Fighting Fake News with REAL,18/7/20 Trump's removed COVID-19 from Science and Transparency;

Fall Off the Covid -19 Cliff

 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a national public health institute in the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Wikipedia 

In the latest development, the New York Times reported this week the CDC has even been bypassed in its data collection, with the Trump administration ordering hospitals to send COVID-19 data directly to the White House.

Hospitals have instead been ordered to send all COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington DC.

This will have a range of likely knock-on effects. For starters, the new database will not be available to the public, prompting inevitable questions over the accuracy and transparency of data which will now be interpreted and shared by the White House.\

It is difficult to recall a previous public health emergency when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence.

Despite the inevitable challenges that come with tackling a pandemic in real time, the CDC remains the best-positioned agency – not just in the US but the entire world – to help us manage this crisis as safely as possible.

via US coronavirus data will now go straight to the White House. Here's what this means for the world

June 20, 2020

With Fewer People Doing Arts Degrees, Who Is Going To Stack Shelves At Coles And Woolworths?

Experts are concerned that a doubling of fees for Arts Degrees may lead to a shortage of people with the 

Scientists, and Engineers, of course, they stack rationally.

May 12, 2020

People Looking Forward To Staring At Phone In Groups Again

People around the country are relieved that they will soon be able to meet in groups of up to ten

Australia under pressure to officially ban extremist right-wing organisations

Right-wing extremism needs more careful attention including bans on organisations, says Labor's home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally.

Attention should be paid Murdoch Media's Sky News vilifiers who spread patently fake news vilifying and falsely stereotyping Australians.

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Trump's White House

Vermont Republican first to support Trump impeachment

Governor Phil Scott said he wasn't surprised by the news about Trump.

 "In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple US government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election," the whistleblower wrote in the August 12 complaint. ( Whistleblower)

"I think the whistleblower did the right thing. I think he followed the law every step of the way, Maguire said. "I believe the whistleblower is operating in good faith." (DNI)

This contrasted with Trump's previous claim that the whistleblower complaint was a "partisan hack job".

In a closed-door fundraiser in New York on Thursday Trump reportedly said: "I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information because that’s close to a spy.
"You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now." (TRUMP)
Multiple sources Mr Trump Multiple sources (ODT)

 

Forty-five years ago, President Richard Nixon resigned. His impeachment at the time seemed almost certain, as key Republican senators had signalled they would no longer support him. But Nixon’s acolytes did not blame their president for his gross corruption and mind-boggling criminality. Instead, they blamed the press -- the “enemy,” as Nixon had described it -- for hounding him out of office.
Over two decades later, Roger Ailes, one of those Nixon retainers, founded Fox News. As the network has gained power and influence, it has played many roles -- an attack dog that savages progressive policies and individuals, a counterweight to a media that conservatives consider unbearably liberal, a radicalization engine that brings a bigoted ideology from the fringes into the homes of millions of Americans, and a propaganda machine that champions conservative politicians.
Over the past week, we’ve seen another one of Fox’s roles. As it has become clear that President Donald Trump used the office of the presidency to suborn a foreign government to investigate one of his political opponents -- triggering a formal impeachment inquiry -- Fox has been serving as a bulwark against the repetition of Nixon’s fall.
If Real Media attempt to vet or test the top-down narrative of what's happening they get slammed by Murdoch's Fox Corp just as the ABC is slammed here. The difference there are only too many media outlets in the US, so they are simply clubbed by the Fox /Trump Press as Fake News.
The ABC is our main bulwark against political bullshit and this why Murdoch wants them gone, while the government hates being questioned by Aunty and is on the same page. So its safe ports are private media quickly bought, 2GB and Sky being most favoured suspects. Murdoch Media win or lose no longer needs journalists for the holy dollar just spin doctors, and they are a dime a dozen who just fight for ratings, not any truth-based data facts or analysis. When not doing spin it's a game of whack-a-mole an attack anyone or anything that might demean, disparage embarrass their favourite dogs in the race. Any form of public unity against our current LNP Government needs fragmenting (ODT)

 This is why Fox News exists | Media Matters for America

 

 

White House tried to cover up Trump's Ukraine conversation, whistleblower alleges

According to the whistleblower, in the days following the call, “senior White House officials had intervened to ‘lock down’ all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the White House Situation Room”.
The White House released a memo of the call, but not a verbatim transcript, on Wednesday.
Officials were directed by White House lawyers to remove the transcript from the computer system where “such transcripts are typically stored”, the whistleblower wrote. The transcript was instead stored in a separate system “that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature”.
“One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective,” the whistleblower wrote.
“This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call.”

