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Wilkie is a disgrace, blaming the second Bali bombing on Australia

 

What Wilkie said" Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie has claimed the Lindt Cafe siege and 2005 Bali bombings would not have occurred if Australia did not enter the Iraq war in 2003, and blamed John Howard for the terror threat Australia currently faces." The Australian .Wilkie in referring to the Chilcot Report and also said "“It is by far the best inquiry, the most robust and thorough inquiry that has yet been conducted in any of the “Coalition of the Willing” countries into the invasion of Iraq and the start of a war which frankly continues to this very day,”  He described the report as damning.

Bolt however  talks as if Wilkie is referring to 2002 which is total BS why? Simply to misinform and make out Wilkie can't be trusted and neutralize a narrative with a lie.

The Chilcot report substantiates everything Wilkie said when he was an ADF Colonel and intelligence officer. There was no evidence of WMDs to justify an invasion consequently it would simply be seen as an attack against Islam. The disgrace is that Tony Blair still insists the world is currently better off without Saddam. The invasion of Iraq gave rise to the Shiia/ Sunni rift under the Maliki government that gave rise to the butchery of Shiia militia and ISIS spread  to Syria. Bolt today claims ISIS was smashed and weak yesterday he was arguing how strong they are and they are under our beds. However nobody raises the fact that history as we have seen it evolve was already a planned long before by Israel and the US. In the 80s and 90s Secular Arab States were regarded as far more dangerous than the anarchic sectarian ones that are fighting each other today. That's what Blair meant not the world but Israel is safer without Qaddaffi, Sadam, Assad and the Egyptian state. The West supported the Islamic brotherhood. 

How complex is it when Israeli Generals admit to supporting terrorists that we declare our enemies like Al Nusra, Al,Qaeda and ISIS.  Bolt ignores them because it doesn't fit his simplistic narrative of " Syria’s 2011 uprising gave the Islamic State new opportunities to expand. Some analysts have even described a tacit nonaggression pact between Islamic State militants and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, with each focused on fighting the main antigovernment opposition forces for territorial control.... " This in fact dissolves to complete misinformation when put in context of the IDF admissions coupled with the Russian bombing of ISIS. Bolt fails to explain why all the terrorist weapons are stamped with made in the USA they might as well be stamped with made in Israel. When intelligence, analysis and the Chilcot report now  show what a gung ho disgrace it was  to invade Iraq and the inevitable push back that has resulted there is absolutely no disgrace saying John Howard's Australia must accept some consequence for the Bali bombing.

What is absurd today is Bolt demanding we break diplomatic ties with the UAE and close their embassies here when Tony Abbott has deployed our troops and air force  there. How smart is Bolt? Is he demanding our troops dig in, be sent home or evacuate and be based in Israel? Bolt shoots from the hip and does so often. Given strategic advice who would we choose Andrew Wilkie professional ADF intelligence officer or Andrew Bolt Australia's public war monger?

 

 

 

Toxic Labor flops even against a Turnbull

 

Labor lost? Then why are the Liberals acting like losers and not celebrating? The advance is unity and solidarity the Liberal party anarchy hasn't got. It won't have it as long as MT and TA are both there. They are like Collingwood a lot of  money and members but in total disarray. 

How more corrupt can it get?

 

 

 

How the Liberals could win with Abbott

How can a Party icon speak like this about a living saint

 

Watch the work of Bolt's troll Peter BH today

Labor want Abbott back pity the electorate labor and Liberal don't. 71% of the electorate still prefer Turnbull to Abbott. No matter the News Corp howl it's the case.  Millions nevertheless will be spent to overturn that opinion. Cory Bernardi has begun a "Conservative Movement" like the one he did once before which was a flop with a massive 3000 likes on FB. Notice Bolt's petition has a high of 1200. Given he advertises himself as having 3mill followers 1200 is a massive figure off that low base he talks of. He doesn't mention his Sky News numbers and just how close to Waleed's they are

Negotiators  for a hung parliament Tony Abbott ranked 9th

 

 

 

 

 

Turnbull’s own Mediscare lie exposed:  he, not Abbott, set it off

Bolt's Tony Abbott

The full frontal attack on Turnbull is coming whether Libs like it or not. Abbott is hoping for the Perfect Storm.  The Angelic Abbott not seen to be leading the charge but is pictured as St Sebastian on the cross riddled with the arrows of the pagan unbelievers.

