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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.
Liberal faction bosses in NSW have devastated the federal party. They backed Malcolm Turnbull, now campaigning against the Liberals. Next, they want to drive Jim Molan out of the Senate. They fear the intelligence and independence of this distinguished Major General and great Australian. But here is how you can save Jim and defy the wreckers.
"A party that thinks Molan is too good for them is a party too gutless and brainless to vote for." Bolt
The tail continues to wag the dog in the Liberal Party. Via the support of its ally News Corp, aka the Murdoch Party whose core and business model PR for profit. An entirely privatised media News Corp has no interest in news or information just influence for sale. Its aim is the eradication of the ABC anyone who provides a channel for good questioning on behalf of Australians. Every effort is made to diminishing rather than the improving Democracy in Australia and the Anglosphere.
Tony Abbott remains Murdoch's great white hope when he doesn't put his foot in his mouth an impossible task. It's to rid Australia of the only real mainstream news and information service in the country the ABC. The only service that holds the government to function no matter their political persuasion. As such the Independent statuary body is particularly hated by News Corp and Rupert Murdoch because the contrast crosses the Murdochian goal of selling influence as successfully done by Fox News in the US.
Bolt speaks of the "intelligence and independence" of Jim Molan who aligned himself with the equivalent of the UK's Nazi Party Britain First seemingly apologising not for their ideas but getting caught in ignorance. Molan is the Liberal embarrassment and equivalent of Independent Senator Fraser Anning
What is doubly amusing is Andrew Bolt "No Foul No Favour" is setting his blog site as a micro Get UP site for funding the tail of the Liberal Party against none other than the Liberal Party. No pretence to News Corp's slogan in America "Fair and Balanced" here.
Across the world, demagogues have deftly exploited bigotry to whip up anger using incidents of murder and rape. Increasingly, social media has become an effective way to weaponise tragic acts and use them for partisan political goals. In Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany party has singularly focused on several cases of murders committed by refugees to intensify hatred of Middle Eastern immigrants. In Myanmar, lurid stories posted on Facebook detailing purported acts of rape and murder by the Muslim Rohingya minority against the Buddhist majority were used to justify a brutal ethnic cleansing in the northwest Rakhine State. In some cases, the stories were false. Viral stories that focus on the identity of killers to stoke ethnic tension can also be found in India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and beyond. In the U.S., there is a long history of racist violence following politicians’ focus on crimes — real or imagined — by particular minority groups. Across the ideological spectrum, many on social media continue to fixate on the racial or ethnic identity of criminals. Trump’s embrace of the strategy now appears to have reverberated across the Republican Party, with GOP lawmakers now openly encouraged to stoke fear over immigrant crime.
As far back as 2011, the Australian PM Scott Morrison was encouraging the use of creating ethnic and racial division as the strategy to help promote the Liberal political agenda. He was actually encouraging Party support for it as far back as the Cronulla riots in 2005. He saw that the party support of this division ethnic and racial with media backing of 2GB and News Corp would garner votes. In fact with Abbott rise to PM Islamophobia went from 9% to 33%. Yes, it might have been the rise of Tony Abbott to the leadership that clinched it, but it was Morrison's strategy before and after the election of 2013. It resulted in Team Australia, the establishment of the ABF and our harsh offshore detention regime.
Since the world has noticed Australia's ultra-conservative border protection policies which seem to have been adopted by the right wing globally. Racism and ethnic hatred has been emphasised to establish community fear, and in that regard, Scott Morrison PM could, in fact, be dubbed the political genius of modern political hate spread with the supported of MSM groups like Fairfax today Ch9 and in particular News Corp otherwise known here as the Murdoch Party (ODT)
LIAM NEESON IS A SORRY RACIST
COLUMN Actor Liam Neeson insists: “I’m not racist.” I hate to join the Twitter mob, but actually, Liam, you are. Or at least you’re a sorry one, for saying you once looked for a "black bastard" to kill - just any black man - in revenge for the rape of a friend. Collective punishment for a "race" is racist.
This is Both a PAYWALL and a repetition of yesterday's post
Neeson, unlike Kerry Anne Kennerly as I said yesterday with 20/20 vision in hindsight revealed that every racist culture if one scratches the surface creates a social psychology in all appearance as normative but is, in fact, racist bigotry internalised by those raised in it and it's regarded as usual and is often hidden under the surface.
The difference between Bolt and Neeson is Bolt believes and tries to promote the myth of "reverse racism" where the anger of the oppressed with the boot of their oppressors on their throat is flipped as racism by Bolt and who then cries, victim. The systemic structure history and behavioural trends that create an unequal hierarchy of privilege and disadvantage based on race are ignored.
