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Showing posts with label Josh Frydenberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh Frydenberg. Show all posts
The Prime Minister – who doesn’t work weekends – said he wanted to get
up to Queensland at the first opportunity. “As soon as I heard there was
a disaster last Thursday I knew I had to be up there first thing Monday
afternoon”.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison here. How good are me and my
team? Here are just a few of my accomplishments during my first term
(ticks all the boxes for leadership — as I know it):
Independent Zoe Daniel has appealed against a council ruling that
political signs cannot be erected until the election is called, arguing
it is inconsistent with its own advice and neighbouring councils which
have allowed Josh Frydenberg signs.
Who
thinks of these things? Morrison is intent on turning us into a mirror
image of Nth Korea in the eyes of the world. "Where the bloody hell are
you?" has become "Who the bloody hell do you think you are?"
Australians are treated like mushrooms kept in the dark and fed bullshit.
What would Menzies say? Treasurer Josh Frydenberg would have
us believe Australia’s economy is back to leading its rivals after two
years of pandemic. The latest economic update shows instead that we are
not only lagging the field, we have had one of the poorest outcomes in
the developed world, writes Alan Austin. The quarterly national accounts
provide invaluable data on the state of Australia’s economy.
Yesterday’s are the worst set of outcomes since the Australian Bureau of
Statistics (ABS) began tabulating this series in 1959, when the prime
minister was Robert Menzies. That’s based on Australia’s historic data,
or comparison with other developed countries, or both.
The US is fighting tooth and nail to get Julian Assange extradited
to an American prison. Ever the dutiful ally, the Australian government
is effectively giving over Assange, and flouting any commitment to
human rights, freedom of the press, and democracy in the process.
This occurs through Murdoch media’s relentless ramming of
Liberal Party propaganda into our eyeholes. Through the ABC’s
enthusiastic embrace of the false balance doctrine – “tonight on
Q&A, a climate scientist and a psychopath from the IPA!” – and
sucking Sydney off whenever it can. Through NineFax’s desperate and
overwhelmingly successful race to be worse than it used to be. All of
this adds up to a horseshoe to the part of the skull containing our
grasp on reality, an intravenous drip of dickhead. For next year to be
better than this year, everything needs to change. The collision of a
once in a 100-year global pandemic, historic levels of wealth
inequality, climate collapse, rampant misogyny, and the corrupt,
uninterested political leadership that inevitably emerged at the ass-end
of neoliberalism’s upwards wealth redistribution project has been a
fucking nightmare to behold. The hope we must cling onto is the fact
real, objective reality has become so obviously discordant with the
version of reality spun out of Canberra people are starting to notice.
Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second. Since then, Trump has given Fox two more. He has granted only ten to the three other main television networks combined, and none to CNN, which he denounces as “fake news.” Hannity was treated in Texas as a member of the Administration because he virtually is one. The same can be said of Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch. Fox has long been a bane of liberals, but in the past two years many people who watch the network closely, including some Fox alumni, say that it has evolved into something that hasn’t existed before in the United States. Nicole Hemmer, an assistant professor of Presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and the author of “Messengers of the Right,” a history of the conservative media’s impact on American politics, says of Fox, “It’s the closest we’ve come to having state TV.”
For both Trump and Fox, “fear is a business strategy—it keeps people watching.” As the President has been beset by scandals, congressional hearings, and even talk of impeachment, Fox has been both his shield and his sword. his press secretary, Sarah Sanders, has largely stopped holding press conferences, but she has made some thirty appearances on such shows as “Fox & Friends” and “Hannity.” Trump, Hemmer says, has “almost become a programmer.” Bill Kristol, who was a paid contributor to Fox News until 2012 and is a prominent Never Trumper, said of the network, “It’s changed a lot. Before, it was conservative, but it wasn’t crazy. Now it’s just propaganda.” Joe Peyronnin, a professor of journalism at N.Y.U., was an early president of Fox News, in the mid-nineties. “I’ve never seen anything like it before,” he says of Fox. “It’s as if the President had his own press organization. It’s not healthy.”
