Fighting Fake News with REAL 29/10/21; The Shovel; JobKeeper,JobMaker and No Workers??

 

 

"The Coalition is very committed to doing the absolute least required"

Government shows commitment to reducing waste by developing environmental policy on back of envelope 

 

Is Australia any different? Only in that our labour shortages are presently more patchy. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry called for the numbers of skilled migrants to be doubled to 200,000 people a year. And a terrifying ABC piece recently celebrated the introduction of a Hunger Games employment paradigm for local strawberry picking. Ten strawberry pickers were to be given a one in a hundred chance of winning a $100,000 bonus in a lottery if they signed on to the job. Employers could have, of course, just paid those people an extra $1,000. I guess they didn’t want the employees to share collective confidence in their own labour value.

That would rather cause the whole rotten system to come crashing down, wouldn’t it? And that – as the neoliberals and employers know – is the truth that lies beneath.

So what jobs did JobKeeper actually save and what jobs did JobMaker really create if there is that much desperation coming out of the pandemic? We know they casualised the labor force gave workers the opportunity of 3 jobs that made them poorer and still unable to pay their bills. It's what Gower referred to when she said  " We need to harness the proles". 

This nation's future might better be harnessed by a restructuring of our corporate systems from adversarial to cooperative, progressive and looking for beneficial outcomes for everyone and not just billionaires CEOs and their shareholders who largely account for 1% of Australia.

Can’t find workers? Why not pay more instead of exploiting children and migrants

Fighting Fake News with REAL 17/10/21; Biodiversity; Frydenberg, Exclusive Brethren;

 

 

 How is it Morrison's and Barnaby Joyce's LNP are not about preserving Fossil Fuels but expanding their extraction by an increasingly automated industry intent on saving costs and maximizing profits by minimizing jobs and most cases leaving a trashed landscape behind

Curb climate change to protect biodiversity

Kooyong’s own Harvard wiz-kid needs to go along with Joyce, Taylor and a host of others who squander our money for their benefit.

It turns out the very business lobbyists who stood to benefit most from JobKeeper were regularly advising the Government on JobKeeper. Callum Foote and Michael West report how $40bn was squandered and the role of corporate spinners Business Council of Australia and AI Group.

Source: Business whispers: how Treasurer Josh Frydenberg squandered $40bn on JobKeeper – Michael West Media

 

Where did the Exclusive Brethren sink to?

 

OneSchool Global, which is associated with the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, a group that refers to outsiders as ‘worldlies’, has received an estimated $9 million in payments.

$9m JobKeeper payments made to school linked to ‘cult’

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 15/10/21; Mental Health, JobKeeper, BratKeeper, Who pays?

 

 

 

But here’s the crucial takeaway, the last phrase of which is omitted by CNBC:

 “What I would love to do is communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see how vuln– the vulnerability of everything. It so small. This air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver. It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe. It’s negligible, this air. Mars doesn’t have it. It’s so thin. And to dirty it…” “The jeopardy . . . And to dirty it!”

 To fill this precious atmosphere, unique in our solar system, with clouds of burned coal dust and with greenhouse gases, Shatner says, is . . . what? Despicable. Unthinkable.

 “To Dirty it!” On how For-Profit News Obscured William Shatner’s Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight

 

An untreated mental illness can significantly increase the risk of becoming physically ill, and physical disorders may result in behaviours that make mental conditions worse.

The devastating ways depression and anxiety affect the body

 

Mental health

To make your mind a nicer place to live, think of it as a houseboat

Clive Palmer Spotted Trying To Ingest Whole Tonne Of Hydroxychloroquine He Bought Before It Expires On Docks 

The burning of fossil fuels is killing us

 

 

Blessed are the rich, for theirs are the taxes of the poor! Elite private schools gorged themselves on JobKeeper despite their profits, on top of Pandemic stimulus payments, and as well as trousering a bigger slice of the federal funding pie at the expense of public schools. Trevor Cobbold investigates the latest hand-outs.

