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In a world awash with psychopathic tyrants, kleptocrats, killers and loons such as Trump, Putin, Bolsinaro, Netanyahu, Erdoğan et al and their hordes of grifting toadies it is still so very easy to loathe a comparative non-entity, a vapid mediocrity and serial underachiever like Smirkin’ Scotty Morrison.

Source: A message to Quiet Australians® – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Our Gas Recovery

 

Fossil fuel giants hit by court rulings over climate impacts

Three of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have suffered significant blows in quick succession.

 

  

Victorian Government Releases List Of All 17 Locations That Aren’t Exposure Sites

An inequity stacked system

While the financial well-being of everyday Australians has been hit hard by COVID-19, it’s quite the opposite at the top end of town. “Australia’s billionaires have thrived during the pandemic year”, is how the AFR puts it. But let’s not laud this as an achievement. It’s a glaring signal the system is stacked. Through the worst economic crisis in a generation, the elite got richer while millions of Australians just hung on, or saw their slim assets evaporate.

Source: The AFR’s 2021 Rich List shows we’re not all in this together

 

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Cuts to JobSeeker, Jobkeeper: out of the frying pan and into the fire

by Michael Tanner | Sep 27, 2020, | Government

Hefty cuts to JobSeeker and JobKeeper mean that Australia now faces a potentially more deadly epidemic than Covid-19. But it is largely avoidable, writes Michael Tanner.
 

Don’t Blame Social Media. Blame Capitalism.

09.27

• Paris Marx

A new Netflix film, The Social Dilemma, would have us believe that increasing social division and polarized political rhetoric is the product of Facebook and Twitter, and not the fact that income inequality has returned to pre–Great Depression levels 

Murdoch cops multiple maulings by media monitor

 More than 60% of recent complaints upheld by the Australian Press Council were against Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

Bolt denigrates minorities again

Andrew Bolt has not learned from previous adverse APC findings. Nor from losing the Popovic case. Nor from the absolute shellacking he copped from Justice Bromberg in the celebrated racial vilification case Eatock v Bolt.

His Herald Sun column in August 2019 referred to teenaged climate activist Greta Thunberg as ‘freakishly influential’ and ‘deeply disturbed’ and commented:

‘I have never seen a girl so young with so many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru.’

The APC slammed Bolt’s column, finding that ‘there was no public interest in undermining the credibility of a person, her opinions or her supporters on the basis of her disabilities...’.

The remedy

The APC has been in business now for 45 years. While its influence is positive overall, it has not curbed the continual distortions, falsehoods, character assassinations and smears published routinely by the Murdoch press.

For these to end, those publications must be shut down — as happened to News of the World in Britain in 2011 and to 60 unprofitable suburban and country newspapers in Australia this year.

So we must join and strengthen the boycott of the newspapers and their advertisers to ensure all Murdoch publications lose money and eventually disappear. Sooner the better.

They are down almost 40% in thpast 5 years and you can see Bolt ready to Bolt but he loves the money too much. Foxtel is looking just as jaundiced.

FAKE NEWS

VICTORIA SHUT DOWN WITH JUST FIVE NEWD INFECTIONS. INSANE

Just five new infections since yesterday in the entire state of Victoria - population 6.7 million. Yet millions of people remain confined to their homes, and thousands of businesses remain shut by law. This is no longer about protecting Victorians but protecting a Premier who knows he is finished if infections rise again.

3m ago 

We can see what Bolt spends his time doing while on his PC typing away in the Newd himself or watching it. 

 Covid-19 could be likened to Novichok, the deadly Russian nerve agent. We know it's there. We know it's poisonous and quickly spread, but we don't know where it is. One person, yes, only one person untraced in the community could be another super spreader.  Even if found, we don't know where they have or could have been could or are the trigger for another chain reaction?

The social system under which we operate was grossly inadequate, and it's that which Dan Andrews is changing and with the support of the Victorian public.

