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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.
Morrison's message, that life will dramatically change when we achieve 70-80% and vaccinations evenly distributed countrywide, is a promise far far away. Even then the virus will still be infectious. Infected people will still have to isolate but without any LNP government support. Morrison says he will boost hospitals, in the same way he did with aged-care these past years? Some 30% of patients and staff still haven't been vaccinated yet didn't Morrison make a promise to correct that months ago.
Hospital staff are burnt out by the pressure they faced and are leaving the sector yet our borders remain closed so how will the staff shortage be addressed. Covid-19 is world wide and the medical sector is stressed everywhere. However Morrison claims he will solve the problem and the state Premiers are are the only bugbear he faces as they resisting his plans. Well, apart from Gladys they have been doing far better than anything Morrison has. He's been resisting just about everything and only folding with qualifications when it was obvious he was doing nothing. When did Morrison pick up the hose? When has he actually said sorry for not doing things earlier when necessary? Every time his lips move and we took time to listen we realized he's wasn't saying much at all but merely rearranging promises to vaccinate not against Covid-19 but his current deadly political infection.
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FACT CHECK
Federal
Nationals MP George Christensen this week cheered an apparent plan in
Singapore to treat COVID-19 like the flu. But he missed some important
qualificatio
Land managers are the primary stewards of Australia’s unique environment. Yet they receive the least government funding of any OECD country aside from New Zealand.
The environment needs immediate and sustained support.
Whatever the lure and potential of environmental markets and
certification schemes, the evidence strongly suggests private funding
should not be relied on to preserve, restore and sustain our natural
landscapes.
The environment is a public good, and requires adequate and substantial public funding.
Despite
the fact that a majority of Australians want to remain neutral in a war
between the U.S. and China, successive governments have put us in a
position where we would be dragged into war.
Sammy J, Virginia Trioli, Raf Epstein and David Astle all enjoyed big lifts as Melbourne weathered its most recent lockdown.
Meanwhile Andrew Bolt remains UNWANTED while Aunty booms.
Melbourne
University made itself look stupid by hiring fake Aborigine Bruce
Pascoe as professor of a fake discipline - "Indigenous Agriculture". Now
it looks dishonest by not sacking him after even its own publishing arm
denounced Pascoe's ludicrous untruths.
This,
coming from Andrew Bolt, who promotes himself as the most read
political blog in the country, but only posts the same psychologically
obsessed message week in and week out. has a case to answer for stalking
Bruce Pascoe. As a consequence one comes to realize the degree of
mental illness there in the community passing itself off as Bolt like
"normal". Andrew Bolt is part of a very small uneducated and blinkered
minority that find it difficult to comprehend their narrow
'Weltenschung' or "view of the world" might be wrong. That they weren't
sent by some higher force born to rule.
Melbourne
University commands International respect Andrew Bolt not even any
local other than largely ridicule. The University of Melbourne
encourages the debate Andrew Bolt so desperately demands to be shut
down. The University sponsors and encourages research, the expansion of
data collection and methodologies that leads to the transparent progress
of rational thought. Andrew Bolt denies that debate in preference for
some mystical perfection. He is a Trump style modern day TV tent
preacher without the ratings only the rantings. The modern day
equivalence found in TV evangelism and reality shows.
The
Bolt Report invites converts to share their conversion and are lit up
on his stage. His audience numbers touted as product for advertiser
money. However there are fewer and fewer. The day is coming faster than
Bolt realizes when he will be forgotten and fade away like a fog as he
has on the regional WINN channels. At best he will be a relic to be
studied by children as to what not to do and what he does do is the
opposite of clear and rational thinking.
Chinese
dictator Xi Jinping last week gave a frightening speech on the
anniversary of his communist party. Frightening, because paragraph after
paragraph was just like the big anniversary speech given by Adolf
Hitler, two years before World War II.
The world must not ignore this: Last week’s big anniversary speech by China’s dictator sounded very much like Hitler’s.
So don’t be surprised when the shooting starts.
Xi
gave his speech in Beijing on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese
Communist Party, at a ceremony featuring soldiers goosestepping, Nazi
style.
It was frightening enough that Xi threatened “foreign forces” he’d “crack their heads and spill blood”.
