Fighting Fake News with REAL 27/8/21; Democracy Corrupted; Taylor's "CoalKeeper" Public Handouts; Gas; Trump's Wall blown over by Climate; Truckies Strike on Toll

 

Morrison’s reliance on Private MainStream Media not to keep repeating and reminding us of his history of failing inaction and actions predicated, solely on his political numbers, to repeatedly gaslight misinform and not provide the service he was appointed to do has been his defining approach to government. He holds the media’s purse strings and Murdoch, Costello, Stokes, Ch10, and WiNN know it. However Murdoch as the biggest private influencer who is intent on getting the biggest portion of the LNPs budget leans the Morrison government to where the wealth is.

A political party with the sole purpose of eradicating Federal Government corruption has been registered in time for the next election, but may not make it to the starting gate. Investigations editor Ross Jones reports.THIS WEEK, the Morrison Government provided new proof – if any was still required – that Australia needs to police its politicians.

 Corrupting democracy — we need to say “FIN”

 

The price of corruption: Taylor's 'CoalKeeper' tax to cost households up to $400 a year

 

The term "Public Handouts" in this context is an oxymoron. The money might well be ours but it's not a handout but money taken from Peter to pay Paul for his support and donations

 

 As a block, the two major parties voted to give our money, public money, to corporations to drill for coal...We don’t need more gas, that’s a myth peddled by Australia’s most powerful lobby groups such as APPEA, in turn controlled by foreign fossil fuel corporations such as Shell and Exxon.They voted to make a US billionaire richer. For, among the prospective winners from this act of political betrayal, is Tamboran Resources, a speculative explorer backed by a US shale-oil billionaire.That company, incredibly, is threatening to sue Michael West Media and gas analyst Bruce Robertson from IEEFA, for defamation. So, effectively, Parliament has voted to give money to a US billionaire threatening to sue a small independent journalism business in Australia for exercising free speech, threatening to soak up the time in the Australian courts attempting to muzzle journalists with the menace of making them bankrupt. 

Beetaloo Boondoggle: political bribes beat the planet as gas fracking gets public hand-outs

 When Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by saying “Nobody builds walls better than me”, it was to say the least a questionable claim. Monsoon rains “literally blew floodgates off their hinges”. Gizmodo blamed the failure at least partly on rushed construction and an alleged bypassing of environmental regulations.“Who could have predicted this? Ah yes, just about everyone,” author Brian Kahn wrote, linking to an article highlighting environmental threats the wall would encounter. Earlier this year, the Guardian reported that sections costing $27m a mile could be easily scaled – using a $5 ladder. ( Guardian )

As if we needed another reason to stop what we were doing and laugh full-stop at Donald Trump, here it is. A huge section of his very great border wall was torn to shreds after heavy rains fell in southern Arizona. Yep. All it took was one little monsoon in Douglas, Arizona to tear the wall of its hinges, leaving a gaping hole in Trump’s beautiful legacy. (Much like heavy winds tore a lovely section of the wall down last year that left President Beaker with IBS.)

  Trump’s Border Wall Torn Apart

 

 

Good morning, early birds. About 80% of NSW's available intensive care beds are reportedly now full, and News Corp has published 45 articles in two days slamming the ABC for Monday evening's episode of Four Corners. It's the news you need to know, and it's free to read.

About 80% of NSW's available intensive care beds are reportedly now full

Truckies to go on strike across Australia

 

 

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crikey.com.au

Tip of the Day: the Liberals are addicted to private sector intervention

 Politics not Reason or logic is the LNP hidden  justification for their insistence

So once again, the party of the free market decides the market could use a little prod in the direction they'd prefer.

 

The party of the free market is killing investment

Morrison's climate-change-denying government has proved embarrassingly bad at managing

  

 

 Well mannered is Bolt's claim about himself

We then have Right Wing shock jocks defending Morrison, Ray Hadley even saying that Morrison wouldn’t even know how to bully, now that his humorous coming from one of the many Shock Jocks that have been found to bully listeners and young children.

