Andrew Bolt's Blog; 27/9/17; Polling Government Leaders on SSM; Andrew Bolt's Celebrating the return of the Nazi Party in Germany; Ignorance is the foundation of Bolt's Conservativism; Freedom is and unexplained concept to Andrew Bolt Know your place; Poll vaulting;

 

RICHMOND IS NOT JUST A CLUB, FOOTBALL NOT JUST A SPORT, THIS IS US

Football is not just a sport. This is family, teaching us to accept. This is life. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

One truth Andrew Bolt isn't Martin Flanagan and he doesn't practice what he preaches. He criticizes and only accepts the Australian family off a very, very small base. Last week he criticized the AFL and he didn't accept Richmond's inclusive "family" support of the 'yes' vote. Instead he turned to Carlton and their complaint that the AFL didn't represent them.You see Bolt is a user Flanagan isn't. Flanagan is proud of his family and has photos of them and they do of him he's genuine. Bolt isn't.
 How can a man, such a reclusive, appear genuine and preach to us about family when his is so hidden. He has a brother and sister of whom you never hear and he never says he's proud of when others do but not Andrew Bolt. The man isn't genuine if Dusty came to date his daughter Bolt would turn his back on him. You see what is Australian is Bolt from a wog family married up the social ladder and was welcomed by none other than Australians simply because their daughter Sally found something in him. He was welcomed. You can be certain that Andrew Bolt wouldn't be as welcoming if Dusty or Houli turned up at his door. He's the most disingenuous ,talking head, bag of wind, and the most un-Australian Aussie to be telling us what family is. 
Waleed Aly well he's a Richmond supporter too and he was part of the cheer squad he was an active member of that club. What part of the Richmond family is Andrew Bolt other than just hot air he spins? Is Richmond proud of Andrew Bolt?

Every Government And Opposition Leader In Australia Is Voting Yes On Same-Sex Marriage...Except One

Seventeen out of Australia's 18 federal, state and territory leaders are voting "yes".

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FAR-RIGHT GERMAN LEADER QUITS PARTY, ACCUSES IT OF RACISM

Gutsy, and I hope she can now develop a better alternative party: "The resurgent German far-Right looked in danger of imploding within hours of its electoral triumph on Monday, as [the Alternative for Germany co-chair]  announced she ... would sit as an independent. Frauke Petry ... lashed out at colleagues, accusing them of condoning racism." 

""The sort of anarchic party the AfD has become in recent weeks can be successful in opposition, but cannot offer a credible alternative government," she said..."Petry

They say two negatives make a positive they don't. Two Nazi's remain two Nazi's just as two rounds of Mr. Nope Abbott would remain a negative and a permanent government in opposition that did nothing. We learned that in 2013 when Abbott began lying straight off the bat with his 3 word no tax cut slogans.

The AfD is the party Andrew Bolt gave unqualified praise to and celebrated their rise. " Ms. Petry made it clear she was unhappy with remarks by Mr Gauland and others calling for an end to the culture of guilt over Germany's Nazi past." Petry "calling for border guards to open fire on refugees."  The AfD has moved further to the Right just as Tony Abbott did.

 

SAUDIS LET WOMEN DRIVE, BUT LITTLE ELSE

Big step, if from far behind: "Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom." But still: "Women cannot travel abroad, work or undergo some medical procedures without the consent of their male 'guardian'."

  Andrew Bolt's continued ignorance is extremely dangerous it amplifies the fact he doesn't know the difference between religion and culture and doesn't care. Latin Americans practice their Catholicism differently to us does that make them our enemies? He doesn't care. Here is the man who was celebrating the rise of the Nazi party in Germany yesterday proving that he is ignorant and dangerous.

 Does Bolt hate the Saudis"? They don't want to be his neighbors as much as he doesn't want to be theirs but nevertheless, we call them and have done for many years our political allies and happily support them bombing the bejezuz out of the Yemen turning it into the basket case of the world. Bolt would prefer them as our enemies it seems but he can't. Islam does not dictate the way women ought to be treated one only needs to turn to the world's largest Islamic countries to see that. There is nothing  in the Koran that says  "Women cannot travel abroad, work or undergo some medical procedures without the consent of their male 'guardian'."Bolt

Does anybody find it strange that Tunisia is a Muslim country Bolt never mentions has had equal pay and woman's rights to abortion and education since the 70s  while we are still dealing with these issues? That Tunisians know more about Western Culture than Andrew Bolt would ever know about theirs and they speak more languages than most Australians. He doesn't shy away from his bigotry, does he? He hides it in plain sight.

 

THEY DON'T TALK FREEDOM BECAUSE THEY DON'T RESPECT IT

Paul Kelly is right: "The feature of the campaign so far is the absolute refusal of the Yes camp to concede any legitimacy to warnings of the No camp about the risks to religious freedom and belief... It simply refuses to engage in the issue. Has there ever been a more arrogant campaign?" Not discussing freedom suggests they plan to destroy it.

 Freedom of religion is practiced by Australian Muslims who have recognized that "marriage equality has little or nothing to do with their faith nor does the law as it stands. Bolt, however, throws that aside for the need of freedom of abuse and he freely does abuse both Muslims and "yes" voters for persecuting Christians. The very fact that he says he's not a Christian is a form of persecution. Like Gandhi did the British simply by ignoring Christian faith and getting on with changing secular and unjust laws Bolt screams persecution. We don't give a damn what Bolt the agnostic Christian believes in but it's certainly hypocritical simply because we want our laws to reflect what it is our constitution guarantees equality, freedom of religion and the separation of state powers.

The problem we face here is the disingenuous manufacturing of FEAR by ignorance. Since 2001 places that have allowed marriage equality and have been fully researched have shown that the fears being by the likes of Bolt are totally manufactured and no such events have taken place in any sociological, systemic or statistical sense so how can any legitimacy be given to outlandish warnings? Bolt can't even name countries that statistically significant changes have occurred.

 

RICHO ON TURNBULL'S TERRIBLE POLLS: SURELY HE CAN'T LAST

Graham Richardson on 20 disastrous polls in a row: "The Liberal Party is in some sort of pre traumatic syndrome. They are limping along to absolutely no avail and are heading for disaster. No one appears to have the will to take Turnbull on, so the waiting game continues. The lemmings have their bags packed for their trip over the cliff."

