Andrew Bolt's Blog,1/5/18; Why is the ABC such a danger to Andrew Bolt? His kids might learn that their privilege isn't earned;

NO, INDEED

From an exchange on the ABC with Liberal minister Michael Sukkar, this confirmation: "Sukkar: 'What we talk about in our branch meetings are pretty colourful affairs and I’d say anyone who wants to join the party should …'  [ABC host Patricia] Karvelas: 'OK, this is the ABC — we’re not recruiting for the Liberal Party here.'"

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Independence is of great concern to conservatives. In fact, they complain about it constantly. How is independence encouraged in a nation of individuals? Equality and pragmatic social policies that are directed at reducing the economic dependence of individuals on each other to survive but unites them to willingly unite might be a start rather than breed psychological resentment, anxiety, and tension in the family, schools, workplace liberate them instead.
Andrew Bolt was heard to say "I'm the only breadwinner in the family" he didn't say that with pride either when he once said I have to take them to Bali on holiday either. He complained as if it were a burden. He resented being kept by a woman in Darwin why else did he lie about that. Welfare is a burden to Bolt and his resentment is multiplied by his sense that equality somehow means a loss of privilege, economic, gender, cultural and other. For a citizen whose social mobility was kick-started not by merit but the luck of marriage he now is threatened by any forms of social policy that threatens that system of privilege to which he feels entitled and flaunts. Bolt talks the talk of individual freedoms but doesn't walk the walk or demand the rational policies that deliver it.
 
But to assume that “freedom” and “government” are engaged in a zero-sum battle is to miss entirely the role of economic coercion in the decisions we make in daily life and to the extent that governments can reduce the weight of that burden on everyone. Through, free education we could actually increase individual freedom to live the lives we want.  If healthcare were a free right of citizens, then it’s easier to leave a crappy job, start a new company and relieve the family from worry.. If every school is good and uni is free, parents wouldn't have to strain to salt away money for tuition, and new graduates wouldn't start their adult lives with student loan debt. If women and men fare equally well in the workplace, and parental leave was paid, then each family could determine the childcare arrangements that make the most sense for them. People could choose to stay together. The conditions that make certain decisions “rational” are, themselves, subject to conscious change the very changes Bolt says is impossible but really means shouldn't happen.
However, the reality is the truth Bolt hides while The American Dream he so worships is failing with 40% living on or below the poverty line and domestic violence on the rise. With income and wealth gap increasing why would Bolt even consider we follow that the American Dream. Is the unfettered privatisation without regulation the rabbit hole we should go down? Particularly when it's perfectly clear that other countries are faring far better while we are fast slipping to the bottom of the ladder of OECD countries. Why are the Nordic countries faring so much better than we are and any rational social policies following them vehemently mocked and denied by Bolt and the conservatives?
A  Public independent ABC is not just mocked and scorned but needs to be stopped according to Bolt. Universal Education is impossible, Health and child care unrealistic your taxes will rise with these universal schemes. Taxes need to be cut to keep you on the wheel of dependence and not raised to rationally cut costs. Costs of Advertising and irrational duplication of unwanted administration brought on by competition and unnecessary privatisation. When faced with the proof of the benefits, those policies have delivered elsewhere and the individual freedoms delivered Bolt's arguments don't have a leg to stand on other than he and his kids will somehow be disadvantaged when in fact they won't they'd be freed.
Bolt argues multiculturalism is a complication we face that other countries don't it's a blind stats prove that multicultural schools in Nordic countries do as well as the homogenous schools do. and homogenous schools here and in the USA fare no better on average. Bolt if fully aware of this so why the lie?
The World Happiness Report ranks 155 countries from 1 to 10 in terms of happiness and is based on a survey of 1,000 people from each country. The measure is based on real GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy and people’s perception of their freedom to make life choices, generosity, and perceptions of corruption.
In the latest report, the Nordic countries lead the way, with Norway, Denmark and Iceland at the top of the list, while the Central African Republic, Burundi and Tanzania lag behind with low scores in GDP per capita, social support and people’s freedom to makes life choices.

 Proof that Bolt encourages failure is his constant denial of what's been proven possible

THE THREE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT DAMN GONSKI

Three recommendations from the second Gonski report show its utter uselessness. The first - and most cited - is a ludicrous platitude. The second is guff expressed in barbarous English. The third recommends the third report to do what the first two didn't - tell us how to improve secondary schooling. Read and weep.

