Fighting Fake News with REAL 30/3/22; The Budget, Capitalism, Workers, Low Wages, National Planning , Cuba,

 

 

 

 

 "We're splashing out!"

Family to spend $4.75 petrol excise windfall on buying half a broccoli

 Oh dear celebrating too soon, there goes that broccoli and more!!

Despite the federal budget’s focus on cost of living measures, the typical working Australian will still be $50 a week worse off. This is before a hidden tax increase that will leave low and middle-income earners, who are facing a tidal wave of extra costs, $30 worse off in the next financial year. Callum Foote reports.

There’s an election to win and seats to shore up, or even take. The Guardian reports that the Morrison government is pouring a disproportionate amount of money into projects in the Coalition’s must-win seats. But, it adds, only a third of expenditure, and 15% of the projects, targeting marginal seats has been endorsed by the independent agency Infrastructure Australia. The Guardian analysed 144 projects worth $16 billion and found that only 21, worth $5.7bn, had been endorsed by the government agency. ( Michael West Media}

 

Source: Home – Michael West Media

It’s time the workers united again to claim their share of the profits their labour produces. Companies should fulfil their part of the social contract by paying fair wages and taxation. With 12% of Australians living in poverty, it’s time we had a government that puts the welfare of its people first. It’s time.

Source: Why isn’t our “strong economy” benefitting workers? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

My thought for the day We exercise our involvement in our democracy every three years by voting. After that the vast majority takes very little interest. Why is it so? ( John Lord )

Source: They simply have a plan to keep wages low. They always have. – » The Australian Independent Media Ne

 

 

Lismore and Byron unprepared to be flooded again. Morrison proves he's a world laggard on renewables and a liar when it comes emission target ambitions.

Reduction in spending across clean energy agencies represents a 35% annual cut over four years

Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election

 Lismore would like to know why Morrison was so behind at a time of the Nation's need not once but on serial occasions over his term in office as they are about to face another flood and still waiting for their promised $800 from the first disaster. Meanwhile Cuba puts Morrison to shame.

  The book Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management

  It traced the highly successful source of the island nation’s efforts to the way it put human welfare above property. This collection of 14 essays by Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story, and Anna Clayfield is an extraordinary assemblage of articles, each addressing specific issues.

In the video Cuba’s Life Task, Orlando Rey also observes that “There must be a change in the way of life, in our aspirations. This is a part of Che Guevara’s ideas on the ‘new man.’ Without forming that new human, it is very difficult to confront the climate issue.” Integration of poor countries into the global market has meant that areas which were once able to feed themselves are are now unable to do so. Neo-liberalism forces them to use energy sources that are life-preservers in the short run but are death machines for their descendants. The world must remember that Che’s “new man” will not clamor for frivolous luxuries while others starve. For humanity to survive, a global epiphany rejecting consumer capitalism must become a material force in energy production. Was Che only dreaming? If so, then keep that dream alive!

Source: Cuba Prepares for Disaster | The Smirking Chimp

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 16/7/21; Australia and beyond; SuperMarkets; Cuba; Fort Detrick; Israel, Scott Morrison,

 The pandemic hasn't changed Morrison's support has

 

 

  

The Salesman selling the nation and the Politician serving it.

The PM has been in home quarantine or lockdown since June 17, with a further stint ahead, while rival Anthony Albanese almost runs out of electorates to visit.

Morrison’s month of home isolation, while Albanese roadshow rolls on

 

Sometime, somewhere we will find leaders interested in doing a better job

Scott Morrison shows little interest in any kind of reform whether to advance business interests or anyone else’s.

Supermarkets under capitalism are exploitative and ecologically damaging, shaping what we produce as well as what we consume. In public hands, following a different logic, they could supply the creative core of a democratically planned socialist economy. 

 The capitalist market can’t solve the crisis that is coming for our food system. Urgent problems about how we’re going to feed everyone in a warming world can’t be left in the hands of private interests. We need rational planning to provide high-quality food to workers in Australia and around the world.

It’s Time to Nationalize Supermarkets

 

 Gladys B's Lock-down restrictions and "browsing"

We are allowed to queue and shop for food or other "essential" goods and services " but don't " browse".

But the meaning of that word is being stretched to include designer handbags, luxury watches, $10,000 dresses, trendy sneakers, plush toys, cosmetics, fancy stationery and the latest video games.

Luxury brands Gucci and Louis Vuitton are 'essential' under NSW COVID restrictions

 

What are you trying to hide, Fort Detrick?

The WHO's virus origin tracing report dismissed the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak as "highly unlikely".

Yet US politicians are still pushing the conspiracy theory. OK, let's look at Fort Detrick.

 

 

On a Single Day in May, Israeli Settlers and Soldiers Cooperated in Attacks That Left Four Palestinians Dead

The unprecedented spate of joint assaults inaugurated a new era of terror for Palestinians in occupied West Bank.

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ABC budget cuts to be unveiled, 'Life' unit in focus

 "The ABC's online lifestyle platform will be overhauled under a five-year strategic plan to be announced on Wednesday aimed at cutting costs and adapting the national broadcaster to a funding freeze imposed by the Morrison government."