Andrew Bolt is the Quisling amongst us operating for the virus under the guise of "saving the economy" "saving our personal freedoms" with not a toss for any notion of "in the public interest" All about 'me' fuck' the 'we' I'm Andrew Bolt, and I naturally do what Dan Andrews expects. I isolate myself while telling you you don't have to go out and spread the news. Dan Andrews is a Victorian, Andrew Bolt is the Quisling

THE MADNESS OF DAN ANDREWS: POINTLESS BULLYING OVER POINTLESS DETAILS

COLUMN Has Daniel Andrews gone mad? Watch the Premier carefully explaining on Sunday which completely useless virus ban to drop and which to keep. Here’s a man losing himself in mindless detail, rather than just checking out the big picture, as if his busy-busy bullying really did make any difference.  

36m ago 

There is no "bullying". There is Public Interest. Bolt has no position on Public Interest of any kind other than his. It's in the guise that the individual is a stand-alone entity free to do whatever he wants.  Yes, it's all about Bolt, and if he doesn't like what you are doing,he will muster all his power to gather like-minded people to stop you. The result is the minority rule. Andrews was elected to Public Service to serve the interests of us all, not Bolt's minority alone. That's what Bolt is railing about that his claims are privileged and diminished by Dan's attention to Public Service.

TRIBUNAL WARNS SENATOR AGAINST SPEAKING

Some officials should be more protective of free speech: "A Tasmanian Liberal senator and her supporters have been warned they could be prosecuted for 'insulting' the state’s anti-discrimination commissioner in a rapidly escalating war over free speech in the transgender debate. Equal Opportunity Tasmania... suggests she could face prosecution..."

35m ago 

Like Bolt who was found guilty of racial vilification by the courts despite the protection of News Corp these senators have been warned. Justice is meant to be blind. 

PELL RETURNS TO THE VATICAN IN TRIUMPH AS ENEMY FALLS

On Tuesday George Pell flies back to Rome, a challenge to enemies caught in the Vatican’s worst financial scandal in decades. Those enemies hoped Cardinal Pell, the Vatican’s former corruption buster, would rot in an Australian jail on suspiciously false charges of child sexual abuse. But Pell returns in triumph, and his nemesis faces jail instead.  

43m ago 

We don't hear the bells ringing Bolt is suffering from Tinnitus. Nobody will be carrying Pell on their shoulders. The Pope certainly wont.

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VIC LIB LEADER REACHES USE BY DATE

So obvious he was such a great counterweight for Dan he should be kept so the job gets done. Dan has enough on his plate without someone else trying to skew the facts.(ODT)

It seems O'brien hasn't impressed those that elected him Leader . And this story appearing in the Fin Review just says it all . He is finished . Rupert has hung him out to dry . A massive failure of Leadership on his behalf they will say . They will attempt to make him the scapegoat for their abysmal policy vacuum and immoral attacks on Dan Andrews . The Vic Libs have not had a real "Leader" for decades, and don't look like finding one among their current crop .

The Victorian Opposition has been unable to capitalise on the Melbourne quarantine debacle, triggering great internal angst, writes Aaron Patrick.

Leaving Australians behind (ODT)

 Low wage growth confirmed (again) – critics say plans are needed - » The Australian Independent Media Network

Why is it when the hard yards are required it's the normal Australians that are required to do the work to save the country. The banks get saved the stockmarket rebounds but it's the mom and pops of Australia that have to pay. Those big houses built were never meant for single families but shared housing for three families working casually on call 7 days a week.(ODT)

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Fake News

 

MORALISING RAY HADLEY REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH STAFFER

Before anyone trusts Ray Hadley's moralising attacks on me or others, know what you're dealing with. He has reportedly settled a bullying claim from a former producer after handing over a "substantial financial sum". 

34m ago 

Two arseholes chest bumping in the schoolyard Bolt won't do anything if he has to pay. News Corp certainly won't back him. We know what we are dealing with listening to Andrew Bolt who takes pleasure in attacking the personalities of young women like Greta but he's rather more cautious when it comes to Hadley just pounding his chest like some alpha ape.
Hadley and Bolt have a history and Bolt is coming out bruised. He's been called "soft on paedophiles" with Hadley being quite direct. Bolt's response feigned pain of an opinionator for over 30 years. Threatening legal action Bolt's shadowboxing referring to a case that really has nothing to do with him why? Because Hadley was hitting Bolt and landing real punches. 

