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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.
LABOR SHOULD CHILL UNTIL awoke WARRINGAH HAS WINDFARMS
COLUMN New MP Zali Steggall is a global-warming crusader, yet hasn’t bothered to put solar panels on her roof. But now that she's beaten Tony Abbott in Warringah, she’s being begged by a Change.org petition to set an example: erect wind turbines along Warringah’s beaches, given locals are so hot on global warming. Labor should watch, learn and cool it.
Andrew Bolt shows his talent for lowering debate standards; he demands so high of others. Leading by example, he repeats his use of childish sarcasm derision and peak showing pro Abbott voters in Warringah should now act given Zali Steggel got 58% of the ballot, not 57%. Bolts dog in the race Tony only managed less than 40%. It seems Bolt would have them prancing around Manly like the twit he is uploading sour grape petitions onto social media and yelling in chorus Yadi Yadi Yada. But then that's Andrew Bolt for you. News Corp published fake news like Bolt suggests fake petitioners now do. They helped steal the election that shouldn't have been won and proved that a $60mill donation by a billionaire who owed $70mill in taxes could make News Corp wealthy if they got paid and replace the reasoned and intelligent policy offered by the opposition with bullshit, fear, and nothing else. Yadi, Yadi Yada and "I'll burn for you" won the day making Australian politics look as vacuous as American is today. Australia wants to lead the world by example, and Andrew Bolt feels he sets that for the media by doing the Monty Python John Cleese silly walk verbally as the erudite model commentator he's not. Sadly he remains what he is just Andrew Bolt as welcome as a fart in an overcrowded lift.
ANTI-ADANI EXTREMISTS LOSE. QUEENSLAND PREMIER PANICKS
Anti-Adani activists had politicians and gutless bank bosses spooked, but the collapse of Labor's vote in Queensland has had Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk hit the panic button to speed up approvals for the project she recklessly delayed. But now she's got a war with her green-maddened deputy. My editorial from The Bolt Report.
Gutless bank bosses, investors like Bolt, people with money like AGL, Origin Energy, and oil companies universally failed to invest in Adani still aren't rushing to invest in Adani. Will the state or the country be made to carry this risk nobody in the free market wants to touch. Who's going to show their socialist face using taxpayer money to invest in a coal mine. Now that's showing Putin how to go about things without the use of oligarchs. Mind you there's one sitting back waiting for the precedent to be set one whose renown for not paying his bills, Clive Palmer and maybe Gina as well waiting in the background. If the free market the biggest superfunds are divesting from fossil fuels whose going to stop that top end run Andrew Bolt?
PAYWALL Had people of faith not been so arrogant as to exclude LGBTQI's in the first place with their forced referendum that turned them from a privileged minority to just ordinary people then they might have continued to live their lives deluded. When the automobiles were invented, some of these people of faith chose to isolate themselves from the rest of the world in varying degrees casting out of their communities those that didn't agree. They thought of themselves as the elect, and it seems they still do. Equality is the failed dogma of the devil, and while they have a long list of things they would ban according to their Sharia laws which they now want legally constituted. Bolt supports their drive for their equivalent of Sharia Law to be recognised. In fact, he supports the drive for Australia to be declared a Christian State as Israel recently declared itself a Jewish state making everyone else second class. Equality and fairness have no place in a land of saints and sinners, according to extremist Christians, even Andrew Bolt is someone to be shunned a self-declared agnostic. With that, I walk with Christian bigots and would ban him too.
COLUMN This election result should end the ludicrous gender politics that politicians have played. Two blokes beat a woke Labor leader and his trophy female deputy - and did it with their own top women playing a shocker. Yet Labor's Anthony Albanese was still playing the old game when asked when Labor's top blokes should make way for a new generation.
