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Trump Sanctions War Crimes Court To Silence Investigations Into U.S. Misconduct 

 A law unto themselves enforcing Quid Pro Quo 

During a press conference on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that top officials on the International Criminal Court could face economic sanctions, to be determined on a case-by-case basis, for investigating the actions of the U.S. and allied forces against the will of those nations. In addition, the officials, along with their families, will be restricted from traveling to the United States.Pompeo was joined at the press conference by Attorney General William Barr, Defense Secretary Mike Esper and national security adviser Robert O’Brien.

 
 The oil and gas industry faces a $1.8 trillion loss in 2020

Oil and gas exploration and production companies are set to be the hardest hit of any sector in 2020, with Fitch Ratings estimating a $1.8 trillion loss by the end of the year.

Jun 11, 2020 08:36 

Mining

BHP partially halts mine expansion plan to consult with Aboriginal group after backlash over heritage sites

  

 If the UK is serious about tackling racism, it needs to address its unchecked bigotry towards travellers and gypsies

As the Black Lives Matter protests rage on, Britain should also be reflecting on how it treats a different minority. Discrimination against Irish travellers is so ingrained, it is virtually accepted. 


FAKE NEWS

RACE PROTESTER TESTS POSITIVE. SOME LIVES DON'T MATTER

Some lives don't matter to race protesters: "A person who attended the [Melbourne] Black Lives Matter rally has tested positive for coronavirus. The state’s chief health officer said it was 'unlikely' the virus had been acquired at the protest but cautioned that they may have been infectious at the rally." 

11/06/2020

As if Bolt cares what happens to those that attended the BLM rally. He doesn't even care about his job anymore just works to rule and leaves on Thursdays. However, Andrew Bolt spreads an infection far worse where ever he goes and whenever he opiinionates and it's hate and division. While the Left tries to unite the majority Bolt spreads the seeds of hatred. Muslim hate, African Hate, China Hate  Indigenous hate and more. He simply hates Democracy which when push comes to shove is hate of Australia or people in general. The "good people" and outcomes he supports aren't generous or for the diversity of Australian workers and their families the productive powerhouse of the nation but the power elite whose control guarantees the management as minimal as it is not for merit but the monopolisation and protection of wealth and profit as is. 
Bolt's merely a News Corp marionette a network supporter of a diverse group of CEO's IPA members and LNP members dependant on protecting and growing a common cause but it's not Australia or any allegiance to the people who live here only profit and that as a cultural value above all. His personal retirement dream is to get out of the place.

Bolt's hypocrisy is patently evident he's a social distancer who insists debt-ridden Australians should get back to work and risk catching a virus in his service. He claims the unknown but exponentially spreadable disease is trivial why? To prevent his assets and investments from rapidly depreciating. Yet, here he is feigning concern over BLM protesters who felt their necessity was to rise and be heard was more important to them than any virus and any laws put in place to silence them. We don't see the Bolt's or Corporate managers marching when busted for robbing workers blind. In other words, the BLM uprising was a conscious choice to be on the street, unlike those Melbournians who don't want to hear, see or to continuously experience the infectious hate Andrew Bolt spreads under the banner of "free speech" and Law & Order.

Systemic racism has posed a much greater threat to public health and Andrew Bolt's concern ignores that altogether.

STATUES DESTROYED BY BARBARIANS DEMANDING PURITY

COLUMN Our new race warriors must be so pure, when they now want to tear down statues to people they say have sinned. Never mind the good they did - never mind that one is even to a leader who gave women the vote. Down they come! The new barbarians demand purity - by their hypocritical, vicious, ignorant new standards.

11/06/2020 

I'm not sure statues need to be destroyed but they might be of more use if correctly labelled for the evil they represent rather than the glory. Possibly their opposites next to them those that history did everything to hide an bury. Macquarie was a celebrated governor of NSW who issued orders that encouraged settlers to conduct the race wars in that state. Quite at ease to have indigenous Australians massacred or forced into slavery for King and Country. His statues torn down might just be a step to forget rather than remember the evils done to bring us where we are today.