“You bloody well are. You are soft on paedophiles. And the only reason you’ve made an apology is because you’ve been targeted by various social media groups for your creepy behaviour.
“That poor boy shouldn’t have been penning that letter. he shouldn’t have been subjected to that on Sky News on Tuesday night and I hope there’s been a lesson well learned here by Mr Bolt.” Hadley

PETER SINGER: VIRUS LOCKDOWN MAY BE "OVERREACTION"

Philosopher Peter Singer on Victoria's crippling lockdown: "It’s been done on the basis of relatively unsure evidence, both about the costs and the benefits... We should take into account the years of lives lost, not just number of deaths. That it’s less tragic for a 90-year-old to die than a 30-year-old seems clear to me."

1h ago 

So Peter Singer a Philosophical ethicist is now who Bolt stands behind when a few days ago he denied that he was saying what Singer posits.

In the audio from last week (below), Hadley produces some figures about how many people die from the common flu every year: it’s between 350,000 and 600,000 worldwide. But that’s out of around a Billion cases. And that’s with a vaccine to limit the death rate.

By comparison, so far, the world’s recorded only almost 13 Million (but rapidly rising) cases of Covid-19. Yet, we have almost 600,000 deaths already. So, once we get to a Billion cases, without an effective vaccine, the death rate would be in World War II proportions.

Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/ray-hadley-questions-how-andrew-bolt-could-refer-him-left-wing-commentator © Radioinfo.com.au

“I think Bolt, like a lot of very conservative people - Donald Trump included and the president of Brazil -  keep saying it's no more than the common flu.”
In the audio from last week (below), Hadley produces some figures about how many people die from the common flu every year: it’s between 350,000 and 600,000 worldwide. But that’s out of around a Billion cases. And that’s with a vaccine to limit the death rate.

By comparison, so far, the world’s recorded only almost 13 Million (but rapidly rising) cases of Covid-19. Yet, we have almost 600,000 deaths already. So, once we get to a Billion cases, without an effective vaccine, the death rate would be in World War II proportions.
“How people can actually call it a flu is quite beyond me,” says Hadley “What Bolt and Alan and other conservative commentators’ view is, is that the economy is more important than human life and that's not something that I agree with. and that the you know that he made a remark in his column today that it’s only old people die. If it was my grandfather. my grandmother or my great grandfather, great grandmother… I'm not going to cheapen their lives by dismissing it as just old people dying. I think it's really uncharitable and I think it's undignified. It's cruel.”


Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/ray-hadley-questions-how-andrew-bolt-could-refer-him-left-wing-commentator © Radioinfo.com.au

 

 

 

 

ANDREWS GOVT THREATENED TO JAIL BOSSES OVER VIRUS. HOW ABOUT POLITICIANS?

The Andrews Government threatened to jail  bosses whose workers died of coronavirus. So who in the government itself should now be jailed? My editorial from The Bolt Report.

1h ago 

Well You can start with Scott Morrison who finally said sorry today. His excuse "there is nothing guaranteed in a pandemic"  That's as much as the excuse Bolt used when it became obvious the LNP had made greater mistakes than they were admitting to Bolt Trumpster apology was politicians on and all made mistakes, I aged-care the LNP from Abbott to Morrison made criminally reckless ones.

CLIVE PALMER: ON THE THIEVING WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

The Western Australian Government is behaving like a robber baron - changing the law to avoid paying Clive Palmer compensation for unlawfully stopping his mine. Incredible. Hear it from Palmer himself, on The Bolt Report.

1h ago 

This isn't about Palmer and McGowan it's about the Bolt Report desperate for an audience

CORONAVIRUS: MAN IN 20s DIES, BUT FROM THE VIRUS OR WITH IT?

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says a man in his 20s has died from the coronavirus. This lets him claim the virus "does not discriminate", so don't attack him for his wide-spread bans and not focussing more on protecting the old. But  after questioning on the youngest fatality, Andrews admitted the cause of death wasn't clear.

1h ago 

So Andrew Bolt is now writing death certificates encouraged by American right wingers who claim George Floyd died of Fentanyl and not cardiac arrest due to suffocation by a cop. A man in his 30s also died last week but Bolt kept silent on that last week. Was that clear case of a Covid death or did he ignore it as it was inconvenient for him? As he's been insisting the young aren't casualties of the virus.  Other news reports have no problem announcing the 20-year-olds death was due to COVID. Bolt's been convicted in the past of being loose with his facts and he proves it time and again.

