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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
You can watch him in action here: https://bit.ly/3yrGYaL (takes you to a twitter feed as we could not find this footage in mainstream media)
Is
it acceptable for the Deputy Prime Minister to be drunk while being
paid to be on the job when he's in Question Time? The Fair Work
Regulations classify being intoxicated at work a serious misconduct,
which is a valid reason for termination without notice.
Still highly relevant today
He wasn't a born killer. He was highly influenced by where he found himself in American society and who he saw as his leader. His decision wasn't that of an individual.
Australia’s
fossil fuel miners and drillers may be receiving more in government
subsidies than they pay in royalties. An investigation by Callum Foote
lifts the lid on the transfer of wealth from the public to
foreign-controlled resources companies.
THE LAST MAJOR CONFLICT in the Pacific ended over 75 years ago.
Japan, the United States, China and the European colonial powers fought a war that cost millions of lives. It contributed to the downfall of several empires and overturned the regional political order.
Further, the American use of atomic bombs against Japan led to subsequent generations living with the fear of nuclear war.
Public figures in Australia who are now loudly predicting
that a war with China is looming, ought to think carefully about
something like this scenario playing out again. No matter what the
behaviour of the Chinese regime is, or what the status of bilateral
relations are, war is not an option.
In
the Morrison Government, it seems, it’s not nearly as important to know
who knew what happened – or when – in the Brittany Higgins ...
FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION
EXPOSED
DAMN IT, GET VACCINATED. AND GET MORRISON CRACKING
Melbourne
has been shut down again. What a failure of public policy - and Scott
Morrison cannot escape blame. Nor can the Australians who refuse to get
vaccinated.
Melbourne’s latest virus outbreak should send Australians a message: damn it, go get vaccinated.
It should also send a message to the Morrison government: get off your backside.
It’s
crazy that Melbourne is once again teetering on the edge of yet another
devastating city lock down, after 15 people got infected.
Shutting
down Melbourne for the fourth time would represent another massive
failure of public policy, this time caused by politicians too complacent
about keeping Australians in their golden cage.
Look around the world.
Countries smashed by the virus – Britain and the US – are opening up after a huge campaign of vaccinations.
But Australia, which was barely touched, looks close to shutting down its second biggest city.
Andrew Bolt has been in self imposed lock down since the 17/5/21.
One
might think he never really was or is the author of his own blog site and that his
staff writer has been away. The war in Israel which he claims to be so passionate about hardly got a mention. His
last blog complaint was that he couldn't leave the country. He'd been
robbed of that "privilege". Here he is now telling us to "get vaccinated" as if we are the ones holding him back and not Morrison's LNP government. The media, of which Bolt is a central figure, has played a major part in the public reluctance of some Australians to wait.They sensationalized the negative unintended consequences of the science of public health just as they generally do Climate Change pointing out and encouraging doubt.
However the real blame is on Greg Hunt and the LNP who after 3 months have managed to only vaccinate 2% of the population. They have done little or nothing about their quarantine responsibilities and have generally sat back and blamed the states for any failures. The origin of this current lock down is Adelaide or India but the it's the Commonwealth's failed quarantine system has caused our heartache. Let's not forget just how unimportant the origins are to Bolt's insistence on naming them according to their origin. In this case calling it Victorian or Chinese is totally missing the point. Like the misnamed Spanish Flu we might as well call it Dutch. Meanwhile what we do know is Morrison and Hunt are the ones wh have mismanaged our problem and made us 113th in the world when it comes to vaccination roll out programs. They have sat back bragging while ignoring our roll out and vaccination programs. 29 aged-care facilities have been entirely ignored while Morrison keeps on crowing how good he is.
Andrew Bolt from the get go has been against lock downs,against the mandatory wearing of masks, has been blaming the ALP in Victoria and maintaining only the vulnerable need to be vaccinated yet even his favored conservatives have belly flopped. It seems he is one of the "only 2%" that have been vaccinated and now wants his freedom, his privilege to travel. Yes it's a privilege not available to everyone and one that trivial to the much larger issue, Public Health. Go buy a boat Bolt, isolate and sail solo and privileged.
