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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.
The Cayman Islands is the destination du jour for Australian hospitals and water profits but far more is bound for Bermuda. Michael West on tax haven risk for AMP Life policyholders and their $100 billion in assets.
Two weeks ago, when the buy-out merchants from Brookfield completed their takeover of Healthscope, control of 43 Australian hospitals passed to a company in the Cayman Islands whose directors are unknown. Two years ago, a record $80 million payment of taxpayer money for Australian water rights went to the Caymans, to investors unknown, still. Profits from Adani’s controversial coal mine, rail and port profits subsidised by Australian taxpayers, are destined for companies in the Caymans and the British Virgin Islands owned by the family of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. And now, in a few months, should regulators approve it, the AMP Life business will be owned by an entity in Bermuda, like the Caymans, a secrecy jurisdiction with a corporate tax rate of zero.
A majority of Australian universities have improved in global rankings, with five appearing in the top 50 this year, but many are at the very bottom for one important measure.
Andrew Bolt sees them as a training ground for the left-wing where free speech isn't allowed. The rest of the world seems to think otherwise, and we all understand why Bolt failed to qualify and lies about his education on his CVs.
PAYWALL Chancellors and Vice Chancellors are in natural opposition to each other. Chancellors see the universities as a business and as such care for the relationship with those that fund them. Currently, if they could, they'd reduce Universities into fake vocational institutions and rid universities of the Humanities and Classics altogether. Vocational and utilitarian courses preferred. Vice Chancellors, on the other hand, protect the very meaning of what universities are about, and that's learning for learning sake of learning ideas and research peer-reviewed.
Yet Bolt wants to deregulate campuses and reduce them to political yelling matches and not places of reasoned debate, and mocks Eva Cox for the very thing he demands himself "mannered debate". He's jumped the gutter not fo a principle but a side, but that's Bolt.
Australian Universities are highly respected global institutions today 5 are in the top 50 and Bolt is insistent that they no longer be. He wants it seems anybody and everybody on campus to create a free for all for what purpose? To simply disrupt with anything there's a consensus on with which he disagrees.
He wants staff sacked books burned anything he deems the heretical left-wing. However, the left-wing, while they exist, don't, and Eva Cox reflects that. To destroy the research and scientific methods used and questioned by even the inexperienced in the field is Bolt's goal. To destroy the very nature of "a degree "and reduce it to little more than opinion studied without data or evidence necessary. It seems if Andrew Bolt can't get a degree himself and the respect that goes with it, nobody else should have one either. Sorry Bolt you will need more than that to gain respect.
Football fans are now the totalitarian-left. Is that because Andrew Bolt has his back so much to the wall that everyone before him here is Left -Wing? It shows that the level of paranoia of the radical Right, in this case, Bolt has reached pathological heights. It's also clear then why Bolt doesn't holiday in Australia and doesn't want to retire here but prefers the Democratic Socialist state of the Netherlands instead. He even has dual citizenship. But more it demonstrates his hypocrisy.
Note the respect Bolt has for Dodd but none for Aboriginal Cultures. The mocking of Aboriginal Culture by Andrew Bolt " Greens hate coal-fired power stations but hail Aborigines as the font of ancient wisdom. So what will they say to an Aboriginal boss wanting to build one of those coal-fired things on his traditional lands? "Bolt
Respect is non-existant for any other Cultures as far as Bolt is concerned their difference from his and offers nothing in the way wisdom to him. The fact is a "good" black, indigenous person is one wanting a coal-fired power plant because he must have been assimilated. This is typical of Bolt cherry picking "coconuts" to parade on his show to his white audience and calling out that a job was well done. Very Simon Legree, isn't he?
However, the truth is the generalisation that springs form this "traditional land owners want coal-fired power plants" is FakeNews.
