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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.
Littell denied that this was a super spreader event though, saying that
those affected must have picked up the virus in Michigan or New York or
wherever, not at his maskless, unvaccinated, no social distancing event.
In the front of The Age there was Clive Palmer’s full page ad with
anti- vaxxer Qraig Qelly face and the newspaper’s Opinion supporting
their Message. We can expect $100M++ with Clive running yet another
campaign for Morrison’s LNP with Ch9, and Murdoch trumpeting their
message into our political atmosphere like muzak because they are “free”
to do that. Responsible, no but free to take cash for comment. Would
Clive’s money come their way if their opinion differed?
They are all standing shoulder to shoulder with QAnon, Proud Boys,
Qraig Kelly and yes Nazis among others amplifying their twisted message. The Germans have a saying looking back on their past, “if
you have 10 people sitting down for dinner with a Nazi you have 11 Nazis
at dinner”. Apparently it’s safe to stick our hand in fire if its
smeared with vaseline so lets all do it because “we can” and fuck us all in the process.
The EU, UK, and the USA are all experiencing a massive resurgence of
Covid and are bringing back restrictions, restrictions on the
unvaccinated. We can ignore that lead because we are smeared with
vaseline ( 95% vaccinated ). We can play Evil Kinevil. Restrictions for
what? Restrictions aren’t arbitrary are there 1) to prevent unwanted
death. 2) to prevent the accelerated spread 3) but moreso to prevent
overloading an already Commonwealth underfunded understaffed Public
Health System 4) to be prepared for the inevitable 4th wave when winter
of 2022 hits, 5)and yes, to prevent less severe lockdowns and “more
freedom” for the majority of Victorians.
These right wing hypocrites are only too happy lock out Asylum
Seekers, Muslims, Gays, Africans, etc etc etc but not that 5% or 300,00
Victorians that can incapacitate our Public Health and indirectly many
others. We don’t have sufficient nurses, doctors or the ambos but Clive
just wants a Coal Mine and the LNP in power. The other fruitcakes just
want to feel the power. So advertise in Peter Costello’s Age and
Murdoch’s Herald -Sun. They are only too happy to oblige and provide the
opinions in support of more of that money.
Victorians have benefited from vaccination mandates of
certain workers or as a temporary lockdown exemption that reduces spread
when coverage is still too low. For a substantial public health gain,
mandates may be justified. But the Victorian government intends to
extend the lockout of the unvaccinated throughout 2022. This is
disproportionate to the risks the unvaccinated pose in a population that
will reach at least 93 per cent two-dose coverage by year’s end.
Where is Qraig Qelly and the freedom marchers fighting for the marriage equality minority and the heterosexually un-vaccinated? That minority that have been discriminated against for years bashed killed? Nobody is marching against this Discrimination Bill.
Australians
will be able to make statements of religious belief under the
protection of federal law, with warnings people could lose jobs because
their sexuality is at odds with someone’s faith.
How simple is simple how easy to read between the lines. The BBC has
and holds up with pride their “misinformation department” the department
Senator McGrath would label dangerous and biased because it would make
him so transparent.
With a leader like ScaMo running the ship, the LNP’s biggest fear is
the ABC installing one and installing one before the next election and
turning the lights on their efforts to diminish our democracy. The
foundations of which are the universal franchisement of all citizens’
right to vote, Compulsory Voting, and the ABC. McGrath prefers to tear
down the house.
When Queensland Senator James McGrath gave his first speech
in parliament, he made his intentions very clear – this culture warrior
was on a mission to destroy the ABC. “While the ABC continues to
represent only inner-city leftist views, and funded by our taxes, it is
in danger of losing its social licence to operate. I am calling for a
review of the ABC’s charter. And if they fail to make inroads to restore
balance, then the ABC should be sold and replaced by a regional and
rural broadcasting service. In the meantime, Triple J, because of its
demographic dominance and clear ability to stand on its own, should be
immediately sold.”
Murdochtopus has many arms that work in unison with News Corp, one of
those arms is a think tank called the Institute of Public Affairs
(IPA). When Tony Abbott became Prime Minister the IPA wrote a list of 75
ideas for Abbott to think about which included: 50. Break up the ABC
and put out to tender each individual function. 51. Privatise SBS. The
Abbott government and coalition government’s since, have cut funding to
the tune of $783 million. By 2023 the cuts to the ABC will amount to $1
billion. Surveys continually show that the ABC and SBS are the most
trusted news brands in Australia. Australia’s concentrated media
ownership is one of the highest of the world News Corp owns nearly 60%
of the metropolitan and national print media markets by readership. The
Nine Entertainment Co. and Fairfax merger in 2018, means that Nine is
now the second largest media owner with a combined readership share of
23%. 80% of Australian free-to-air and subscription TV revenues are
collected by three corporations: News Corp, Nine, and Seven Media
Holdings. Nearly 90% of the nation’s radio licences are controlled by
News Corp, Nine, and Southern Cross Media (including their associated
entities).