 Even Labor which is no surprise have joined in because they would prefer Abbott to MT despite the polling of the electorate which prefers MT as PM.  However the Liberal preference gap is so wide 61:38 and it's still very much the case of the tail  trying to wag the dog. Why is News Corp so bullish? I've always said they are a corporate business first and their bottom line is insured by ridding us of the ABC which happens to also align with IPA pro mining policies. 

MT took full responsibility for the result but Bolt who for at least the 4th time says Abbott has changed and is calling Turnbull a liar. MT was fluffing around. He was  carrying the burden of Abbott's unsalable IPA policies of which  Bolt  continually kept us  informed. Just go to his blog site even I doubt he has the gall to change and deny what he kept repeating ad nauseum.  One shouldn't forget that Tony Nutt was MT's Campaign manager the same Tony Nutt Bolt lauded when he thought Nutt was going to be Abbott's new PMO media adviser. However he fails to mention him at all these days it's as if Nutt wasn't involved in this election. Nor does Bolt ever mention Baird the Liberal leader he also praised who now is disgusted with the pro Hanson views and the divisive media support she gets. It seems Bolt is only supported by the extremists in the Liberal Party. It just be why Miranda doesn't find him useful as an advocate or commentator either.

Bolt points his finger at MT's "facile appeals to innovation" and science he almost sounds like an extreme fundamentalist where education is training in ideology and conservative values and is prefered to critical, inventive and progressive thinking. Bolt who raised Abbott to the heights of a loyal Liberal Party saint actually admits  Turnbull has reason" No, he blames only the man he most fears: Tony Abbott.". Why because his policies since 2014 were a weight around the party's neck. Where is Hockey now if his budget was so good that it "fixed" the economy. No they  only made a feeble attempt to "fix" and kill  the narrative.

It seems Bolt's Troll Peter BH has been working on this particular monologue for a week. Bolt certainly hasn't. But what's curious is they flip the coin to suggest Abbott is under attack once more by  MT and the forces of evil his friends the MSM media. Bolt presents himself as some sort of counter balance to Get UP but he just remains the voice of ultra- Conservative MSM. Fox News  Australia without the weight and 90% untrusted. Where was this political commentator hiding during the election Sky News seemed to have him locked in a closet. He wasn't on any panels.

 

Column - The Mufti warns: criticise the imam and risk death

 

 

You can't even warn people that words of criticism might inspire a nutters of any kind to kill. It did when anti-Islamist Man Haron Monis demanded to talk to Tony Abbott.  Who by the way said no! Wouldn't it have been appropriate for our National Security and ASIO to have done something to take this mentally ill person off the streets rather than to have allowed him to buy a gun. Bolt cries out for Muslims to be socially responsible when they are he attacks them and tells them to F#$k Off. "His inflammatory letter perfectly demonstrates why Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was a fool to hold an Iftar dinner for the Mufti and other troubling Muslim leaders during the election campaign." So this is obviously what Abbott meant when he  called for a Team Australia  "Shut the Doors on Rag Heads" According to Bolt Abbott was a Hansonite . If so why did he have her jailed?  

There are always so many contradictions when Bolt opens his mouth. Did anyone notice Hanson's vote was high in areas that have had the least experience with immigration. In areas where the fear of immigration the fear of terror was preached the most. Did anyone note that where immigration was the highest it was who's Hanson who's Bolt?