" The Federal Court yesterday said doctors don't even have to speak to an illegal immigrant " Australia signed an International agreement to protect "Asylum Seeker" so by our own laws there are no "illegals" on Manus or Nauru and never has been. Those that are there were duty bound by Australia to care for them by that agreement while their claims were being processed. Bolt's "illegals" are allowed to flood in through Peter Dutton's front doors and not even seek asylum. What's been kept secret is just how broken Dutton's management of our front doors has been. While media like Bolt misdirect attention away from the disaster, Dutton has helped create.
1m So let's support Bolt in his cause to never forget why if anyone commits a crime or is simply found guilty and not acquitted. Andrew Bolt is an infamous Australian Racist and vilifier of Indigenous Australians and has never been acquitted of his crimes, yet he thinks the opposite but is never as generous to others who have been found guilty in the past. Bolt reminds us all of the past sins of other making the term forgive and forget rendering Justice meaningless. For Bolt, retribution is forever except for himself.
The destruction of an Australian icon the ABC is at hand and only the ALP can save it. Australian Democracy and values are being eroded and handed over to the IPA and News Corp on a platter in desperation and a last-ditch stand to maintain power. Can we imagine Australia without the ABC the only MSM we trust with news and information and not just pure propaganda? (ODT)
In June this year, the Liberal Party’s peak council voted by 2:1 to privatise the ABC, as proposed by the Institute of Public Affairs, whose alumni includes communications minister Mitch Fifield, an arch-plotter who backed Turnbull over Abbott, Dutton over Turnbull and then Morrison over Dutton. Turnbull and Fifield insisted at the time that the ABC would never be sold, but those assurances are surely worthless now. With News Corp on the attack and the Coalition so bitterly divided, it is hard to see anyone inside the government dying in a ditch over a high-minded defence of the ABC. The Australian had another extraordinarily well-timed piece this morning [$], in which media diarist Stephen Brook reported a rift between chair and MD, including deep background that Guthrie had been upset at the chair’s push for the quixotic “Project Jetstream” overhaul of the ABC’s digital infrastructure. There was obviously more to that story. Whether or not Guthrie deserved to be sacked so summarily – and she is today reported to be devastated and considering her legal options – the ABC now appears vulnerable, poorly led, and in need of public support more than ever.
Australia has been sacrificed to the Careers and Self-interest of individuals. Grattan Institute finds the policymaking process vulnerable to hijacking by vested interests at public’s expense More than one in four federal ministers have gone on to work for a lobbyist firm, peak body or other special interest since 1990, a major new study has found.
The AFR reports [$] that big business is quietly preparing for a potential change of government in Canberra to the Labor Party, and that this preparation is taking the form of financial donations, meetings with Bill Shorten and hiring politically connected staff.
10m Corporation Boards in Australia have no equal representation of all members that make up companies. Maybe that's why Companies in Germany are regarded as more Democratic and more efficient than those in Australia and have always had a greater success as a result. Investors, workers and even women have greater say in the management and policies of those companies. Participation by law is far more Democratic and less adversarial. The outcome is greater consensus and efficiency in the management and problem solving rather than conflict. Conservatives like Andrew Bolt seem to prefer the conflict and the struggle for power. Well, it's that process that seems to have existed in the ABC when Bolt declares the staff have won a battle but not the war. It's strange when Bolt spent so many hours criticizing Michelle Guthrie and John Milne both it now seems his criticism of them has turned to a defence. However not a defence of the ABC but a defence of the Liberal Party and it's treatment of women. It's a typical Bolt generalisation where he takes a single case and generalises it as a pattern of behaviour. He likens the sacking of Michelle Guthrie as a parallel to the history and treatment of women in the Liberal Party. Bolt tries to turn a single sandwich and call it feast but that's Bolt logic and always has been throughout his career as a commentator. In typical form Bolt highlights an individual event and amplifies it to systemic status to defend the indefensible attitudes to women in the Liberal Party. He pays no attention to the systemic management of the ABC and how scepticism is applied to