Post WW2 The Germans ensured the worst of what Germany had done was taught in schools from primary schools in fact. Furthermore that the new history was compulsory lest it be forgotten. Not so in Australia where the History has been a concentration celebration and glorification of myths to bury otherwise inglorious episodes of our past. 

The Dutch, British Japanese and Americans are experts in presenting their histories in much the same way or burying the past.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,26/1/18; Throwing a party to hide the facts about Australia Today;

 

 

Betrayal: The Turnbull government has burned the bridge of bipartisanship | The Monthly

  The Turnbull government has burned the bridge of bipartisanship

A drip not a trickle: Tax cuts produce little extra corporate investment

 

 Studies show more free cash flow does, on average, lead to increased investment. But the extra cash is also used to pay down debt, pay dividends and increase working capital (cash used for day to day expenses). IA
Who cares about the facts when they don't soung as good politically, It's the sound bytes that count.

The Conversation 6Despite the emphatic assurances of the Treasurer, a lower Australian corporate tax rate is unlikely to drive investment. 

INFORMED COMMENT

When your Treasurer ignores factual analysis, doesn’t believe…

 

 

When your Treasurer ignores factual analysis, doesn’t believe in econometric modelling,  and wants to keep deals a secret, that is a real worry.

  Day to Day Politics: We don’t need science to be hijacked by the likes of this boorish primordial example of capitalistic gluttony - » The Australian Independent Media Network

What I am, however, is an artist, an observer, and given that observation is the basis for all science I feel entitled to a view. For me the ability of thinking human beings to blindly embrace what they are being told without referring to evaluation and the consideration of scientific fact, truth and reason, never ceases to amaze me. It is tantamount to the rejection of rational explanation. Science has made in my lifetime the most staggering achievements and they are embraced, recognised and enjoyed by all sections of society. John Lord
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Andrew Bolt's Blog,18/12/17; Humour you don't get with Bolt; Stealing the credit; LNP economics has little to do with the current government; Everypicture tells a story;

 
Turnbull takes credit for jobs surge, but groundwork was laid years ago | Business | The Guardian

Stealing the Credit

According to JP Morgan economist, Tom Kennedy, nearly two-thirds of the new jobs have come from two industries – healthcare and social assistance (130,000 jobs), and construction (104,000 jobs) – and the policy groundwork for those jobs was laid a few years ago.

  A bigger, better public sector will secure our future

 

 Because it's 'we' and not Bolt's just 'me' thinking

That's because almost all the services best provided or funded by the public sector are "superior goods" – things we want more of as we get richer: education and training, healthcare, aged care, disability care and much else, even law and order.
So the greatest threat to continued growth in the "lump of labor" comes not from robots, but from those wanting to put some arbitrary cap on the size of government – and, of course, on the amount of tax we pay.
 Current jobs growth is at the expense of wages and a Chinese recovery. It has improved profits for the few but not the crew of SS Australia

Can Beijing's bounty deliver us tax cuts?

 
Does Turnbull believe he's not under the influence of China?  Sam Dastyari was a realist without good relations between us we are going nowhere. The USA isn't interested and the UK can't afford to be. Beijing is in a position to choose. What we have seen is Turnbull waving a red flag at the bull and Shorten hiding and doing nothing. Conservatives only seem to know the politics of fear they take us into wars but never out of them.
"If our pollies aren't snuggling up to the warm embrace of the Middle Kingdom with supposed free trade deals, banquets, and endless photo ops, they're mercilessly pointing the finger and dumping a bucket of steaming insults on anyone who's ever accepted a gratuity from the joint. Of which there appear to be many."
 

Andrew Bolt's Blog; 17/1/17; Abbott & Trump an matching pair Murdoch helped build. Promoting Trickle down Economics,

Ugly American Donald Trump is about to enter the White HouseSightings of the stereotypical ugly American usually are reported from abroad, but this. 

How reminiscent is this of when an ugly Australian was about to enter the government od Australia's Prime ministership in 2013. He had and still has the the support of some very ugly Australians today. Tony Abbott managed to down grade Australia's  international reputation within months of winning the election. He turned the country into an international laughing stock. Needless to say a position no Prime minister held before. Abbott like Trump had a blinded belief in his own ego that failed to correspond with what others around him believed despite having a Panza division of assistance from his PMO, News Corp media 2GB the IPA and Sky trying to shield him from himself. Trump has the alt-right media in place to do the same. Breitbart, Fox being the most trusted. 

