Fighting Fake News with REAL 20/5/21; Tudge, Wages, Unbalanced media presenting fiction as News

 

 

 

Murdochtopus has many arms that work in unison with News Corp, one of those arms is a think tank called the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). When Tony Abbott became Prime Minister the IPA wrote a list of 75 ideas for Abbott to think about which included: 50. Break up the ABC and put out to tender each individual function. 51. Privatise SBS. The Abbott government and coalition government’s since, have cut funding to the tune of $783 million. By 2023 the cuts to the ABC will amount to $1 billion. Surveys continually show that the ABC and SBS are the most trusted news brands in Australia. Australia’s concentrated media ownership is one of the highest of the world News Corp owns nearly 60% of the metropolitan and national print media markets by readership. The Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax merger in 2018, means that Nine is now the second largest media owner with a combined readership share of 23%. 80% of Australian free-to-air and subscription TV revenues are collected by three corporations: News Corp, Nine, and Seven Media Holdings. Nearly 90% of the nation’s radio licences are controlled by News Corp, Nine, and Southern Cross Media (including their associated entities).

Source: Murdochtopus – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Education

Students must learn about Western heritage to defend democracy: Tudge

Education Minister Alan Tudge declared the school funding wars over and said it was time to talk about teaching and standards.

 “We won’t get anywhere unless we get the pedagogy [teaching methods] right,” said Mr Pearson, who alongside Mr Tudge is a strong advocate for direct - or teacher-led - instruction, rather than the teacher acting as the ‘guide on the side’.

Firstly why is Tudge making out the opposite is true Western Culture isn't being erased or undermined. So if that's the case one wonders why he's suggesting it is. Indigenous Culture has been undermined and he's definitely not saying that.

However, direct teacher-led instruction suggests something else entirely and that does suggest some cultures need to be cancelled. It declares there is a right history and any Critical Thinking is dangerous to Autocracy. It's certainly not a danger to Democracy. The danger was witnessed in the past 4 years in the USA and the 6th of Jan storming of the Congress by those that think like Tudge.

 

 Running away from rising costs and falling wages

 

 

PM Promises All Australians Will Receive First Defamation Action By December 2021

“The process of suing everyone who disagrees with us has been slower than expected"

 

In the year since George Floyd’s murder, conservative news outlets have endlessly hyped distorted stories about violence at Black Lives Matter protests. Key videos they used come from a tight-knit group of eight young journalists.

Source: Riot Squad: Right-Wing Video Journalists Help Smear BLM

 

Israel Is Using Emergency Pandemic Measures to Surveil Palestinian Protesters

05.19

• Louise Abramowitz

Israel is currently engaged in a brutal crackdown on Palestinian protesters — and it’s using surveillance measures refined during the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor, track, and harass those protesters. 

At the same time, the state of emergency the embattled prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu set in place throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has dragged on. The systems leveraged to track Palestinians and Jewish Israeli citizens alike under the auspices of public health became, once again, tools of military surveillance and policing.

In the past week, Israel’s police have carried out targeted arrests against scores of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, across the remainder of the West Bank, and throughout Israeli cities. Police have detained Jewish Israeli activists leading protests in West Jerusalem as well. In activist spaces, it seems widely understood that the state is surveilling everyone all the time.

 

Analysis

Morrison exploits the issue of China for domestic political gain

Australia needs help. It is being played by the U.S. It is suffering a dearth of leadership that is unable to handle climate change, a coherent COVID vaccination rollout, quarantine and a balanced relationship with China, our biggest and most important neighbour.

 

The world is moving away from fossil fuels, while in Australia, it’s all systems go for coal and gas

 

FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED 

 

 

Hamas fire rockets at crossing of ‘their own’ humanitarian aid convoy

 Hamas has fired rockets at the crossing where its own humanitarian aid convoy was travelling after Israel approved the aid convoy to cross into Gaza, according to Jerusalem Post columnist Emily Schrader. “Yesterday Israel did approve humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza… however, after the first eight convoys went through the crossing, Hamas actually fired rockets at that crossing, even though it was their humanitarian aid for their people going through,” she told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. Ms Schrader also said this was a deliberate tactic by Hamas to “portray Israel in a negative light". “This is a tactic; this is definitely a tactic that we’ve seen from Hamas – we know that they want the people to suffer… when the people suffer, they are able to portray Israel in a negative light.”