journalism and the verification of facts runs rings around the universe of one-sided opinion that's the product of News Corp. That the singular bias to all Murdoch media commentaries is one that's as great as the Leaning Tower of Pisa with no relevance to the facts or their systemic evolution. How deafening is the silence on the systemic white collar and corporate crime currently being revealed in the management and Boards of the Financial service sectors of this country? No interest whatsoever by Bolt to engage in those issues their nature and structure that has given rise to such pillaging of ordinary Australians that has been ignored by the Liberals and Conservatives of Australia. Criminal management is the norm of the private sector the antithesis of how the ABC is run and it's transparency. It's that transparency that allows conflict to be seen rather effortlessly compared with the hidden agendas of News Corp where freedoms of opinions are strictly managed.Michelle Guthrie’s stint at ABC helm had a key weakness: she failed to back the journalists " In the face of sustained pressure from the government and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, she has seemed incapable of mounting a sustained and effective response. And in this environment of hostility, ABC journalists have felt under siege. As editor-in-chief – which comes with the managing director’s job – Guthrie was unable to give the kind of robust editorial leadership that journalists need if they are to report fearlessly and independently. It was clear by the middle of this year that whatever qualities Guthrie brought to the job, editorial leadership was not one of them. Thus the ABC was at a crossroads. It had as its managing director and editor-in-chief a person with no journalistic background who had shown scant signs of understanding the impact of the federal government’s relentless bullying on the ABC’s editorial independence."
HELPING SPENCE FIND THE BULLIES AT HIS UNI
Column Michael Spence gets $1.45 million a year to run Sydney University, but apparently has no idea who is organising the protests to stop conservatives from meeting and speaking at his university. He must be too busy to watch them on TV, or read them sounding off on Facebook and in his students’ Honi Soit magazine. Let me help.
"Either that or Spence just doesn’t care that his university is getting a name as one of the worst for turning a blind eye to thuggery, as long as it’s thuggery from the Left."Bolt
Bolt keeps showing us he's never really been to university as far back as I can remember universities were centres of protest far greater than any seen today and police weren't invited onto the campus back then. Demonstrations in the 60s to "Ban the Bomb", against the Vietnam war, against conscription against Apartheid. Debates were a regular event on Australian campuses as were ASIO spies on campus rooting out communist sympathisers. There far more demonstrations on university campuses then than there are today and the consequences far more severe for students than today.
Andrew Bolt's thugs were introduced in later years when the State invaded campuses the traditional arena for free and critical thinking that Andrew Bolt wants to be stopped. Universities today are far quieter places today than previous years and are far greater policed than they once were. Bolt, as usual, shows his ignorance of history and the events of the past when campus politics was central to campus life at a time when education was 'free' and campuses a hotbed of diverse thought much of which questioned everything.
Universities have been relatively silenced today been turned into businesses exporting education to Asians that Bolt and Hanson complain about and turned into debt factories training grounds for careers promised that don't in fact exist. Campuses ensure students graduate in debt and have little time for reflection on their why it is critical thinking leading to genuine protest has taken second place, a back seat on our campuses today. One wonders why Bolt even poses the question that demonstrations are worse today than they ever were when the evidence shows the reverse is the case and Bolt's alarm yet another of his concoctions and illusions of the far right.
If you take a look at the photo Bolt uses it shows the "lecture" wasn't to be held in a theatre but what seems to be in a tutorial room and the smiles on the faces of students might just be of those wanting to get in. Bolt's hyperbole of thugs and a riot makes him look a greater fool than he already is.
HOW COULD THEY MISS MARKSON?
For possible context, Turnbull fans aren't keen on Markson: "There are red faces at the federal parliamentary press gallery and the National Press Club after Sharri Markson’s entry into the Press Gallery Journalist of the Year award mysteriously vanished. The club... has apologised... Fairfax photographer Alex Ellinghausen was a popular winner."