Trump and Abbott are the leaders and promoters  of  trickle down economics when the reality of the day shows that 8 men today own as much wealth as  half the worlds population that is they own the equivalent wealth of 3.5 billion people. Now convince me that's not trickle up. Andrew Bolt will he will spend 2017 trying to convince us this is as it should be. Mind you Trump and Abbott weren't in step on everything. Abbott wanted to shirtfront Putin Trump doesn't. Abbott wanted to join NATO Trump doesn't. Abbott wanted the TPP and it seems Trump doesn't. However these things seem rather trivial to those things they both agree on. The decimation of labor unions being primary to turn workers int slave labour in order that multi national conglomerates can improve their bottom lines. American labor has been devalued the past 40 years and it seems Australian Labour is about to experience the same with the escalation of under employment and a halt in wage growth.

Bolt will have taken paid annual leave of over 4 weeks plus entitlements will he share his holiday with his readers or feed them bullshit? Was he on his country property hiding or was he feeling liberated holidaying overseas? Very few people will no because he's never been a sharing Australian. When truths are revealed he and his wife turn into pit bulls  challenging other for doing what they feel free to do. It's extreme posturing at first that turns into whimpering silence in the end why? Because trying to turn the truth into fake news is  merely a short term Panza action and recognized for being disingenuous.

 Promoting Trickle Down Economics

 

  The Shocking Reality Of Wealth Inequality In America

There’s no getting away from the fact that the gap between rich and poor is getting wider in America. Obama called it “the defining challenge of our times”, and yet just five per cent of Americans think it’s a serious problem in need of addressing. That’s a shocking statistic when you consider that over the […]

Andrew Bolt's Blog,4/2/16; Dutton 'I know nothing" the man for the Job; Boring Boltenomics; Pychosis and the X Files revealed; Bolt doing a repeat of Monday in black face;

 

 

The business of being Australian of the Year

 "How about equality of salary? A few bracing lectures from Morrison on that would be interesting." The call from a man who generally says and does nothing. He thinks he's worth every penny Ch 10 get him for free and then they don't want him. That says it all

"New Age moralists don’t come cheap. It’s a business now. But I rather suspect we’d hear more to our advantage from the priest."

Does anybody notice the contradiction other than Bolt suggesting kids can trust their local priests. What is this paid moralist talking about other than hypocrisy?

 

 

Palmer can’t remember giving $6 million to his party

Just how much value is the free promotions given the Liberal Party by News Corp actually worth? Far more than $6mill in free advertising. Politics is a dirty business.  But Bolt style media is even worse because at every opportunity the real journalists and commentators are disparaged.  How lazy is Bolt he just sticks his brand on the work of others and claims it as his own.
"On Thursday night the bromance between the magnate and Tony Jones - previously praised by Palmer as “the best journalist in Australia” - was rekindled when he appeared on ABC1’s Lateline."

 

 

 

Another 18C case, this time against students and academics

It's all about Bolt isn't it. He can comment but he can't do it loosely and without the facts. He can't vilify which is simply fact-less comment. So Bolt takes the sook's way out  because he believes saying nothing is saying more."I would say more, but lawyers have warned me against saying much at all." 

UPDATE

"Apologies, but it is safer if we don’t run comments."

The character of a spineless man

 

Journalists are campaigning for the boat people, not reporting. You are misled

Bolt never wins any Media prizes because he represents the lowest common denominator when it comes to information. His best reply is always "I don't care" Now that's the professional he is. Remember the whinge Abbott had when he cried "whose side are you on" Well whose side are you on Andrew Bolt because Abbott's gone and now your against  everyone it would seem , offering nothing other than excuses for Peter Dutton who head honcho takes the Sgnt Shultz route and says "I know nothing" He's the man you want to sit on our National Security Council because  " he knows nothing" and that is everbody elses fault. Great MP How has it come to this? | The Monthly

The man Andrew Bolt claims knows everything and should be on the NSC. The man who says "I know nothing" No Shame: The Science Behind Why Most Australians Feel Okay About Tormenting Asylum Seekers – JunkeeJunkee

 

 

If Turnbull finally wants a fight, why not a fight on spending cuts instead?