BratKeeper: profitable private schools purloin JobKeeper, pandemic payments too

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 1/10/21 Morrison's Career; Get Job Keeper out of sight; Farce yes Fascism not yet; Hospital Crisis; Cartoons; Trump

 

 

 

Unlike the US trip, Scott Morrison would get no plaudits at Glasgow. He’d be seen, as best, as the under-performer who, facing enormous pressure, had lifted his game to a greater or lesser degree.

Morrison’s career lives or dies in the next few months

 

 A federal review of the $89 billion JobKeeper scheme found 31 per cent of recipients who triggered compliance checks were “not eligible at all” for the mammoth wage subsidy, sparking efforts to recover cash from thousands of companies that made false claims.

Bogus staff, fudged losses exposed in Jobkeeper, thousands of businesses were ineligible

 

 Is Australia on the path to being a fascist state? Despite the recent anti-lockdown protests being hijacked by the far-Right, Dr Martin Hirst argues “not yet”.

From fascism to farce to the next election

 

‘The system is buckling’: Elective surgery cut back as health workers feel the strain

 

 

In 1776, the United States was founded in North America. It boasted of being the city upon the hill and that its mission was to promote "democracy" to the world.

Yet what it loves most is war. During its 245 years of existence, less than 20 have been without a war.

 

By massacring the Indigenous peoples and grabbing territory from Mexico, it expanded to the western coast of the continent;

 

By selling weapons and materials to belligerents, it made a big fortune in the two world wars. It became a superpower and has intervened around the world.

  

The US people pay for the militarism of their politicians, because the huge costs of war are paid by them in taxes.

 

  

And many US soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress on returning home. From 2008 to 2016, data show that 6,000 US veterans committed suicide each year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 One of Portugal’s largest banks is holding up a $12.7 million order to fund shipment of medical supplies and vaccines to Venezuela.

U.S. Sanctions Blamed as Venezuela Laments Frozen Order for Medicine

 

Donald Trump is preparing to sue to block the release of White House records from his administration to the House select committee scrutinizing the 6 January attack on the Capitol by claiming executive privilege, potentially touching off an extended legal battle over disclosure. The former president also expects top aides – former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, strategist Steve Bannon and defense department aide Kash Patel – to defy select committee subpoenas for records and testimony. Trump’s moves to try to resist the select committee, informed by a source familiar with his planning, are likely to lead to constitutional clashes in court that would test the power of Congress’s oversight authority over the executive branch.

 Trump plans to sue to keep White House records on Capitol attack secret | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 7/9/21; Murdoch Gladys, Memes, Cartoons, Humour, JobKeeper AHRC, Andrews,

 

 

 

Why has it still, until very recently, been intellectually respectable in Australia to be a climate change sceptic, when that is no longer tenable in most countries in the world?

At least partly because News Corporation has tethered the debate at that end of the spectrum.

News Corporation has been heading into an intellectual, financial and even existential dead end. Advertisers flinched. The chances of renewing the ageing readership were disappearing. As successive surveys show, the outlets were losing audience trust.

News Corporation will still be trying to shape the debate, but it has been forced to shift ground to do so. That’s significant.

It may be too late. News Corporation may already be losing its grip. It’s something to watch.

 

News Corp’s shift on emissions coverage reveals something about the nature and limitations of the power of the Murdoch organisation.

News Corp’s shift on emissions reveals limitations of power

News Corp Calls For Urgent Action On Y2K Bug

“Y2K is starting to become a real concern for our readers"

 

This is a matter of fact not an endorsement of everything Chinese

JobKeeper payments flowed to a string of upmarket luxury brands, with some able to increase their profits in the depths of a recession.

Gucci, Cartier, Bulgari: Millions in JobKeeper for luxury retailers

Big business doesn’t vote, small business does. That’s the dilemma for Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg as they try to keep JobKeeper secret heading into the election. Michael West reports.