Bolt the lone cheer squad member of anything News Corp promotes Markson as a victim of the media. Markson's accolades of the Daily Telegraph's scoop of the Barnaby Joyce story was held in question given she wasn't the first to report it. Others had brought it to the attention of the public months before. What's amusing Andrew Bolt who says he doesn't give a rats about awards is so upset about Markson not getting one when in fact she doesn't seem to care."Markson wasn’t aware her entry hadn’t been received and didn’t complain;"
Does Bolt expect the award should go to a doubtful entrant over and above one that's not?
27m Bolt whacking a mole Julie Bishop or a woman. Bolt rarely if ever gave a positive voice tho Turnbull when his poll stocks rose he made sure he reminded us all that Turnbull was always behind even when he rose to 2 points behind the ALP and was by far the most preferred PM.
T"Bishop, who chose not to re-contest the Liberal deputy leadership when former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was dumped, said Australia was now a laughing stock internationally." the one thing that's true, unlike Bolt, Bishop doesn't gild the lily Australia became the laughing stock of the world when Abbott became PM and it wasn't the Australian press that promoted him to that level he did it alone. "Bishop was deputy Liberal leader for 11 years and never said or did anything about what she claims only now is a problem."Bolt
No Bolt it's not a newly discovered problem its one that's existed since the beginning of the.Statistics show that 23% today and Bishop even discussed as PM indicate even the Liberals know they have a problem and it's not one of merit given the public face of the Liberal Party which Bolt admires so much is Dutton, Abbott, Abetz and the young creationist Hastiewho doesn't believe in the separation of powers.No, Bishop is far far better a politician than these godbotherers.
38m The greatest embarrassment of any publication was Andrew Bolt's effort to call what he wrote a "book". So as a judge evidence is clear why he'd never be invited to be a judge. Bolt pumps for authors in the past that presented books as biographical accounts that turned out to be entirely false. Helen Darville is a Bolt literary heroine whose book turned out to be fake. "Helen Dale, the author who faked a Ukrainian heritage for her first novel, The Hand that Signed The Paper, is about to re-enter the world she spectacularly upended, by reissuing her controversial book and publishing a second." Dale's The Hand that Signed The Paper, published in 1994, tells the story of a Ukrainian family who sided with the Nazis against Bolshevik Jews in World War II. It was published under her then pen name Helen Demidenko and won the Vogel and Miles Franklin literary awards before she was exposed as a literary hoaxer. Bolt himself declared Anne Summers writings about him were fake but disappointingly what was fake was his denial of the truth and facts underlying what Summers wrote. Bolt's denial was a disparagement of his once fiance and a lie. He actually tried to glamorise himself in a fake account of a man being supported to saying he worked as a minder for a belly dancer Yes, Bolt does prefer fantasy over the underlying reality most of the time. He's particularly focused on the denial of Indigenous history which he makes every effort to label as fake.
1h Andrew Bolt is picking up the Fox News baton and running with it in Australia. Nothing surprising nothing original only fear that the accusations might just hold water. Like a drowning man Fox news is clutching at straws and calling them rafts not allowing all the details to be presented it's a reminder of Trump declaring his sexual encounters with women never happened and yes it was Fox news that backed him up. Given Bolt's record of denial of his past exploits to be lies it's surprising he's taken up the cause of identifying the credible witnesses in the case of the SCOTUS nominee.No mention by Bolt of a second woman's accusations is there? Second woman accuses Trump's Supreme Court pick of sexual assault
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is already facing heavy scrutiny.
37m "Regarding the overall handling of the email probe itself, Inspector General Michael Horowitz extensively reviewed decisions about whom the FBI and DOJ interviewed, how they sought evidence, how they decided to grant immunity to certain people, and so on. Without endorsing all these choices, he concluded that overall, they were “not unreasonable” and seemed based on investigative judgment calls — not political bias, as President Trump and many on the right have often asserted."
So here is Bolt's lead to his post "I am allergic to conspiracy theories. But the evidence now is overwhelming - thanks in part to the extraordinary new report by the Department of Justice inspector general - that there is a dangerous bias against Trump in the FBI." Bolt. Straight out of the barrel after 3 weeks away with BS and a lie.The DOJ report clearly stated that the investigation requested by the FBI and Comey himself showed there was No political bias found. Bolt simply uses his old tactic of admitting that no bias was declared only after he's written it up as if there was and even then he fails to admit the truth of the report by the DOJ. Simply batting for a side, not any truth or principle. No mention that James Comey actually requested the DOJ investigation.
