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Billionaire and conservative icon David Koch dies 

David Koch didn't just involve himself in political discourse he manipulated it. Pro coal anti- Climate Change the Koch bros were known to be aggressive protectors of Koch Industries and invested millions to a vast network of organisations to protect them. The godfather of the "me" before "we " movement in America is dead. (ODT)

Koch was the US Libertarian Party's vice presidential candidate in 1980, and a generous donor to conservative causes.

The Koch brothers were best known for a vast political network they built that became popularly known as the "Kochtopus" for its far-reaching tentacles in support of conservative causes. The brothers founded the anti-tax, small government group Americans for Prosperity.

 Should We Fight a War on White Terrorism? | The Smirking Chimp

In Australia Murdoch's Sky News presents these good folk as the victims of the New Racism not the  New Domestic Terrorists predominant in the current 251 mass shootings in 2019. Antifa is depicted as the new terrorists. However, they aren't Trumpsters and weren't involved in any of the 251 mass shootings an increase of 277% so far this year under Trump  (ODT)

Proud Boys Leader Admits Their Rallies Are For Fighting And Wasting Money | HuffPost Australia 

This is not what's reported by News Corp or Sky News Hacks in Australia and Trump targets Antifa as the domestic terrorists (ODT)

 campaign to waste Portland’s time and revenue, an apparent political maneuver aimed at Mayor Ted Wheeler.
“The gathering was never about bringing carnage or violence to the city of Portland, it was about financially crippling the progressive hotbed until they take action against antifa,” the gang said in a press release.
This appears to be the first public admission by the Proud Boys that the group’s aim is to hobble Wheeler’s administration. The mayor has allowed these rallies to go on in the name of free speech, despite acknowledging that violence is often the only item on the agenda.
It’s unclear whether the newfound transparency will have any impact on future demonstrations. In a response to HuffPost, Wheeler decried Tarrio’s statements but didn’t say whether he’d allow the group to continue to host the events in Portland:
“I have one clear message to anyone who says they’re going to continue wasting the city’s resources over and over again: Stop wasting our time. Stop wasting taxpayer dollars. Stop hurting our businesses. We have a city to run and lives to lead,” he said.
Although Tarrio on the video mentions another rally planned for October, no city permits have been issued as yet for such a gathering.

via Trump Dupes the Press about Passing Gun Laws — Again | The Smirking Chimp

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 A move to curtail the ABC would only 'punish Australian audiences': Michelle Guthrie

"ABC radio and television broadcasts focus on genres that are far removed from the commercial output. We have no interest in reality TV formats, chequebook interviews and the music genres of commercial FM – programming that draws the biggest and therefore most lucrative audiences for commercial media. Nor are we in competition for rights to any of the marquee sports events. Instead, we complement the market as the trusted, independent source of Australian conversations, culture and stories."

 EX MURDOCH & GOOGLE EXEC MICHELLE GUTHRIE TELLS IT AS IT IS AND WHAT PEOPLE LIKE ANDREW BOLT CAN'T BECAUSE THEY ARE BOUND BY THE STRINGS OF THEIR PUPPET MASTERS WHO BLINDLY SLASH AT ENEMIES IN THE DARK TO BLAME OTHERS FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT. ALL TO APPEASE THEIR SHAREHOLDERS OF COURSE. IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ABC. (ODT)

 It's not about privatising the ABC, it's about destroying it

THE ABC EARNS around $100 million a year from its commercial activities (mainly ABC shops). Its annual operating budget is more than a billion dollars. ( relatively the same as 1985 when it was $475mill)
The organisation would not exist without the triennial funding provided by taxpayers (not by Treasurer Scott Morrison, who this week ludicrously claimed that he funded the ABC). You can’t privatise a business that doesn’t make a profit. So let’s call the demand from last weekend’s Liberal Party conference for what it really is; effectively a proposal to close the ABC and sell off its assets, the prime of which would be its broadcast spectrum.
But even that is hardly practical, or likely. Ironically, while the ABC haters with their ideological objections to public broadcasting would like to see it happen, there would be little or no appetite from the commercial television sector for starters.