The LNP government was elected in on a lie of NO CUTS to the ABC and has dealt some $300 million worth of cuts to Australia's Democracy. News and Information is its life source and the LNP have done everything possible to strangle that. What organisation is still running on a budget the equivalent of 1984 an expected to service a population nearly 50% larger? The LNP bragging of job maker is, in fact, job breaker and the ABC is the first cab off the rank. It's budget has been cut by 20% since 2013 election which promised NO CUTS.

The ABC will unveil a five-year strategic plan today, including changes to its controversial lifestyle platform. Mr Anderson's restructure will be the second for the ABC in less than three years.

It hasn't taken Morrison long to start playing friends and enemies

Ross Gittins

Economic Facts and figures

  June 24, 2020





Andrew Bolt deems these numbers trivial below and not worth worrying about. Rate and acceleration of spread are simply ignored. But he practices social distancing thank goodness for us.(ODT)

 In many countries the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, not slowing - ABC News

Lessons From Cuban Police | The Smirking Chimp

Contrary to the image of brutal and repressive communists, police in Cuba offer an instructive example for activists in the United States. Police live in the cities they patrol. They generally treat citizens with respect. As I documented in my book Dateline Havana, police beatings of criminals are rare and police murders are nonexistent. Cuba has one of the lowest crime rates in Latin America.

 

 

FAKE NEWS

NO MORE POLICE, CRIED THE RACE HUSTLERS. NOW WATCH

George Floyd's killing was the excuse for the race revolutionaries to run riot as guilty-white journalists cheered them on. No more police! they cried. Now watch this sick results in New York, London, Seattle and Stuttgart. Here's what the Left is creating. My editorial from The Bolt Report. 

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"Contrary to the image of brutal and repressive communists, police in Cuba offer an instructive example for activists in the United States. Police live in the cities they patrol. They generally treat citizens with respect. As I documented in my book Dateline Havana, police beatings of criminals are rare and police murders are nonexistent. Cuba has one of the lowest crime rates in Latin America."

104 shot in Chicago with a Police force None in Cuba with a Police Force. Trumpsters like Bolt argue for a bigger FORCE history has shown it's never worked So what is the difference? Read the article above on Cuba and realise why fuckwits like Bolt haven't a clue but want even greater policing than China
104 people SHOT & 5 KIDS DEAD over Father’s Day weekend in Chicago — RT USA News

MELBOURNE'S 1-IN-37,000 CHANCE OF BEING SICK

Please, less panic: "Melbourne is dangerously close to a second hard lockdown as the virus spreads across more than 20 per cent of the city’s population." No, just 133 Victorians are sick right now. That's less than 0.003 per cent of Melbourne's population.

3h ago 

Rate of spread is a meaningless concept to Andrew Bolt. The actual case count is as meaningless as Bolt's argument that the planet is only warming a little bit so there's no need to worry. However, when he's discussing Indigenous crime rates he knows what exponential increase means and he's all over the rate of increase to prove his point. 

Screwing around with statistics doesn't make Bolt wiser but it certainly shows he's dumber. As bright as Djokovic who also had the same relaxed approach to the numbers as Bolt. He's hosted a tournament against all expert advice he now has tested positive for Covid-19 along with others unwittingly ensuring it's multiplication.

The idea that an avalanche can be started by a few falling rocks is avoided in Bolt's blinkered complaint of overreach In many countries the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, not slowing
Americans will not be welcome anywhere even in Mexico who Trump is trying to blame the surge on. However, it's the Mexicans who'd be better off banning Americans visiting them and with good reason given Trump's  who the fuck cares attitude.

WHO WANTS TO BE WHITE, ANYWAY?

The shame of being white! No wonder writers and artists rush to declare they are Aboriginal instead. And so crazy is the law, that it is now unlawful for you to express certain opinions. What hope this country?

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Bolt's always been a man who claims style is more important than meaning everything goes as long as your polite which he isn't and accountability of no consequence. Yet it's Bolt who wants to determine the standard.

 But then he's free to vilify and push meaningless and idiotic concepts like a Trumpster on us with no accountability. He's free to incite the Christchurch massacre and not be accountable for what he said. Yet he's demanded others to be sacked for what he claims is all only opinion.

 Science is just opinion as is math and religion. Reality is only the power and control of opinion and it's been historically set by precedent. Guess China and Marx have set us on the path to the new future according to Bolt. While looking at the US it's all Anarchy Chaos and increasing poverty. So yes who wants to be white these days? 
For Bolt, history wrote is history fact white is right and black fantasy. He runs down those that don't agree and not at all politely. In fact, he's been found wrong charged and found guilty of racial vilification.  American history cites itself as winning WW2 ignoring the fact that Germany lost the war on the Russian front. Nor is it widely known they recruited Nazis Fascists and the Catholic Church to assist them turning on their allies the Russians at the time to begin the Cold War. It's not quite the history taught in Western schools. The Dutch shameful treatment of the Dutch Jews was hidden fo some 40 years and continues not to be taught either. We don't, however, hear Bolt denying these facts as he does the facts discovered about Australia. If all is merely acceptable opinion then reality what other than power and precedent define his reality? Trump says COVID wouldn't exist in America if it wasn't for testing it seems Bolt agrees.