"The IG report clearly states that its investigation “found no evidence that the conclusions by department prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations”; and yet, the president’s sycophants in right-wing media are spinning the report to claim that “anything that Mueller is doing” in his probe of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia “is tainted” by the IG’s findings." Bolt makes no mention that Manafort Trump's campaign manager in the 2016 election has had his bail revoked and jailed for witness tampering.
10m3 Bolt certainly didn't support the glitter protest he was succumbed to in Lygon st did he wanted them arrested when in fact he was the one who turned violent. I'm sorry women attending an abortion clinic are stressed enough without the type of haranguing we have seen them face by Bolt's peaceful protestors who have been known to kill people. These women don't like Bolt turn on those as viciously as Bolt did and attempt GBH, do they?
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Bolt fails to mention that Donald Trump agrees with Europe.
Bolt doesn't believe there's any difference between Soapbox Corner the MCG, a University and the media like News Corp advertising and selling product called "news" even when only less than 40% of the nation consider they getting what's being advertised is news and not just fanciful "opinion". If he were sold a car without an engine he'd be in court the first to complain about it. What are the chances he allows that verbal freedom and BS to flow freely in his house?
It's about time media like Breitbart, The Herald Sun, Sky News or even the ABC are held to task particularly when they sell a false product as News Corp does on countless occasions and feels justified in doing so. They have simply twisted the English language for a cent's sake.
We've heard Bolt vilifying the South Sudanese here in Melbourne entertaining himself when mocking and laughing at the idea of a Sudanese Beauty Pageant and doing so sponsored by the IPA not as "comedy" but as pure bile and racism on a podcast with his son James who seemed more embarrassed for what it was his father was on about naturally in conversation. There is a certain amount of responsibility that has gone missing when a shit show like the Bolt Report presents itself as "debate" but is little more than single-minded propaganda that compares itself with the ABC's The Drum or Q&A. Have you ever heard Bolt calling for the release of Julian?
It's about time we came to our senses instead of allowing ourselves to vanish down the American Fox "News" rabbit hole that will take us to the USA Wonderland of truth which is little more than a chase for a dollar and calling Hollywood and Disney Land essential news.
When Gandhi was asked about "Western Civilisation" his response was " that would be a good idea" in much the same way Bolt supports turning University Science Departments into structureless opinion spaces rather than spaces developed with a method of debate in mind. According to Bolt Peter Ridd's public profile and statements about Marine Science at James Cook are in themselves Scientific and as such methodologically correct, unlike the rigorous research that has and continues to be done.
The debate Bolt put's forward about correctness seems to be the neoliberal one that James Cook will suffer for having sacked Peter Ridd who in fact gave science away to focus on politics. One would have thought that James Cook and the ANU were, in fact, upholding the standards of their university's integrity and standards by their rejection of Ridd Lomborg and the Ramsay Foundation. The real Peter RiddInside the AEF, the climate denial group hosting Tony Abbott as guest speaker | Environment | The Guardian
"Trump gave a free-ranging press conference the likes of which we seldom, if ever, see from a US president." Kenny
No, Donald Trump exposed himself in front of the media at the Kim Summit. The reason he knew the media by first names and pointed to questions from a very English speaking and respectful media was apparent in that they were White House selected. We didn't hear the normal announcement before a question who they represented only Trump calling out "Is that you John" people on a first name basis.
Bolt's tacking like a drunken sailor here his first post is Germany's want to restrict "Fake News" and praising Trump for restricting American MSM coverage to simply media that Trump likes such as Fox. In the hands of Murdochian's Trump's BS becomes "Kenny makes a great point on Trump's much-mocked communications style:" a smokescreen for"lies".