 Political Dynamite: JobKeeper for billionaires a campaign wrecker for Morrison, Frydenberg – Michael West Media

 

Why is the Australian government devoid of any original strategic tactics of it’s own? Every move they make is directly from Trump’s American Republican Party the GOP? They don’t appear to have any specific tactics that are in any way Australian. They aren’t in anyway transparent but only intent on gaslighting the Australian electorate.

Yesterday the federal government quietly appointed Lorraine Finlay as the next human rights commissioner. She is a Murdoch University legal academic and human trafficking specialist with the Australian mission to ASEAN. Media releases from Attorney-General Michaelia Cash and the Australian Human Rights Commission both praised Finlay’s academic expertise and work in international human rights law. But they neglected to mention hers deep ties to the Liberal Party, as a former upper house candidate in Western Australia and president of the state’s Liberal women’s council. They also overlooked her years spent vocally taking positions that might put her at odds with the AHRC.

 The new human rights commissioner has perfect credentials (Lib, IPA, 18c)

 

 

The media has reported on Victoria and NSW's handling of COVID-19 in vastly different and inequitable ways, writes Dr Victoria Fielding.

Media bias for Berejiklian and against Andrews is clear

We join NSW’s Premier Gladys Berejiklian at her daily 11 am press conference.

Gladys boasts about how her Government is teaching us to 'live with COVID'

 By Ad astra This is a short piece. There is no need for lots of words. Images are sufficient. Have you noticed the cluster of loud-mouthed men that has appeared recently on our Melbourne streets, fists raised, shouting messages of defiance directed at our those in authority? Who are they? What is their…

What is revving up the bully boys?

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Fighting Fake News with REAL 2/9/21 JobKeeper Social Welfare for the Wealthy; Frydenberg Burns, Costs of War; Fox Effen Murdoch and its Propaganda

 

 

 

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and his big business patrons are in crisis mode amid rising demands to end the JobKeeper cover-up and disclose the transfer of billions to from average Australians to large and profitable companies. Michael West on the unfolding political drama.

 High-End Heist: Josh sells Pauline the dummy, JobKeeper heat rises – Michael West Media

 

•  LNP's -Social Welfare
  
• Earlier this year, 7.30 revealed about one in six businesses receiving JobKeeper suffered no fall in turnover during the first three months of the program
• New data reveals approximately 20,000 companies tripled their turnover, yet accrued nearly $370m during those three months
• An additional 15,000 companies doubled their turnover compared to the same quarter in 2019, yet earned approximately $320m in JobKeeper

JobKeeper went to thousands of companies whose turnover tripled at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

 A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars.

The 9/11 WarsOver Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion

A new study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich is providing some early statistical confirmation of something that doctors have only been able to report anecdotally: Fox News may actually be dragging down the COVID-19 vaccination rates of its own viewers — specifically, among younger viewers who Fox personalities insist don’t need to bother with it.

Swiss study finds connection between watching Fox News and vaccination rates going down | Media Matters for America

 

Biden Comforts Terrified Defence Contractors: “There’ll Be Another War Soon”

Fighting Fake News with REAL;25/3/21; Morrison's Achievable and Unachievable policies; Racism at a cellular level;

 

 Morrison's Achievable Policy

 

Welfare Recipient Down To His Last 193 Retail Department Stores

“A lot of people don’t know what it’s like to live year to year, not knowing where your next $22 million cheque from the government is going to come from.

Morrison's Unachievable Policiy

After months of repeatedly assuring Australians public our vaccine rollout is on track, health department secretary Brendan Murphy has conceded it is behind schedule. “Clearly our rollout was slower than we originally anticipated,” Professor Murphy told a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday.