Education Minister Alan Tudge declared the school funding wars over and said it was time to talk about teaching and standards.
“We won’t get anywhere unless we get the pedagogy [teaching methods]
right,” said Mr Pearson, who alongside Mr Tudge is a strong advocate for
direct - or teacher-led - instruction, rather than the teacher acting
as the ‘guide on the side’.
Firstly why is Tudge making out the opposite is true Western Culture isn't being erased or undermined. So if that's the case one wonders why he's suggesting it is. Indigenous Culture has been undermined and he's definitely not saying that.
However, direct teacher-led instruction suggests something else entirely and that does suggest some cultures need to be cancelled. It declares there is a right history and any Critical Thinking is dangerous to Autocracy. It's certainly not a danger to Democracy. The danger was witnessed in the past 4 years in the USA and the 6th of Jan storming of the Congress by those that think like Tudge.
In the year since George Floyd’s murder,
conservative news outlets have endlessly hyped distorted stories about
violence at Black Lives Matter protests. Key videos they used come from a
tight-knit group of eight young journalists.
Israel is currently engaged in a brutal crackdown on Palestinian
protesters — and it’s using surveillance measures refined during the
COVID-19 pandemic to monitor, track, and harass those protesters.
At the same time, the state of emergency the embattled prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu set in place throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has
dragged on. The systems leveraged to track Palestinians and Jewish
Israeli citizens alike under the auspices of public health became, once
again, tools of military surveillance and policing.
In the past week, Israel’s police have carried out targeted
arrests against scores of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, across the
remainder of the West Bank, and throughout Israeli cities. Police have
detained Jewish Israeli activists leading protests in West Jerusalem as
well. In activist spaces, it seems widely understood that the state is
surveilling everyone all the time.
Australia needs help. It is being played by the U.S. It is suffering a
dearth of leadership that is unable to handle climate change, a
coherent COVID vaccination rollout, quarantine and a balanced
relationship with China, our biggest and most important neighbour.
Hamas has fired rockets at the crossing where its own humanitarian aid
convoy was travelling after Israel approved the aid convoy to cross into
Gaza, according to Jerusalem Post columnist Emily Schrader.
“Yesterday Israel did approve humanitarian aid crossing into Gaza…
however, after the first eight convoys went through the crossing, Hamas
actually fired rockets at that crossing, even though it was their
humanitarian aid for their people going through,” she told Sky News host
Andrew Bolt.
Ms Schrader also said this was a deliberate tactic by Hamas to “portray
Israel in a negative light".
“This is a tactic; this is definitely a tactic that we’ve seen from
Hamas – we know that they want the people to suffer… when the people
suffer, they are able to portray Israel in a negative light.”
Over
200 deaths , 50% of which are women and children, thousands wounded,
unable to access hospitals, doctors, or medicines, and Bolt blames it
all on Hamas. Who does he turn to for proof but Israel's right wing
media in this case the Jerusalem Post supposedly tells us what's "really" happening in Gaza.
No such largese is given to the International media foreign and independant journalists
witnessing the action on the ground. Bolt promotes a narrative that Israel wants out and out now. Everything we have heard from Bolt in recent days is that Israel the Goliath in this story is defending itself. The 600,000 IDF high tech gargantuan
monster is defending itself against the 20-30k mouse that roars fire.
Israel
is the victim fighting a mentally deranged organization of terrorists trapped in Gaze
who are really killing their own people. Israel hasn't allowed aid into
Gaza for years before this conflict started. It was happy to see Covid
run it's course through the strip. It starved hospitals of equipment while snipers shot Palestinians maiming them for life. Israel hasn't stopped the current 24/7
bombing of Gaza for a week and Andrew Bolt has a picture of a truck trying to tell us would try to have us they
are the acting humanitarians in this battle.
Hamas
rockets are gerry-built, hand made and have no directional
capacity whatsoever accept hopefully up, with some, and only some of the
3000 even making it to Israel most falling in the deserted space just on the
other side of the border,or never even making it out of Gaza. Nevertheless Andrew Bolt
turns the Jerusalem Post to spread the news of
Israel's innocence. Yesterday it was the Australian Council of Jewry whose existence is based on a quid pro quo relationship with the
Netanyahu government
How Bolt uses images to push fake news and information
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Scott Morrison is treating China "like
the threat it is – a dictatorship openly threatening war".
