalatable truth

The racing Industry is found doing a TRUMP

He is known as a kill buyer, although he prefers the term horse trader. He buys horses no one wants and trucks them to a place that no horse wants to end up.

The horses he buys are nearly all retired racehorses or trotters, he tells The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He says he buys most of his gallopers direct from trainers, licensed participants in an industry which has spent the past four days claiming it has no idea so many thoroughbreds are sent to abattoirs.

"Most of them are some sort of racehorse. We don't buy people's riding horses or saddle horses."
 If what Loffel says is true, the industry’s claim that horses are being slaughtered beyond their sight is bunk; any trainer who sells a horse to Loffel knows exactly where it is going.



 

MEGHAN AND HARRY: NOT VICTIMS BUT WHINGERS

 Media arseholes tend to unite to themselves for nothing more than ratings sake and attention. Here in Australia, the wannabe loudest arsehole has been Andrew Bolt. Andrew Bolt is, also Australia's head and leading whinger who has turned on Harry and Megan simply because he can and wants attention. However, he's a latecomer to the bovver feast an also-ran to put in the boot.

  Remember how Bolt whinged ever so loudly when our law turned on him for not behaving appropriately. What did Bolt do? He bit his lower lip sulked, whinged and wailed like the spoilt brat he is, postured and threatened to quit the media.  However, when nobody yelled "don't" to our disappointment, he didn't.

So what we have here is a Monarchist, a Media arsehole who rarely provides News or information directly supporting two dysfunctional institutions. By attacking Harry and Megan victims of both for speaking up by using the law.  Rather than defending Harry and Megan's right, he's defending a corrupt media that feeds off a Cultural Dinosaur for profit. A press, whose editor's mindset is  "if it bleeds it leads" and who in the case of Megan "make her bleed" to get the lead. Andrew Bolt, in all of this, is a simple camp follower, a lazy latecomer who has stolen the opportunity to stick his knife in and twist it. It's what he calls his job.

However, when he was charged and found guilty, he wailed like a spoilt brat and claimed victimhood. Then neither our law nor the media failed like they have Harry and Megan. They are currently gorging on the opportunity of profit by screwing two individuals who they have made bleed. Bolt is defending the Bovver boy actions of his team.

CANADA RE-ELECTS FIRST BLACK PRIME MINISTER, BUT TRUMP WINS BIGGER

Canada is a joke,

 re-electing its first black/Indian/Sikh/First Nations prime minister - a culturally-cringing and weakened hypocrite. 

Meanwhile, Donald Trump scores another foreign-policy success, this time in Syria.

 But don't expect the media Left to admit it. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

1h ago

The Real  Bolt

 

Here is another example of whack-a-mole creating Creating a lead because he was wrong and dragging his whinge on ad museum. Why is it so important? Because Bolt was found to be, and is still wrong and now squirming.

IN 26 YEARS, THE ABC'S MEDIA WATCH HAS NEVER CORRECTED THE BIG CLIMATE LIE

The ABC's Media Watch in 26 years has never corrected what even a global warming scientist admits is a popular newspaper falsehood - that global warming causes droughts. Instead, it now does a cover up, only to be exposed by a PowerPoint slide. From The Bolt Report.

3h ago

For how many years did we hear Climate expert Andrew Bolt declare the 'Planet is Cooling". Has he ever apologised and heard to say he was "wrong"? He's wrong now as well, We saw how this media thug used Andy Pitman then threw him aside simply to attack Paul Barry and the ABC, why?  For revealing how Bolt used Pitman for his own benefit and not the underlying truth that global warming does have an indirect connection to the "intensity of droughts" which Bolt denies. Just as he did when he insisted the Planet was cooling.

TURKEY MAKES PEACE DEAL ON SYRIA. TRUMP'S 'MISTAKE' ISN'T

True, Russia emerges as the king-maker, but Donald Trump's pullout is not the bloody mistake we were told: "Russia and Turkey agreed on Tuesday...to ensure Kurdish forces withdraw from areas close to Syria's border with Turkey and to launch joint patrols ... just hours ahead of a deadline for Turkey to restart its assault on Syrian Kurdish forces."  

3h ago
 America pulled out of Vietnam to win the war for peace. Trump pulled out of Syria to win the war for peace. Now Iraq wants the Americans gone for Peace as does Afghanistan. Amazing how America such a peacemaker moving in and out other sovereign territories generally disadvantaging those they co-opted as allies when they first moved in then deserting them.

