Fighting Fake News with REAL, 20/5/23, Stan Grant, Drumgold vs News Corp, Hillsong, "Not above the law" 95 year old tasered,

 

It’s time non-racists in Australia took a stand and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with those that have never been racists in what historically is their land but have only been victims of it in our inglorious historical past. One that’s been generationally and institutionally ongoing since 1788.

Although I try to shield myself from the racist abuse I’m frequently subjected to, the fact it is out there poisons the air I breathe. Now I have had enough – so on Monday night I will present Q+A, then walk away. For how long? I don’t know, writes Stan Grant.

Source: For years I’ve been a media target for racism and paid a heavy price. For now, I want no part of it – I’m stepping away – ABC News

 

National Times

9h  ·

NewsCorp runs and another Smear Headline. ( Sleeping Giants and The National Times)

" Reports of the death of Rupert's beloved child, 'News of the World' have been greatly exaggerated."

Rupert Murdoch operatives spend hours camped outside ACT Director of Public Prosecutions' home, snapping photos of the Shane Drumgold and his family, whilst he is on leave at his private residence.

So the question has to be asked , how come NewsCorp Journalists are not camped outside the front door of Stuart Robert's house hounding him about his corruption and grifting.

This is not journalism and not in the public interest, this is stalking.

We need new laws to prevent this and also to breakup News Ltd.

Yet, this passes for front page news at The Australian.

Just pathetic NewsCorp , just pathetic

 

In a new docuseries, the glamorous, Instagram-friendly church is put under the spotlight with new scandalous revelations

Source: National Times – ‘Why do pastors keep falling?’: inside the… | Facebook

 

‘Not above the law’: Police pledge rigorous review after 95yo’s tasering but refuse to release the body camera footage. One suspects there's a different meaning to "rigorous" than the one normally understood. "Exceptional " review might be more accurate a term.

Source: National Times – ‘Not above the law’: Police pledge rigorous… | Facebook

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 11/4/20;System Update With Glenn Greenwald - Edward Snowden, Andray Domise and C...; Failed State; Hillsong,

Failed State of America 

Podcast

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/10/the-failed-state-of-america/

News Ltd issues apology to former Labor MP Melissa Parke

Melissa Parke’s legal action against those who participated in attempts to brand her an anti-Semite resulted in an apology from The West Australian earlier this year and now News Ltd. Both publications are also publishing a column by Ms Parke on why legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies is not anti-Semitism. (It appears News Ltd might have been apologising for Andrew Bolt)

There have been unsubstantiated rumours floating around that alleged the parents of Hawke’s wife Amelia were onboard the Ruby Princess along with some friends from the Hillsong Church.
Regardless, the growing influence of the Pentacostals in our government is of grave concern, as is their growing influence amongst our young people.
Why was the Colour Conference allowed to continue? Have any cases of coronavirus been linked to it? Who made phone calls to allow the Ruby Princess to dock after initially being refused permission? What charitable works does Hillsong undertake to avoid paying tax? And why are people like Alex Hawke and Stuart Robert Ministers?

Questions about Hillsong, Alex Hawke, and the coronavirus - » The Australian Independent Media Network

 NOT SO FAKE NEWS

 

Melissa Parke and Andrew Bolt on the same page of the Herald Sun.

 1) News Ltd had to print an apology to Miss Parke for articles written highly likely on behalf of Andrew Bolt calling her an anti- Semite.

 2) Andrew Bolt Social Distancer and advocate extraordinaire on how real Australians should live their lives admits he's never been a real Australian and that it has been by government order we are now all forced to experience what it's like to be as remote as he is and comfortably has put his family under stress. Bolt criticizes remoteness and currently social distancing while being an expert at it himself. While in his study dreaming of retirement in a socialist country he wasn't even born. A real Australian Team Player is Andrew Bolt. Like News Corp which has to regularly apologise for him.

3) Bolt thinks he's so smart but now when he goes out and what does he see but Australian women wearing Hijabs or masks. Does Andrew Bolt force his wife not to wear one does he let her out of the house?

 

 

ABC DENIES ITS PELL WITCHHUNT. THEN PROVES IT

HYPOCRITES Can anyone believe the ABC's claim that it didn't vilify the innocent George Pell? It protests: "Some of the language thrown around in the aftermath of the High Court ruling about 'prejudice' and a 'witch-hunt' against George Pell seems to ignore the first principles of journalism and the facts." Bullshit. Let me pull apart its pathetic defence. 