Populism over politics is a result of whatever the media can amplify and sell and Bolt works for the largest private media organization in the country whose CEO was also the founding member of the most Conservative think tank in the country the IPA. So what chance is there for information, news, being delivered and packages in any organized way other than by the non-commercial ABC which questions the underlying motives of both the government and opposition parties alike. Unfortunately the financial ability of minority interests to mobilize are aided by the likes of News Corp and are clearly visible in what is deemed to be a free market but in fact is a monopoly that profits by selling and lobbying the interests of only 1% in a very organized way. The only alternative for any real opposition or agreement needs an organizational approach that's not just adversarial but more like the German model. Where the boards of all corporations in the market are required to represent all interested parties including the workers and their Unions and not just the shareholders. If that were the case Governments like Tony Abbott's would have less chance of surfacing to do nothing.
 

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' FIGHTING FOR GAY MARRIAGE GENERALLY INVOLVES LYING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO'

They've warned you. Statist gay marriage activist Masha Gessen at the Sydney Writers Festival in 2012: "Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we're going to do with marriage when we get there."

  Not only is Bolt inferring Frances Abbott is a liar but that her ideal heterosexual family has raised incorrectly why? Because as you see Bolt uses a stereotypical broad brush that says "generally". So he's comfortable in calling Abbott's sister and daughter liars along with 17 of 18 Australia's leading politicians. My question who is the f'wit, the bullyboy under these circumstances. Who sounds the lest reasoned and unintelligent?
  Bolt's  delusion of the ideal heterosexual marriage is the myth and the lie it's not the fundamental institution of all societies. It has changed significantly over time and with class. For the wealthy it's purpose was an arranged contract and the merging of wealth. For the Industrial Revolution, it was a means of ensuring a mobile and cheap labor force. Over the years and in many societies it developed from extended family arrangements. The raising of children wasn't done by the parents of the wealthy nor was it done by both parents of working-class families. Bolt's talking rubbish and is even idealizing his own family. Things have been far more fluid and variable than he's prepared to admit when today in most cases both parents are working to make ends meet.

The Israeli kibbutzes were never an arrangement of nuclear families either it was more of a socialist commune. Today we see that the most common form that Bolt holds dear up is in fact on the decline so fighting for a singular definition of marriage in any fixed form involves a major amount of lying. The lying however in Bolt's case has no statistical or sociological significance. Colombia University did a study of gay marriages over a period of 30 years and 97% of those studies indicated no difference existed. Bolt however always turns to confirmational bias when indicating research and will look for the 3% or even individual cases to support the conclusion he has already in mind. He's the bad cop constantly out to convict Blacks, Gays, and Muslims,

 

 

THE OPPRESSION STARTS: NT CONSIDERING NEW LAWS AGAINST CHURCHES

It starts. Northern Territory moves against churches: "One of exemptions that could be removed is section 30(2) that permits religious schools to exclude prospective students who are not of that religion. Another exemption ... is section 37A that permits religious schools to discriminate against employees on the grounds of religious beliefs."  

 Bolt confirmation bias reveals itself in the hypotheticals of what if, it could be proposed, all of which exist in the world of fantasy. Tony Abbott proposed an honors list of Knighthoods and Dames be returned to Australia and was it? All this is in Bolt's land of "could be's " The reason Catholic schools today take in non-Catholics isn't due to any generosity on their part but rather a case of Economics.  Can Andrew Bolt point to countries and name any countries that we have seen wholesale demonstrations after the marriage laws were introduced."The proposals are among the most extreme ever floated by a state or territory government in Australia, but are broadly in accord with measures introduced in all other countries where same-sex marriage has been introduced." Catholic lie

I was raised a Catholic to find out you can do whatever you want and always be absolved by confession and what's revealed in confession stays there. Don't most commentators do that without ever confessing? Bolt does. Which countries are now persecuting religions due to the change in the marriage laws?

 

The Trans 16-Year-Old Who Was Allegedly Assaulted Says The Marriage Survey Has Made Her Less Safe

"Before this, things weren’t as bad." What does Senator Canavan "no " Voter say? " Get a Spine"

 

 

VOTE FOR JIM MOLAN

Cheer him on: "Liberal Party reformers moved last night to overthrow the 'factional warlords' that control a key division in a warning sign to Malcolm Turnbull and other ­leaders to help deliver more power to party members. Retired major-general Jim Molan ... put himself forward as a candidate for president of the NSW division on a reform ticket." 

So the Liberal Party now wants to look like the Labor Party the once criticized for branch stacking.
 

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 16/3/17; Tip: Andrew Bolt isn't Australian or Dutch; Wilders defeated and the Greens surge in the Netherlands; Taboo private vs public; EU. Turkey and political posturing. ACTU bad laws; Using Richo in the bull ring;

TIPS FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 17

Andrew Bolt's definitely not Australian but nor is he Dutch. On every of his predictions on every countof his description of who we are  Australians and Dutch have deserted him and declared him persona non gratis however we haven't put a ban on him.
Dutch election 
Bolt's right the greens said no to Gilders dumb taboos as did the the moderate and tolerant Dutch

Historic night for GreenLeft

One of the biggest winners of the night was the GreenLeft, which is now the largest party of the Dutch left for the first time. Led by 30-year-old Jesse Klaver, a charismatic leader who has been likened to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the party quadrupled its MPs from four to 16 . 

“This is a fantastic result for us, a historic victory,” said the party chairwoman, Marjolein Meijer.
The result showed there was “very fertile ground in the Netherlands for change and a positive and hopeful story”, she said. “For us this is just the beginning.”
Watch Bolt shift from WA to the Netherlands next will be France then to Germany. Is he chasing his tail?

 

MADE POOR BY THESE DUMB TABOOS

How often we’ve seen the kind of mad superstitions that have our politicians this week struggling to keep on our lights and gas. Tasmanian Aborigines starved rather than catch fish. Jews and Muslims would not eat pigs. And now we're rather shivver in the dark than mine coal or frack for gas. Are we mad? 

