Fighting Fake News with REAL,15/4/21; Morrison, Laming,Holgate an wrath; Vaccines, Fauci, Denmark,

 

 

 

 The PM won't sack Laming who not only awarded the LNP branch president two financial grants and broke his promise to Morrison about not running in the next election. Nevertheless, Morrison certainly did call for Christine Holgate's sacking but not Lamings. He talks about "responsibility" in tax payer organizations. Well what is Laming's but more to the point what is Morrison's responsibility as head of the top "taxpayer org?

How does a semi-public organization compete in the private market system? Morrison knows he headed two one here and one in NZ. He never accounted for what he spent when running NZ and AUS tourism his was an unaccounted for $1.6 bill not an accounted for and legitimate $25k  so he's fully aware Christine Holgate did not commit a sacking offense. If Holgate was Bob Holgate he wouldn't have suffered the PM's wrath. Laming certainly didn't and Morrison paid him $105,000 to go far more than a watch.

Australia Post is a large organization run by a lot of private franchisees who weren't consulted as to what they thought Christine Holgate. They in fact thought she was fantastic. Morrison however, thought it politically advantageous to see her go and said so loudly ignoring the productive members of Australia post. Morrison and ex-Liberal MPs and apparatchiks sitting on the board made a typical top down decision unrelated to the successful functioning of Australia Post. It's what we have seen Morrison do time and again simply fail in just about everything he's done. 

Morrison really does look a Trump a failure as a CEO, and a failure as a leader.  He can't make decisions positive outcomes so he throws his problems to others to solve. In the case of Covid-19 it's now the State's problems but he still needs to deliver them his promised vaccines and tell them his "plan". He has none. So instead of answering critical need to know questions he's done a Trump and turned to social media to make his vacuous planless announcements leaving the States to take the blame for his incompetence.

Liberal MP Andrew Laming awarded grants to two organisations run by LNP branch president

Christine Holgate Starting To Wish She’d Just Taken A Photo Up A Man’s Trousers

"If I had my time again I would’ve paid $26.7 million too much for land next to an airport, rather than $20,000 on four watches. I'd still have a job right now" 

 

 

Fauci offers words of warning for Australia

 

Appeal to states as federal government’s vaccine rollout goes to plan C

He blamed the states then denied it and now he's asking them for help. They were always there doing the work he failed to do but they had no vaccines only Morrisons promises of them. Promises that were never forthcoming and like Trump Morrison just hoped the virus would go away.

 

The federal government is looking to states to set up mass vaccination centres as it goes back to the drawing board to work out how to complete its faltering vaccination program.

“Scott Morrison is responsible for aged care workers. These workers are caring for our most vulnerable Australians and were supposed to be vaccinated by Easter,” he said.

The Department of Health did not say how many aged or disability care workers had been vaccinated so far. Instead, a spokeswoman said more than 153,000 vaccines had been delivered to 1272 aged care facilities and residential disability homes.

The department also could not say what percentage of the 318,000 aged and disability care workers were under the age of 50, but said those over 50 could access an AstraZeneca vaccine through GPs or Commonwealth-run respiratory clinics.

 

 

 Denmark has become the first country to stop using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine altogether over a potential link to a rare but serious form of blood clot. This is the vaccine Australia is rolling out now and making in Melbourne.

Source: Denmark dumps AstraZeneca while Johnson & Johnson divisions emerge

 

Do we ask who or what OPEC is? No, it's a cartel whose specific aim is to stop renewable energy taking hold nothing else. Since Abbott do we really need ask who or what the LNP is? No, it's also a cartel in step with the IPA and News Corp whose sole purpose is to prevent the ALP a political Party gaining control. The LNP since Abbott has lied,promised,and has had no observable policies. It has had no plans apart from being a bulwark and reacting to a Party that does. Note, Morrison has spent the last month blundering like a drunken sailor unable to say "these are on the water matters, I can't talk about it" and since the media and not just the ABC have not let up asking "what are your plans for the future" Morrison has fled. He's fled to the safe zone of FaceBook that corporate giant who a month ago he was threatening because it's a platform threatening Murdoch's interests.