33m The number of women has increased in the Parliament, but not so much on the LNP side, that's a fact. The women of the LNP have publicly stated the preselection process still remains firmly in the hands of the "old boys club" this has been pointed to over and over again. The LNP points to the women who have broken that barrier as a denial of any bias and declare themselves on the side of merit. The ALP has made adjustments to ensure quotas are met and the LNP claim that's a fixed race not based on merit. However, Australian Politics is meant to be representational and not on some vague notion that the person elected was the best. Let's face it Bolt thought Molan and Abbott were the best and their electorates rejected them. Merit is the last thing you will find in a secretly rigged race. All that is asked is representation in which the process is clear and transparent, which is why Chris Bowen bowed out as did Tanya Plibersek as Albanese has the numbers from the grassroots up. I don't know what Bolt's talking about, but the ALP attracts a far greater and varied group than you will ever see in the Liberal Party. They look far more representative of what Australia is.
MAY TIPPED TO QUIT AS FARAGE SOARS, MINISTER QUITS
Theresa May is tipped to quit tomorrow: "The Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom resigned... saying she couldn’t put forward the Brexit bill as she was so fundamentally opposed its new elements, particularly the offer of a second referendum." The Brexit Party's likely win in today's European Union election will make it worse.
The most significant aspect of Bolt's Paywall link he's thriving on what is the visible destruction o the Tory Party or at least the moderates within it. Rest assured the sentiments won't be his they will be strictly tied to the hip with whatever Murdoch media is trying to do. The main goal is it seems the destruction of the United Kingdom and the formation of Little Britain.
Terry McCrann says Labor lost the election on tax, not global warming: "Take Queensland — and its 23-6 seat majority to the Coalition — out of the numbers and Labor won easily in the rest of Australia... Shorten announcing he would stop Adani — would not have lost Labor any more seats in Queensland. There just ain’t any left to lose."
Murdoch's donation Palmer and 80 million dollars worth of fake fear pedalled in Qld stopped Labour rationality and reason. Redefining language takes money a blanket of propaganda and the resources to do it. When welfare for the rich's removal becomes a tax. When real news becomes fake news and those seeking asylum become illegals what you have is the destruction of a reasoned argument for propaganda's sake. What we have wound up with is a government that has no policies no cabinet and no direction to offer a nation other than nope you don't have Bill you've got me ScoMo an accident waiting to happen. It's no miracle that a tsunami of fake news stopped labour, and that was no miracle! That was real $$$ and a game of liars poker. The question remains is that what the nation needs and is that Democracy lost? It certainly was manipulated. Now Murdoch will continue to profit cleaning up the mess and selling theirs and the IPA's policies. Let's not forget when Abbott gained power; his policy plans were scripted by the IPA. Is Morrison as equally obliged? For heaven's sake, he hasn't even one policy yet other than like Abbott everything "no" that was Labour. He hasn't even a cabinet. The best thing for the nation Murdoch can do to ensure he has more than a 3-year term is to steal the ALPs policies.
Andrew Bolt denied he had any influence in radicalising the Australian shooter in Christchurch. His denial is the equivalent of saying that Murdoch media has no impact in this country. Yet here he is defending what he denies. He occasionally turns to the fake and false cherry of the equivalence of all media. Coupled with the argument that violence exists everywhere on both extremes and is the same just violence. Simply blurring the differences as Trump attempted after Charlottesville Bolt too removes the social context history and meaning from an event to defend himself of any complicity. Here he tries to do the opposite by declaring all news is biased; therefore, private media is biased and is legitimate. However, denying the same for public media which should then be privatised. What he fails to mention is that public media is meant to represent the diversity of opinion in Australia that's why it's public Private represents the interests of its shareholders and business model for the purpose of profit. The ABC is there to hold all interests to account and whether or not they are justifiable which isn't biased but doing what it was designed to do is testing the diversity of opinion as dictated by its charter which it does and which Murdoch media is paid not to do. There are two different models of business only however conflicts, and that's Murdoch's whose interests aren't Australia's. Any attack by the government on the ABC is, in fact, an attack on Democracy and is in the interests of Murdoch but not in "ours". According to Bolt, the news is " not meant to be opinion-free". This is a blatant cry of support for news as a packaged commodity, but then it's not what is regarded in everyday discourse news but a product, packaged influence propaganda to be advertised and sold like any other. If that's the case, it's promoting should be judged under those laws and regulations in place protecting us from false and fake advertising. Murdoch's tabloids are presented as news! Unless the definition of news has changed what is being sold is fake. After all, we pay for "news" but get crap in its place. That needs to be addressed, but it won't be by ScoMo.