Here is the reason Andrew Bolt is little more than a media ape. Any peace on the Syrian border hasn't been Trump's success; it's been entirely Putin's because of Trump's failure. Trump started a war to defeat ISIS and get rid of Assad. He achieved neither.

 He has handed the Middle East to Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq and lost control of the oil and has had to increase troops in Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, he's supported a bloodbath in Yemen. 

Israel is now in a less comfortable position as Trump has actually helped unite the Shia in the area. At the same time showing the world how America treats its allies and can't be trusted. The biggest losers have been Israel, the Kurds, and the US reputation as peacemakers. In the meantime, Yemen is a humanitarian disaster in the hands of the US and Saudi's.

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Why Andrew Bolt's in denial of progress

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-florence-crippled-electricity-and-coal-solar-and-wind-were-back-the-next-day/

BORIS BELT'S MAY'S BREXIT

Boris Johnson fires up the Conservative conference by denouncing Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for a fudged exit from Europe: "The room erupted into cheers when he said Ms May needed 'to chuck Chequers', as her Brexit proposals are known. 'Do not believe them when they say there is no other plan and no alternative'." An alternative like Boris.  

2h
Conservatives the world over in their grab for power seem to be going for the "let's lose the next election strategy" that Abbott seems to be going for in order to be a great opposition. It's the self-serving MPs" only I'm important screw the nation, strategy".

FIGHT CLUB: EX-PMS BRAWL

It's fight, fight, fight at the club of ex-Prime Ministers this week. Malcolm Turnbull attacks Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Rudd then whacks Turnbull, and now Paul Keating goes him, too: "If you needed to know what Malcolm Turnbull truly believes in, what he would die in a ditch over, you would need a microscope to help you find it."

3h
They are all individuals and are able to speak for themselves Abbott is by choice still part of a "team" that of one within a team that's a fractious faction. He keeps yelling to his teammates to pass the ball outside the boundary. But they haven't have they?

QUEBEC REMOVES TRUDEAU'S WELCOME MAT

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2017: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith." Now Quebec elects a new Right-wing leader: "Legault campaigned on a controversial plan to take in 10,000 fewer immigrants a year and to expel new residents who fail tests on French and Quebec values."

3h
Trudeau has removed the welcome mat for the For the Right Wing Leader of Quebec. Bolt seems to have gotten it the wrong way round again. The welcome mat for refugees in Canada remains in tact. Quebec is still part of Canada and not independent of it. As usual, Bolt tries to put the cart before the horse and suggests that the new combination will work in changing the direction of Canada  

 

DESPICABLE: Trump Mocks Dr. Blasey Ford At MAGA Rally, Crowd Roars | Crooks and Liars

Fox News Globally supports TRUMP. Andrew Bolt believes that Kanavaugh is the victim here.

IN the UN they Laughed At Him. In a Safe Crowd They Laughed with Him. Trump Often Forgets Where He Is.(ODT)
The President of the United States of America stood on a stage at a Make America Great Again Rally and, on live tv, mocked and ridiculed a woman who was sexually assaulted at age 15. And the crowd in the room cheered, laughed and chanted "lock her up"
LOCK HER UP.
Let that sink in. They are cheering to lock up the victim of a sexual assault.
And for what? For coming forward? For sharing her story?
There is a reason why so few women come forward with their stories of sexual abuse and assault. Even now, in the era of MeToo, women (and men) are terrified. They are scared to not be believed, so be victim shamed, asked if they had too much to drink or if they dressed slutty. They are scared to be accused of lying to get back at a man who scorned them. They are scared to be mocked.
And Donald Trump. What does he do? He mocks a victim from the Presidential podium.
America, this is a new low.

Top Five Signs Kavanaugh might have been a mean, Black-out Drunk Capable of AnythingOctober 3, 2018

 

 Amsterdam Is Fighting for Its Soul. Can a Progressive New Government Save It? | The Nation

But Andrew Bolt keeps complaining about Melbourne. He dreams of retirement in Amsterdam and keeps complaining about Melbourne. Melbourne doesn't want him here and we agree it's not Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Demographics

The racial and ethnic makeup of Amsterdam as of 2012 was 49.5% Dutch and 50.5% foreign ancestry. Non-Dutch immigrants in the 16th and 17th century were primarily Sephardi Jews, Huguenots, Flemings and Westphalians. Huguenots came to Amsterdam after the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau, which rescinded the right of the Huguenots to practice their religion without persecution in France. Flemish Protestants immigrated to the area during the Eighty Years' War. Westphalians immigrated to the area in the 18th and 19th century for better economic conditions.

