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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.
"We follow the science says Morrison" While still caught undersupplying the nation with test kits. "Some people can afford to pay some can't" said Morrison
The
Morrison government refuses to buy kits for widespread use, despite
public health experts saying they are vital in the future pandemic
battle.
Morrison said this wouldn't happen. Revenge on "marriage equality"" Stuff the referendum we are reversing the result by law to suit less than 10% of Australians who vote for us " Morrison's Religious Discrimination Law brings us back to Go where you don't collect $200" Marriage Equality removed hate Morrison reintroduced it
The
Sydney Anglican Diocese said Steph Lentz was dismissed because she
believed Christians should be able to enter same-sex relationships.
The LNP wants to shut down the ABC and control the Internet because
when it comes to Democracy they level the playing field. “Bias” and
“Trolling” are their euphemisms for “fact-checking” and the “public
auditing” of their message. A message controlled and fed to us by our
over-concentrated and consolidated private media begging for the
financial benefits and rewards on offer by the LNP at the taxpayer’s
expense. They want MPs to be able to sue and defend themselves in
defamation actions at taxpayer expense as well to be “untouchables” as
if their current parliamentary privilege wasn’t enough.
They claim to be the party of “free speech” but are rather the party
of privatized and commodified speech or cash for comment and they have
the cash and it’s ours. They have just increased government debt from
$300M to almost $1 Tr or 200% of which private media compete for a part
while keeping the ABCs Budget at 1984 levels. Now they want to control
the Broadband and Internet as well.
Everybody needs high-speed internet. But private corporations
will never provide it. The solution: treat internet infrastructure as a
public utility, funded by the public and built by union workers.
Some defectors had fared considerably worse than Schofield. In the US,
in particular, its pursuit of former members has become notorious.
There, Scientology has been accused of beatings, forced abortions and
forced labour. In its usual style, the church aggressively denies this.
Scientology in Australia is an unusual religion, and a wealthy one.
Since at least the mid-2000s, it has been shrinking in size, with the
number of members falling to fewer than 1700 adherents. Even so, its
wealth has increased. An investigation this week by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
found it made nearly 30¢ of profit for every dollar of revenue in
Australia and its assets nearly tripled between 2013 and 2019. Australia
has become a haven for $326 million in assets, largely cash and
property, located in Britain and Australia. Millions of dollars also
flow through its Australian accounts from the US, with more unspecified
amounts from Scientology operations in Taiwan and Japan.
If the
High Court had not classed it as a religion in 1983 it would be one of
the country’s more successful mid-sized businesses.
Having
moved on from his role as Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton has
passed on a backlog of asylum seekers vulnerable to exploitation.
Agricultural
bosses and their allies are accusing Australians of being work-shy as
they face a post-pandemic labor shortage. But it’s low wages and abusive
working conditions that make it hard for them to find workers. The
solution is obvious: decent pay for decent work.
At the very heart of our capitalist economic system is something
grotesque: labor exploitation. That’s immoral — and we need some form of
workplace democracy to undo it.
What are the current COVID-19 treatment options in Australia and why is our death rate so much higher than other countries?
Citizens United Party the GOP now wish they could have it removed because corporations like the MBL, Delta, Coca Cola have turned against them. All
self-interest forget about the principles that had them support Citizens United since 1984. Now they so wish they were the
Chinese Communist Party and could rid America of Democracy with their principle "do as I say not what I do"
“Businesses and organizations have great power in their
voices and ability to push for change, and I respect the decision of the
players to speak out against this unjust law,” said Sen. Raphael
Warnock.
After
decades of alarmism about global warming frying the planet, the latest
UAH satellite measures show warming of 0.01 above the average at the end
of last century. That's virtually no warming at all. And nothing that
could cause all the catastrophes that have been claimed. You've heard
this news on the ABC, right? No?
No, why? Simple answer Roy Spencer and the UAH . Spencer since 1998 said the earth was cooling and Bolt has been following him down that false rabbit hole ever since.
However, UAH is not the only group using satellite data to measure atmospherictemperatures. There are several other groups who have performed similar analyses of thedata, and who generally estimate greater atmospheric warming than UAH. Moreover,atmospheric temperature estimates from instruments on weather balloons also indicate morewarming than has been computed from the UAH record.