Did anyone else notice that person who Bolt look an idiot was central to having Tony Abbott removed in Warringah that young man Bolt promised to have back on his show and never did had Bolt's favourite booted from politics? Well done, James Mathison the invisible man who was never on the Bolt Report. Laughing at Peter van Onselen shows Bolt's incapacity to see himself in the mirror.
2013 was an election the Liberals didn't win, and this also was an election they didn't win according to Bolt. This is the election the people of Warringah won, and Kooyong almost won. The election where the educated took time to read and analyse what was on offer. Sort fear and propaganda from information and fact. This election, unfortunately, was again one based on sloganeering negativity and manufactured fear against a reasoned policy based on rationality that the punters simply never bothered to read. This was Qld against Australia
JULIA BANKS CRASHES, MALCOLM TURNBULL GRIM
Isn't karma kute? Julia Banks quit the Liberals after making unsubstantiated claims of bullying. She also quit her seat of Chisholm to run in Flinders against Liberal Health Minister Greg Hunt, a Turnbull foe. She lost in Flinders, and the Liberals also won back her old seat of Chisholm. No wonder Malcolm Turnbull today looked so sour.
Gloating is the character of the ugly Australian the ugly conservative and the ugly Liberal. Andrew Bolt sees himself entirely differently when looking at his reflection. His attitudes are substantiated just as his expectations of women are and there are plenty of men in the Liberal Party that have a misogynist history. Tony Abbott's is well recorded his loss on Saturday won't have him in The Pantheon of great Liberal PMs, unlike John Howard who lost his seat while PM Abbott lost his leadership to the Party and then lost it to the people of Warringah. Malcolm resigned big difference. Julia Banks is a woman ready to make choices and test them in the real world before people. Bolt does quite the opposite and has never really tested himself in a crowd. He's never changed jobs. I've yet to see him in any real debate only preach and try to convince racists misogynists and white Christians merit their status in the social order. The trouble is when you actually investigate Bolt's achievements, there really aren't any. So the attacks on banks appear incredibly hollow.
Murdoch who gives nothing away and is surrounded by paywalls. Has been tossing the Daily Telegraph to non-subscribers in Warringah gratis since March. All in support of his dog in the race Tony Abbott. How many dollars will be spent by election time and has this been declared as a political donation? (ODT)
Residents in the federal seat of Warringah are complaining about telephone push polling, unwanted copies of the Daily Telegraph arriving on their lawns and election posters being defaced. The most mysterious event in the Sydney seat, where the former prime minister Tony Abbott is fighting a challenge from the independent Zali Steggall, is the arrival of unsolicited copies of the Telegraph, which began in late March. Residents in Manly, Queenscliff, Curl Curl and Fairlight said they had begun intermittently receiving copies of the News Corp tabloid newspaper, despite not being subscribers. The Telegraph has run a number of stories that would not have delighted Steggall’s campaign.
THE TRUTH ABOUT SHORTEN'S 'SMALL STUMBLES'
Terry McCrann on the Labor apologists defending Bill Shorten's "small stumbles": "I would... apply a different descriptor... to the leader of a political party refusing point blank to detail... the costs of the most fundamental, most wide-reaching, most fundamentally economy and society-changing policy... proposed by a party seeking government."
In real terms, Terry Mc Crann can't be bothered about the fact that massive investments are being made to reduce CO2 emissions, not by governments but the free market based purely on the logic of the hidden costs that will be suffered if we don't. Mc Cranns demand of the limits and constraints of investment merely is moronic. For an economist to take Mc Crann's approach is to ask how much are we prepared to spend saving the planet before walking away when it's the only planet we have.