   

A great atheist once said taboos stood in the way of progress but they were underpinned by the contradictory interests of owners of the the tools of production and  workers. That the myth of the 'free market' would with stand the revolution of the common good. That battle is now playing out in front of us. The privatization of our resources has allowed us to to get less revenue than Japan for our product and has made Japan the best and cheapest source of our own product cheaper in fact than searching and looking for more. As long as free market economics is involved we will be paying more and not less for gas. Turnbull has asked for a promise of good will from privateers to set aside profit in the interests of the nation. Bolt however rather than face the issue of state owned control wants to simply continue as we once did and let the privateers have their way and that is his idea of rationality. Why would the price go down if the international demand is high. Why wouldn't the privateers buy the gas off the Japanese if they could turn a profit more easily that way? The whole market needs rationalization not just parts of it for a short time.

It's the very reason the major energy producers are calling for an ETS yes a tax on carbon the very opposite of what Bolt is talking about a taboo on dirty energy to actually help transition to clean. They know where the futures lie and it's not in the the direction Bolt insists.

IMMIGRATION ALERT: TURKEY WHIPS UP MOBS IN EUROPE

Turkey's president - fast becoming a dictator - is terrifying Europe by sending his officials to whip up the huge Turkish minorities in Germany and Holland. What's frightening is the question he's raising: how loyal are the people brought in by mass immigration?    

"This meddling and his threats — particularly against Holland — raise serious questions about the danger of mass immigration." Bolt

Bolt as usual is conflating issues of what it means to be a member of the EU, what it means to have free border crossings, what that does to sovereign rights and refugees. These issues aren't all the same. Yes Europe has "imported cheap labour" from Turkey and continues to do so.  They were once called 'guest workers'. They didn't invade  Europe they were invited and they weren't 'mobs'. They were welcome well before the EU was formed. 

However the worm seems to have turned as politics has come into the mix and Turks have become 'mobs' along with refugees no doubt because they are Muslim.   Turkey is an associate member of the EU and wants it's politicians to be able to politically campaign within the borders of EU states for votes and mainly in Germany and the Netherlands which have refused for reasons of their own security and their own politics. Turkey however believes as an associate it has the member rights of free movement which the Dutch have denied them as have the Germans. The question being addressed is what are EU members rights and how do they reflect on the domestic politics of each country. It's not "Mass Migration" or  to do with the arrival of refugees. It's to do with the fact can Turkish politicians conduct political rallies in the Netherlands or in any other EU country.  Turkey can open the gates and allow refugees into the EU will they? Is Erdrogan just posturing performing for his electorate as we saw him do with Russia? The problem being the EU hasn't a refugee solution without Turkey's help and nor has Bolt's problem of 'mass migration then'. The question of "mass invasion" is merely a moral and political one within the EU and reflects the current state of it's politics which on the right is anti-EU and anti- migration vs pro EU and pro refugee aid.

 Without "guest workers" and cheap labour nation states in Europe couldn't survive. "Whipping up mobs" is Bolt's description as is his description of 'mass rape in Sweden' both are  fake facts and false and simply right wing motivated. I believe Gert Wilders his hero has had a substantial slip in the Dutch polls recently like Hanson something you won't hear from Bolt. The Greens were the biggest winners another thing you won't hear.

Dutch elections: Wilders' far-right party defeated, exit polls show - CNN ...

 Dutch election exit polls show Prime Minister's VVD Party on track to ...

 

 

ACTU DECLARES: ABOVE THE LAW

New ACTU secretary Sally McManus says the unions won't be bound by the law:  “I believe in the rule of law where the law is fair and the law is right. But when it’s unjust I don’t think there’s a problem with breaking it.” I'd like her to nominate all the laws - from tax laws to laws against assault - that she thinks the unions may break.

  It seems Corporations don't have any concern breaking laws when it comes wages and benefits why is Bolt so fussed when it comes to unions. The costs involved seem to be far greater when corporations are involved than when unions are. On top of that corporate bosses and executives are rarely charged and never jailed. The ACTU isn't the first to declare laws bad Abbott did it and Bolt nodded.

RICHO TO TURNBULL: FIGHT ON PENALTIES OR GO

Graham Richardson challenges Malcolm Turnbull: "If the Liberals don’t stand up on penalty rates, they stand condemned as a party that stands for nothing... If you don’t have the courage for this fight, Malcolm, you really are finished."

  If only politics were as simple as two persons posturing the way Bolt is with the help of Richardson. I guess Bolt would tell us Tony would yell louder. However I doubt it because he's not doing it now.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,4/4/16; Morgan Poll has the Libs ahead 52.5 to 47.5 and Bolt ignores it for the Murdoch Poll; The gruesome use of Graham Richardson by Andrew Bolt; The curse of Abbott who really feels it; Roll over and die laughing What Abbott did for Australia;; Promises made to Murdoch; Muslims are good for Australia they give more to Charity than Christians; Why Richo prefers Abbott;

 

 

 

 

Newspoll: Labor leads Turnbull Government

  Why is Newspoll the Murdoch commissioned poll so out of sync with all other polls? When will we be seeing the News Corp criers calling for Abbott's return? However the coalition are 41 to the ALP 36 on primary votes and Turnbull still has a popular rating Abbott couldn't dream of. The Morgan poll has the Libs 52.5 to ALP 47.5 How on earth can there be such a difference among pollsters ? Morgan isn't commissioned by News Corp.

 If the rating agencies Moodys and Standard and Poors over valued bonds during the GFC because they wanted to stay on good terms with the banks what makes us think that Galaxy that runs Newspoll isn't capable of wanting to please it's master News Corp. It's called business and "show me the money". Why didn't Bolt mention the Morgan Poll or  even The Financial Review which has them 53 to 47 averaging across  all polls and yes has Turnbull 61% to Shorten 18% as preferred PM.  What does this say about Newspoll? What does it say about the the media and managing headlines to sell trash.