The remarks come after Labor Senator Penny Wong criticised the Morrison
government’s rhetoric on China saying Mr Morrison was only seeking
“political value”.
“Attacking Morrison for treating China like the threat it is. A
dictatorship openly threatening war,” Mr Bolt said.
“Is Labor really suggesting that we shouldn't now be making common cause
with other democracies also alarmed by China to protect ourselves?
“Or should we just kowtow instead – button our lips for fear of the
great dictatorship.
“Whatever the government is doing, do not rule out Labor being worse.”
Israel is bombing the crap out of 2 million desperate people trapped, trapped in the world's largest open air closet, and Andrew Goebbellian Bolt says Israel is on a mission of peace defending itself from these aggressive warmongering terrorists in the Gazan ghetto.
Meanwhile China is investing money globally and partnering underdeveloped nations in building up their infrastructure. It is also currently the worlds largest exporter of Covid-19 vaccines to the world's poorest nations that big Westren companies won't sell to. Some 59, many more than the West is supplying. Yet, Andrew Bolt cub reporter claims they are aggressors preparing themselves for a war against us. He's said this over and over again without any evidence to indicate he's right.
Which nations does he suggest, Australia, we should draw in, to lead, the sortie against China? He fails to mention any that would agree with him? Abbott certainly didn't he was all about shirt-fronting Putin. Is Israel one? It's certainly a front runner in the aggression stakes. Should Dutton convince Japan or Taiwan to go to war? Bolt's sabre rattling matches his cheering on of Israel's blitzkrieg of Gaza. Maybe he is promoting us as world arm dealers, the manufacturers of submarines. China works on 5 year plans to boost their economy not spur of the moment plans of lets attack someone like Bolt proposes.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Australia losing its big coal-fired power
stations is a consequence of the Liberals "not having the courage to
fight the global warming panic”.
“Well, one price we must pay for the Liberals not having the courage to
fight the global warming panic – and Labor going much crazier with it -
is that Australia is losing its big coal-fired power stations,” Mr Bolt
said.
“And that means an end to cheap, reliable electricity, steady 24/7.”
Mr Bolt spoke with Energy Economist Alan Moran who said the government’s
subsidising of alternative energy sources to fossil fuels deters
private sector firms from investing in their own coal or gas-fired power
plant.
“The government has created the situation whereby no private sector firm
can possibly justify spending – the risks are too great,” he told Sky
News host Andrew Bolt.
“How can you spend money on a power station gas-fired or coal when the
alternative competitive power is subsidised to buggery.”
Bolt's claim, Morrison's government hasn't the courage like he has to fight the rest of the world on climate. The world, the planet in a narrative in which he's right and everyone else is wrong. The end of coal according to Bolt means the end of the cheap electricity which we don't have now. That sounds more like the unreasoned babble and threat by Chicken Little. The world is well past the tipping point and is already united on the idea of clean and renewable energy.
As I said yesterday Bolt keeps dragging the same old people out of the News Corp closet giving them a run, titles they don't warrant, to bolster his pro coal message, and Alan Moran is the one this time round. Moran was a past director of the Heartland Institute that great climate change dening funder. He is a contributor to The Spectator, News Corp and most notably was "dumped" by the IPA because even they felt he was doing more harm to them than good. Moron is part of the shrinking circle paid to promote the fossil fuel industry. A circle that simply talks to itself.
The government just recently subsidized both fossil fuels and gas to the tune of $3B and gave the nod for our renewable investment fund to provide money for carbon capture and other techologies like cleaning coal which has proved not to work. But here are Moran and Bolt telling us the government is subsidizing "alternate renewable energy sources" and not coal, gas and fossil fuels. Didn't Morrison just turn down a major and I mean major wind farm in the NT? It will go ahead despite the governments rejection.
So Moran is on the Bolt Report to preach his normal bullshit being the scaremonger because the very reverse is actually happening worldwide. Australia, however is the only country in the world that has the resources to fully build batteries that store energy. Batteries for which there is already a global demand. We are currently only nation on the planet able to be the center of this new sunrise industry and without competition but the government refuses to invest in it why? Because they are pouring money into and propping up dirty industries that have no future and Alan Moran is claiming they should be doing more.The world is moving away from fossil fuels, while in Australia, it’s all systems go for coal and gas
Sky News host Rowan Dean says proponents of the global warming movement
say to listen to the scientists on the matter - yet they haven’t
provided any “credible” scientists in the last decade.