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1) Education in Nordic schools has proved otherwise without the secondary tutoring industry that has sprung up that helicopter parents feel necessary to pay for to ensure success.
2) Costs saved have been put 5 years of teaching education and not just a tacked education degree after a 3-year course
3) What Bolt mock actually works in Nordic countries Finland has been a consistent example for 2 decades.
3) Teachers with classes of 1-20 work as teams and successfully do what Bolt claims they can't assist students to work at their own pace without shame. If teachers fall behind they too are easily recognized and supported to improve their skills why because competition has been exchanged for the independence of individuals to be themselves. The very outcomes prove Bolt's the idiot.
4) What Bolt calls "useless" has had a history of success elsewhere and his arguments that it won't work here have been also proven wrong. All Bolt is battling for has shown to be a failure in creating "smart" Australian government policies yet a success elsewhere.
Australia's equal opportunity and Bolt's stressless model of education and debt. Is he paying his kids HECS fees? I did plus their Private Education Fees. Equal opportunity my arse

So, if you’re already overseas or you’re planning on heading overseas for more than 183 days and you have a HELP or TSL debt, it’s important to understand your new obligations. Here’s what should you do:

1. Before you move overseas log in to your myGov account and turn off the security code feature (unless you’ll still have access to your Australian mobile number).
2. Notify the Tax Office within seven days of leaving Australia if you intend to move or reside overseas for more than 183 days in any 12-month period.
3. Even if your worldwide income is small, you will need to lodge a non-lodgement advice form annually. Otherwise, you need to report your worldwide income annually.
4. If your worldwide income exceeds the minimum HELP and TSL repayment thresholds, you will be required to make a repayment of your HELP or TSL liability. This may be in the form of a compulsory repayment or an overseas levy.
5. If all this seems too hard and you’re concerned it will be missed, consider repaying your HELP or TSL debt in full.

The Tax Office is calling this a voluntary scheme but be aware if you don’t comply, there is a big sting in the tail with the fines due. So, before you pack your bags and head off on your great adventure, make sure you register and are aware of your repayment obligations, which may kick within the next few months.

NDIS: MORE CASH THAN CURE

Monstrously expensive, yet so many complaints: "The $22 billion NDIS is failing the nation’s most vulnerable people, leaving as many as one in five, many with intellectual and mental disabilities, reporting that the ­flagship scheme has left them worse off." Who ever doubted this would be so? Now NDIS staff complain they're becoming disabled, too.  

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Bolt refuses to address the fact that Universal Health provides a healthier society by simply providing better-measured outcomes simply by the improvement of preventative care for one. If people feel sick they go to the doctor without worrying about their bank balance. Healthcare of a nation is better managed for everybody, not just those that have the money or were born into it by luck The mortality age in the US is falling and that in Nordic countries is rising.  There is the better administrative management of doctors and pharmaceuticals simply because of the economy of scale. Bolt's simply taking selective advantage of transitional issues to try to convince us that universal health schemes don't work but notice he avoids International comparisons why? Because other changes then become logically necessary.
Bolt's cry the NDIS is creating the disabled flies out the door in the face of the evidence of the homeless and incarcerated mentally ill who are required to self-manage our private health system. It flies in the face of a conservative government whose real interest is to witness its failure.  While whole families break down under the stress disability our recidivism in prisons has become revolving door individuals of people in need of medical and disability assistance. People are tied together in states of anxiety stress and dependence that can and would be reduced if ever conservative governments stop ensuring public health failure. Bolt really loves the American Dream which today has become a nightmare with it's 36 mill without any insurance or access to affordable healthcare.

 

THERESA MAY MAKES OUR DOOR SEEM TOO OPEN

Chris Patten fumes over the British Government: "May’s government now promises not just to reduce illegal immigration, but also to cut overall annual immigration to less than 100,000." How crazy does Australia look? One-third of Britain's population, yet last year importing more than twice that many immigrants.

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Finally, Bolt makes a comparison that is meant to impress us but it's not one on "outcomes" it's one on policy. It's a monkey see monkey do immigration policy that seems to have cost Theresa May the loss of her Immigration Minister and has weakened her position as the leader in her party. Bolt makes no mention of that. He's only interested in a policy that has isolated May even further and that's what Abbott did and what conservatives want us to do in the Pacific region. UK Home Secretary Resigns Over Immigration Scandal

 

 

WHY NOT JUST TELL HIM OVER DINNER?

That's some dysfunctional marriage, if she shouts at her husband over Facebook rather than discuss this over a quiet dinner: "'Dear Husband, I. Need. More. Help.'  This is how working mother of two and blogger Celeste Erlach started her open letter to her husband which was published on Facebook group Breastfeeding Mamma Talk last month."