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 3/10/19; Trump is twittering mad; Intent on killing Cubans Iranians, Venezuelans with sanctions. Racism amplified in Australian media;

Palestinian tortured by Israel is in critical condition

Peter Dutton hopes secret courts secret interrogation secret government is coming your way Australia. We support Israel and Israel would support and train us in their methods. 1000 people tortured and no one ever arrested as a result.

Trump impeachment

Trump Twitter in overdrive amid impeachment fear

Donald Trump tweeted or retweeted nearly 800 times in September, about 100 posts beyond any previous month.

 

US sanctions bite into Cuban healthcare – despite claims they only affect leadership

  America is quite relaxed in attempting genocide and lying about it.  So why is it such a surprise that Trump thinks pressuring other governments is legitimate and reasonable? America has been doing it as a matter of course for years.

US sanctions are making ordinary Cubans sick, literally. Despite Washington’s insistence that its sanctions hurt only the banks and government officials they target, the entire population is being deprived of lifesaving drugs. 

 Cuba, already under a US trade embargo since 1962, was hit with even stricter sanctions earlier this year in what the Trump administration calls an effort to pressure the country into dropping its support for the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro. But the economic restrictions Washington claims are meant to punish Cuba’s government are actually intensifying the suffering of its people, who are denied crucial medicines because of the blockade.

Australia isn’t taking the national security threat from far-right extremism seriously enough.

After the Barcelona bombings, Andrew Bolt wrote that he admired the conviction of suicide bombers. That Christians were gutless, and he wished they could show the same attitude. He's goaded Muslims and ISIS sympathisers and even Christians as much as he's praised and excused Ultra Right-wing groups when he felt it was safe for him to do so. It's as if hoping his prodding and provoking might spark some reaction that he then could make newsworthy headlines and gain central attention for himself. When that does occur, he seems to shrink out of sight as if it's backfired as he did after the NZ mass-shooting.  For a day or two, only Bolt went silent because negative attention was on Murdoch's Sky News Chanel. Bolt came back meekly unlike the Bolt we've come to know to declare himself against the violence of any kind. Australia is definitely not taking his enabling, provocations and prodding seriously enough and that enables him to threaten the security of others It mirrored in his own behaviours which show he needs the self- protection he denies others like Muslims, the South Sudanese, LGBTQI's, Climate Crusaders. We shouldn't forget Yassmin Abdel-Magied a proud Australian Andrew Bolt turned into a National target.

 on Bolt's rac

RACE-OBSESSED: UNIVERSITY RACES TO THE INTELLECTUAL BOTTOM---- Andrew Bolt.

 Has any one bothered to do the stats on Bolt's racial commentaries now that's real obsession.

 

Codey Herrmann

Andrew Bolt Blog Posts

CODEY HERRMANN; HOW A KILLER WAS BRED

Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun

October 2, 2019 10:51pm

Codey Herrmann’s lawyer still can’t figure out why Herrmann bashed, raped and murdered student Aiia Maasarwe.

“There is no explanation I can give you,” he told a Supreme Court judge in Melbourne this week.
No? Can’t explain why Herrmann told police he’d been angry “at life in general” and about how “everyone looked at me and treated me”?
Yet when we hear of his childhood, which of us doesn’t say ‘well, that figures’?
And for me, there’s this further question to the ideologues who rage about the wickedness of removing Aboriginal children from toxic homes, or the nastiness of introducing cashless welfare cards.

The racism Australia has endured and assumes "normal" and therefore goes unnoticed began with the arrival of the White man on shores of this country and it's clearly expressed by this Australian raised as a Dutchman. Andrew Bolt was raised in a family the taught him to believe he was better than most and notably better than coloured people, particularly Indigenous Australians. Bolt's attitude is the same as that which resulted in the Christian Dutch being hated and driven out of Indonesia and Islam welcomed.
Bolt knows nothing about Codey Herrmann's life, but despite that, he feels justified that it's his right to wildly generalise about Indigenous Culture as the cause of what occurred. He even uses the term "bred" as if they are little more than animals but less than human. It's the voice and sound of a slaver speaking about his stock.   That says more about Andrew Bolt supposed professional in wordcraft which makes his racism more significant and poignant. It's no accident that what he's saying is what he means and it begins with colour and culture is his excuse. He does the same with the South Sudanese.
Over and over again like a metronome, the way  Bolt speaks of indigenous culture, whether remote or urban, a culture that has survived 65,000 years, as toxic. Furthermore, that toxicity has little or nothing to do with the arrival and interface his white culture or nothing to do with white colonial culture being racist and think like Andrew Bolt.
Firstly Herrman doesn't have an Indigenous name he has a Christian name how he was raised who he mixed with and how he was treated is unknown to Bolt but then he's not interested in Codey he's more intent in generalising and disparaging the child-raising practices of others who happen to be Black and Indigenous. Cody Herrman is just another opportunity for Bolt to spread his White Supremacist Christian racism. It's a Racism that justifies white behaviour calls it welfare from the top down and calls it "help". It's a profit-making industry that justified not paying indigenous Australians an equal wage we call it wage theft today. An industry that practised welfare without a card but kept and managed wages that were stolen like their children to be told later they weren't. It wasn't an industry with a belief in or one providing equal opportunity. It was an industry based on myth-building of kindness, denying the harmful and oppressive reality that has existed over 200 years and has been ingrained over generations in Australian culture internalised by one and all despite their colour. We've seen what happens to Andrew Bolt when someone like Adam Goodes protests he's the deviant that needs to be sent to hell.
 As I say Bolt like a metronome, he's a spokesperson for a racism internalised today seen as the norm something that has remained with us for 200 years and was imported, by people like Bolt. The British maybe slightly less racist than those Dutch Reformed Christians if compared, but racists nevertheless. They still see black first then blame culture as a primary explanation of a crime in a way they don't when committed by whites. 