“Well they keep telling us to listen to the science… listen to science,
listen to the scientists but for the last decade they’ve never presented
us with any scientists – not any credible ones,” he told Sky News host
Andrew Bolt.
Here is the proof that the in- house circle that talks to itself really exists exists. First Bolt has News Corp contributor Alan Moran on to promote fossil fuel and then follows it up with Rowan Dean falsely called an "Outsider" on to talk about not the provenance of the 97% of the global scientists who have researched and proved Global Warming exists but the fact that there isn't a genuine scientist among them. Dean believes the non peer-reviewed 3% are somehow superior. Does anyone get the feeling that ex-ad man Dean is running a he said she said argument to fill the vacuous space between he, Bolt's brain and a show with nowhere to go?
The last decade the scientific data collected reviewed and published has shown records in warming have been broken year in and year out. That the planet has experienced more intense weather extremes than ever before and they have all been published. So yes, that vacuous space between Bolt and Dean is also very real and man made.
“I admire what Liz Cambage said,” this Indigenous athlete says, “but
it is easier for her, from America, where she is surrounded by famous
black athletes, and a strong movement for black people. Here, we are
nearly invisible, have no mention in the Constitution, and are not
recognised in a mostly white world. If I said what she said, from here, I
would be torn apart by mainstream and social media , and it is not just
worth it.”
This athlete also points out that while we have indeed had many
wonderful Indigenous and POC Olympians – 52 to be precise – they are
underrepresented in the Sporting Hall of Fame.
Embarrassing Facts
Cathy Freeman is there, but that’s it. Where is Nova Peris, who
represented Australian in not one, but two Olympics sports – hockey and
athletics – and was the first Aboriginal Australian to win a gold medal?
And why is Patrick Johnson not there, the only Australia to have run a
sub 10 second 100 metre sprint! Nor is Kyle Vander-Kuyp there, who made
the Olympic hurdles final and is still the Australian record holder.
Wider than the Olympics, there are some 570 inductees in the Hall of
Fame, yet only six Indigenous athletes – which is 1.05 per cent, against
the 4 per cent of the population who identify as Indigenous.
“It’s not that we’re not good enough to be in there,” my caller said, “we’re simply overlooked.”
It warms Trumpster hearts even more to call this a war. If only Trump could have done the same domestically in America. However, Biden certainly isn't pissed off either and supports Netanyahu's fake narrative of keeping Israel safe. It's a common theme among right-wing authoritarians. Even Scott Morrison does it. Meanwhile when it comes to Jews around the world they are ashamed.
Multiple US commentators have been celebrating the Israeli
bombing of an international media tower that houses offices for AP, the
BBC, and Al Jazeera.
May 15, 2021 15:58
Multiple US commentators have been celebrating the Israeli
bombing of an international media tower that houses offices for AP, the
BBC, and Al Jazeera.
After videos were
published on social media showing the destruction of the building by
Israeli missiles, people from around the world – including many
journalists – condemned the bombing, calling it terrorism, a war crime,
and an attack against the free press.
Several high-profile conservative commentators in the United States, however, mocked the bombing and expressed their support.
“Looks like the IDF took out Hamas’s PR team,”
reacted television commentator John Cardillo, who was recently a host
at Newsmax TV, while conservative journalist David Reaboi also
celebrated the bombing.
The Australian Museum claims
it’s putting on the most important show in its 194-year history. And
it’s right: This proves that truth is now officially dead.
That is a huge deal for a museum.
On
Saturday, the Australian Museum will open Unsettled, an exhibition
about the “devastation” of colonisation that it says “illuminates the
power of truth-telling”.
But truth-telling is the last thing to now expect in a museum we funded for generations to promote it.
The inglorious history of "settler colonialism" needs according to Andrew Bolt be blown up and buried and stopped. While the old myths of discovery and settlement of this nation, populated by little more than brutes, be glorified. Just like the Israeli government's blowing up the tallest building in Gaza City that housed the world's International media AP, Al Jezeera, the BBC along with offices that housed other journalists from around the world the truth needs to be silenced. So the"defence of Israel" can be reported. Trump wished he could do it to the media in the USA and the LNP is doing it in Australia to our ABC. Andrew Bolt represents the voice of a shrinking minority trying to maintain a once dominant fake narrative in a rapidly changing world where the myths of the privileged, powerful and elite are crumbling and can no longer be justified.