"I doubt I am alone in thinking there is something refreshing in this, despite the obvious risks." Bolt. Yes you heard it a press conference that was an in-house produced "show" is deemed "refreshing" by Andrew Bolt
Bolt can't help but reveal himself can he "But, of course, the diversity Guthrie actually wants more is of skin colour and accent. Not opinion." Bolt One only needs to compare his show and The Drum to understand the meaning of the word "diversity" as opposed to the meaning of " Racism" when he opens his mouth.
Andrew Bolt honed his 'skills' in journalism as an obit writer because he preferred opinion to fact as it was less demanding. No doubt he enjoyed these tidbits of non paid writings. One wonders why they drew his attention
Deep involvement of Israeli banks in the building of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank may amount to the war crime of pillage, HRW has said. While the settlements are condemned worldwide, Israel keeps building more.
40m Confiscation under the guise of a national emergency is confiscation. Then the flip and quick sale to a competitor is akin to an organized mafia scam. First, you see it then you don't because News Corp will cover it up as something entirely different. Bolt certainly allowed Abbott the time to do so, in fact, he had more time than Bolt allows others. We also keep hearing the word debate on the Bolt Report yet we never see one. For that, we are forced to the ABC. Confiscation is hardly conservative it is even so far to the right that it's, in fact, fascist and entirely contradictory to what the LNP free-market political ideology represents. Abbott literally said it was the government's duty to police prices as if we were at war. Well, we aren't at war and this, as much as Abbott would have it, isn't an emergency it is just another Chicken Little scare tactic which we have seen time and again.
Here we have Andrew Bolt promoting Tony Abbott's call for a action more Cuban, a move on AGL's dirty, obsolete, Liddel power plant. Fidel Castro simply took over the United Fruit Company's sugar plants liberating Cuba from the slavery of the American corporation's oppression of Cuba. How communist of them. The problem is nobody is oppressed Abbott simply wants to the government to confiscate it and handball it to Alinta or some other company ready to do his bidding and that's a Mafia act.
Abbott has done a lot of stupid things since gaining, losing power and now trying to regain power over the LNP. He got rid of a mining tax to allow mining to flourish. It didn't. It cut costs and began shrinking instead. He said nope to Labour's concept of a brand new fibre to the home internet and created an MXT NBN a Frankenstinian monster that doesn't work and whose cost has blown out of proportion so much it can't ever recoup the money invested. It is obsolete before completion. Now he's trying to tell us that a transition to green energy will never be a cost-effective, cleaner healthier energy source left to our kids. That it's is far more expensive than coal.
He is using the hip pocket argument that horse and carriage depots used when cars were first seen on roads. They too were a waste of time that prices will go through the roof and Australians can't afford to leave their kids with a cleaner environment and a healthier one that was the horse and carriage. However, the Corporate experts in Science, Technology, Business Finance have all said he's wrong as too have the shareholders in coal and abandoning ship. So why is he trying to destroy AGL he's proven he's just a failed politician.
Since Abbott came to power in 2013 Australia's unemployment has been rising not falling our deficit growing and he passed the least number of bills at a slower rate almost breaking Gorton's record in the 60s. TodayAustralian workers wages are stagnant and Abbott was the catalyst. Peoples hip pockets are vulnerable. No doubt in the short term cutting energy bills sounds good but we have a history of Abbott's promises and ideas not working. Short-term policies to get numbers on side simply means don't do anything progress is dangerous, so call in the government and stop it. How authoritarian can one get? Should the AGL board be arrested? If the government can force corporations to dance to their tune and Abbott is the example why on earth would corporations even bother to invest here?
Abbott also wants the ABC closed down and sold as well strange the ABC refuses to sell to News Corp like AGL does to Alinta. They wouldn't sell it to Murdock at any price. The hypocrisy is evident. First force AGL and the ABC to sell to the government then to anyone the government chooses. How Castro of them. It doesn't matter how Bolt spins this there is nothing "free" in the action no principle being adhered to simply self-interested politics not what's best for the nation.