The LNP is a cartel and one in retreat looking to be in step with America yes but now that Biden is in not in the same degree as when Trump was President. The GOP is also a cartel on which Morrison has modeled himself on. However, at the same time he wants to be a part of the British Empire rather than an independent Republic. Effectively turning his back on the future and rushing backwards to our colonial past. This government is now declaring itself White, Christian, Western and only Asian if the temporary labor is cheap and our exports wanted. He's not in anyway interested in providing a service to a multicultural Asian democracy in the Pacific region but is a cartel operating in the economic interests of the major corporations who together want to prevent a party that is getting into government. It is a Cartel with a single focus and it's in plain sight. Economically GNP is per head  9% behind other performing nations but worse because the distribution is extremely uneven. 

The LNP take credit for what could be regarded as the bungy spring back which was always somewhat predicted. However remain silent on the ever increasing wealth and income gaps. No mention of the shops for lease in every high street in the country or the under employment we see.

Not yet mission accomplished but jobs figures point to better days

 

Fighting Fake News with REAL; 14/4/21; Let's go full-tilt Fukushima; Class Society; Morrison's next blunder; Women just won't go away;

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Bolt's & News Corpse harmless accident. 

 

Van Badham

ohre

Nuclear power is not safe.

  Japan’s government announced Tuesday it would start releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years. It’s a move that’s fiercely opposed by fishermen, residents and Japan’s neighbors.

The decision, long speculated at but delayed for years because of safety worries and protests, came during a meeting of Cabinet ministers who endorsed the ocean release as the best option.

The accumulating water has been stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2011, when a massive earthquake and tsunami damaged its reactors and their cooling water became contaminated and began leaking. The plant’s storage capacity will be full late next year.

What we found on our front pages for days instead.

 

 A 99 year old man died and people turned to entertainment and away from propaganda giving politicians like Morrison time to regroup. The British Public complained about the overkill.  Problem with Scooter Morrison the blunders will continue happening no matter the media distraction. News Corpse Andrew Bolt called it disrespect he certainly had his finger on Philip's pulse.

A few lessons to be learnt from the wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death in the British media:

1. There is absolutely no commercial reason for the media to have dedicated so much time and space to the Prince’s death. The main commercial channel ITV, which needs eyeballs on its programmes to generate income from advertising, saw a 60 per cent drop in viewing figures after it decided to broadcast endless forelock-tugging. Audiences presumably deserted to Netflix and Youtube, where the mood of “national mourning” was not being enforced. Many viewers, particularly younger ones, have no interest in the fact that a very old man just died, even if he did have lots of titles.

» article continues...

 

Corporate Media Offers Wall-to-Wall Propaganda Every Day. We Only Notice When a Royal Dies.

by Jonathan Cook | April 13, 2021 - 5:39am | permalink

The White Tiger Is a Window Into India’s Class Society

Movies about class and inequality are back in the mainstream. Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger is a powerful interrogation of the injustices of class and caste society. 

 

 Morrison just can't pull a trick what he says will happen simply is guaranteed not to.He no longer wants to face the press but would rather make announcements from FaceBook and give the royalties for that news to News Corp no doubt.

Novavax Inc has pushed back the timeline for hitting its production target of 150 million COVID-19 vaccine doses per month until the third quarter due to supply shortages, dealing another blow to the federal government’s rollout plans.

Australia has an agreement for 51 million doses of Novavax originally slated for “mid-2021”, at which point executives had said full-scale vaccine production could be achieved.

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine production set back due to supply shortages

If the lads in the Monkey Pod Room are looking for a new leader. Let's hope it's Peter Dutton. Will it guarantee dictatorship or the return of the ALP?

A wronged woman with a razor-sharp mind and meticulous records is a dangerous creature.

Especially when delivering a counter punch to a Prime Minister who’d denounced her in the bully pit of Parliament when he was ill informed, angry and driven by short-term politics rather than balanced judgment.

Former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate, appearing before a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, inflicted a serious blow on Scott Morrison and left Australia Post chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo badly wounded.

Grattan: Compelling story of PM’s bullying

 

Christine Holgate Starting To Wish She’d Just Taken A Photo Up A Man’s Trousers

 

 

 

FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED

DON’T RUSH TO JUDGE: BEN SIMMONS’ BROTHER DENIES SISTER’S SEX ABUSE CLAIMS

"Recovered memory" strikes again: "NBA sensation Ben Simmons’s half-brother, Sean Tribe, has commenced 'urgent' proceedings against their sister, Olivia Simmons, after she took to social media at the weekend to accuse him of abusing her as a child in their family’s Melbourne home."

Remember when Bolt's ex fiance publicly shamed him and he tried to simply called her a liar. He thought he could slander, defame and libel her and watch her fold. She took him on and was ready to test her truth against his in the courts and it was Bolt who folded. He turned out to be everything she said he was. He tried to even blame his wife for his misogyny and lies and hidden past.

