Link News Corp Paywall Bolt's the paperboy
As far as I'm concerned this is an unsourced blog with no references available. Given Bolts attempt to be an extremely poor TV lawyer like Perry Mason you couldn't trust him for anything.
Is it any surprise that Shell with it's destructive record of pollution in Nigeria and other parts of Africa who are now mining the arctic are supporting the Government along with Rio Tinto whose record in Soth America is equally as bad. However let it be pointed out the Adani Mine and the Government didn't fail in the High Court because of any Native Title Claim it failed purely because Minister Hunt failed to do his job correctly. Bolt yet again just distorts the facts in an attempt to make them appear "breathtaking" when they plain and simply not.
Link news Corp paywall and Bolt's just the paperboy
"The Law For “apprehended” bias one only has to prove that the judge “might” not bring an impartial mind to a judgment or commission."
Dyson Heydon has declared himself of being lax careless and forgetfull the ACTU was certainly not alone in pointing this out and Heydon agreed. Bolt overlooks this inconvenient truth. Everything else is irrelevant including Bolt's enthusiastic News Corp letter writers who definitely aren't hypothetical let alone reasonable.
"Breathtaking allegations by the eminent John Agius SC for the CFMEU about an email on August 12 2015 was a “doctored document”.Who wrote this piece of confected drama other than Andrew Bolt
Agius says there is “concern that the information that was released was
at best a partial disclosure, if not a disclosure of a doctored document
which had been edited to remove the reference to State donation and
also would be concerned about the incomplete disclosure”. This being a legitimate question.
However Andrew Bolt TV defence attorney fires back from home
"Agius is implying that Heydon could be a sneak, deleting embarrassing stuff - that he “doctored” a document.
Foul allegation."
Well is Bolt suggesting this is a lie?
" Agius says the email released to the public, and to the ACTU, was
missing a line: “attachments: Barwick invitation August 2015. State
donation compliance doc”.
If so why was another delivered this morning. A corrected one?
"Apparently, the full version was tendered to the Commission this morning.
“It clearly identifies the function as one which might be called a fundraiser,” Mr Agius said:"Agius wasn't talking about the document sent to the Royal Commission but one sent to the ACTU. He was provided wit an answer But Bolt TV defender wants us to believe there was an insidious side to it all. What a pathetic Perry Mason this dude makes
Link Lateline
" I completely agree that we shouldn’t have a racial constitution.
But the simple historical fact that there were peoples here that came
upwards to 53,000 years ago, there were people here prior to 1788 -
that’s a question of being indigenous to Australia; it’s not about race." Pearson
Andrew Bolt simply refutes history or it's internalised meaning to each of us because it to would then differentiates us.
" I was born in Australia six years before Pearson. If you consider us as
individuals I am more indigenous than Pearson. I “came” here before he
did."
Yet Bolt who describes himself as the son of Dutch immigrants differeniates himself because he's internalised some of his parents history and feels different because of it nevertheless Bolt disallows Pearson the opportunity to do the same and whose historic roots go back 200 years.
Pearson openly says he is anti-race yet Bolt insists he is. Just that dialogue and interaction alone shows Bolt's inability to accept , listen to or hear what Pearson is telling him. what it is Pearson means and what is ignored and brushed aside by Bolt goes to the very nature of racism and it's on Bolt's shoulders not Pearsons
Furthermore Bolt insists Pearson is asking for some special rights that at present they don't have. It's true but Bolt doesn't elaborate that. Pearson isn't or doesn't seem to be demanding any special rights other than being listened to. Which he suggests would eliminate what racism does exist now. 200 hundred years of administration hasn't worked.
Bolt actually makes a token concession to history which he rarely makes but an impotent concession that has no reason to explain todays circumstances because as he says he's more indigenous than Pearson " In fact, I’ll repeat it here: there were Aborigines in Australia before white settlement." So What!!
One guarantee the longer Bolt's blogs are the greater the distortion , deflection, and cut and paste meandering of confused thought to tell us " Yes, green groups really do want to destroy the pillars of our industrialisation."
From Stopping the the Adani Mine to the whole Australian Coal Export Boom the Greens are to blame. Hasn't Bolt heard of China India or the rest of the world? The price of coal is so low that there's a glut. That there seems only room left for the biggest and established players. When the banks are divesting from coal because their analysts tell them to who will put up the money? Is it the role of government to speculate ? This government abandoned the car industry not the Greens for the reason that they are not a private service. So if the role of government isn't there to subsidize cars why is it there for coal. Since when in Bolt's mind has the role of government been banking when so long ago he said it wasn't nor is it there to build ships? The greens are now running the country according to Bolt the Government is impotent.
This history of deindustrialization started at the hands of globalization not the Greens when large companies fled offshore for cheap labour. Does Bolt think that's not going to happen in every other industry and country. Name any industry that won't or can't be restructured because of labour costs. Apparently Bolt knows nothing of this and he puts it all down to the Greens. Australians really ask why are we subsidizing a new mine to the tune of $40 billion for 1450 jobs when our everyday economy generates 4500 jobs every week?Waleed
Aly explains The Government’s ‘war on greenies’ – Steve Price continues
to look like angry, old, white man. | 1 Million Women
"This headline appeared in the Financial Review, not in the Green Left Weekly or some undergraduate propaganda sheet, as you might have assumed."
Bolt is making all the assumptions here. The readers of the AFR aren't.
However "Prime Minister famously said last year that coal was "good for humanity"
– a statement that one MP observed this week had been "imprudently
delivered with a fervour that suggested he had a bible in one hand and a
shovel in the other" – and ever since, he has for one reason or another
appeared to tip more and more of the government's political eggs into
the coal basket. It's been a nightmare for the industry because Tony
Abbott has now made coal a deeply political issue."
It seems Abbott's fervor brought on an appropriate simile that clearly describes what's happening and what he's like. Who is laughing??
Link Daily Telegraph
The only reason Mehajir made it to Bolt's attention is because he's Muslim. Yes we do know money can buy you justice and Mehajir spent the money. Bolt would have been of some use had he published Mehajir's lawyers name Ramy Qutami he seems very good. If it had been any number of wealthy white Christians who escape these summary offences on a daily basis but you don't hear a peep from Bolt.
What we have here is that according to the rules
" None of the offences is serious enough to stop Mr Mehajer remaining a
councillor, according to the Australian Electoral Commission."
I know of someone that was reversed into at 2kmph only to face a tradie threatening to kill in total road rage he claimed he'd been run into. Out of sheer fear the victim drove off. Two hours later the police fronted the victim at his house and found no damage had been done to either vehicle. However the victim was charged with 7 offences on the tradie's statement, including dangerous driving and using his car as a weapon. He lost his licence for 6mnths and suffered a lawyers bill of $4000
Nobody says the laws perfect my friend suffered at the hands of it. However it's what we have and it's better than News Corp's selective vigilante justice.