Andrew Bolt from his bolthole has spent years telling Australians what they should be, never exactly dealing with who and what we are. His energy has been directed at telling us who aren't Australians and shouldn't be here. This week the News Corp vigilante doesn't mention his Herald Sun was ordered to apologise to ex ALP MP Melissa Parke for accusing her of being an anti-Semite. The same can't be said of the ABC. News Corp apologised for something Bolt doubt said and if he wasn't the only defamer he certainly was one of a group.

 Andrew Bolt claims to be a traditionalist but one who claims all our Institutions have been captured by the radical left and need to rid themselves of these un-Australian disrupters His his wild generalisations are generally evidenced by the behaviour of some individuals rarely from the broad behaviour of the majority. From a selected few Lebanese individuals, Bolt develops fictional stereotypes to abuse divide and separate them from us all. Lebanese Muslims, Africans and Chinese have all suffered his bigoted abuse which like a stone tossed into a pond spreads and ripples wider and wider. More often with the protection of News Crop, he gets away with it.

Individuals can be unpredictable and dangerous and some are. However statistical data collected on the majority of us in our multicultural shows trends that are quite the opposite. We are predictable and unlike Bolt want to peacefully live here. 

Bolt's very existence depends on dividing and fabricating false stereotypes in a narrative confining us to his idea and a fake Australia. He's an aloof, elitist, isolate who claims to be a role model for the real Australia. In this case, it's our Justice System to which George Pell was required to face as all men are if the DPP see the need. Bolt's over imagined conspiracy theories have nothing to do with our legal system which he claims was totally influenced by the ABC Australia's most trusted news service.

 While the ABC  informs  Bolt lectures. If you vote ALP you can't be professional because tradition and truth lie right of centre and support fundamental power and authority structures that have naturally evolved over time. To disrupt them is inviting chaos and societal collapse. In Bolt's mind's eye, he saw institutional corruption in the treatment of George Pell rather than due process.

 "Can anyone believe the ABC's claim that it didn't vilify the innocent George Pell and help hound him into jail? " (Bolt).  Quite simply Yes! Bolt claims the police brought the charges against Pell, not true. The police investigate an provide their evidence to the DPP that decides whether or not there's a case to answer.
 Pell was released on appeal to the highest court in the land. He wasn't declared innocent rather the legal process was found in technical error nothing else matters."the High Court found that the evidence did not meet the required standard of proof and there was "a significant risk that an innocent person has been convicted" is a statement of principle not what Gerrard Henderson tried to infer on the Bolt Report was a specific statement of Pells innocence, Bullshit back at you Mr Bolt.

 Bolt crowing about the ABC without whom he can't exist. His is totally irrelevant posturing and has absolutely nothing to do with the due process of the justice system that ran its course.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 17/3/20; Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It, Scott Morrison & Hillsong; Catastrophy is Capitalism

This crisis — like earlier ones — could well be the catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to nothing to the most workers, wiping out small family savings and shuttering small businesses. But as this video shows, many are already pushing back — and that story hasn’t been written yet.

  Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It

 Hillsong, Morrison and Covid-19 stop for nobody.
Paraphrasing Gough Whitlam " Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save Australia because nothing will save the this Prime Minister's Hypocrisy to put off mass gatherings until Monday for Hillsong. The proclamation you have heard Scott Morrison make, who will take him down in history as the alleged criminal Houston's cur".
 Worshippers gather for Sydney Hillsong conference after Scott Morrison introduced ban 

FAKE NEWS 

WE MUST SLOW THIS SPREAD OR IT WILL BE A CATASTROPHE

New cases of coronavirus jumped in Australia by nearly 30 per cent on Saturday, 23 per cent on Sunday. If we can't slow this spread, we're in huge trouble. My editorial from The Bolt Report. UPDATE: The increase yesterday was 15 per cent.  That is still lethally high, but are aggressive measures slowing the spread? By week's end, we'll know.

35m ago 

Bolt calls warmists "Catastrophisers"  what is he spreading as far as this virus is concerned if it's not panic? The average age of those that have died in Italy was 81, and they lived in the EU's most aged country. In 2016 the life expectancy of Italians was 82 it seems Covid-19 hasn't created a significant change in those statistics so is a 1-year gap the catastrophe that Bolt makes out. It would seem the sky isn't falling in. What is being in fact tested is Capitalism, and it's the ability to deal with this epidemic. What's being tested is the abilities of the medical system to deal with the issue. Those with Universal Health Systems in place are far better off than those without unless those without work on a pro-bono basis in states without like America that has 40 million citizens without any safety net. Universal Health Care and Paid Sick Leave would be a good start. However, this LNP Government fails to believe that to be necessary. It continues to assist business cutting workers and social welfare benefits at every opportunity and not even fast enough as far as Andrew Bolt is concerned. Their priority since the GFC was to only provide benefits from the top down.