 

Don’t tell us in English we shouldn’t say namaste

Does Bolt really spend his days spitting on people he doesn't agree with. Individuals aren't safe from this man.  Anything that enables him to  denigrate Islam is fine by him. Even trivia about individuals he hasn't met or has a clue about but enables him to reinforce the negative,  generalize and stereotype a billion people is valid. Sub continent Indians didn't appropriate English. Colonial Imperial Britain forced English on them.  Generally white English speaking colonists couldn't give a rats about the natives. Learning a second language like Hindi the language of the people they ruled  was a show of respect and they had little of that. That's implicit in everything Bolt has to say "If we’re into fretting about cultural appropriation, how about you stop speaking our English?" It's indicative of the fact that English are still today a monolingual country as are Anglo Australians. In the region we live we are still a monolingual nation. How colonial is that? Does this blog sound like a guy who doesn't care about skin colour and treats everyone as equals not in the least. It sounds more like a UPF bogan proud of his isolation and ignorance. Any wonder Bolt  feels estranged at his kids PTA meetings or doesn't like public spaces. He's a stranger in his own land if this is how he presents himself, an uncivilized Boor.

  

On 2GB, 3AW and 4BC tonight - lots of hard-hitting stuff, with heart-melting moments

More about "My Show" and more gruesome particulars about Richo no doubt.

Latham joins us at Sky News

An ad for "my" show

" The program will fill a slot vacated by Richo + Jones as Graham Richardson undergoes surgery to have his bowel, bladder, rectum and prostate removed. We all wish him well…" Bolt 

 This is what Bolt regards as breaking news?? Is his opening show going to show the operation live? Did Richo intend to have himself cut open in public by this dolt or doesn't he care about his privacy or dignity? Bolt obviously doesn't care and has used the new Richo show  as a tool for advertising his show again and again and again but using Richo as sensationalism as an attention grab.  This what you can expect more of from Bolt.

 "My own show starts on Sky News on April 23." 

and what does he really think about Richo?

And all the very best to Richo.
 

 

 

Trump may be trumped in Wisconsin 

 Bolt want's to appear like a real reporter. He read the paper and used what he read as a space filler.

 

 

 

Karma comes to Turnbull supporters. UPDATE: Nola next?

This is not just a comment it's a political donation. The list of names Bolt presents as having some spiritual punishment for having voted for Turnbull  were all morally corrupt in some way when working for Abbott. Bolt seems to suggest that they would have been better off working for Abbott because he would have protected their immoral habits. That really says a lot for why Abbott should have gone. Bronwyn Bishop, Sinodinos Brourgh all would still be with us. Is that the sort of people we need to represent us and a leader like Abbott to protect them?

Imagine if we were paid according to our productivity and value to society. Bolt would be sitting on a corner with cap in hand. Has he actually ever worked for a profitable  news paper? Has ever done anything productive for Australia or Australians?Imagine if we were taxed according to our lack of productivity. Bolt would truely deserve to be at the highest rate Has he written anything informative recently no! All he has been doing is targeting the 54 MPs who voted to replace Abbott and those in marginal seats. The exercise is to divide the Liberal Party and put the fear of god into the weakest of them  in the hope they will cry for the return of Caesar. To do that Bolt has to keep telling us the electorate to VOTE LABOR because they  have the "wind in their sails" . How long will he keep this up it appears until Abbott is called up before or after the election because the long game is the privatisation of the ABC for Murdoch's wider control of all media in this country.

Abbott was back in opposition from the moment he was voted out by his own party. The wrecker has no Liberal loyalty that's for sure wrecking dividing has always been his modus operandi and he has no concern who it's directed at. He savaged the Australian Muslims for votes, disenfranchised women and said their rightful place was in the kitchen.  He turned against the LGBT's and let them know they weren't equal in his Australia .So yes  millions of Australians have felt "the curse of Abbott" refugees in particular but then they have been little more than pawns in his game. 

" A thought: take out the Turnbull supporters now leaving parliament and add the marginal seat holders (many, like Sarah Henderson, who voted for Turnbull) likely to lose their seats and the Prime Minister looks not so invulnerable as the leadership vote six months ago suggests."

As I said Bolt's job has never been productive only destructive and he's had the Liberal marginal seat holders in his sights. Will there be a call to count the numbers again? Given Abbott's lack of personal popularity, that 73% of the electorate can see what it is he's up to and 66% want him gone he won't be calling for a challenge will he.  Will one of the Conservatives step up allowing Abbott to put his hat in the ring again? Will the nervous nellies jump ship? If a challenge is called it won't be from Abbott will it as he's being painted the golden boy again in Bolt's pantomime. In reality can we afford not to forget the Klutz he really was?

"So who will be next to feel the curse of Abbott?" We  all feel it because News Corp media has  ensured us we will  Abbott hasn't moved on and Bolt is there to point the bone at anybody that was and still might be in his way. Is it any wonder Murdoch wants 23 End mandatory disclosures on political donations. I regard this as a political donation don't you?

Column - Turnbull must act like Abbott or die

" I mean, when did you last see a prime minister act with such sustained ineptitude as Turnbull did over 48 hours last week?"Bolt

When Tony Abbott was PM his personal poll standing broke all records in it's downward spiral. Remember the dumb look of silence on TV that went around the world at the speed of light. Go to Youtube and check out John Oliver. I believe Abbott was crowned the worlds most incompetent PM. What chance has Andrew Bolt handing that crown to to Malcolm TurnbullLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia (HBO)The 3.8 million hits that made this country famous.  Abbott was more famous at that moment than Donald Trump. It left Andrew Bolt stammering "but he's not  really like that I promise you"Remember the Cambodia resettlement scheme giving Cambodia's politicians $55 mill for a scheme they now say is a flop but the money has gone. Now that's competance . Blind Freddy could have told Morrison that when the thought bubble hit.

Bolt is the idiot he appears to be. Turnbull and Abbott are the same leaders of the Liberal Party. Neither have had an original idea since 2013. Abbott was not the originator of Liberal Party policy that Bolt makes him out to be. Turnbull is required to continue to tow the line   The IPA has given them or the Party a charter of 75 ideas which make it clear all this fight is  a personality battle  and who is the most likely to turn Australia into a branch of the IPA faster.  No turn Aurn Australia into a branch of News Corp. In this instance who would be the first to privatise the ABC and get rid of Section 18C. All those lawyers hired to protect News Corp and Bolt are  very very expensive after all.  Run your eyes over the IPA list below and you will see the Murdoch influence the push to improve his business opportunities in Australia. The target audience for Bolt isn't the electorate but the 53 who voted for Turnbull."It was so bad, and so typically Turnbull, that Liberal MPs must feel sick, especially the 53 who voted to make this bloke PM six months ago."Bolt

Some reasons why Murdoch wants Abbott and not Turnbull promises have been made over those dinners and lunches

4 Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 

14 Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)

15 Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be ‘balanced’

17 End local content requirements for Australian television stations

23 End mandatory disclosures on political donations

24 End media blackout in final days of election campaigns

25 End public funding to political parties

27 Eliminate media ownership restrictions

28 Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board

50 Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function

51 Privatise SBS

66 Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship

Why we need the ABC and why Bolt needs to get a real job. 

