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 UNREPORTED MORRISON'S XMAS GIFT TO THE AGED " LET IT RIP"

The ‘let it rip for Christmas’ COVID policies urged by Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet have come home to roost where they were always going to – on the elderly. More than 100 aged care homes are now in Tier 0 severe lockdown, the number suffering COVID outbreaks nearly doubling in a week. Rather than “opening up” for family Christmas, thousands of elderly Australians are confined to their rooms today, having a solitary Christmas lunch, denied all visitors, not even allowed to share the meal with their peers. On behalf of the distressed residents, their worried families and the shockingly stretched aged care workers, I invite the Prime Minister and NSW Premier to “stare down” the virus and take “personal responsibility” for a few weeks in solitary confinement, without a personal photographer for company. The tragedy of Christmas 2021 for the residents and staff in aged care facilities has been (almost) unreported.

Source: Aged spend Christmas alone, thanks to PM and Perrottet

  

Australia's Xmas gift to the world

 

Morrison's gift to Amazon and other corporations prevent class action suits

 

  "ANNOUNCED BOOSTERS" then Morrison's cut us loose, personal responsibility his gift, after all, he doesn't hold the hose.  He deems vaccines are like Sunscreen.

CONSEQUENCE

 Omnicron x70 more infectious than Delta

Victoria’s healthcare system faces a staffing crisis at a critical time when hundreds of staff are in isolation and COVID-19 hospitalisations are on the rise.

Fears for hospital system as cases rise and staff availability falls

 

 

"It’s hard to know quite where to start with the winner of 2021’s Crikey Arsehat of the Year award. The relentless dysfunction, the contempt for accountability and tolerance for corruption, the sense he loves his title and hates his job — it billows in all directions like ink in water, drawing the eye in too many directions at once.

Still, over the course of a single week in March, Scott Morrison managed to display a great many of the traits that ultimately delivered him one ...

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Scott Morrison did enough in a single week to earn himself the title.

He's slippery, he's dishonest, he's the PM: meet Crikey's 2021 Arsehat of the Year

Australia's own Rupert Murdoch makes it to No 5 in America

VoicesThe 10 Worst Americans of 2021

Andrew Bolt's Blog,10/2/18; Hypocrites and liars how come they are all gathered at News Corp?; Joyce's Choice

• Did the AFR scoop the Telegraph on Barnaby Joyce's affair?

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  Did the AFR scoop the Telegraph on Barnaby Joyce's affair?

  If so why is News Corp and liars like Andrew Bolt making out they were breaking News? The question lies in the fact that why are they in the business of trying to destabilize the government by going against Tony Abbott's dictum of what the duty of the Fourth Estate duty in fact ought to be supporting the government. We have recently seen the ABC handing ASIO secret files the government would hate to have published back in "responsible" manner. While Bolt and Co are doing their best to justify and declare news revealed in 2017 as secret and necessary to be revealed. Can you find greater band of liars and hypocrites anywhere than at News Corp?  

  
  

    Can ABC be trusted to hold the government to account? | Andrew Fowler | Opinion | The Guardian

  

   Have the LNP cuts to the ABC resulted in Aunty becoming compliant and not doing their job to keep us fully informed? Is this acting responsibly?
  

  
  When gifted a large cache of secret documents, the normal journalistic process would involve the stories being written, with names and operational details removed. The reports would then either be published outright, or the government approached for comment, running the risk that they may seek an injunction to prevent publication. Whatever the process, not even completing the journalistic work in the first place is a strange way for the ABC to discharge its journalistic responsibility.
  Even stranger still is the way the ABC allowed Asio to bring safes into the ABC buildings, supposedly so the documents could be kept secure and then taken away.
  Handing over documents to any Australian intelligence agency signals the emergence of an unhealthy relationship between the ABC and the very institutions of government they should be holding to account. Yet it wasn’t always so.

  
  

   The Official New Matilda Dirty 30 List – The Politicians Our Readers Most Love To Hate - New Matilda

  
   Well, it’s official New Matilda readers overwhelmingly don’t like Tony Abbott. Indeed, of the 1,275 readers who voted in NM’s first official ‘Dirty 30’ poll – a vote on the most unpopular federal politicians among the NM readership – Tony Abbott attracted a whopping 94% of the total vote.
  