Higher Taxes, Spending cuts Bolt's meaningless economic clarion call. Higher Taxes on who? Spending cuts on who? Bolt never really focuses  on that. He just loves to say the cuts should be born by us all but never the gains.

1) Given the wealth and income gap has increased disproportionately over the past 10 years it seems only fair they pay a greater proportion of higher taxes. After all they weren't hit by bracket creep and didn't increase  wealth by increased production. So yes why and how are the majority of the population the productive members of the population who are merely trying to make ends meet to pay higher taxes? They shouldn't if you have lazy capital you can afford to pay higher taxes.

2) Spending cuts great idea if directed at the welfare and subsidies offered the wealthy and business classes by way of tax minimization and no productive  subsidies

 

 

Column - What else aren’t they telling you about refugees?

Bolt calls out the media to be liars trying to deflect attention from himself.

"  IF there is one thing our politicians, police and press tend to lie about, it’s refugees."

" In all, more than 800 complaints of assault, rape and robbery were reported to police, who have so far identified 30 suspects, all African or Middle Eastern, and half refugees."

30 suspects committed 800 sexual assaults in a location full of CCTV that's Andrew Bolt's truth. No 1000 suspects did it because that's what Bolt prefers to believe and he is the the only media man prepared to warn us. This is happening here but nobody is prepared to say so. " police at first lied," "The media joined the cover-up""the Mayor claimed it was “improper” to link the assaults to refugees.""the same pattern of cover-up and deflection happens in Australia.""Australia’s politicians, police and media trying to hide or fudge inconvenient truths about immigrant crime, especially involving refugees." 

The aliens have landed and a conspiracy is under way the only place the truth can be found is in Bolt's X files .......psychosis

 

 

Column - Libs mad to make Rudd king of the world

Bolt  repeating himself in black face. 

 

 

 

Bishop’s mad plan to make Labor’s worst PM king of the world

Link The Australian

How proud an Australian is Bolt? The uni drop out questioning Rudd's qualifications skills and intelligence. Rudd was after all  a senior was in the Australian Diplomatic Service. His wife a shining example of a free marketeer that Bolt admires so much. The family  fits Bolt's definition of Australian  even more than the  Bolt family. Bolt is little more than a shill for NewsCorp misinformation service. So if you go on any of  Bolt's measures Rudd stands head and shoulders above him.   The Rudds are "Team Australia" yet according to Bolt he is their better."It’s ludicrous for Julie Bishop to even consider backing Kevin Rudd’s bid to become UN secretary general, and Malcolm Turnbull should have more sense or guts than to go along with this frolic:"

This isn't by any stretch of the imagination a media man you'd want on your team let alone "Team Australia" because it's obvious all he is a cheer leader for Team Abbott. It's why Abbott's no longer PM but it's obvious his team is still there and has divided the LNP despite losing the team vote. They have never had their eye on Australia's interests only Abbott's and from their disinformation service we have "Bishop, a chronic leaker, seems to have once again briefed against Abbott for this latest report. But why is she drawing attention to her role in arguing for something so clearly wrong?" Bolt

This coming from Andrew Bolt is a joke "How on earth could a Liberal Government support a man with such a record, such a character and such a philosophy? Remember when he claimed he could start a Conservative Party with the snap of his fingers. Rudd's record never criminal Abbott's a long string of apologies dating back to being a student. Character Abbott's is as narrow and un-enticing and the polls showed it. Philosophy extreme to the max Conservative ready to leave his best mates as road kill if they got in his way. Abbott was a destroyer and he loved it. Just look at what he did to his mate Peter Slipper.

 

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 3/2/16; Bolt slams the media for what he's failed to do; Bolt is updating Abbott's leadership qualities; Polar bears and wild speculation; Bolt's blogs firewall News Corp mastheads but give fairfax away for free spot the contradiction; Ch10 Trash a News Corp investment; Bolt economics don't tax the poor rich; Attacking the Australian of the year now thst' dignity; Our children can walk anywhere said the gorilla; Close your eyes and listen to Uber Fuhrer Bolt; "Je suise Hypocris" Has Bolt ever belly laughed? Bolt on economics;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 How has it come to this? | The Monthly

 

 

 

 

 

Why is a Bangladeshi claiming to be a refugee?