 Here he is rushing in to defend Sean Tribe as if he were defending himself against a woman feigning a mental issue. However, it's a ruse Bolt works for a system that makes money out of reporting and debating events like this but  does little to inform us about the patriarchy within which we operate and call normal. "Recovered Memory" strikes again". Accusations like this feed the media but Bolt's response is immediate and misogynist. He denies Olivia Simmons as a person generalizing the truth of her accusation. Even though data shows women are more often sexually molested by family members. Whether or not she was or wasn't molested Andrew Bolt treats her less than reliable from the get go because she's a woman and has "Recovered Memory". In years gone by it was called "hysterics".

  However, what is more important is that the media eats this up for commercial reasons. Bolt transforms into a psychologist who doesn't even bother to support an investigation or Olivia's right to accuse her step-brother. It's a pity she can't have it investigated privately but then she's black and her step brother is white. That challenges her right to accuse him doesn't it? The media rights to report the matter before it's investigated outweighs hers as well. 

Isn't it time women in the their real numbers felt free and safe to have all their complaints of sexual mistreatment investigated fairly and not be accused by misogynists like Bolt of lacking mental capacity as Bolt does. A system that processes 42,000 complaints only to have less than 11% prosecuted and 2% of them then convicted according to Bolt works. It isn't broken unless your a woman. Men like Bolt slut shame women deny their mental faculties call them liars and have the media support to do just that when ever the want.

 Bolt tried that when he was accused of his "distorted memory" by his ex fiancee but women  don't always have the power as men to test "he said" "she said" in court. The process being so damaging even if they won. However, in Bolt's case his ex had the strength to take him on and he lost. You'd think he'd been taught a lesson and gained empathy but like Andrew Laming not an iota is to be seen. 

 

 

RACE POKER: AMANDA PORTER LOSES HAND TO STEPHANE SHEPHERD

A sign that race-baiting will no longer be tolerated in academia? Or that a black academic can (just) still tell truths that a white one can't?: "An Indigenous academic who labelled as racist a study on criminal offending by Sudanese people in Victoria has apologised to the report’s author, Dr Stephane Shepherd, who is himself African-Australian."

There is no such thing as "Race Poker" as the " The House of Privilege" always wins. The system within which, and how research is conducted, and the color of those conducting it in this case, is really of no consequence as they are merely a reflection of the racist context, and the racism in which we all reside. The impact of research data weighs differently on Andrew Bolt than it does someone Sudanese, Indigenous, or others of colour. Indigenous are 3% of our pop yet are 25% of our incarcerated peoples. 40% when it comes to indigenous youth only 8% of Australians. The statistics on our children far worse and begin at very early age for issues often not even related to them but to their families and group. Those statistics are much the same for our Sudanese youth why? Because the numbers are the result of a trend to racism in Australia a trend Andrew Bolt denies.

The data collected reflects the history of our institutions that police and supervise us along with the judicial system and processes that have evolved said to be one glove however that never fitted all of us and was never color blind in jobs, education, health, or exclusive to crime alone. We are Racist. However, there was never a time it was going to be admitted so yes the researched data is biased as well. Over policing, profiling, stereotyping, over decades created the statistical outcomes. The outcomes that reflect our racism today. 

The "truths" Bolt claims white academics can't speak about are the same typical "truths" Bolt claims show that there was never a Stolen Generation only Indigeneous needed to be welfare policed. There was never according to Bolt ever any historic over policing of the indigenous and none exists towards the Sudanese or Pacific Islanders either. The same systems designed to prevent bad behavior create it and have been generational, repetitive, and psychologically learned and handed down at a cellular level to all the parties concerned and it's  always been generated from the top down rarely from the bottom up. So the so called "study of criminal offending by the Sudanese in Victoria" isn't a study of the "dysfunctional policing and limited opportunities given Sudanese youth and their families in racist environment". One might well ask why there is limited data on that? Color has everything to do with but not the color of academics. It has a lot to do with the color of the data available and the perspective from which it was taken along with the underlying values and funding. 

Yes Andrew Bolt there is a two hundred year history of Stolen Indigenous Children whose stories are hidden in the data falsely initiated. Data you claim denies that. Data that reflects the racist nature and continues to do that even today. 

 

Fighting Fake News with REAL 3/4/21; Vaccine rollout and Morrison's BS; Why is Gender Equality so much better in Germany? LNP Politics over Service drags this nation down and to a standstill

 

 

 

 

How did we go from a country with no cases to one that can’t get the vaccine rollout right?