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Bolt certainly has complained about his family in blogs. Remember the Xmas he had to "take them to Bali" in order for him to have his hols in Aalsmeer. He was blackmailed and taking them was like taking excess baggage. Then there was the complaint that he was the only workhorse in the family the only one that brings in an income and really worked." 

"When your private life is material for your spouse's blog, you have a problem bigger than what Erlach complains of."Bolt

Andrew Bolt's Blog, 28/1/17; What Bolt did on Australia Day; Bolt employs old tactics used by smarter lobbiests that went before him; Self promoting Bolt; That elephant is still there

 

 

Leftists block multicultural march for Australia

Why is the Left the natural home of the thug? In Adelaide, protesters for Aboriginal causes have physically blocked a much bigger multicultural march for Australia - and police, of course, let them. In Sydney, a former Greens employee is charged with assault at a protest.

Bolt gloating over the fact that 2 demonstrations coincided 2 demonstrations both of which oppose what it is he represents. Multiculturalism and Recognition of Australia's first peoples. Nobody was arrested the only thing some may have differed on was the inappropriateness of the 26/1/17 to be Australia day. Both groups I'm sure appreciate the significance of Invasion Day being called Australia day and no doubt if the dates were changed you'd most likely see these two groups marching together. What however is significant is that you wouldn't find Andrew Bolt marching or celebrating any day. What did Andrew Bolt do on Australia day other than think of and what to criticize this country for . To dream his nightmare about what we aren't rather than what we are, to mock and snigger and for some reason get paid for it by a News Corp team as equally negative and anti-Australian. Did these arseholes party together I somehow doubt it. Bolt hides where he went for holiday where his farm is he simply doesn't share anything with his followers but he does find time to brag nevertheless. i wonder whether his kids are proud of him as his wife is who freaks out if anything becomes public? It a strange life he leads not typically an Australian role model.

 

Theresa May shows Turnbull how to deal with Trump

Malcolm Turnbull is slow to adjust to Donald Trump's win. But he should learn three things from this video of Trump's presser with British PM Theresa May. First, Trump can charm even the media. Second, he listens to his experts. Third, he's made a win-win deal with May on NATO, making her seem a moderating influence but getting support for reform.

What a wanker Bolt is . This seems more a rushed shot gun wedding of two opposites but not according to Bolt

1) Theresa May needs the USA for post Brexit trade more that America needs her. Remember Trump said any trade deals made America has to come first. 

2 May needs The USA for NATO. However remember what Trump said in it's current form it's obsolete and Europe needs to pay for US support

3) Trump needs the UK to make him appear a legitimate President given his ratings are the lowest ever of an incoming president.

Andrew Bolt is simply Murdoch's flag waver in Australia. His true nature shows in how he manages to smear Turnbull at the same time. Note the absence of any objective analysis here. How can he possibly get it so wrong?

 

President Donald Trump enters office facing low job approval ratings and skepticism from voters, according to a new Quinnipiac University a conservative regarded  poll released Thursday.
Source: Poll: 36% approve of Trump's job performance - CNNPolitics.com

 

Fake freak-out: another journalists gasps over Donald Trump

Donald Trump calls British Prime Minister Theresa May by her first name. An Al Jazeera journalist promptly freaks, forgetting to do one basic thing.

 

Andrew Bolt has reduced his blogging about Trump and America to this absolute trivia why? His agenda has been dictated for him and if you can't be serious be stupid. A  Trump hater 3 months ago he's now a born again Trump legitimator . To do that one needs to ignore the elephant Donald all together and criticize 90% of all other media. The media have become the new consensus body like scientists to be attacked. Trump idiocy is the new Climate Change, and using old tactics the media in opposition to him the body to be attacked.

By ignoring the elephant Donald  Bolt takes on the media like the 97% of Climate Change scientists  to find those he can mock and ridicule in order to have his audience believe Trump isn't a fool. However he avoids the issue of Trump altogether. World media consensus is that Trump's a fool, a loose canon and a danger to the planet. Murdoch is the martinet at News Corp to whose tune Bolt dances denying Climate Change, promoting coal, anti vaxing, GM products etc but not by addressing the issue head on but by attacking those in opposition in this case journalists.

Never mind that Donald Trump is a pathological liar, hasn't a diplomatic bone in his body, thinks that putting a 20% ta

riff on Mexican goods is making the Mexicans pay and not Americans. Never mind that he publicly figures he can solve Americas debt problem by invading Iraq again and stealing their oil never mind any of that. Ignore it and look for the trivial flaws anti-Trump media makes to show they are wrong. Forget Trump the elephant in the room. Is that all Bolt has in his armory? The same old tactics employed by Climate deniers, and Tobacco lobbiest?