 

 

 

Feel free to keep me company at the festival

 

When Bolt knows he's a minority, However a minority that will turn up with his own security and begging for more. " But if you could turn up and make me think I’m not entirely in hostile territory I would be grateful:" Why does this believer in free speech, a colorless Australia, and  a Hansonite even think he's in hostile territory when he says he represents the 'real' Australia. He's made it clear he has more to fear from the police who he calls liars and the bureaucratic fools who run the country. The man is there to sell his book and preach his stale ideas. It's $17.50 free shipping online since the 15/6/16  From Bolt himself it's only $24.99 71% more

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This Blog is either a Paywall for News Corp or an Advertorial for the Bolt Report Neither are doing too well 

 Government the slowest for nearly 50 years 

Policy paralysis': Tony Abbott's government the slowest for nearly five decades

 

 

 

 

Singing it to their face

Link PJ Media Conservative

  Matisyahu Bolt has grabbed an adopted a Jewish rapper simply because he remained apolitical. Neither for Israel or Palestine he performed on front of a pro Palestinian crowd. All the excitement all the bluster Bolt tries to make of it proves nothing. He's Jewish and in good Jewish tradition he performed because business is business and that's what he does. All the symbolism attributed to this by Bolt is in fact meaningless and Bolt has merely stolen a Jews actions for his own political purpose. Bolt has no idea what this Israeli Jew's politics in fact are. By the way he wasn't shot at or assaulted he was booed. Like Adam Goodes.
“Jerusalem, if I forget you, fire not gonna come from me tongue. Jerusalem, if I forget you, let my right hand forget what it’s supposed to do.”

One thing is certain Bolt hasn't a clue what the meaning of these words sung are.

There is no such thing as a right wing rapper which Bolt fails to understand.Matisyahu might well be an Israeli but hardly likely a Netanyahu supporter. To quote Bolt

" Just wish I liked the music more, though. Much prefer this song to Jerusalem"

 

Dustin Martin should have waved a spear, not two fingers

" The double standards are astonishing. The AFL should not imagine the fans don’t see it."

Dustin Martin  did  throw a two finger fuck you spear at the opposition and we all knew what that meant. There was no accompanying dance. Adam Goodes on indigenous day did a dance and symbolically threw a spear only Andrew Bolt put the fuck you into it and turned it into something entirely different. It was so un Australian of him for doing just that. What was good was the countries general response to Bolt. I dare Bolt to go to a Swans match and in public stand and boo Adam Goodes I'm sure he wouldn't have the guts.

 

 

 

China falls, and our stock market falls with it. Worse may be to come

Link Herald Sun Link News Corp Paywall

Please tell me who is it saying our deficit isn't a problem having doubled it in the past two years. Who has spent 40 bill hear 16 bill there with a newly found gay abandon? Who is promising tax cuts without telling us how they will be paid for? Hockey and Abbott of course. Are they and their party the best money managers?

 They  were just ripped off to the tune of $ 2 million and  their accounts department knew what was happening because they were or should I say Mantach was doing the ripping off. He'd done it once before in Tassie but what did the Liberals our money managers do they hushed it up. They are our best money managers aren't they?.. pigs arse.

 

 

 

 

Who is minding the door?

Link Andrew Bolt 2014 Link Herald Sun

Selective reporting by Bolt always deliver us crimes committed by individuals around Australia.  Crimes not of the kind  committed daily by every ordinary Australian but by Australian Muslims. Bolt  presents these as representative of Islam and not Australia in order to push the Patriot Defense League mantra that they shouldn't have been let into the country in the first place. Because crimes in general do not occur in this country and if they do you won't hear of them from Bolt.

There is intent to Bolt's reports and that is to cast a shadow of fear over not just Melbourne but the whole country suggesting by innuendo that we are all potentially in danger and are the victims of Muslim hate and crime. Bolt revels in  these stories. It doesn't matter whether these criminals have  nothing in common they have Islam in common and it's that which counts.

Bolt like bigots of the past who once spread rumors of Catholic dagoes wandering the streets of Melbourne armed with knives ready to jump any innocent protestantAussie they come across. Or how Vietnamese gangs had taken over our streets. Bolt's purpose is to put fear in the mind of his readers and if it's already there to reinforce the bigotry it creates. He lets his  know under Labor our Immigration laws were  slack  but now the person best able to keep us safe from these criminals and terrorists is Tony Abbott. When push comes to shove Abbott's the only one prepared to do what's necessary to protect us.

Bolt's articles are a double edged knife because they are written in the hope of creating a sense of alienation in those he's writing about basically he's quite happy to try to divide Australia so he can then say it's Abbott and Captain Hastie who  know how to deal with these rag heads. Bolt is ISIS's media man in Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

Column - On the smearing of Captain Andrew Hastie

Link Andrew Bolt

A case of the pot calling the kettle black. 