The summary of a call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released on Wednesday not only confirmed reports that Trump repeatedly pressured the foreign leader to uncover damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, but also thrust Attorney General William Barr into the center of a rapidly unfolding scandal.
In the July call, Trump urged Zelensky to follow up with Barr, as well as with the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” Trump said, according to the summary. On four separate occasions, according to the document, Trump said that his “Attorney General” or “Attorney General Barr” would call Zelensky about the matter.

 Trump-Ukraine Call Puts Attorney General in Hot Seat

Andrew Bolt's Blog,14/4/19; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a Murdoch obsession and danger;

Democrat receives 3,181 mentions on Fox News and Fox Business
Figures suggest media obsession with congresswoman
The finding will reinforce perceptions that Fox, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is obsessed by Ocasio-Cortez, portraying her as a radical socialist who threatens the American way of life.
She tweeted in response on Friday: “Fox News brought me up 3,000+ times in *6 weeks.* That’s how hard they’re fighting against dignified healthcare, wages, & justice for all; and turning their firepower on the youngest Congresswoman in history to do it. Too bad for them, cause we don’t flinch. #ForThePeople.”

 Will, they put her in their crosshairs and make her Joan of Arc. They certainly want her gone.(ODT)

 Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running – 3,181 times | US news | The Guardian

 

Fox Corp now includes the White House (ODT)

 A comprehensive list of former Fox employees who have joined the Trump administration

 

1. The coalition said 'Treasury figures' showed Labor's plan would cost $387b, but Treasury disagrees

   Frydenberg and Morrison caught lying.(ODT)

   Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen releases a letter from the federal Treasury boss, distancing bureaucrats from a Coalition attack on the Opposition.
   
   

   Exclusive

   Australia votes

   Great Barrier Reef on the verge of collapse: Government officials

   

   The Great Barrier, Reef Marine Park Authority, says global warming must be kept to 1.5 degrees - a threshold that scientists say requires shutting down coal within three decades

   
   

   Andrew Bolt's dug a hole for himself declaring Climate Change is just another Religion. His mate Tony Abbott and the government are deserting him. But so are the Mining and Fossil Fuel Industries. He's struggling to find support for his Climate Change denial pro Coal and anti-renewable stance not just in Australia but anywhere in the world.
   

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 Liberal Party faces election loss unless Turnbull and Abbott resolve issues, new president says - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The new president of the Liberal Party urges Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott to be adults and put an end to tense infighting.
  "the former prime minister promised there would be "no wrecking, no undermining and no sniping" but Mr Abbott has consistently waded back into the political fray to defend his legacy, criticise the Government's performance or push a conservative agenda.
In recent weeks, he has inflamed tensions even further by giving a series of speeches and interviews, outlining an alternative policy vision to "make Australia work again". 
 

  Politics: The Trump Report No. 17 – Making sense of illegal activity. – » John Lord

 

