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 Fucking Unbelievable POWER

Among television news sources, Fox News holds outsize influence, particularly among Republicans. Currently, 15% of Americans cite Fox News as the television news source they trust the most to provide accurate information about politics and current events, which is roughly equal to the combined influence of broadcast networks like NBC, ABC, and CBS (16%), and larger than that of local television news (12%) and CNN (11%). Fox News is by far the most trusted outlet among Republicans (40%), with the next most trusted source, local news, trailing distantly (14%). Just eight percent of independents and four percent of Democrats most trust Fox News. Among religious groups, Fox News is most trusted by white evangelical Protestants (36%), by nearly twice the proportion of all other religious groups. Continue reading by clicking the name of the source below.

Trumpism After Trump? How Fox News Structures Republican Attitudes | Richard Dawkins Foundation

 

 

Scott Morrison Has Chosen An Odd Year To Take A Year Off

Running the country hasn’t grabbed Morrison’s attention in the same way that, say, using a sexist trope to name a group of chickens has

  

With 1.5m Aussies out of work, the Morrison Government may attempt to stimulate the economy by opening the immigration floodgates?????

1.5 million Aussies out of work and the immigration solution

 

Sweden faces massive surge in COVID-19 cases, surprising absolutely no one

So much for Swedish exceptionalism... Remember how Andrew Bolt tried to convince us that this was the right approach

 

 

FAKE NEWS

TRUMP (KIND OF) CONCEDES. ORDERS TRANSITION. TOO LATE

As close to a concession as you're likely to get: "Donald Trump says he has authorised the GSA, the agency responsible for signing off on the presidential transition process, to begin 'initial protocols' that would recognise Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. But the President also said his legal challenges... would continue." And fail.

 Andrew Bolt is such a swinger isn't he? He like weather cock in a storm. 2016 'not a Trumper" 2017 -2020 ' am a Trumper' and now he appears to be setting himself up to do a Trump ready to say  'I always told you I was never really a Trumper'. 

This is Trump's contribution to 'opinion and news' and it as fake as. It isn't exclusive news it could be found without subscribing to anything Bolt. Don't waste your money. It appears Bolt it just treading water and has been for over a month before hiding in isolationville feeding magpies and growing tulips. He won't be celebrating Xmas in the Netherlands this year will he. It will be in seclusion here where doesn't want to be. I wonder whether he'll be touting for subscriptions in his spare time to impress Rupert for the next two months. After all Rupert has lost having angered his Golden Goose in America. Trump has threatened to walk away from the Trump/ Fox News partnership and the relationship they have shared for 4 years.

Will we see an imminent divorce between the Trump/Murdoch/ Republican marriage. If there is how will it impact on News Corp, Foxtel and Sky down-under? After all they have kept Bolt in whiskies with his mates.

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Republicans Go Mute After Latest Ukraine Bombshell

They'd rather not discuss the stunning reversal by a top Trump diplomat confirming a quid pro quo involving aid to Ukraine.

 

Politics

Trump’s Phone And Calendar Records Support Woman's Sexual Assault Claim, Lawyer Says

Summer Zervos, a former "Apprentice" contestant, is suing Trump for defamation. She's accused him of forcibly kissing and groping her in 2007.

ByDominique Mosbergen

Trade wars

Xi Jinping's unmistakable message for Australia, the US on Chinese technology

China's President has taken an unmistakable swipe at nations like Australia and the US, who have resisted cooperation with Chinese technology companies.

 Chinese President Xi Jinping has used a keynote address at the Chinese International Import Expo in Shanghai to warn countries that they risk stifling innovation if they fail to remove barriers and "knowledge blockades" preventing cooperation on technology.




 The Chinese unlike the USA and the United Fruit Company in Guatemala when the US government via CIA ensured the private interests of an American corporation were secured. With the use of public money the overthrow of Guatemala's duly elected Socialist Government was organized. We saw the same occur in Chile Panama and the failed attempt in Nicaragua. This century we witnessed the invasion of Iraq which guaranteed Exxon's control of the Iraqi Oil Fields. China has not done any of that. Currently, the USA is shipping 30 mill barrels of oil a month out of Syria and who has that contract? The betrayal and displacement of the Kurds was to ensure America controlled the oil. The US army hasn't left Syria as Trump has said it did. All this fake pull out was simply a smokescreen so that neither the Kurds nor Syrians could control that resource. However, Trump has shot himself in the proverbial foot because without the Kurds the Americans are left blind on the ground in terms of any intelligence.
 Thanks to China it seems the Blue Dot Network is little more than the Americans being forced to curtail their usual practice of destroying governments in order to assist private multinationals into places like Venezuela Iran, Yemen Libya Cuba not simply for their political ideologies but their resources. Corporations via Citizens United have been doing deals with US governments for their shareholders alone for decades using citizens money. Lobbying, bribing , promising politicians jobs on retirement and buying them at will. Genie Oil is in Israeli occupied territory of Syria's Golan Heights Rupert Murdoch is a director. These are the real voices who are complaining about China's Soft Diplomacy.  Today the public voice of Trump can be saying. "We should simply take their oil" when in fact the American government isn't taking over anything. They are mercenaries working for multinational companies like Exxon. Today the term "Banana Republics" has changed to the " Oil Republics" that's all.  (ODT)

