Andrew Bolt's blog,13/2/19; LNP suffers a debacle not seen in 90 years; Bolt's reponse a Paywall and bash a Muslim; Morrison is the winner for losing; It's Julia Banks and Turnbull's fault the loser cried;

Federal election

Morrison government suffers historic defeat in  parliament

Bolt continues to back the wrong horse as The Lower House Voted the for the Medivac Bill. It seems a very long time between drinks for Bolt as a commentator he appears to get more things wrong than right. No Bill Shorten didn't move sideways as Bolt predicted and no he didn't lose the vote. Now Morrison is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Will he try to challenge the Bill in the courts on constitutional grounds? If the PM does will he be seen as a curmudgeon? If he loses what will that do to his stocks? He has a problem a problem for declaring Doctors to be a danger to national Security and pumping the message out via the Murdoch Party and Sky News after dark. 

By the way, did Bolt see the crowds cheering the Bahraini refugee's return to Melbourne and identifying in the strongest terms that he identifies as an Australian "Allahu Akbar", and everybody smiled? We can guarantee Bolt didn't and dreamt of his retirement in Holland, and we all hoped his dream comes true.

 

The government has lost a vote on its own legislation for the first time in 90 years regarding the medical treatment of asylum seekers. The bill was voted down 75-74 on the floor of the House.

Bolt's response to tonight's announcement is as good as you might expect, to ignore it and whack-a-Muslims instead.

The Prime Minister's strength turns into a weakness

Peter Hartcher

Scott Morrison is now the PM who has lost control of Australia’s parliament.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ON ROLE OF ISLAM

Just so you know: "An ISIS sympathiser who mowed down pedestrians in Melbourne’s Flinders Street, killing an elderly grandfather, said he 'did it in the name of Allah', a court has been told... 'I’m sorry for the people that I injured but I did it in the name of Allah,' he was quoted as saying."

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It's a PAYWALL to his Herald Sun 

For the past 2 weeks, Melbournians have been shooting each other and Bolt has ignored the fact but not this case why? Yes because it has the characteristics most useful to him. A Muslim committed the crime. When a Greek thought he was god and killed multiple people in Flinders St the offence wasn't of any real importance to Andrew Bolt. Indicating that crimes don't really matter to Bolt the significant identifying aspect of any event is whether or not a Muslim did it. 

 Bolt's racist obsession is that he lives in the hope that his systemic focus will raise fear and enable and encourage other Muslim youth to actually push back in response to the Islamophobic waves he intentionally creates. Meanwhile, his good Aussie Christian white folk continue to go about shooting the place up unnoticed and unmentioned by blowhard Bolt. The coming election will spur Bolt on to raise the fear-meter even more by putting his foot on the accelerator of hate and scaremongering legacies promoted by Scott Morrison to the Liberal Party as far back as 2005 post the Cronulla riots. Legacies of racial and ethnic division which were adopted full tilt boogie by Tony Abbott. 

 

MORRISON THE BETTER MAN FOR THIS FIGHT

Prime Minister Scott Morrison comes out fighting. Imagine how weak Malcolm Turnbull would have been: "Morrison has declared every new people-smuggling boat ­arrival will be 'on Bill Shorten’s head' after ... Labor [joined]  the Greens and ­independents to push through a bill that hands doctors greater powers to bring asylum-seekers to Australia."

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PAYWALL 

Into cloud cuckoo land of MURDOCHIAN imagination everything to distract from the reality of what happened. Australian politics said it was time to bat against the paranoia being sold us by the LNP. The insanity politics that has driven the LNP against the compassion of the 2500-year-old Hippocratic Oath and principle that is medicine. So much so this was the fight no government could win and it first and deserved loss in 90 years.

" Scott Morrison has declared every new people-smuggling boat ­arrival will be “on Bill Shorten’s head” after the Coalition lost control of the parliament, allowing Labor to join the Greens and ­independents to push through a bill that hands doctors greater powers to bring asylum-seekers to Australia."

Nothing is on Shorten's head the boats that haven't been stopped and are still coming will continue the secret revealed, and the maasively increased naval Dutton blockade will continue with Dutton revealing the reality that boats were never stopped leaving Indonesia. Nor have drownings just the information about them. It's why Bolt feels so pleased.

"I am not sure there will be floods of boats - yet." Bolt. He's always there at the end with his "I didn't say that" escape clause claiming the very opposite of what he's just said so he can't be wedged later. Bolt's so excited about the prospect of Dutton admitting the truth that the boats have never been stopped coming Bolt can't spell. Just wait for the Conservatives effort at win at all cost politics that forgoes all human principles. It's coming like rolling thunder and Bolt will be one of its media voices.

" Whyile we still have Government that turns back boats, we should be saved from the worst consequences of Labor's weakening of the border laws yesterday. Bolt

THE COMPANY JULIA BANKS KEEPS

Julia Banks was elected as a Liberal, promising to push for Liberal policies. Now, look at the company she keeps, having deserted the Liberals, as she helps destroy the Liberals' border laws.

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Proving his misogyny Andrew Bolt goes to women bashing. Why does he do that? Psychology suggests he's projecting to cover up the fact that Bolt wouldn't achieve anything if it hadn't been for the women in his life and he resents it to the core. It's why now he brags about being the only breadwinner in his house.