Andrew Bolt was leaked documents to bring Major Andrew  Wilkie down. Leaked Security files by the Howard government itself. So Andrew Bolt has no qualms in destroying the reputation of Australia's military men any time it suits him.

Andrew Bolt: I did 'go through' leaked top secret report by ...

Margot Kingston

"I'm still trying to breathe after seeing on Lateline the photos of American soldiers smiling as they pose with tortured Iraqi prisoners, if torture is the word for the horror. The images are out of a Caligula movie. The world has gone to hell. George Bush's war on Iraq will haunt all our lives. I recant my objections to Latham's policy. Out now! There must be a better way, there must be. We must find leaders fast, real fast.

All we can do is what we can do. This week, Webdiary columnist Jack Robertson interviewed Andrew Wilkie, an Australian hero who did and is doing what he can do, and decided to do what he could to find out what was happening to the Australian Federal Police investigation into the leaking of Wilkie's top secret ONA report to Howard cheerleader Andrew Bolt, columnist with the Herald Sun and invitee to Rupert Murdoch's recent gathering of his worldwide army of propagandists in Cancun. Jack is doing what he can do. Here is his preliminary report. More to come.

To begin, here's my summary of the story as of last September, from Howard on the ropes: Labor's three chances for a knockout blow:"

 Asylum seekers: Andrew Wilkie takes Australia to international criminal court: An ex army officer who cares for Australia and not just a party. Wilkie told us Howard was lying about WMD’s and there was no reason to invade Iraq Party

  

 

 

 

 

Faine’s apology just more evidence of the Left’s capture of our institutions

" Until the Liberals tackle the state funding of massive cultural institutions now dedicated to their destruction they will struggle not only to get votes but even a hearing."

Given that the Liberal financial and ideological support can only be found among the shrinking few wealthy, transnational mega corporations, or in corporations in pivotal industries basically capital in Australia.  It's no surprise the shrinking middle class and professional classes are to be found in other institutional and cultural areas and are starting to feel less than secure.  Is it any surprise that they don't support a government that seems to ignore their interests by removing their civil liberties previous rights and putting downward pressure on their incomes. The propaganda and promises of the right are being recognized for what they are just a smokescreen for downward mobility. Furthermore grassroots Liberal organizations simply don't exist  within these areas and that goes a long way to explain their dwindling support for the Liberal Party.

 Heading Bolt's list of targets needing to be privatized and not publicly funded is the ABC. Which News Corp greedily has it's eyes on.  Expanding markets can be done one of two ways the cheapest being the carving up of  the opposition. That Thursday dinner Abbott had with Murdoch would have been one that reinforced the promises and mutual interests of both these men. Their problem is not only the next election but to ensure a majority in the upper house.

The problem however isn't because these social and cultural institutions aren't private the problem is that the single minded focus on profit doesn't fulfill the needs of everyone and user pays approach reduces activities to a few. Basically Conservatives running social and cultural institutions with a stick will inevitably be counterproductive without grassroots support which they don't have. However these issues are then really only treated as political sideshows which distract from real economic issues they can't or won't deal with in the media. We once knew Wayne Swan but who is  Joe Hockey?

 

 

 

We can’t keep taxing like this

News Corp Paywall

" high tax rates are choking entrepreneurialism and work incentives, and at the interaction of taxes and welfare bene­fits lower down the income scale…"

What are we hinting at here? Wealth is hurting entrepreneurs and killing their incentives.  Well it's simply a lie that Bolt is peddling apart from a few super star entrepreneurs most wealth comes from inheritance and property transfer and the income that generates. It's lack has kept the indigenous poor for 220 years. So Bolt's support of Hockey's suggestion is "bullshit"

Given that single income families have fast disappeared since the 80's, that the middle class is shrinking and the income gap is increasing more people are finding themselves in need of welfare. The Liberal answer of ever stringent policing and austerity will and has done nothing to find jobs for the 800,000 unemployed. There are 12 people looking for every job available in the country. That's not distinguishing those with families to support. Attacking penalty rates is certainly not a job growth policy. People need to have savings in order to spend and that no longer seems possible. We carry the highest credit card debt per individual in the world now. 