Link Herald SUN
How many hundreds of millions have been spent for political show? News Corp labels it the "Terror Net" has caught....nobody. Yes 7 suspects with over the limit amounts of cash were caught.
Bolt spins this from "Dutton says 350 have been stopped" He didn't however say how many were arrested or if they were allowed to fly later. One might assume they were because there certainly was no media chatter.
So 350 have been inconvenienced and harassed yet some how Bolt doesn't begin to suggest security over reach or wasted costs no he simply blames it on the left. The AFP must be infiltrated by the left because they haven't arrested anybody to date it would seem. Bolt's eratic jumps in logic from some facts to conclusions like "it's all the fault of the left " makes him a candidate for an involuntary treatment order. News Corp simply has no standards.
Link Herald SUN
Alexis Tsipras is doing what Tony Abbott should do but hasn't the guts he's called a snap election to give the people of Greece their choice after the extreme struggles fighting for relief to the austerity packages being forced on the people. Politics is a matter of negotiation and compromise and he is giving the electorate another choice. Tony Abbott has merely turned the Australian Liberal Party into Australia's Golden Dawn Party, Increased Security Defence and Border ControlsUse of Force Bill – first secrecy, now the power to use deadly force – »
Link The AGE Link Andrew Bolt and Link News Corp paywall with Bolt the paperboy
Special Religious Instruction in a secular state seems a contradiction in terms. Does that mean all our Institutions should begin the day with morning prayers? Moving it to lunch or after school makes it voluntary. Isn't that the freedom that Bolt applauds?
" This is robbing children of an education in the faith that is the source of so much they take for granted"
This is coming from Bolt the conservative, rationalist, humanist, (Declaration: I am an agnostic, not a Christian.) and
hypocrite who calls those who have made this voluntary "tribalists". It's the sort of freedom of choice Bolt says he craves but opposes. IQ bolt IQ...
Nothing but flip flopping for no reason other than he sound like a beached whale. Giving freedom of choice in schools is bad, Joan Kirner Naming Rights is tribalist. Marriage equality plebiscite is just a lie it's not about not having one but why not now. Why the delay purely politics.
"Abbott’s plebiscite proposal was met with howls of condemnation from the Left"
Rubbish the complaint is why not have it now!! Even Liberals don't want dragging on past the election. Bolt's is a beached whale he's making things up as he struggles for clear air and logic
Link News Corp paywall Bolt's the paperboy
How embarrassing how corrupt people covering for each other for years it would seem. One thing however stands out. Bolt believes everything being said by thos who say they "know nothing" is being treated as gospel by him. Consevatives don't lie only those of the left or unionists can't tell the truth!!
"But beware of opportunists trying to exploit this scandal:"
Isn't that what Bolt does with every mishap that arises with the left, exploit it?
" Michael Kroger has handled this brilliantly. He had it sorted before
the news broke, was frank to the media and covered up nothing."
" Here is one difference: when a party official rips off Liberal members,
the Liberals call the cops. When a union official rips off union
members, Labor shoots the cops."
Instant Spin it makes no sense "Labor shoots the Cops "????
Bronwyn Bishop, Royal Commission, Liberal Corruption and money management Bolt's spinning like a Catherine wheel.Tony Abbott’s Joan d’ Arc
Lets hear from someone who is more qualified than Andrew Bolt to speak on Israel and Jerusalem. The ABC presents a number of views not only the one Bolt insists on.
Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic. My uncle was kicked to death on the street. My father hid in an attic for 18 months and my mother is on the wall of the righteous. Her brother was a member of the Nazi Party. Rabbinical Law says I'm not Jewish Hitler said I was. I was brought up Catholic but culturally a foot in two camps. It qualifies me for nothing other than Andrew Bolt's history and mine are significantly different
I recommend watching this video as an alternative.
Link News Corp paywall. Andrew Bolt corner paperboy
When the pot calls the kettle black. Andrew Bolt is by all significant standards the single most offencive commentator not journalist in Australia. The most offencive and humourless of the News Corp stable. He's been convicted in our courts of racial vilification and sued for defamation numerous times. Has Clementine Ford? It just goes to show the standards on which News Corp Culture operates to sell it's papers and it does the same internationally. Once there were Tabloids that printed bare breasted ladies on page three in order to increase circulation. Now they simply employ Andrew Bolt who peddles filth to attract conservative punters.
Mark Latham "resigned" which is no "demise" but then Bolt does speak ill of those with which he can't compete when it comes to writing. Bolt being an extreme conservative would never resign. He'd lack the confidence to and it takes a level of courage ne doesn't have. He is umbilicaly attached to News Corp. He sometimes makes out he's not and fantasises he and Rupert are ever so close but only in print. In reality Bolt would never dare call him anything other than "Sir" and kow tow. He might be a prized chimp or chump in Murdoch's zoo but if he left or was fired he'd have little place to go other than to another right wing enclave like News Corp of which there are none.
So by declaring the media world outside his Murdoch hive as all leftist is a bit like Hey Hey it's Saturday's Dicky Knee sticking his head up over the fence line trying attract attention. Bolt says News Corp operates from a higher standard of culture than any of the other opposition news services and that it's not sexist. Well that's easily answered his attack on Clemetine Ford as sexist is typical of what he and Tim Bevis Blair do as a pair. It's simply 2 pots calling a kettle black.
"Therefore she’s excused any vicious wah-wah that would kill the career
of a white conservative. Which means she’s a sexist, too, accepting
lower standards from women."
It's Andrew Bolt to a tee
Link outsourced pay me to read
She needs to go through the same process boss hog Tony Abbott put Peter Slipper through.
He's been in hiding even Bolt has put this jester aside. Abbott forgot to mention his exceptional Indonesian trade experience. The 80% reduction in beef due to inclement Foreign Policies.
Link The Telegraph
What we have is Bolt's failure to respect the integrity of his source and distorts the report.
"the Cameron Government is showing how to cut a bloated, Left-captured state broadcaster down to a healthy size: "Bolt
Bolt is telling us it's happening However his source says otherwise
BBC has accused ministers of attempting to “diminish” the Corporation “for their own narrow interests” Lord Hall Director General of the BBC
So Andrew Bolt the Cameron government is in the enviable position that Tony Abbott is not. Cameron has a majority it both houses. However even he knows it's extremely dangerous to trample on the sentiments of the electorate which fully support the BBC. Even if Abbott had a majority he to would think twice about slashing the ABC going into an election. The public will be fully reminded of Abbott's lie going into the last election that there would be "No cuts to the ABC" and reminded of his childish and petulant behavior towards it during his first term. He hasn't won any supporter for his efforts even among true blue Liberals. The ABC after all has the support of 84% of the Australian people.