GUTHRIE LICENCES THE BIAS DESTROYING THE ABC

Geoffrey Luck has observed and worked for the ABC for 70 years. He says ABC boss Michelle Guthrie's speech just justifies the bias now destroying it. Take her definition of her journalists' role:  “Their determination to provide a voice for the powerless, the weak and the intimidated; their ability to shine the light on malfeasance and corruption."

1h "Geoffrey Luck has observed and worked for the ABC for 70." Bolt. Can anybody make out the meaning of this sentence? Is Luck 90 years old? Must be he writes for the Australian and Quadrant online.
"Won't happen, though, even under the Liberal government. Besides, everyone's an activist now. It's so much easier and so much more fun to take a side than to understand an issue."Bolt Andrew Bolt keeps projecting can't help it as it's all about him as a player for his side.
Back to Luck Mike Carlton knows him "I knew Geoffrey Luck at the ABC. He was a plodding dickhead, justly passed over for high editorial command." MC
"This nutter, Geoffrey Luck, was once an ABC journalist of crashing sub-mediocrity. My boss, briefly, and a right dumbfuck he was." MC

Donald Trump

Annapolis Massacre: A moment to Consider Trump’s Opposition to Gun Safety Laws, Hatred of Journalists

Juan Cole

Many critics of Trump have been eager to tie his well-known hatred for journalists to the mass shooting of reporters at the Capital Gazette in […]Trump’s incitement of his followers against journalists is indeed troubling, and some reporters covering his rallies have spoken of being fearful when Trump turned the eyes of his mob on them.

Andrew Bolt has taken up the crusade against journalists here like Trump. Our gun laws just may have saved us from tragedy. He pushes many hatreds and claims he represents the real Australia and he has incited Australians to push back no fight back without ever qualifying how. He publicly stated he admired the conviction of the Barcelona terrorists and God-fearing Christians need to have as much. What is incitement if that isn't?

 

 

  Press gives Israel pretext to attack Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

Australian Press needs inclusion here as well just read Andrew Bolt's commentaries but even more the lack of commentary on Israel. We can imagine just how much attention kites and balloons would get at International arms shows when they are portrayed by Israel's IDF as deadly. Israel is no doubt copying them to sell commercially. (ODT)


 Journalists in Britain and Ireland often refer to the summer months as the “silly season.” Little of consequence is happening, the media apparently decide, so we can treat trivia as newsworthy.
I’m not sure if hot weather is to blame but much recent coverage of Gaza is quite silly. Perspective has been discarded as kites and balloons have been depicted as major threats.
These are “weapons that are designed to kill,” according to an Israeli military spokesperson quoted in a Financial Times feature. Fixated on these high-flying incendiary devices, the feature omitted a pertinent fact: nobody has actually been killed by them.
Silly reporting of this nature serves Israel well. An aggressive state that has committed a number of massacres this year alone is cast as a victim.
Intentionally or not, the press is offering pretexts for Israel to launch another major offensive against Gaza. Any such attack would then be presented as an act of retaliation – or even of self-defence.
While every form of Palestinian resistance gets maligned, Israel’s weapons industry is treated with the greatest imaginable respect.
Dozens of Israeli firms took part in a Paris fair earlier this month. Eurosatory – as the event is called – was jointly organized by France’s defence ministry and arms lobby.

TIPS FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 30

Tell us the news here.

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Is Bolt transitioning to the IPA his natural heartland where bigotry prevails? Check his podcast last September when he publicly mocked and derided the South Sudanese Beauty Pageant. He probably calls it "Locker Room Banter". Here is a man who declares politeness is a principle he lives by what a hypocrite and the IPA seems to have loved it.
Now he's threatening to read our books out loud heaven help us. How many Australians will listen to books read with Bolt's Afrikaaner lilt? Talking about "the morbid love of self" does he intend to fill a time capsule? 