Shine, the Fox and White House payrolls actually do overlap. The Hollywood Reporterobtained financial-disclosure forms revealing that Fox has been paying Shine millions of dollars since he joined the Administration. Last year, he collected the first half of a seven-million-dollar bonus that he was owed after resigning from Fox; this year, he will receive the remainder. That sum is in addition to an $8.4-million
2m Bolt's an American Trumpster eager to impress Rupert who believes in Citizens United that Newcorp and other corporate-like collectives should have all the rights of individuals as does the Catholic Church. Now, how Collectivist is that? Oh, only those that disagree who are called left-wing need to be brought to task. We have even heard Bolt call for academics to be sacked. Yes, Bolt dreams of collectively too but they are corporations and tax-free institutions which he claims are being treated unjustly by left-wing organisations like Australian Law. "How the collectivist Left isolates and silences conservatives whose opinions they do not want heard." Bolt " now reports this persecution of one of the people who questioned the "guilty beyond reasonable doubt" jury finding that he sexually abused two 13-year-olds straight after Mass in a room, normally busy, with an open door:"
Bolt memorises sentences like this as if they were a chorus line to an anthem because he believes it's best and only rebuttal he can offer. He degrades the 12 man jury, and judge and our entire legal system in the one breathe. Never mind he wasn't present for even a single hour of the 4-week trial. However, it only goes to show he doesn't also have the experience or the knowledge of the of what a Catholic service, in fact, is and the absolute power Priests have in their domain. Pell was top dog, and history tells us just how much gall the deviants below and protected by him had who acted in much the same manner with no regard to how many people were present. Bolt's inability to grasp that concept of power goes to show how little attention he's paid to all the other cases around the world where the clergy who would be kings committed their crimes. They had references too from the elite in Boston Adelaide, and only God knows whom to say they were innocent as well.
As for Craven how is it his word in our society is meant to be higher than those of his staff well when it comes to an opinion? It's not, but it's volume and how it's delivered unlike the staff's is. Staff are joining as individuals and are not providing theirs on behalf of faculties or as the voice of the Institution, The Catholic University. They aren't conflating Craven as their institutional voice or pretending the university is an Australian citizen like all others. Which is what Bolt's attempting to convey but we aren't constitutionally American.
In Bolt's world Unionists are illegal, corrupt can't be believed, activists. These are the descriptives always given to citizens who speak up called left, labour and unions as if that all it takes name-calling. However, all the recent Royal Commissions have found the opposite of unions to what Bolt is suggesting but found that his favoured Corporations and tax-free Religious organisations to be the worst offenders and defenders of unwonted deviants in the country.
All of this too suggest Pells defenders are collective martyrs victims of Australian citizens. We had seen it all before ISIS maintained they also were on the side of right and denied the separation of powers and due process and were martyrs "I hope that commentators helping to whip up these mobs will at least one day feel shame, and regardless of whether Pell's appeal succeeds or fails."
Bolt does what Bolt does in all cases where he hasn't a leg to stand on he flips the narrative. He's the indigenous Australian victim of black racism, He's the justice seeker the victim of an unjust legal system, he the male being gender bashed by LGBTQIs and Feminazis. All style for team yes but vacant of history and context a one trick pony really. "The finding against Pell should be up for reasoned debate, but what we see now is something dangerously different." Bolt Bolt's the voice of a Corporation a collective blowing smoke in the face of reality and not debate.
5m He did one with his son James as well, and they revealed their Racism. It's Andrew Bolt attempting to speak without an autocue preaching to his son Dom who was Dad's stooge. Bolt's nepotism is apparent in that his sons are meant to be clones of dad and also be afraid to walk the streets of their own city.
No, but a full review and not merely a kowtowing character reference of the man or the disparagement of the witness and what the critics weren't a party too. Cold cases are debated fairly after due process was allowed to take its course. There is an appeal coming up.
There will be lots of cases before the courts now that witness 3838 has come to light. Also a lot of discussions and the cry of foul. Will Bolt be crying Mockbel innocence and offering him character references?
Why is it the majority of citizens of Australia are always wrong as is the majority of the Liberal Party and only the minority of the party the tail that's still right? It's the tail that lied in their great victory of 2013. It was that tails management that doubled the 100-year debt. It's that tail that made Australia the laughing stock of the rest of the world. It's that tail that literally didn't do their jobs and took opposition politics into their own Party and has killed the dog. Will they be honest and change the name and show themselves?
This won't be an interview when you can't find a Liberal of any description standing up for Milo move further right and give Hanson a chance to bury herself further and still promote a huckster who owes Victoria $50,000. Why doesn't Bolt pay Milo's bill? By the way, Hanson certainly knows about violence. Tony Abbott had her thrown in jail for his mob. Who would have more beneficial to say? Palestinian peace activist denied entry to U.S. for speaking tour
Bolt chooses not to "speculate" no he wants not to be dragged into court is closer to the mark. He knows what happens when Newscorp's legal team chose not to support him.