"
The BBC’s website, which has been described as “imperialist” by
George Osborne, the Chancellor, could also be dramatically scaled back
amid fears it is destroying local and regional newspapers. "
Here is Bolt a professional writer doesn't seem to understand the meaning of the word "could" and needs to look it up in his Thesaurus. Andrew it means it's possible certainly not even probable let alone a fact.
Bolt fails to say that only a Green paper is about to be released there is nothing in the source quoted by Bolt which says it's to happen. In fact most is unlikely. Bolt is maintaining the Newscorp average of only 8% truth and the most distrusted media in Australia.
Link None Just Andrew Bolt unsourced
" Should there be penalties for claiming expenses you aren’t entitled to?"Bolt
Because Bishop is of little use to the LNP or the Liberals should she be treated like Peter Slipper? Peter Slipper was found innocent but was made to suffer immensely first and destroyed. It appears Andrew Bolt doesn't care if Bronwyn drowns. If she is paying back $5000 what about these dudes at 'fund raisers'?
Link Just a banner to a paywall
This must have something to do with economics of which Bolt knows nothing so it's just a cheer to the Australian.
Link Noted Forbes Right Wing Magazine and SMH
It's amusing to see how Bolt gets his rocks off by suggesting the extreme right in Greece have benefited by the current state of play in Greece.
However while the IMF is asking the EZ to share the burden it is nevertheless another bailout ensuring the loan sharks don't lose. Throughout the history of what has occurred there is no mention of the degree of irresponsibility of the banking sector that took place as far back as 2001. The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. as do the poor and working class here."
The Greeks and the U.S. working poor endure the same deprivations
because they are being assaulted by the same system—corporate
capitalism." Hedges
"Instead of social justice for Greece, they achieved a new
indebtedness, a deeper impoverishment that would merely replace a
systemic rottenness based on the theft of tax revenue by the Greek
super-wealthy – in accordance with European “neo-liberal” values – and
cheap, highly profitable loans from those now seeking Greece’s scalp." Pilger
Greece’s debt,is less than the debt of European banks whose “bailout” in 2007-8 was barely controversial and unpunished.
In Greece 40 percent of children live in poverty, there is a 25 percent
unemployment rate and the unemployment figure for those between the ages
of 15 and 24 is nearly 50 percent. And now it will only get worse.
The tyranny of these financial elites knows no limits. They will impose
ever greater suffering and repression until we submit or revolt. Hedges
Remember when the CBA ran adds that said "yes","yes","yes" when everybody was entitled to be enslaved in debt. Cats, dogs and 3mnth old babies were being sent credit cards. However not everybody was entitled to have a job to be on welfare if they lost one. It's happening now people are allowed to extend themselves and in doing so a housing bubble is forming on the backs of investment rather than ownership. If it bursts all hell will break loose if irresponsible lending has occurred who will the government bail out assuming the government isn't in debt?
The banks or the people? Will the government say both are to blame and write down the peoples debt to a proportion of the property market fall making the lender carry a loss? After all it takes two to tango. That is part of the morality of Islamic banking you don't see in Corporate Capitalism.
Did you know the ATO is owed $35
bill in unpaid tax not of Corporate debt but individuals and small
business? We call the Greeks inefficient what are we?
Link Andrew Bolt and paywalled another unsourced blog
" anonymous person’s decision to leak Labor’s plans for a new carbon tax to the Daily Telegraph."Bolt
Bevis Blair and Butthead Bolt tend to use a term regularly for persons writing articles like this "frightbats". This is a perfect example of Bolt being just that a frightbat. Bolt is lauding the Telegraph for what we are meant to believe is a leak. As I said earlier Bolt takes ISIS at their word but doesn't believe a single thing an Australian might say denying this headline. Just how many headlines like this have the Newscorp mastheads printed? They are for very good reason the least trusted information source in the country according to the Essential's survey given only 8% of anything they print is true.
" The leaker’s aim was plain: to either destroy the embattled Shorten or
to embarrass Labor into dropping a tax that will cost it any change of
winning next year’s election."
Logic tells there's a panic amongst the Libs as it gets closer to Paris and Abbott needs to change his policies on climate before then. If Labour do have a policy to announce at their conference Abbott would hate to be seen moving in it's direction.Why else would Bolt be blowing this trumpet calling it a catastrophic mistake?
The only zombie here is Bolt's dead and buried lie " global warming, which actually stopped nearly two decades ago anyway." NOAA put paid to that in 2015 and is truly alive.
Link Andrew Bolt therefore paywalled and unsourced
The day before yesterday Bolt's banner read Sarah Hanson-Young helps ferry illegal immigrants to Europe which I thought was close to the line crossed by the SMH when their banner read the "The Treasurer was for Sale" Obviously Bolt thinks so too because he's changed his tune today. He's also added a get out clause just in case "
Of course, she doesn’t see it that way." Bolt. I wonder whether or not Sarah Hanson- Young will test it.
How can Bolt even say he cares about saving lives when he cries out for the escalation of bombing in Iraq and the possibility of doing it to Iran. There have been 15,000 killed in Iraq alone and that's not the deaths of opposing fighting forces. So is there a term for somebody claiming to only be a humanist on water?
Australia is in bad need of professionals so much so it's advertising for them and can't get them. However it refuses to look at the 1000 Irani's in detention because we have declared them 'illegal' asylum seekers of which there is no such thing anywhere else in the world. We are trying to send them back to Iran the country Bolt would like to see bombed and starved. How much hypocrisy can this man shoulder?
He calls these people 'economic refugees' a derogatory term for him yet hails the Greek economic refugees arriving here daily. Ones that in fact don't want to be here and brains we are stealing. There is something mushy about this Murdoch mans brain. 'Of course he doesn't see it that way'. Or this.
Link Murdoch's Corporate Paywall & SMH Bolt's Troll Peter BH
Is Bolt an Aussie in any sense of the word? He takes the word of ISIS as given. He believes and promotes their propaganda as the truth. Yet when the Australian Labour Party says anything it's a lie. This is a rational and reasoned commentator speaking to his own community? In the words of an ex president of the The Australian Liberal Party "Pigs Arse".
Sorry Peter BH the essence of Democracy is a strong Opposition and a strong and independent Fourth Estate. Not just a government cheer squad. It is however good to see your notion of a Democracy is akin to a one party state the sort implied by Tony Abbott when he says "Whose side are you on ?" Well the answer is Australia's Tony not yours. As far as the Carbon Tax is concerned I guess you should ask ISIS they seem to be the only party you and Bolt take at their word.