Murphy admits vaccine rollout timeline ‘patently unachievable’

 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new strategist has revealed that she realised she was racist after marrying her black husband. Genevieve Roth has claimed all white people are “rife with internalised racism and unconscious bias”. “Race is an issue in our marriage because as a white woman of privilege, I have racist tendencies written in at a cellular level,” she said. The comment echoes an observation made by Prince Harry, who said his own upbringing meant he had been ignorant about the widespread nature of racism until he met his wife.

Archewell strategist Genevieve Roth: why race is an issue in my marriage

 

As more women of Parliament make a stand against Scott Morrison’s misogyny, his feeble attempts to save face are potentially losing voters, writes Andrew P Street.

Morrison’s misogyny sends his popularity plummeting

FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED 

1) Andrew Bolt's Blog isn't Andrew Bolt's Blog any more. Somebody is doing his work

 

Abetz labels allegations against him by Sue Hickey ‘disgraceful’

Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has labelled the allegations made against him regarding offensive comments about Brittany Higgins as “disgraceful”. Speaker of the Tasmanian Parliament Sue Hickey was effectively sacked from the Liberal Party over the weekend when Premier Peter Gutwein informed her of the decision not to endorse her pre-selection for the upcoming state election. The now independent speaker told parliament under parliamentary privilege that the federal Senator spoke to her on March 1 and said Ms Higgins could have jeopardised Australia’s national security by being “so disgustingly drunk”. “As for that Higgins girl, anybody so disgustingly drunk who would sleep with anybody could have slept with one of our spies and put the security of the nation at risk,” Mr Abetz allegedly said. In an exclusive interview with Sky News host Andrew Bolt, Senator Abetz “categorically denied” the assertions. “Given my history in these matters, I would never have said words that have now been escribed to me by Ms Hickey, they are repulsive,” he said. “One can expect or suspect that the only reason is that she’s brought this up three weeks later because the premier on Sunday showed her the door from the Liberal Party because of her gross disloyalty and lack of teamsmanship.”

The key here is it's  a statement solely in the defense of Eric Abetz and it might be regarded by a normal person as being totally one sided one. Abetz's " “Given my history in these matters," could be the key to determining the "truth" of his guilt. Eric Abetz, in fact, does have a long and shocking history of ignorance, bullshit delivered publicly and even within his own party which Bolt certainly hasn't raised. Be reminded Abetz gave a character reference to the Victorian branch of a person caught defrauding the Tasmanian branch in order to get him a job here. All hush hush, but then Abetz's man of good character defrauded the Victorian LNP of a $1mill. Sue Hickey doesn't have any sort of history comparable to Eric Abetz'.  She certainly wasn't invited on Bolt's show to debate the good Senator. 

Secondly Abetz chose Andrew Bolt a well known branded misogynist's show on which to emphatically declare his innocence to Bolt's supportive misogynistic ear and fast shrinking minimal audience, since it's cancellation by WIN broadcasting, rather than the hard hitting and investigative ABC.

These men displaya degree of misogyny written at a "psychologically cellular level" with their displayed attack on Ms Hickey and declaring her an encumbrance to the Liberal Party due to her "gross disloyalty and lack of teamsmanship.” It shows Party loyalty is more important than the individual emphasizing it's not the "Broad Church" Howard maintained it was. The only visible difference for Hickey's sacking from the Tassie Broad Church is that she is a woman.

 

History ‘littered with examples of people doing vile things’ because they believe they are ‘more virtuous’

History is "littered with examples" of people doing the most vile things, not because they want to be bad or evil, but because they believe they are more virtuous and what they are doing is for the good of all humanity, says Sky News host Rowan Dean. "Funnily enough, graffiti artist Banksy put it best when he said there is nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place," he said. "Teachers are now teaching kids there is something noble about violence... let's not forget, it was the Extinction Rebellion protests... in London, where a man died because the traffic jam caused by Extinction Rebellion meant his ambulance didn't get him to hospital in time. "The head of that protest, a woman, said that death was absolutely, perfectly excusable because what they were doing was in the greater good of saving the planet from climate change... when specifically asked whether she would do it again, she said yes." 