Over 200 deaths , 50% of which are women and children, thousands wounded, unable to access hospitals, doctors, or medicines, and Bolt blames it all on Hamas. Who does he turn to for proof but Israel's right wing media in this case the Jerusalem Post supposedly tells us what's "really" happening in Gaza. No such largese is given to the International media foreign and independant journalists witnessing the action on the ground. Bolt promotes a narrative that Israel wants out and out now.  Everything we have heard from Bolt in recent days is that Israel the Goliath in this story is defending itself. The 600,000 IDF high tech  gargantuan monster is defending itself against the 20-30k mouse that roars fire.

 Israel is the victim fighting a mentally deranged organization of terrorists  trapped in Gaze who are really killing their own people. Israel hasn't allowed aid into Gaza for years before this conflict started. It was happy to see Covid run it's course through the strip. It starved hospitals of equipment while snipers shot Palestinians maiming them for life. Israel hasn't stopped the current 24/7 bombing  of Gaza for a week and Andrew Bolt has a picture of a truck trying to tell us would try to have us they are the acting humanitarians in this battle. 

Hamas rockets are gerry-built, hand made and  have no directional capacity whatsoever accept hopefully up, with some, and only some of the 3000 even making it to Israel most falling in the deserted space just on the other side of the border,or never even making it out of Gaza.  Nevertheless Andrew Bolt turns the Jerusalem Post to spread the news of Israel's innocence. Yesterday it was the Australian Council of Jewry whose existence is based on a quid pro quo relationship with the Netanyahu government

  

How Bolt uses images to push fake news and information

China is a dictatorship ‘openly threatening war’: Bolt

 Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Scott Morrison is treating China "like the threat it is – a dictatorship openly threatening war". The remarks come after Labor Senator Penny Wong criticised the Morrison government’s rhetoric on China saying Mr Morrison was only seeking “political value”. “Attacking Morrison for treating China like the threat it is. A dictatorship openly threatening war,” Mr Bolt said. “Is Labor really suggesting that we shouldn't now be making common cause with other democracies also alarmed by China to protect ourselves? “Or should we just kowtow instead – button our lips for fear of the great dictatorship. “Whatever the government is doing, do not rule out Labor being worse.” 

Israel is bombing the crap out of 2 million desperate people trapped, trapped in the world's largest open air closet, and Andrew Goebbellian Bolt says Israel is on a mission of peace defending itself from these aggressive warmongering terrorists in the Gazan ghetto.

 Meanwhile China is investing money globally and partnering underdeveloped nations in building up their infrastructure. It is also currently the worlds largest exporter of Covid-19 vaccines to the world's poorest nations that big Westren companies won't sell to. Some 59, many more than the West is supplying. Yet, Andrew Bolt cub reporter claims they are aggressors preparing themselves for a war against us. He's said this over and over again without any evidence to indicate he's right. 

Which nations does he suggest, Australia, we should draw in, to lead, the sortie against China? He fails to mention any that would agree with him? Abbott certainly didn't he was all about shirt-fronting Putin. Is Israel one? It's certainly a front runner in the aggression stakes. Should Dutton convince Japan or Taiwan to go to war? Bolt's sabre rattling matches his cheering on of Israel's blitzkrieg of Gaza. Maybe he is promoting us as world arm dealers, the manufacturers of submarines. China works on 5 year plans to boost their economy not spur of the moment plans of lets attack someone like Bolt proposes.