The tragedy is the Corporate amplification of fake news, misinformation, and a mythical history is being done by a handful of right-wing media intent on maintaining a fake cultural narrative that no longer holds water in the eyes of most Australians. 50% of who are women, 90% who are experiencing the weight of debt slavery due to shrinking wages. Their social mobility curtailed by race, religion, their sexuality which hangs like a burden around their necks in a cultural and social system that Bolt claims to be the best of all possible worlds that justifiably sorts people out and says that says they as individuals are simply not good enough. Or simply haven't used the opportunities that are readily available.
Bolt could well be a star in the docoseries EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES by Raoul Peck because he does and does it from a distance.
In
all wars, truth is the first casualty. And with missiles now falling on
Jerusalem we’re reminded truth dies fastest when it’s Israel under
attack.
Again we get that media script. Palestinians must
be the victim. Israel must be the aggressor, even when hundreds of
rockets are again fired into it.
And the truth can’t get in the way of that narrative.
Let
me demonstrate by going through the tweets of the ABC’s Middle East
correspondent, Tom Joyner. Consider this a too-typical case.
Hundreds of hand made rockets many not even reaching Israel most landing in the south vs a 21rst century military force with the highest grade technical weaponry. It's a David and Goliath story that Andrew Bolt likes to believe but it's in reverse. Making out Israel is the victim defending itself is bullshit. There is no war when fire works and rocks are up against the IDF tanks and airforce. The numbers killed over 30% children alone and a considerable number of women in Gaza were the victims of precision bombing. Is it really precision when thousands wounded in the ghetto deprived of hospitals medical equipment medicines? In a prison camp riddled with Covid all it's people imprisoned by Israel's walls, barbwire and from which there is no escape out or aid let in. How Hitler of a State that experience should have taught them better but whose PM is saying "we are achieving what we have set out to do"
Israel knows it's losing the PR war so it blew up the offices of the International media to ensure their narrative is the only one to get out and of course with the help of Murdoch media. One only needs to follow the timeline on how this Israeli aggression escalated. Why civil war has taken place in Israel itself as a response to what occurred and began weeks ago at the hands of Israeli settlers and police preventing prayers to be held at the al-Asqa Mosque, and the forced colonization by right-wing settlers taking over Palestinian property in occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah district and Palestinian enclave. Facts Andrew Bolt conveniently ignores just as he does Australian history.
The fact is Jews and Palestinians around the world are demonstrating together againstthe Israeli State's harsh actions conducted for the purpose of Netanyahu staying out of jail and continuation of his leadership. That hasn't been certain because he hasn't been able form a majority government. So he's doing what Trump wished he could creating fear and chaos in a very fragile democracy.
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 .
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)
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.
“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.”
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 broadcasterencouraging individuals to do what they want.
Employee wages' share of total national income dropped to 52.1 per cent
last financial year, the lowest level in a decade, while the profit
share enjoyed by the business sector rose to its highest level since
2006-07.
While the LNP have been telling us "fundamentals are good" and we are heading to a surplus Australians have become dumber and poorer living of their savings to survive. The LNP has guaranteed we are little more than a hole in the ground. and that's why they can't let go of coal. (ODT)
Australian households have run down their savings by $46.4 billion
over the past four years and crimped their spending on daily needs to
offset higher income taxes and sluggish wages growth.
Final
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures for 2018-19 also reveal
labour productivity has turned negative for the first time while the
nation's dependence on mining exports has reached a record high.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus said the economy was suffering because of deliberate wage suppression.
"As
working people have not had a pay rise for seven years, they have
stopped spending. Domestic spending is the engine of the economy - once
it stalls everything begins to go wrong. Small businesses feel it, big businesses feel it, we all feel it," she said.
In 1989, Paul Keating was boasting of his success in garnering public
support for his difficult reforms when he pronounced: “I'll guarantee
if you walk into any pet shop in Australia, the resident galah will be
talking about micro-economic policy.”
Instead, we are sitting here like wood ducks waiting to be shot. Australia blame yourselves you voted the LNP Morrison Government back to allow our economy to become an even more stagnant and still backwater and you did it for Clive and Geena promise to outdo Adani and letting machines in to turn Qld into a bigger coal mine we can watch and protest about.
THE WAGES SLUMP the Abbott Government plunged Australia into back in 2014 is now firmly entrenched. More than five years after the first failed budget by disgraced former Coalition Treasurer, Joe Hockey, workers’ wages are increasing at the lowest rates since records have been kept. It is unlikely there has been a worse period in Australia’s history for workers receiving a fair share of the nation’s vast wealth. This dismal news emerged from the quarterly wages figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) last Wednesday.