Bolt's knowledge or want to discover why is hidden by blaming his fellow media men for their ignorance rather than admitting his own. "Why have no journalists explored why it is that we allegedly owe this woman sanctuary here? Surely these details need to be established first. "Bolt . Maybe he as much as anyone in the News Corp Organization should have taken the time to find out. But no it's the great conductor of all that's media Andrew Bolt who is entitled to act above them all. "The Bangladeshi woman – known as M68 in court document and the lead plaintiff in the case for the 267 asylum seekers – was on a boat intercepted by Australian officers in October 2013 and was detained on Nauru from January 2014 until August 2014, when she was brought to Australia for medical treatment and subsequently gave birth to a child." He doesn't mention the fact that all the secrecy was put in place by the Abbott government. He praised the non transparent policies put in place by Scott Morrison.

Christians suffer violent persecution in Bangladesh

As a Muslim hater it's surprising Bolt hasn't screamed about the bigotry within that country         The deliberate religious genocide of non-Muslim minorities

Christians Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians .

 

 

 

Keating warns: spending is too high. UPDATE: Turnbull talks Liberals into trouble

UPDATE

How on earth does Bolt expect the public to have forgotten Tony Abbott the chicken little disaster crier  immediately before and after the 2013 election. The leader that promised "no tax cuts" and then immediately going back on his word with a catastrophic budget rejected by one and all. 

Have we forgotten how Hockey let it slip in NZ that in fact there was no financial disaster no sky falling in at all in Australia. We were ready and open for business. Not soon after that announcement was made these two geniuses said  had fixed the economic problem and the disaster was over. The  lie went from going from no disaster having  existed to one that did but now fixed . This  Bolt insists is leadership trying to fool the citizens, the world and and only creating confusion and ridicule. Abbott did this while promoting the greatest state of fear since the cold war that took us to Vietnam and divided the country then to today splitting his own party in two. Well done Abbott to add more confusion to the mix he's in the USA Abbott Meets With Obama To Ensure Warringah Electorate Gets Better Transport Links

 

 

 

Emaciated Polar Bear Shows What’s Wrong With OUR World. What can be gleaned if anything from a single case? Can we do an Andrew Bolt? No!!

" Attributing a single incident to climate change can be controversial, but it is certainly the latest bit of evidence of the impact of climate change. Climate change, and the loss of sea ice habitat, is the greatest threat to polar bears followed by oil exploration, toxic pollution and overhunting."

 

Five minutes of Aly’s prime-time attention

Bolt is such a pedantic unlike Waly Aly because he is simply  playing the man. That's the difference between the two Aly is far more reasoned and imaginative with substantive ideas.  Where as Bolt is little more than a child like debator who needs to stick to his script. However Bolt's source  link doesn't work let alone make much  sense. But yes I spot the contrdiction.

 Stealing  and publishing free reports from The Age is the opposite of his firewall approach when it comes to linking to News Corp articles they are not given away for free. Is that the contradiction Bolt's referring to? No but this is Abbott Meets With Obama To Ensure Warringah Electorate Gets Better Transport Links

 

Dignity is out of here

News Corp

You can guess whose Channel this trash plays on. Yes the Andrew Bolt trash Channel 10. It's promoted by News Corp's Daily Telgraph and all other mastheads.  This bunch of media thrive on trash. Thank god for the ABC

 

 

Social justice isn’t real justice. Meet a victim of David Morrison’s crusade

 You break eggs when baking a fresh cake. Over half of Andrew Bolt's blogs are written by somebody else. His trolls write a significant number and Bolt is glad. Bolt's attacking windmills again but not heroically.

 

 

Advice to Germans on dealing with immigrants harassing their daughters: “Don’t provoke them”

TIM BLAIR We are going to be entertained by someone Andrew Bolt finds hilarious

"“It’s technically not necessary for the girls to walk near the refugee shelters, there are alternative routes,” mayor Jens Muller continued, amid rising fury."