Attacking Bob Katter doesn't make the issue of poor diplomacy go away. Nor does it stand as proof that Indonesia is and was not offended by Tony Abbott's attitude and lack of respect for them and others in the region.
Link a Corporate paywall
What insight can a Corporate Paywall offer into the lives of workers who only feel the downward pressure on their wages and benefits and watching their life styles diminishing before their eyes. The IPA is quoted by Bolt workers."Penetration of the federal Labor Party by trade unions is holding back industrial relations reform" obviously to reform for the better workers conditions. The most conservative think tank is renowned for improving the conditions of
The sort of improvements made in recent times have been the casualisation of the work force so much so many people are sitting at home waiting for a call to work incapable of any family life or planning. Some 35 years ago the nuclear family could survive with one bread winner. Today it's two and many work just to survive week to week. That was the beginning of the reforms one could expect from the IPA. Today the young are sold the promise of get an education without the promise of work so the barrista and hospitality staff could be a BA/LLB with a massive hex debt. It really is time that the unions came back and had a sobering influence in this country where the middle class the engine of this country are shrinking. When this government is ensuring it's easier to import workers on dodgy 457 visas to this country it really does indicate it's time to be unionised and push back.
Bolt is a cheap scare monger just look at his banner it goes against all advice not to amplify the state of things and play into the hands and psychology of ISIS. he simply ignores any reasoned common sense.
He even uses his own arguments against himself if it means trying to win a tiniest of points. In the blog below Abbott's not to blame for Indonesia's reduced cattle imports because Labour was first. That's like saying Abbott's innocent of gang banging Indonesia your worship not guilty because he was not first in line.
The Pope and the Head of the Anglican Church both Judeo -Christian organizations are god botherring Climate alarmists and collectivists that should be excommunicated from their organization for promoting their socialist ideologies.
Bolt who presents himself as anti-multiculture and pro- assimilation and claims our immigration laws need a total overhaul changes his spots. Here he is promoting this great land of ours for the values that he doesn't believe in. He's just removed Judeo-Christian and Multiculture from his dialogue to try to not look so hypocritical.
"Islam may be incompatible with a pluralist and secular country such as ours:"
Almost half the Muslim population of Australia are Turkish who arrived before any of Bolt's family however you wouldn't realize that given the tennor of Bolt's message. For Bolt. His statement is totally counter to the meaning of pluralism. The largest Muslim populated countries Indonesia, Egypt, Nigeria, are secular so how on earth can Bolt be so absurd
WHERE HAS TONY ABBOTT BEEN THESE PAST THREE WEEKS?
Bill Shorten on July 13:
JOURNALIST: Do you [inaudible] on the CFMEU’s boycott of the Royal Commission?
SHORTEN: That’s up for the CFMEU and the royal commission to sort out.
Fair and Balanced remark given the circumstances
BOLT IGNORES ON GOING SCIENCE FOR ADVOCACY.
NOAA graph 2015
Link Bolt 2006 the man who disregards history??
Bevis and Butthead at it again exemplifying the golden age of Robert Menzies when Fair and Balanced debate was not given away to the inane abuse and the tin ears of these two. I suggest they both listen to Malcolm Turnbull on the ABC and give up on their hatred of real journalists.
Was there anybody on Q&A that denied Abbott and co were overreacting and creating fear for their own domestic benefit. So much so we have given up huge number of our democratic values not for any war on terror but has allowed us to be terrorized by personal inconvenience brought on us by our elected politicians.
Bolt picks up on Leigh Sales needing to end her interview and simply twists it for his little bit of distortion. It's what Bolt thinks is funny but it's just childish petulance.
"Fair and Balanced Perspectives" is what Malcolm Turnbull calls for. Something we can all understand vs Andrew Bolt that's all exaggeration and nothing that's understandable.
Where is Tony Abbott ???
What Turnbull the Communications Minister had to say on the ABC.
"Q&A is a long long way from being an important issue " However Tony Abbott has decided to make it one. "He is the boss" and "he's directing his ministers but not the ABC" He wants to look good but nobody knows why he's persisting with what comes across as just stubborn petulance. He's embarrassed himself and is waiting for the ABC board to do what it was considering any way. Why to save his own face. "I'd grab every opportunity to speak to a microphone and put our point across?" Turnbull said.
"let's not get carried away with the threat to National Security" "There is in politics a process of exaggeration" Turnbull is talking to you Bolt the amplifier of the ISIS message!! The tool of the ISIS recruitment program the 5th columnist in the the Fourth Estate the ally of Abbott's Death Cult for little more than a rise in Abbott's poll ratings. "Daesh is coming after each and every one of us we need to be vigilant to the max" FAIR & BALANCED
Butthead Bolt pleasures himself in Schadenfreude. Other peoples pain is just soooo good!!! Hundred s of thousands of dumb Greeks on the street are about to get the kicking a shellacking they deserve to be taught a lesson. " he’ll be lucky if European parliaments support the package he’s now desperate to get:" Bolt
Like in Zorba the Greek when the old German lady died and the village threw all her assets out the window for the greedy to share. We have the cabal of greedy wealthy bankers angry because they came to an auction but Greece was not dead and wouldn't throw it's assets out the window.
Now it needs to be taught a lesson beaten senseless screaming "what the fuck do you want?"while Andrew Bolt is pleasuring himself.
Loan sharks do exactly that they lend you money to pay the interest on the money that they lent you in the first place. When you realize they haven't lent you anything but more debt and they expect you to give them your children which you've raised and educated and they expect you to let your disabled and aged die earlier because there's no doctors or medicine left it's time to unite and fight back. They expect you to sell everything you own collect everything you have so you can have a fire sale and be stripped naked and sell your blood.
" Questions already have been raised as to what Greece owns that is
worth that much, and there is a possibility several of its most
lucrative islands bringing in tourism revenue would have to be sold or
taken under control by the European lenders."
This sort of banking practice is common to the sex and slave trades where poor parents sell their daughters into bondage or where girls prostitute themselves for a few $$ to send home. If they dare try to escape or even resist they are beaten shitless and told to work harder and convince their younger sisters to join them.
Am I exaggerating or is Andrew Bolt just a paid pimp telling the Greeks to lie down and roll over?
"After all, what is the point of lending Greece money that just goes to finance handouts?" Andrew Bolt There is an untold history never spoken of.
Link Corporate Paywall
Link Tim Bevis Blair to Andrew Butthead Bolt
With their Reasoned Humanist humor these two scallywags snigger and laugh at Sarah telling us she is just making things up way over there on the Mediterranean. People aren't drowning but are lazily cruising in the summer sun on luxury liners waiting to con idiot Italians dagos who don't know better into letting them crash their party.