Worse,
was that in paragraph after key paragraph he pushed the same buttons
Hitler pushed in his speech in 1937 on the fourth anniversary of his
Nazi dictatorship.
All the same evils are there. The appeals to
race. The paranoia. The inflammatory poking of a mortified national
pride. The fake appeals for peace, and gory threats of blood. That sound
of a whiner, grown big and now scary-daring himself to fight.
Reading them side-by-side, how can anyone think we’re safe? (ANDREW BOLT)
Hitler
and China have nothing in common. Hitler grew out of the failure of
Democracy. Germany a divided nation captured singularly controlled media
and a government performance that promoted the antithesis of Democracy
for the rule by one man. Hitler was allowed to grow by allied nations
due to their constant appeasement and compromise of allowing Hitler to
grow. Even Left wing USSR failed to contain him.Had they done so, much much earlier, WW2 would never have happened and Hitler would have failed.
China's
growth and history came from the liberation of a starving nation
needing to free itself from imperial bondage and a nations refusal to be
colonized like India by a rapacious Western Imperialism that offered
opiate addiction in exchange for tea and cheap labor. Since 1948 the
world has seen China transform itself and lift it's people up. While the
national dream of free market capitalism Andrew Bolt so dearly clings
to has seen the majority of its citizen's lifestyles diminished.
Housing, health, education and wealth distribution, over the past 75
years, has progressed for the Chinese but not so for the West.
Infrastructure in China has improved while here it's decayed. The ruling
minority have little to be proud of and in desperation need to
constantly create fake "enemies" in order to tell us "they are "keeping
us safe". In China we a grassroots enthusiastic nationalism born out of
the positive changes they have experienced in their history. The US and
Australia on the other hand are currently desperate and need to
manufacture a fake nationalism just as Hitler once did in Germany with
pomp ceremony secret police and surveillance one dictated from the top
down. Bolt's ideal nation where an elect and not freely elected rule.
Let's
face it Marx's explanation and description of the history Capitalism
and the individual's position in it is far more illuminating than any
the conservatives have offered. It's why his manifesto continues to be
the most read on the planet after the bible that offers myth as a world
view. Andrew Bolt would have it burned if he could just as Hitler did.
Instead
he and a minority ultra-orthodox right or 1 percenters promote division
in the form of "culture wars" to distract the diverse masses from the
economic division that is the true nature of the Western belief in
Capitalism. It's distraction that hides the fact that the world is in
fact dominated by as few as 10 multinational corporations to which our
governments are beholden to for their power. Paid puppets and in
Australia represented by the cabal of LNP, Murdoch media and the IPA.
How few people is that really? Very little from the Melbourne Club of
old really that once ruled this country. Their focus today is on the
maintenance of power by surveillance and policing to keep us from
uniting, protesting or criticizing the economic system under which we
live. They have in effect accelerated the reduction of our freedoms
since 2013 at as fast a rate as China has been liberating their
citizens. And whatsmore have been doing it in plain sight. Bolt's voice
is the paid and scripted ideological voice denying what we in the West
have all witnessed and benefited from is China's progress as well.
However not all of us have shared in those benefits and the
conservatives are hell bent on keeping it that way.
Simon
Birmigham without denial admitted that the LNP rorts were a justifiable
action as the LNP won the election. Bridget McKenzie is back as is
Barnaby Joyce. Morrison, Dutton, Frydenberg, Tudge, Succhar, Now they
are all intent on improving the life of the minority not the majority of
Australians and they are failing badly.
Tell
us the news here. On The Bolt Report on Sky News at 7pm: we're too
fraidy-cat for the tourists now flocking to Europe, Cardinal George Pell
vindicated, and Joe Biden confirms he's suffering memory blanks. Plus:
sshhhhh, but where did that global warming go?
The answer to that global warming question is up above. We know you rarely go out!
Scott
Morrison and the Coalition keep changing their story on why the Covid
vaccine rollout is a debacle. Are they betting the public will be unable
to keep up with the rewriting of history? Elizabeth Minter reports
on the Government’s world-leading program of false premises.
Scott Morrison got the Pfizer vaccine. Millions are still waiting for theirs.