GLOBAL WARMING WON'T KILL YOU, BUT SBS PROPAGANDA MIGHT

SBS is running a reckless commercial in this very cold winter urging the elderly to turn off their heating to save the planet from global warming. Mind you, green policies already make heating a luxury. Save the planet - no matter how many of the old and frail now die of cold, as we're already seeing. These warmists are idiots.

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This says nothing about Global Warming it says a lot however about the increasing poverty in the UK under the Tory Government in the UK. The widening wealth gap speaks to the increased death rate. In the US it's reflected in declining life expectancy. Meteorology, by the way, isn't Global Climate Science Bolt's attempt to associate Green Policies with the increasing death of the elderly is about as statistically intelligent as saying the Labor Party's increased popularity has been the cause. No Bolt the term "fuel poverty" is a misnomer "poverty" is the problem as it is here and it's welfare cuts and the cuts to pensions that's dragging the elderly poor down. In Dickensian England, they didn't blame the cost of wood for the deaths of the poor alone. 
Guess whose ideas Bolt references here Sky News commentators who grabbed on to the newly coined and politically loaded term "fuel poverty" which tries to hide the governments austerity measures.. UN human rights chief to probe extreme poverty in the UK — RT UK News

 Visualizing global warming month by month for 137 years - Axios

The Earth is warmer now than at any time since reliable record-keeping began in 1880, and we're continuing to warm at an accelerated rate. In fact, the Earth is warmer now than at any point in modern human civilization.

SCARY HEADLINE OF THE YEAR 

The more harmless global warming seems, the more hysterical the warnings. Here's a contender for scary headline of the year: "Top Climate Scientist: Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023. " Do the alarmists making such claims truly believe them or feel  entitled to lie in a good cause?

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Bolt gets desperate when he turns to Anthony Watts blog WUWT. Like Bolt Watts is a businessman without a degree but provides space to commercialise Climate Change denial. He like Bolt attended universities that would both deny they have any right to claim educational achievements. 
This week Bolt entertained William Kininimonth who like Alexander made predictions about epochs and ages which Andrew Bolt applauded as accurate. Human extinction or WK predicted knowing what people will say when looking back a million years seems equally stupid. The fact, however, is the planet is warming, CO2 levels are increasing and the signs of what's occurring do lay on the negative rather than the positive side of progress.
Bolt seems to believe what Andreson is saying because he's the first to stand up and say Germany is wasting it's time too. " (Germany has pledged to cut 95 per cent of carbon emissions by 2050), Anderson warned that those measures were insufficient to stop the extinction of humanity by way of a rapidly changing climate."

 

SHORTEN SIMPLY STUFFED UP. HIS RETREAT MAKES SENSE

Bill Shorten had what I last week called a "word vomit" - a slip which had him commit Labor to repeal tax cuts for businesses with a turnover of $10-$50 million a year. That sparked fake claims that he'd made a "captain's call". Now he's been forced to scrap that policy, a much safer and saner move. But his fate now lies in the polls.

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Just how many spits and how many vomits did Bolt's favourite pollie have the went thundering around the world and Bolt was left in his wake crying "He'll Change He'll Change". When you have to make a mountain out of a molehill you know the desperation is on Bolt's side. As for the Polls does Bolt really believe the LNP will best the ALP in a two-party poll or that Abbott will rise and discover anti-gravity. Bolt simply makes it up as he goes along. Maybe he's found a new career reading books out loud for the IPA. He could do that from a barge in Holland.

CHRISTIANS SLAUGHTERED. YAWN

They are Africans and mostly Christians, so of little interest to the media: "Over 200 people, most of them believed to be Christians, were massacred over three days in Nigeria this past weekend, officials and church sources are saying, as the relentless bloodshed carried out by radicals continues." Islam again.

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Bolt couldn't speak of the mass shooting in America by a Christian he had to go to one not reported because it was in Africa Nigeria to be precise. Notice that Bolt didn't find but one of his fans did. However, there is no mention of the history or analysis of Google and you get Christian reports of it and The Spectator writing about to get more anti-Islam traction. There are some 38 million Fulani throughout Africa and they aren't all murdering Christian Farmers.