Andrew Bolt’s mocking column about Greta Thunberg, which referred to the young climate campaigner as “deeply disturbed” and “freakishly influential”, breached standards and was likely to cause substantial distress, offence and prejudice, the APC press watchdog has found.

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Employment

Surprise fall in jobless rate as 111,000 people find work in August

Unemployment surprises by falling sharply to 6.8 per cent in August despite the lockdown in Victoria.

Remember the days of "chicken Little and the sky falling in when Andrew Bolt was screaming the economy the economy. Well it appears he's been doing it again without even a glance at the figures. The truth be known Victoria isn't the millstone Morrison Frydenberg and Murdoch media make out. When Victoria comes back it will, in fact, shine a light on the embarrassment these gaslighters deserve when it comes to knowing what to do in a pandemic. Small government does nothing for the country when the public good is at stake. Strong government does far more and Dan Andrews has proved that.

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BEWARE THE CULT OF DAN

COLUMN Victoria’s Cult of Dan is the craziest thing I’ve seen. So many people acting like abused wives who kiss the hands that beat them. On Twitter, #IStandWithDan is trending. “This man is the number one Premier — He should be PM,” rhapsodised one, praising the Premier of the state responsible for 90 per cent of Australia’s virus dead – 737 of 824.

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It appears Andrew Bolt is well informed on domestic abuse practices. One could argue he practices it. He runs an office from home and complained that he had to be moved for security reasons due to threats received. In Bolt's case then isn't his insistence to work from home a form of domestic abuse? After all, he admits it puts his family under threat yet he continues to do it.

The Premier is responsible for 90% of Australia's virus dead? Yes, Andrew Bolt does confuse geography with political responsibility and does have his head firmly planted like the proverbial ostrich in the ground or up his clacker. The majority of deaths occurred in private aged-care homes funded and regulated by Morrison's government. These homes were funded by Morrison and not even required to report how that money was to be spent.

As for Hotel Security firms approved by the Commonwealth were chosen to undertake security. So had that also been allocated to be controlled by Dutton the same security services would have been chosen. The debacle has more to do with the fact that privatised Services and outsourcing som much a part of the LNP policy over the years failed to deliver the best services for the public good. They did, however, deliver the best services for their bottom line. The is a systemic fault driven by the LNP and conservative governments of Australia that left Dan Andrews between a rock and a hard place which Victorians fully appreciate. Bolt is simply an incompetent appreciated for 30 years by no-one.

TESTING MYSELF FOR THE VIRUS. WHY ARE YOU BANNED FROM BUYING THIS TEST?

A university study found six times more Australians may have had the virus - and now be immune - than government tests have found. This means the virus may be much less deadly than thought, and more people are safe to work. But why are we banned from buying DIY test kits to give ourselves that peace of mind? I test myself on air on The Bolt Report.

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Gaslighting  Andrew Bolt tries to show he to can dance like Trump who promoted Hydroxychloroquine on TV to America. This Barnum and Bailey sideshow make Bolt look what he is and idiot under lights. The commercial test being sold has been proven to be just as ineffective a test for Coronavirus as is Trump's cure. Which Bolt also promoted irresponsibly on TV and in his columns. Wouldn't or shouldn't it leave him open to a class action suits by those that buy these privatised items not recommended by the health authorities responsible for Public Health? Bolt might as well be selling voodoo potions.

 Basically, Bolt's doing what Peter Foster has been doing for the past 40 years selling fake product. But then so has Andrew Bolt for that period of time as well. Fake product sold as news. There are so many "mays" scattered through this promotion that one can already see it's bullshit dressed up to sell and promote his show. The Bolt Report has over its short period of life been regarded as dangerous to life as Covid-19 has but not to people who watch but by people who watch and what they do to others.
Bolt's recommendation of DIY testing is is supporting privatised health over public the consequences of in a pandemic have been well documented as a fail. Nevertheless Bolt regards private practice to be the best. The man is as thick as a brick.