To reach the government’s biggest goal of giving every Australian at
least one shot of the two-dose vaccine by October, somewhere in the
region of 140,000 to 190,000 shots will have to be administered every
day from now.
Far from being “front of the queue” for vaccines, as Prime Minister
Scott Morrison said last year, Australia’s rollout started later and is
running slower than many comparable nations.
Mr Morrison protests that Australia’s rollout is going better than
Germany, Japan and South Korea were at the same stage; health department
secretary Brendan Murphy says plans are “going well”.
Under pressure from political opponents
and medical experts over shifting vaccination figures, Mr Morrison
stressed “circumstances change”, claiming it was “unwise” to expect a
level of certainty.
Like Trump Morrison believes in the salesman's approach to policy promise the world and look a winner and then blame the problems of failure on everyone elase and say the ALP couldn't have done it. Just keep talking scooter just keep talking.
Australia had originally agreed with AstraZeneca to import 500,000
doses but Europe suggested a figure of 250,000 might be more appropriate
and have a better chance of getting around export curbs.
But even that application was rejected. The request was the only one knocked back out of 491 applications.
Australia’s
vaccine rollout has been propped up by doses manufactured in Britain
rather than from factories in Europe as had been widely believed.
Morrison has headed back or has never left the days whe he was sacked by NZ and the Aus tourist boards for his lack of transparency. He's a whirlwind of bullshit. He never actually signed any contracts which put us at the back of the line when it came to delivery. Australia proposed to by vaccines relying on Qld to manufacture them. Basically we been behind from the get go and the rest has been spin.
One in three COVID-19 survivors in a study of more than 230,000 mostly
American patients were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder
within six months, suggesting the pandemic could lead to a wave of
mental and neurological problems, scientists said.
Episode 32: Morrison plays vaccine blame game, big
business wants to cut minimum wages, NZ opens a travel bubble and good
news about birds and blue skies
Van Badham and Ben
Davison examine Morrison's attempt to blame the states, the EU, the
media, anyone but himself for the failure to meet Covid vaccination
targets and what is really going on with the failure to deliver vaccines
to the millions of Australian's who should have been vaccinated by now.
The IMF says the economy will grow
strongly, if we get our vaccines, and the Morrison government wants to
take credit but it also says the economy is going badly so Australia
can't afford an increase to the minimum wage. We look at the how when
times are good big business argues against wage increases and when times
are tough they argue against wage increases. Turns out they like
calling people "essential workers" but don't like paying them like they
are essential.
Australian's can visit New Zealand from April 19th but "flyer beware" the COVID conditions.
The good news is massive sandcastles for tiny birds and the air in LA is almost breathable again.
And of course Germanicus decides to try and get into the wall of the shed because it has an interesting smell.
Nine
months after the Election, we find out who bought it. From News Corp to
GetUp, from Adani to the Australian Bankers Association, Stephen Mayne,
the country’s top journalist on campaign finance, looks at the big
donors, what they are buying
One thing that gives me hope is the backlash against high-profile marketer, Russel Howcroft. Though not as culpable as those who deliberately misdirected scientific discussion, he helped Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s office improve the selling of its climate policies. This wasn’t a workshop to improve the policies – but to improve the spin.
So, to those that continue to misdirect and sow doubt over global heating, I ask, ‘are your pay cheques really worth it?’ And do you realise that by promoting the reputation of polluters you’re damaging your own personal reputations? In 10 years’ time having any link to coal or gas on your resume won’t be a good look. The Public Relations Institute of Australia’s code of ethics states that members "shall not knowingly disseminate false or misleading information". I suggest that any communications professional that positively represents fossil fuel interests is doing just that.
Scott
Morrison has to navigate an issue that has become a death warrant for
fellow prime ministers in the past decade and the Nationals could be set
to make doing so more difficult.
FAKE NEWS
HOW THE LEFT HATES: REZA ASLAN GLOATS THAT RUSH LIMBAUGH HAS CANCER
Ex CNN man Reza Aslan gloats over Rush Limbaugh's cancer
diagnosis: "Ask yourself this simple question: is the world a better
place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?" He shames himself and
the Chicago Theological Seminary stupid enough to hire him. This same low life once gloated that an innocent Covington student had a
"punchable" face.