When analyzed dispassionately the hostilities and their causes and the blame takes on a significantly different picture one that's economic and Climatic in its origin and not just religious. Besides the President of Nigeria is a Fula a Muslim and the Police are predominantly Christian. Bolt's story is far too simplistic to be believed. 

For instance, one of the biggest suppliers of modern weapons in Africa is Israel. Are they supplying the Muslims? The modern weaponry brands aren't mentioned here are they, why?

It followed a trend in the increase of farmer-herder conflicts throughout much of the western Sahel, due to an expansion of agriculturist population and cultivated land at the expense of pasturelands; deteriorating environmental conditions, desertification and soil degradation; breakdown in traditional conflict resolution mechanisms of land and water disputes; and proliferation of small arms and crime in rural areas.^[2] Insecurity and violence have led many populations to create self-defence forces and ethnic militias, which have engaged in further violence. The majority of farmer-herder clashes have occurred between Muslim Fulani herdsmen and Christian peasants, exacerbating ethnoreligious hostilities.

 

SOUTPHOMASSANE SLIMES PORTER. RACE-BAITER SHOULD APOLOGISE

Even as he leaves, ex-Racial Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphomassane shows his talent for imagining racial slurs where none exist: "I didn’t expect we would have an Attorney-General suggesting people from a racial minority background didn’t belong to mainstream Australian society.” But check the transcript: no such thing was said or implied.  

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 A recent research survey showed 75% of Australians accepted minority group who are citizens as "real Aussies" and 63% accepted even those not naturalized. So given these statistics, Tim is accurate in his assessment of the AG. The commissioner charter is to protect minorities and not majorities or minorities who believe they have the defining rights on Australian Culture. Porter comment did include the racial groups simply by his use of the term minorities along with many others. Bolt's just being pedantic smart arse suggesting he didn't. Scott Morrison put the politicization of race and religion forward to the Party as far back as 2005. Tony Abbott took it up and made it a forefront issue and tactic with Team Australia and Andrew Bolt has been at the forefront of racialism ever since. To say otherwise is typical of what Racists have always done.

NOT CIVILISATION AS THE ANU KNOWS IT

Sources must be protected, so I can say only that a very senior ANU academic in conversation made clear the ANU's hostility to teaching Western civilisation favourably. So no surprise: "The ANU teaches more than 150 subjects dealing with... Western Civilisation, but ... but many subjects are framed through perspectives of class, race, gender..."   

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" This was unwise, in my view, given the ANU's seeming disdain of Western civilisation and the high likelihood that the money would have been hijacked by the Left to do the exact opposite of the donor's intention."Bolt

Bolt is delivering a character reference for the unwanted approaches of what the ANU regards as a Rapists. Bolt is being insistent that ANU ought to be allowed to be fucked and is missing out. 

You have to remember Bolt has the failed credentials as an advocate for fuckers just as he has a failed credential of being educated at Adelaide University. When universities are reluctant Bolt's there trying to up their skirts. He went on for months promoting Dr Bjorn Lomborg as an alright guy to horizontally dance with. Nobody took him on and he hasn't been heard from since.

You have to laugh here is what Bolt thinks of himself despite being degreeless.

"This is the danger with collectivist movements, which tend to attract the weaker, the dumber and those terrified of confrontation by those who could prove them wrong." Bolt's currently reading what he calls Great Books out loud for the IPA. Given Marx was English and his books influenced the planet in greater numbers than some the bible today is bolt going to be reading that out loud for the IPA?

ONLY BARRY HALL SACKED?

I understand the decision of Triple M to sack Barry Hall for his horrible "joke". It's got a reputation to defend and an audience to please. But Hall was reacting to some graphic remarks by Leigh Montagna about his own wife and a doctor performing a gynaeacological procedure on her. Then there was the horselaughing by the lads...

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I heard what Bolt said on his son's IPA podcast last December and that wasn't a joke but Bolt his son and a third party got their rocks off on it. How come he hasn't been sacked? Oh, he wears a suit.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,20/6/15; Bolt flip flops on climate and religionNOAA doesn't; Murdoch decieves with photos of Afghanistan not Chad; Ferguson supports Shorten Bolt left naked; Pope vs Bolt; Lying with stats and Aborigines;

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tony Abbott a world view 

Australia ‘morally bereft’ — the view worldwide

 

 

 

Russia tempts Greece as Germany threatens.

