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THE HYPOCRITES TRYING TO DESTROY SKY

How dare activists and journalists of the Left turn one Senator's insult of another, Sarah Hanson-Young, into an ideological weapon to drive Sky News off your screens. Exposing the untruths, agendas and hypocrites in my editorial on The Bolt Report.

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 Bolt the Victim
  I think Bolt drinks too much maybe takes acid as well. Go to any emergency Mental Health wards and you will see lots of Bolts deluded thinking everyone can read their thoughts and is spying on them. You see Bolt regards himself as a crusader when he's a pathetic unromantic version of an Australian Don Quixote. Bolts an all-around winner there little money pumped into dementia or mental health so he's free to be on our screens preaching paranoid crap to an audience that's a figment of his imagination that he regards as huge off a small base. The small base is just another two words for a small minority.
Here is Bolt's victim fantasy the fact that Outsider's apology was voluntary and not forced by News Corp's own Legal Dept to apologise with a very delayed response after allowing Leyonhjelm the platform to justify his defaming of Hanson-Young. Bolt's defence "I personally know Rowan and he's a nice guy" or something little more than that like "he wasn't smiling". The joke we know is that Sky is modelled on Fox News and runs on the same basis.
Sky gave no such apology until the next day so why and why did they say they were in error when Bolt claims they weren't? Nothing slips by them as they are there to capture sensation.
In the meantime Bolt wants to get in on the act after taking advice and having his production crew produce something neither off the cuff nor a conclusion based on what happened. Bolt has waited to steal some thunder has used the forced apology declaring it a volunteered one when it wasn't how? Bolt's editorial has sidestepped the specifics of what happened in order to suggest there is an attempt to close Sky down by a combined attack by all other media. It's Bolt's usual stance that he and his station's opinion are victims and that everybody is out to get Sky. I doubt anybody can be convinced that Murdoch media is a victim.
No their not, Hanson Young has threatened legal action and Sky specifically interfered and attempted to prevent that. Dean and Cameron only apologised under legal advice but Bolt has turned his editorial into a generality, not for their benefit but his and one based on spurious evidence to support his conclusion.
Bolt was the podcaster that mocked the Sudanese Community's Beauty Pageant on the IPA's sponsored podcast with his son in absolutely racist terms that would glorify the KKK's worst chorus. Here expects his cut and paste job on the ABC to be evidence for his pre-wanted conclusion that Sky News is an innocent and balanced media. Has anyone taken notice of just how late Bolt's editorials are late and well after the events he talks about?  Largely because they take time to produce and Bolt has to rehearse his well-practised outrage that has taken 2-3 years of experience but nevertheless seems more puppetry than the ABC or any other broadcaster does.

Coming from Andrew Bolt we know him as a 

sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor; More informalphoney, Holy Willie; informalcreeping Jesus; informalbluenose; rarePharisee, Tartuffe, Pecksniff, canter "he condemned her as superficial and a hypocrite"

= a hypocritical person

UNIVERSITY WANTS FEWER WHITES

A Californian university wants fewer whites: "In 2011, the campus was 63 per cent Caucasian... The public research institution states it wishes to get those numbers more in line with the state’s percentage of white people, which recent polls hold at 39.7 per cent of the population." When the metric is race, not talent, it's a recipe for dumbing down.

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Whites the Victims
" When the metric is race, not talent, it's a recipe for dumbing down. And when a white student misses out purely because of the colour of their skin, it's racism."Bolt
Bolt claims not to be a racist yet frets at the loss of the privilege of the "more talented white race". In fact, the university makes it quite clear what it wishes is to improve equity and put it in line with the racial distribution of peoples in the state. Bolt makes it clear he doesn't and is in fear of it. Talent Mr Bolt is developed and not innate or inherited and equity of opportunity ensures what Bolt wants not the reverse, the development of talent. Bolt seems to be running an argument against himself. But then he'd probably fail any enrolment qualification on the basis that talent has passed him by long ago no matter his colour all his achievements were acquired through marriage. Opinion is neither a talent nor a skill and Bolt seems unaware of his true social class or position.

NO WONDER LATHAM FORGOT

Michael Cooney says Mark Latham forgets the best speech Cooney wrote for him: "The best lines? 'Abstract lifestyle has produced an abstract style of politics... This involves a particular methodology: adopting a predetermined position on issues and then looking for evidence to support this position. In the suburbs, the value set is more pragmatic.” 