Amsterdam experienced its first mass immigration in the 20th century as Indonesians moved to the area following the independence of the Dutch East Indies. By the 1960s, guest workers emigrated from Italy, Spain, Morocco and Turkey. In the 1970s, a large number of Surinamese moved to the city after Suriname gained independence. There have also been waves of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from Asia, Europe, America and Africa.

Individuals of non-Western origin account for 35% of Amsterdam's population and over half of all children in the city. Non-Westerners are concentrated in certain neighborhoods, such as Nieuw-West, Bijlmer, Zeeburg and Amsterdam-Noord.

Amsterdam had a 10% population of Jewish people prior to World War II, but only 20% survived the Holocaust.

Amsterdam has 176 different nationalities, which makes it one of the most diverse cities in the world in terms of nationality. Greater Amsterdam's population density is x10 that of Greater Melbourne and that's without the 9 million tourists that come to stay there. Yet it's Bolt's heaven. What a bullshit artist he is the city is even more diverse than Melbourne and has a Left-wing Green Council.

Cycling into Amsterdam’s red-light district from Dam Square on a summer evening requires advanced maneuvering skills. Throngs of tourists clog the sidewalks. They spill into the road without warning, blocking traffic while they check their phones or take a picture, though it’s not clear what they hope to capture.
Walkable, picturesque, and famous for its ample supply of sex and drugs while still feeling relatively safe, Amsterdam is more popular than ever. In 2018, the city expects to host almost 9 million overnight visitors, double the number 10 years ago. And that’s only counting hotel guests; an additional 1.6 million stay on cruise ships or rent through Airbnb or similar services. Together, they bring in billions of dollars but also put a huge strain on the city’s infrastructure, services, and environment.
Though much smaller than Paris, London, or New York, Amsterdam has long been a cosmopolitan city. Some 53 percent of its 845,000 inhabitants are first- or second-generation immigrants. After reaching a low point in the 1980s, its population is now growing at its fastest rate ever. But while the city attracts thousands of newcomers, it drives almost as many away. Soaring housing prices, pushed even higher by housing shortages, real-estate speculators, and Airbnb, are expelling middle-income and working-class families from the city proper.
All of this has pushed Amsterdam to a tipping point. The massive global money streams flowing into the Dutch capital threaten to destroy the fabric of what has long been one of Europe’s most livable cities while, at the same time, a sharp rise in inequality at all levels—income, employment, health, and education—is segregating neighborhoods along ethnic and socioeconomic lines. A new generation of organized criminals has taken to liquidating each other in broad daylight with little concern for bystanders. And schools, hospitals, the police, and the fire department are all understaffed because their employees can no longer afford to live near their work. In July, the city announced that
7,000 kids might not have a teacher for this fall.
 In pursuing these plans, Amsterdam’s new leaders have opted to look for guidance outside their country’s own borders. Shortly after they assumed power, Amsterdam joined the Fearless Cities network. Founded two years ago in Barcelona, the network aims to unite cities worldwide into a progressive front to check neoliberalism, stem the rise of radical right-wing movements, feminize politics, and defend human rights.
Bolt is trying to make out thet Mrlbourne is worse than Amsterdam by describing Melbourne as if it were that Dutch city when it's not

Welcome to Sunny Barcelona, Where the Government Is Embracing Coops, Citizen Activism, and Solar Energy

Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

 A few months earlier, in March, the citizens of Amsterdam expressed their alarm by electing their most progressive city council in decades. Since May, the city has been governed by a left coalition of four parties that have promised to rebuild Amsterdam into a diverse community that is “equitable, connected, free, democratic, and sustainable.” To achieve these lofty goals, the coalition plans to curb mass tourism, make the downtown all but car-and emissions-free, and cool the overheated housing market through massive building projects with set minimum quotas for low- and middle-income renters. They also plan to fight poverty and provide support for families struggling with long-term debt. Most interesting, the new city government has promised to democratize the way the city is run by shifting decision-making power—and a larger part of the budget—to citizens organized at the neighbourhood level.