From a person who acknowledges he doesn't "fit in" so much, so he's too timid to walk the streets of his own home town he hardly is one to give Julian Burnside any advice on what to do. Burnside might not win in Kooyong but provided there are some other notable independents going to give it a crack Kooyong won't be as blue as it once was.
The tax office says it will be making visits to more than 4000 companies between now and July to chase black economy activities.
Taking on the fry and leaving the whales alone. The people listed in the Panama Papers were offered amnesty for their criminal intent not so your local barista
Comparative statistics have no place in Andrew Bolt's world, do they? Conservatives avoid any comparisons that just might show how wrong they are. Legalising and or decriminalising cannabis remains a choice. Life is a risky business that guarantees death So any arguments about the costs and comparisons between drug risk indicate cannabis is by far the least riskiest drug in the market compared to ones currently available.
So if Bolt was really interested in public health, crime reduction and government spending decriminalisation of all drugs is the way to go. It's been proven over the long term by more than 30 countries over decades. Bolts arguments of strict regulation have like all conservative arguments is to maintain as many cultural divisions as possible in order for some political traction and most of all justification of ever increased surveillance over citizens. Conservative Politics is a donor business. Business both legal and illegal supports Conservative politics it's an investment in profit maintenance and not public health. Reasoned thinking, research and consequences of decriminalisation and regulation have shown in more than 30 countries the benefits. Benefits Europhile Bolt on any other day regards as civilized. The Netherlands, Switzerland and Portugal and more than 11 other EU countries and increasing number of US states along with Canada and countless others around the world show Bolt's thinking is simply anal and constipated.
Post WW2 is mirrored by Bolt, Henderson et al. Australians wouldn't accept anything Japanese and our media raged at the sign of forgiveness and Conservatives more than most showed that hatred. Then it was the North Vietnamese. Now it's the Chinese why? Why do they want to ensure ignorance, suspicion and dislike of China is maintained? Afterall they want the same things but for a different purpose. Conservatives want a superficial democracy which is in effect a fully controlled Corporate State with a privileged elite supervising 95% of the population in order to realise increased business profits alongside ever-increasing poverty.
China has a one-party State that has despite corruption proved rational planning in less than 60 years has improved the material circumstances of 1.3 billion people. Bob Carr has every reason to celebrate the economic management of China. Aging Conservatives like Henderson and Bolt continue to blame the poor for their circumstances their culture in case of the indigenous, refugees and demand a mono mindset in line with their dynasty ambitions like the Chinese emperors of old. Today they are ever fearful of the benefits progressive social engineering because it guarantees a loss of privilege simply due to critical thinking revealed by data information. They necessitate maintaining a fog by applying need for an ever-increasing voice of corporate media over any independent source. Fascism is simply another word for Corporatism increasingly needing to diminish Democracy.
Elaboration none, here none why? Bolt just can't help himself he wants to lend his authority to the situation when he hasn't any. He wants some of the attention but has been left out. Are we more informed by Bolt's "defence" of Peta Credlin? Not in the least, Bolt the warmist denier denies science and it's ability to "predict" evidence openly presented. He denies rational prediction based on evidence. But he supports reducing Peta Credlin's admonishment to prediction on her word alone Despite rat evidence clearly visible over the past decades of Tony Abbott's political life and behaviour. You couldn't get a grater kneejerk reaction from two Abbotophiles when Frydenberg stated the obvious " Tony Abbott is intent on causing trouble. “He’s always going to try and cut across what the prime minister has been saying lately,” Frydenberg said on the Nine Network."
"If the admonition was carried out as a media figure – and let’s be honest, all of us in the journalism business have been known to periodically tell politicians precisely what we think of them and their various courses of action – in what universe is it OK to retail a private conversation in public, as some strange little game of one-upmanship? "
Answer in a Fox News Murdoch media moment when admonishment is neutralised and admonishment plain and simple is reduced to innocent prediction after a "private" and undisclosed moment.
Not a happy team: "A furious Scott Morrison reprimanded Michael McCormack in a late night phone call after discovering the acting prime minister had used his first interview on the job to label the Treasurer Santa Claus with a big bag of Budget “goodies” to hand out."
2h7 Link 1) Turnbull trusts his team Abbott never trusted anyone. A totally different attitude on leadership. Abbott was dumped. 2) Anything short of what the IPA wants is Xmas for Australians. Who are up to their bottom lip in shit. Conservatives want them to stand on their hands. Hardly a relief for what's yet to come if the ALP don't take over.