Global comparisons
Tradingeconomics.com has data on wage growth for 30 developed countries, current to March or June this year for most. The average rise after allowing for inflation is 2.27%. Australia’s puny 0.82% ranks a dismal 21st out of those 30 countries. Down in the bottom one third. This is the time when workers should be earning a fair share of the nation’s vast wealth and investing in homes for now and superannuation for the future. The nation should be investing in the quality of life for all citizens now – especially those doing it tough – and in infrastructure for the future. It seems the rich foreign controllers of the Coalition parties have decided to grasp as much as they can while they can and to hell with the Australian people. Because eventually, surely, one day, citizens must wake up to what is going on and call a halt.
We represent 0.3% of the world's population however and are listed as 14th on the world's largest emitters of Greenhouse gasses list and are ahead of 40 other listed nations. If global warming is seen as a worldwide problem. Australia has a significant obligation to do something in and attempted resolution of this problem. Because it's the biggest exporter of Coal in the world and the 3rd biggest exporters of fossil fuels. Scott Morrison wants to hide the image but not the action or responsibility.
HOW CHINA SQUEEZES THE LOYALTY OUT OF CHINESE AUSTRALIANS
VIDEO More than 1 million Australians are Chinese or have Chinese ancestors. The vast majority are loyal Australians - but China clearly believes some aren't or can be made loyal to Mother China. And their pressure is working. My editorial from The Bolt Report. UPDATE: Anastasia Lin sure learned that when she entered the Miss World pageant.
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Conservative politics in Australia brought us scaremongering phobias after phobias spending so much energy on efforts to tell us who we are not. We weren't Commies but Frank Hardy was one " Beware of Reds under our beds", the CPA and they walk among us lead us to the "domino theory" that took us to Vietnam allowed us to sit and watch 1,000,000 Indonesians get slaughtered without comment. Islamophobia took us to Afghanistan Iraq and has now had us do sorties over Syria and we are only 24 million. All the while Andrew Bolt posting blogs, articles and did editorials that were a witch hunt fueling culture wars to build these phobias to enable extreme right-wing white Christian racist neo-Nazi Nationalists to look respectable, entitled to "free speech". He promoted Lauren Southern and the bankrupt Milo as examples of the respectable voices of hatred fueling cultural and political division.
Bolt's a multitasker of hatred and phobias, anti-Muslim,anti-Lebanese anti-Sudanese anti-gays, anti-climate change anti-frightbat feminists, anti-leftist and now taking up Pauline Hanson's of old chant being anti-Chinese or Sinophobic. When you add up the scores other things Bolt hates about Australia you have to come to the conclusion there's not much he likes. He's simply anti- Australian culture why? Because fragmentation and division is the only way Bolt can keep the unity found in multicultural Australia divided.
Does Bolt rail about the loyalty Israel squeezes out of Jewish Australians? They have recruited Australians to work undercover for them poured millions into Australian associations to lobby on their behalf and if they have felt double-crossed arrested kidnapped dragged them to Israel and locked them away. Even driving them to suicide while continuing on with their daily espionage, lobbying and influencing the decision makers of this country. Packer, Murdoch are up close and personal to the Israeli PM whose just been indicted for being a corrupt promoter of fake news. All the activities Bolt raises here about China are exactly those mirrored by the Israelis, Russians and Americans But you will never find Bolt commenting on that.
He once ran anti -Trump commentaries but then flipped. They've stopped and he's now following the Fox News Corp line lobbying for Trump telling us how clever he is because he gets things right sometimes but then so does a broken clock.
Conservatives have a history of drumming up phobias Howard 's were Boat People, Children Overboard, Hussein's WMDs when global intelligence was telling him the reverse and like his predecessors he too us to war for little more than domestic politics. Do we really need to be that careful that vigilant that we are afraid of peace? If we do haven't we got ASIO, the AFP and ABF and other security departments doing that for us. So why is Bolt telling us you me and the dog next door needs to be alert and on their toes watching the Chinese to become not only China watchers but suspicious of each other? Well simply to give us divided and it's just another point of division. Fear is a strong wedge and political divider and the extreme right and simply the Liberal Party itself applies it and will to garner support by fuelling fear and suspicion in Australia where ever they can. Bolt says we need to be suspicious trying to recruit us to his way of thinking? Didn't Scott Morrison say he has organizations in place that does that for us? But then the ALP is a China lover and have more in common with them, don't they? The Coalition: Masters of Scare
Bolt truly is the voice of an unreasoned adult firstly he and Panahi media personalities smacks down David Attenborough a man who has paid attention all his life to scientific research its findings and the underlying and unintended consequences of what we are doing to our planet.60% of our natural fauna extinct since industrialisation. He has opened a window on the worst case scenarios to be made from these peer-reviewed studies if we go on. Now Bolt and Panahi turn on a 15-year-old with Asperger's. Did they make her condition up for effect like saying French rioters were calling for Trump? I noticed neither he nor Panahi mentions the 17-year-old on Q&A that had the panel in a quandary on Monday. No, better a kid with Aspergers as it amplifies their smackdown her mental condition important it seems that brought her to an unwarranted conclusion. 15-year-olds with Aspergers are dumber than 60-year-old media hacks like Bolt and Panahi. They obviously didn't watch Australia's Child Genius on SBS where all of those kids some with Aspergers had Mensa scores higher than Einstein and at 12 were doing university maths. Yes, there are 12-year-olds with more skills than Andrew Bolt could dream of and yes the world recognizes they have them where Bolt and Panahi obviously don't. Age is all that counts unless of course your 91 like Attenborough.