7m ago
Here's a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Richard Di Natale resigned as the Greens leader primarily because he had a serious life-threatening operation last year and also because he wanted to spend time with his family. Bolt smeared him for it but made a joke of it in the process. He made no mention of the operation but smirked at Di Natale's use of the expression "the need to spend time with the family" as if he were being disingenuous. That's the hypocrisy of Andrew Bolf for you. Ask yourself this does this low life Andrew Bolt make Australia a better place? Are you better informed?(ODT) What Bolt ignores isRush Limbaugh Has Advanced Lung Cancer Now. But Then, He Asked For 'A Medal For Smoking'
Rush Limbaugh, who announced this week that he has advanced lung cancer, has a history of praising the practice of smoking.
MELTDOWN!: TRUMP WINS DEMOCRAT CAUCUS IN IOWA
GREENS LEADER ADAM BANDT'S VICIOUS RANT AS POLITICIANS MOURN BUSHFIRE DEAD
HOW DECEITFUL IS PAUL BARRY, THE ABC'S CLIMATE HYSTERIC?
If only the Tobacco lobby had the media power of Sky 2gb and News Corp today!!
Firstly have we heard Bolt mention the fool Jim Molan made of himself on Q&A when he said he pays "no attention to the evidence" science has provided over the past 40 years on Climate Change he prefers the opinions of idiots we have to assume because he doesn't name them like Andrew Bolt no doubt. Misinformation isn't a right and Andrew Bolt and the Sky crew are practised at just that. They do it under the guise of selecting facts then opinionating on them when in fact it's propaganda paid for and media-driven. Murdoch Media globally presents a uniform policy and message of denial and misinformation on Climate Change throughout the English speaking world.
In fact, Murdoch himself is a wanna be Fossil Fuel Baron, a Director of Genie Oil which Bolt never mentions that's exploring illegally in the Israeli occupied territories of the Golan Heights of Syria. A class-action suit or ban on their advertisers is well deserved for that alone.
Bolt begins with bullshit Paul Barry didn't exclusively attack Sky News he directed his comments to 2GB and the News Corp papers. Sorry Bolt, you weren't the sole focus of his attention. As for the years of misinformation, you have been putting out you spent more claiming the planet was "cooling" than "slightly warming. So why now pretend otherwise which is fundamentally and primarily a piece of bullshit. You spent years quoting and venerating Roy Spencer and still do as the guru of denialism.
Bolt, unlike Jim Molan, claims he's a facts man who strangely enough often provides Molan with the space to spread his self declared "opinions only" views which he openly declares are better than the facts for which he has no regard. Opinion rather than the years of evidence collected by the global scientific community are the foundation on which he bases policy not the facts and conclusions of the worlds most prestigious institutions. But then Bolt has no regard for scientists or experts other than his fellow Murdochians who all dance to the same tune.
Bolt's fact whatever we do will not make bushfires stop so Australia has no global responsibility only to adapt as we are only 1.3% emitters of Greenhouse gasses.. Guess Bolt should have been around when we sent troops to fight in WW1 and WW2 in the foolish belief we needed global response to the Germans and Japanese despite the fact we were on the other side of the planet. We were small then too. We know what Bolt's response was to the Ebola virus don't we "do nothing"! So we don't need to support any global effort. No Bolt doesn't mock science when he calls it just another "religion" "a cult" " a money-making con" does he? He gets away with his crap simply because of the 24/7 news cycle that allows him the privilege of being a yo-yo going in any direction his masters allow as long as it's attached to their string and yes they are The Murdoch's Sky and News Corp. Even James Murdoch the son of Rupert agrees with Paul Barry over anything Bolt has to say.
Imagine, Bolt has Gerard Henderson from News Corp to talk about "preaching and "no right of reply" on the Bolt Report now that is the "pot calling the kettle black".
These two weren't laughing at the well to do and educated doctors of Warringah were they when they showed just how influential people can be when they got rid of Tony Abbott. (ODT) And – NO – Australia cannot achieve a favourable outcome on its own but it can join the other countries which are already making far greater efforts then we are. And – NO – we cannot undo the damage which we have allowed to happen but we can to some, possibly significant, degree limit the extent of further damage. You never know what you can achieve until you try – but you will achieve nothing by failing to try! (RJ36)