Kick Turnbull out is the desperate call disallowing private citizens to be members of the Liberal Party. Bolt's "many" media is in fact "most" media, and he has become, no, always was the tail trying to wag the media dog on this issue. Democracy is for Bolt a weak system of politics. Betrayal, however, is when Tony Abbott refusing to resign from the Parliamentary Party promised to be a supporter simply sniped and backstabbed his team from the backbench a vast difference. Bolt was a great supporter of that and declared it as his Democratic freedom but not so in the case of Turnbull.
Trivia dressed as importance by Bolt who spent concentrated energy on Julia Gillard's personal looks dress and life more so than any male leader has and now defending Scott Morrison when he didn't Julia Gillard. Yes, in this case, it's trivia dressed insult by men whose intense bullying of women stans on record.
Pope Francis publicly acknowledges the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns for the first time, saying he is committed to doing more to fight the problem
The pride the right and conservatives hold in Western Culture seems rose-tinted and false. People like Andrew Bolt would be far better off considering the negative aspects Western Culture brought to the planet when slavery or human property became redefined and labour disguised as Industry. Colonialism defined as progress and Science and ideas privatised as Intellectual Property. Western Culture created the acceleration of a class system unheralded privatisation of everything today under its false canopy and temporary veneer of progress.Yet beneath it, all depravity reined in our Institutions flouted as the highest moral orderPR shylocks like News Corp's Dorian Gray Andrew Bolt (ODT)
THE JUSSIE SMOLLET STORY: WHAT DOESN'T FIT
We were told Empire star Jussie Smollett was attacked by two homophobic racists shouting Trump slogans - thugs who threw chemicals on him and put a noose around his neck that they just happened to be carrying at 2am. The media Left eagerly treated this anti-Trump story as true, but so much doesn't fit. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
Repeating not only himself but could be accused of nicking the doubts of the conservative online mag American Thinker Bolt's back disparaging Jussie Smollet not because he's lying plenty of whites lie Andrew Bolt does but just because Smollet is not white. Bolt expected his story that he was working as a bouncer to a belly dancer and that they weren't engaged as automatically to be taken as the truth. After all, he is Andrew Bolt. Well, that blew up in his face he was being supported and kept by his long term partner to whom he had given an engagement ring as a pledge of marriage which he denied. Furthermore, she was a teacher and not as exotic as he would have liked us believe and his excuse he hadn't told any of this to his wife as he was trying to protect her with Don Quixote chivalry all bullshit. Bolt continued with his lie until threatened with a lawsuit by his ex-fiance. He then folded like a cheap suit. Admitting he told stories he wanted you to hear to pump himself up and make him look less like the misogynist he really is.
Bolt is saying "I'm not saying it's a lie" yet he uses the story as a convenient weapon to 1 ) declare it was raised by the media not merely as a reportable item but as an attack on Trump. Trump even acknowledged the story and didn't make any such implications as Bolt does. He doesn't use it or apply it as fake. 2) In the accompanying videos Bolt cuts to make it seem as if what the two women are saying is somehow connected to the Smollet story when they aren't. They are referring to Trump's daily behaviours and what he does do and say. Bolt, in fact, doesn't connect any dots he creates them to build the conclusion he wants to arrive at and is doing it dishonestly just as Walter Mitty Bolt did when he said he was working as a minder to a belly dancer.
There is no room for debate here Smollet is on the other side of the planet, and Andrew Bolt feels smug with his bullshit editorial suggesting that a coloured man is bullshitting simply to defame Trump. No Bolt has a get out clause to his hypothetical "I'm not saying it's false but" and he's doing it racially in plain sight no matter the truth.
The issue is there is no room for debate in the format of the Bolt Report it's purely a platform for right-wing propaganda. His blog is moderated, and the radio shows you find him on are too. Any news and information is cherry-picked and delivered to arrive at pre-ordained conclusions and this is a fine example.
Be warned Bolt's link is Breitbart renowned for Fake News
" Yet, the analysis reveals substantial heterogeneity within admission
class and points to an important role of host‐country schooling for
successful immigrant labor market integration." If you want an improved immigration system you need to prepare for it is what Bolt leaves out of his post. If you import unskilled labor you won't miraculously get skilled. Nobody says immigrants shouldn't be vetted furthermore immigrants aren't refugees who are a minor group in need. Bolt however targets refugees not immigrants and when he does he's is ultra racist for a purpose.
