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Andrew Bolt's & News Corpse harmless accident. 

 

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Nuclear power is not safe.

  Japan’s government announced Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years. It’s a move that’s fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and Japan’s neighbors.

The decision, long speculated at but delayed for years because of safety worries and protests, came during a meeting of Cabinet ministers who endorsed the ocean release as the best option.

The accumulating water has been stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged its reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The plant’s storage capacity will be full late next year.

What we found on our front pages for days instead.

 

 A 99 year old man died and people turned to entertainment and away from propaganda giving politicians like Morrison time to regroup. The British Public complained about the overkill.  Problem with Scooter Morrison the blunders will continue happening no matter the media distraction. News Corpse Andrew Bolt called it disrespect he certainly had his finger on Philip's pulse.

A few lessons to be learnt from the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death in the British media:

1. There is absolutely no commercial reason for the media to have dedicated so much time and space to the Prince’s death. The main commercial channel ITV, which needs eyeballs on its programmes to generate income from advertising, saw a 60 per cent drop in viewing figures after it decided to broadcast endless forelock-tugging. Audiences presumably deserted to Netflix and Youtube, where the mood of “national mourning” was not being enforced. Many viewers, particularly younger ones, have no interest in the fact that a very old man just died, even if he did have lots of titles.

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Corporate Media Offers Wall-to-Wall Propaganda Every Day. We Only Notice When a Royal Dies.

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The White Tiger Is a Window Into India’s Class Society

Movies about class and inequality are back in the mainstream. Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger is a powerful interrogation of the injustices of class and caste society. 

 

 Morrison just can't pull a trick what he says will happen simply is guaranteed not to.He no longer wants to face the press but would rather make announcements from FaceBook and give the royalties for that news to News Corp no doubt.

Novavax Inc has pushed back the timeline for hitting its production target of 150 million COVID-19 vaccine doses per month until the third quarter due to supply shortages, dealing another blow to the federal government’s rollout plans.

Australia has an agreement for 51 million doses of Novavax originally slated for “mid-2021”, at which point executives had said full-scale vaccine production could be achieved.

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine production set back due to supply shortages

If the lads in the Monkey Pod Room are looking for a new leader. Let's hope it's Peter Dutton. Will it guarantee dictatorship or the return of the ALP?

A wronged woman with a razor-sharp mind and meticulous records is a dangerous creature.

Especially when delivering a counter punch to a Prime Minister who’d denounced her in the bully pit of Parliament when he was ill informed, angry and driven by short-term politics rather than balanced judgment.

Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, appearing before a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, inflicted a serious blow on Scott Morrison and left Australia Post chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo badly wounded.

Grattan: Compelling story of PM’s bullying

 

Christine Holgate Starting To Wish She’d Just Taken A Photo Up A Man’s Trousers

 

 

 

FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED

DON’T RUSH TO JUDGE: BEN SIMMONS’ BROTHER DENIES SISTER’S SEX ABUSE CLAIMS

"Recovered memory" strikes again: "NBA sensation Ben Simmons’s half-brother, Sean Tribe, has commenced 'urgent' proceedings against their sister, Olivia Simmons, after she took to social media at the weekend to accuse him of abusing her as a child in their family’s Melbourne home."

Remember when Bolt's ex fiance publicly shamed him and he tried to simply called her a liar. He thought he could slander, defame and libel her and watch her fold. She took him on and was ready to test her truth against his in the courts and it was Bolt who folded. He turned out to be everything she said he was. He tried to even blame his wife for his misogyny and lies and hidden past.

 Here he is rushing in to defend Sean Tribe as if he were defending himself against a woman feigning a mental issue. However, it's a ruse Bolt works for a system that makes money out of reporting and debating events like this but  does little to inform us about the patriarchy within which we operate and call normal. "Recovered Memory" strikes again". Accusations like this feed the media but Bolt's response is immediate and misogynist. He denies Olivia Simmons as a person generalizing the truth of her accusation. Even though data shows women are more often sexually molested by family members. Whether or not she was or wasn't molested Andrew Bolt treats her less than reliable from the get go because she's a woman and has "Recovered Memory". In years gone by it was called "hysterics".