How outrageous it's advice parents give their kids daily. If you see a pack of hoons be they asylum seekers or local boys behaving badly cross the road. It's advice given to kids at any major event held in Australia. Sorry Blair isn't funny but stupid.

Story 1 Australia had an intake 220,000 immigrants last year I don't have the nationality break up besides as I'm not a bigot and am a son of migrants I don't really have alarms ringing. Some may be proven to have been a bad choice but that's an individual matter not one of a whole class group or category. My neighbour might be a crook and English.

Story 2 With any large and unusual intake of people demographics are bound to change in the short term. It's as logical as Archimedes principle  water rises when you get into a bath and finds a new but stable and balanced level

What incite have we been provided with here?  Masked Neo-Nazi Mob Storms Train Station, Beats Children 

 

 

 

The questions the ABC did not ask: which pedophiles raped these children? Are they boat people, too?

Spot the contradiction

The intention here is not to help but to blame, victimize and presume guilty those who have called out for help. If you have been beaten black and blue raped , victimized and even a child you have to prove it because  you just might be lying and therefore by pure logic if that's the case  you are all  possibly guilty of lying.

 Close your eyes for a minute. Don't you recognize the justification the voice of  an SS guard justifying his necessary treatment of Jews, Pol Pot justifying why educated people might be dangerous and must go to the killing fields. General Pinochet explaining why he needs to throw you out of an aeroplane because you might be suspected of lying.

Bolt actually lists the reasons why we must treat asylum seekers the way we do because you just might be @#$%#@ (pull any reason out of a hat) and how would we know?

Here are the words coming directly from Uber  Gruppen Fuhrer Andrew Bolt

- Who raped these children? Are the alleged rapists and pedophiles other detainees?

What guarantees do we have that they will never, never come to Australia?

- Does the high level of alleged sexual attacks on children apparently by detainees reflect different cultural attitudes, and what implications does that have for refugee policy?

- Why haven’t the children or their parents ended their detention simply by going back home?  How many are genuinely in fear of their lives if they return, and how many are economic refugees?

- Under what circumstances were the art works by the children produced? Are they authentic expressions of distress or were the children coached to produce them to increase pressure on the government to let in the detainees? Why did the handwriting on some of the childish pictures look adult?

- What would be the consequences of letting in the children? Would that encourage more parents to load their children onto boats to Australia, and how many would drown?

- What ages were the “children” interviewed last night? What effort was made to check the circumstances under which they came?

  You can open your eyes now  and make your own judgement.The faces of the babies Australia wants to send back to ‘hell’ on Nauru

 

 

Why has the ABC given a national platform to PMsabump1umb3r?

Here is Bolt the a professional  spreader of misinformation and nonsense back again dictating how the ABC should edit it's tweets. On how many past occasions has Bolt sworn he doesn't selectively edit the comments on his blog? Bolt a quote "Je suis Hypocrisy"

 

 

Cleese warns: identity politics kills the laughs

The Catallaxy Files or the IPA

Has anybody got a laugh from Andrew Bolt? Has anybody ever seen him genuinely belly laugh? This self acclaimed warrior of free speech in fact attacks any and everything funny because as far as he's concerned it's all from the left and disrespectful of authority. He does find jokes about the indigenous funny whether they like the Irish are or aren't laughing along as well.  Tell us a joke please Andrew Bolt. Maybe I have missed the point you are the joke. Here is a joke.

Hillary Clinton "Won" Her Iowa Lead by Coin Toss

 

 

 Keating warns: spending is too high and hiking the GST is not the way to fix it

 Bolt gives the Age away for "free" but asks you to pay for Murdoch's  Australian. Is this some sort of theft by News Corp? 