Bevis and Butthead know far more about Sahrah's adventure than she does herself all from the the luxury of their Australian school boy desks. "Liar liar pants on fire they scream at Sarah because nobody has drowned.
The bankers of Europe have forced an austerity package on Greece and have forced an invasion of Greeks out of Greece and into Europe and Australia. Educated Greek professionals one might regard as economic refugees or simply a stolen generation of Greeks. Free assets grabbed by Europe and us for our benefit under the guise of charity and aid.We may not have bombed them but we our allies financially strangled Greece until hundreds of thousands united to vote and cry "stop enough is enough". But we haven't!!
Yes Bevis and yes Butthead we are short of professionals here in Australia and import them in on 457 visas illegally. We advertise but can't get enough. However if they are from Iran,Iraq,and or any other country we bomb or they are persecuted they are damaged goods. If they are Muslim or colored and risk their lives to come by boat we call them illegals treat them like shit and tow them back to anywhere we want. What's more Abbott and pricks like you think we are the envy of the world even the umpire is yelling foul.We even pay smugglers to do it for us and we keep it all secret because this unwanted detritus are only" economic refugees."
Yet another reason Bolt will no doubt try to blame the whole of Islam Culture which according to him reaps and justifies the worst of mankind. However he let's all the Christian Buddhist and Hindu atrocities pass through to the wicketkeeper.
In much the same way he over looks the stupidity of the mad monk and the acts of racial discrimination that constitute the norm in Australia. However Bolt seems to provide no specific reason as to why the Italian Embassy was the target at this time when there were no staff in attendance. We can be sure he will construct one to fit his narrative.
To deny the fact that polar bears are in danger of extinction from
unmitigated climate change, the Daily Caller turned to a Heartland
Institute-affiliated biologist who dismissed scientific computer climate
models as an "opinion."
"The single most important step for polar bear conservation is
decisive action to address Arctic warming," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) wrote this week in their draft recovery plan for polar bears, which are listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The plan was issued after newly released data from the U.S. Geological Services (USGS) showed that
greenhouse gas emissions are the species' "primary threat," due to the
predicted Arctic sea ice loss that will diminish polar bears' habitat
and food supplies.
But don't worry, polar bears are "doing just fine," according to the Daily Caller.
To refute the federal agencies' warnings, the conservative news publication turned to scientists affiliated with the fossil fuel-backed
Heartland Institute. Daily Caller first quoted Canadian biologist
Mitchell Taylor, who dismissed the USGS' report because he said it is
"based on climate models, not empirical data." The agency's climate
models are "an expression of their opinion," said Taylor, adding
that "it's simply their idea of what will happen if the carbon models
are correct."
Taylor prefers "empirical data" to modeled forecasts of climate
change. However, the empirical data also show that Arctic sea ice has
been declining at record rates. The sea ice levels recently were at
their lowest for the month of May since record-keeping began in the 1980s, and have been on a steady decline since then.
Link Andrew Bolt's blog
Yes fighting for himself and the eradication of Section 18C of the RDA we have Andrew Bolt in the round corner yet again going nowhere. For Bolt it's all freedom of speech without any civility or responsibility. You can talk dirty to your kids you can own the ABC and preach what you like in the name of freedom. Censorship what's that? Civilized discussion is out the door. I'm sure Bolt would declare rules need to exist so he can't simply mean that. After all he's had people sacked for exercising these freedoms and prevented other having a stage to express themselves.
" Australia did not become the civilised, culturally advanced society
that it is by chance or by having our thoughts vetted by the judiciary.
We got here through an evolution of ideas, values and beliefs and having
them validated or otherwise by the best test there is: public debate." Yes that maybe so but 66% of print media wasn't owned by a single corporation that's purpose is to disseminate a single ideology masked by trivia advertising and misinformation. I pay for a product that promises news and don't get the promise. The business model of Newscorp no longer relies on reader payments
However we all agree if the playing field were level these freedoms should exist. However the playing field is not level and the power of distribution of speech not equal to all. Bolt's corporate voice is louder than mine simply because of money and technology that I don't have access to. That alone produces a differential in the ability to influence which assists the power of speech to flow only in one direction from the top down and that's paid for in hard cash.
So yes it's is healthy to have a debate. Andrew Bolt isn't muzzled he just likes to cry victim and pretend to be. He's individual freedom is as equal as mine as far as I'm concerned. He can debate as sees fit if he needs to vilify threaten and insult in order to debate the constitution? Get a soap box but get out of Newscorp.
Link Some idiot
" A Leftist paid a state salary skips work. He sends his daughter to safety abroad as he votes to load Greece with more debt."
The mans daughter is Australian
however this right wing jerk (Low Life) seems to think she's not and
Border Force should lock here out. Varoufakis was and is a team player
and yes he believes a better deal might have been struck with the
bankers who don't give a shit that 500,000 kid's in Greece are now
malnourished.
Why is it that bankers in Iceland
were jailed for irresponsible lending? Now Iceland is the fastest
recovering nation in the EU. How is it these bankers knew Greece was a
basket case in 2004 and yet became co-conspirators in irresponsible
lending practices. They knew Greece would come to this yet as long as
the interest, yes the profit was paid they kept on lending. When they
created the GFC they the banks were bailed out. JP Morgan etc weren't
broken up they were bailed out.
They had a conflict of interest they
were not only banks but dealers in stocks and selling junk that would
never appreciate and giving punters the credit to buy the crap at the
same time all for the commissions. How many Australian councils were
burnt? Who paid for the bail out the tax payers and in the US they are
still paying. Those banks should have been broken up and "heads should
have rolled" they didn't. Their kids are well fed. They still have 3-4
homes.
The loan sharks to Greece expected
Greek assets would be sold and were lining up like pawn brokers to clean
up even more but this government said FU someone had to . Austerity, The Man EU Refused in
Link Corporate Paywall
It goes to show the originality of
these Murdoch drones. Instead of publishing anything new they race to
America and copy the same conservative arguments that were put forward
and lost there. Same sex marriage will be a prohibition on religious
freedoms of others. This argument was regarded as facile by the Supreme
Court of America and is as facile here. There was a time when Catholics
were not allowed to marry non Catholics. The priests simply refused to
marry mixed faiths. The law allowed them to get married. The same
applies here. Same sex couples will not seek redress under
anti-discrimination laws. Does Wilson get paid for $400k just to throw
cats among pigeons?