The men that blackmailed the Liberals forcing them to dump any pretence of Democracy like Craig Kelly remains indicative of what it means to be the conservative tail of the Liberal Party, a thug and bully prized and praised by Bolt with his silence while the women were always there to be the kicked handmaids.

LIBERALS DEFEATED THANKS TO TURNBULL

The Liberals lost its crucial vote on border protection by a single vote. This is because Malcolm Turnbull quit parliament rather than stay on until the election, and then pointedly refused to help the Liberals defend his seat. Later he supported Julia Banks in deserting the Liberal party. Why hasn't be been kicked out of the party?

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How is this, the longest, most curved and blunt arrow in his quiver? He took a shot at Julia Banks and missed so blames it all on Malcolm Turnbull and hides Dutton, Abbott and other right-wingers under their rock. The problem is, it's always been too hard to keep them there. Turnbull has always been in plain sight, and that's the point Christopher Pyne makes when saying he was sorry to see him rolled. Pyne has been there 26 years almost as long as Bolt has been a commentator making a fool of himself.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,3/1/18; Dutton makes a fool of himself and shames the Nation once again;When we see that conservatives like Turnbull have learned nothing from the Royal Commission into Youth Justice and Dondale; The Popes view of a Nigerian con; Milo is Milo nad it kills;

 

South Sudanese man jailed for armed robbery spared deportation - for now

 Meanwhile, an analysis of the sentences imposed on some of the young Sudanese and South Sudanese men in Victorian courts last year showed almost all were repeat offenders.
The analysis of the cases of a dozen men aged between 18 and 25 found all but two had prior criminal convictions before they were sentenced for offenses including armed robbery, aggravated burglary, intentionally causing serious injury, theft, and affray. Their sentences ranged from four years in prison to community corrections orders.
Problems with alcohol and drugs were also common among the 12 men. In one case, in which an 18-year-old was jailed for an armed robbery at a service station, Judge Paul Grant raised concerns about the teenager's recidivism despite efforts to support his rehabilitation away from a life of crime.
Conservatives readily use skewed statistics in their political use blaming the high rate of crime among Sudanese stereotyping the community as a whole as not suitable immigrants and people to be feared simply by the actions of a minority and their visibility as Africans. A minority as shown here off a small base are recidivists repeat offenders with a high number of charges recorded and not a spread of numbers throughout the community or in fact the country.  This is the true definition of Fake News and Andrew Bolt is one of Australia's leading neoconservative amplifiers.  He even proudly declares he has a massive rating on the Bolt Report skewing the numbers in much the same way "off a small base".
Fear and scare-mongering for political gain is and has been commonplace in Australian conservative politics as has to blame the victim and has even taken us to wars simply for the sake of political control. Reds under the beds had us fighting in Vietnam and Afghanistan, fear of Islam took us to the Middle East as recently as Abbott who wanted us in Ukraine as well. We remain the only Democracy in the world that fails to recognize any Human Rights in either our constitution or laws and the extreme right of the LNP want it kept that way. Yet they readily cite the opposite as the case. However, we saw how Howard used the Intervention and blaming of Indigenous Australians for their recidivism and now they are doing it to the Sudanese. Clearly, the Royal Commission on youth justice has no truth for either Turnbull or Hunt.

 Victorians scared to go to restaurants at night because of street gang violence: Peter Dutton

 



"Peter Dutton has blasted the Victorian Labor government over African street crime, claiming residents of Australia's second-largest city were scared to go out to restaurants at night."

Dutton is a perfect example of why we ought to be ashamed of our current government. Democracy is diminished when Australia's media allow this degree of misinformation by a Cabinet MP. Dutton from Qld is basically calling Victorian Police the Premier's marionettes. In fact, he's calling all of Victoria's educated experts liars.

Dutton should refer to the Royal Commission on Youth Justice and the Australian ABS before opening his mouth and delivering false facts. His ignorance about his own state is shameful and the man was once a cop.

ABS
OFFENDER NUMBERS INCREASED IN ALMOST ALL STATES AND TERRITORIES

• Victoria was the only state or territory in which the number of offenders decreased between 2014–15 and 2015–16, with a decrease of 3,163 offenders (or 4%).

• Over the same period the number of offenders increased in:
  • • New South Wales (by 3,905 offenders or 3%)
    • South Australia (by 2,254 offenders or 5%)
    • Western Australia (by 1,322 or 3%)
    • Northern Territory (by 279 offenders or 2%)
    • Queensland (by 245 offenders or 0.2%)
    • Australian Capital Territory (by 125 offenders or 5%)
    • Tasmania (by 49 offenders or 0.5%)

 

 

 2017: A year of Turnbull, Trump and rampant neoliberalism

"Neoliberalism currently dominates world politics. This wealth shifting from labour to capital is based on trickle-down theories. By giving more money to the 1% – the so-called wealth creators – there will eventually be more money and jobs for the 99%. The only problem is that the 1% do not create wealth. Their profit, interest, dividends and rent, come from workers."

  Milo Yiannopoulos's draft and the role of editors in dealing with the far-right | Jeff Sparrow | Opinion | The Guardian

Manufactured Milo is not a sweet product and it is what it is and not what it's not.