Rowan Dean straight out the gate sets the morality bar as low as possible when trying to say "he's not Banksy's "dangerous person". His bar is on the ground a snake would need a shovel to go lower. Dean doesn't want to make the world a better place and has no ideals or values other than his own and which are clearly resistant to any change. He has had historic, undeserved and unexplained privilege that doesn't according to him need any close examination.  Rowan Dean simply says there is no place for righteous anger because anger is universal and toxic. Whether  women, indigenous Australians or anyone systemically unprivileged. Yet he and Sky News supported the Capitol Hill riots condemned marriage equality and keep silent about deaths in custody. 

According to him there is no place for Extinction Rebellion while there is for the government sponsored killing and torture of "Asylum Seekers" which the LNP of course  calls "illegals". Terminology that goes against the grain of all global international conventions and agreements.

 History is a record of "righteous anger" and citizen right of protest. Violence against the resistance to change is minimal compared to conservative push back. Protest tends to be in the name of "progress". It's not the equivalence that Trump said it was at Charlottesville that it's on both sides and certainly not what Dean is echoing here.

Dean believes in the inherited Colonial and capitalist system but hides the Inglorious means by which British Empire went about achieving it. He ignores the violence it took to bring us to where we are today and what established his unearned privilege and cultural capital despite being an unessential productive force in our society. Dean is the echo chamber the remanent voice that was and still is Trump. There is a difference between right and wrong and they aren't simply relative or depend on might being right.

 

‘Never be fooled by alarmists’ who predict an event ‘forever and ever’

Sky News host Rowan Dean says we should "never be fooled by the alarmists" who grab one event and "predict it forever and ever". Climate watchers have claimed 'one-in-100 year' rain could become the norm despite claiming Australia would likely become 'permanently dry' back in 2014. "They told us snow would disappear by 2020 - they told us that in 2000, they repeated it as recently as 2014," he said

What Dean failed to mention was the "extremes" of weather being due to Climate change. That Science is a methodology tested over time. It conservative in nature apolitical and evidence based. The information collected over the past 70 years is stacked against him and has drawn the attention of the major respected institutions globally. News Corp is a single corporation paid to contest the science and simply create doubt.

If only 5% of the change we have seen has been man made that alone would constitute a massive shift to the planet's complex balance.

There will be ‘no shortage’ of ‘big challenges’ for Morrison in the next few weeks

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says he doesn't think there will be any shortage of stories in the "federal space" in the next few weeks, or "big challenges" for Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

That may be the case but if they have been as negative as they have been the past few weeks Andrew Bolt won't be addressing it but will give them the lowest attention possible as he has been for the past two weeks if not more focusing on anything other than Morrison and the LNP.

Latest scandal shows ‘how the news is manipulated’

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says something “truly bizarre” has arisen regarding the latest sex scandal in federal parliament. Mr Bolt said he thinks this latest scandal has shown how "the news is manipulated". “Believe it or not, this latest proof of the toxic masculinity in parliament, of the woman-hating culture, the woman-harassing culture of the Liberal Party, turns out to be a bunch of gay guys”. "It's so crazy". Mr Bolt spoke of the recent release of recent lewd clips and images having taken place in Parliament House. "It's disgusting, it's stupid, it's crude," Mr Bolt said. He said many Labor MPs and journalists jumped on there being “more Liberal misogyny” following the evets. “To me, it seems just evidence of a few gay guys, a minority … unable to keep their zips up” and "picking on somebody who apparently politically upset them". “But the chance to exploit these guys as evidence of women once again being picked on was just too tempting for Labor and for journalists who've spent the past month trying to paint Scott Morrison as an evil misogynist, someone deaf to the dangers that women faced from his party of lecherous men”.