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 14/6/18; Why should we trust Trump given the evidence of his record?

 After What Trump did to Iran and Canada, why Should N Korea trust Talks with Him?

The Iran deal in particular was closely negotiated over the course of years. Iran gave up 90% of its nuclear enrichment program in return for an end to economic sanctions. While the other member states of the UN Security Council did lift UNSC sanctions, the Republican-controlled Congress not only did not lift unilateral US sanctions but actually slapped more on.

Or take Canada. As I wrote on Friday:

Trump also repeatedly insists that the US runs a large trade deficit with Canada, importing more goods from that country than it sells to its northern neighbor. Those in the US who make that argument are typically counting third party goods imported into the US through Canada, which Ottawa considers an unfair accounting. The fact is that the US-Canada trade is almost equal, and if you count both goods and services, it is the US that runs the surplus.

 Israel is certainly nuclear equipped. It's human rights record has been abominable and it has without question supported al Qaeda based and affiliated terrorist groups. Donald Trump has never once questioned his involvement or support of this increasingly oppressive Nation. His acceptance of Nth Korea seems not to be based on any moral grounds but simply pragmatic ones given his hostility to Iran that has denuclerized and hasn't currently the human rights record that Israel and Nth Korea have. The article asks why Nth Korea should trust Trump when the question might well be asked why should anybody trust Trump given his contradictory record. Even Vice President Pence seems to have significant opposite opinions as to what occurred in Singapore and it's consequences for the region in terms of what will occur. According to Pence, the War games are still on. The confusion continues. (ODT)

Trump-Kim summit: Mike Pence contradicted Trump on ... - The Guardian

Trump contradicts US military stance on Korea war games - AP News

 

Trump Touts Success Of Singapore Summit After Securing $10 Billion Trade Deal To Sell Nuclear Warheads To North Korea

SINGAPORE—Saying the agreement represents a major high point in American international relations, President Trump concluded his summit with Kim Jong-un Monday by securing a $10 billion trade deal to sell both strategic and tactical nuclear warheads directly to North Korea. “There was some negotiating involved in getting [Jong-un] to buy as many nukes as we wanted to…

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World Leaders Hope Singapore Summit Will Lead To North Korea Becoming Normal Impoverished Country They Don’t Have To Think About

Monday 3:31pm

PARIS—Waiting in anticipation of the meeting between U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un, dozens of world leaders reportedly expressed hope Monday that the Singapore summit would lead to North Korea becoming a normal impoverished country they don’t have to think about. “I think I…

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 12/5/18; A video of how Australian Police arrest Indigenous youth; How the media present and inform Australians and call it "News";

TIPS FOR SATURDAY, MAY 12

Tell us the news here.

12/05/201822

Andrew Bolt is having another short 5 day week this now a regular occurrence. Remember how he bragged about his 80 hour weeks he now does them in 5 days. He goaded Duncan Storar to get off his ass and others on welfare to do the same. Bolt declared himself the yardstick of what was possible and how to accomplish it. What a BS artiste he is a self-scripted music less opera  he is.

  A Cop Remained On Duty Until A Second Video Of A Police Car Hitting An Indigenous Teen Went Public

 Video is very slowly changing the culture of Australian policing of Aboriginal youth. If this incident hadn't been caught on video would the driver have been stood down? Would Farmer, a relation a possible relation of the great Polly Farmer, have faced additional charges of running into a police car with malicious intent?  This is an example as revealed in the Royal Commission of Australian policing of Indigenous youth to a tee. (ODT)

A senior Western Australian police officer has been stood down from active duty after additional footage showing a police car running into an Indigenous teenager on Sunday emerged.
NITV News / Via youtube.com
NITV News yesterday published a video which shows an unmarked police car in the Western Australian town of Thornlie swerving across the road toward William Farmer, an 18-year-old Indigenous man.
The car hits Farmer who then falls onto the footpath, turns on his side and appears to start convulsing.
NITV

"A WA Police Force officer at the centre of an internal investigation into an incident in Thornlie has been stood down," the state's police media unit said in a statement provided to BuzzFeed News.
"The action was taken ... following the provision to police of additional footage of the incident."
Video that initially emerged earlier this week showed an unmarked police car hitting the teenager, but new video obtained by NITV News gave a clearer view of the incident.
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  A New Low: Channel 9 'Does A Sunrise' On $30m Palm Island Uprising Payout - New Matilda

 The premise of the story is ridiculous enough – the stuff on which odious programs like A Current Affair and Today Tonight (and ABC Lateline) are built – but it still manages to plumb new depths of gutter journalism as the trainwreck unfolds on your screen.