Shorten stumbles McCrann is the Lemming trying to take everyone over the cliff.
Abbott won that prize years ago. He's so far in front of the race it's well over. Now Bolt even avoids talking about him in fear of reviving our memories. Scapegoating Turnbull is hardly being smart. Abbott's jumped left and joined the warming church and Bolt has ignored that. He batteling on local issues because he can't be seen to be remindin everyone wh he really is. Silent on the ABC,Climate,Nauru is he really running in this Federal election? News Corp is doing the job however breaking the donation laws by giving their paywalled Daily Telegraph free to non-subscribers in Warringah. They have been doing it since March is the report. How pissed off would subscribers be? There's no loyalty it seems from Murdoch and have these donations been listed? There are 63,000 dwellings in the electorate so how large is Murdoch's contribution going to be if this goes on until the election? Whose really paying for these papers? As for Global Warming not only is the rate of warming growing but so is the rate of investment by private enterprise in reducing CO2. Where has Bolt "sanely" invested his money> He's never offered to say. However, Ladbrokes would bet it's not in coal.
Veteran journalist Margo Kingston accuses Alan Jones of a smear campaign against media organisation Al Jazeera after he sided with Pauline Hanson in the aftermath of the How to Sell a Massacre documentary.
Jones works for Sky Channel an arm of Murdoch Media. Did he ever challenge News Corp because the Saudi Prince Alaweed and billionaire had a significant shareholding in Murdoch's companies?
Has he ever mentioned that Rupert Murdoch is on the board of Genie Oil and has major investments in illegal oil exploration in the Israeli occupied territories of Syria's Golan Heights which Trump has just declared as legally held?
Why does News Corp only write positive stories on Israel never the factual, yet negative ones? Why is it that Jones never declares Sky Channel, a suspiciously biased organisation?
Funny how easily someone Murdoch staff readily yell "fake news". But in defence of Pauline Hanson give us a break!! (ODT)
How will One Nation retaliate?
The question remains, however, what One Nation will do in its preference decisions, as opposed to what the Coalition does. At the 2016 election, One Nation in Queensland adopted different "how to vote" cards in different electorates, sometimes suggesting split tickets to its voters, depending on whether they were disgruntled Labor or Liberal voters, or whether, as in the case of Wyatt Roy, there were scores to settle. In response to Scott Morrison's declaration on preferences, Senator Hanson said on Thursday that "you, Prime Minister have just handed the keys to The Lodge to Bill Shorten, Di Natale and the CFMEU. You're a fool". This sits rather uneasily with the fact that what she is suggesting is that her party's own preference decisions might not achieve exactly that result. Senator Hanson's ultimate interest, however, rests not in who wins control of the House of Representatives but whether she gains another seat in the Senate and, with it, a balance of power position akin to the one that her colleagues were discussing so lustily in America. This is the real election that voters in Queensland will be determining when they look into the eyes of One Nation on polling day.( Lara Tingle)
What One Nation deny and the denials Bolt Jones and Sky support (ODT)
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comments were broadcast at the tail end of part two of last week’s Al
Jazeera documentary on One Nation, the compelling result of the covert
recordings. “You cannot, in life, and
especially in politics… take into account everybody’s emotions,” Ashby,
Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, tells Rodger Muller, the undercover
operative he believes is the head of an Australian gun rights lobby
group. The men, accompanied by One
Nation's Steve Dickson, are about to board a plane back to Australia,
having completed their piss-powered bumpkins' tour of the odious
Washington gun lobby, trying to solicit cash and pick up tips on how to
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LNP organizing the safety of the parliament couldn't organize a chook raffle (ODT) A firm given the $14 million job of upgrading critical security at Parliament House in Canberra is in disarray with allegations of cocaine use, a sideline in an Uber-style app for escorts, debts to Russian friends and the intervention of a Morrison government minister. Almost a year after the $75 million state-of-the art upgrade to protect MPs from acts of terrorism was due to be completed, the marble entrances of Parliament remain shrouded in scaffolding and 400 businesses across Australia are owed $21 million.