via China's 'Belt and Road' strategy has a new competitor — enter America's 'Blue Dot Network' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

Fake and Twisted News

  The Fraud calls the 2 ABCs frauds by disguising them as 1 ABC in his blog. The intent is clear as  Fox/Trump distortion statement.

AMY ROBACH: ABC KILLED EPSTEIN STORY

First Ronan Farrow claimed- with reason - that NBC suppressed his reporting on sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein and covered up assault accusations against NBC’s former star, Matt Lauer. Now ABC anchor Amy Robach on a hot mic says ABC quashed her reporting on serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his mate, Prince Andrew. Watch.  

Has anyone wondered why Andrew Bolt is the Dorothy Dixer of Australian Media. America has an ABC and what an opportunity there is here to confuse ours with theirs put up 2 banners and create confusion. 

Andrew Bolt is given full-page bylines twice a week in our least trusted Murdoch Press along with an hour on Sky News after Dark. Trivia, distraction deflection can be found in the media's least trusted and greatest waste of space that's simply withstood the pace of time. What the Truth once did for Melbourne once a week was taken over by Murdoch dailies. There is no news today has been a song sang to drag our attention away from the most trusted media source in the country OUR ABC.

 Bolt tells us in his corner newsboy style street calling headline blog what we can find in his corner of the companies news. Fashion to distract, a daily reminder that the evil ABC are not like him whic,h is just flag waving for Murdoch. His mate Tony has been slurred so shit someone ought to be sacked. Andrew even lets us know that unlike him, other media withhold the news.  Yet, Bolt rarely mentions Trump only the current President of the USA and the current shitstorm that surrounds him, why? Because Murdoch media is paid to kill the TRUMP STORY.

Fox News reportedly killed Stormy Daniels story to help Trump ...

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Six years ago, he shocked the world when he leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to collect every single phone call, text message and email, and pry into the private lives of every person on Earth.

 Edward Snowden: Private Contractors Play Key Role in U.S. Intelligence’s “Creeping Authoritarianism” | Democracy Now!

This is Hell!

The American right, the future of law and the Constitutional disintegration project.

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Trump’s Buddy Chris Collins Just Resigned From Congress

 Collins had used information gleaned from his position as a board member at a pharmaceutical company to alert his son, and close associates of a failed test for a new company drug before news of it became public. Federal investigators said this information prompted Collins’ family and friends to sell their shares in the company and save over $768,000 in losses.

Dan Spinelli


FAKE FACTS AND BULLSHIT

CHINA CELEBRATES 70 YEARS OF DICTATORSHIP

China yesterday celebrated 70 years of communist dictatorship. What's really to celebrate? And who was it trying to celebrate with its astonishing over-the-top parade of missiles and guns? I talked to Rowan Callick, long-time foreign correspondent in China and Hong Kong.

20m ago

The most fabulous piece of social engineering in modern history took a billion people from starvation feudal oppression and saved their lives in just 70 years. Meanwhile, Capitalism in the same period has widened the wealth, income and opportunity gaps like never before. While China is improving health housing education and social mobility for its citizens, the West is destroying it for theirs. Andrew Bolt in the meantime claims at what price? At what purpose basic and universal dignity.

 Under the guise of freedom, Australians have in 70 years become the world's biggest per-capita polluters and are carrying the world's second greatest burden of personal debt on their shoulders. Meanwhile, the Chinese are accumulating savings leaving China as students and tourists in numbers never seen before while we are working increasing hours increasing productivity but not keeping up with the cost of living. The Chinese are sharing the profits of their increased production, while less than 10% of Australians are benefiting from theirs. What's more, the ownership of once accumulated past profits is shrinking in the West.

