Fighting Fake News with REAL 21/2/20; Wher does $1.7 billion held back from the NDIS go? Coal Fired Power and MAGA

The Victorian and NSW governments have accused the Commonwealth of holding back $1.7 billion in extra funds for the National Disability Insurance Scheme to prop up its promised budget surplus.
Victoria’s Disabilities Minister, Luke Donnellan, and his Liberal counterpart in NSW, Gareth Ward, have written to the federal government demanding that the reserve funds, which were agreed upon in May 2019, be immediately released.

 States say disabled miss out as Canberra hoards $1.7b of NDIS funding

 Where does the money go?

 

Matt Canavan, Jim Molan are men who don't need wiser heads to tell them what evidence based logic dictates (ODT

 A new coal-fired power station proposed for Collinsville in North Queensland could become a white elephant and leave taxpayers exposed, according to a leading economist.

Doubts raised over commercial viability of proposed north Queensland coal-fired power plant

  

 When the US says jump and says "buys our planes" which crash but then they say "we won't refund you buyer beware. Trump supports Boeing and MAGA only. However, the LNP want to become the 51rst state of the USA rather than a global or Pacific Nation. Withhold $1.7 billion from NDIS spend it on Defense for America.  (ODT)  

  

The money will be spent on upgrading RAAF Base Tindal, outside Katherine in the Northern Territory, which is seen as one of the most strategically important defence precincts for both Australia and the United States.

Government announces $1.1 billion upgrade of Top End air base

  

Everyday events you don't hear about from Andrew Bolt(ODT)

 Germany's minority groups have called for stronger government action against far-right radicalism and racism in the wake of a deadly gun attack on two shisha lounges. 

Angela Merkel says the gunman who killed nine people, all from immigrant backgrounds, appears to have been motivated by the "poison" of racism

Germany told to get tough on far-right terror after gunman kills nine in shisha bars

Andrew bolt's Blog,23/7/18; Coal Power is no longer cheaper says another corporate head; Children debaser Andrew Bolt pretends he's their Crusader and protector;

 

  Sanjeev Gupta: Coal power is no longer cheaper – and we'll prove it | Environment | The Guardian

 The British billionaire investing in South Australia believes renewables are the future of energy because it makes economic sense

Like dominoes, corporate heads and billionaires are turning their backs on coal power and the false logic that it's the cheapest means of powering their businesses. With each and everyone turning to renewables media criers like News Corp's Andrew Bolt are ignored and simply seen as the mining hucksters that they are. These moguls natural homes one would have thought lay with lobbyists like the IPA but economics has proved the opposite and they will all turn to the logic and economic rationality of science and away from the irrationality of politics that moves ever so slowly. Gupta's bigger threat to his bottom line is Trump and his trade war rise in costs up 10-25% forcing an exercise in cheaper production.

"The British billionaire who rescued the Whyalla steelworks from administration and is spending more than $2bn on clean energy and green steel developments in regional South Australia says most Australians are yet to grasp that solar power is now a cheaper option than new coal-fired electricity."
" Gupta’s position is consistent with the Australian energy market operator, which last week released a forecast that found renewable electricity backed by storage and gas would be the lowest cost replacement for the existing coal fleet. The market operator also found it was important to avoid early departures from the electricity grid to ensure an orderly transition."

Mining the IPA and Gina


" Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has been revealed as a major donor to conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Disclosures made in the New South Wales Supreme Court on Tuesday showed Rinehart’s mining company, Hancock Prospecting, made $4.5 million in donations to the IPA in 2016 and 2017, comprising more than one-third of the Institute’s income. The IPA is not required to disclose its donors as it is a registered charity, but regularly publishes papers and arranges media appearances for its representatives to promote a sceptical view of climate change that closely mirrors that of Rinehart."

 

DON'T BRING YOUR 11-YEAR-OLD TO A BRAWL, SARAH

Bringing your 11-year-old daughter to a political brawl is irresponsible: "The daughter of Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says ...  Mr Leyonhjelm had lied when he insinuated her mother was promiscuous during an interview on Sky News. 'Being unfair to women or any gender isn’t right...,' Kora told The Sunday Project. ” 