Sunday 16 July 2017 1 After repeating phrase’s like ”crooked Hillary”, ”lock her up”, ”fake news”, or ”but the emails’’ on numerous occasions during the Presidential campaign, the President is now confronted with similar claims of dishonesty himself. Now we have seen released some highly provocative emails that suggest that the real news is Donald…
Remember when the President said he wasn’t going to take a salary? He just accepted his second paycheck?
3 Remember when he said Mexico was going to pay for the wall? He has asked Congress to appropriate the $25 billion of taxpayer money to cover costs.
4 Remember when he said he wasn’t going to go on vacation or play golf like Obama? 5 of the last 7 weekends he went on vacation and played golf, costing taxpayers $11.1 million each time.
5 Remember when he said he was going to use American steel to build these dangerous pipelines? Russian steel arrived last week for the Keystone Pipeline XL.
6 Remember when he said he wasn’t going to cut social security and Medicare? The Republican bill does just this.
7 Remember when he said that nobody on his campaign had any communications with the Russian government? 7 of his people have now admitted they spoke and/or met with Russian officials…after they lied and got caught.
8 Remember when he said he was going to divest from his businesses? Changed his mind.
9 Remember when he said he was going to release his tax returns? Changed his mind.
10 Remember when he said he was going to drain the swamp of Washington insiders? His cabinet is filled with lobbyists, billionaires, as well as Big Oil and Wall Street executives, many from Goldman-Sachs. Yes, THAT Goldman-Sachs.
11 Remember when he said would defeat ISIS in 30 days? He doesn’t have a plan.
12 Remember when he said that the Obamacare replacement would cover more people at lower cost? The AHCA that the GOP and 45 are now pushing; they now admit will cover fewer people at a higher cost, after being called out by the CBO and the OMB.

White House Spokestapir Sara Huckabee Sanders Tells Reporters That Donald Trump Jr Is Not Fredo

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WASHINGTON, D.C – Today during the daily top-secret off camera press briefing, White House Spokestapir Sara Huckabee Sanders told assembled journalists that Donald Trump Jr did absolutely nothing wrong when he met with a representative of a foreign adversary seeking illegally obtained information about the Clinton Campaign.
“Campaign operatives do this kind of thing every day,” said Huckabee Sanders, with her patented smirk planted securely on her face. “Every campaign has organized gangs of petty criminals who seek dirt on the opposition from dictators around the world. Sometimes assassinations of opposing campaign volunteers and car bombings targeting important donors are necessary as well. This kind of stuff happens all the time.”
When pressed on why Trump Jr. was dumb enough to organize the meeting and has at last count three different versions of why he was there and what happened, Sanders told the press that Don Jr., like so many other Trump campaign operatives, had so many meetings with shadowy Russian figures during the run up to the election that it was just hard to keep up with all of them.
“Sometimes they have to be reminded of what actually happened by KGB officers or American prosecutors,” she said.
“I just want to say in closing that Don Jr. is a valuable member of his father’s staff, and he’s sharp as tack,” said Huckabee Sanders, her long proboscis twitching.
“Donald Jr can handle things. He’s smart. Not like everybody says…like dumb…he’s smart and he wants respect!”
Huckabee Sanders then excused herself and began grazing in a shallow pool filled with aquatic plants.

Donald Trump Jr Says Meeting With Russia Was ‘Nyet Big Deal’

By The Shovel on July 13, 2017

Claiming that his twenty minute meeting with a Russian lawyer was nothing more than a Простой разговор между двумя незнакомцами, Donald Trump Junior says that the whole episode is a media beat up and an example of Поддельные новости.
“Это было ничто,” Trump Jr said in a statement today.
He said the President had no involvement in the meet up and neither did his dad. “Mr. Putin and Dad didn’t even know about it. It was nothing,” he said.

NOW THE REDS HELP JULIE BISHOP, TOO

Labor MPs tell me they'd love Julie Bishop to lead the Liberals. Piece of cake. So no wonder they leak this: "A poll commissioned by Labor ... asked focus groups to describe Prime Minister ­Malcolm Turnbull, and also deputy Liberal leader ... Julie Bishop. Ms Bishop proved to be way more popular, her perceived character far more appealing."

 Bolt on leadership: where would you find  Tony Abbott ? In front of a mirror asking the question?

 

FAULTY-CULTURAL LANGUAGE

On Catallaxy Files, among the first contributions for a new, modern dictionary for Australians: Allaholic Frenzy, Billabonk, Bolshie Ballet, Dingoat, Dodgeridoo, Faulty-cultural, Fauxboriginal, Lattesexual, Methnic, Pollicock  and more. Read here for definitions.