Journalism   Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak takes Four Corners on a taxing journey into a parallel universe 

 

 

 

Abbott obliges

The majority of Australians want Abbott to get on his bike not the majority of  ALP politicians. They want him to stay as he's become the target and they want him front and center in any election with the most distrusted media group in Australia behind him News Corp. 

If Bolt really wants to test the concept of generosity he's treading on very thin ice because research has proven Moslems give more than 2x times to charity than his conservative christian givers and even more than Catholics. Considering the amount the Catholic Church skims off the top one wonders how much arrives at the promised destination. If charity is the guide it suggests we need  a more Islamic and muticultural environment than we have now. It would be  of far greater benefit if charity was to replace government run welfare as Bolt would like. Muslims 'Give Most To Charity', Ahead Of Christians, Jews ...

What we see here is the continuing Bolt bull lying yet again talking for the sake of talking  about things he knows very little. Either way  given he and Tony Abbott are monarchists and believe  in our closeness to British culture. I thought it only fair we check the research done in the UK rather than the US about some facts on generosity.

" Muslims give more to charity than other religious groups, new research suggests.At almost £371 each, Muslims topped the poll of religious groups that give to charity.When they donated last year, atheists averaged £116, The Times reported (£).The ICM poll found that Jewish donors gave an average of £270 per person.Roman Catholics averaged just over £178, Christians just under £178 and Protestants £202."

The storm is coming Bolt's belief in the trickle down

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Richo: Turnbull consults, agrees and then breaks his word

  "there are still journalists delusional in their support of the man they barracked into the job."Bolt

It certainly effected the electorate's image of him as a leader compared with Tony Abbott's hasn't it and it's readily reflected in his personal poll rating against Abbott's which remains road kill . The simple fact is despite what the media writes. Despite all of Andrew Bolt's efforts 66% of Australians want Abbott to go and 73% believe he's hanging like a bad smell trying reprise his job as PM like Rudd but without any popular appeal. Do Australians want him back no!! The constant minority banging by Bolt for Abbott is simply a strategy to unnerve and divide the Liberal Party in the hope of gaining numbers for Tony. It's anti- democracy anti- Australian and at it's core is a return to the dreams and hopes of a fascist Australia. Abbott never had his own ideas they were always the IPASs

As for Richo declaring it as a" complete surprise" I think better take a good look at himself and reread the IPA catechism the 75 commandments that are an ever present guideline for the Liberal party to follow. Then again the ALP are on Bolt's side as well and maybe so is Richo because we all  do want Abbott back. He's Bolt's dog but not the drover's dog any forthcoming election.

The 75 IPA Ideas to send a shiver down your spine.

1 Repeal the carbon tax, and don’t replace it. It will be one thing to remove the burden of the carbon tax from the Australian economy. But if it is just replaced by another costly scheme, most of the benefits will be undone.
2 Abolish the Department of Climate Change
3 Abolish the Clean Energy Fund
4 Repeal Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
5 Abandon Australia’s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council 
6 Repeal the renewable energy target
7 Return income taxing powers to the states
8 Abolish the Commonwealth Grants Commission
9 Abolish the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
10 Withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol
11 Introduce fee competition to Australian universities
12 Repeal the National Curriculum
13 Introduce competing private secondary school curriculums
14 Abolish the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
15 Eliminate laws that require radio and television broadcasters to be ‘balanced’
16 Abolish television spectrum licensing and devolve spectrum management to the common law
17 End local content requirements for Australian television stations
18 Eliminate family tax benefits
19 Abandon the paid parental leave scheme
20 Means-test Medicare
21 End all corporate welfare and subsidies by closing the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
22 Introduce voluntary voting
23 End mandatory disclosures on political donations
24 End media blackout in final days of election campaigns
25 End public funding to political parties
26 Remove anti-dumping laws
27 Eliminate media ownership restrictions
28 Abolish the Foreign Investment Review Board
29 Eliminate the National Preventative Health Agency
30 Cease subsidizing the car industry
31 Formalize a one-in, one-out approach to regulatory reduction
32 Rule out federal funding for 2018 Commonwealth Games
33 Deregulate the parallel importation of books
34 End preferences for Industry Super Funds in workplace relations laws
35 Legislate a cap on government spending and tax as a percentage of GDP
36 Legislate a balanced budget amendment which strictly limits the size of budget deficits and the period the federal government can be in deficit
37 Force government agencies to put all of their spending online in a searchable database
38 Repeal plain packaging for cigarettes and rule it out for all other products, including alcohol and fast food
39 Reintroduce voluntary student unionism at universities
40 Introduce a voucher scheme for secondary schools
41 Repeal the alcopops tax
42 Introduce a special economic zone in the north of Australia including:

1. a) Lower personal income tax for residents
2. b) Significantly expanded 457 Visa programs for workers
3. c) Encourage the construction of dams