Roughly 14 months into the coronavirus pandemic, frayed tempers boiled over this week. So what happened?

The MSM media that supports "its a supply problem" Morrison's attempted get out of jail card can't add up. The fact that there is currently over 2million vaccine doses in Australia but less than 30% are in the populations arms after a month shows the rollout is a shambles. The fact that doctors surgeries have been made less than functional by Morrison's announcements and lack of delivery shows the problem has exacerbated to beyond just the vaccines. Surgeries can't even service their regular patients. Well done Scooter

When promises don’t match reality. Australia’s troubled vaccine rollout

Stephen Duckett

Health economist and former health bureaucrat

 

Gender equality in Australia deteriorates again, rapidly, yet the rage for change remains undaunted

by Emma Dawson | Apr 3, 2021 | Government

Australia has plunged down the global rankings on to gender equality. Some 300,000 older live in poverty. Emma Dawson writes that the structural discrimination baked into our economic system is still punishing women for being women fifty years after they took up the fight against the patriarchy.

 

Liberal Party

‘I couldn’t walk into a meeting that he was in’: Liberal Party women hit out at preselection tactics

The culture inside parliaments might be a turn-off, but the toxic environment for female politicians begins years before they are elected.

Give me a break what's common day practice in Germany's Corporate Boards and other institutions is too difficult in our great Liberal Party? No it's not too difficult it's too misogynistic. German Corporate boards MUST BE by law 50% Union and 50% shareholder represented. They must have 40% of women on them. Germany is today on of the worlds most successful and progressive Democracies. Australia no longer is.

 

Politics

National security

‘Real risk of censorship’: Claim research funding is becoming politicised

A former policy adviser to the Australian government says academic projects that are critical of the government are less likely to be funded.

When Party comes first Governments cease to function. It's why Morrison is Trump the announcer of ambition and promises that will never be achieved. No Tax Cuts to the ABC Abbott's words should never be forgotten. Then Morrison's "this is not a tax cut" followed.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 2/4/21; Gender Equity Morrison and the LNP; Vaccination Rollout Morrison and Hunt; Corporate Crime is CRIME; Grace Tame, IMF and Taxing the Rich;

 

 

 

Morrison Government Revealed As Elaborate April Fool’s Day Prank

“I can’t believe you guys fell for it"

The state of gender equity in Australia is shameful

Morrison told Tracy Grimshaw that it was the first time he realised the depth of the problem

 

GPs say federal government has ‘set us up to fail’ on COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Some Australian GPs say the federal government has allowed millions of patients to book appointments while providing few doses to clinics.

Fail or not fail one thing is for certain Morrison and Hunt are gaslighting the public. There are 2.5 mill doses in the country and only 700,000 administered. These two have not only failed to deliver doses to doctors but have helped fuck their practices with only 50 doses a week a flood of phone calls and expectation they need to stop and train. Morrison is the salesman that can't deliver. It's not as if we have never done this before we deliver flu vaccines across the country every year without issue.

 

CBA sued for overcharging customers $55m in account fees

Corporate watchdog ASIC says the bank wrongly charged customers including pensioners, full-time students, recently arrived migrants, and people with a home loan package deal.

If I was doing this as a sole trader as many times as the banks and other companies have I'd be in prison. My license to operate removed. However these events that harm people tend to be treated as unfortunate exceptional moments with nobody at fault. What is exceptional is the number of people in prison that have stolen over $1mill. If they have it's generally off the government or corporations.

 

 Grace Tame condemns appointment of Amanda Stoker as assistant minister for women – video

 

 

IMF Calls for Taxing World's Richest to Curb Inequality, Stave Off Social Unrest

"Governments need to provide everyone with a fair shot—enabling all individuals...

 

 

The Lincoln Project

2 days ago

America’s Most Dangerous Immigrant

Play • 35 mins

Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Executive Director Fred Wellman to discuss the backstory behind "Rupert", the Lincoln Project’s new ad, which identifies Rupert Murdoch (creator of Fox News) as the most dangerous man to ever cross the U.S. border. Plus, the panel discusses the aftermath of Georgia’s newly-inked Jim Crow legislation and the GOP’s hastened march towards fascism.

