Andrew Bolt's Blog,19/2/19; Lies Lies Lies the LNP and Murdoch Media; GetUp beats the LNP; Finance Minister and his Finance;

I SOLD MYSELF SHORT. NOW ABC AUTHORS WILL BE CROSSER

Oops. I sold myself short when likening the sales of my latest book of columns to those of the the Melbourne University Press coterie of authors, many from  the ABC and cultural Left. I said Worth Fighting For  had sold between 20,000 and 27,000, from memory, but my publisher says it's closer to 34,000. Which makes MUP's sales look even sicker.

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"I said Worth Fighting For had sold between 20,000 and 27,000, from memory, but my publisher says it's closer to 34,000. Which makes MUP's sales look even sicker." Bolt

Nothing has changed Bolt shown his ego or paranoia on which this post seems to be built has in fact increased in a few days given he's had to repeat himself. It seems he's not really convinced of his own math or myth, so he's reporting a new growth. It still represents someone with 3.5 million ++ trumpets or 66% of print media owned by Rupert along with Sky 2GB and internet promotion with a less than a 1% sales result which would in any commercial terms be regarded as a gross failure rather than a win unless you were Trump.
 With that amount of power and spread of advertising compared with those, he's crowing over in the ABC Bolt's actually an immense failure in any way you look at it. Bolt is little more than a camp follower an opportunist not an author following and trying to capture some crumbs in the shadow of the gargantuan News Corp which isn't an achievement. Yes, it shows Bolt has little self-regard for anything other than a few cents and a negative self-regard.

Top spy boss criticises the Australian for misrepresenting Asio advice | Australia news | The Guardian

Peter Dutton's Mouth piece when things get too hot defending Murdoch Media. Dutton made reference to ASIO advice on 2GB and the ABC and said he had evidence which he wouldn't show unless push came to shove. We can be certain that evidence won't be forthcoming. (ODT)

The home affairs department secretary, Michael Pezzullo, defended the Australian by noting that although the headline had characterised it as “Asio advice” the body of the article described it as a “briefing from the department of home affairs, based on advice from Asio and Australian Border Force”.
“If you read down the column it was transparently apparent it was from the department and drew on, in part, advice from Asio.”

Federal election

Win for GetUp! after Electoral Commission ruling

The decision will infuriate conservatives who have argued the activist group should be affiliated with Left parties

The Australian Electoral Commission has declared activist group GetUp! is not associated with any political party, defying conservatives who argued it should be treated as an arm of Labor and the Greens.
The commission found GetUp!'s campaigns were primarily issue-based rather than linked to a particular party, and that its conduct on polling booths urging a vote for Labor or the Greens did not constitute a significant part of its overall activities.

Investigation

Political expenses

Minister had 'no idea' a travel company had given him a free trip

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann was booked as 'staff and family' by the travel company Helloworld around the time it won an unrelated billion-dollar contract.

Finance Minister can't run his own accounts calls asylum seekers criminals. (ODT)

 Bolt's PAYWALL post for Mate ROWAN DEAN GENIUS

Rowan Dean  Bolt's mate on Sky News, and editor of The Spectator spells as well as Andrew Bolt who accepted this. Two professionals who think they are god's of media
[Phelps] wants us to believe doctorsare saints in while coats, never acting except out of altruism, never allowinge go or ideology to influence their godlike judgment. Dean

" Salvatore Barbones, an associate professor at Sydney University, which during down a Western Civilisation course funded by the Ramsay Foundation": Bolt What does this mean and Bolts talking "education."
Guess the practices of Colonialism a core ingredient of Western Civilisation which "policed" free speech in their Colonies won't be up for discussion. Colonial Rule wasn't civilising; it was rule by the gun, slave trading, and a lot worse. Maybe that's why we saw the American war of Independance after which German was given consideration as the National language. Imagine the difference that would have made that was a multicultural decision.

SHORTEN LEARNS NOT TO BELIEVE PHELPS-BANKS BULL

Labor leader Bill Shorten decided to weaken our border laws with the help of three independents - women touted by the media as more Liberal than those Right-win Morrison Liberals. Turns out the polls show that Kerryn Phelps, Julia Banks and Rebekkah Sharkie aren't so Liberal, after all. My editorial from The Bolt Report. 

 Not a word by Bolt on the ASIO declaration that The Australian, Sky News and Duttons efforts were a total misrepresentation of the advice given to Shorten and which amounted to BS on all Parties. So much so the Secretary of Dutton's Dept was left to try to smooth things over for Dutton make the Australian look a victim of the bull and try to declare that they are an honourable media outlet. What Shorten has discovered is that The Australian ans Sky after dark are a coordinated propaganda machine that even when caught out in their lie keep going.
Bolt was named Sonia Kruger's enabler in her defence of vilification in which she was found guilty. Bolt simply ignored it and threw her under the bus. All this is typical and shows the lack of integrity these people share.
Dutton and other  MPs have used ASIO, the ABF in much the same way knowing full well these agencies can't respond in a single news cycle but must do so through a process that can take weeks. It seems Dutton has taken advantage of this more than once. The case of the refugee footballers arrest in Thailand was strenously denied by Morrison and Dutton as being Australia's fault. Weeks later the AFP have admitted it was their error. We have an extremely incompetant government in reality.
Currently they have told Trump the refugee transfer of asylum seekers to the USA is  not a problem as all have been vetted. Today they are telling us they haven't a clue who they are and haven't known for over 5 years. Is the Ipsos poll really a result of fakery it sure looks like it and there's more to come.

