Fighting Fake News with REAL 31/1/22 Newspoll! Aged- Care; Kaye Lee; Trump incites Americans to Riot;

 

 

When the world judged Australia the best economy and Wayne Swan the best treasurer during the GFC the L-NP bellowed they were the worst. Now when world comparisons with other nations show their 8-year slide Barnaby Joyce makes out they are the better managers. Yes, Barnaby Joyce who showed us he couldn’t manage his own life let alone the nation's is running point guard for Scott Morrison who has a history of sackings for bad management. It’s time, time for his third sacking.

The opposition is ahead 56-44 on a two-party-preferred basis – the Coalition’s worst polling performance since September 2018 – according to the latest Newspoll survey conducted for The Australian newspaper. As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, Labor has increased its lead since the last poll on December 6 when it was ahead 53-47. Labor’s primary vote is up three points to 41 per cent while the Coalition has dropped two points to 34 per cent. For the first time, more voters surveyed thought Labor was better placed to steer Australia out of the COVID-19 pandemic (33 per cent) compared with the coalition (32 per cent). Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said the pandemic made things tough but economic growth and a low unemployment rate were signs of good economic management.

Source: Coalition defends slump in latest Newspoll

 

Aged-care residents are being forced to isolate in their rooms without visits from family members for “weeks on end” as COVID-19 rips through the sector. Government figures show more than 1100 aged-care homes are now battling active outbreaks, with 222 elderly residents dying of COVID-19 in the week to January 27. All the while homes are having to get by with fewer workers.

Source: Booster rollout questioned as COVID aged care outbreaks surge

 

When the Prime Minister chooses his Ministry, he has many things to consider – reward for support, factions, states, urban/country, diversity, longevity of service. Merit doesn’t get a look in. Or perhaps this bunch are the best the Coalition has?

Source: The best a man can get – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Donald Trump, retired former blogger and twice impeached loser, had a rally of some sort in Texas on Saturday night. It was filled with the usual “lock her up” chants, conspiracy theories, lies, and right wing hysteria. One section really stood out to me, though. After ranting about investigations into him and his businesses, he actually encouraged his followers and cult members to riot and protest.

Source: Trump Desperate To See Riots In DC, Atlanta, And NYC | Crooks and Liars

 

Trump is doing what America and American governments have done since WW2. He demanded to be America’s first Public Dictator and has called for an army to anoint him as such.

America tried to do it in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and lost but by and large were successful in El Salvador , Honduras, Panama, Chile throughout the Americas and so many other countries around the world in open defiance of any UN resolutions. They have defended Israel and other client states allowing them to do the same. It was just business. Now a Despot, the mirror image of what they wanted, and allowed in so many other countries, has been provided with the same opportunity that successive American governments offered others and he's tearing a nation that was always being stretched apart.

John Dean, 83, was White House counsel from 1970 to 1973 before being disbarred and detained as a result of the Watergate scandal, which led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Dean responded to Trump on Twitter. “This is beyond being a demagogue to the stuff of dictators,” he wrote. “He is defying the rule of law. Failure to confront a tyrant only encourages bad behaviour. If thinking Americans don’t understand what Trump is doing and what the criminal justice system must do we are all in big trouble!”

Source: Trump pardon promise for Capitol rioters ‘stuff of dictators’ – Nixon aide | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Fighting Fake News with REAL 30/1/22; Morrison's lack of integrity; Andrew Bolt hasn't moved;

 

My thought for the day Just because we are governed by clowns doesn’t mean it is a laughing matter. The first duty of any government, if they don’t already have it, is the acquisition of integrity. PS: When actions speak louder than words. Congratulations, Grace Tame. ( John Lord )

Source: For ‘lack of integrity’ the Morrison government scores an A+ – » The Australian Independent Media Network

  

He may buy politicians but never the Aussie public

FIGHTING FAKE NEWS WITH REAL IN 2022

“Toxic Femininity?” Guess whose back the standard-bearer of “polluted masculinity. The self-proclaimed role model for males. An ageist, adult who claims to lead the way on manners and how we all should present ourselves in public.