The very beginning of this podcast is a Conservatives  yes, conservatives opinion on Rupert Murdoch America's most dangerous immigrant

 

FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED 

 

 

NZ’s ‘backstabbing govt’ is ‘sucking up to the Chinese dictatorship’: Bolt

 Sky News host Andrew Bolt says New Zealand's "backstabbing government" is "sucking up to the Chinese dictatorship" after New Zealand refused to join 14 other countries challenging the World Health Organization's report on the origins of COVID-19. "We need China to allow a proper investigation. I'm talking about the report from the team whose visit to China was very tightly controlled. A team that despite saying, oh no, no, no – this virus almost certainly didn't escape from one of the two Chinese labs that just coincidently worked on bat viruses like this in the very city, Wuhan, where this pandemic started," Mr Bolt said. "No, said this report. China is innocent. This virus came from bats via some animal we don't know. In fact, it might have even started outside China, and come in on frozen food. Which china has been claiming – to dodge responsibility for three million deaths. "Now, New Zealand wouldn't join Australia and all those other democracies which said 'rubbish report'. What a cop-out. It's had plenty of time to check the draft of that report. What's more, even the head of the WHO himself said on Tuesday his own report could not be trusted. "New Zealand is China's tool. Letting itself be used to split opposition to China. To split the democracies and help the dictatorship. "New Zealanders, I love your country, but are you proud that you have a prime minister that sells out your friends to please a dictator?" 

One and only one of 200 nations publicly make an effort to self proclaim what hero he is making out he's somewhat of a spokes person for we Australians. Bolt points to NZ as being "back stabbers" "Chinese Sucks". Bolt doesn't even speak for us let alone the 14 other nations that challenged the WHO report. "China dodged the responsibility of 3mill death"claims Bolt sounding certain without any need of investigation. Because his crystal ball needs no data. NZ hasn't "all " those other 14 out of 200 nations. Bolt's "certainty" against the WHO researched report's results of mere probability certainly carries no weight. Did America own up to the 60million dead due to the falsely named Spanish Flu? Not a peep on that score from Bolt is there.

What a suck Bolt is claiming "she sold out her friends" no she preferred reason logic truth and sanity to politics.

ANDREW LAMING WAS FRAMED BY THE ABC AND CHANNEL 10

False: I damn what he's done. I also point out that he did not do what the ABC and others of the Left claim - a vile and criminal act of "upskirting".

Why is demanding truth and fairness now a sin?

Now here is Bolt talking about "truth and fairness" because the police had no evidence on which to press charges because the photos and evidence had been deleted. But what's interesting and obvious is that"women aren't his friends" and he's rushing and ready to "sell them out"and defend Laming whose reputation among the Liberals in the ACT is about as attractive as medical waste. On the other hand Bolt jumped at the opportunity to attack Jacinta Adern for her carefully assessed decisions.

Guess Bolt's doing because like Laming his reputation is just as bad if not worse. However, with a difference Bolt's been found guilty by a number of judges in our courts of various social transgressions. There is no demanding of truth or fairness in any thing Bolt has to say. After all he works for Murdoch the most dangerous immigrant to have arrived on America's shores and one almost jailed in the UK. Murdoch claims to run an information and news agency when on the attack "fair and balanced" but when attacked in the courts declares it's "entertainment" he's selling and truth and fairness have no place it that.

 

Examining the history of Christianity

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has discussed with Author Paul Barnett what sort of historical evidence supports the biblical claims about the life events surrounding Jesus

There is one thing for certain the "examination" of the life of Christ consists of more faith, hearsay, than facts than does an "examination" of Australia's Stolen Children. Andrew Bolt is a denier of Stolen Children but an agnostic who is a firm believer and supporter of Christianity who never really mentions that Muslims believe in Jesus as well.

 

Fighting Fake News with REAL 27/2/21; Murdoch's Propaganda Machine; Do Nothing Morrison & his do nothing team deserve no credits; Trumpism in Australia;

 

 

 

The Murdoch propaganda machine needs to be stopped

News Corp's political influence and power over the media is in need of regulation for maintaining journalistic integrity and democracy.

Democracy needs to regulate the private market and the corporate players in it. 

In the battle between Murdoch against Facebook the LNP are right but for the wrong reasons. Right because the primary principle that Democracy should regulate the "free market" is correct. Private corporations shouldn't be allowed to run rampant in a social system designed for the people and run by them. It's why we vote who works for us and supposedly for the benefit of us all. That is the founding principle of Democracy.