  

  The Complete List: A Bit More Meat For Your NM Dirty 30 Sandwich

   

  
  

  TIMETABLE OF THE FBI'S FRAMING OF TRUMP

   Most of the media refuses to see or report mounting evidence that the FBI has been hopelessly biased and deceitful -  possibly criminal - in first clearing Hillary Clinton and then framing Donald Trump on bogus allegations of colluding with Russia. This time-table is devastating.  

  
  
  

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   Andrew bolt is duly importing Fox news to Australia no doubt there is an equivalent in the UK doing the same . Cherrypicking data constructing narratives is all that Trump and his allies rely on. Everything becomes Fake News and the the most powerful narrative is then the winner without any desire or respect for the truth. Should we be surprised that Bolt works with the ambition to be a Murdoch talking head down under.

  The very fact that Trump is politicizing and demanding that Independant Institutions like the FBI, CIA, DOJ should  be allowed the separation of power is the fundamental deteriation of Democracy in favor of a Dictatorship. Trump is also targeting the media the Fourth Estate's abilities to report and gather information that questions his Presidency and Bolt is promoting News Corp's PR promotion of this despite it being obvious.
  Bolt doesn't mention the Devin Nunes Memo on which his "timetable" is based and which has been ridiculed by all and sundry and even most Republicans are turning their backs on. No Bolt ignores that information and doesn't mention that it's quickly been ignored as frivolous and yes approved by Trump himself, bye bying any objectivity. By the way G.W. Bush has come out and said the Russians were interfering in US elections and there is no denying that.Trump blocks Democrats' rebuttal to Nunes memo, citing national ...

   Fact Check
  "the memo reveals that the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign began with George Papadopoulos. “And in fact, on the issue of collusion, what the memo indicates is the investigation didn’t begin with Carter Page, it actually began with George Papadopoulos, someone who was a foreign policy adviser for candidate Trump and someone who was meeting secretly with the Russians and talking about the stolen Clinton emails.”
   That sinking feeling: trust in politicians lower in Australia than in most other countries
  

  Tony Abbott justified a good reason for it and Trump is doing the same in the USA with 2500 lies in his first year of office

  
   

   

  POLL THE MEDIA WILL DEEP SIX: TRUMP AHEAD OF OBAMA

  Journalists have gloated that Donald Trump is polling worse than recent presidents. Will they now note Rasmussen's latest result? : "49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance... Trump’s approval ratings have been running slightly ahead of where Barack Obama was at this stage of his presidency."

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  Is it any surprise Bolt fails to mention that the Rasmussen Poll is America's primo conservative pollster. Why would Bolt turn to that Poll? Trump's polling has simply improved because the 8 years of continual economic rise since the GFC has been stolen by Trump and amplified as if it was down to Trump. Bolt just flick to repeat anything reported by Fox News. Does he have any opinions of his own?

  
  

  Fox host says that Trump should take credit for the good of the stock market, but not the bad

  
  
  Varney’s exhortations of “the Trump stock market rally” are misleading, as they fail to acknowledge that the growth continues the more than six years of steady stock market growth under Obama. From March 6, 2009, to November 7, 2016, the Dow Jones climbed about 11,632 points — almost a 157 percent increase.
  Source: Fox host says that Trump should take credit for the good of the stock market, but not the bad
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  Hannity has been blaming Obama for downturns in the stock market for a decade
  

  
  

  QUINCY JONES: SCHOLAR IN AN AGE OF KNOW-NOTHING

  Legendary music producer Quincy Jones is about to turn 85. Maybe that and his success that makes him free to tell  blunt truths about everyone from Brando to Oprah, Ringo to Michael Jackson (a music thief). But the true value lies in his championing of history and deep study in the search for excellence - and this in an age of decline. Read.

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  " If you know where you come from, it’s easier to get where you’re going..."

  This is the fundamental truth and process that Andrew Bolt runs from when it comes to history and where we came from to arrive where we are today. That preference for ignorance allows Andrew Bolt to declare he's more indigenous Australian than Stan Grant, Adam Goodes and any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander born after him. It allows him to justify turning up the bunsen burner on all Aborigines pardoning the few but disparaging the majority for 200 years plus of lack of opportunity provided by White Society and ingrained as normal through the course socialization of each generation over time. It's allowed Bolt to accept himself as somehow a meritorious achiever rather than just a social climber taking advantage of who he knew rather than what. Andrew Bolt is a very deluded individual who uses the wisdom of above only to magnify his own failurs and hypcrisy