Spencer's name was held in such disregard by Science that even Trump didn't use him as a reference but used his ex partner Christie instead to remove science from the EPA and his climate policies. Spencer doesn't measure the earth's temperature at all but the stratosphere above the level where CO2 emissions have far less effect. Bolt is the only media, scientist or politician that even takes notice of Roy Spencer any more. So isn't it strange Andrew Bolt still does and continues to quote Spencer after 20 + years. However, why does he do it in such a deceptive way?.
Spencer made Bolt a laughing stock so much so he had to stop being an obvious denier claiming the earth was cooling to become one disguised instead. Why isn't Bolt acknowledging Roy Spencer as his scientific source and his scientist of choice whose still funded by the Heritage Foundation and possibly the Koch Organization is the relevant question? The ABC doesn't need to report Roy Spencer's finding's as they aren't regarded as relevant by anyone in 2021.
The UAH also report which indicates a selective bias on Andrew Bolt's part furthermore Spencer and Christie when peer reviewed have consistently been regarded as biased low in their reporting
Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade
The Covid-19 death rate in America is ONLY 1.8% according to Republicans and Fox News. However, that's 250,000 dead of the those that contract it the virus. One Texan Republican governor, with Bolt's attitude, suggested sacrificing the aged for the sake of the economy was a reasonable choice. Humanism isn't a principle or value these people adhere to. Australia's death rate is 3.5% and Andrew Bolt couldn't give a toss if it means more lockdowns are necessary and the elderly and aged can't get vaccinated. The sky is falling in as far as he's concerned when a lockdown is announced. But he isn't seen in public is he lockdown is a normal state of being a choice for Andrew Bolt?
The
latest global warming alarmist sold to our students: "Interviewer: How
much did you know about the specifics of climate change prior to making
the film? Gameau: Absolutely nothing. I found myself struggling to
connect with it." But what a goldmine for it's been.
Does any of this make sense to you Damon Gateau or is that when anglocized Devil's Cake? Who then is Gameau? Is this an attempt at humour by Andrew Bolt on whiskey or is this just Andrew Bolt? He's been making money out of climate change for years. Bolt has no regard for children who have a better grasp on climate change than he has. Yet his response being "their children what would they know" seems to be one stuck in the pre war 20th century. Children need training not the tool to learn.
Bolt has been promoted by the IPA no less as a world expert in the field of climate science now that's the art of frightening the world.
Race
is relevant to the ABC only when whites are the villains: "The US
Capitol riots showed what a 'bunch of entitled white people' can do."
But race is not mentioned when the villain is a black Muslim: "A US
Police officer has been killed after a man rammed a car into two
officers at a barricade outside the US Capitol."
Don't mention the delusion and paranoia the attacker was known to be suffering from Andrew Bolt. Significantly different from thousands of white men rioting many with military precision and armed. Race is irrelevant when mental health is the primary reason for violence. Bolt is a fire starter when it comes division and hate, A true enabler.
Since Jan 6th Racist Andrew Bolt has been waiting, waiting and waiting and it's now April to counter with "a black Muslim" attacked Capitol Hill. Now that's a trend as far as Bolt's concerned. He's been trying to warn us about it for years. Trying to prove a sandwich is a picnic and a brick is a wall.
Remember when Bolt's fiance threatened him with court action and he folded like a cheap suit. He tried to tell us he was being unfairly attacked. He was a white male and all women had an agenda back then. Now a single black Muslim proves Bolt's point that white America is what's threatened by black America. Never mind that the FBI statistics and warning that White Nationalists are the biggest terrorist threat facing America today and not blacks or Muslims. But, what would they know while only 3% of to population they own 50% of the guns.
Andrew Bolt has taken Fox News reporting and applied it to Australia but as we aren't the US he simply can't gain any traction.
“He looked at me askance and said, ‘What for?’ I said just to catch up and have a chat about issues.
He said, ‘No, mate. I’m purely transactional.’”