Read about Scott Morrison's organising abilities to keep us safe (ODT)
“So many things that he does the cameras don’t see,” Tani Rickle says.
Please don't turn your back on him
He'll knife you
“These far-left activists want to weaken our borders, make our electricity bills more expensive, and divide our nation with the politics of identity and race.”Abbott
He started TEAM AUSTRALIA. But All Citizens aren't included. Muslims Africans Lebanese, LGBTQIs
By focusing on lobbyists, Omar suggests that America’s interests are corrupted by a small clique. The truth is far worse.
Andrew Bolt has a tendency an urgency, in fact, to remind us of drug and alcohol addiction among the Aboriginal communities of Australia but avoid mentioning that over 500,000 other Australians, in fact, are too. That figure is almost the total population of Indigenous Australians. Furthermore, he makes no mention of the fact that each of us knows and has known someone suffering from an addiction of one sort or another legal or illegal.
The use of just Ecstasy and Cocaine has doubled in the past 3 years which makes it highly likely that his children have used drugs of one sort or another if you take cannabis and alcohol and put them into the mix as well. Yet Bolt's focus is never on drugs used by all Australians but intensely concentrated and focused on Australia's First Nations peoples why? To be able to generalise that it's their Culture which is to blame and is somehow less than ours. The problem, however, is Bolt doesn't seem to be able to explain who it is that uses and can afford to use the vast quantities of drugs consumed in this country far more than what the small %of Indigenous users are able to afford and absorb.
If 500,000 is the estimate of current overall addicts needing help today and the number is doubling so fast, it's only logical to assume Australians of all classes are drug users. Further, there are far more addicted or and verging on addiction than even gestimated number put forward. Some possibly among or close to the holier than thou Andrew Bolt himself who he knows and helps keep their addiction secret. If it's normal for all of us to know an addict why would it be an exception for Andrew Bolt after all he says he's Australian. (ODT)
Trump's shambolic management style and paranoia are taking its toll on his staff, Gabe Sherman reports for Vanity Fair.
Vanity Fair reports that many in the White House staff can't stand Trump, who is always looking for a scapegoat.Can you imagine working for a bloviating narcissist, who demands total and complete loyalty and offers none in return? Sherman, as accurate as any reporter in the media today writes, "The issue is that many see Trump himself as the problem." “Trump is hated by everyone inside the White House,” a former West Wing official told Sherman. "His shambolic management style, paranoia, and pattern of blaming staff for problems of his own making have left senior White House officials burned out and resentful." "It’s total misery. People feel trapped,” a former official said. “Trump always needs someone to blame,” a second former official said. Sources told Sherman that the leak of Trump’s internal schedules to Axios—which revealed how little work Trump actually does—was a signal of how disaffected his staff has become." And Larry Kudlow's looking to jump the ship.
Tony Abbott is out on the hustings earlier than usual to save his old seat. This time round, the ex-PM is focused on entirely local problems - and he is not too proud to spruik the need for new dunnies at his local beach.
This "new" man came on The Bolt Report and whinged, and Andrew Bolt has always whinged along in chorus complaining about the negativity of his political opponents. Tony Abbott has been in a permanent state of opposition since he entered politics. It's the very reason he's hated so much because even as a leader he was in opposition preaching hell was on nigh, and he was the only one who could save us. Tony Abbott created the negative space we have all felt since 2013 and fear has always been his tool. He's Andrew Bolt's mate, and together they both hate the best of the marrow that makes Australia.
We never cheered Abbott we never stopped cheering Steggalls.
