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News Corporation employs Right-Wing Broadcasters providing them with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Their Social Media Platforms not only advocate conservative, and extreme right-wing wing views. They monitor out most opposing opinions which they are entitled to do. However, they also simply lie when they say they provide an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no-spin zone. They don't it's all spin.
When
he isn't raving about how the deep state is conspiring against him,
Donald Trump loves to boast about the economy, claiming to have achieved
unprecedented things. As it happens, none of his claims are true. While
both GDP and employment have registered solid growth, the Trump economy
simply seems to have continued a long expansion that began under former
president Barack Obama. In fact, someone who looked only at the past 10
years of data would never guess that an election had taken place.
When Bolt is seen advising the Liberals from the bleachers. Advising a party he no longer respects , experience should tell them if they take his advice they will get it all wrong. After all his advice was to keep Abbott as leader and they did good.
1 Nothing has changed since the days of Tony Abbott whose ratbag actions have gone down in history. Andrew Bolt is right he was a child who wanted power. He threatened women was even charged with sexual molestation for doing so.
2 Tony Abbott brought his bullying tactics to the Australian parliament in the Howard era.
Those children of yesteryear were no better exemplified than by Tony Abbott who turned our politics for the worse and we got rid of him. Now Andrew Bolt is complaining that politics has become too nice and the current leader Malcolm Turnbull isn't enough of a bastard. Bolt prefers Abbott style politics which is adversarial and very much Sydney Uni today.
The most common misconception regarding Antarctic sea ice is that sea ice
is increasing because it's cooling around Antarctica. The reality
is the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica has shown strong warming
over the same period that sea ice has been increasing.
" Right or wrong, Zwelly’s study says little about climate change as a
whole. In fact, equating Antarctic ice gain to the death of global
warming is about as accurate as saying that racism in America ended the
day Barack Obama took office."
" Well…yes. But no. Climate change is depressingly robust. The new study—published October 30 in the Journal of Glaciology—offers
no evidence that the planet’s temperature has returned to pre-1860s
levels. Atmospheric carbon dioxide has not dropped below 250 parts per
million. Sea levels have not receded. What has happened is that some parts of Antarctica are (maybe) freezing faster than other parts are melting."Antarctica Might Be Gaining Ice, But Global Warming Ain't .
Given Intellectuals in the UK have always been differentiated by their political leanings the link Bolt refers to here says nothing. All intellectuals in the UK weren't left leaning so even the title of the book is deceptive. It's the same stance Bolt suggests exists in Australia toward Tony Abbott. He says our universities are little more than leftist hives as are all our cultural institutions. It doesn't however explain why so many people with degrees are in fact supporters of the Liberal Party? One simply has to look at the educational status in Liberal seats to prove Bolt wrong.
However he's right in one respect intellectuals are rarely found in organizations like News Corp.
Andrew Bolt believes symbols are far more important and dangerous than the actual numbers of deaths. Some 2,191 Palestinians aren't added to this 2015 figure. What is significant however is that if your Palestinian at the moment you have 23 times more chance of being killed than if Israeli. WHAT BOLT DOESN'T SAY BUT NUMBERS DO.At least 1,198 Israelis and 9,151 Palestinianshave been killed since September 29, 2000. Click on any coloured area to see the graphics Israelis and Palestinians Killed
American news
reports repeatedly describe Israeli military attacks against the
Palestinian population as “retaliation.” However, when one looks into
the chronology of death in this conflict, the reality turns out to be
quite different.
75 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces since October 1st
The shooting of a Palestinian youth in
Hebron Wednesday by Israeli soldiers brought the number of Palestinians
slain since October 1st to 75.
Samir Skafi, latest Palestinian to be killed by Israeli troops (image from Mohammad Nathmaza on Twitter)
57
have been killed in the West Bank, 17 in the Gaza Strip, and one in the
Negev. More than 20% of those killed have been children.
The Ministry of Health said earlier this week that 2355 Palestinians
were shot with live rounds and rubber-coated steel bullets, including
many who suffered fractures and bruises after being repeatedly beaten by
soldiers and paramilitary settlers in the West Bank, including occupied
Jerusalem.
The Ministry added that 1125 of the wounded Palestinians were shot with
live rounds (732 of them in the West Bank), and 975 were shot with
rubber-coated steel bullets (865 in the West Bank), and more than 5000
Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
235 Palestinians were injured after being assaulted and beaten by
soldiers and paramilitary settlers, and 20 suffered burns due to Israeli
gas bombs and concussion grenades.
In the Gaza Strip, 393 Palestinians have been shot with live army fire,
110 with rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens suffered the effects of
tear gas inhalation.
The number of wounded children in the West Bank is 325; 165 were shot
with live army fire, 108 with rubber-coated steel bullets, 19 were
directly shot with gas bombs, 33 were beaten by the soldiers. In Gaza,
170 children were shot, most of them with live rounds.
Bolt
has turned into an attack dog for every occassion. The safety- first no
-chase rule was brought in because of the number of deaths that were
occurring. Bolt however has never had a head for statistics numbers or
how and when to apply them. In his mind even the Liberal Party is still
a conservative party stolen in a heist.
Bolt
believes leaders can't garner respect. If they do then they are not
leaders. Putin is the worlds most powerful leader at the moment. His
domestic popularity is 95%. Does Bolt think he'd have this GST problem?
Abbott was regarded as one of the the world's worst leaders with
domestic popularity at 19%. Does Bolt believe he could get anything
through the senate let alone a budget? Any way you look at it Andrew
Bolt hasn't a clue what he's talking about.
Apart
from this it appears Bolt hasn't been listening to either Turnbull or
Morrison neither have said a GST increase was inevitable.
Bolt
is playing Dyson Heydon dress ups again. Obviously little else to do
with his Halloween costume. On the day of the dead it's custom to dress
saints as skeletons to remind us of our mortality. However Bolt seems to
concentrate on only one side of the coin and never the whole story. How
is it so many Liberal Party members and donors were seen to have made
fortunes out of the Fishermans Bend rezoning honey pot? They did little
or nothing for that privilege. 100s of millions were made.