However what the LNP is doing might be right in regulating Facbook they are doing it for all the wrong reasons. Their reason is the belief that the cabal of the LNP, Murdoch and the IPA serves them far better politically than the LNP and Facebook would at an election. It definitely serves Murdoch financially and the IPA giving private corporations greater skin in the game. However does nothing for the supply of News and Information as an industry that serves the nation and improves Democracy.

 The ABC and SBS budgets will continue to be slashed the ambition to privatize their best parts by Murdoch won't fade. Their their output increasingly LNP controlled rather than questioned is in the interest of the triumvariate cabal but not the people. Any skepticism will be left to the smaller independent players who don't stand to gain financially from the current arrangements made and whose messages will continue to be delivered by algorithm to their already converted readers rather than those that make the difference in an election. One could argue it's an indirect form of conservative voter manipulation favoring the LNP propaganda machine that's been in place since Whitlam and the 70's..

Federal minister accused of rape in letter sent to Scott Morrison

NSW News

Govt gets 'zero credit' for CO2 drop: climate analysts

National

COVID is boosting right-wing extremism: Police

Conservatives are the new "good Germans," enabling and defending Trump's crimes

Chauncey DeVega 

 

The most benign and generous understanding of "conservative," in the traditional context of American politics, is drawn (however loosely) from the 18th-century Anglo-Irish philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. It signifies an aversion to change, or perhaps even a belief that change, when necessary, should be gradual. "Conservative," at least in that conventional context, denotes a respect for stability, tradition and existing societal norms and institutions.

Donald Trump, his movement and its allies have almost no relationship to that tradition, and overwhelmingly reject such values. In the Age of Trump, American democracy is under assault by neofascism, white supremacy, authoritarianism, gangster capitalism and other antisocial values and beliefs.

Trump and his Republican Party and their followers have no respect for the rule of law, and have consistently sought to undermine it. 

Guess who Murdoch's News Corp still supports. What Murdoch opinionators say they are but recommend should be done.

 Contrary to widely-held folk theories of democracy, which presume a shared commitment to consensus politics, Trump and his movement have now normalized right-wing terrorism and political violence directed against liberals, progressives, nonwhites, Jews, Muslims and others deemed to be "the enemy."

 Public opinion polls and other research show that Republican and Trump voters embrace such values and beliefs, and now believe that political violence (on the order of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack) may be necessary as a way of protecting their power and privilege in American society.

The version of conservatism that Trump and his voters and followers have embraced is "conservative" politics as destruction. Its goal is to return the United States to a mythic (and largely imaginary) past of complete white — and male and "Christian" — dominance over every area of American life.

Such a plan is made possible through a radical, extremist right-wing politics in which "conservatism" and an appeal to "traditional values" are used to mask or camouflage an assault on multiracial democracy and a more cosmopolitan, inclusive, democratic and humane American society.

This is exactly what Tony Abbott, The Right of the LNP, One Nation the IPA and News Corp have brought to the table and want normalized in Australia

Today's Republicans love Donald Trump and his policies. Most of them, however, do not want the shame, stink, blood and filth of his neofascist project on their hands. Like the "good Germans" of the Nazi era, Republicans want to believe that they are good and decent people who can hide behind fictions of plausible deniability for the evils committed by their leader. Calling themselves "conservatives" is an effort to shield themselves from responsibility and complicity. Will this subterfuge succeed? The American people and the world will find out soon.

We need to break from the easy of politics of the LNP that's allowing us to become simply Americanized. It's what Morrison has been doing and not standing up to be counted as a REAL Democracy and not the FAKE shadow of America's.

 

FAKE NEWS EXPOSED 

 

LOUISE MILLIGAN ACCUSES AGAIN. BUT LET’S WAIT TO JUDGE

ABC journalist Louise Milligan - and Labor - should have learned that rape allegations are just that: allegations. But now another Minister could have their name and career ruined before the proof is in that he's a rapist. Let me remind you of a truly shocking case that involves Milligan, a politician and another accuser battling mental issues.

Andrew Bolt isn't a journalist, he himself has admitted he hated the rigour and standards required to be one. He has remained schtum about  others in the profession that have  reported on a number of cases at the moment. Louise Milligan isn't the only journalist to have reported on unnamed men an MP and the staffer involved and accused by Brittany Higgin's and  other women. Why would that be?