Just minutes after the Supreme Court issued its historic ruling on
marriage equality, Fox News began its campaign to portray the decision
as a threat to "religious liberty."Since the June 26 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges,
which found that bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, Fox
News has repeatedly warned viewers that the ruling threatens religious
liberty. Fox personalities have peddled long debunked myths about churches and religious organizations being forced to celebrate same-sex weddings:
Fox's fear mongering is part of the network's broader religious liberty misinformation campaign, which has helped build support for discriminatory "religious freedom" laws across the country by highlighting horror stories about anti-gay business owners. Fox's reaction to the Obergefell
decision is a preview of what we can expect from the network now that
marriage equality is the law of the land - using "religious freedom" as
their new rallying cry in the fight against LGBT equality.
https://youtu.be/MGZRkRnmo6g
Link Corporate Paywall, Barry Cassidy, AFR,Daily Telegraph all by Bolt's Troll Peter from BH
Welcome to the ignorant world of
Grace Collier who doesn't seem to know anything about bargaining
everything has to be more more wages. That's her bottom line when it
comes to a bargain. In that case why is Murdoch running a print empire
that's losing $33 billion a year and still paying her a wage? How is it
she wouldn't be caught dead calling Rupert an idiot that knows nothing
about business? If she were told she had get the sack or step up her
productivity I guess she'd refuse. Moronic sarcasm really does nothing
for her standing other than identify her as a Newscorp drone.
Cassidy happen to point out that the
LNP were taking donations from the Calabrian Mafia which certainly
weren't declared as such nor officially investigated. They took them in
exchange for favors one that Amanda Vanstone has obviously forgotten
because she can't even be contacted to talk about them. Even Dennis
Shanahan can't explain that away. Let alone the 10 ministers found
guilty by ICAC for having their hands were out under the table. It goes
to show the cut and thrust or paste of this blog. Let's wait and see if
Bill is charged.
The cost of this Royal Commission
seems to be the LNP contract put out for little other than to get
Shorten. How many assassins does it take for God Fathers Murdoch and
Abbott to send out
Link Murdoch's Daily Telegraph
The trials and tribulations of the
NRL maybe of importance to sports fans. McKinnon's accident was shocking
But for Bolt it's just a further useful distraction to take attention
away from Tony Abbott
Link Corporate Paywall
Here we go again discredit everybody
to keep the attention off Tony Abbott.In order to try to repair the
damage caused by his petulant boycott of the ABC Abbott's strategists
tried to formulate a face saving move that seems to have backfired. Get
Turnbull to not go on Q&A on Monday while offering the ABC a peace
token by stopping the boycott on the condition that the ABC move Q&A
to their news division. It would show that Abbott has influence and
the ABC had seen the error of their ways and life could move on.
The problem however with an average
audience of 550,000 Abbott needs Q&A far more than the ABC needs
him. The ABC is an Independent publicly funded broadcaster not a state
funded one. Abbott should never have tried to bully them. His knee jerk
reaction has done him more harm than good and he should just walk away.
He's backed himself into a corner and yes it continues to make him look
an idiot. Bolt's just trying to draw attention away from that.
" France now has 5 million Muslims"
Bolt does it here with numbers and
paints every one of those people with the same brush just as Hitler once
did with the Jews. I'm Catholic my father was Jewish but I would have
been made to wear the star of David even if I'd had been a Nazi
sympathizer. In fact my uncle was a Nazi. In other words things aren't
as simple as Bolt would have us believe. Simplicity is little more than a
sign of ignorance and prejudice of the kind that spear heads the racism
Bolt alludes to.
France may have 5million people that
identify as Muslim but not 5million that Bolt like Hitler identifies as
Muslim. France is in the main Catholic and we don't tar the french with
one brush. Many of these people find themselves economically and
socially alienated in France at the bottom of every socioeconomic scale.
Nor are they blind to world politics either. Israel and Palestine, Iraq
and Syria have grabbed the attention of youth from a variety of
backgrounds. They have become an International cause. French Moroccan,
Algerian, Palestinian, Syrian,and Iraqi aren't cut from the same cloth
nationality or faith wise.
Maybe Jews are feeling not just the
consequence of being Jewish but simply they are symbolic of the
politics of Israel. Which have been extremely prominent recently. Bolt
certainly lumps all Muslims together as he does Jews and doesn't
distinguish the politics involved. So do equally prejudiced Muslims.
What you don't hear from Bolt is the increasing number of Jews both in
and out of Israel that are anti-Israel.
What we do see however is angry young
men running off to or wanting to join a cause or a the war be it in
Syria or even Iraq. Just as young men ran to join the wars in the past
against Franco, WW1 and WW2. We talk of radicalization in a uniform way
when it's not it's much more complex than Bolt would have you believe . Young men have been drawn to a fight more so than girls or older adults. However the reality is often not what they'd hoped for and they would be of use to tell others of the horrors if allowed to return. It doesn't however suit Abbott's politics.
Link Corporate Paywall
Salaries have nothing to do with it It's the Peter Slipper question how does somebody spend $15000 on taxis. It's also the question Bolt conveniently avoids in his hub hub of a defence, the Taxis. Whistle blowers, Investigative Journalists, the ABC are all regarded as the enemies of the state. When in fact the opposite is true.
No it's not but it's that, the ABC,and the National Security that the Abbott Government wants on the front pages. Even talk of Greece is OK to as long as it's not about us. Housing is fine what bubble? The union inquiry is better, that's been central to Bolt's efforts. However where is Hockey? Abetz Minister for employment no he's all over LNP marriage policy.It's his current field of expertise and he's looked at old Fox News arguments to put his case foward. Given everybody has been paying attention to Newscorp and it's distractions from the economy they feel it necessary to say something. Nothing of significance mind you. Nobody really explains but many distract from asking why"Australia has gone from The Lucky Country of Donald Horne, where “most
people earn within a few pounds of the average”, to a nation that ranks
within the top 3 to 4 most unequal countries in the developed world, by metrics of disparity between top 10 per cent and bottom 10 per cent income."
" The chronic rise in wealth inequality, the rampant sense of
entitlement of Australia’s middle and upper classes, and the inequitable
and morally spurious financial regulation and tax legislation in this
country act to constantly and mutually reinforce each other."
Are we surprised Bolt is praising Hitler? He has family connections with the most Nazi sympathizing town in Holland Aarlesmere.
War is dirty at the best of times and the closer you get the dirtier. Sensationalist tabloids sell the worst of the dirt and Newscorp profits. There's no excitement or horror in statistics or talking about death by technology. Bombing runs and collateral damage don't do it for the readers. Yet Bolt wants to see an escalation of bombing in Iraq and Syria why because opposing rebels are being brutal to each other. Nothing is said about the collateral damage we and our allies have caused. Bolt wants more . Yes war is dirty and those with the best technology do the most harm. However it's even dirtier if the only reason is to make Tony Abbott look good and improve his poll rating. We can spend money on that.