CORONAVIRUS; VICTORIA'S SCANDALS SHOW WE DON'T NEED TO PANIC

COLUMN Victoria – even after 410 new infections on Wednesday and 21 more deaths – proves there is no need to panic about this coronavirus. What the growing list of scandals shows it that just doing the basics - and doing them well - could spare us many of the deaths. And a lot of these bans. 

Bolt's back over each one day underreach the next Open the economy to self-regulation one day to greater State control the next. Any wonder he's being attacked from pillar to post by his own industry. he's totally irresponsible broadcaster encouraging individuals to do what they want.

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Expert wanted federal workers in aged care homes months before outbreak

One of Australia’s most experienced aged care experts urged the Morrison government to send federal workers to help the sector combat COVID months before infections surged.

DAN DIDN'T DO IT SCOTT DIDN'T LISTEN AND DID NOTHING. NOW HE'S SILENCING THE EVIDENCE

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Joe Biden announces Kamala Harris, 'fearless fighter for the little guy,' as his VP pick

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has announced California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, ending weeks of increasingly frenzied speculation.

The Media is turning Victoria into Australia's China you can blame everything on the Victorian Government these days

Victorian outbreak pushes 'travel bubble' to end of year: Sydney Airport boss

 

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The July 2020 Nielsen digital Content Ratings. The ABC: 13,252,278 The Australian: 3,770,083 No wonder they’re panicking.

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Thousands skip isolation as virus surge gains pace

Thousands of Victorians told to isolate to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are ignoring instructions and many are continuing to work because they cannot afford to miss a shift.

 Victoria was Australia's most successful economic hot spots where people came to work. The pandemic changed that and now as far as the stimulus of work is concerned it's Australia's cold spot of uncertainty.

Unless individuals are personally and universally financially protected under support schemes anxiety will win out and the need to take care of one's self and family will win out. Even fines won't be a deterrent. This government, however, makes it extremely difficult for individuals in financial need to comply. (ODT)

theconversation.com

  News Corp's coverage has been not just biased but dangerous.

Whether a ratings chase or ideological war, News Corp's coronavirus coverage is dangerous

''This has been evident in the contrast between The Daily Telegraph’s coverage of the Ruby Princess debacle (Coalition government in New South Wales) and the Herald Sun’s coverage of the hotel quarantine debacle (Labor government in Victoria).
My analysis of 464 articles in the Telegraph on the Ruby Princess showed the coverage was extensive, quoting many voices trenchantly critical of the way the government handled the case. However, the newspaper itself made no direct personal attack on Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
A similar analysis I undertook of 411 articles in the Herald Sun about hotel quarantine and subsequent second wave likewise showed extensive coverage quoting many voices trenchantly critical of the government. But there was an additional dimension: direct personal attacks on Daniel Andrews, which has become a speciality of Credlin’s.''

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From personally targeting the Victorian premier to railing against the compulsory use of masks or scapegoating a minority group,

 IT'S TIME TO :  Turn our  back on News Corp and Sky News Advertisers

 

This time it will be different: Trump takes a second shot at daily briefings

With cases surging in key election battlegrounds Trump's advisers realised he needed to re-engage with the issue.

Without any medical experts, Trump is going it alone. No CDC, No Dr Fauci and No Dr Brix Trump isn't informing America he's turning the COVID-19 briefings into a televised rallying monologue. The most frequent phrase used "We are gunna"

According to Ch9 he was "Disciplined, succinct and fact-based are not words you would usually associate with a Donald Trump press conference.". Judge for yourself he was rambling repetitive factless and often false with facts. Politicizing the pandemic by not having a single expert on side. When asked why Trump said Dr Brix was "here out back" and Dr Fauci the most trusted expert in the US was simply "not invited". One might ask why Australia's MSM is supporting what the world witnessed as "good"?
Coronavirus infections could be 13 times higher than reported in US The Independent

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8 hours ago - From Joan E Greve and me: During a coronavirus briefing, Donald Trump spoke without his top health officials, Dr Deborah Birx and Dr ...