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Bolt calls foul when children are brought into politics except when they are Indigenous, Sudanese, Muslim or Lebanese. He went about telling us what little shits the kids at Don Dale were and they deserved everything they got. That it was the prison guards the needed the sympathy or like when Bolt and his son James mocked the young Sudanese women's beauty pageant in last December's podcast sponsored by the IPA for thinking they might be judged beautiful.
 Apparently, it's fine to defame mothers, publicly slut- shame them and that won't have any consequences in the schoolyard, will it? But have a child stand up willingly and call their mother's shamer a liar will place her in danger because the schoolyard kids somehow support bullies? No, it's a rhetorical flip to make Leyonjhelm the victim. How bent is that?
In the world of logic Leyonjhelm was the cause of his own demise, not the other way round. Bolt logic, however, edits the narrative of reality and what actually has occurred altering both the context and history and truncates it. He attempts to rewrite and distance the narrative from the timeline of what occurred and politely trying to "shut the kid up" by blaming mum and Ch10 as if theirs was a bigger crime.
Bolt's a rating whore on Sky News and he will willingly tell anyone his are fantastic using as his baseline his family or some other small group like Foxtel subscribers. However, he's trying to suggest  Ch10 and the Project are concerned about theirs when they are approximately 25 ++ times greater than his on any one night.

 

STRANGERS IN OUR OWN LAND

Column Something's missing in the new Son-of-Crocodile-Dundee advertisement we’re told was a hit - the ad in which Chris Hemsworth takes Danny McBride to hypnotise buffaloes in the Top End, catch barramundi, chat on an ochre outcrop and fly over a spectacular outback gorge. Missing are the Australians, who'd rather fly to Bali than this bush.

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You can't get a more stupid question than this from Andrew Bolt who doesn't holiday in Australia. In the past few years, his family has holidayed in Bali and every other part of this planet except Australia.

The fact that seems to be lost on him is that Grey Nomads are covering the whole country in swarms so much so camping grounds are full in season, something that escapes Bolt who pretends to be Australian when he dreams of other places while criticizing us. He's the stranger and where does he get off calling Australia "our" land. His mother hated the place and taught Bolt to do the same.

WHY MELBOURNE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS CITY FOR CONSERVATIVES

Column Melbourne is now our most dangerous city for conservatives. The violent Left attacks them and Victoria Police then charge for protection. The latest victims of this protection racket: two Canadian alt-Right internet stars, Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux,  charged $68,000 to save them from Leftists trying to shut down their Melbourne event.  

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Bolt's really become the laziest commentator in the Murdoch camp. Repetition has become his forte but he will tell you nevertheless he's a worker while people on the dole are bludgers. Lauren Southern has been over promoted on the Bolt Report, his Blogs, Radio and now his column over and over again she's not a topic of discussion but a product to be advertised a show.
Southern is a private show who offers nothing to Australia and Andrew Bolt is assisting and insisting she be allowed to take the money and run. No expense required on her part other than in the exercise A causes B the knock-on effect which Bolt denies. Rest assured Murdoch media are paid but the fact she will avoid taxes and bills like Milo did is of no concern to Bolt. She will avoid paying her security bill and be the cause of taxpayers footing the expense caused. That seems of no consequence to Andrew Bolt whatsoever. The AFL, Tennis, are also shows and they pay police for their attendance. Anyone notice the brawls that occur and they aren't intentionally provoked. Southern was laughing as was Milo in delight.
Harry M Miller was jailed for fraud, Peter Foster was as well but today seems the day for when provocateurs have turned celebrity showpersons and their success celebrated in terms of the disturbance they can create. Bolt is simply the huckster selling fake patriotism in a country and city he hates for nothing more than the filthy lucre it generates.

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 30/9/16; The ABF were on strike when Wyatt left; Implied by facts or just politics?; One Culture can only be found in a Petrie Dish; The wind turbines are still standing and working well in that wind;

 

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 " Out now, Rowan Dean's latest Spectator Australia, yet again challenging and entertaining - making you exercise your brain for fun and profit." Bolt

Bolt's invitation to a free beach barbie for bullying bogans. Memebers of the UPF no doubt. You can imagine the intellectual conversations to be had among Bolt's guests. Oh the satire. Whatever did happen to Bevis Tim Blair once Butthead Bolt's favorite jester? Was there a falling out or did Rowan just enter the room? Truth be known Blair has his own gig on Sky. Since Bolt joined he has stopped promoting him because maybe Blair isn't as eager as Dean to do the Bolt show.

 

 

 

 

 Why Bishop's spiteful attack on intrepid Wyat...

 

Tony Abbott created the ABF to stop people going to the war Zones of the Middle East why are so many Australian Muslims  prevented from leaving and even arrested if it's not against any law. They must be stopped purely on suspicion. Roy it seems was not one of these. However neither did he declare his intentions before hand apparently because he might have been prevented from going. Julie Bishop was right even though she may be a part of the nanny state she very much a consistent part. How is it he hasn't been charged  like others before him have? Consistency is not a part of Bolt's ethos. Julie Bishop heads Abbott as the peoples choice for PM in the polls  which would better  explain Bolt's attack on her. In the end what needs saying is Abbott's ABF' obviously doesn't work. It's gone on strike and it has been found to harbour drug smugglers. I think Bolt should zip his lip.