The PM won't sack Laming who not only awarded the LNP branch president two financial grants and broke his promise to Morrison about not running in the next election. Nevertheless, Morrison certainly did call for Christine Holgate's sacking but not Lamings. He talks about "responsibility" in tax payer organizations. Well what is Laming's but more to the point what is Morrison's responsibility as head of the top "taxpayer org?
How does a semi-public organization compete in the private market system? Morrison knows he headed two one here and one in NZ. He never accounted for what he spent when running NZ and AUS tourism his was an unaccounted for $1.6 bill not an accounted for and legitimate $25k so he's fully aware Christine Holgate did not commit a sacking offense. If Holgate was Bob Holgate he wouldn't have suffered the PM's wrath. Laming certainly didn't and Morrison paid him $105,000 to go far more than a watch.
Australia Post is a large organization run by a lot of private franchisees who weren't consulted as to what they thought Christine Holgate. They in fact thought she was fantastic. Morrison however, thought it politically advantageous to see her go and said so loudly ignoring the productive members of Australia post. Morrison and ex-Liberal MPs and apparatchiks sitting on the board made a typical top down decision unrelated to the successful functioning of Australia Post. It's what we have seen Morrison do time and again simply fail in just about everything he's done.
Morrison really does look a Trump a failure as a CEO, and a failure as a leader. He can't make decisions positive outcomes so he throws his problems to others to solve. In the case of Covid-19 it's now the State's problems but he still needs to deliver them his promised vaccines and tell them his "plan". He has none. So instead of answering critical need to know questions he's done a Trump and turned to social media to make his vacuous planless announcements leaving the States to take the blame for his incompetence.
"If I had my time again I would’ve paid $26.7 million too much
for land next to an airport, rather than $20,000 on four watches. I'd
still have a job right now"
He blamed the states then denied it and now he's asking them for help. They were always there doing the work he failed to do but they had no vaccines only Morrisons promises of them. Promises that were never forthcoming and like Trump Morrison just hoped the virus would go away.
The
federal government is looking to states to set up mass vaccination
centres as it goes back to the drawing board to work out how to complete
its faltering vaccination program.
“Scott Morrison is responsible for aged
care workers. These workers are caring for our most vulnerable
Australians and were supposed to be vaccinated by Easter,” he said.
The
Department of Health did not say how many aged or disability care
workers had been vaccinated so far. Instead, a spokeswoman said more
than 153,000 vaccines had been delivered to 1272 aged care facilities
and residential disability homes.
The department also could not
say what percentage of the 318,000 aged and disability care workers were
under the age of 50, but said those over 50 could access an AstraZeneca
vaccine through GPs or Commonwealth-run respiratory clinics.
Denmark has become the first country
to stop using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine altogether over a potential
link to a rare but serious form of blood clot. This is the vaccine
Australia is rolling out now and making in Melbourne.
Do we ask who or what OPEC is? No, it's a cartel whose specific aim is to stop renewable energy taking hold nothing else. Since Abbott do we really need ask who or what the LNP is? No, it's also a cartel in step with the IPA and News Corp whose sole purpose is to prevent the ALP a political Party gaining control. The LNP since Abbott has lied,promised,and has had no observable policies. It has had no plans apart from being a bulwark and reacting to a Party that does. Note, Morrison has spent the last month blundering like a drunken sailor unable to say "these are on the water matters, I can't talk about it" and since the media and not just the ABC have not let up asking "what are your plans for the future" Morrison has fled. He's fled to the safe zone of FaceBook that corporate giant who a month ago he was threatening because it's a platform threatening Murdoch's interests.