Andrew Bolt who’d prefer to live in the Netherlands even though born here tells us how we should respect Australia Day.  The braggart who once crowed he worked as a ” belly dancer’s minder”. It turned out she was his fiancee and minder supporting him when he was unemployed. A fact, but his ego so big, he kept it  hidden from his wife and family. Yes, even when the truth came out he claimed he was Sir Galahad and was “protecting his wife Sally”?

When challenged by his latter-day ex to tell the “truth”  the little prick doing a Walter Mitty to enlarge himself in the eyes of his public called her the liar. A step too far, and when challenged with court action the troll folded like a cheap suit. He was forced to admit he was the ill-mannered, lout, cad, douchebag and was everything she said he was, the low-life and toxic male.

Bolt will be replaced but very quickly forgotten by history while Grace Tame won’t. Her photo with Morrison is the kill-shot that will be remembered for years to come and discussed. The shot that will be talked about in the history classes of the future long after the suit-wearing tent preacher behind the desk, Andrew Bolt, seen on Murdoch’s Sky News is forgotten.

Australian of  the Year Dylan Alcott also had a lot to criticize Morrison for and stands shoulder to shoulder with Grace on so many things but Bolt ignores him.

I never expected class from Grace Tame. She was too young and thoughtless to handle being Australian of the Year. No, the real problem with her pathetic rudeness to Scott Morrison is that it was cheered by so many people – especially women. Time we talked about toxic femininity.

We hear so much about “toxic masculinity”. After Grace Tame’s tantrum on Tuesday, dare we finally ask if there’s also a “toxic femininity”?

I’ve seen toddlers with better manners than Tame showed Prime Minister Scott Morrison at an event to mark the end of her term as Australian of the Year.

She glowered at him. She pulled faces. She returned his politeness – and that of wife Jenny – with a contempt meant to be seen from the moon.

Pathetic, yet many people actually praised her rudeness.

Source: Toxic Tame shows grace is no longer a virtue | Herald Sun

 

The Murdoch "Brand" was once proudly declared "fair and balanced". Sky News after Dark came into being and has never been. Andrew Bolt's complaint advertises and amplifies just that. News.com.au doesn't mirror biased, blinkered Fake News delivered to us by the Bolt Report, along the extremist right-wing garbage he puts out. The the Australian mime of Fox News.   It's now 2022, and the pathologically obsessed racist Andrew Bolt continues his one-sided solo attack on Bruce Pascoe. Bruce certainly pays no attention to screaming white nationalist banshee Andrew Bolt. 

 When Indigenous Australians claim our history is a continuous 46,000 years they are being inclusive. Bolt with his Colonial mindset tries to remind us that Australia is only really 225 years old and day one white day 26/1/1788 was the begining of time. Hold the thought because it's coming from Andrew Bolt who born here would prefer to live in Amsterdam and who maintains he's really Dutch because he "feels" Dutch. He's even a generous white man because he once had an Aboriginal friend. That statement alone shows he sees first nation peoples as exclusive Australians. He certainly made that clear with his ignorant attack and treatment of Adam Goodes.

 Bruce Pascoe on the other hand is proud of being included in the very long history of this continent. He "feels" indigenous"and definitely a proud Australian prepared to fix the wrongs of the past. Bolt should be ashamed of declaring he's white because the majority of Australians the younger generation are.

Did the ABC take over Rupert Murdoch's News Corp when I was asleep? First we joined the great global warming scare campaign, backing a net-zero target with fake arguments. Now news.com.au is campaigning to change the date of Australia Day, running an article that rewrites history and treats the untruths of "Aboriginal" Bruce Pascoe as gospel.

Trashing the Murdoch brand

Forget the good climate news: Bruce Pascoe shows white is black

Trashing the Murdoch brand

 

Trashing the Murdoch brand

Did the ABC take over Rupert Murdoch's News Corp when I was asleep? First we joined the great global warning scare campaign, backing a net-zero target with fake arguments. Now news.com.au is campaigning to change the date of Australia Day, running an article that rewrites history and treats the untruths of "Aboriginal" Bruce Pascoe as gospel.