The Governors of both California Jerry Brown and that of Minnesota actually brought their states back into surplus very quickly. They taxed the rich and created new jobs well above those of their predecessors. Businesses and the rich didn't flee their states as some predicted they spent more. Businesses wont flee Australia as Bolt threatens. Business operators know in hard times it's often better to spend money to make money but they haven't been. They have kept their hands in their pockets.  Abbott has even encouraged industries to close by withdrawing subsidies at the bottom of a cycle instead of at the top. He publicly divested from the Motor Industry at the worst possible time.McDonald's halves its tax bill

 However if surplus is not regarded as the be all and end all to good housekeeping but bringing spending back to a reasonable level and not the 25.9% ratio to GDP that Tony Abott has taken it to in 2 years but back to the affordable 24% at least that the ALP were handed by Howard  during  the GFC then the problem isn't as dire as Bolt makes out. Remember the days before Abbott was PM and he and Hockey were running about like chicken little yelling the sky was falling in when it wasn't. Remember when Abbott on TV pre election declared he could fix the disaster without raising taxes. Remember when he lied. Remember the first Abbott Hockey budget that freaked Australia out. Remember when they immediately said the financial disaster was fixed. Like illusionists there was no longer a financial problem simply because Abbott and Hockey said there wasn't one.

Keating is simply saying the same 'And worse, to spend it reducing the company tax rate and the top marginal rate. We would be taxing the people at the bottom heavily – really heavily – to cut the company tax rate from 30 per cent to 25 per cent. A terrible proposition...." Simply giving more to the government by raising the GST is also asking the ordinary people who can least afford it  to pay. Costello isn't asking that he wants spending back to 24%  where John Howard took it  and where Swan was handed it. Abbott and Hockey took it to 25.9%. All Bolt has done is returned back to the chicken little scenario of "divest"" divest" and not "invest" "invest"

Yes there is s global problem the rich now own all the worlds wealth they practice the art of tax minimization to the extreme and are not investing their increased wealth. Their income is not coming from their entrepreneurial skills or capacity. It's distributed through inheritance interest, rent and capital gains all non productive activities. They are grinding the market to a standstill. The largest investments being made today is  War, Defense and Security.   It's  that needs changing and destimulating it's that redistribution that's necessary as the rest of the world is made up of people merely living from day to day on less and less already. It's that Bolt wants to have pay more  and more. Half a days world war budget woulf feed half the worlds population for a year. But that sort of economics is of no use to Bolt he in fact approves of escalation. We will see  Western Warmongers Have All the Answers, and They’re All Wrong  Nevertheless this is and area Bolt will advocate increased spending because is race dog will.

 

How banks are using us to hedge their bets 

  Ross Gittins COMMENT Are you angry about the banks? A lot of Australians are. And with good cause.

 

Contains:

Andrew Bolt's Blog,22/1/16; Free Speech in Israel: Waleed Aly the voice of researched reason vs Andrew Bolt's John Wayne crisis theatrics: Monty Python and the Deniers; Labour and economic management: An ultra consevative farce;

 

When criticism of occupation becomes 'subversion'

 When Bolt supports Israel he's against 'free speech'

 

 

When IS is the lesser of two evils 

Thank reason for a considered approach the problem of IS and Iraq as opposed to the simplistic PDL, or Republican cry of  Palin and Trump to war. Abbott, Andrews and Bolt are much the same declaring  a clash of civilisations.  For them it's simplistic and simple we are facing one enemy driven by religion and not one driven by the complexity of politics needs and the self interest of a wide number of parties concerned. Waleed Aly reveals the division between reason intellect and Andrew Bolt's John Wayne green beret cinematic cry to fight by man that has never and will never face a battle or put on a uniform unless for theatrics. You could always picture Bolt  a cartoon character standing Abbottesque before 12 Australian flags to make his point in front of cameras.

Waleed Aly COMMENT IS has cut wages of its fighters - but it's still gaining support

 

 

When will climate deniers give up? 

Deniers are becoming a parody of themselves a bit like the Black Knight in Monty Python's Holy Grail

COMMENT 2015 was the hottest year ever, breaking 2014's record. How much proof do they need?

Why Labor Have Always Misunderstood Economic Management!

 Ok, here's a recent news item: Sarah Palin Blames Son's Domestic Violence Arrest…

  

 

Adani to face no action over Australian CEO’s link to Zambia mine pollution

Good Corporate Governance track record and transparency not required

 

 

Palin Brings Much-Needed Intellectual Rigour To Trump Campaign – The Shovel