The LNP is a cartel and one in retreat looking to be in step with America yes but now that Biden is in not in the same degree as when Trump was President. The GOP is also a cartel on which Morrison has modeled himself on. However, at the same time he wants to be a part of the British Empire rather than an independent Republic. Effectively turning his back on the future and rushing backwards to our colonial past. This government is now declaring itself White, Christian, Western and only Asian if the temporary labor is cheap and our exports wanted. He's not in anyway interested in providing a service to a multicultural Asian democracy in the Pacific region but is a cartel operating in the economic interests of the major corporations who together want to prevent a party that is getting into government. It is a Cartel with a single focus and it's in plain sight. Economically GNP is per head 9% behind other performing nations but worse because the distribution is extremely uneven.
The LNP take credit for what could be regarded as the bungy spring back which was always somewhat predicted. However remain silent on the ever increasing wealth and income gaps. No mention of the shops for lease in every high street in the country or the under employment we see.
Japan’s government
announced Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water
from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two
years. It’s a move that’s fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and
Japan’s neighbors.
The
decision, long speculated at but delayed for years because of safety
worries and protests, came during a meeting of Cabinet ministers who
endorsed the ocean release as the best option.
The
accumulating water has been stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi
plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged its
reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking.
The plant’s storage capacity will be full late next year.
What we found on our front pages for days instead.
A
99 year old man died and people turned to entertainment and away from
propaganda giving politicians like Morrison time to regroup. The British
Public complained about the overkill. Problem with Scooter Morrison
the blunders will continue happening no matter the media distraction. News Corpse Andrew Bolt called it disrespect he certainly had his finger on
Philip's pulse.
A few lessons to be learnt from the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death in the British media:
1. There is absolutely no commercial reason for the media to have
dedicated so much time and space to the Prince’s death. The main
commercial channel ITV, which needs eyeballs on its programmes to
generate income from advertising, saw a 60 per cent drop
in viewing figures after it decided to broadcast endless
forelock-tugging. Audiences presumably deserted to Netflix and Youtube,
where the mood of “national mourning” was not being enforced. Many
viewers, particularly younger ones, have no interest in the fact that a
very old man just died, even if he did have lots of titles.
Movies about class and inequality are back in the mainstream. Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger is a powerful interrogation of the injustices of class and caste society.
Morrison just can't pull a trick what he says will happen simply is guaranteed not to.He no longer wants to face the press but would rather make announcements from FaceBook and give the royalties for that news to News Corp no doubt.
Novavax Inc has pushed back the timeline for hitting its production
target of 150 million COVID-19 vaccine doses per month until the third
quarter due to supply shortages, dealing another blow to the federal
government’s rollout plans.
Australia has an
agreement for 51 million doses of Novavax originally slated for
“mid-2021”, at which point executives had said full-scale vaccine
production could be achieved.
If the lads in the Monkey Pod Room are looking for a new leader. Let's hope it's Peter Dutton. Will it guarantee dictatorship or the return of the ALP?
A wronged woman with a razor-sharp mind and meticulous records is a dangerous creature.
Especially
when delivering a counter punch to a Prime Minister who’d denounced her
in the bully pit of Parliament when he was ill informed, angry and
driven by short-term politics rather than balanced judgment.
Former
Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, appearing before a Senate inquiry
on Tuesday, inflicted a serious blow on Scott Morrison and left
Australia Post chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo badly wounded.
"Recovered
memory" strikes again: "NBA sensation Ben Simmons’s half-brother, Sean
Tribe, has commenced 'urgent' proceedings against their sister, Olivia
Simmons, after she took to social media at the weekend to accuse him of
abusing her as a child in their family’s Melbourne home."
Remember
when Bolt's ex fiance publicly shamed him and he tried to simply called her a
liar. He thought he could slander, defame and libel her and watch her fold. She took him on and was ready to test her truth against his in the courts and it was Bolt who folded. He turned out to be everything she said he
was. He tried to even blame his wife for his misogyny and lies and hidden past.