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" These are lines from a speech? That mixed salad of syllables? That torrent of polysyllabic abstractions, meant to advertise the smarts of the writer, not to make the hearer wiser?"Bolt

You can rest assured these lines aren't original Bolt. They have been misappropriated and used by Bolt repeatedly over the years because he often prefers moot point and debates to facts. He's the man who insists he's an Indigenous Australian. As for setting a predetermined position on issues and collecting evidence to support it, Bolt is par excellence an example of a bent cop on every topic he elects to opinionate on.

Imagine seeing Bolt change positions like Latham he can't. He's totally locked into his job his networks and his social obligations built over time. It's why he keeps a dual citizenship and dreams of anonymity in the Netherlands. He's not a real Australian.

EXCUSING NATO DEADBEATS

For years NATO's European members have left it to the United States to pay for their own defence. Now Donald Trump demands they meet their promises to spend 2 per cent of their GDP on defence - done by just four of the 29 Europeans. Just listen to all the wailing and screaming.

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There is no historic consideration as to why the NATO agreement came about and why Russia and The US found itself facing off in a post-war divided Germany. Germany was disallowed an army as was Japan. The US began the Cold War post WW2 and NATO was formed as an alliance to maintain American interests in Europe and not simply defend Europe as Trump makes out. History is always in a state of denial ignored or changed according to neoconservative whims. Why is Trump making such a show of it when the NATO countries have been listening?
 
“While these countries have been increasing their contributions since I took office, they must do much more,” he wrote on Twitter.
There was an estimated 4.87 per cent increase in total defence spending by Canada and European allies in 2017, marking the third straight year that defence spending by those countries increased, according to NATO. That was after several years of declines in spending by those countries.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Politico EU’s Confidential podcast this month that he expects eight nations will cross the 2 per cent threshold in 2018, which he said was up from three countries in 2014.
Domestic Politics is the sole reason. Imagine if Bolt gave NATO away? Why not give Sth Korea away and the 153 other sovereign states in which it has a military presence. Trump overlooks the fact that he's increased the USA military budget yet again to fight wars it has no hope of winning and expects the rest of the world to pay. Yes, he hasn't yet begun to put pressure on Australia to militarise more. Buy American is as much behind this as anything the Industrial Military Complex needs to be fed. Why is it so many of those Trump is engaging in war are using made in America?

 

ACCC BACKS ABBOTT: HELP BUILD NEW GENERATOR

Tony Abbott and the Nationals are right and Malcolm Turnbull wrong, judging by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's report on electricity:  "One of the key recommendations is for government to effectively underwrite the construction of new dispatchable power sources — either baseload coal or gas — by guaranteeing long-term contracts."

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Don't be conned it's a PAYWALL

 "As the Finkel review identified, there has been a failure to facilitate an orderly transition from carbon-intensive generation technologies to cleaner ones."

The failure to facilitate an orderly change was the guaranteed destruction of the ETS and Abbott's wrecking ball of an orderly transition. The establishment therein of policies that failed to address change altogether let alone orderly and allowing coal burners to become obsolete and close down. Forcing the non-closure of current obsolete generators hardly seems like progress or building new ones in the light of even more becoming expensive millstones to keep going. Abbott did this to the NBN retaining obsolete copper networks and now we haven't a high-speed network remain 51rst or worse in the world and are setting up offices in NZ and other places simply for better communication.

What we have is another clear case of Abbott politics creating the problem in the first place rolling Turnbull in doing so resulting in a mess of potpourri policies that failed and now crying out for more stop-gap political measures rather than any comprehensive move forward.

ABC PRETENDS LABOR OFFICIAL ON PANEL JUST AN AVERAGE CITIZEN

The ABC suggested Monday's "People's Panel" would be of citizens, not political hacks: "Q&A is looking for smart citizens who are keen to tackle the big questions ... alongside our politicians and host... People’s Panelists will now be a regular part of Q&A to give citizens a stronger voice." Yet it then picked a Labor official, and didn't say.

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 Remeber how pedantic Bolt got when it was revealed somebody had worked for the IPA. Well, he was paid. Victoria Feilding was not paid by the ALP but revealed herself as an activist and an enthusiastic member of the ALP. A volunteer in any capacity is not listed as an employee of the Bolt Report either remember Peter from Bellvue Hill Bolt always referred to him as an enthusiastic fan. Yet somedays he put in more work to Bolt's blog than Bolt himself. There's a bit of the pot calling the kettle black going on here and it's not from the ABC who clearly stated Feilding was an 'enthusiastic' member and activist. Bolt simply called Peter BH a fan We need to talk about Mitchell

the panelist Bolt avoids mentioning.