Home ownership has given away to investment and the continued accumulation of wealth by those already with it. All things show that the rich are getting richer and more easily. Bolt wants to see even more of that happening.  That's what Hockey calls entrepreneurial. 10,000 New Job Slogans Created Last Quarter

Rich pay too much, says Joe Hockey, laying ground for income tax cuts

 

 

 

 

 

 

The case for Mark Latham

Link News Corp paywall and an advertorial for the Bolt Report rating are dropping.

Jeff Kennett obviously realized that Latham resigned and was not fired as Bolt would like us to believe. He was with the AFR for 5 years and whether or not you liked the man or not his writing skills towered above Andrew Bolt. His ability to outrage amuse and be colorful  is diametrically the opposite of the humorless histrionics that Bolt repeats ad nauseum . Mike Carlton is a loss to the search for truth in print as well he not only challenged the crap being peddled by Bolt but broke through it.

 

 

 

Shorten’s “phantom” members are one more reason not to trust him

Link News Corp paywall

As I said earlier the whole of the News Corp hive has been employed to go on the the ALP attack. Rupert Murdoch had dinner with Tony Abbott on Thursday night to gauge his desperation and no doubt tell him he wasn't happy. He also had dinner with Scott Morrison on the Friday leaked by big mouth Bolt in his blog for his own ego and self interest trying to show he's part of the inner circle rather than just another lap dog and tool of the hive that calls Murdoch "sir".

" Who can trust Bill Shorten when he supports whatever is the line of the day?:" Bolt.

I think Bolt's effort to suggest the ALP is not a democratic party falls short given their very public and transparent conference held recently compared with the very locked door meetings held by the Liberal Party. Particularly with the exposed threats Abbott laid on those in his cabinet coupled by the leaks that have come out of these supposed trie and true musketeer events 

"“I haven’t seen what she’s said, but let me say I support what it is she said.” Shorten

Bolt is actually showing us what can't be believed of any cabinet members at the moment other than maybe Erica . As for Abbott's lies pre and post election there has never been a politician let alone a PM to match. What was that thing he said in an interview about lies and hyperbole being an acceptable part of a politicians armory?

 

 

 

 

 

Column - ACTU claims control of Shorten’s Labor

Link News Corp paywall to Andrew Bolt  and advertorial for The  Bolt Report Propaganda Show

Bolt rarely deals with systemic issues he's more prone to attack individuals to make his points. So currently for over the past two months he's hidden and cosseted Tony Abbott away because of his constant public errors and embarrassments. To counterbalance real journalists and media Bolt has focused on Bill shorten  along with any groups or associations that might be seen as supporting the ALP. For Bolt that's just about every gathering Institution or cultural association in the country not just the trade unions. In the next month it will increase because he needs to protect his mate Tony who is about to face a dramatic fall in the Canning poll if not a loss. So with Rupert Murdoch wining and dining with Scott Morrison privately and not with Abbott dark clouds are overhead once again for our dual citizen PM.

Abbott has resulted to old tricks in Canning and coopted the ADF by offering a man in uniform a political post. Western Australians no all Australians can expect to hear the the ADF is and never was happy with Labor in the recent wars fought to protect us from invasion.

The Bolt and sliming of Andrew Wilkie 

" In June 2003, Bolt published an article criticising Andrew Wilkie in which he quoted from a classified intelligence document written by Wilkie as an intelligence analyst for the Office of National Assessments. It was claimed, but never proven, that someone in Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's office had leaked the document to Bolt.^[9] A spokesperson for the Australian Federal Police said that they did not have any evidence to identify the culprit.^[10]"

 

 

Liberals fight for Hastie. Join in

Link News Corp's paywall

When Bolt cant' find links in the real media that support his fantasies he resorts to the News Corp hive. In true to form style it starts here.