  However, what is more important is that the media eats this up for commercial reasons. Bolt transforms into a psychologist who doesn't even bother to support an investigation or Olivia's right to accuse her step-brother. It's a pity she can't have it investigated privately but then she's black and her step brother is white. That challenges her right to accuse him doesn't it? The media rights to report the matter before it's investigated outweighs hers as well. 

Isn't it time women in the their real numbers felt free and safe to have all their complaints of sexual mistreatment investigated fairly and not be accused by misogynists like Bolt of lacking mental capacity as Bolt does. A system that processes 42,000 complaints only to have less than 11% prosecuted and 2% of them then convicted according to Bolt works. It isn't broken unless your a woman. Men like Bolt slut shame women deny their mental faculties call them liars and have the media support to do just that when ever the want.

 Bolt tried that when he was accused of his "distorted memory" by his ex fiancee but women  don't always have the power as men to test "he said" "she said" in court. The process being so damaging even if they won. However, in Bolt's case his ex had the strength to take him on and he lost. You'd think he'd been taught a lesson and gained empathy but like Andrew Laming not an iota is to be seen. 

 

 

RACE POKER: AMANDA PORTER LOSES HAND TO STEPHANE SHEPHERD

A sign that race-baiting will no longer be tolerated in academia? Or that a black academic can (just) still tell truths that a white one can't?: "An Indigenous academic who labelled as racist a study on criminal offending by Sudanese people in Victoria has apologised to the report’s author, Dr Stephane Shepherd, who is himself African-Australian."

There is no such thing as "Race Poker" as the " The House of Privilege" always wins. The system within which, and how research is conducted, and the color of those conducting it in this case, is really of no consequence as they are merely a reflection of the racist context, and the racism in which we all reside. The impact of research data weighs differently on Andrew Bolt than it does someone Sudanese, Indigenous, or others of colour. Indigenous are 3% of our pop yet are 25% of our incarcerated peoples. 40% when it comes to indigenous youth only 8% of Australians. The statistics on our children far worse and begin at very early age for issues often not even related to them but to their families and group. Those statistics are much the same for our Sudanese youth why? Because the numbers are the result of a trend to racism in Australia a trend Andrew Bolt denies.

The data collected reflects the history of our institutions that police and supervise us along with the judicial system and processes that have evolved said to be one glove however that never fitted all of us and was never color blind in jobs, education, health, or exclusive to crime alone. We are Racist. However, there was never a time it was going to be admitted so yes the researched data is biased as well. Over policing, profiling, stereotyping, over decades created the statistical outcomes. The outcomes that reflect our racism today. 

The "truths" Bolt claims white academics can't speak about are the same typical "truths" Bolt claims show that there was never a Stolen Generation only Indigeneous needed to be welfare policed. There was never according to Bolt ever any historic over policing of the indigenous and none exists towards the Sudanese or Pacific Islanders either. The same systems designed to prevent bad behavior create it and have been generational, repetitive, and psychologically learned and handed down at a cellular level to all the parties concerned and it's  always been generated from the top down rarely from the bottom up. So the so called "study of criminal offending by the Sudanese in Victoria" isn't a study of the "dysfunctional policing and limited opportunities given Sudanese youth and their families in racist environment". One might well ask why there is limited data on that? Color has everything to do with but not the color of academics. It has a lot to do with the color of the data available and the perspective from which it was taken along with the underlying values and funding. 

Yes Andrew Bolt there is a two hundred year history of Stolen Indigenous Children whose stories are hidden in the data falsely initiated. Data you claim denies that. Data that reflects the racist nature and continues to do that even today. 

 

Fighting Fake News,24/6/19, Straight from the Trumps mouth; Dutton Hell's Doorman, The grifters of debt run Australia" Economy; Nuclear Power is not under control in Fukishima or Chernobyl;

Income tax

Tax negotiations jeopardised as Dutton angers crossbench

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has put a 'cordial relationship' at risk with his eagerness to repeal refugee transfers.