UPDATE
WHAT ABBOTT AND BOLT DON'T TELL YOU. ADANI OFFERED THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT HIS BRAND NEW STATE OF THE ART BILLION DOLLAR POWER PLANT FOR 0. 05 cents.
HE"S NOW OFFERING IT TO ANYONE. WHY DON"T ABBOTT AND BOLT BUY IT?
Over the last year, wind and solar power tariffs have fallen to a record low of around Rs2.4 per unit, much lower than the average of Rs3.7 per unit at which analysts say coal-based power is currently being sold on India’s power exchanges.
ADANI
Initially, Adani had planned to run its own vertically integrated “pit-to-plug” operation, taking coal from the Galilee basin, transporting it to Adani-owned power stations in India, and increasing profits by cutting out middlemen. Up to 16m tonnes, a year from the proposed Queensland mine was earmarked for the Mundra power plant in Gujarat.
But Mundra has since fallen into serious financial difficulty, making the “pit-to-plug” vision largely untenable. Adani’s subsidiary Adani Power has a net debt of about US$7bn. Last year it offered to sell majority control in the Mundra power station to a government entity for one rupee.
Mundra and other privately run coastal power stations have to import coal because of Indian rules that give state-owned entities control over the domestic resource. As world coal prices have spiked, those same power stations have struggled to turn a profit. The Indian association of power producers has claimed that coal is unviable in India at prices above US$70 a tonne. The current price is about US$95 a tonne.
1h What is shameful, Bolt is simply repeating what he already said last week a carousel of commentary which keeps coming around and around again. Last week he proved he knows nothing about the structure of universities and how they function and now the second time around he proves he really doesn't care. Bolt declares we need "good science" and Peter Ridd offers that with no research only opinion. Bolt demands debate any paid opinionated denier of the global peer-reviewed research is the true sceptic Bolt included science despite it's constantly published research is just a religion with fake methodology. So the 1% of deniers should get 50 % of the time that 99% of scientists get in the public debate. The fact is when it comes to Bolt and News Corp they get 90% of the time. Research is not required nor opinions peer-reviewed and naysayers are called true sceptics by Bolt they are the ones that build a universities reputation. Now that's the sort of excellence Bolt expects from our Universities the global standard required but while he's got the microphone he fails to say that's not debating but preaching. In Bolt's eyes Universities are little more than structureless free for all of ideas, preachers corners and soap boxes, no departments, structured debate necessary. No reputations to uphold by adhering to globally recognized methods of argument or peer-reviewed debate. James Cook is recognized as one of the world's best Marine Science Departments, not a house of simplistic opinion scattered to the air the loudest voice the winner. Reputations in research attract the best staff. the best research funding and students queued up to learn and James Cook is acknowledged to be at the top of Marine science. Yes, there are universally accepted methods to research and debate to which staff when employed sign contracts of adherence. Peter Ridd did just that but has crossed the behavioural line and has been sacked. Not surprisingly either as he was given warnings which he ignored. Bolt calls this sacking a disgrace because in his opinion campuses are little more than agoras of "free speech" and in which Ridd is being denied his freedom. He's been sacked and he's been told he can say whatever he likes but no longer as a member of staff at James Cook Marine Science because he's brought it into disrepute. Bolt actually applauded when the same happened to Dr Martin Hirst at Deakin University. He even liked to believe he had some influence in that. So in all of this bru-ha Bolt really has no guiding principle, does he? He has no idea what science on a University campus actually does. It seems an anarchy of ideas no rules is all that's required for excellent science and just calling science just another religion justifies being a true sceptic. His functioning model of a university campus ensures the complete reputational destruction of a multi-million dollar institution. Basically, no university is just speakers corner a free for all theatre where the loudest and most powerful win. It's not News Corp. Tony Abbott tried to adopt that model. He even tried to bribe universities to take on "what his name" that once world-famous side-show spruiker he called an expert who seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet. Abbott was ready to pay $4,000,000 for his hired gun who'd be hard pressed to get a job as a tutor today. Bjorn Lomborg where is he now? Oh, Bolt even referenced him in his editorial describing what excellence means on a university campus.