Now this is a Culture Indigenous and white Children had to endure

 

St. Vincent's Catholic Orphanage: Criminal acts, sadism, and…

It is time to speak 

Fighting Fake News,5/6/19; Cuban 60year plus economic WAR; Trump's TV distraction;

US halts cruises to Cuba amid new restrictions

The crackdown also bans US private planes, yachts and tour groups to the island nation.

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We Are Being Embarrassed by Ugly-American Grifters on an Ego Trip to London

The Trumps need a distraction. So, at our expense, they are trading toasts with the current occupant of King George III’s throne.

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Andrew Bolt's Blog,24/2/17; Bolt's advertizing the elites from The Reject Shop; Cubans in mourning;Wilders attempting a political stunt to garner votes;

 

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Why is Abbott hurting Turnbull? Note his praise of Dutton

Many journalists claim Tony Abbott is just hurting himself by telling the LIberals to change policies or die. But they still don't get three things: the Liberals really are dying under Malcolm Turnbull; Abbott's plan is sound; and that in explaining that plan he praised ambitious Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, a fellow conservative. Listen.

Bolt's repeating himself as he has done for years. Repetitively supplying Abbott with a CV. The problem the CV is coming from the Australia's most renowned fake news provider little Andy Bolt Murdoch's tool and Tony's suck. Tony Abbott is the best sales person the Liberal's have according to Bolt. Cast your self back 3 years and listen to the echos of Bolt's apologies promising Abbott had changed. Every week another promise until it became so embarrassing Bolt shut up and began directing his attention elsewhere. You just can't keep promising Abbott had changed and have the public believe you. Apparently Bolt thinks he can. Here we see him going up and down like the Abbott of old the yo yo with little boy Bolt following close behind... it's pathetic and Liberals stood up and said so.

Abbott loyalists break ranks after attack on Turnbull

 

ABC admits: Castro not "romantic" and loved by all

It has taken three months, but the ABC finally admits that the communist dictator Fidel Castro was not a "romantic revolutionary" and a "moving speaker who had the affection of his people.” The Guardian detects my sinister hand in the rewriting of the ABC's hagiography.

  Nobody suggested that Castro was loved bu all but he was certainly loved by the majority of his people. To suggest otherwise is to show ignorance. Bolt really never mentions the fact that there's more homelessness in the US. Cuba has universal health and education all accomplished under a 52 year trade ban imposed by America. Given the conditions Cubans were forced to live under  no thanks to  the USA Cubans have a lot to be admired for.
"Why did it take the ABC three months to figure what should have taken three seconds to realise: that there's nothing romantic about a hardline dictator that has killed and jailed opponents, and driven his country almost into the ground?" Bolt Fake News absolutely The USA has the most jailed citizens in the world and its called a democracy. Israel has killed and jailed more of it's citizens and those in occupied territories since it's creation and it's regarded by Bolt as an outstanding Democracy. Fidel Castro didn't drive his country into the ground America's embargo did. Donald Trump's 3 bankruptcies however left a lot of workers and subcontractors seriously out of pocket. Do we here a peep from Bolt on that issue? When American Presidents die do citizens come out in the streets in the numbers that Cubans did to mourn. No they don't The Journalism of Terror Regarding Cuba - Havana Times.org

 

 

 

Wilders agent arrested. Moroccan "mole"

Was Geert Wilders set up by Holland's security service?: "A Moroccan-origin Dutch police officer working on Mr Wilder’s security detail was arrested ... for allegedly leaking police information about his assignment." The leaks were reportedly to Dutch-Moroccan criminals.  

Bolt's source Breitbart which has the lowest ranking reliability of truth of any news source. once run  and edited by Steve Bannon  and also the infamous Milo Yiannopoulos. One wonders why Bolt would favor Breitbart at all with it's track record for fake news.

"Part of the concern about the alleged “mole” in Mr Wilders’ security details may relate to the Moroccan origin of the detained officer. Wilders has been a particularly vocal critic of mass migration and of Moroccan immigrants in particular."

