Fighting Fake News with REAL 30/3/22; The Budget, Capitalism, Workers, Low Wages, National Planning , Cuba,

 

 

 

 

 "We're splashing out!"

Family to spend $4.75 petrol excise windfall on buying half a broccoli

 Oh dear celebrating too soon, there goes that broccoli and more!!

Despite the federal budget’s focus on cost of living measures, the typical working Australian will still be $50 a week worse off. This is before a hidden tax increase that will leave low and middle-income earners, who are facing a tidal wave of extra costs, $30 worse off in the next financial year. Callum Foote reports.

There’s an election to win and seats to shore up, or even take. The Guardian reports that the Morrison government is pouring a disproportionate amount of money into projects in the Coalition’s must-win seats. But, it adds, only a third of expenditure, and 15% of the projects, targeting marginal seats has been endorsed by the independent agency Infrastructure Australia. The Guardian analysed 144 projects worth $16 billion and found that only 21, worth $5.7bn, had been endorsed by the government agency. ( Michael West Media}

 

Source: Home – Michael West Media

It’s time the workers united again to claim their share of the profits their labour produces. Companies should fulfil their part of the social contract by paying fair wages and taxation. With 12% of Australians living in poverty, it’s time we had a government that puts the welfare of its people first. It’s time.

Source: Why isn’t our “strong economy” benefitting workers? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

 

My thought for the day We exercise our involvement in our democracy every three years by voting. After that the vast majority takes very little interest. Why is it so? ( John Lord )

Source: They simply have a plan to keep wages low. They always have. – » The Australian Independent Media Ne

 

 

Lismore and Byron unprepared to be flooded again. Morrison proves he's a world laggard on renewables and a liar when it comes emission target ambitions.

Reduction in spending across clean energy agencies represents a 35% annual cut over four years

Budget papers show Morrison government plans to cut climate spending if it wins election

 Lismore would like to know why Morrison was so behind at a time of the Nation's need not once but on serial occasions over his term in office as they are about to face another flood and still waiting for their promised $800 from the first disaster. Meanwhile Cuba puts Morrison to shame.

  The book Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management

  It traced the highly successful source of the island nation’s efforts to the way it put human welfare above property. This collection of 14 essays by Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story, and Anna Clayfield is an extraordinary assemblage of articles, each addressing specific issues.

In the video Cuba’s Life Task, Orlando Rey also observes that “There must be a change in the way of life, in our aspirations. This is a part of Che Guevara’s ideas on the ‘new man.’ Without forming that new human, it is very difficult to confront the climate issue.” Integration of poor countries into the global market has meant that areas which were once able to feed themselves are are now unable to do so. Neo-liberalism forces them to use energy sources that are life-preservers in the short run but are death machines for their descendants. The world must remember that Che’s “new man” will not clamor for frivolous luxuries while others starve. For humanity to survive, a global epiphany rejecting consumer capitalism must become a material force in energy production. Was Che only dreaming? If so, then keep that dream alive!

Source: Cuba Prepares for Disaster | The Smirking Chimp

Andrew Bolt's Blog,23/12/16; Bolt's predicting Malcolm Is going to do an Abbott in 4 years but he's not cheering!! Bolt wasn't born a bigot.

 

 United by one thing and one thing only their bigotry. However they all prayed to the one god

Jihad plot in Melbourne

 In Melbourne, police today arrested seven people over a “substantial attack" allegedly planned for Flinders St Station, Federation Square and St Paul's Cathedral on Christmas Day. To the surprise of nobody, they were Muslim. Yet Premier Dan Andrews still insists such plots are "not acts of faith". Do the arrested men agree?

Bolt sounds as much a religious fanatic as do his imaginary united world of jihadis. Did all his accused and often alleged jihadis all have a common reason for their actions as Bolt seems to think. Does calling out" God is Great" a common greeting in Austria among Christians and equally as common in the daily language of Hindus  make all these disconnected people belong to one uniform mind set as Bolt has us believe? A 12 year old boy is driven by the same reasons as a suspected Tunisian who was a known drinker and non religious person  and an Iranian nutter in Sydney seeking attention. Globally the only thing that unites all these events is Andrew Bolt. The Germans certainly don't the French aren't joining the dots the way Andrew Bolt is. The Australian police aren't even echoing Bolt's seemingly perceptive wisdom. One could if they had  Bolt's energy and motivation look for all the individual crimes committed by Christians around the planet where people have justified their actions with some holy intent. We don't because we tend to examine these acts as varied as the individuals who commit them. Isn't that what Bolt advocates that we are all individuals and should be treated as such? Who doesn't practice what he preaches and categorizes all Muslims under the varying degrees only along his one Islamist continuum. No matter culture, nationality, class, gender, age etc etc they are all connected as far as Bolt is concerned and thus potentially as dangerous as any suicide bomber. It's why Bolt readily attacks and smears Waleed Aly even more than he does others he declares to be extremists such as Haider, Monis  and others. The reality the only thing that connects these people deemed " Muslims" is Andrew Bolt, News Corp and the political class that see an opportunity in doing so to get votes, Pauline Hanson being today's most obvious. None actually reflect the pluralism of multicultural Australia.

 

 

Andrew Bolt isn't selling books he's panhandling. Tricky!!

 

Too tricky, that "surplus"

Are you surprised? "The Coalition’s wafer-thin projected 2020-21 surplus ... of about $1.1 billion will be achieved only because of a reclassification of about $4bn in Future Fund earnings in that year, not because of any improvement in under­lying budget performance."

Bolt has his beggars hat out to the very end. He starts his blog today with a Paywall not even acknowledging the brains behind his link coupled with the Lazy Susan of repetitive ideas in his books.

 Remember when Abbott and Hockey were in urgent need of showing how Wayne Swan the world's best treasurer had fucked the economy. Abbott gave the Reserve Bank $10 bill  to cook the books and make the deficit look worse than it in fact was. Bolt loved it was a brilliant and bold political maneuver on the part of two dishonest men.  However here he is  predicting MT will do a similar stunt  in 4 years time  to look good and true or not Bolt's prediction is deployed to make MT look bad now! How desperate are these conservatives when they need to dream up scenarios beyond the horizon in order to prove their enemies are their enemies.

 As if Moody's and Standard and Poors know nothing about dodgy accounting! Bolt's blurb is from Peter Foster's 101 course in  grifting.  Moody's and S&P   rated the junk bonds being sold by Wall st  bankers as gilt edge AAA and they caused the GFC as much as those that invented and sold them.  Bolt acts as if these rating agencies  need his advice.  Like they read Andrew Bolt & Terry McCrann bollocks they look to Donald Trump on The Apprentice for economic genius when they want it.

 Andrew Bolt Australia's Duff Beer drinker and whizz kid economist  deems himself smarter than the average economic futurist. Clear proof he knows nothing.