Bolt makes no mention of Scott Morrison an adult telling Australia it will reach our emissions targets of 2030 "in a canter" when the UN has declared that's not true. Well, when a child can say the same, that Morrison is failing us and the world, Bolt it seems will always support the wiser adult unless of course, he's a scientist or David Attenborough. Bolt and Panahi are just two Neanderthals, rude attention seeking arseholes who aren't any better informed just because they are media "personalities". Currently, surveys show they have some 4% of Australians believing in them and 96% are more likely to believe that the 15-year-old girl has something to offer. So even their argument that" personalities" are readily used to cut through arguments seems to fail and fail big time because they are perfect examples of the failure of their celebrity to have any impact with their own arguments, really only 4%?
WHY TURNBULL REALLY, REALLY MUST KILL THE LIBS
COLUMN It stuns me that it's taken this long for the Liberals to work out that Malcolm Turnbull just wants them dead. Ever since his mother walked out on him when he was a boy, his history shows he deals with rejection with a volcanic rage.
"It’s risky to perform amateur psychoanalysis but Turnbull himself has spoken several times, and movingly, of how his mother walked out on his father and him when he was not yet 10. "Bolt
Is Bolt really trying to raise the level of pity for the Liberals with a conspiracy that Turnbull is revolting a rabble-rouser behind the scene in the Liberal Party? Moderates were in the majority before and after Turnbull. In plain English, majorities defend they don't plot revolts that have been the sole activity of the conservative faction who dare not call their leaders name. The problem all along has been that the moderate majority has tried to accommodate them rather than kill them and Bolt's right the Libs do need to radically adjust from accommodation to expulsion or else there won't be a Liberal Party. Whatever happened to the Warringah Motion it's been thrown aside in the case of Craig Kelly who it might be pointed out was threatening to do a Julia Banks but was never attacked for doing so the way she was. The Bully was suddenly transported to the position of the victim and as Bolt now tries to point out the whole party is the victim of one man. No, that one man is encouraging that majority of Liberals to get off their butts and save the Party. Bolt the most tainted personality in media has taken up the role of "I don't really want to be don't think badly of me" psychologist to convince us that Malcolm Turnbull is predisposed to revenge when Abbott for instance is and was not. However, a simple comparison between Abbott and Turnbull's histories shows the opposite is true. Abbott has left more violence and blood on the tracks of politics than Turnbull ever has. It's been ugly and Bolt has always intentionally failed to show it because he's always been his News Corp and IPA protectors. However, the worm has turned and as we saw once before when Abbott was forced to silence Bolt raised his voice to protect him it failed and failed each time Bolt said over and over "he's changed". He hadn't so much so Bolt went silent and turned on Shorten. Abbott's silent once again the altar boy and Bolt has a ready target to misdirect us in order to forget the real Rasputin in the Liberal ranks the would-be priest that uses religious synonyms when it comes to politics who claims he has a calling like Paul of Tarsus which really is the doings of men who need to be judged not by anything other than what they have done and do. Bolt's even easier to judge he's just a camp follower of the elite looking for the crumbs of privilege he always has and always will be genuinely aloof and friendless which disguises and calls shyness.Remember the Warringah Motion? Neither do the Liberal Party!