" As he kicked off his election campaign earlier this month, Mr Wilders called Moroccan migrant criminals “scum”."Breitbart

Given all is remains alleged and considering Wilders past record for self promotion one wonders whether this is simply an attention grabbing stunt to make Wilders appear a victim

"The justice minister, Stef Blok, insisted Dutch politicians could “campaign safely on Dutch streets” and said the alleged leak had endangered no one. The security officer, identified as Faris K, was released on Thursday but suspended pending the investigation."Guardian

 

Shorten whacked with penalty rates

Bill Shorten slips up badly: "Shorten’s assault on the Fair Work Commission’s historic decis­ion to cut the Sunday and public holiday penalty rates ... has been undermined by revelations that a worker he paraded as a victim of the far-reaching ruling would not be affected." Which highlights a sad truth: there is much less to this cut than claimed.  

  What can one say learn to spell Andrew Bolt learn to spell you are meant to be a professional.

" cutting Sunday penalties in must cases from 150 per cent to 125, and leaving Saturday penalties untouched." Bolt

 

 

 

Abbott issues manifesto, Turnbull lashes out

Tony Abbott issues his manifesto: "We’ll cut the RET, to help with your power bills; we’ll cut immigration to make housing more affordable; we’ll scrap the Human Rights Commission to stop official bullying; we’ll stop all new spending to end ripping off our grandkids; and we’ll reform the Senate ...” Malcolm Turnbull and the Greens are livid.

"I'm not going to be provoked... The fact is - my government has a record of achievement. Over the last six months or so, since the election, we have achieved more with fewer seats than we did in the previous three years." Turnbull

 

 

Peter Dutton surges after leadership pitch

I asked Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on The Bolt Report this week to explain his leadership appeal. He cited three things: he was loyal, plain-speaking and conservative, all things Julie Bishop is not. Bishop today denied that, but Dutton has since soared past her in Sportsbet as favorite to replace Turnbull.

 Did Bolt's ratings surge? We will never know I hardly think Bolt interested in promoting Peter Dutton. He remains intent however on boosting Abbott.

Warming fail: dud desal plant needs diesel

 Another farcical global warming fail. Victoria's then Labor Government claimed global warming would dry the rains and drain our dams. So it built a desalination plant that it said would be powered by wind farms. But the rains returned, the dams filled, the plant is mothballed and now 30 diesel generators have been ordered to power it.

Andrew Bolt has superannuation and invests in the future it seems if Labor does the same it's a 'farce'. Has Bolt invested his savings into fossil fuels? We will never know because like Trump and his tax return that's strictly private. The investment of desal plants isn't considered a farce by any of the worlds population centers given that water quality standards aren't a certainty. Water shortage isn't the only consideration to keep in mind pollution is just as great a concern.
 According to Bolt the dams aren't draining. Water storages for Australian cities: 69.5 per cent
Water storages for Melbourne: 67.8 per cent Nobody but Bolt laughs at god in a hospital and I'm sure back up systems there aren't to be laughed at. In fact backup systems in any sector private or state shouldn't be mocked. So why the chortle when a Labor government is concerned? Does Bolt laugh at the upgrading of the CFA? Investment in defense isn't a laughing matter for conservatives despite the fact that the liklihood of the hardware being used is remote. So it seems Bolt is stirring for stirring sake only. Nobody said transition to renewable meant switching off fossil fuels completely either. The do or don't approach being adopted by Bolt is what's ridiculous because should circumstances arise where a desal plant was necessary Bolt no doubt would be singing another tune. It's strange he seems focused only on Victoria and not the country

In use

Plant	Capacity (per day)	Percent of water supply	Location	Completion
Gold Coast Desalination Plant	125 megalitres	27% of South East Queensland	Queensland (Tugun) 28.157°S 153.497°E	2009
Perth Seawater Desalination Plant	130 megalitres	17% of Perth	Western Australia (Kwinana) 32.203°S 115.773°E	2006
Sydney Desalination Plant	250 megalitres	15% of Sydney	New South Wales (Kurnell) 34.025°S 151.205°E	2010
Victorian Desalination Plant	410 megalitres	33% of Melbourne	Victoria (Wonthaggi) 38.588°S 145.526°E	2012
Southern Seawater Desalination Plant	270 megalitres	20% of Perth	Western Australia (Binningup) 33.129°S 115.703°E	2012
Adelaide Desalination Plant	270 megalitres	50% of Adelaide	South Australia (Port Stanvac) 35.097°S 138.484°E	2012

 

Abbott to Turnbull: move into Kirribilli, crack down on spending

Tony Abbott on The Bolt Report tonight gave Malcolm Turnbull very personal advice: move into Kirribilli House and save taxpayers $3 million a year, be tougher on public service pay, scrap your renewable energy target, ditch your irrational clean-coal plans, and stop this "drift to defeat". Watch, because the gloves are off.

 

Not a word about Australia only about winning and losing and the assumption the winner is the best . How Trump. America is asking just that question. Did we win? Seemingly grave doubts are springing up every where. Heaven help us all if Tony Abbott claws his way back which was always his ambition. Apparently his book of other peoples writings is a stepping stone.

