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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.
Minister Scott Morrison’s rant at President Joe Biden’s climate summit last night was one of the worst performances I have ever seen.
Technical
glitches and the dreaded mute button were the least of Morrison’s
worries, as he mounted the (virtual) stage, armed with three-word
slogans, self-congratulations, and downright dodgy greenhouse gas
emission numbers.
Most major nations before him (and there were
many) had pledged stronger climate targets or concrete policies to curb
carbon pollution. Japan and Canada vowed significant increases on their
2030 targets. India and the Republic of Korea announced new
partnerships with the United States. Even Brazil, a highly problematic
country in the climate space, announced it would advance its carbon
neutrality target by a decade.
In
contrast, Morrison’s speech was heavy on bluster, light on policy. No
new commitments were brought to the table, further cementing Australia’s
inadequate
Paris target of a 26-28 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
by 2030. Then like the dinner guest that turns up to a pot-luck
empty-handed and complains about what others have brought, Morrison
dismissed the serious efforts of other nations whilst offering nothing
himself.
It’s
the seat of two former Liberal PMs and some of the party’s best-known
MPs. And it is straddling the complicated demographics of the city’s
past and future.
Big
Tech lobbyists and political donations are nixing privacy reforms
across the US, reforms aimed to regulate the commercial use of personal
data and provide more protection for citizens, Australia, beware. Todd
Feathers reports.
Total
political donations for 2020 are $168m, way down on the $434m in the
previous year 2018/19. The Liberal Party edged out Labor as the top
recipient. Total donations for Liberal Party are $57m, Labor $55m,
Nationals $12.4m, Clive Palmer $10.2m, Greens $7.2m and One Nation
$5.8m.
If social media is innocent of bias in the US The ABC is unbiased in spades in Australia only diverse and critical of issues and how the government is handling them in a questionable way. Bias is Murdoch media. The defamation settlements prove it. How many has the ABC faced Mr Bolt?
Why Andrew Bolt's Podcast Failed why his blog, columns and Report a waste of your time. This is a show run by Conservatives and why Bolt isn't one. It's also what the ABC at least tried to be. It shows the POVERTY OF AUSTRALIAN MEDIA
Politics
in America is transforming. We’re using the lessons learned working
with The Lincoln Project and launching a new podcast—Politicology—to
gain a deeper understanding of who we are, how we got here, and how we
rebuild without repeating the mistakes of the past. Ron Steslow hosts
experts from across disciplines and the political spectrum to learn more
about the problems we face as a nation. Politicology launches February
3rd.
Despite health and community services being largely government-funded, three out of four workers are privately employed.
See
what’s happened? With some help from their rivals, the Libs have worked
tirelessly over the past 25 years moving workers from the Labor public
tribe to the Liberal private tribe. Haven’t you noticed the big
improvement?
The pressure on Australia is indisputable. In a Tuesday night call,
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly called on Scott Morrison
to "act boldly" on climate change and stressed the need for ambitious
targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions.
They have been gaming the
terget figures since Kyoto int spinning their image as a responsible
global nation. However neither the world nor the the electorate believes
anything they say when the their lips move. They merely doing the
bidding of their donors. Today 80 % of Australians believe in and want
to see government effort in real change to fossil fuel reduction and
clean energy and not the tokenism and lip service provided by Scotty
from Marketing
FAKE NEWS
'MUSSOLINI MEETS FRANKENSTEIN': ABC GOES FERAL ON DONALD TRUMP
COLUMN
In 40 years of journalism, I’ve never seen a TV station show such
unhinged hatred as the ABC showed on Monday for Donald Trump. Two weeks
ago, ABC deputy chair Kristin Ferguson tweeting that Trump was “immoral,
criminal”, and now the ABC's two top current affairs shows call him
worse in 90 minutes of deranged abuse.
12/10/2016 Andrew Bolt wrote that Trump wasn't fit to be President in full agreement with the ABC he never complained about the opinions of 80% of the Australian population back then he agreed despite the fact that he sided with Republican Politics. Trump was immoral and criminal and Bolt the "suck" he is has changed. He now believes Trump is simply a misunderstood version of George Pell and ought to be treated as a misunderstood saint.
The whole world is insane then because of it's dislike of Trump and Trumpism, according to Andrew Bolt. One thing Trump has done however he's de-mythologized the Presidency and helped Americans see what Democracy isn't. He's popped the American Dream and divided the country. When private corporate media become concentrated, propagandists spinning PR for payola to influence the electorate rather than inform then without the counterbalance of a publicly owned broadcaster like the ABC one only gets the top down view of the world and not necessarily an account of reality based on verifiable data and evidence.
Bolt whinged and whined that Dan Andrews approach the COVID was wrong and Trump's far better. Trump's chaos was better but it's the electorates choice. But it wasn't the electorate was with Dan science and real data verified and delivered by real journalism not blindly but always questioned. It stood out over Bolt's opinion and raised the bar to avoid anything goes chaos Bolt loves to play in simply because he has a resource and a platform to sell. His falling ratings show he's simply not very good at what it is he does. He basked in the sun for his 15 seconds of fame when Abbott was around.
NORE INFECTIONS, FEWER DEATHS
Rarely mentioned in the panic reporting - more coronavirus
infections, but fewer deaths: "On May 31, global cumulative cases were
approx 6,000,000 and deaths approx 400,000 — a death rate of 0.07.
Today, cumulative cases are approx 43,000,000 and deaths approx
1,000,000 — a death rate of 0.02. " More tests? Better treatment? Less
deadly mutation?
Bolt hasn't a clue it seems. So there's no reason to subscribe. However the fact is Dan Andrews solved the problem with better management and the US and the EU are looking at us with envy and are adopting and or calling for our approach. There is no grounds to believe the virus is weaker we are more immune that it doesn't have long term consequences science is discovering more each and every day. The more knowledge the less guessing out weighs the costs Bolt's short term thinking keeps bleeding about. It certainly shows his form of individulism and free market doesn't work.
9m ago
FREEDOM IN MELBOURNE! IT FEELS SO ... UNFREE
COLUMN
Wednesday was freedom day in Melbourne! More than three months of
lockdown ended and it felt so … not much. Didn't feel like Sydney, for a
start, which has got about the same level of infections and more people
in hospital. Which tells us that Daniel Andrews still doesn't have
faith in being able to do the basics.
Bolt doesn't mention the rest of the world isn't looking at Sydney but is looking at Melbourne and Morrison is trying to grab as much of the glory he can from ir. Bolt's life hasn't been that handicapped. He lifestyle remained relatively unchanged. We came to realis just how unessential it is what he does and how over paid he is for doing it. He's a failing cash and unnecessary and more and more unwanted drawcard that was nurtured by the ABC . Without the ABC he'd have been less noticed.
BIDEN STUMBLES. DOES AMERICA DESERVE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS?
No wonder Joe Biden limits his public appearances. He once
again can't finish a sentence, and aides rush in to usher away the
camera. Watch. So Kamala Harris will become president of the United
States? Really?
Personal fact yes Biden has had a stutter for 47 years that's of major consequence to Bolt who amplifies Greta's Aspergers Adam Goodes Blackness. Trump can't have a normal conversation with anyone without rushing away from the cameras but that's OK. Bolt's simply doing a Trump incapable of logically debating what is being said he like DJT attacks the man. Dr Mary Trump would declare Andrew Bolt shares the same pathological personality traits as her uncle. He has an inability to recognize the other, an inability to admit he's ever wrong, and simply is incapable of uniting a room.
What make Andrew Bolt believe President Pence would be better than President Harris anyway?