Not a word about the misogynist culture within which we live and it's systemic nature reflected in our social institutions. No, Bolt deflects and distracts us suggesting we should generalize from a single case in which a woman is not here to defend her allegation. It's what Bolt does best tips social science and statistical probabilities about climate Covid on their heads. The real victims are men like him whose reputations are of far more value. So not just men but men of high status and repute as being the most vulnerable to unbalanced and lower status younger women. Is it because Louise Milligan is a woman that Bolt sets her up for his bullshit attack or because she works for the ABC? Would he be so ready to disbelieve his daughter accuse her of being mental, a frightbat or misandrist?

Louise Milligan hasn't been alone reporting the allegations. Bolt didn't make any noise saying "rape" or any other allegations of "crimes" need to be hidden from our purview of news until after they'd been investigated. That's the LNP claim lets all shut up until things have been thoroughly investigated and forgotten. Bolt didn't do that when "defending" Pell did he? In fact Bolt has a history of raising unfounded allegations about all sorts of people himself ignoring statistical data and probabiliies. A Muslim alleged to have done something wrong Bolt points out it's the very nature of their religion. Not so however, Christians. They tend to be the exceptions from which generalizations can't be made even if history suggests otherwise. Africans were all guilty after a single report. In fact, Bolt's been threatened with legal action and has had walk back on statements he's made in the past. The same can't be said of Milligan.

 Milligan makes no judgement doesn't name or shame the MP but Bolt has targeted her in order to do just that. It's not that she works for the ABC either but that's a bonus as far as Bolt is concerned. Bolt has a personal history of attacking Milligan. A  past because of her book The Rise and Fall of George Pell. Milligan wasn't sued Pell wasn't declared innocent. It was found there simply was insufficient evidence on appeal. Nevertheless Bolt has been running what seems a one man vendetta on her. Strange he hasn't mention that background here. Maybe Bolt should write a book one day his first instead of the collections of crap he's had published under the guise of books. At least he can admit to having written fiction he's certainly been convicted of it. Does Bolt suffer from"mental issues" some might believe he does. We certainly learn more about about him than Milligan.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 19/2/21; Money Rules media, health, enviroment, and politics

 

 

 

 

Money Rules

 

Why is this all happening? Our gutless Government is owned lock stock and barrel by conservative media. Our monopoly mainstream media is jousting with the monopoly social media platforms to gouge whatever they can out of each others’ revenue streams. Without the backing of monopoly level conservative media our current Government would have been chucked out long ago. So no surprise that the Coalition is sucking up to Murdoch. Bit trite for our Government to argue on behalf of Murdoch et al about how their revenue streams are being ripped off by the larger social media platforms, when that same Government is flaying the revenue streams of the ABC.

Un-Friending Facebook? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Barilaro overrules EPA, ramps up logging, funnels bushfire grants to loggers

by Suzanne Arnold | Feb 19, 2021 | Energy & Environment

Despite unprecedented damage to forests and wildlife, NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro overruled the Environment Protection Agency and determined that industrial-scale logging continues in NSW’s burnt and unburnt forests. Suzanne Arnold reports.

 

Bushfire Rorts: excess grants for sky-divers but no toilets for firefighters

by Callum Foote | Feb 17, 2021 | Government

A skydiving adventure park in a National Party electorate was showered in bushfire grants, getting far more than it asked for, while a host of bushfire recovery projects in the Blue Mountains were ignored, even badly needed toilet facilities for firefighters. Callum Foote reports on new documents in the bushfire rorts scandal. 

 

Be careful what you wish for: government-mandated theft backfires as tech giant pulls pin

Media

Bernard Keane

The government thought it was on a winner with an extortion racket aimed at big tech. That's now backfired disastrously. 

 FAKE NEWS EXPOSED

 Bolt had a week of rape mayhem and disaster to report on but couldn't so he had to opt to promote distraction instead

WHY DID THE ABC PAY A FAR-LEFT RIOTER, THEN BLAME THE RIGHT?

The ABC paid $2500 to a left-wing agitator who'd stormed the US Capitol, smashed a window, confronted police, shouted he had a knife, and urged the mob to "burn this s..t down", filming as he went. The ABC then blamed the violence entirely on the "far-Right", even after he'd been charged. Why?

We saw the riot on Capitol Hill. We heard Fox News try to suggest it was an ANTIFA run false flag to but the blame on the Right-Wing. The Militia's came prepared with guns knives and UIDs and 5 people died.  So what is Bolt doing trying to distract us from what we know?  As usual it's mud slinging the ABC with what he calling "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" Unfortunately the trend for fake news is fully concentrated at News Corp and the LNP is ensuring it stays concentrated there because they have a working partnership to influence. The bullshit is not diffused and watered down as it is on Facebook and they don't want there power weakened.