 The virus will kill fewer people than the systemic economic collapse over the horizon as unlike the GFC China can't save the world.

COVID-19 is the pin that popped grossly inflated markets from over a decade of overly accommodative Fed policy for investors and profit-making at the expense sound economic policy.
Williams noted that Fed “loss of systemic control (was) brought to a head by the coronavirus crisis, exacerbated by collapsing oil prices.”
The latest data from China’s bellwether economy are a shot across the bow for what’s likely coming ahead globally.
Its year-to-date retail sales crashed an unprecedented 20.5% in modern times, far exceeding a projected 4% drop.
Industrial production collapsed 13.5%, its first ever reported decline.
Fixed asset investment plunged nearly 25%, another first ever drop. Property investment is down over 16% year-to-date, unemployment at a reported 6.2%, a record high in modern-day China.
Much more pain is likely ahead before recovery and a return to growth occurs — what’s happening in China already spreading worldwide. (Lendman) https://stephenlendman.org/2020/03/unchartered-economic-troubled-waters/
Since the neoliberal 90s, poverty, unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, food insecurity, hunger, overall deprivation, and human suffering have been growth industries.
Countless trillions of dollars are spent on militarism, endless imperial wars, the Pentagon’s global empire of bases, and corporate handouts to Wall Street and other business favorites.
At the same time, popular needs increasingly go begging, social justice on the chopping block for elimination.
The world’s richest country USA was thirdworldized to benefit privileged interests exclusively at the expense of beneficial social change — control maintained by police state harshness.

WORLD STARTS LOCKDOWN

Britain: people aged over 70, pregnant women and the frail to self-isolate for 12 weeks. US: Trump issues guidelines to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people. Bars and restaurants should be closed where evidence of community transmission. France:  people must stay at home unless strictly necessary - to shop, get medical help and work. 

19m ago 

Bolt doesn't highlight the difference between the UK and the USA's approach to this problem. That the UK is so far ahead of the USA in their approach, not shutting down the economy but isolation the most vulnerable. Collateral damage  has always been an insignificant  cost to America

CHINA SLOWS NEW CASES; ITALY CAN'T. NOW IT'S UP TO US

China proves we can stop the worst. It had just 16 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday. In Italy, Italy, in contrast: "Fatalities [have] more than doubled since Thursday... Italy now has 27,980 infections, compared to 15,113 four days ago." UN warns: "Australia was making the same mistake... by sending people with the coronavirus home."

2h ago 

It goes to show the poverty of and the difference between the two political systems' ability to take on a non-discriminatory illness like Covid-19. The Chinese state really treated it as a Public Health threat in which the government took full control the Italians, Americans and Australians have tried to handball the responsibility to the public with scattered advice, and as a result, the medical system has collapsed under the weight.

Morrison seems to be a follower and not a leader in any sense of the word. Friday he was no matter what going to the NRL football until the NRL stopped him. His ban wasn't immediate, and Morrison seemed to be influenced by Hillsong as to when he ordered an official ban.

Tests still take 3 days and equipment remains in short supply as are our leader's directives. You get the feeling that's going to continue, and unlike climate change, the experts and scientists have been thrown in the front line.
Despite China's success, Morrison is turning to the USA for salvation allowing ideology to dominate his decisions.

GRETA THUNBERG: MUM SAYS HER DISABILITIES ARE A SUPER POWER

How soon before we're banned for disagreeing?: "As Malena [Thunberg] documents... Greta’s autism diagnosis... she makes the case that such conditions can be an advantage. '[These] neuropsychiatric functional impairments... can be a superpower.'" No, I think they encourage her to catastrophise. Read why before it's ruled too blasphemous to print.

33m ago 

 

Internet trolls have been jailed for inciting violence without ever having moved from their PCs Rhinegoldberg being just one that springs to mind. The question is fair a may well be asked why Andrew Bolt hasn't fallen to the same fate given he's publicly encouraged Christians to fight back like the Muslims he admired for their dedication to their cause. He wished young Christians had the conviction the Barcelona bombers had.  

He's motivated murder indirectly calling for push back and hides when one comes as it did in NZ. Bolt applies the same techniques as ISIS recruiters did calling for push back by anyone listening. If people like the ultra-right-wing trolls can be charged for incitement how is it Andrew Bolt isn't? Is it because he works for Murdoch and if he didn't he would be? 

Greta Thunberg differs from Bolt in that she has talent common good intent and bigger following than Andrew Bolt who if you mentioned his name outside Australia or within you'd get the response Andrew who?