 

 

Hypocrites: Greens, ABC whinge of "politickin...

 

 This was too hard for Abbott and it is too hard for Bolt

Following Tony Abbott's mantra I don't give a shit about the facts only the politics I don't quite understand Bolt's post complaining about the Australian Institute. The Greens aren't the Australian Institute nor is the ABC. The Greens are doing what comes natural to them as it does Tony Abbott and it seems Andrew Bolt simply playing politics. Bolt veers off the Institute and the initial argument to slag off the ABC. Aunty is in the business of reporting and if they report an event as significant it doesn't mean it's the worst of it's kind as Bolt insists. If they report the government's attitude to a crisis  is the opposite of scientific opinion that too is reporting. Bolt finds facts and the reporting of them gets in the way of opinion commentary and his narrartives where facts are left to languish on the back bench.  Like Abbott which remains a fact. Australians it appears prefer a bit fact with their diet of spin.

To call Bolt a  skeptic is to pay someone who isn't a compliment. Bolt is an agnostic a doubter not a skeptic that's a term for those who believe in the scientific method. Bolt simply regards Climate Science as another religion. At times he seems an athiest and not even a doubter. Like Abbott he's been known to say Global Warming is just bunkum.

Culture counts. Close the door to those at od...

 

The only single culture known to man can be found in a petrie dish

" Former Treasury secretary and Nationals MP John Stone says we must learn that not all cultures fit in - and we should close the door on those that don't.  "

What's in denial here is that Cultures change . They aren't static the fact is they do and every culture is in itself a morphing mix. Settler Nations more so than any other are a tribute to that change.  Australia, Canada the USA and NZ are examples of just that Multicultural immigrant nations since their birth and are in a continuous state of change. The Culture of Australia is Multicultural  which the likes of John Stone Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt like to deny. There is no turning back there is no denying it and despite their resistance that change will continue. We are neither entirely Western Christian or White whatever that means and it seems only Bolt knows and it means to be like him.

John Stone seems to have extended Islamophobia to more than Hanson and appears braver than Bolt in naming "those others" " Indeed, her proposal really applies more widely. It should extend to people coming from all violence-prone cultures – think Somalia, Sudan and numerous war-torn West African nations – the kind of people now making Melbourne’s streets so dangerous. But that is a matter for another day.". The problem however is that Islam isn't a culture as isn't Christianity both are very much a mix of cultures.  Then to extend the prohibition to violence prone Cultures you couldn't get more violent than than the Western coalition or Israel today. simply do the body count the weapons used the displacement of families caused not just in Vietnam, Aghanisthan,Iraq,Syria,and the Yemen but countless other countries in their life time. 

Just in the very nature of what Stone is saying and Bolt is supporting they have tribalized their image of the world while proudly declaring themselves not to be ultra racists in the same breath.  Hitler had men drop their pants as proof of not being Jewish. Stone has some how associated violence with a place of origin. That African children raised here from birth or near birth have some genetic drive to delinquency.  You can't get more racist than that. Melbourne is the murder capital of Australia and it's not because of Islam, Ethnic heritage or a single culture.

Imagine after the USA war of Independence from the UK  was won  the new Nation had to choose their native language. Not everyone wanted it to be English. The vote was split between German an English it was decided by 1 vote. Imagine what would the US look like today a multiracial nation German speaking nation with Trump a shoe in and Hitler honored for winning the war. Glory to Bolt's Western Christian very White peace loving Culture.

 

How they gloated when SA blew up its last coa...

 

 Still standing still working.

"South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall ignored the advice I gave him before the last election to blow up a wind tower to announce his state would be open for business if he won. My plan was too radical. "

Mr Ego Mr Bolt  as if politicians read Andrew Who with their muesli in the mornings. 40% of S.A's energy comes from renewables. 40% will continue to come from renewables because  the unprecedented storm not only was historic but so too was it's path. The storm didn't hit wind turbines it hit transmission towers not 1 but 25. Had the storm hit the wind turbines more electricity would have been produced than was needed and boy would that have been cheap. This post is simply all about the braggadocios Andrew Bolt Why Waleed Aly is one of Australia’s most influential voices

 

National weather: Adelaide braces for record winds

and it's not Andrew Bolt