What "original" news does Murdoch's fake news generator News Corp and Sky actually generate? They are a Churnalist organisation at best having sacked so many of their journalists because of cost. News Corp is largely a paid and subsidized LNP influencer nothing more or nothing less and in an election year the LNP is dancing to Murdoch's will. Bolt is Murdoch's marionette. All week really he's had nothing to do because Morrison in his typical form has been a disaster happening before our eyes. He's been concentrating on self-promotion rather than leading. 

Bolt has obediently stayed "shtum". When that became too embarassing he's turned to it's distraction yelling "Hey look over there"

 

 

MARK ZUCKERBERG’S FACEBOOK NOW DICTATES GLOBAL WARMING BELIEFS

First Facebook censored conservatives.  Then it censored news unhelpful to Democrat Joe Biden. Then it censored Donald Trump. Then it censored an Australian politician who quoted scientific studies.. Then it censored Australia. Now it wants to police thought on global warming. And it's started by pushing alarmist claims. Facebook is a menace.

 Firstly Global Warming is a conclusion born out of Science a sceptic and on going methodology for understanding the physical world in which we live. It's not simply a faith nor a religion born out of self-interest. Beliefs tend rather to be non substantiated untested or discarded and out of date assumptions about what is occurring posited by contrarians for purposes other than a search for knowledge and understanding. Meteorology has improved because of the the application of science. Climate science has likewise improved about our understanding of the planet and has moved way beyond Bolt's misplaced "beliefs" based purely on interest. So much so Bolt is today's equivalent of a "flat earther" holding on to the religious belief the planet is cooling or if warming it has nothing to do with us so we need do nothing.

Facebook has upstaged Murdoch Media's selling of contrarian "belief" and Bolt's obediently whining. Firstly Facebook didn't censor Conservatives. It censored promoters of Domestic Terrorism and Violence because of increasing public pressure to do so.  "Standby and Stand-back" "be prepared" Trump's call was being activated. 

The extreme right-wingers aren't Conservatives nor is Andrew Bolt racist, misogynist white Christian supremacist. He doesn't even work for a Liberal/Conservative organization. He works for News Corp selling a specific right-wing message and enabling danger. The unnamed politician censored for fake and dangerous news and information  was Craig Kelly who was even censored by his own party as was a politician by the Victorian branch of the LNP. So there's been a lot of censorious activity going on but all on the behest of the LNP by the LNP.

 By the way Bolt quotes "science" but withholds the names of those he's quoting. Roy Spencer is a regular so often used an abused by Bolt you'd think Spencer would call out rape. Spencer obviously doesn't give a shit about Andrew who? However Andrew Bolt seems embarrassed to acknowledge Spencer  who no longer even has the Standing Christy has among the heavy hitting Climate Deniers in what was the Trump Administration. Bolt's claim that Facebook is behind all of this and wants to police "global warming deniers" is absurd besides they are a private organization and as Bolt has always said are free to do what they want in the market. Free to do what Andrew Bolt maintains he's free to do.

Facebook has chosen to withhold Bolt's and News Corps "fake news and opinions" from their platform they are entitled to. Fake News is the only "original" information News Corp runs and Facebook has said "Cool we'll fix that" but that's the only thing that's cool not the planet. 

Yes, on any other day Bolt's argument would be that Facebook is a Private Company as is News Corp  and the Bolt principle is that Private Companies can do what they want in a free market, Oops! Apparently Bolt's hypocritically happy with the government's censorship of Facebook.

The ABC  however can't according to Bolt. It can't be allowed to be either free original or question the government because that carries with it what Bolt regards as a left-wing bias. In fact diversity of opinion and political scepticism is fundamentally a left-wing activity. Andrew Bolt runs and works for the very censorious Murdoch Corp where everything editorially determined and certainly not algorithmically based like Facebook who who service a far more general and diverse agenda.To be fair to Australia and Democracy we need the ABC, an Independent Statutory Body, that ensures a trend to Real News and information. By and large if the ABC were a  digital hub on offer to us rather than Bolt's Fake  products being pitched for which he demands freedom from regulation. Regulation he wants of others like Facebook and the ABC. That freedom he demands be denied and reduced to others. 

The fascist trend Murdoch the LNP and the IPA are aiming for is not for the good of the country or Democracy.

 The  Kevin Rudd experience is REAL and needs to be Stopped 500,000 signatures demand it. That's far more than Andrew Bolt's ratings but less than the power of Murdoch.