43 Repeal the mining tax
44 Devolve environmental approvals for major projects to the states
45 Introduce a single rate of income tax with a generous tax-free threshold
46 Cut company tax to an internationally competitive rate of 25 per cent
47 Cease funding the Australia Network
48 Privatise Australia Post
49 Privatise Medibank
50 Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function
51 Privatise SBS
52 Reduce the size of the public service from current levels of more than 260,000 to at least the 2001 low of 212,784
53 Repeal the Fair Work Act
54 Allow individuals and employers to negotiate directly terms of employment that suit them
55 Encourage independent contracting by overturning new regulations designed to punish contractors
56 Abolish the Baby Bonus
57 Abolish the First Home Owners’ Grant
58 Allow the Northern Territory to become a state
59 Halve the size of the Coalition front bench from 32 to 16
60 Remove all remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade
61 Slash top public servant salaries to much lower international standards, like in the United States
62 End all public subsidies to sport and the arts
63 Privatise the Australian Institute of Sport
64 End all hidden protectionist measures, such as preferences for local manufacturers in government tendering
65 Abolish the Office for Film and Literature Classification
66 Rule out any government-supported or mandated internet censorship
67 Means test tertiary student loans
68 Allow people to opt out of superannuation in exchange for promising to forgo any government income support in retirement
69 Immediately halt construction of the National Broadband Network and privatise any sections that have already been built
70 End all government funded Nanny State advertising
71 Reject proposals for compulsory food and alcohol labelling
72 Privatise the CSIRO
73 Defund Harmony Day
74 Close the Office for Youth
75 Privatise the Snowy-Hydro Scheme

They privatised Medibank and the wages of the CEO went from $1.5 mill to $ 6.5 mill that's certainly good for one person.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,10/3/16; Bolt and Jones can gamble but can't bluff; It's not Opera but it's a song Andrew Bolt doesn't know; Bolt the case of the pot calling the kettle black; Disparagement by others or by himself tends to be a very commonly used tool by Bolt. Bolt the angered Dervish goes into a spin on a tiny lady with a gigantic CV and the heart of a true consevative for analysis of Abbott's ruin.

 

Jones remembers one thing about Turnbull, I another

 This denotes what you both forgot!! Your not in the game and nor is Abbott. Reading this blog shows just how off table they both are. But then clocks are right twice a day. Hey Andrew Bolt Abbott’s not on the the table or a Gambler listen!!

Every time Jones and Bolt try to promote the virtues of Abbott's coalition saying Turnbull has only adopted Abbot's policies the poll ratings of the LNP fall. They don't rise. However Turnbull's personal ratings remain high. Using Bolt's correlation faculties just the reminder of Abbott and the thought of him coming back as PM make LNP stocks plunge. Keep it up Andrew.

 

 

 

 Ethnic cleansing poll a dangerous sign for Israel |

 ‘Apartheid’ fence in Jerusalem would cut off 200,000 Palestinians

 What Andrew Bolt will never tell you

 

 

 

 

Speccie defends Credlin’s honor

They are rolled out on mass Herald Sun, the Spectator, Quadrant, Catallaxy Files as if by surprise so much push back and support still exists for Tony Abbott. Like most of bolt's blogs they exist for one purpose to sell media. Primarily News Corp media but also other extreme conservative press. Simply click on the links and count how many are advertorial teasers to subscribe to or go out and buy. When and if you do most are as hollow as an Easter egg particularly the Herald Sun which is sport, entertainment, opinion advertising and 5-10% news if your lucky on a good day.

"Read the rest - and plenty more - in the magazine, out in newsagents now. "

 

Column - The hypocrites crucifying Peta Credlin

 

Andrew Bolt was continuously criticizing the PMO which was who Peta Credlin? The PM's Office was used in so many ways to take the blame off Abbott. Abbott needed to to have Credlin's power reduced shee had too much responsibility for one person. Abbott needed to listen to his mate Greg Sheridan who actually called for getting rid of Credlin. How often did we hear from Bolt that the structure of the PMO was harming and not helping Abbott. Now he's a staunch supporter and all others that go before him hypocrites? 

Sorry Bolt you spent 2014 & 2015 trying to whitewash Abbott  the PM's Office structure often to blame. In the end it was such an avalanche of blunders by Abbott you just went silent and turned you energy from deflection to distraction finding anything but Abbott to talk about for months on end. Bill Shorten became your focus why just to take the attention off Abbott and his office not because Shorten was any danger. All the danger was coming from Abbott and his office.

 

 

Richo on Turnbull: “stupid”, “bizarre”, “absurd”, “no ticker”, “has no idea”

Disparagement Andrew Bolt's view is quite clear on it's poverty when used by commentators. He complained when used against Tony Abbott but never an issue when used against Turnbull, Gillard, Rudd, etc etc.

Tell me how wonderful you are, Mr Windsor

Disparagement the tool of a very poor opinion columnist. That's according to none other than yes, Andrew Bolt. Ask yourself how often he uses it in his blogs. Abbott strategy makes Windsor a threat

Heath Aston It's not often a 65 year-old retired politician can pitch himself as the future-looking candidate

 

Savva’s excuses for her vitriol make no sense

'Frantic' 'vicious' 'campaign ' Delivered by Bolt spinning like an angered dervish at Niki Savva's analysis of what unchecked rumors can do in politics. Bolt is the one in hysterics not Savva. Just check out he language from someone who all last year kept telling us something must be done about the PMO and Peta Credlin's role in it. Abbott has to change was Bolt's cry back then but he's blind to the fact. Change in 2015 was everybody's cry but the PM wasn't listening. As for viciousness could it have got any worse than what he did to Peter Slipper his mate. Nobody complained? The whole back bench complained.

'The delay of a decade' Bolt simply overlooks the fact that the delay was the time framework the ADF had put on the the delivery of subs when Abbott ruled. Abbott changed that time frame totally on his own the day he made his comment. Was that Peta Credlins idea? It certainly was too clever for Abbott the three word sloganeer. "Having failed so spectacularly as a prime minister, he seems determined Malcolm Turnbull also should fail." It's exactly why this seems a very legitimate question.

Bolt just conveniently forgets that it was Feb 2015 that Abbott was given every opportunity to change by his MPs. That this was a culmination that was simmering post May 2013.  Abbott distanced himself like royalty from the LNP and Credlin was the very tool he happily used. Abbott simply reversed adage of keeping friends and enemies close he actually distanced them one and all. The Monarchist acted as he was king and even made that significant captain's call to prove it. Our jaws dropped.

Bolt's response " This is farcical. So some underperforming staff felt bruised. Poor diddums. God spare us a Prime Ministerial office run along the absurdly tender lines Savva suggests." Not only his office staff but the whole party were just "poor diddums" in fact.

"I have had a very warm relationship with Niki and like her pluck. But I never understood her obsessive hatred of Credlin, and her attempts to justify her smears have become cartoonish." 