Racism for political purpose goes back as far as the 70s when "Rock Against Racism" fought the UK's National Front. The politics of Racism is reflected in our statistics as it is in Norway. The Norwegian figures tell us there are Andrew Bolt's in Norway just as there are here. Racism has loomed larger because of the right wing and ultra Nationalists and not despite them. It appears Bolt now uses those statistics from the furthest place on the globe Norway to predict what will happen here if. Well it's self fulfilling prophecy if he can make racism grow there will be the "i told you so result" he wants. Focus is entirely taken off the fact as to why refugees are here in the first place... War. He could just as well have warned us that imprisonment rates of indigenous Australians have gone up and are now 65% of the prison population in NSW . I wonder what will happen in the next 65,000 years will it be 100%. The laws are being tightened as is sentencing which will ensure more Indigenous Australians are put away, According to Bolt they are to blame for things getting worse on most social indicators. The problem Bolt avoids is acknowledging if the system fails to help people survive they turn and create systems of their own in order to survive. So if Bolt can't make black people turn white his solution is a Final One get rid of them and we know that political thinking is not new.. For almost 2 decades we have seen conservatives turn up the heat on racism for political reasons it culminated in a call to war by 2GB's Alan Jones at Cronulla and has been intensified ever since then. So yes it's inevitable that as long as immigration and it's most visible forms are pointed out and used politically race, colour religion and culture you will inevitably get what you ask for a self fulfilling particularly when media organizations like News Corp are participants. You don't need to be a migrant for that to occur just an Indigenous Australian. They become the victims in the conservative fight to maintain power. If Andrew Bolt keeps calling you a fuckwit and you eventually respond he'll get even louder and say see!!!As for the Indigenous Australians Bolt once called them "white " that you couldn't tell who is an Aborigine from an Australian like him. Apparently the NSW they can. Back in the 70s Rock Against Racism was a reaction to the Bolt's of the day the National Front back then and One Nation today. Abbott and Howard stole there political position back then and will again today and we will see pushback to their division of Austalia and we will hear "see I told you so again and again and again from Bolt" who is the voice of Enoch Powell
Scandanavia just one such place. Using Bolt's approach to the post above overseas comparison. In countries where Education is free the results are rising. We chose the American model of education user pays and comparatively we are no longer the worlds best but we are the worlds most expensive. Notice Bolt blames this on Turnbull "who hasn't worked out why standards are falling". Abbott wanted to privatize the the tertiary system totally with no cap on fees just like the USA whose education system is in a nose dive. We are now using the 457 visa to import knowledge and I'm sure Bolt thinks that's fine too because it's cheaper except he hates the number of Indians and other colored migrants he sees in our hospitals and IT services.
2) The key take out it took 2 centuries of human activity to where we are today an increase in the CO2 levels never recorded before and less and less of a deniers attitude to Climate Change. However it's now expected that policies put in place today need to show that there has been an immediate reversal or else they are a waste of time. Solar, Wind, Hydro solutions to clean energy are a waste of time? The fact is Clean Energy solutions today are cheaper than traditional solutions and employ more people
3) Why do people like Bolt need to turn to the naysayers like Lindzen and Borg when and if their interests aren't being fulfilled and pay them for their denials? Remeber Borg Abbott was going bump his income by millions to have him here when even the Koch Bros had dumped him. Why can't the admit the race is lost and it seems Australia is the last stand of the luddites.
The Guardian reported in June 2016 that Lindzen has been a beneficiary of Peabody Energy, a coal company that has funded multiple groups contesting the climate consensus.[71]Lindzen has been called a contrarian, in relation to climate change and other issues.[72][73][74] Lindzen's graduate students describe him as "fiercely intelligent, with a deep contrarian streak."[75] The characterization of Lindzen as a contrarian has been linked to
his view that lung cancer has only been weakly linked to smoking.
Writing in Newsweek,
Fred Guterl stated "Lindzen clearly relishes the role of naysayer.
He'll even expound on how weakly lung cancer is linked to cigarette
smoking. He speaks in full, impeccably logical paragraphs, and he
punctuates his measured cadences with thoughtful drags on a cigarette"[76] – an observation that was later echoed by Robyn Williams.[77]
Gosh why didn't Australia obey International protocols when they illegally bombed Syria and illegally invaded Iraq. Why is Bolt being so anal for rules when he supports the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. Bolt yells and rants and even gets convicted for breaking rules like the Chinese. Well the Chinese it seems is mirroring behavior Bolt actually approves of. He just hates Julie Bishop and the fact that she ranks so much higher than Tony Abbott should Turnbull fall.
Gary Johns is talking yes but feet are for dancing and not thinking as he is doing. The obsession with renewables is not an idealized political ideology it's a economic reality. Investors are queued up taking their money out of the fossil fuel industry the only thing holding them back in Australia is the politics. The money is being spent anyway ask AGL, Origin, Eugenie, as they are waving coal goodbye. Westpac and the private sector aren't Labor voters or obsessed with any pipe dream today's pipe dream is Adani.