It's taken Bolt some time and effort to find a reason to deflect attention away from the shellacking the men in the LNP are getting at the moment. Deflect and distract is right. Bolt couldn't blame the women could he? He couldn't blame the left because it wasn't the left complaining. Muslims indigenous weren't going to be an excuse for the attack on good white heterosexual men either. He's found "some gay guys" are the masterminds outwitting the poor hetro suckers in the LNP by manipulating the media but not Andrew Bolt wow!! Andrew Bolt is Australia's Andy Ngo but  nowhere the action man Ngo is to construct a false narrative and fool the rest of the media to blow it up. There has been no rampant misogyny in the LNP  says limp dick commentator Andy Bolt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The claim ‘black killers are shot, white killers arrested’ is ‘not true at all’

Journalist Andy Ngo says the claim that 'black killers are killed while white killers are arrested’ is simply “not true at all” in the wake of the Boulder, Colorado shooting by Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. “No that’s not true at all," he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “It’s all about narratives. If you break down and you look at how many instances of suspects who are apprehended who are carrying out violent crimes who are not killed and they happen to be people of colour – these people are never counted. “I don’t understand what these leftists are trying to say. Are they saying police should be more brutal and kill every violent criminal suspect? “I think that if Alissa had been killed in Colorado certainly the headlines from left-wing bias media would be that this is ‘police too quick to shoot somebody who looks Muslim or looks Arab’.”

First fact, domestic terror, violence increased under Trump. According to the FBI and police it is most likely carried out by white right-wing nationalists than any other stereotypical group in America. Andy Ngo is a noted right-wing Nationalist Journalist convicted in the courts for all manner of trangressions. Faking and false flagging photos of ANTIFA as being violent in an effort to support a fake narrative of peaceful Patriots. Ngo is a well known for his provocation of violence an active ANTIFA blamer for everything including the Capitol Hill riots. Is it any surprise to find him being given air on the Bolt Report?

Portland's Andy Ngo Is the Most Dangerous Grifter in America

There will be ‘no shortage’ of ‘big challenges’ for Morrison in the next few weeks

Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says he doesn't think there will be any shortage of stories in the "federal space" in the next few weeks, or "big challenges" for Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

That may be the case but if they have been as negative as they have been the past few weeks Andrew Bolt won't be addressing it but will give them the lowest attention possible as he has been for the past two weeks if not more focusing on anything other than Morrison and the LNP.

Latest scandal shows ‘how the news is manipulated’

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says something “truly bizarre” has arisen regarding the latest sex scandal in federal parliament. Mr Bolt said he thinks this latest scandal has shown how "the news is manipulated". “Believe it or not, this latest proof of the toxic masculinity in parliament, of the woman-hating culture, the woman-harassing culture of the Liberal Party, turns out to be a bunch of gay guys”. "It's so crazy". Mr Bolt spoke of the recent release of recent lewd clips and images having taken place in Parliament House. "It's disgusting, it's stupid, it's crude," Mr Bolt said. He said many Labor MPs and journalists jumped on there being “more Liberal misogyny” following the evets. “To me, it seems just evidence of a few gay guys, a minority … unable to keep their zips up” and "picking on somebody who apparently politically upset them". “But the chance to exploit these guys as evidence of women once again being picked on was just too tempting for Labor and for journalists who've spent the past month trying to paint Scott Morrison as an evil misogynist, someone deaf to the dangers that women faced from his party of lecherous men”.

It's taken Bolt some time and effort to find a reason to deflect attention away from the shellacking the men in the LNP are getting at the moment. Deflect and distract is right. Bolt couldn't blame the women could he? He couldn't blame the left because it wasn't the left complaining. Muslims indigenous weren't going to be an excuse for the attack on good white hetrosexual men either. He's found "some gay guys" are the masterminds outwitting the poor hetro suckers in the LNP by manipulating the media but not Andrew Bolt wow!! Andrew Bolt is Australia's Andy Ngo but  nowhere the action man Ngo is to construct a false narrative and fool the rest of the media to blow it up. There has been no rampant misogyny in the LNP  says limp dick commentator Andy Bolt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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