The new anti-warming prophet Firstly Bolt's repeating himself and Judith Curry is his today's Roy Spencer remember "the world has actually been cooling for 20 years. He too was Bolt's World top Climate Scientist. Lomborg was once a Top economist when Abbott was shopping around for an Australian University to allow him in like a termite after most Fossil Fuel lobbyists had dropped him. Judith Curry, not Jo Nova is today's top. Why because whatever we do will no longer have any short-term effect. So apparently the drive for cleaner renewable energy outcomes has no beneficial effect on either cost, health, or on improving the quality of life for the next generations whatsoever why bother. I think if Curry actually stood in front of the stampede who believe the reverse she simply would be a dead prophet. Cities like Beijing and others like Dehli certainly believe they can clean up their emissions act and have less polluted and healthier days and coal barons like Adani believe so too and are transitioning to renewable energy which they even know is cheaper to produce and in outcomes than fossil fuels are. The horse has bolted Judith Curry. " I don't think that even if we had the political will we could do very much to change the climate. Carbon dioxide is not a control knob for the climate. It has some effect on very long timescales but it is nothing you can really dial up or down on the time scale of a century and change the climate. There's a lot of natural forces in play here that determine the climate and thinking that we can really control the climate by dialling down the CO2 emissions is really misguided hubris. "
This isn't even any longer the argument.
Kicking the experts " It’s embarrassing to see Sir David Attenborough make such a fool of himself after decades of brilliant filmmaking. "Bolt
When you go to the doctors and are told you have cancer apparently despite all the research done it's foolish of any doctor to tell you what the worst scenario is if you don't take advice on a course of action to ensure the worst doesn't happen. Bolt with Judith Curry too late she cried and the advice she and Bolt give is don't do anything. Slam the door in Attenborough's face and walk away. The doctor called in gave it his best shot and Bolt slammed the door in his face too not because he was an expert who'd spent his life studying it but because he was too old, too young, a woman, a Muslim, something other than smarter than Bolt himself a dying legend in his own mind. "Yes, I know much of the media treated this tosh like it was the word from Heaven, which shows most journalists cannot be trusted when reporting on this new religion. But seriously: is global warming truly a bigger threat than, say, the Black Death that wiped out maybe half Europe’s population?" Bolt Does he really sound wise?
" This is dangerous - people earning less, having the value of their home fall and running through their savings - and all when we were told our growth was the envy of the world: "Bolt
How easy is it for Bolt to take up Sally McManus's position. Conservatives have always been saying we are great in terms of the rest of the world. Bolt never showing the comparative figures we've been going backwards since-since Abbott was elected we were once second the rest of the world has been overtaking us ever since and we have been sliding on every other social scale except for personal debt. Credit card debt to supplement the stagnant wages. So what is Bolt back to spinning Labor's big spending policies we need cuts not spending just as he did when Abbott was in opposition the result no infrastructure, no cuts promises before the election became cuts to education, health, and the ABC and who in the meantime were given carte blanche to rip the Nation off by creating debt fraudulently Banks and the finance sector which the poorest and average of us paid for. Yes now the ALP are again being portrayed as irresponsible. Bolt rarely talked comparative economics when the Liberals were in power saying how great things were, did he? Households continue to be squeezed by weak income growth, falling wealth and tighter credit
3m PAYWALL It just goes to show how confused and misdirected a non-Party the Liberals are just big a yo-yos as their publicity team. They tell Laundy to shut up he's just a Turnbull man and then praise him for their own in-house hearsay from there own team the Australian. It's about as believable as telling us The French were rioting in the streets and shouting for Trump. All that is happening is ensuring the Australian electorate can see them for who they are self-interested nobody's offering the country no service whatsoever and watch out of the chaos the press will revive the myth that the only saviour they have if Tony Abbott. What are the chances of Australia buying that optic? All by the way from the same source Murdoch source
Bolt's BS he won't be down there to taste it what a symbolic shamer he is. Guess he used to promote himself to women saying" please please I'll only put it in a little bit if it hurts I'll take it out" too. The man enables racists and a story like this doesn't erase that fact. Even Nazis said they had Jewish friends particularly the Dutch who still went about ridding the country of 80% of Dutch Jews.
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Rabid Liberal dogs get a whiff of blood and they are trying to unseat Julie Bishop to get at her seat that should do to her electorate what getting rid of Turnbull did for Wentworth. do they ever learn disparaging Bishop isn't the way to win hearts and minds? Besides is Porter so confident or so fearful he's no longer wanted in his electorate.
Julia Banks is a wrecker Craig Kelly's threats to do the same are those of a victim we've seen Kelly in action and we've seen him as a bully. We've seen Abbott destroy people and his history tells us he's a bully these are thugs and we have seen them in action just as we've seen Bolt disparaging women and children for no other reason but their race we've heard him and being sponsored by the IPA at one and the same time. Again it must be said if the Warringah Motion actually was adhered to Kelly would be on the crossbench now. https://www.facebook.com/climatereality/videos/781747415502698/?t=106
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