Xenophon
laughs at the memory, but he wasn’t laughing at the time. “It was
pretty blunt. It was a pretty terse response, basically fobbing me off. I
thought, okay. I felt a bit chastised. I thought ‘this isn’t someone
you want to shoot the breeze with’.”
Critics
of the Australian honours system claim it is too politicised, too
weighted towards the wealthy, too pale, male and stale. Can the growing
movement to make it more egalitarian really make a difference?
Controversial 2020 honours recipients included former Speaker of the
House and lifelong Liberal politician Bronwyn Bishop, who left politics
following an expenses scandal. Also honoured was Graham Richardson, the
former Labor politician and notorious factional headkicker once known as
the “Senator for Kneecaps”. Eyebrows were also raised at the honouring
of retired broadcaster Mike Carlton, who often turns the air blue with
abuse of his ideological foes on Twitter. But by far the most
controversial honour went to Bettina Arndt,
the sex therapist and media commentator associated with the men’s
rights movement. Arndt was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia
(AM) for her work on “gender equity through advocacy for men”.
Australia
has an “urgent moral obligation” to help lead international efforts on
climate action, Australian Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt has told an
international summit.
These are the words of a leader and not those of our current do-nothing say-nothing PM, A PM always looking back rather than forward.
The Age is a Corporation not a citizen. It aim is it's bottom line and not the nation. It isn't represenative of "Free Speech" yet it is of "influence" simply because it's unlike unions a capitally resourced distribution platform which has government support.
The
Guardian accuses Donald Trump of inciting violence. It does this in an
article inciting violence against Republicans. But that's OK, because...
you know. Side, not principle
You can see he's out of practice because when Bolt incites and radicalizes right-wing Christians to to commit mass murder it's Ok. Bolt has readily said he admired the conviction with which suicide terrorists fight and wished Christian youth had as much. When they do he denies he's ever said such things. Like Trump and Charlottesville Bolt decontextualizes left and right violence falsely claiming they are equal. We know he doesn't believe that because we witnessed just how hard he fought when two pranksters glittered him. It was Bolt who showed he was prepared to practice GBH and not to be charged made out that he was the intended victim of harm and not just his suit.
To suggest any equivalence between Comey and Trump when it comes to incitement is to do just what Trump did after Charlottesville and that did not fare well for Trump. Then to watch Fox and Murdoch media suggest the BLM Riots were worse and the equivalent of Jan 6th is even worse. It does however show why Andrew Bolt will never be nominated for an OA while Mike Carlton has been. The question to be asked is will Carlton keep it Bolt we know wants it.
The Police and national security of the USA, UK and Australia have all deemed the greatest threat to domestic terrorist activity in all of their countries is the extreme White right-wing terrorists incited and radicalized by the media and right-wing politics and not as Bolt would prefer us to believe Antifa and othe left-wing or outside agencies like ISIS.
Guess Trump saved millions of lives from Covid-death Far more than Fauci who didn't really know what he was doing. Bolt is delivering Trumist spin and cancelling culture in his effort. (ODT)
Karl
Quinn complains that we've lost the ability to discuss differences,
thanks to a cancel culture where "opinion trumped fact". But he then
proves he's part of the problem by hiding Bruce Pascoe behind a straw
man while screaming "racist" at people pointing out Pascoe has no known
Aboriginal ancestors.
It goes to show just how lazy Bolt is when he has nothing to write about he has to pull Bruce Pascoe out of his hat. Karl Qinn isn't hiding Pascoe. Pascoe is certainly not hiding himself. What Bolt is however hiding, is the fact that Bruce Pascoe is and has been the first to say he has no verifiable proof of Aboriginal ancestors. Bolt makes out or intentionally doesn't mention that.
Further over the years many more historians archeologists and anthropologists have uncovered evidence that shows the Aboriginal history Bolt refers to as accurate isn't. That what Bruce has helped add to all the research is a history very very different from the one Andrew Bolt defends and it's being changed. It's that which Andrew Bolt makes great effort to hide by focusing single mindedly or should I say mindlessly on Bruce Pascoe.(ODT)
lockdown
is working, getting the numbers down. This will infuriate the whining,
carping, sneering Victorian Liberals and their rat pack cheer squad at
NewsCorpse
ISIS DRIVES BETTER CARS TOYOTAS NOT FORDS
The Caravan of 600 Trump Praised PATRIOT PRAYER who really are they? (ODT)
In the wake of the shooting death over the weekend of a supporter of
the far-right group Patriot Prayer in Portland, Oregon, The New York
Times, USA Today, and MSNBC are papering over the intrinsically violent
nature of the group, its ties to white nationalism, and its history of
staging armed confrontations against anti-fascist activists. This lapse
is part of a larger pattern of mainstream media coverage that shies away
from calling out right-wing extremism.