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WASHINGTON POST EXPLAINS ITS NEED FOR FAKE NEWS LIKE SMOLLETT

The Washington Post's Nanna Efua Mumford's  damning explanation for believing Jussie Smollett's fake story of being attacked by Trump supporters: "If Smollett’s story is found to be untrue, it ... would be touted as proof that there is a leftist conspiracy to cast Trump supporters as violent, murderous racists.. I need this story to be true."

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Note Bolt refers to Smollet's story as "fake" yet  the link he's refering us to starts with "if". The reality is overlooked no one persons story is sufficient to prove whether racism is a fact or not it's the history and totality of the trends in the behaviour and culture shared by all of us over time that gives definition to racism and the degree to which reflects our institutions. The fact that Andrew Bolt hopes it's fake or that he hides his any doubt in his certainty that a liberal would hate it to be a fake reflects only one and only one thing that he is a racist he believes Smollet is guilty and his and  racism in America and among Trumpsters is a myth in fact they are victims of reverse racism which is currently the dominant culture in America which whites are forced to suffer along with Climate Change

Bolt deflects the whole reality how by a single writers doubt the doubt he can't stand that currently divides the Liberal Party dominated by moderates who blink. Bolt never blinks even when caught out lying if caught he goes Trump and calls everyone "fake". Judge Mordecai Bromberg becomes a fake Judge as does Judge Preston. Doctors are Fake  along with the ABC etc that's why Bolt's so trusted.

Andrew Bolt's Blog,16/2/19; Whacking the ABC and avoiding Sonia Kruger, Extreme climate destroying Cattle Industry and the GBR; Racism isn't colored;Scrotum face McCrann fighting for the Rich he calls the Economy; Abbott's freaked by reality;

 The wash of pesticides and pollutants heading to the Barrier Reef due to the extreme floods and weather in Qld.

ABC OFFERS CURE TO PANIC FROM LISTENING TO ABC

The ABC offers help: "News about climate change can be distressing. Here's how to cope with 'ecoanxiety'." Stop listening to the ABC's climate catastrophism is for some odd reason not mentioned.

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Whacking moles by trivialising issues. No mention of the Qld cattle industry being decimated by 6-year drought and floods that have totally destroyed it. The floods that are threatening the Great Barrier Reef with pollutants. Bolt prefers to laugh instead. 500k cattle dead an estimated recovery time of a decade for an industry that we all are going to pay for and Bolt's laughing at the ABC. 
Sonia Kruger named Bolt as the foremost media person that framed her ideas when she vilified Australia's Muslim community. Defending herself at the UNHRC tribunal that found her guilty of vilification under the RDA, she named Andrew Bolt as her most significant influence. I don't think that has been reported on anything Bolt's associated with. So the question remains why hasn't he been charged? (ODT)

SMOLLETT BLAMED RACIST WHITES. POLICE ARREST BLACK FRIENDS

As I said last week, nothing about Empire star Jussie Smollett's story seemed to fit, no matter how much Trump-haters in the media wanted to believe it. Now it seems the racist white Trump supporters who he said bashed him for being gay may be black friends of his in a stunt to save his career.

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Bolt's covering himself his banner certain, but his content remains a "maybe." "
"Police in Chicago have arrested two Nigerian brothers in connection with an alleged racist and homophobic attack on black actor Jussie Smollett last month."Bolt
The nub of the matter is Bolt pleads and shows his ignorance when it comes to Racism in declaring he's not a racist
Racism is colourless Australia is racist; its dominant culture is racist, and it's culture, and the internalised social psychology has been racist and drags down any institutional and behavioural efforts to change it. Racism refers to the long term, and increasing gap on all social metrics brought about by race alone. If Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price speak of Aborigines needing welfare they are racist of the kind that Bolt defends so hard. Charity cases requiring care rather than poverty case due to lack of opportunity reflecting the differential of power and hierarchy between races coupled with the assumed naturalness of that state of being.
Bolt so blinded by his own white superiority he tries to excuse it by pointing out this can't be a racist event because the perps might just have been Black and therefore couldn't have been Trump supporters, Homophobes, or racists. Suggesting Smollett's a liar, or he's the racist and whites are his victims.
Ignorance Andrew Bolt is no excuse. We heard you mocking the South Sudanese women for little more than their looks with your son on IPA radio December 2018

HOW LABOR WILL CLOBBER THE ECONOMY

Terry McCrann says Labor's franking tax credits grab is part of a bigger problem: "The broader policy package [is] massively destructive... The three big ones are the franking credits clawback, the attack on negative gearing and the doubling of capital gains tax... They add to a near $300 billion assault on the economy." Just as it's faltering.