During the past 70 years, the Western military presence has expanded like never before. While China displays an army and military, it has only 1 base outside of its borders. The West and in particular, the US has 800 and has made it a major part of its economy. Even Australia has an unwanted presence in more countries and wants to grow as an arms exporter.
China is investing in the world while we can be seen to have been doing the opposite. Timor Leste is our model of secret generosity. Greed which Andrew Bolt of course lauds or creates myths about to disguise the reality of our corrupt government actions. No matter Bolt's narratives the fact, when examined, shows China to be a modern miracle of social engineering while Australia is following Trump's model of ever-increasing militarised decay its dream of Democracy and a peoples state fast becoming a historical myth.

TRUMP WANTS AUSTRALIA TO TELL HOW IT HELPED START "RUSSIAN COLLUSION" HOAX

Australia helped to start two years of fake news about Donald Trump colluding with Russia. Now Trump wants Australia to explain how and why. So what's the problem with the Morrison Government agreeing to help him understand just what happened when Alexander Downer met George Papadopoulos? My editorial from The Bolt Report.

30m ago

Trump has also said he doesn't care if there was any Russian collusion. In fact, he doesn't care if there is any in 2020. What he wants is other countries to involve themselves in the 2020 elections only if they support him. Bolt, head up his ass, as usual, asks what's wrong with that?
What's wrong, it's totally against America's constitution for a president to invite other nations to interfere in its domestic politics. It's why it's illegal for a president to hide the phone calls he makes from Congress. The problem for Morrison is he's not agreeing to help America but has agreed to help Trump. The agreement with Morrison may have been on a lesser scale compared with the conversation with  Ukraine's PM asking to dig up, no manufacture dirt on a political opponent, but the intent was the same why else were the transcripts of both conversations so tightly hidden? So what's the problem with saying they were criminal and unconstitutional is the real question?

VIRTUE WARS: ANTIFA BULLIES OLD WOMAN IN WALKER

VIDEO This is what it's come to: three masked Antifa activists in Canada blocking, threatening and screaming abuse at an old woman in a walker. Activists are dangerous when they give themselves a licence to bully. It means that the more they bully even the helpless, the more virtuous they feel. Watch, as Daisy Cousens and I discuss.

25m ago

What a manufactured narrative we have here from which Andre Bolt continues to draw his wild generalisations and fantasised conclusions. Myths drawn from yet another manufactured photo opportunity the facts of which are really totally unknown. Remember Portland it wasn't an "old lady" back then that was the centre of Bolt's bullshit it was a heroic "bullied" photographer that Bolt and Cousens were all over like a rash footage they spread bullshit about. That reporter turned out to be a "fake" yes , a "fake" for which Bolt has never apologised. Andrew Bolt's Sky News draws such easy and mythical generalisations that ANTIFA, protesters are "bullies". Meanwhile, the right shoot to kill when protesting their hate and antipathies and their activities have seen a massive increase in 2019 in the number dead at their events.

 Yes, they are more secretive but fucking more demonstrative and damaging too. They bring death with them. Guess the bullying is over once those being bullied are dead, so Bolt really doesn't bother amplifying their dirty deeds, does he? Israel is a state that sponsors death and has done a lot of it this year. Mass shooters feel enabled by the likes of the Andrew Bolt commentariat and that commentariat, in turn, feels emboldened by the chase for ratings and profit showing they are the loudest and highest-paid voices in the market of commodified opinion. They enable the right-wing bombers killers to come out in the daylight and play, and they feed off each other, while our governments allow them to sell their murderous encouragement. 

Their voices have a two-edged purpose not to just enable right-wing violence which has exploded around the world  and grown 278% in America alone in 2019, but they want to encourage and embolden push back from those they target to abuse like ANTIFA Muslims etc. The Bolt's of this world want to recruit violence, and the state allows them to do it and get away with it in the name of "free speech". However, they don't do the same for everyone.
There are 44 Australian children, and their mothers in a Syrian refugee camp that are being punished for mistakes made maybe that were no fault of their own back then and still aren't now and Andrew Bolt celebrates their punishment by Peter Dutton as they are extremely "dangerous".Who are the bullies here?

MICHAEL MOBBS FLEES SYDNEY. FEARS WARMING DOOM IN THREE YEARS

CLIMATE PANIC This warmist hysteria is astonishing. Now sustainability coach Michael Mobbs is fleeing Sydney because he says global warming could soon destroy our civilisation: "My guess is water, energy, food, the seasons and economies will collapse in the next three to five years.” He should read my "11 Cool Facts on Warming to Calm Your Sobbing Child."