Link Newscorp Paywall
Relationship with Indonesia things could be worse. They can only get better. Intelligence sharing is as it was. This is the gist of the blog accompanied by the most undiplomatic tirade by Greg Sheridan telling Marty to shut up. A Newscorp idiot showing how diplomacy should be enacted with Bolt applauding him. Do we really believe relationships can't get worse?
Link Quadrant The conservative Magazine that says it all,
A Liberal MP Minister in a government that was caught taking illegal donations from developers and having to retire at least 5 MP's is telling us the ABC got it wrong when reporting the event. They should have been more apologist in their broadcast of it. A bit more like Abbott I suppose when he said it wasn't the fault of the MP's being corrupt it was the fault of the law and those that revealed it . Here is a conservative and as all conservatives tend to do is accuse critical journalism of always being left. Whether Labour is in power critical journalism will be left. If Stalin was in power critical journalism would still be left even if accused of being right.
No I'm afraid critical journalism is there to stay as science is there not to tell us we have found the answers to what exists but to always question them and find their faults. It's responsibility is to test the veracity of what were told at all times whether left right or center and therefore it's on nobody's side. It may be a pain in the arse. It's why Abbott's plea "whose side are you on? misses the point because it's the ABC who is always asking that question of those in authority. They are working for us!! That's why Bolt and his Trolls hate real
journalists. Hate real Journalism Schools. Hate uncontrolled Independance. The ABC's Contract is not with any government it's with Australia.
Europe is only offering increased debt, interest to pay the interest to pay the interest . Greece is already standing on it's head in a bucket of shit and the banks are being kind enough to say get up take a breathe and get back down.. Banks , and financial institutions were bailed out in 2008 when they caused the mess we all found ourselves in. They endured no pain. They are doing sweet FA for a country full of people in pain.
Bolt believes when the Australian banks were faced with the threat of a run of withdrawals. When they couldn't borrow money any where because they were thought risky as were all banks Wayne Swan stepping up and saying the country will stand in and as guarantors was wrong. He should have allowed the ATM's to be empty or screwed them for a profit and made them bleed. No us bleed.
Link The Age
Abbott should be thanked that no one in detention on Nauru will be allowed into our country. The girl should merely be an after thought stop complaining!!
"That ignores the fact that the man has not yet been convicted, and separating the family has its own consequences."
However a suspected terrorist sympathizer is bailed and allowed to
live at a suburban mosque near a school and it's a chicken little moment
for Bolt.
" main point: shouldn’t Australians be assured that this man will never
be allowed into this country under any circumstances if the claims
aren’t proved false?
Forget the pedophilia moment Abbott should be thanked for ensuring none of those on Nauru will come here assaults on children are not our concern. Bolt's a real "Humanist" a real Mensch
"
Link Corporate Paywall & Newscorp Sky News All in house
Only 400 bombs dropped
"But here is the danger. Helping to destroy the Islamic State could just
help Iran to expand its control over Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias
increasingly rule. Read this troubling insight." Bolt
Bolt's calling for the escalation of bombing in Iraq that in 4mnths of 2014 killed 2500 people 1000 civilians. However our training of the Iraqi Army has gone nowhere. Irani backed Shiia Militias and Kurds are the only ones winning the war. They don't want us there and we don't want Iran to have more influence than they have because we only trust them with the 1000 boat people we don't want. They are a mercenary lot of bastards having hanged over 500 people this year. By the way have you noticed we kill using technology which is kinder and more Christian.
Link Corporate Powerwall and Gerard Henderson Bolt's Blog all Newscorp and In- house
It's quite amusing watching Newscorp dudes flapping their chops while refusing to go on the ABC because when they do they look foolish. So they say they have gone on strike and are hand in hand with the government. But have opted out of the game so to speak because they hate real journalism. All you have to ask is why the spend so much time on non news attacking them personally and getting paid for it. If you were a publisher of news you'd fire them.
Corporate press is in bed with the government.
Aside from the obvious, one of the most disturbing facts to emerge from
Murdoch´s News International phone hacking scandal (background
information here ) was the exposure of shady connections between top government officials and press tycoons. During the scandal, and throughout the subsequent Levesoninquiry into British press ethics (or lack of them), we learned of secret meetings, threats by Murdoch to politicians who didn´t do as he wanted, and that Prime Minister David Cameron has a very close friendship with The Sun´s then editor-in-chief (and CEO of News International) Rebekah Brooks.
How can journalists do their job of holding politicians to account when
they are vacationing together or rubbing shoulders at private dinner
parties? Clearly, they don´t intend to. But the support works both ways-
Cameron´s government tried to help Murdoch´s son win a bid for BSkyB,
while bizarrely, warmongering ex Prime Minister Tony Blair is
godfather to Murdoch´s daughter Grace. As well as ensuring an
overwhelming bias in news coverage and election campaigns, flooding
newspapers with cheap and easy articles from unquestioned government
sources, and gagging writers from criticizing those in power, these
secret connections also account for much of the corporate media´s
incessant peddling of the patriotism lie– especially in the lead-up to attacks on other countries. Here´s an interesting analysis of The New York Times´s
coverage of the current Syria situation for example, demonstrating how
corporate journalists are failing to reflect public feeling on the issue
of a full-scale attack on Assad by the US and its allies.
Corporate journalists hate real journalists
Michael Grunwald, senior national correspondent of Time, tweeted that he ´can´t wait to write a defense of the drone that takes out Julian Assange.´ Salon writer David Sirota rightly points out the irony of
this: ´Here we have a reporter expressing excitement at the prospect of
the government executing the publisher of information that became the
basis for some of the most important journalism in the last decade.´
Sirota goes on to note various examples of what he calls the
´Journalists against Journalism club´, and gives several examples of how The Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald has been attacked by the corporate press for publishing Snowden´s leaks. The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin called for Greenwald’s arrest, while NBC’s David Gregory´s declared that
Greenwald has ´aided and abetted Snowden´. As for the question of
whether journalists can indeed be outspoken, Sirota accurately notes
that it all depends on whether their opinions serve or challenge the
status quo, and goes on to list the
hypocrisy of Greenwald´s critics in depth: ´Grunwald has saber-rattling
opinions that proudly support the government’s drone strikes and
surveillance. Sorkin’s opinions promote Wall Street’s interests. (The Washington Post´s David) Broder had opinions that supported, among other things, the government’s corporate-serving “free” trade agenda. (The Washington Post´s Bob) Woodward has opinions backing an ever-bigger Pentagon budget that enriches defense contractors. (The Atlantic´s Jeffrey) Goldberg promotes the Military-Industrial Complex’s generally pro-war opinions. (The New York Times´s
Thomas) Friedman is all of them combined, promoting both “free” trade
and “suck on this” militarism. Because these voices loyally promote the
unstated assumptions that serve the power structure and that dominate
American politics, all of their particular opinions aren’t even
typically portrayed as opinions; they are usually portrayed as
noncontroversial objectivity.