Wait for News Corps Fake News Campaigns they will come. Remember Rupert Murdoch and Tony Abbott at the Alfalfa Club in 2016 trying to pull the wool over Australia's eyes. You can't forget Andrew Bolt echoing "he's changed, he's changed" "he's got the message" only to watch the world laugh at the 28 seconds of TV silence and dumb expression. Remember the Broken Promises easily made until the First Budget, hiding behind Credlin, the killing of Peter Slipper, his mate. Throwing Joe under the bus, the slagging off of his own sister, and telling us that climate change is crap. The sniping and the backstabbing and we heard him in Afghanistan speak so easily about Australian death "shit happens". Yes, it did shit happened, and we fast realised that in 2013.
With Tony Abbott, Australia changed, and we the people all stopped smiling and felt the cloud drift across the country. The Liberals have been trying to turn things around ever since, but the tail is still there trying to wag the dog. Peter Dutton and Abbott are still doing a Boomgate with the sound turned down but not off and Morrison standing with that embarrassed smile begging them not keep doing what they can't help doing.
Let's not forget Tony Abbott's classic comment while visiting Afghanistan was "shit happens". Andrew Bolt forgot it immediately crying out Abbott's a media victim of a left-wing press.
Independent Zali Steggall is on track to replace the former prime minister as the MP for Warringah, according to a GetUp poll.
" The activist group, which is campaigning to oust Mr Abbott from his traditionally Liberal seat on Sydney's northern beaches, commissioned a poll of 622 residents that showed the four-time Winter Olympian leading 54 to 46 on a two-party preferred basis."
Guess nobody watches the Bolt Report? Andrew Bolt allowed Tony Abbott to say nothing other than it wasn't his fault all conservatives are having a hard time and being victimised these days.
He eat that onion by the way because he's a nice guy Bolt said trying to boost his mate's stocks. The ex- trainee priest has said the medical profession just can't be trusted because of the Hippocratic Oath they swore to it makes them too compassionate. Too weak to have them vet the seriousness of the illnesses of asylum seekers in offshore detention. Only conservative politicians like Peter Dutton are in the position to be trusted to act reasonably. ASIO it's been rumoured leaked the words of Donald Trump about these deplorables, murderers, pedophiles and low lifes. We can only guess their intelligence may have come directly from Murdoch media's Fox News as no primary sources seem quoted. (ODT)
The country's vice minister of citizen security said weapons shipment was "financed by the fascist extreme right and the government of the United States."
It's noted, if the U.S. is attempting to arm the Venezuelan opposition, "it would be taking a familiar page from the history books." "The CIA operated a dummy airline, known as Air America, from the early 1950s until the mid-1970s for air operations in Southeast Asia, including air-dropping weapons to friendly forces," the outlet observed. "More than a decade later, Sandinista soldiers shot down a cargo plane taking weapons to the U.S.-backed Contra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government. A U.S. Marine veteran, Eugene Hasenfus, survived the 1986 crash, and later told reporters that he was working for the CIA."
Oliver Laurence North is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. He was convicted in the Iran–Contra affair of the late 1980s, but his convictions were vacated and reversed, and all charges against him dismissed in 1991. Wikipedia
Col Oliver North, is the current President of the NRA, was caught out and busted for leading these clandestine missions into Nicaragua and was and still is proud of it. We had our own experiences in Australia with CIA fronts and illegal activities with the Nugan Hand Bank. Banks in the 70s and before were always ready to act as fronts for criminal activity. Some set up for that very purpose. (ODT)
Direction to a very informative film *****
This episode we were joined by author and activist, John Potash, to discuss his new book, "Drugs as Weapons Against US: The CIA's Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and Other Activists". There was a great deal of detailed information discussed throughout this interview that shed bright lights on a range of political assassinations of activists and outspoken celebrities. Tune in now.
Compelling viewing*****
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3pWbgp_-j0
Just how do the 1% hide their wealth and income which is equivalent to the rest of the world and cry if governments talk of increasing the taxes? Does the planet, the human world need Billionaires when the bottom 10% can cry out with joy because their annual income has increased by $3 dollars?