12m ago

Two men facing what science has told us is occurring neither able to change the facts only how they react to them. Bolt's in total denial of the science in a way that he's in denial of science altogether and not just climate science.
Nevertheless, he is obsessed with those that aren't deniers but are listeners. They, on the other hand, aren't obsessed with him. Bolt is the isolationist of the two. A man with few friends who hides from the public has found his Bolt hole to speak outside of the city a safe place where he doesn't need to socialise or talk to anyone. Mobbs is the very reverse, an educated and erudite man unlike Andrew Bolt who facing scientific fact has decided, it's better for his peace of mind, to get out of town, and he's quite happy to talk about his reasons for it and even the doubts he has. Something you rarely if ever hear Bolt reveal.
Bolt the bogan simply laughs and calls Mobbs an idiot offers no rational argument simply calls him a fool and disparages him. Who pray tell is the hysteric, the loudmouth who refuses to listen to anyone but himself?  It's the person who runs an hour talk show that only invites people that agree with him on his show the anchor ready to cut people off should they for a moment disagree with him. Someone like Mobbs, however, is prepared to sit on panels like the Drum listening to and debating people with opposite views to his and still remain civilised. Unlike Bolt, he doesn't belittle them from a distance even if they are only 16.

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TURNBULL "FIXES" CITIZENSHIP FIASCO, BUT FARCE CONTINUES

Malcolm Turnbull tried today to end the citizenship crisis, but his backflip comes after he's dragged to it kicking and screaming. Worse, it's too little, too late. Worse still, then up bobs another Liberal MP, John Alexander, to admit he could be British, too. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

1h
Let's not mention that Turnbull inherited the backroom of the Liberal Party the organizational arm whose job it is to vet the credentials of those nominating for pre-selection and then those chosen to represent the Party. Let's not mention it's the lies of Peta Credlin and her husband who were the managers of the organization and not the PM that said the job was done. The organization is there to protect the party from this sort of farce. So why are they being protected instead of sacked?

PAULINE HANSON: ONE NATION COULD HELP FORM GOVERNMENT IN QUEENSLAND

Pauline Hanson says she feels One Nation could win at least 12 seats in the Queensland state election, and help form a government. From her interview on The Bolt Report.

35m

 As is Andrew Bolt's practice he prefers to deal with the "what ifs" of this world rather than the realities. When the real Pauline reveals herself she still seems stuck in her burqa. 

Yes, if pigs could fly Bolt would be regarded as an indigenous Australian.  No, I got that wrong. Only Bolt would still believe he is indigenous in a world of flying pigs.  His Australia is and is always being invaded by unwanted immigrants in boats and planes.

 Bolt's dream is Hanson forming a coalition government with the Liberals in Qld who for the moment are trailing according to the Galaxy poll 48 to 52 on a two-party basis.

 Yes Bolt's much-admired American President

Latest shooting a problem of mental health, not guns, says President Donald Trump

 Texas attorney general: congregations should be armed after church shooting | US news | The Guardian

Hours after a mass shooting that left at least 26 people dead, the Texas attorney general said American churches should be “arming some of the parishioners” or hiring “professional security”.

 

Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt: 'There's No Other Place' To Be Murdered Than In Church 

 

Andrew Bolt still supports Milo and all other spokespersons for Pedophilia. Bolt will be MC on Milo's live shows and can't wait for Milo's heads up for Kevin Spacey.

 Milo Yiannopoulos Lashes Out After The Daily Caller Cancels Column

 

TURNBULL'S CITIZEN "FIX" GETS MEDIA RASPBERRY

The media coverage of Malcolm Turnbull's citizenship "fix" has been uniformly scathing. That's not to say his plan has no merit. It's to say that Turnbull now has no hope now of selling anything. Check it out.

1h31

When it's a long blog you know it's not Andrew Bolt's and the usual suspect is his paid assistant and loyal troll Peter BH who Bolt calls his 'reader'. Furthermore, 100% of this 'raspberry' of Bolt's is from you guessed it News Corp and it's gang of media assassins. The two names mentioned that are not Murdoch puppets one is quoting the Federal Director of the LNP who should actually be in the line of fire for his incompetence and the other Katherine Murphy who is, in fact, applaud the tactic of kicking the can down the road until 2018. So yes Bolt you need to kick your Troll Peter BH for doing sweet FA and merely turning to the News Corp suspects who run commentaries with not their hands tied behind their backs but their lips and all other working parts.