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, senior
fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, called the "6%" meme
"a ludicrous misunderstanding and misinformation." "Basically, [they
are] arguing that if you die with COVID and have any risk factors, then
it somehow doesn't count as COVID," he told Salon. Feigl-Ding compared
the situation to that of cancer patients, who frequently have
compounding conditions that increase their risk of dying of cancer.
"Most cancer patients have many other risk factors, which by their
logic means a person didn't die of cancer if someone has anything else,"
he said.
Just as Andrew Bolt argues fentanyl killed George Floyd
not the policeman the right-wing try to use the 6% as proof that only
10,000 deaths have occurred in the US not 180,000. According to Bolt
kneeling on people's throats and having them tell you they can't breathe
doesn't constitute murder if any other comorbidity possibility exists.
What Bolt doesn't prove Floyd would have died if the knee wasn't on his
throat and that is definitely not the case. It's the myth he's push
If there is a clear lesson to be learned It seems clear that capitalist systems are incapable of handling pandemics the way socialist ones can. It's quite clear we need to change and change significantly not just for ourselves but for the reinstallment of the common good.
Despite
their long history of putting profit ahead of the interests of their
unemployed clients, the private job service agencies tasked with getting
people back into work are set to reap more than half a billion dollars
in the next six months simply for signing people up. Sam Brennan
reports.
Australians are becoming sick of the hypocrisy of our Federal Government. …
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Monday’s display, choreographed by the Adman Prime Minister, was another nauseating attempt at trying to appease an angry Australian public.
Josh Frydenberg starts with his personal attack on the Victorian Premier again, it’s time that the Federal Government realised that the more they attack Daniel Andrews the more the country will turn against the Federal Government and Daniel Andrews popularity will grow.
Our disgraceful Prime Minister and his pack of dogs are showing how desperate they are. Last week was the Belt and Road Initiative that blew up in their face when the Australian public discovered that Steven Ciobo had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with China.
Before the BRI attack was the attack on quarantining in Victoria, which also showed Australians that the security companies involved are the preferred security companies of Morrison and Dutton. Australia pays them millions a year. Morrison and Dutton’s mates let Victoria down with their inexperienced security guards.
The Federal Government also tried to blame the unfortunate deaths in Private Aged Care Homes on the state government. That was another failed attacked because now everyone knows that Private Aged Care is the Federal Governments responsibility. Oops another monumental mistake by the Federal Government.
DOCTORS WARN DAN ANDREWS: LIFT YOUR DANGEROUS VIRUS BANS
A dozen doctors , surgeons and professors of medicine tell
Premier Daniel Andrews they oppose his devastating virus shut-down: "The
medical, psychological and social costs of the lockdown are
disproportionately enormous compared to the limited good being done."
Read on. I'll talk to one of the authors on The Bolt Report at 7pm.
9m ago
Phishing for subs Andrew Bolt has taken a few days for someone, we don't know if it was Bolt himself, a producer, only someone at Newscorpse found a doctor. Not an authoritatively connected one, but one ready to declare the Andrews cure is worse than the disease.
Andrews, on the other hand, didn't go searching for personnel to support his policy it was determined from the data studied by not one but a number of experts all in agreement something Bolt disagrees. His evidenceless contrarian position is far more important, and by searching for a contrarian is according to Bolt sufficiently proven simply because it's arbitrarily and therefore a better one. Bolt's argument is hardly substantial a logical one or one have us stop and be believed.
We know what works. We know the Chinese have proved that a strict lockdown works and delivered the desired outcome. We know Bolt has no evidence where more effective ones have occurred. Where does Bolt suggest his solutions have been proved?