 

 

Another Q&A stitch-up

 As I said: why would a conservative go on the ABC's Q&A to be stitched up - patronised by the host, sneered at by a stacked panel and jeered by a carefully curated audience? And then there's this: yet another political activist in the crowd presented as some battler just asking a question.

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Remember when Andrew Bolt promised to have James Matheson back because they'd "run out of time" it never happened did it. Matheson was running rings about Bolt and the producers had Bolt shut him down. Now it appears you can't be on a pension and have a political point of view be found in an audience to ask a question of any kind without being called an anti- conservative stooge. The energy put into the production of the Bolt Report is essentially directed to ensure Andrew Bolt looks the part not is the part of a balanced and informative host of a what and advertorial. Thanks to the ABC.s Insiders, The Drum, Q&A, we are capable of seeing how panels might be structured to provide varying points of view and not just one. As for Brandis well George is like Dutton their own worst enemies.

 

 

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 28/11/16; Some people Bolt calls Idiots Steve Price ought to head the list; Have you met a Dutch Gorilla? Bolt makes no comparisons just an opportunity to attack; An idiot cries idiot that's Bolt's IQ; Reverse Racism does not exist;

Idiots cry for Castro........ Some of Bolt's Idiots

What his supporters say: Castro stood up to the United States, which had exploited the largest island in the Caribbean ever since it won independence from Spain in 1898. A fiery champion of the people, he ended years of corrupt rule and ushered in an era of access to education, health and housing. Despite all efforts by the USA to cripple it economically wit a 55year trade embargo.
What his enemies say: Castro has turned Cuba into the world’s largest open air prison, with all forms of dissent stifled and travel, business and freedom of thought forbidden.

   

The idiots in this narrative are media persons that simply find it so easy to make statements that without any context. Steve Price finds it easy to call Castro a Despot no tyrant and murdering bastard. How did the Cubans give rise to on man? Unless they rose up against a Military Tryrant and despot who was even worse than Castro who provided some hope for a change. Batista gets no mention from Price who hasn't a clue how many people were disappeared and killed by the military dictatorship either directly or indirectly. Neither does Price actually know how many people died due Castro's takeover. So I'd quite confidently declare Steve Price to be the idiot typical of a Cuban who fled because he faced somewhat more than just wealth redistribution. Why do the stories of 100,000 capitalists hold more sway than 11.5 million Cubans today. They have housing, health education, music ballet sport all available to them on even a greater scale than than we have in Australia or America.  Yes Steve Price speaking like an uneducated idiot failed to mention the Cuban revolution was a movement and not just the response of one man. It was a movement against the clandestine influence of America and the despotic generals it supported throughout the Americas.

 The poverty Price mentioned on The Project was shared by all Cubans and it was poverty enforced on them not by Castro but the 55 year trade embargo enforced on them by the USA and it's allies simply because their companies were nationalized. Cuba's exports sugar coffee and tobacco and tourism. They were all forcibly reduced by Price's heroes in the free world, however the Cubans endured. Even when the Soviet Union broke up and the Cold War  ended the American embargo on Cuba held but  Cubans  still endured. It's hard to comprehend why America had that strict embargo on  a small island like Cuba because it didn't on other socialist countries like China. All this complex history is reduced to one man by Steve Price and Andrew Bolt. Who pray tell are the idiots?

The idiots like Bolt and price attribute history to the actions of great men rather then the movements they often become leaders of . These blinkered morons are ready to malign the Catholic Church for it's acknowledgement of Castro not one pope gave him recognition but 3. Nelson Mandela did  and these less than educated broadcasters stand up and call these leaders of billions idiots simply because they are able to explain and put revolutions like the Cuban, the Vietnamese into context that in Castros case liberated 11.5 million Cubans from some 30% of the country from which they try to say represented the real and well off Cuba. Sorry Price Cuba didn't fall to privateer bandits as you would like us to believe. Yes Price believes Franco was the savior of Spain, Pinochet of Argentina, and Pepe Mijica a disaster for Uraguay. By the way there's far less Racism in Cuba or racists a legacy that the revolution also guaranteed. Yet another aspect of Cuban life that goes untold. 

Price's idiocy never buckled when he even turned to  Castro's disaffected daughter  for his evidence that Castro was a despot. She lived in Florida along with branches of the family that were part of the inner circle of the Batista government. She wrote a book and Price turns to  for his proof  that Castro was an arsehole " book created a rift even among Castro relatives in exile: Juana filed a suit in Spain in 1998 arguing the book defamed her and Fidel’s parents. A court ordered the publisher to pay Juana Castro $45,000." It seems a family already divided  was divided even more and it's so called truths turned to by Price as evidence are very much questionable.It turns out they were regarded as mere fantasies of a bitter  child one of a near dozen who made no such allegations that would support her. Among these kids were a nuclear physicist, a surgeon who headed the world basketball association. It would seem Price is clutching at straws. What sort of radio producer was he with that sort of respect for evidence or context?Divide and rule: Castro family torn by dysfunction and disagreements

  

 

FitzSimons' 'gorilla' vs a child's 'ape'. Spot the hypocrite

WHAT’S worse? A 13-year-old girl who calls a black footballer an “ape” in earshot of maybe 10 people? Or a 55-year-old Fairfax commentator, Peter FitzSimons, who last week called a black sports official a “gorilla” in earshot of tens of thousands? 