Bolt's media coverage is
Greg Brown & Rosie Lewis:  A PAYWALL to the Australian

Alice Workman has the timeline: quotes the Federal Director of the party

 Cut & Paste: link to the Australian

Followed By

Courier Mail editorial: The Australian editorial: Daily Telegraph editorial: Sharri Markson, who will be on The Bolt Report tonight: Caroline Overington- The Australian  Joe Kelly The Australian

 

A FRIGHTENING ATTACK ON SCIENTIFIC DEBATE

A dangerous attack on the scientific debate: "Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson has filed a lawsuit, demanding $10 million in damages, against... a group of eminent scientists (Clack et al.) for their study showing that Jacobson made improper assumptions ... to claim ... U.S. energy could be provided exclusively by renewable energy." 

1h70

It's amazing just how frightened Bolt can get. A computer expert and professor is suing his critics not for their scientific beliefs but for their public defamation of him for a paper he wrote in 2015. Is Bolt frightened that the professor might win his defamation suit or is it the amount of the suit? After all, America is for Bolt the land of 'free speech' but it is also the land of private litigation. If Bolt has anything he should worry about is that the EPA is attempting to stop Climate Debate altogether by making it illegal for Climate Scientists to even publish the results of their research and ban science from even using the term Climate Change. That is far more frightening than a public defamation suit. 

What's pertinent is that neither of the two persons involved is even Climate Scientists which Bolt fails to mention. Ones a  Professor of Civil Engineering and the other is a Mathematician who co-authored his criticism with a Prof of International Relations.

Bolt make absolutely no mention of the fact that nobody here is directly involved in Climate Science odd isn't it? Even odder that Bolt feels that the freedom to sue privately is unprincipled. He's a great supporter it seems of only his freedoms.

HOW THE MEDIA FRAMED DONALD TRUMP

Many journalists lie about Donald Trump. They're convinced he's a monster and look for any evidence to prove it. Take the outrageous reporting of his "gaffes" in Japan - and compare this what the tapes actually show. My editorial on The Bolt Report.

 

Leading bump stock maker briefly makes product available again

Trump says tougher gun laws would have made Texas church shooting worse

Texas suspect's violent history was left out of gun background check system

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 Bolt's had a week of smoke screening Trump. Trump literally landed at an American airforce base in Japan lunched and then played golf before meeting any Japanese officials. He then played a round of golf with Abe as if at Margo del Mar.. In the meantime, a massacre was occurring in Texas to which his response was that it had nothing to do with guns or America's gun laws it was simply a case of a mental breakdown of an ex American trained by the US Airforce and discharged for serious criminal domestic violence. If he'd been a Muslim what would have these conservatives said?
 Bolt mentions none of this that Kelly actually had a car loaded with a cashe of illegaly acquired weapons to which the law stated he had no right. While Trump said the case had nothing to do with guns and the laws that made them readily available. Ignoring the comparisons with any other Western countries.  Bolt is simply running a News Corp smoke screen hoping Trump's statements don't blow up in his face as they inevitably will because dum is dumber when stated by this President. 

Trump's comments on increased Japanese cars to be built in America overlooks the fact they will be EVs or that Japan already has more charging stations  than petrol stations in Japan. They are going to the US to compete not with fossil fuels but green power and against Republican policies. They want to join Tesla, GMH, Ford and others in the new market before it's too late. Trump's policies have little or nothing to do with clean energy or climate change. So far all Trump has done is waved the American flag, been on Twitter lunched and played golf. He has spent more time with Americans  in Japan than he has Japanese. If anyone framed Trump he's framed himself.

 

MATT CANAVAN: PREMIER PUTS HER BOYFRIEND'S JOB ABOVE THE JOBS OF THOUSANDS OF QUEENSLANDERS

Resources Minister Matthew Canavan says Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has broken trust with Queenslanders over her Adani back flip.

23m

There's no backflip the premier is pro- Adani but doesn't believe that the financing of the mine is a Socialist responsibility but rather a private concern. How is it that the Conservatives like Bolt are so Bolshie, so left wing demanding that we not only give Adani permission for a coal mine but we pay for it. How is it Alan Jones Bolt's comrade conservative at Sky thinks the whole idea is fishy and stinks to high heaven and is publicly saying just that? Why isn't Bolt confronting Jones on this difference of principle? He isn't inviting him on his show to even discuss it, is he? 
It's typical of Bolt who tends to be unable to cope with those that don't agree with him but he looks up to. He tends to want to run the other way. We saw that with Miranda Devine who was once a regular on the Bolt Report James Matheson who seemed more informed than Bolt and Alan Jones who he stays well clear of. It's been proven that the only job open to Queenslanders by Adani is a con-job. Yet this is something Bolt ignores. Maybe we should look up Adani in the Paradise Papers and see what Bolt has to say in his defense.

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