Hundreds of Australians order dodgy 'do-it-yourself ...

Australians are warned not to trust dodgy 'do-it-yourself' coronavirus testing kits - as hundreds are imported into the country from China

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But the biggest investments we need to make are in people, not concrete. The pandemic has exposed huge weaknesses in our social infrastructure, from aged care and public health to university education. These are the areas that desperately need more investment if we are to make the economic transformation we need.

To get the economy going, we’ll need more than hard hats

 

 

An emotional Scott Morrison has put forward a compromise solution for Queensland’s border closure, saying a requirement for those wishing to enter the state to isolate for 7 years on a remote island would be a more Australian, humane response.
“This is the sort of compassion Australians expect,” Mr Morrison, close to tears, told radio listeners.
“The idea that families have been separated without first being placed in a cramped detention centre for the best part of a decade is hard to fathom. It’s not the Australian way”.
He said we risked losing our unique way of dealing with people from other places. “When someone comes to our border we don’t just say ‘no’. We lock them up. That’s how we do things in Australia. Full credit to Queensland and Western Australia and South Australia for finding new and peculiar ways to create fear of outsiders. But I think we can go much, much further”.

 Morrison pressures Queensland to adopt a more humane border policy that requires people to isolate on Manus Island for 7 years first 

 

Morrison Announces New Rebate Scheme For Rooftop Coal-Fired Power Stations

No, Prime Minister, gas doesn’t ‘work for all Australians’ and your scare tactics ignore modern energy problems

Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University

Under a rapidly changing climate, it's not just about keeping the lights on. We not only want energy, but we want to breathe clean air, have enough food and live in a sustainable community.

 

 

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TRUMP BROKERS ISRAEL PEACE. REMEMBER WHEN CCN SAID HE COULDN'T?

Donald Trump has brokered two peace deals between Israel and Arab nations - the UAE and Bahrain. Remember when the media howled that he'd made peace less likely by moving the US embassy to Jerusalem? Remember CNN? Remember John Brennan?

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Trump brokered absolutely nothing. What he did do was help Netanyahu's failing Prime Ministership by moving the US embassy to Jeruselem and legitimising  the annexation of Palestinian lands in the West Bank and Golan Heights. A favour to his biggest American Jewish $100 mill + donor Sheldon Adelson. An area in the Golan Trump Heights was even named after his embassy promise. 

 So it's time. Time for a little Quid pro Quo. Netanyahu is simply turning the light on what has been happening for over 11 years. Israel's not so secret relationship with the Sunni run States of the Middle East. A theatre production always on the cards to help Trump and have a chorus yelling NOBLE Prize  to match his Bay of Pigs one that doesn't exist. SNL Seth Rogen stoned couldn't have written a more hilarious one,

Israel has been fully involved in the war in Syria acting as a de facto air-force a hospital and a logistics base  supporting  rebels and terrorists in Syria. They have been providing and sharing intel with the Saudis against the  Houthi in the Yemen and Iran and guranteeing the safety of the Sunni despots in the UAE Bhrain and Kuwait for years.

There is nothing new to see here. Trump has brokered absolutely nothing peaceful. In fact he's supplies and sent more drones over the Yemen than have ever been used before. He took a step too far when he illegally assassinate Solumeini which has resulted in no longer "assissting" but now "occupying" Iraq who now demands  the Americans get out and Trump chest pounding reply "make me". 

With the world watching he is about to symbolically move 2000 troops out for his image but not "get out" of the country.  He'd shamed the American military by double crossing the Kurds who fought shoulder to shoulder with them against ISIS. Who he won't stop moving back to Iraq declaring them gone when they haven't..

There has been no peace deal brokered merely a great deal of spin created by two grifters Netanyahu and Trump scratching each others backs. One revealing what's been going on for years while the other Trump is being told to fuck off out of Iraq and Murdoch promoting Trump as an American Caesar.

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Politics

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. 


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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.