 

Losing coal-fired power means ‘an end to cheap, reliable electricity’: Bolt

 Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Australia losing its big coal-fired power stations is a consequence of the Liberals "not having the courage to fight the global warming panic”. “Well, one price we must pay for the Liberals not having the courage to fight the global warming panic – and Labor going much crazier with it - is that Australia is losing its big coal-fired power stations,” Mr Bolt said. “And that means an end to cheap, reliable electricity, steady 24/7.” Mr Bolt spoke with Energy Economist Alan Moran who said the government’s subsidising of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels deters private sector firms from investing in their own coal or gas-fired power plant. “The government has created the situation whereby no private sector firm can possibly justify spending – the risks are too great,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “How can you spend money on a power station gas-fired or coal when the alternative competitive power is subsidised to buggery.” 

Bolt's claim,  Morrison's government hasn't the courage like he has to fight the rest of the world on climate. The world, the planet in a narrative in which he's right and everyone else is wrong. The end of coal  according to Bolt means the end of the cheap electricity which we don't have now. That sounds more like the unreasoned babble and threat by Chicken Little. The world is well past the tipping point and  is already united on the idea of clean and renewable energy. 

As I said yesterday Bolt keeps dragging the same old people out of the News Corp closet giving them a run, titles they don't warrant, to bolster his pro coal message, and Alan Moran is the one  this time round. Moran was a past director of the Heartland Institute that great climate change dening funder. He is a contributor to The Spectator, News Corp and most notably was "dumped" by the IPA because even they felt he was doing more harm to them than good. Moron is part of the shrinking circle paid to promote the fossil fuel industry. A circle that simply talks to itself. 

The government just recently subsidized both fossil fuels and gas to the tune of $3B and gave the nod for our renewable investment fund to provide money for carbon capture and other techologies like cleaning coal which has proved not to work. But here are Moran and Bolt telling us the government is subsidizing "alternate renewable energy sources" and not coal, gas and fossil fuels. Didn't Morrison just turn down  a major and I mean major wind farm in the NT? It will go ahead despite the governments rejection.

So Moran is on the Bolt Report to preach his normal bullshit being the scaremonger because the very reverse is actually happening worldwide. Australia, however is the only country in the world that has the resources to fully build batteries that store energy. Batteries for which there is already a global demand. We are currently only nation on the planet able to be the center of this new sunrise industry and without  competition but the government refuses to invest in it why? Because they are pouring money into and propping up dirty industries that have no future and Alan Moran is claiming they should be doing more.The world is moving away from fossil fuels, while in Australia, it’s all systems go for coal and gas

 

 

Global warming proponents say ‘listen to the scientists’ but don’t present any: Dean

 Sky News host Rowan Dean says proponents of the global warming movement say to listen to the scientists on the matter - yet they haven’t provided any “credible” scientists in the last decade. “Well they keep telling us to listen to the science… listen to science, listen to the scientists but for the last decade they’ve never presented us with any scientists – not any credible ones,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

Here is the proof that the in- house circle that talks to itself really exists exists. First Bolt has News Corp contributor Alan Moran on to promote fossil fuel and then follows it up with Rowan Dean falsely called an "Outsider" on to talk about not the provenance of the 97% of the global scientists who have researched and proved Global Warming exists but the fact that there isn't a genuine scientist among them. Dean believes the non peer-reviewed 3% are somehow superior. Does anyone get the feeling that ex-ad man Dean is running a he said she said argument to fill the vacuous space between he, Bolt's brain and a show with nowhere to go?

 The last decade the scientific data collected reviewed and published has shown records in warming have been broken year in and year out. That the planet has experienced more intense weather extremes than ever before and they have all been published. So yes, that vacuous space between Bolt and Dean is also very real and man made.

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Liberal Ministers Reaffirm Position That Marriage Is A Sacred Union Between A Woman, A Man And His Bit On The Side

"It's about giving a child a biological mother and father. And a step mother and a half sister,” 

 

The idea that this party boy, while allegedly engaging in such compromising behaviour, is persecuting and harassing two patriots who have served their country so well on the basis that they are a threat to national security is utterly sickening.

What else do we not know about Christian Porter? What do third parties know about him that he would prefer to keep secret?

In a government that insists it’s all about national security, Porter must be sacked.