" Senior Liberals have excoriated “disgraceful” and “shameful” ­efforts to smear Canning by-election candidate Andrew Hastie after the former SAS captain defended his former subordinates who chopped off the hands of killed Taliban fighters for"

" It is breathtaking, this foulness of Leftists vilifying a man who risked his life to protect them:"

Could you imagine if Andrew Wilkie MP was running for Canning what Bolt would say about the Major in ADF intelligence that said there was no evidence of WMD's and John Howard was simply lying to the electorate for political advantage. Wilkie was trying to save the Australian public from going to war and he was doing it in Australia. He was vilified far more for what he said and did than Captain Hastie 

Abbott is about to spend $650 mill to ensure no further terrorist deaths occur in Australia. If the result remains at zero he will no doubt let us know.

 Obviously sending Captain Hastie to Afghanistan worked look no terrorist deaths here

 

 

 

 

Martin Ferguson attacks union control over Bill Shorten’s Labor

Link ABC Link, Andrew Bolt's Blog,News Corp's paywall

Martin Ferguson works for the Mining Industry he's a member of the ALP and believes union influence hampers the ALP all of which goes to show that Democracy exists in the Labor Party. It no longer does in the Tow the line Liberal Party. 

What associations are the working class or even the middle class allowed that aren't a threat? What balance is there in any democracy if only the conservatives and big business are allowed to rub shoulders. 

 " The royal commission] which has the effect of highlighting again the minds of voters to the deep association and alignment with unions who may well see some of their officials end up in jail."

If there was a commission into the activities of big business one would see far greater losses to the community than ever came to light in the unions. The difference however being CEO's and middle executives of mega - corporations are immune to criminal charges. The fact also exists that any evasion of and failure to pay tax remains a secret. Corporations negotiate Unions are demonized in the public arena.

So if they even apply the art of lawfare the only rights available to them in defence of attack the conservatives scream for the laws to be changed rather than judgements to be made just in case they turn out to be revealed for what they are the users and abusers of public interest 85% of the electorate.

 

 

 

 

Less will give us more

Link New's Corps national opinion page

" Australia’s political centre as having moved to the Left, with Tony Abbott’s appeal limited to a dwindling base of heartless, greedy, right-wing, racist, misogynistic, homophobic reactionaries who support inequality, lack compassion, deny climate change, oppose same-sex marriage and champion crazy ideals like free markets, smaller government and family values that no one understands anymore." Peter Hartcher Fairfax

Am I hearing that in recent times Tony Abbott has moved and stayed on the right? Pardon me since Hockey's second budget and the threatened spill what we have witnessed is a Rocky Horror Show jump to the left by Abbott. Promising tax cuts, telling us the economy is in good shape, acknowledging the existence of climate change, softening his attack on pensioners,  promising ship building, among other things and trying to appease a disgruntled electorate to regain some poll strength. It hasn't worked because it's so obviously political theatrics. 

Abbott's inability to govern,negotiate and compromise has been  blamed on everyone other than them selves by News Corp the rest of MSM get howled down for shining some light on the truth or even questioning the world as presented by Murdhoch.

 

Morrison impresses

Link News Corp's Paywall Bolt's just the paper boy

What a surprise Andrew Bolt's favorite front runner  is Scott Morrison. He's been Bolt's since Morrison has been in Rupert's eye and not because Bolt discovered him. 

Has Andrew Bolt ever felt free or been asked to call Rupert by his first name? Or is he and does he just feel like Mr Murdoch's tool? 

 Government the slowest for nearly 50 years 

Policy paralysis': Tony Abbott's government the slowest for nearly five decades

Was that the topic of conversation???

Liberals should have gone for Tony Burke

Link News Corp's Herald -Sun's paywall Bolt's the paperboy.  Link News Corp's News.co.au digital media

It's amazing how Bolt let's fly with the figures collected by The Daily Telegraph ever so easily. Bolt makes the $ sums sing by not mentioning that whatever it was that was punched into the Telegraphs calculator was for Tony Burke's entire political life. News Corp with little else to do but keep Abbott under wraps seems to believe beating up Burke's expenses is the way to go so it's a full frontal attack again.

However haven't they got the message that politicians are self interested animals and no Party wants to go down that road anymore. Is this Tony's idea of distraction and revenge? Is it the PMO? Is it a means of deflecting the heat away from the Liberal party back room and volume of silence that exists about the missing $2 million. There seem to be a lot of people close to Abbott who aren't talking.