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 The Economy here is another word for the "rich" Labor will attack "Capital" something most working and productive Australians don't have and whose income hasn't or wealth has only increased some 2-3%  while their job security and benefits have been "clobbered". The banks and financial protection and debt creation sectors have hit them as hard as charging 22% interest ++ while the tax minimising and evasion industries and been fingered in the Panama Papers in 2016 for laundering and criminal tax evasion. Now there's a nice package for you McCrann is defending capital that dosh that sits and grows on the back of the work and productivity of Labor 90% of Aussies. That alone would want you to vote Labor, wouldn't it? Did you know the LNP promised transparency naming and shaming those evaders and 2 years later they and Treasury deny it?

"The three big ones are the franking credits clawback, the attack on negative gearing and the doubling of capital gains tax. But as they say in the ads, there’s more, much more."McCrann

Franking credits, on "self-managed", super well for a start only the wealthy are a statistically significant category in that group. They get the cash back from the government because their dead money went into companies that paid tax.  Negative gearing suits them as well because it minimises income tax of those that have too much when ordinary Australians don't. It's all protection for the wealthy getting wealthier that McCrann is arguing for. Sure it's a carrot for workers to invest in a second home finance sector is all about debt creation and risk.  Workers incomes are still rarely high enough to benefit from any negative gearing, and any downturn crushes the bejeezus out of them. Yet again McCrann's merely arguing for the rich, not the Economy.
Doubling Capital Gains tax is a no brainer for fairness when 90% of Australian workers don't have Capital. The restructuring of "fairness" to those that are productive from those that aren't would, in fact, boost the economy not shrink it. How many jobs does it take to sell a $500,000 tax-deductible Bently bought with the capital gains compared if half were taxed and put into Education or Health?
By the way the wealthy aren't putting that money into Fossil Fuels, it's nice to see, but their names can still be found in the Panama Papers about which nothing has been done. In 2015 the LNP government offered them an amnesty fancy that something else McCrann fails to mention.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the jailing of Australian Clarrie O’Shea, Tramways Union (Victoria) State Secretary and Vice Chairman of Vanguard - Communist Party of Australia Marxist-Leninist.
It promoted a general strike and ended the penal powers used against unions at that time. One million workers stopped work under the slogan “Free Clarrie and repeal the penal powers”.

How diminished have the unions been since then? (ODT) 

Wren's week: Abbott's fantasy world, Wilson's corruption and Medevac

 

First off, Tony Abbott. He’s a man rightly under pressure. Utterly incompetent as PM and, as time has progressed, he has lurched further and further to the fruit-loop Right. By all accounts, he has delivered very little for his Warringah electorate over the 25 years he’s spent in Parliament. His wealthy Northern Beaches electorate has been dominated by the aging blue-rinse and pearls set who were welded to the Liberal Party. That set has been slowly dying off though, and the demographics have changed.
Unfortunately for Tony, he hasn’t. Voters now want action on climate change, compassionate treatment of refugees and other more progressive initiatives. Suddenly, Abbott, by his own admission, is in the fight of his life against a well-funded quality independent Liberal candidate, Zali Steggall.

WHOSE VANITY GOT PUBLISHED BY MUP?

I can't remember how many copies of Worth Fighting For, my latest book of columns, were sold in a mainly on-line push, bypassing many book stores. Between 20,000 and 27,000, I think. So the sales figures for Melbourne University Press titles released today suggest the market gave some ABC authors a reality check. Here are some names and sales.

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall says Bolt in his gilded cage.
When you're syndicated by News Corp around Australia to the tune of 3++, mill people 27,000 sales of your book online and/or in stores amounts to a strike rate of less than 1% hardly a success for something that wasn't a 'book' in the first place but a collection of old crap in a cover. Whose Vanity has the mirror screaming failed failed failed failed? Given the list of authors Bolt has pointed to who had absolutely no such support as Bolt he looks the clown he is. It's always about access to resources, and all one can say about Andrew Bolt he has Murdoch and the IPA a privilege no authors have. Alone and on his own, he'd have no reach and be on the bottom of that ladder.
It must be noted. Bolt's also been promoted by Sonia Kruger as a significant influencer and enabler of her mindset to be vilifier of Muslims. I wonder whether her legal team will suggest her appealing this Tribunal outcome in the courts. Bolt's News Corp gilt-edged legal team folded after he was convicted. Bolt didn't blame them; he accused the judge Mordecai Bromberg of political bias for finding him guilty and had a massive dose of sulks. I believe it was because News Corp failed to waste more money trying to defending him.  With all that publicity less than 1% hit rate on book sales is pathetic.