CURFEW FOR MEN

Nowhere in her column does the Fairfax writer suggest this is satire rather than more anti-male hatred: "Gretel Lamont's recent letter in these pages "No men allowed out after dark"? What a Totally. Awesome. Idea. I have, quite genuinely, been racking my brain as to what we can realistically do to ensure women’s safety after dark."

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 Bolt the Victim
Bolt's got to make you laugh but never much because he definitely has no capability when it comes to satire. He spent an inordinate time in his youth using women to be socially mobile and then dumped them. He found a pot of gold in Sally Morrel and moved up the ladder to tell us he arrived in Australia and had after some 30 years began to appreciate what it might mean to be an Aussie. However, he can't wait to get out of here. Yes some men are like Bolt and some men are rapists and child molesters and yes there is a diversity but what they have in common and in varying ways a general attitude to women that seems to deny their equity. That culture was witnessed and headlined specifically at Fox News an American subsidiary of News Corp. As the saying goes apples never fall far from the tree so there is no reason Bolt hasn't been infected by the culture that gave rise to Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Bill Shine et al all heroes in Bolt's eye and the universe. As for Bolt "racking " his brain the answer is quite simple to get a new one from a woman and go to a reorganizational cultural boot camp. After all, he expected Aborigines to do it migrants to do it Muslims to do it. So let's start with Bolt.

A Bull in a China Shop

 Abbott has not blindly followed the United States into war in Iraq or in applying sanctions against Russia. Instead his rhetoric has consistently been out in front of the Obama Administration's official line. On both fronts, Abbott has been eager to get into these brawls. Like his days as a student he's loud mouthed and loves posturing.

rationale for picking fights in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and making better friends of Japan, India and NATO fails the strategic interests test. Especially when cast against the fact that Australia's relationship with Indonesia has taken such a beating since the Abbott Government came to power.
Adam Lockyer is a senior lecturer in security studies at Macquarie University.

 At its core, there is little practical difference between Abbott's foreign policy doctrine and that of the neo-conservative moment that characterised George W Bush's presidency. Both believe that democracy and Western liberalism are the superior organisational principles of society and these values should be defended around the world, by force if necessary.
 Abbott's neo-conservative policy doctrine is potentially extremely dangerous to Australia's interests. In his book Battlelines, Abbott pondered war with communist China, arguing that:

Led by America, most of the world would reject any attempt by China forcibly to reclaim Taiwan. In Australia's case, this would not be choosing America over China but democracy over dictatorship.

 Abbott is a true believer in the notion that Australia's security can best be found in a favourable global order. That is, the global dominance of Western values, in general, and individualism, capitalism, liberalism and democracy, specifically. To that end, any challenge to these Western values must be fiercely resisted, whether it is from Islamists in the Middle East or authoritarian regimes in Russia or China.
   So Australia's "best friend in Asia" is Japan being the Asian country believed to be the most Westernised - in a cultural and ideological sense.
 Abbott has spoken at length about India's shared values with Australia and that it is "not only the emerging democratic super power. It's also the emerging English-speaking super power."
 This week Australia will become one of NATO's "enhanced partners". This move is designed to tie Australia even more closely with countries that share its values and ideology.
In reality the threat of the Islamic State to Australia has been exaggerated. The Australians fighting with the Islamic State are not a defence matter, but an intelligence and policing responsibility. Indeed, sweeping up returning Australian jihadists at the airport is what we pay ASIO for.
The building of a tight coalition of democracies across the Indo-Pacific region to begin the "soft" containment of China is in India's and Japan's interests not ours Unlike India or Japan, Australia does not share a border or have territorial disputes  with China.
The real political reality is  geographical - not cultural - proximity matters more to a countries' security. In Australia's case, that is first and foremost Indonesia and the countries of maritime South-East Asia. The immediate region should be considered Australia's area of primary strategic importance. Wider regional and global considerations are a distant second and third. However Abbott sees little relevance in China's influence over the Pacific Region and it's nations cutting the ABC's budget so it's no longer the primary broadcaster for the region. Xinhua  China's international broadcaster now is. If China crossed India's frontier do you really think Abbott would send troops? He wants to sell Coal Uranium  is the honey