Here he is rushing in to defend Sean Tribe as if he were defending himself against a woman feigning a mental issue. However, it's a ruse Bolt works for a system that makes money out of reporting and debating events like this but does little to inform us about the patriarchy within which we operate and call normal. "Recovered Memory" strikes again". Accusations like this feed the media but Bolt's response is immediate and misogynist. He denies Olivia Simmons as a person generalizing the truth of her accusation. Even though data shows women are more often sexually molested by family members. Whether or not she was or wasn't molested Andrew Bolt treats her less than reliable from the get go because she's a woman and has "Recovered Memory". In years gone by it was called "hysterics".
However, what is more important is that the media eats this up for commercial reasons. Bolt transforms into a psychologist who doesn't even bother to support an investigation or Olivia's right to accuse her step-brother. It's a pity she can't have it investigated privately but then she's black and her step brother is white. That challenges her right to accuse him doesn't it? The media rights to report the matter before it's investigated outweighs hers as well.
Isn't it time women in the their real numbers felt free and safe to have all their complaints of sexual mistreatment investigated fairly and not be accused by misogynists like Bolt of lacking mental capacity as Bolt does. A system that processes 42,000 complaints only to have less than 11% prosecuted and 2% of them then convicted according to Bolt works. It isn't broken unless your a woman. Men like Bolt slut shame women deny their mental faculties call them liars and have the media support to do just that when ever the want.
Bolt tried that when he was accused of his "distorted memory" by his ex fiancee but women don't always have the power as men to test "he said" "she said" in court. The process being so damaging even if they won. However, in Bolt's case his ex had the strength to take him on and he lost. You'd think he'd been taught a lesson and gained empathy but like Andrew Laming not an iota is to be seen.
A
sign that race-baiting will no longer be tolerated in academia? Or that
a black academic can (just) still tell truths that a white one can't?:
"An Indigenous academic who labelled as racist a study on criminal
offending by Sudanese people in Victoria has apologised to the report’s
author, Dr Stephane Shepherd, who is himself African-Australian."
There is no such thing as "Race Poker" as the " The House of Privilege" always wins. The system within which, and how research is conducted, and the color of those conducting it in this case, is really of no consequence as they are merely a reflection of the racist context, and the racism in which we all reside. The impact of research data weighs differently on Andrew Bolt than it does someone Sudanese, Indigenous, or others of colour. Indigenous are 3% of our pop yet are 25% of our incarcerated peoples. 40% when it comes to indigenous youth only 8% of Australians. The statistics on our children far worse and begin at very early age for issues often not even related to them but to their families and group. Those statistics are much the same for our Sudanese youth why? Because the numbers are the result of a trend to racism in Australia a trend Andrew Bolt denies.
The data collected reflects the history of our institutions that police and supervise us along with the judicial system and processes that have evolved said to be one glove however that never fitted all of us and was never color blind in jobs, education, health, or exclusive to crime alone. We are Racist. However, there was never a time it was going to be admitted so yes the researched data is biased as well. Over policing, profiling, stereotyping, over decades created the statistical outcomes. The outcomes that reflect our racism today.
The "truths" Bolt claims white academics can't speak about are the same typical "truths" Bolt claims show that there was never a Stolen Generation only Indigeneous needed to be welfare policed. There was never according to Bolt ever any historic over policing of the indigenous and none exists towards the Sudanese or Pacific Islanders either. The same systems designed to prevent bad behavior create it and have been generational, repetitive, and psychologically learned and handed down at a cellular level to all the parties concerned and it's always been generated from the top down rarely from the bottom up. So the so called "study of criminal offending by the Sudanese in Victoria" isn't a study of the "dysfunctional policing and limited opportunities given Sudanese youth and their families in racist environment". One might well ask why there is limited data on that? Color has everything to do with but not the color of academics. It has a lot to do with the color of the data available and the perspective from which it was taken along with the underlying values and funding.
Yes Andrew Bolt there is a two hundred year history of Stolen Indigenous Children whose stories are hidden in the data falsely initiated. Data you claim denies that. Data that reflects the racist nature and continues to do that even today.