 

Andrew Bolt started with this as a blog last week and then turned what was a stale idea into his column. I'm sure it became part of his discussions on The Steve Price Show on which he rides like a kid on the tail of Price,s conservative comet. Bolt without doubt would have doubled down and used it on his Bolt Report as well.  Repetition is hardly work it's a lazy Susan of ideas that started with Bolt being put in his box when he attacked Adam Goodes way back when was it last year? This one trick pony tells us he works 70 hours a week ho ho.

It's all about Bolt's ego and little or nothing to do with the circumstances or context of what  Fitzsimons said. Bolt raises the issue of color because he's a "racist". Fitzsimons was describing an overseas official by the way not even in Australia as a "gorilla" for being a bully a thug and not for his color. The circumstances are grossly  different from the case of Adam Goodes.  To repeat  Andrew Bolt yet again shows he's an out and out  racist drawing  attention yet again to the issue of color being central and like a dog with a bone or possibly a gorilla Bolt has  gabbed hold of it only to show what a dumb arse bully  he in fact is.  It helps that Fitzsimons is a Republican and works for the opposition but that's just a bonus.

ABC: sour on Trump, sweet on Castro

IF only Donald Trump was a dictator who killed and jailed his opponents and enslaved his people. Maybe then the ABC would give Trump the respect it’s now showered on the belatedly dead Fidel Castro. 

 

Column 28 Nov Bolt's a singular minded idiot that grabs whatever he can to deal with attacking his opponents today if he could he's would swing with Castro and have the ABC closed down and it's broadcasters prevented from working. Bolt serially cries for journalism schools to be closed down or reformed in his image. Bolt is a great supporter Of Israel and "free speech" He never mentions the fact that people are jailed for satire on facebook in Bolt's great example of a nation state. He never does a body count on the numbers killed and the 1000s even children held in jails without charge. Yet he talks about the brutality of imprisonment in Cuba. The island on which the land of the free has Guantanamo.

 Bolt wouldn't even consider a discussion of Cuba before and after Castro just as he'd doesn't entertain discussing China before and after Mao yet Bolt is the man the man who demands conversations and when they are forthcoming he ducks for cover. Revolutions don't occur because one man orchestrates them. They occur because 84 men began a movement that ousted a military dictator Batista from a true Banana Republic supported by US companies that controled Coffee, Tobacco,and Sugar and treated  rural Cubans as slaves.

Unlike Castro's Cuba the US creates poverty, destroys health, limits education has homeless on it's streets but has scores of empty homes  and has the largest prison population in the world shhhh Bolt won't tell you that. But he will tell you Castro redistributed the wealth of Cuba created a world exemplary health and education system all while suffering a 55 year trade embargo put on it by America and the loss of it's largest trading partner the Soviet Union. Cubans unlike Americans are not rushing to leave Cuba.

 

 

Idiots cry for Castro

 

 “ ... (the idiot) will still gyrate in excitement like a dog seeing a bone if during a visit to Cuba he finds before him the hand and the bearded, exuberant and monumental presence of the “Maximum Leader”. And, naturally, being a perfect idiot, he will find plausible explanations for the worst disasters created by Castro. If there is hunger on the island, the cruel US embargo is to blame; if there are exiles, it’s because they are incapable of understanding the revolutionary process; if there are prostitutes, it isn’t due to the poverty on the island but rather because ­Cubans now have the freedom to use their bodies as they wish.”

More tears for Castro from Left-wing politicians, and a perfect description of exactly this kinds of idiot.

28 Nov This is all Andrew Bolt has to offer as rational argument on the pros and cons of Cuba and his supporters call him a public intellectual. Heaven help the Australian education system if Andrew Bolt is the pinnacle of wisdomVladimir Putin HUMILIATES Trump For Pathetic Response To Fidel Castro’s Death (TWEETS)

So according to Andrew Bolt Mandela was an idiot too  while Reagan was as astute as Trump

 When Reagan backed S. Africa Racism and Castro inspired Mandela
 

 

 

 

 

Race law defenders vilify whites

  

The man with the Mona Lisa Smirk can't be believed

It seems defenders of the Racial Discrimination are actually OK with vilifying people - as long as they're white. Labor frontbencher Terri Butler defames white students - and only grudgingly now apologises. Meanwhile activist Noel Pearson is accused of twice calling women a "f...ing white c...".

28 Nov Andrew Bolt says he's an indigenous Australian and more so than racists like Noel Pearson and Terri Butler are. Bolt insists he's a "White Indigenous Australian" systemically and institutionally oppressed today because here  in Australia there is now a transition of power from a once equal institutional system to one that favours blacks, females, Muslims Gays etc.  It's called  positive discrimination and he can't rail against it verbally or physically as easily as he once could. This  discrimination is set on changing the natural balance that they claim was the white males imaginary sense of privilege. 