Islam 73 nations and cultures practice Islam which has as many sects and branches as as Christianity if not more most of whom 1.3 billion people are not adhering to some idealized form. The only people that are is ISIS and those that believe ISIS is Islam and that in the main are the extreme right Conservatives like Andrew Bolt who found advantage in episodes like the Cronulla rights to win votes. 2GB was an active participant in in encouraging those riots it wasn't the actions of the Labor Party and it continues today.
So Bolt has to recruit his Troll Peter BH who recruits a writer from the Australian and yes a balanced journalist from guess where the ABC that den of leftist thinking which employs a Labor voter like Donnelly. So it's everybody against Turnbull not Abbott who was going to cut funding to Catholic schools and did. Bolt's banner makes out it's just Catholic schools but it's not it's the Independent schools as well. However Donnelly points out it's the low fee paying schools as well the schools Bolt generally doesn't think twice about. Nobody points out however that it's on the basis of need that the the schools are to be chosen. Further more Turnbull's return to Gonski is a review of needs based funding so the threat and fight Turnbull is picking is not "with the Catholics" as Bolt tries to make out but over funded private schools.
Bolt is against infra structure spending, education and national growth need to be cut. He wants to stop cut Immigration and Education for all and there's no doubt he has expectations about where those cuts should be made and how. The fact the homeless are so obvious on our streets today doesn't phase him at all because they can be moved or processed. Remember it was Tony Abbott who raised the debt ceiling not Labor nor Turnbull. Abbott didn't spend it on good debt did he it was all flags uniforms war against the world and even Australians that didn't fit his expectations of of who we are. British Monarchist European Australia and all trumpets were blowing. How is it Bolt and Abbott's expectations of this country are so divorced from reality? Most mentally ill people wind up in hospital because of their inability to distinguish the difference. Their understanding isn't derived from the rational analysis of facts and it's why they are so intent on reducing any Institution that practices it. The ABC, Education, and Sciences in general. Labour's NBN was good idea based on a need to take Australia's communication system into the future until Abbott fucked it declaring it little more than an entertainment system we could ill afford and that MXT will do the same. Nobody could have been so wrong and we have slid to 60th plus in the world in efficient communication. Abbott however spent money lavishly on defence but we don't make weapons so we failed to gain any benefit from his Buy it from the Japanese scheme. Now Bolt says increased investment in Education is a bad debt and not strategic spending. Educating our kids is a bad investment in the future like the subs we can import the required smartness at cheaper rates from overseas when and if necessary. It's actually safer according to conservatives to have a dumbed down nation one populated non thinking voters lured into debt. The problem Bolt's expectations are so removed from the reality in which we live all he's doing is hiding truth for the purpose maintaining the interests of only a small group of Australians. There is no room for debate or any exchange in Bolt's world because you don't exist only his expectation of you exists and that is always a disappointment. Don't forget he was a minder to a belly dancer and his belly dancer poured shit on that fantasy.
" Has Machado ever had a “disgusting” leaked “sex tape,” as Trump stated,
or has she ever filmed hardcore porn, as many Trump allies and her
conservative critics have alleged this week?"
As
usual Bolt is doing a Trump firstly by posting a link that doesn't work.
Promising the world if only you paid attention to him but in fact offering nothing and secondly beating up a lie as fi it where the truth.
Why is he defending Trump? Does he really believe he has the makings of a President? "Trump appears to have been referring to racy footage from a
Spanish-language reality television show called La Granja, on which she
appeared in 2005." Who is
denying that a tape exists? What's being denied is that Trump a serial
adulterer who has himself appeared on soft porn sites is disparaging a
woman.. It's what Bolt loved doing with his mate Tim Blair basically running women down calling them fright bats when ever they expressed an opinion Farralley, Ford are just some among many. I guess Bolt is saying "Je Suis Trump" which we knew anyway. https://youtu.be/U8ZM58O_gBo
"But has
Machado ever had a “disgusting” leaked “sex tape,” as Trump stated, or
has she ever filmed hardcore porn, as many Trump allies and her
conservative critics have alleged this week?
No, there is zero evidence for that, as The Daily Beast previously reported.
And
if we are going to talk about public figures behaving badly on
reality-TV shows in the past, then we might as well start with the GOP
presidential nominee himself, who once talked to a woman on The Apprentice, his NBC reality series, about “dropping to [her] knees” and how that “must be a pretty picture.”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on their candidate’s latest claim.
Furthermore, this isn't even
Trump's first foray into sex-tape pronouncements. In a 2003 interview
with Howard Stern, Trump admitted to watching Paris Hilton's famous sex
tape—despite knowing her since the age of 12 and being close friends with the Hilton family."