  It seems to me that Niki Savva could argue that she has been defamed. It seems to me that if Bolt tried to plead the defence of truth and fair comment, he might not succeed, because what he's saying is not true. The facts in his rave are not, in legal terms, 'truly stated'. Niki Savva at no stage accused Abbott and Credlin of having an affair.

 

 

 

George Pell interviewed

This is advertising Public Relations presented as commentary. Six hours with Andrew Bolt in a day after 20 hours at the Royal Commission is not an off the cuff interview. It's the selling of an excuse. Now Andrew Bolt needs to warrant the cost of that production by playing it daily in the hope of cross selling News Corp media.

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 4/7/15; Adam Hills on Murdoch and Islam; These Christians Abbott and Bolt want to escalate Bombing;Newscorp and the Government hate real Journalists; The Greek people stole $400 billion says Bolt; Consevatives who once were poofter bashers are now victims; Constitution lies;

 

 

 

 

 

Adam Hills On Murdoch

 Adam Hills rant on Isis

Losing a war that will cost us to win

Link Corporate Paywall & Newscorp Sky News All in house

 

Only 400 bombs dropped 

 "But here is the danger. Helping to destroy the Islamic State could just help Iran to expand its control over Iraq, where Iranian-backed militias increasingly rule. Read this troubling insight." Bolt

Bolt's calling for the escalation of bombing in Iraq that in 4mnths of 2014 killed 2500 people 1000 civilians. However our training of the Iraqi  Army has gone nowhere. Irani backed Shiia Militias and Kurds are the only ones winning the war. They don't want us there and we don't want Iran to have more influence than they have because we only trust them with the 1000 boat people we don't want. They are a mercenary lot of bastards having hanged over 500 people this year. By the way have you noticed we kill using technology which is kinder and more Christian.

The ABC can’t find a single journalist who is against Q&A inviting Mallah?

Link Corporate Powerwall  and Gerard Henderson Bolt's Blog all Newscorp and In- house

It's quite amusing watching Newscorp dudes flapping their chops while refusing to go on the ABC because when they do they look foolish. So they say they have gone on strike and are hand in hand with the government. But have opted out of the game so to speak because they hate real journalism. All you have to ask is why the spend so much time on non news attacking them personally and getting paid for it. If you were a publisher of news you'd fire them.

Corporate press is in bed with the government.

 Aside from the obvious, one of the most disturbing facts to emerge from Murdoch´s News International phone hacking scandal (background information here ) was the exposure of shady connections  between top government officials and press tycoons. During the scandal, and throughout the subsequent Levesoninquiry into British press ethics (or lack of them), we learned of secret meetings, threats by Murdoch to politicians who didn´t do as he wanted, and that Prime Minister David Cameron has a very close friendship with The Sun´s then editor-in-chief (and CEO of News International) Rebekah Brooks. How can journalists do their job of holding politicians to account when they are vacationing together or rubbing shoulders at private dinner parties? Clearly, they don´t intend to. But the support works both ways- Cameron´s government tried to help Murdoch´s son win a bid for BSkyB, while bizarrely,  warmongering ex Prime Minister Tony Blair is godfather to Murdoch´s daughter Grace. As well as ensuring an overwhelming bias in news coverage and election campaigns, flooding newspapers with cheap and easy articles from unquestioned government sources, and gagging writers from criticizing those in power, these secret connections also account for much of the corporate media´s incessant peddling of the patriotism lie–  especially in the lead-up to attacks on other countries. Here´s an interesting analysis of The New York Times´s coverage of the current Syria situation for example, demonstrating how corporate journalists are failing to reflect public feeling on the issue of a full-scale attack on Assad by the US and its allies.

 Corporate journalists hate real journalists

 Michael Grunwald, senior national correspondent of Time, tweeted that he ´can´t wait to write a defense of the drone that takes out Julian Assange.´ Salon writer David Sirota rightly points out the irony of this: ´Here we have a reporter expressing excitement at the prospect of the government executing the publisher of information that became the basis for some of the most important journalism in the last decade.´ Sirota goes on to note various examples of what he calls the ´Journalists against Journalism club´, and gives several examples of how The Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald has been attacked by the corporate press for publishing Snowden´s leaks. The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin called for Greenwald’s arrest, while NBC’s David Gregory´s declared that Greenwald has ´aided and abetted Snowden´. As for the question of whether journalists can indeed be outspoken, Sirota accurately notes that it all depends on whether their opinions serve or challenge the status quo, and goes on to list the hypocrisy of Greenwald´s critics in depth: ´Grunwald has saber-rattling opinions that proudly support the government’s drone strikes and surveillance. Sorkin’s opinions promote Wall Street’s interests. (The Washington Post´s David) Broder had opinions that supported, among other things, the government’s corporate-serving “free” trade agenda. (The Washington Post´s Bob) Woodward has opinions backing an ever-bigger Pentagon budget that enriches defense contractors. (The Atlantic´s Jeffrey) Goldberg promotes the Military-Industrial Complex’s generally pro-war opinions. (The New York Times´s Thomas) Friedman is all of them combined, promoting both “free” trade and “suck on this” militarism. Because these voices loyally promote the unstated assumptions that serve the power structure and that dominate American politics, all of their particular opinions aren’t even typically portrayed as opinions; they are usually portrayed as noncontroversial objectivity.

This applies as much with Newscorp here as it does in the UK and America the parallels are obvious. So it goes a long way in explaining why Bolt rarely if at all ever searches out the truth he hates it

Maybe Tomic could just earn his own way, like the rest of us

Link Courier Mail

It's well and good to point out the bad behavior of pro sports persons. Tennis Australia seems to breed quite a few Hewitt ,Tomic, Philapousis and even Cash in his day weren't well behaved players. However  the tennis  industry like golf and football really do treat their players as fodder. It's a bit like the racing industry. We hear of the few greats horses but not much talk is given to those sent to the knackery. It's a bit like music you might be a rooster one day but feather duster the next. Players are commodified. How much is Tomic whinging or  how much is he whistle blowing? Either way the Industry will treat him like Julian Assange if he's too loud and gives too much away.

Greeks robbing Greece blind

" Leftist politics produces a welfarist state produces rorting."