Bishop can't deny refugee swap is dead. But Turnbull dreams on

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has talked to new US Vice President Mike Pence and now refuses to say whether or not the Turnbull Government's deal with former president Barack Obama to send out detained boat people to the US is dead. Which suggests it is. Of course.

1  Politeness isn't that Bolt's mantra. Politeness stands above all. Then when our Foreign Minister practices just that and very diplomatically Bolt tears politeness down. He lauds the pretense shown by Theresa and Trump for the press but refuses to do the same for Julie Bishop. No Bolt rather disparages her why? To promote himself of course.' I did warn at the time of the danger of Turnbull rushing through a deal with Barack Obama that Trump was almost certain to oppose - leading only to political embarrassment:You see Bolt seizes every opportunity to promote himself. You see he is his sole press pilot seeming to be the wise savant. He can't lose because if he's right we will hear much much more of it from him. If he's wrong all we will hear is silence. It's the luxury of press jock like Bolt has when flying solo if and when he crashes it's all in the past. 

This however was never about Julie Bishop it was merely an opportunity to smeer Turnbull and self promote.

 

 

Kelly was for identity politics before he was against it

Here's a startling example of the effect of Donald Trump on public debate. Two years ago Paul Kelly urged my editors silence me to stop my "poison" - my opposition to identity politics in the form of a constitutional change to divide us by "race". But today Kelly actually joins Trump's "revolt against identity politics"

 

 

 

Proof of the above about avoiding the elephant in the room is Bolt's  attack on Paul Kelly rather than  addressing the issue of Trump the loose  cannon he turns on Kelly never mind that he works for the same organization. Does Bolt really believe he doesn't play identity politics?  Africans Muslims the indigenous are all racists and that he's not?

His distraction is that he has to go back to 2015 to make some vague anal and vengeful point based on what Kelly has written in 2017. In 2015  Kelly wrote  against Bolt's Reverse Racism claims "Bolt argues an extreme position: he says the referendum is racist and that it will divide the nation by race... It is hard to judge whether the political poison Bolt injects into this debate will gain traction. He may appeal to only rusted-on believers yet the risk should not be underestimated given the xenophobic potential on the populist Right..." Kelly 

This was said in reply to Bolt's insistence that vanquished and a demoralized indigenous people are  the 'racists' and that reverse racism exists. It's a vacuous argument  by those who deny the 200 years of discrimination that has existed. Those like Bolt who claim they are as indigenous as  much Australia's first peoples and will be victimized. In Bolt's case  he's more indigenous and in doing so throws the historical record out the window simply by reversing the definition of racist.

The fact however that Paul Kelly didn't address when talking about America in 2017 was that identity didn't lose the vote in Trump lost the popular vote by some 3 million votes because identity did vote against  and for him. He is only sitting as President because of what he himself calls the 'rigged system' of the Electoral College a gerrymander of sorts.

 Bolt for one isn't crowing and nor are the American people. The only ones crowing are white nationalist Americans. We are watching Trump squirm denying facts to say he did win the popular vote and that his inauguration had the greatest audience in history and that all of America is behind him when we just saw the greatest demonstration in the history of the country against him. "All" of America in fact translates to white rural unemployed and underemployed Americans who were once middle class and who now feel victimized. Isn't that identity politics at work and Trump appealed to it. Trump hasn't won the hearts and minds of Americans by a long shot he has done the opposite.

 So Bolt's jumped from the context of America trying to tell us Trumps a winner and is legitimate why, because Paul Kelly was writing about Bolt being wrong back in 2015 about recognition of indigenous.  Today in some convoluted way he's trying to say Trump's win justifies and proves he was right  that Andrew Bolt doesn't involve himself in identity politics? Bolt says we shouldn't when it comes to Recognition but says the opposite when it comes to Africans, Muslims LGBTQIs and the indigenous in every other circumstance. Bolt the assimilationist  is known for denying what the majority of us know him to be a bigot who uses ethnic, race, gender and faith identifiers to group people and he is as big a bigot as this country has ever seen.  He expects an apology because he's calling Australia's indigenous out for being the racists.  So all we are witnessing is a vengeful anal egocentric man child schoolyard bully. Bolt claiming victimhood at the hands of a real journalist Paul Kelly discussing and offering different opinions in different contexts it's what Australians do and welcome.  Rather than Bolt claiming to be right and in his righteousness avoiding the elephant in the room Donald Trump