Greece’s overtures to Russia may not be a sideshow

People can declare themselves bankrupt. Corporations can and it seems it might be in the best interest of Greece  to do the same. The IMF is no longer the only player on the block. There is BRICS. The EU has vandalized not only an economy but a people.

 

 

Work to do. UPDATE: The danger grows

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What a jerk.  Bolt operates from a position of trying to stop progress rather than trying to accommodate it it. Yes Australian politicians do represent their electorates are in the parliament. Well spotted Mr Bolt. However they don't necessarily represent themselves or another group of which they are a part. Julie Bishop is a woman but does not represent women.  Bolt  lies   Pearson doesn't wants an Aboriginal council written into the constitution and believes it unnecessary. It's as much a lie as Bolt telling us there's been a 17 year hiatus in global warming. Bolt just distorts  issues entirely for his own purpose. 

Yes Pearson does want a council elected by Aborigines Yes he wants it to be recognized  and to advise soley on Aboriginal concerns . In much the same way Banks, Mining, and other groups advise on what concerns them. Women have an electoral lobby does that mean men are disadvantaged?

Bolt continually argues that Aborigines can't be identified as a group because the lines are too  blurred ? Gender is also blurred all societal groupings are but it doesn't prevent being a nation.  Bolt denies history, denies color, denies genetics,  and denies self identity all while promoting the fear of material loss " be sure of what will follow: demands for treaties, sovereignty and the rest. Victim politics. Resentments stoked for negotiating advantage. Arguments about who is Aboriginal and who not, especially among Aborigines. A lawyers’ picnic. A nasty reaction from the marginalised of other “races”. The whole stupid catastrophe." 

"And not a single Aborigine lifted out of poverty as a consequence."

Bolt denies history  but invokes it in his denials he denies colour but invokes it when claiming white Aborigines are charlatans.   Bolt is allowed to prove  anyone identifying as Aborigine  not to be. However he better get his facts right. The last time he was caught lying and being loose with facts. It was settled in court.

It's what Abbott doesn't want. To identify someone he elects to lose their citizenship  knowing Bolt's experience and that of Kevin Andrews vs Dr Haneef, he wants the decision entirely in his hands of his minister and not with the law. "What if the courts prove me wrong?"

 The Aboriginal Council can be elected by whoever is deemed Aboriginal not however by Bolt but by them as a group.. Bolt can appeal if he wants and lose if he wants he's entirely free to do so.  But he can protest about the recognition of a council by Aborigines for Aborigines who identify as a First Nation people but it will get him no where. So why is he doing this? Why is something reasonably simple made so complicated. A request just to be heard  and recognized from the bottom up rather than the top down. I suspect it has more to do with Native title and land rights than anything else. In British law individuals are simply given title  to land to do with what they will. However recognition of Aborigines as differing nations and acceptance of the Native title Act complicates things and complicates the sale and leasing  of property rights. Individualizing  Aborigines and ridding the country of the Act would facilitate the opening up of property and disadvantage the  indigenous further. Yes the danger grows not for Bolt who in this case prefers to make thing appear complex when they are really simple. $$$$  Northern Australia white paper: native title proposals met with distrust

 Native Title | Australian Human Rights Commission

 

Pope rants against airconditioning

UPDATE

Bolt's updates really flip flop about not certain what he's read on what the pope said. However Bolt an Amazon acclaimed world leader on the subject. The Pope is just a religious leader. It amazes me that Bolt with all his expertise and certainty is only agnostic and hasn't actually started his own church After all he does think highly of himself. However he flip flops on faith too. Pope Francis vs. vampire capitalism: The real reason why his climate-change encyclical is revolutionary 

Can the Pope save the world?
India Blames Heat-Wave Deaths on Climate Change

 

 

Global warming and the death of science

Link Quadrant.. read conservative rant by Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley Returns With Error-Riddled Articles, As Wall ...