 During a coronavirus briefing, Donald Trump spoke without his top health officials, Dr Deborah Birx and Dr Anthony Fauci. The president stayed on message, encouraging Americans to wear masks despite his months-long resistance to covering his face in public to stop the spread of disease. He chose a racist term to refer to the coronavirus and repeated a few false or misleading claims about the national stockpile and testing.

Unplug The Trump Pandemic Freak Show

Trump's vow to return with his first pandemic press briefing in three months means the press faces a stark decision — is it in the nation's best interest to provide nonstop, unedited coverage of his briefings or pull the plug on the [...]

Jul 21, 2020

By Eric Boehlert

POLITICS IS MAKING THIS VIRUS WORSE

COLUMN I am sick of the politics being played with this virus. It destroys trust and leaves Australia battling a second wave. But again and again we see double standards and spin: not fining Black Lives Matter protesters, closing schools just to send a message, banning golf for no good reason and more.

1h ago 

Bolt's talking to the mirror. Fact Victoria was the state of opportunity for the economic boom state.  The higher the rise the bigger the fall with the borders locked and Job Keeper supporting business good and bad individuals feel at risk particularly those supporting families. If there had been a universal benefits scheme supporting individuals the anxiety levels would be much lower particularly for families. Compliance to masks social distancing better self-managed. That Mr Bolt is a fact not simply politics unless one considers Bolt's idiotic nit-picking not politics. 

Bolt works for an organisation that history for the past 45 years has been increasingly political it's now the nature of its global business. Murdoch currently has politicians on the end of his string in the UK, US and here. So much so that even profit takes a back seat to politics.
It's not all politics Bolt!!
" deaths are wiping more than a decade of life expectancy from those who die from the disease, while comparatively young and healthy patients who recover are suffering ongoing symptoms such as headaches, fatigue and breathlessness.
New data on the first four months of the coronavirus pandemic in Australia shows the disease strips an average 17 years of life expectancy from every man to die from the disease and 14 years for every woman to die."https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/covid-19-deaths-wipe-out-an-average-15-years-of-life-symptoms-linger-in-young-20200721-p55dz7.html

Bolt's original Murdochian opinion

FACE MASKS HIDE THE DEADLIEST FAILURE

COLUMN How the bullies love it! Forcing all Melburnians to wear face masks — even when walking all alone in the sunshine and fresh air. Is there no end to this virus hysteria?  Who dares point out the science that says face masks can sometimes hurt more than help? And that the politicians behind the ban have failed to do what would most save lives?

2h ago 

Medical advice is politics as far as Bolt is concerned and his commentary isn't it fatherly love from a man who hides behind a curtain a greater mask than any of us are asked to bear as a team. Bolt, however, does know what walking alone means and expects that the parks and gardens of Victoria are his alone. However, for "us" there is no alone only an acknowledged "we".  Apparently, the virus to Bolt is a hoax. A Trumpster nothing to worry about illness. Don't worry about the fact that it's still very much a mystery. If so shouldn't be a role model and show us his stripes. After all Derryn Hinch did and was prepared to be jailed for his beliefs.

Bolt bangs on about collectivist failure. However, Aged -Care is a privatised disaster. He doesn't explain who is meant to man theses facilities when more staff contract the illness than clients and others are just abandoning the facilities. Oh government should take control and draft the untrained unemployed or will Bolt put his hand up to help as he's certainly not an essential. He won't he hated PTA meetings and avoided them whenever he could and prefers not to be seen in public. Will he send his family to help instead? 
These are Bolt's preferred privatised industries have been at the bottom of the pile when it comes to industrial relations. They operate on the basis of providing the minimum service at the cheapest price and labour is the determinant of "cheapest" and now in this pandemic, they are reflecting that inadequacy. Private Security is another such industry. These are the conditions guaranteed by Bolt's anti- union penalty rate demands. Rather than the quality of service you get untrained casualised workers on the barest of wages being screwed and not just screwing. Bolt yesterday was demanding deregulation and the cheapest well he's got it.  However, the whinger is now he's complaining that these industries aren't regulated enough and the LNP could do it better what for less? Sorry they are the ones fighting regulation not calling for it. Oh it's all the politics that Dan Andrews currently isn't concerned with but O"Brien and News Corp are involved with yelling "we can do it better"!!