You can read the story here or watch it below, but do it on an empty stomach. In the meantime, here are the facts that Arfier left out of the story, all of which I and many others have reported countless times over the last decade, apparently to limited affect.
Mulrunji Doomadgee was beaten to death on the floor of the Palm Island police station on November 19, 2004 for singing ‘who let the dogs out’ at Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, the most senior officer on the island and a man almost twice the size of Mulrunji (Hurley was six foot six and weighed 115kg, Mlurunji less than 80kgs).
As Mulrunji lay dying, another Aboriginal man in the cell tried to comfort him and yell for help from Hurley and other officers. His screams were ignored.
When Mulrunji’s family arrived at the police station later that morning to enquire why he had been arrested, he had already been dead for hours. Hurley lied to the family and told them he was fine, but unavailable.

 

COALITION AHEAD IN LONGMAN

The Turnbull Government looks like getting a big moral boost in the byelection for Longman. A ReachTel poll says it will win the seat back from Labor, 53 per cent to 47.   But there are warning signs: its primary vote is down, and support from its tax policies weak.  

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Fact or Fiction Bolt's banner reads as if the election has been held the election being the ReachTel Poll. If polls don't cheer Bolt they are automatically put into his "outliers" basket. If they do cheer him the "alternative fact" becomes a reality the election has been held it's done and dusted and it's over. Suddenly he's a fairweather friend of the LNP again. What will tomorrow or the next post bring in the way of fiction for this weathercock? 

  Canada: Monitor to track hate groups amid far-right rise | Far Right News | Al Jazeera

 

 Wake up Australia

Montreal, Canada - A new organisation has been set up to track hate groups in Canada amid what experts say is a marked rise in far-right sentiment across the country.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,2/7/17; Whites increasingly becoming Indigenous; Agnostic Bible seller; George Pell and light sentencing; Colonial British and Capitalism;

 

CHOOSING TO BE ABORIGINAL

I was told it was racist to say people could choose their "race". But the census shows 40,000 people in five years chose to identify as Aboriginal, and the ABC asks: "Claiming Aboriginality: Have Tasmania's Indigenous services been 'swamped with white people'?" A state known for wiping out Aborigines has double the proportion of the rest of us.

Bolt's never really pointed out the increasing number of whites choosing to live and identify with the Aboriginal lifestyle of sharing. However, he has pointed out to an increase of those who he claims falsely identify as Aboriginal. It seems to me he's totally wrong and has been all along. Since the invasion, increasing numbers of Aborigines have identified with the lifestyles of no the rich and famous but the communities of the homeless whites. Bolt believes and blames Aboriginal culture may be he will argue that it's Aboriginal culture increasingly invading white lifestyles when in fact it's been poverty and lack of appropriate support that defines both. Are poor people identifying in this way of life because as Bolt tries to convince us that they see the "opportunity" for more money? Bolt wouldn't know he distances himself from people like this no matter their color. It's his aloofness and determined social climbing in a marriage that really took him on the road to the top, certainly not merit. He had no direction until then when who he knew kicked him on.

 

BIBLE TEACHING BANNED

Be warned by Canada: "A school has been warned to stop teaching bible passages that may be deemed offensive to the lesbian and gay community... Staff at the school in Alberta, Canada were told by email some bible passages can “denigrate or vilify” the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community."

  Canada unlike Australia has a Bill of Human Rights and recognized "Last week the Canadian Senate passed a transgender rights bill adding ‘gender expression’ and ‘gender identity’ to Canada’s Human Rights Code and to the Criminal Code's hate crime section." However Andrew Bolt's attitude to the Human Rights is a "flip" and his response to Canada's Bill is "The army of tolerance turns out to be the biggest bigots of all."Bolt why?  "A school has been warned to stop teaching bible passages that may be deemed offensive to the lesbian and gay community... Staff at the school in Alberta, Canada were told by email some bible passages can “denigrate or vilify” the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community."...

Bolt doesn't believe that the safe schools program hurts anybody but ultra conservative intolerant Christians and that's coming from somebody who is a proud agnostic and doubts the Bible is even heaven sent just a book written by some ultra bigots he sides with. 