Bye Bye doctors, engineers, astrophysicists , and weapon makers divest divest divest all investors in any pharma stocks science is about to crash.

This is really an ad for the IPA deniers book that Bolt has put himself center stage in it's production. As if the book wouldn't have gone ahead without him or his tiny article. The title is the key to confuse and disguise for marketing. The ego tickler for Bolt is Amazon's marketing blurb that says he is a world leading expert and commentator on the subject. Sorry not specifically Bolt but all the contributors are. But Bolt really let's us know how central he is to it all.

WHAT YOU DON'T HEAR FROM BOLT

NOAA Report  Science publishes new NOAA analysis: Data show no ...

 

June 4th 2015

 

Chad bans burqa after Islamists kill 33

Link News .com .au

 

Murdoch online churnalism site just might have altered the news taken off the wire. T Chad has banned the full face veil that only exposes the eyes however the image used is of Afghanistan which is the only country to wear that Burqa shown in the report. Above are images of women in Chad and their normal dress. It simply shows the sensationalism of Murdoch media most women in Chad are in fact uneffected by the ban as it's not a general part of their dress. Well done Murdoch exaggerate and  lie with pictures.

 

Shorten destroyed by the Left he dares not challenge

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Peter the Trolls blog Bolt just pushed the button.

Shorten knows most millionaires are running SMFS and realize there are more than enough concessions there not have them grasping for a pension. Abbott's scheme is in fact a hollow one that saves little over a 4 year period. Those millionaire pensioners who will be effected are already devising schemes to ensure they still get the full pension by divesting their wealth among their children and getting cash inerest payments for the loans. 

However look at the length of the trolls blog to tell us otherwise and how important an issue this is. There is an enormous bluster over nothing which is made to sound politically important but isn't.  Shorten realizes the purely symbolic nature of   Abbot's exercise. The real target should have been the super concessions allowed the rich on the super funds.

Sounds reasonable to me, with the boats stopped and the laws toughened

How much an Bolt disguise reality?

Abbott put his foot in his mouth.  He didn't just want to "toughen" the laws he wanted to remove the law  altogether and allow an arbitrary decision to be made without  scrutiny by a minister on the most important right a person has citizenship and why? "Because the courts might get it wrong" or because the courts might not let him do whatever he wants. He tried to trash central tenet of British law.Abbott now needs  Malcolm in the middle to help pull his foot out. The temper of Bolt's banner hides both Abbott's purpose and deflects from it's tyrannical nature. What happens if they are found to be innocent and I’ve declared they’re not?

 Australia arrest warrant for ‘IS medic’ Tareq Kamleh – Doctors without borders are fine but not Australians

 "However, even if the final result stands up as an appropriate response to the behaviour of those who leave this country to join Islamic State, the risk is that Abbott's overt politicising of national security has eroded public confidence and invited cynicism on the issue that, more than any other, should be above politics.

Yes, there may be a short-term, or even a medium-term, political dividend, but it's a hell of a way to run a country."

 Wait for Abbott's response to the Pope's message. Gone will be  "climate change is crap" to "I've always believed in climate change and the poor of the world". "It's the cost benefit analysis I'm concerned about listen to my new adviser Dr Lomborg."

 

An ad for a new Labor party, courtesy of United Voice

Ads are good and bad and maybe confusing however there wont be any confusion when the public service unions have their say. If the GDP is growing why is it the public sector workers are required to take a cut but  business allowed to increase their profit? Surely that's simply widening the income gap. As it is the middle class is shrinking in this country the very class that's the engine of the economy that creates the small business jobs we all rely on. Abbott's interest merely aligns itself with the mega corporations. Fast cars, villas, and luxury goods aren't the investment that drives the country foward.

The ultimate blame-the-victim

Bolt fails to mention that this terrorist was a white supremacist and a Christian to boot because  according to Bolt Christians don't jihad only Muslims do.

However imagine if we didn't have the gun laws we do  what those bent white supremacists with  Nazi symbols who Bolt lauds as good old boys and  merely exceptions in Reclaim Australia and Patriot Defence League might get up to. What is it that holds them back from their sordid dreams but our gun laws?