So what Bolt is suggesting is Greece is simply a population of Welfare  cheats and tax dodgers that rob the country blind. Well those paid wages the majority of the working population can be counted out for lack of opportunity. Small business pilfering doesn't cause blow outs the size Greece has nor do pensioners and the disabled.  It's the argument  applied by Bolt when he says we are going the way of Greece. His proof 498 of 680 people were found to be ripping off the government that allowed it because they were socialist. 9million does not explain 400 billion

  Richard Bolt, Andrew Bolt's younger brother was Secretary of the State Education Department he wasn't a Politician yet the Department he once ran has been busted for nothing other than fraud during the time of successive government ministers yet he knew nothing about it. His Deputy did and was involved. When bureaucracies are found to be wanting how is any minister of any persuasion meant to find out? If Department Secretarys' don't know what's happening. Examples like the Austrade  saw millions in bribery occur. 

Social Welfare fraud occurs yes but what are the comparative rates between here and Greece there wasnt 100%. We don't even know what the % is here however it's not on a grand scale. Nor is it on a scale in Greece to cause that deficit. Given far far more grand scale fraud occurs due to deception by third parties  and at much higher levels and that 90% + occurs  with the help of the financial sector and industries such as development and Military Bolt's looking in the wrong place. The truth more likely lies in dealings the Greek government  had did in collusion with banks in it's attempts to hide accrued deficits from the EU knew but closed their eyes. These were  deals other than social welfare and had little to do with whether the government was left or right. Some government members along with business men were just crooked.

 

The ABC can’t find a single journalist who is against Q&A inviting Mallah?

Link Corporate Paywall  & Trolls

Given Newscorp and the Government are on unionized strike. They have retreated to their corner of the playground. They have conceded and have given ground to the ABC. Truth always wins out over time. What is that noise from the far side? Have you noticed the ABC doesn't waste it's energy on childishness behavior  hysterical argument or posturing. 

Gay marriage is the new global warming

Link Newscorp's Telegraph

Oh for the glory days of poofter bashing before gay pride. Everybody knows  when  conservatives have lost race. They start  claiming to be the victims. Marriage equality is being framed as a leftist plot. It must be because there cant be any gay conservatives  or else they'd be there with bullhorns wouldn't they? 

  When there's 70% support for marriage equality what can you do. Bolt calls for a referendum but Abbott won't because he knows what the polls show. It appears he wont allow a conscience vote in the LNP either because he wouldn't have the numbers to stop an equality bill carrying.  He won't be collegiate in the party either he intends no will be LNP policy. He hopes with the nay voters from the opposition it will give him a majority.It's not politics of the people that's for sure.

Conservatives have acknowledged changed  attitudes have now made them the victims but here the word change is not accepted it's a  reason to discredit those that have changed. It's tantamount to verbally poofter bashing of old. As far as Bolt is concerned if you changed your mind on any issue that was deemed once the property of conservatives you  deserve character assassination. However if you change your mind in favour of any conservative causes your an upstanding person of insight to be lauded like Martin Ferguson. 

 As if Abbott hasn't jumped to the left on just about every issue but marriage equality recently.When you have no arguments play  the man bugger the principle involved. It's the side that counts and it's why we see the attack on Obama In this blog.

Think Greece is a worry?

Link Corporate Paywall The ABC is where Newscorp commentators  get their information anyway because they know it's reliable and free

Greece is a worry to Australia in as much as we have such a large Greek population in this country. Money has, is, and will flow out of the country to support Greeks at home. However as it's merely 2% of the GDP of the EU whatever the outcome it will really only have minimal effect globally whether Greece stays or leaves the EU .

China our once pot of gold is another kettle of fish as is our falling dollar. However very few macro economists or housing experts see the outflow of Chinese money as the reason for our housing boom. Low yields in term deposits and risky aversion to the stock market have turned our once householders property market into an investment zone for those with cash. It's a stretch to suggest there's a Chinese invasion driving prices up. There is bound to be a crash though and a lot of pain will come with it. Ask your self what this government has done to stimulate jobs and the economy. Hockey will tell you they inspired the property boom but Labour will be blamed for the bust to come. We have the most private debt per head of population in the world why? Banks are worried and are more reserved about sending your dog a credit card. So haven't you noticed that the loan sharks are about at 30% interest they can afford to advertise on MSM.

Lambie likens Greens to Islamic State

Link Corporate Paywall the ABC provides unbiased information for free because we have already paid.

Bolt the anti-Science skeptic. Recruiter for IS wants us to believe Lambie is an extremist when it comes to rhetoric.. Bolt's track history speaks for itself and makes him  the posterboy for  extreme right wing rhetoric. He disguises it by calling it only "point scoring".

The mask is off: the Recognise movement actually wants a revolution

Link Corporate Paywall

Bolt just can't help distorting the facts purely for his self indulgent point scoring. Yesterday he declared a strike on the ABC. How do you go on strike when you haven't been invited in the first place?

 The first thing agreed upon by everybody about the constitution  is to remove the racial elements already in it. A good percentage of the indigenous population don't really want token recognition it's meaningless to them.

"“How many symbolic mom­ents, devoid of practical effect, does a nation need?” he writes" Noel Pearson

So to this point he and Bolt are on the same page.

Yes Pearson wants a change. " It wants to change how we govern ourselves - the “operational status quo” ". 

Instead of being dictated to Pearson wants a body to be established the government will listen  to. We have such bodies now. The Productivity Commission being an example.  The First People want a recognized self elected body to advise the government on decisions that effect them. They don't even demand that advice carry any weight in law. They merely want some formalised imput from  the grassroots up to decisions traditionally always made from the executive down. Bolt just refuses this  concept outright and declares it "racist". In other words he must be the sole decision maker in his family any desire to influence his decisions by his wife , kids  is totally rejected and  is dangerous to the institution of marriage and those bastards who think differently should stop rocking the boat.

 

A brave man, Richo

Link Corporate Paywall

Richardson has the big C however Newscorp wants you to pay to read it.

Bolt tells it as it is "Point Scoring" on a detached Chess board of life. He truly is a 21rst Century Schizoid Man

" Still, I’m embarrassed to think how I congratulated myself whenever I thought I’d scored a point against him." Bolt