"I have no reason to think he hasn't done his teaching and his research in a highly competent and professional manner he happens to question the politically correct orthodoxy about man-made global warming."Abbott 1) Why doe Abbott protects himself with the phrase " I have no reason to think he hasn't done his teaching and his research in a highly competent and professional manner" He doesn't sound too certain does he? Is it because his peer group don't?
2) The fact is Peter Ridd hasn't debated the issue as a scientist but simply as a denier where is his highly peer-reviewed and competent research? Andrew Bolt is a denier does that mean he has the qualifications to become a member of the Marine Science Department at James Cook? I'm sure he thinks so.
3) True science has looked at the facts published their results had them reviewed and has continued to do further and further research. It hasn't stopped and the results keep pointing to the facts such that 97% of scientists agree that the planet is warming due to human activity. a) that the Great Barrier Reef is in danger and b) that danger is a direct consequence of global warming.
4) There is a world of sceptics out there using a methodology that's proved itself to be the best epistemological basis for man's knowledge of the physical world outside him and its called Science. The majority of scientists agree despite being sceptics in the true sense and not flippant deniers for any other illogical reason such as Abbott's " true science is what corresponds with the actual facts out there and that's what we have to get to the bottom of."
5) The fact is Mr Abbott the ship is in and science agrees while it's the non-scientists who are the flim-flam men trying to run the narrative. The only attack on science is coming from idiots like Bolt who claims to be a sceptic and calls science just another religion and offering no epistemological basis on which to pin his greater wisdom/
It needs to be said once again I grew up Jewish, in an environment strongly supportive of the Israeli state. But I don’t support the way Israel treats the Palestinians, particularly when they slaughter unarmed people as they did this week. Many Israelis oppose their own government’s treatment of the Palestinians. Left-leaning Israelis vote against Prime Minister Netanyahu, and they oppose Trump’s inflammatory decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The same is true of millions of Jews here in the United States. Of course, Palestinians protest. Life has gotten worse for Palestinians since I visited, particularly in Gaza. Some call Gaza an “open-air prison” and compare Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to South Africa’s apartheid. If Israel has a problem with Palestinians protesting, improving those conditions makes more sense than killing people. Calling anyone who critiques the Israeli government’s policies and actions “anti-Semitic” may be a useful way to silence dissent, but it’s not at all accurate. Israel is not Judaism. We can and should have a healthy debate about Israel’s policies and U.S. policy on Israel, just like we debate anything else in politics.
Muhammad was forced into a civilian car with Palestinian licence plates and taken to a West Bank detention centre. Muhammad was released hours later after he was determined to be in poor health. The 15-year-old is recovering from devastating head injuries after being shot with a rubber-coated metal bullet fired at close range in December. One-third of Muhammad’s skull was removed as a result of his injury.
Muhammad Fadel Tamimi photographed in the village of Nabi Saleh on 5 January. Oren ZivActiveStillsMuhammad was arrested by Israeli forces in February while awaiting major reconstructive surgery and forced to falsely confess, without a lawyer or a parent present, that his skull injuries were incurred after he fell off his bike. His 17-year-old cousin, Ahed Tamimi, was sentenced to eight months in an Israeli prison for slapping and shoving two heavily armed Israeli soldiers shortly after Muhammad was shot.
Bolt prefers to name and shame Indigenous Australians and laugh at Julia Baird for saying Christians who attend Church regularly are likely child molesters. Bolt vehemently denies the statistics that surround the Catholic Church and the Order of St John of God it's strange, isn't it? Guess it's Indigenous that take sex tours to East Asian Countries. Bolt seems to have had his back turned to all the Australian Child molesters and pornographers. He keeps singling out alleged indigenous cases however and seems obsessed.
Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson has been found guilty of concealing child sexual abuse in NSW.
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