In defence of Shorten’s deals

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Yes ...but... "True, and it’s the point I’ve made several times on 2GB: thanks to Shorten’s deals, taxpayers and road users have probably been saved a lot of money."

Sounds like the ranting maniac of yesterday Bolt is taking  a few steps backwards but still claiming the territory. Shorten is prepared to front the commission sooner than later and doesn't seem intimidated by the likes of Bolt and Abbott's media hive at Newscorp. Bolt thought Martin Ferguson was  his ally but found himself naked with nobody there to help. The aggressive tone has now settled to a whimper and has become a "but".

Bolt finds integrity a strange beast because it has no sides. Ferguson is acting in a most unpredictable way for him. It's something Bolt doesn't understand because he throws principle overboard in a win at all cost and by any means game.

Pope rants against airconditioning

 Yes faith is a rant as is much of denialist rhetoric. However rant backed by scientific method with the interests of the poor at heart is on far higher moral ground  than rant for the  mere purpose venal interests and the profit for a few.

" In fact, there has been a pause in warming of the global atmosphere that has lasted at least 17 years, to the puzzlement of warmist scientists. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change itself struggles to find any evidence of “an increase of extreme weather events”, such as cyclones, storms or droughts. One of the two polar ice caps has actually seen an increase in sea ice extent, and the other has seen no further deterioration for several years."

YOU WONT HEAR THIS FROM BOLT

 Alaska’s climate hell: Record heat, wildfires and melting glaciers signal a scary new normal

Always in Bolt's raves on trying to discredit the Pope he just distorts and lies.  One of his constant lies is there has been a 17 year hiatus in warming. Science is a continuing activity which Bolt seems to ignore.  NOAA one of the worlds leading scientific bodies on climate has completed the most comprehensive 3 year  review  of  past research in the field correcting errors made over the years. Their conclusion has put an end to any suggestion  there has been a hiatus in warming, there hasn't. Bolt is wrong.

"A shift to green power will in many cases mean a big increase in the cost of electricity, keeping it beyond the reach of the poorest people in the world."

As with science Bolt simply ignores the truth of technological progress which has reduced the cost of green power to well below that of coal. However in Bolt's calculations the fundamental cost of pollution and it's effects on public health that has to be born by the communities it services is never taken into consideration. Let's remind Bolt ,who claims the moral high ground, that the grumpy old man the Pope, who has no insight,  has 1.2 billion followers and science on his side. He is telling his followers  if you want to fuck wear a condom and prevent abortions. If you want to fuck the planet make sure you also wear a condom and don't create an abortion of it.  Bolt  in all his wisdom and advocacy is complaining about is the cost of the condom and like all rapists if he hasn't got one who cares.

 

Work to do

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Recognition and white mans guilt. Did Newspoll do a survey of indigenous people and ask if they wanted recognition? Sure as hell not. The statistics would show the majority would agree with Bolt and Pearson forget the constitution. However Bolt for the purpose of his argument strongly denies this because then all of his so called "dangers" would simply prove to be a fantasy of his racist scare mongering.

 Yes Aborigines  want a voice  in Canberra. However they want their elected voice a recognized body not one appointed by the government of the day, not another Mundine. Pearson doesn't expect it to be a  body with constitutional recognition or statutory powers but he does want it to be a recognized voice and  one  listened to on Aboriginal issues. There are plenty of self elected lobby groups and think tanks  governments do listen to. Pearson is asking for a voice from the bottom up not top down.

Yes race is blurred as is gender as are all socially created definitions. Only the Bolt's of this world argue that the blurring is proof of their non existence. Bolt however argues for some undefined idealized monoculture  we should all aspire and assimilate to that somehow not a blurr in his mind however he can only describe it in his blurred terms. He simply denies there's any illegitimacy in the distribution of wealth and power when it comes to the social construction of reality. Yes Mr Bolt there is a lot of" work to "do to create a more equitable society. Firstly deconstruct yours Once we had ethics