To simply say his past should be forgotten is telling us there is one rule for the elite and select and another for the rest of us. To try to tell us Tudge practices what he preaches and Morrison to say they didn't do anything untoward on my watch shows just what a do nothing arsehole he is. A real role model for how we should all behave. How generous and unprotective would he be if it was his wife? 

The ABC has exposed the sordid side of Canberra in the public interest

Murdoch's News Corp defends climate coverage in escalating Turnbull stoush

News Corp is attempting to defuse the former prime minister's criticism after he locked horns with a senior editor on Q&A over coverage of the national bushfire crisis and climate change 

What seemed to be overlooked by Paul Kelly, the solitary defender of News Corp on Q&A, was while his argument may have had some validity some 50 years ago it no longer does. The systemic change in the media landscape in Australia over the past half a century has seen diversity lost. The diversity he's talking about simply isn't there any longer. The macro division is simply between private & public  broadcasting overlaid by the growth of big tech and the algorithms of digital technologies.

Murdoch being the largest fish in the English speaking news ocean. His business model's focus has changed from supplying a diversity of news and opinion to harvesting subscriptions like a whale does krill to exist. Ratings to sell to  the largest concentration of money in the market whose existence depends on  influencing the politics of the rest of us.

Kelly and Morrison simply overlooked the global and multinational nature of Murdoch's operation arguing it's merely another media operation in our market place. If that were the case News,Corp would have gone bust years ago and Kelly would be out of a job. The fossil fuel industry is a planetary global mega-bemoth industry and Climate Change a consequence threatens it's very existence. Murdoch with Genie Oil is a heavy investor and his business model services their mutual interests. Kelly's attempt to cast News Corp as simply another private news source fails.

News Corp is a mega political influencer a super spreader of global influence  which is used to confuse, obfuscate and divide opinion with regard the global problem the fossil energy industries have helped create and that science has discovered and defined. The problem the fossil fuel industries suspected existed for almost a century but were too reluctant to address.

Climate CrimesU.S. Withdrawal From Paris Agreement Casts the Stakes of Election in Planetary Terms

 

US pandemic carnage failed to infect Trump's vote

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Fighting Fake News with REAL, 29/9/20; Grifters are always the smartest in the room; Finally Dan had to mend the System; Do unto others as.. LNP doesn't; Two MPs 2 sets of ethics;

Trumpism has it arrived in Australia in the form of Morrisonism?

Genius Businessman Owes $420 Million

"Very few people know how to take a $400 million inheritance and turn it into a value many, many times smaller than that" 

 Under cover of COVID there's been troubling news about tyranny's rise 

Hartcher seems to use the Swedish and Freedom House studies as an opportunity to focus yet again on China as the worlds worst regime. When one could have easily have said China has done more than any other country to deregulate and allow it's citizens freedoms and conditions they never previously had. Where as we are increasingly being surveilled and our privacy shredded like never before. China has educated, extended the life expectancy housed and provided work for more of it's citizens can we say the same? We can't even say we are proud of the social metrics that indicate we have improved the lives of Australia's Indigenous people the most incarcerated people not just in Australia but the world. (ODT)
One of the things that slipped by unnoticed this year was some troubling news about the state of democracy. While the world was busy with the pandemic, a Swedish research group published its annual study of the health of democracy worldwide.The topmost countries in the Varieties of Democracy report are Denmark, Estonia and Sweden. Australia ranks the 14th freest nation, the US No. 36 and China 174th out of 179. The only countries ranked lower are among the world's hell holes of suffering and repression – Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and North Korea. Australia turns out to be a beacon of liberty in a darkening world. But the metatrend towards illiberalism means that even the freest countries need to work on renewing their democracies.

Breaking

Premier confident bureaucrats are now briefing ministers properly

• 1 hour ago
• by Rachael Dexter and Craig Butt

 

The Federal Government would not pass its own values test

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Liberal Party |

The Federal Government has revamped the citizenship test by adding a “values” section, featuring principles our own government would not pass.

 

Mikakos resigns; Tudge's criminal conduct ignored

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Robodebt |

We need the mainstream media to hold the Morrison Federal Government to the same standards they seem able to apply to the Andrews State Government.