This applies as much with Newscorp here as it does in the UK and America the parallels are obvious. So it goes a long way in explaining why Bolt rarely if at all ever searches out the truth he hates it
Link Courier Mail
It's well and good to point out the bad behavior of pro sports persons. Tennis Australia seems to breed quite a few Hewitt ,Tomic, Philapousis and even Cash in his day weren't well behaved players. However the tennis industry like golf and football really do treat their players as fodder. It's a bit like the racing industry. We hear of the few greats horses but not much talk is given to those sent to the knackery. It's a bit like music you might be a rooster one day but feather duster the next. Players are commodified. How much is Tomic whinging or how much is he whistle blowing? Either way the Industry will treat him like Julian Assange if he's too loud and gives too much away.
" Leftist politics produces a welfarist state produces rorting."
So what Bolt is suggesting is Greece is simply a population of Welfare cheats and tax dodgers that rob the country blind. Well those paid wages the majority of the working population can be counted out for lack of opportunity. Small business pilfering doesn't cause blow outs the size Greece has nor do pensioners and the disabled. It's the argument applied by Bolt when he says we are going the way of Greece. His proof 498 of 680 people were found to be ripping off the government that allowed it because they were socialist. 9million does not explain 400 billion
Richard Bolt, Andrew Bolt's younger brother was Secretary of the State Education Department he wasn't a Politician yet the Department he once ran has been busted for nothing other than fraud during the time of successive government ministers yet he knew nothing about it. His Deputy did and was involved. When bureaucracies are found to be wanting how is any minister of any persuasion meant to find out? If Department Secretarys' don't know what's happening. Examples like the Austrade saw millions in bribery occur.
Social Welfare fraud occurs yes but what are the comparative rates between here and Greece there wasnt 100%. We don't even know what the % is here however it's not on a grand scale. Nor is it on a scale in Greece to cause that deficit. Given far far more grand scale fraud occurs due to deception by third parties and at much higher levels and that 90% + occurs with the help of the financial sector and industries such as development and Military Bolt's looking in the wrong place. The truth more likely lies in dealings the Greek government had did in collusion with banks in it's attempts to hide accrued deficits from the EU knew but closed their eyes. These were deals other than social welfare and had little to do with whether the government was left or right. Some government members along with business men were just crooked.
Link Corporate Paywall & Trolls
Given Newscorp and the Government are on unionized strike. They have retreated to their corner of the playground. They have conceded and have given ground to the ABC. Truth always wins out over time. What is that noise from the far side? Have you noticed the ABC doesn't waste it's energy on childishness behavior hysterical argument or posturing.
Link Newscorp's Telegraph
Oh for the glory days of poofter bashing before gay pride. Everybody knows when conservatives have lost race. They start claiming to be the victims. Marriage equality is being framed as a leftist plot. It must be because there cant be any gay conservatives or else they'd be there with bullhorns wouldn't they?
When there's 70% support for marriage equality what can you do. Bolt calls for a referendum but Abbott won't because he knows what the polls show. It appears he wont allow a conscience vote in the LNP either because he wouldn't have the numbers to stop an equality bill carrying. He won't be collegiate in the party either he intends no will be LNP policy. He hopes with the nay voters from the opposition it will give him a majority.It's not politics of the people that's for sure.
Conservatives have acknowledged changed attitudes have now made them the victims but here the word change is not accepted it's a reason to discredit those that have changed. It's tantamount to verbally poofter bashing of old. As far as Bolt is concerned if you changed your mind on any issue that was deemed once the property of conservatives you deserve character assassination. However if you change your mind in favour of any conservative causes your an upstanding person of insight to be lauded like Martin Ferguson.
As if Abbott hasn't jumped to the left on just about every issue but marriage equality recently.When you have no arguments play the man bugger the principle involved. It's the side that counts and it's why we see the attack on Obama In this blog.
Link Corporate Paywall The ABC is where Newscorp commentators get their information anyway because they know it's reliable and free
Greece is a worry to Australia in as much as we have such a large Greek population in this country. Money has, is, and will flow out of the country to support Greeks at home. However as it's merely 2% of the GDP of the EU whatever the outcome it will really only have minimal effect globally whether Greece stays or leaves the EU .
China our once pot of gold is another kettle of fish as is our falling dollar. However very few macro economists or housing experts see the outflow of Chinese money as the reason for our housing boom. Low yields in term deposits and risky aversion to the stock market have turned our once householders property market into an investment zone for those with cash. It's a stretch to suggest there's a Chinese invasion driving prices up. There is bound to be a crash though and a lot of pain will come with it. Ask your self what this government has done to stimulate jobs and the economy. Hockey will tell you they inspired the property boom but Labour will be blamed for the bust to come. We have the most private debt per head of population in the world why? Banks are worried and are more reserved about sending your dog a credit card. So haven't you noticed that the loan sharks are about at 30% interest they can afford to advertise on MSM.
Link Corporate Paywall the ABC provides unbiased information for free because we have already paid.
Bolt the anti-Science skeptic. Recruiter for IS wants us to believe Lambie is an extremist when it comes to rhetoric.. Bolt's track history speaks for itself and makes him the posterboy for extreme right wing rhetoric. He disguises it by calling it only "point scoring".
Link Corporate Paywall
Bolt just can't help distorting the facts purely for his self indulgent point scoring. Yesterday he declared a strike on the ABC. How do you go on strike when you haven't been invited in the first place?
The first thing agreed upon by everybody about the constitution is to remove the racial elements already in it. A good percentage of the indigenous population don't really want token recognition it's meaningless to them.
"“How many symbolic moments, devoid of practical effect, does a nation need?” he writes" Noel Pearson
So to this point he and Bolt are on the same page.
Yes Pearson wants a change. " It wants to change how we govern ourselves - the “operational status quo” ".
Instead of being dictated to Pearson wants a body to be established the government will listen to. We have such bodies now. The Productivity Commission being an example. The First People want a recognized self elected body to advise the government on decisions that effect them. They don't even demand that advice carry any weight in law. They merely want some formalised imput from the grassroots up to decisions traditionally always made from the executive down. Bolt just refuses this concept outright and declares it "racist". In other words he must be the sole decision maker in his family any desire to influence his decisions by his wife , kids is totally rejected and is dangerous to the institution of marriage and those bastards who think differently should stop rocking the boat.
Link Corporate Paywall
Richardson has the big C however Newscorp wants you to pay to read it.
Bolt tells it as it is "Point Scoring" on a detached Chess board of life. He truly is a 21rst Century Schizoid Man
" Still, I’m embarrassed to think how I congratulated myself whenever I thought I’d scored a point against him." Bolt