Senator Griff said the government’s rhetoric was “all about creating fear” and that Mr Dutton’s claim about more arrivals was an “outright lie” because the law only applied to asylum seekers already on Manus Island and Nauru.
“Anyone else who goes to Manus or anywhere else is not covered by this bill,” he said.

“At this stage, the minister is effectively spinning misinformation. The law is not a mechanism to open the floodgates to Australia.”

Peter Dutton claims asylum seekers refusing resettlement in the US due to medevac laws

He seems to ignore the 100,000 that came by plane last year and how his concern for asylum seekers drowning is ignored by encouraging boats to go from Africa to South America. Dutton's "floodgates" are 32 people transported here due to the Medevac Bill (ODT)

'He's seriously just gone and made up a number again'

 Medical transfer requests from 50 refugees and asylum seekers are being reviewed by support organisations ahead of a final referral to the government, activists say, disputing Peter Dutton's claim that 250 cases are in the queue.

 Mr Dutton's claim that "two doctors from Nimbin" could bring offshore detainees to Australia ignores the process set up by refugee and asylum-seeker support groups. He's a total farce as a responsible Minister.

"These statements have never been true, and now there is ample evidence on the public record that shows Mr Dutton is not speaking in facts, but scaremongering."

 

 Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg's greatest lie the Australian Economy has been managed well (ODT)

1. And now for the good news… the economy is awful.

   The Australian stock market has been on a tear after taking a thumping late last year, notching up one of the strongest performances in the world. And things will only get better as the global economic news gets worse, writes Ian Verrender.
   
   Global debt now stands at more than $US250 trillion ($360 trillion), more than three times it's level 20 years ago, much of it backed by property.
   Having painted themselves into a corner by issuing so much debt and printing so much cash, central banks, including our own Reserve Bank, are now so frightened about the potentially catastrophic impact of a downturn in either stock or property markets, that they are prepared to do almost anything to avoid it.
   Market values must be maintained.
   It's a great strategy for anyone who owns a home or has a share portfolio. For those who don't, it's a recipe for disaster — or at the very least a widening of inequality and the wealth gap.
   
   
   
    
   Andrew Bolt continues to bullshit about the safety of Nuclear  Power but:
   

   Fukushima's Three Nuclear Meltdowns Are "Under Control" — That's a Lie

    

    Major newspapers largely leave a new report of sexual assault by Trump off their front pages

   
    The next day, several major newspapers failed to report the story on their front pages, even though it is horrific, detailed, and extremely similar to the accounts of numerous other women. It also echoes comments Trump has made in the past, saying in 2005, “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
   
   Why didn't it matter that Tony Abbott touched up a female student during his days at University and threatened another woman with a punch to the wall next to her head? Because Mainstream didn't report it when it occurred. The media don't find it editorially important enough. 
   It was denied when it came to light and was defended as "Fake News" back then by people like Bolt, Sheridan and other News Corp hacks and boosters for Abbott. In previous times it was the Catholic Church that helped with the whitewash back then. When it did come to light this century, it was treated as "Fake and Old News" should it have gained traction. 
   The papers in America haven't even put it on the front page when it came to Trump this time around or make even the slightest fuss of it. In Trump's case, it's now acceptable behaviour that won't really sell papers and might lose advertisers. Politics and the Media have combined to make it simple and go away. Media is in the business of selling it's public ratings to its advertisers. 
   As for Boris, bad behaviour has been normalised as it has with Trump, so why amplify it. Mind you if it were any Democrat or Labor politician it would be back as frontpage scandal not to be ignored or filed away as entertainment. Frankly, ratings seem of greater importance to them rather than what any audience thinks. Particularly an audience that really doesn't any longer have much faith in any of their politicians let alone Conservative ones. Politics has become a circus in the interest of those in the job and no longer an interest in the Nation.
   However what is more important in Boris's case is his avoiding any debate with Hunt his competitor for PM before the vote for the top job actually takes place and that too has nothing to do with the country. (ODT)