 

WHY ARE VICTORIA'S JUDGES SO LENIENT?

Will the judges now try to muzzle the Chief Crown Prosecutor, too, for pointing out an ideological bias he thinks is dangerous? For instance, rapists were given a median sentence of six years when the maximum available sentence was 25 years. Only 3.5 per cent of rapists were jailed for more than 15 years.

 Bolt's obviously confused isn't he running this argument before George Pell's trial? However the upper class has always appealed for mor prisons as long as they don't have to pay.

 

"WHITE LADY" SHOUTED DOWN BY INDIAN RACISTS

The new racism was on show at a news conference on Canada's Parliament Hill called by protesters identifying as Indian. They  shouted down a "white lady", accused other reporters of "white privilege" for repeating her question, then added: "And you're a guest here. Without us, you'd be homeless. This is over." Watch.

  It's easier for Bolt to yell reverse racism in other countries than it is here because it makes him appear to be a an ultra -racist flipping the argument here. The fact is reverse racism of the kind Bolt is referring to doesn't exist. One however might ask why in a country like Canada more outwardly proud of it's multiculturalism and more welcoming of refugees has such a poor record of treatment of it's indigenous population nearly as bad as we do. Why in fact have all settler nations have such a poor record? USA, NZ Canada, and Australia might be proud Multicultural nations but why do they treat their first peoples so badly. Is it because they were colonized by the British their lands taken and a similar banking and labor laws put in place. Credit was never available the basis on which Capitalism thrived. Inheritance was ignored as a right of first peoples whose land rights weren/t recognized as legitimate collateral. These are the structural conditions that guaranteed poverty and the basis of racism and not an Aboriginal calling a white man a privileged rascist. The Aboriginal is calling it as it is the peeved white man Bolt's complaints are a mere smoke screen.
 

TURNBULL WARNS: I'LL QUIT IF I'M OUSTED

The Liberals hold power by just one seat. So is Malcolm Turnbull giving advice to Tony Abbott or threatening a by-election in his seat?: "When I cease to be prime minister, I will cease to be a member of parliament. I am not giving anyone else advice but I just think that's what I would do."  

  Turnbull not playing Rudd or Abbott. Abbott is the mad Ahab not listening to anyone in his crew. He's out to destroy his Moby Dick, Turnbull the white whale. We all know how that story ended. Turnbull on the other hand respects Democracy and in giving the new party leader clean air. Something Abbott has never done once he became opposition leader he sht the door on openness there was and is nothing clean or open about him. He's a carefully non spontaneous construct. If he thinks Turnbull was a lefty he must hav been too because the Party is still carrying out Abbott policies.  Abbott is about as honest as a pedophile priest but in case the Church got it right..https://youtu.be/BQ5-woPA3gE

 

 

THE BOOS ARE BAD NEWS FOR TURNBULL

The boos at this Liberal function say plenty. I don't think Malcolm Turnbull is as popular with the Liberal base as journalists insist. 

 It was a very small crowd of conservatives as indicated by the sound of the boos

It's amazing Abbott calling for an open and democratic Liberal Party when as PM his Office was the very opposite and resulted in a mutiny by the backbenchers. Bolt promised he'd heard the message and would change did he not an iota of change was seen. Now Abbott is reversing all his own policies just to stick it up Turnbull while preaching "pre electoral committment to promises" He was the iconic promise breaker of "no cuts".

Andrew Bolt's Blog 2/11/16; Canada is the land we once were the land of a fair go; Bolt and egomania; The Trump Macine is FOX; How easy it'; Reading Bolt is like watching paint dry; Reverse Racism doesn't exist;

Canada takes the great immigration gamble

Canada and NZ have overtaken Australia as countries most admired globally. Ready to give people a "fair go".   All Bolt the Assimilationist can say "Canada is the home of multiculturalism. We're now about to see it tested severely by its stars-in-the-eyes government. The effects over the next couple of generations should be noted carefully."Bolt 

1) Sorry Bolt Australia hasn't lost it's status as a home of Multiculturalism. It is a Multicultural Nation.