" I'd believe that supporters of the Racial Discrimination Act really were against abuse if they weren't so free with abuse themselves.Right now it seems that they are not defending a principle but a side." Bolt
If that doesn't incriminate Andrew Bolt for not knowing or understanding that we still live in an institutionally white male dominated society that's been institutionally protected for years and as such has become culturally ingrained and acceptable then nothing will. It simply indicates just how regressive Bolt is the slightest of changes to help soften discrimination in a positive way become and enormous death threat to his kind. There is no Reverse Racism there is positive discrimination and it's inherent in our RDA and Section 18C. No matter how offended Bolt is by it.  The man who advocates color doesn't exist sure as hell draws our attention to it often enough. 
 

Why must farmers pay to save Turnbull's IR hide?

 

This can't be right: "Malcolm Turnbull has agreed to a key demand from Senate powerbroker Nick Xenophon to amend the government’s workplace relations reforms in a major step ­towards a wider deal on Murray-Darling water flows ..." 

28 Nov This is all coming from Andrew Bolt who declared there is no issue with water desalination plants are a waste of time . Droughts are a natural way of life in Australia we actually need do nothing. It seems a good opportunity to just attack our PM who he calls Dr Doolittle. Remember the good old days when Bolt use to declare PMs of Australia should be treated with respect and not just maligned. They were the days of Tony Abbott. Strange how Bolt rules change at the drop of a hat.

 "If Joyce is right, that means Xenophon's water will come largely from farmers." This sentence alone seems to indicate that Bolt is just flapping his chops because he can. It's not a conclusion in any sense of the word, what farmers, Bolt? Obviously Bolt doesn't know it must be something green like saving the lower Murray from extiction along with the fauna and tourism that relies on it. Bout then you wouldn't know form Bolt's Blog a have a go at Turnbull event. The Pit Bull seems smarter than Bolt 

The Age casually smears Pell. Again

 

Just imagine if George Pell in this case was Hilary Clinton and the Catholic Church was  the Clinton Foundation. Bolt finds it repulsive how Pell is attacked by association alone that he was just innocently sitting above all the mayhem innocent of what was going on below. Hilary wasn't given any such leeway by Bolt No such character references for Hilary from him. However there was and is an enormous amount of support for Trump  and how unfair the press is treating him. Is that the left or right press Andrew?

 It seems Andrew Bolt believes there no justification whatsoever in crucifying Pell he's like Trump. But there is every justification for burning Hilary at the stake. One need ask is Andrew Bolt really a judge of good character? If the answer is as obvious as I believe it is that makes Pell guilty just stop the investigation now. Bolt has proved the case against Pell. Remember how he even suggested as did Trump that the FBI was hiding evidence on Hilary's behalf. Should we believe anything Bolt says or just let the police do their job and allow the SMH , the ABC and any others just report on it without the hysterical character references fired by Andrew Bolt in panic.

Frydenberg: counting the cost of Labor's green madness

Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg admits the Government's (useless) clean energy policies are driving up your power bills. But he's right: that's nothing compared to the madness Labor is planning. Check out the figures.

 How To Lie With Statistics is not just a book useful for people who know what they are talking about but an obsession for those that don't and want to appear smart. Andrew Bolt Australia's public intellectual, I haven't a clue who gave him that title but rest assured he's not and he shows it here when he says the cost of Labors clean air policy is going to be $2000 to each Australian household over the next 15 years or 0.36 cents a day. That fails to take into account 1) the speed with which the technology is advancing 2) The health benefits of the anti pollution programs and the savings made 3) the long term infrastructure costs by simply households going off the grid. 4) The savings made by the fact that households will be producers rather than just users of energy. Bolt simply runs much the same argument put forward as was once delivered and called a threat when desk top computers were arrived on the market. They simply got cheaper and cheaper and joblessness was a threat delivered by politicians back then as well.
Frydenberg whose far more educated and smarter than Andrew Bolt has the impossible task of echoing the negatives of clean energy not because he believes in dirty energy but because he's been handed the unforgiving task of spruiking it's negatives because he's simply batting for a side and it's donars who are simply not interested in the morals and logic involved but only the bottom line and the responsibility they have to a minority of Australian society called shareholders.
How quickly did we see the Conservatives change their tune form deniers like Tony Abbott changing to recognizers of global climate change and the need for action. But turning that action to the minimal if not almost disguised action in order to keep the electorate on side. However no such care was needed when it came to the media who slipped into the role of strident advocates for cash as they did for Tobacco. Their job wasn't to prove anything just maintain doubt for as long as possible.
Today Bolt can be whatever he wants as long as he's making out the science is no better than a religion, it's wrong, and even that 0.36cents a day is too expensive for clean air and it will get more expensive. Abbott said that about the NBN and he sure fucked that and turned it into Frankenstein's monster. They have driven the price up and delivered a cart with square wheels. Frydenberg and Bolt aren't playing for the world or even Australia simply a side.