2) Canada, NZ, USA,& Australia aren't being tested at all.  Multiculturalism is what defines them . They are  however being tested yes by extreme conservative minorities many who are migrants themselves who want severe assimilation policies and programs to be representative of  us all . However they can't even define what  that means other than white,non Muslim and non Asian.  Bolt has a vague concept  that reflects himself  some vague Aryan brotherhood. The world has seen this before.  It's reminiscent of Germany, Sth Africa and these were once exceptions happy to be regarded as the new global pariahs if that's what  accompanies it it. Australia as far as Bolt and Hanson are concerned is not a South East Asian nation country but a European one. Not a humanist one at all but one that needs to be determined on the basis of cultural and genetic DNA.

3) Multicultural "effects" can be predicted now without the need to be "closely watched" or listed  by the likes of Andrew Bolt.  Assimilation  is equally predictable. Class and class differences will still exist as will crime  and dysfunction. Every aspect of a Multicultural Nation will reflected Multiculturaly as will every aspect of an Assimilated one.

 So basically Andrew Bolt is  just a distraction saying nothing other than disguising the issues of class , income and wealth divisions that drive much of the dysfunction we see today. However the most serious of crimes will remain unattended to and continue to be committed by the most powerful. Those will remain intentionally hidden by PR men like Andrew Bolt disguised but the deliverers of misinformation and not the most important needs of a Democracy news .  Thank God for the ABC.

 

Turnbull now gets the Abbott treatment from Fairfax

 

How does Bolt know what was said between McGregor and Abbott? It seems McGregor has more public trust than Andrew Bolt these days.  So is it any wonder Bolt is simply doing what he is always doing grabbing onto the coat tails of some one and trying to steal their thunder. Is Bolt saying McGregor is a liar and that he knows the real truth? It seems to be just that. the Green monster is the driving force here with little or nothing being said by Bolt. That Abbott is content doing what backbenchers are meant to do.

 

 

Trump against the machine

 

 In Bolt's despotic universe who you vote for ought to determine you position and status in society winning or losing really count for nothing but the appropriate leader ought always be anti- progressive when and where the social and economic structure of individual relationships are concerned. Bosses should always be bosses and corporate boards never controlled by workers. All relevant structures determined from the top down. When politics arrives at a stalemate and doesn't serve that interest it's appropriate that individuals like Abbott and Trump take control in the name of corporate and economic interest and stability. In other words Bolt actually approves of the corporate takeover of government which is Mussolini's definition of the church of Fascism.  So on job applications of any sort it's appropriate to know first "who you vote for" and even "who your parents voted for" and decisions made accordingly. Whatever happens Corporate control is the priority and that's not Clinton.

 
 

 

Trump rises: media hopelessness expose in one graphic

 

 This is the easy part but how is he going to manage it like his Casinos?

Does Bolt even consider  the numbers and the likelihood of  who will win the electoral college votes? 270 Electoral votes are needed to win. Currently the count is 259/ 164 in Clinton's favor with 115 tossups. The average polling across the nation still has Clinton ahead by 2.2%. You need to ask why Andrew Bolt is seriously cherry picking ?  The fact is Republicans like Paul Ryan are now working against Trump the most unqualified candidate in American history. But his Bolt's dog in the race. Win or lose it says more about Australia's public intelectual Andrew Bolt than it does anybody else.

The drama is the problem for the Government

 

Bolt does what he knows best here 1 He's a pay wall for the Australian and demonstrates he is an expert on reporting .... No News.   He is as interesting as watching wet paint dry but that's his job and he relishes it.

 

Keryn Pholi: is it 'coz I'm black?

 

 Reverse Racism does not exist

There is one guarantee if it's a long post it's not Andrew Bolt's but a Troll's and generally Peter BH's

To address what's being said here the fact is reverse racism does not exist and should Pholi make a complaint she would be first to be notified of the fact and if it did go further it wouldn't pass mediation.  Peter BH seems to make out that the HRC  prosecutes hundreds of cases a year they never refer to the numbers that are why? Because they are so few most are dealt with in mediation if at all. However if and when they do fall in the jurisdiction of the court Section 18D provides even further room for defense. Bolt tried just that he was found guilty that defense wasn't applicable simply because it was  loose facts and lies and of no use to the public interest.

Peter BH suggests Pholi should sue the courts. Philosophically all laws are questionable  and have a right to be questioned but it's not the way the law works. Bolt's offended that he's not recognized as indigenous he 's adamant he is. How is it he hasn't made his philosophy a legal question of discrimination? peter BH is laughing at his boss as much as he is Pholi. Get Real not stupid.