It's what bogans usually do for fun punch down. Bolt didn't go to a public school just hangs with these characters. Probably even has a collection of their oldboys badges and ties.

 

 

AFGHAN REFUGEES VS AUSTRIAN WOMEN

Cheryl Bernard has worked for refugees. She now warns of the rape epidemic brought by Afghan refugees to Austria: "These were not of the cultural-misunderstanding-date-rape sort, but were vicious, no-preamble attacks on random girls and women, often committed by gangs or packs of young men." A deeply disturbing read.

 Young Afghan men, refugees are to be found the world wide in their thousands so why doesn't Cheryl Benard's story ring true every where they can be found? Why is this story unique to Austria?  Given that it's not a global experience why is Andrew Bolt amplifying what is an Austrian story and portraying it as a global one? He does the same with Aborigines as well. He takes a case of child molestation in Arakun Where Noel Pearson raised money and declares it a wide spread practice among Aboriginal communities. Bolt encouraged a new generation of stolen children and applauded the Intervention that Howard set in place. It's taken 10 years and a Royal Commission to prove the accusations to be bullshit.
So why has a single story in Austria make Bolt suggest all Afghan male refugees are rapists? For one Afghans refugees can't be labeled as even a common group Hazaras are certainly persecuted in Afghanistan and are seen very differently from Pashtuns Bolt for Bolt there seems to be no difference. This experience Bolt is using to suggest there is something wrong with Afghans is typical of most of his generalizations deeming White Western Christian culture superior and other culture bring about psychologically damaged people. Yet when Bolt was convicted of vilification it wasn't a character flaw of his whatsoever but a flaw of the judiciary and our cultural system
Bolt makes no effort in any comparative statistics here such as the number of persons charged with sexual molestation in Austria over all and the number convicted and then the proportion Afghans represent of that total. Not a single attempt is made by Bolt to investigate or verify anything. He did this once before about Sweden and was proved wrong. Now he's doing the same for Austria.
The one thing for certain is that anything of this nature coming from Andrew Bolt is suspect and needs verification the probability that the information is skewed and therefore fake is highly likely.

 

 

 

 

 

INVASION OF EUROPE CONTINUES

Illegal immigrants from the Third World continue to invade Europe: "In June, there were more than 30 700 detections of illegal border crossings on the four main migratory routes into the EU. The total number of detections in the first half of 2017 [was] about 116 000. In June, the number of migrants arriving in Italy [was] 24 800."

 Yet again Bolt produces an unverifiable set of figures  in order to make a point . He provides no link to verify his figures. What we do know Germany which took in 60% of the refugees increased it's population bu a huge 0.9% that is Bolt's "invasion". One needs to ask what is it he's hiding? Now it's clear why Bolt posted the above post about Afghans in Austria he's sensationalizing the the fact that it's summer and Asylum seekers still coming to Europe. It's not the horrific numbers Bolt makes out 60% were welcomed by Germany and Bolt doesn't seem to find a great deal to sensationalize there. Germany seemed to welcome these arrivals no highlighting Bolt's  "Invasion" or his rape  of the women. Germany actually took in 8,500 refugees per 1 million Germans. Austria took  half that proportion. Germany took in 13 times more Afghans than Austria and there was no publicity of the kind Bolt has turned to to highlight this rape culture strange isn't it. None of the other EU countries have reported it either. I'd call Bolt's link suspicious in it's exceptionalism.

There is no "invasion" these are legal asylum seekers who will be assessed and if not accepted  sent back. Secondly those accepted as genuine refugees are hardly likely to be a "resentful" as Bolt puts it let alone an  "underclass" as Bolt puts it. If there is any explicit resentment it's from Andrew Bolt himself who seems to despise a Multiculturalism anywhere but particularly Australia and despises what's happening in Europe as a way to show it.  He's a firm believer in advocating a purist monoculture subtext "race" based society.  As a consequence he does  everything he can to negatively  stereotype, stigmatize and vilify ethnic and religious minorities he doesn't feel his equals wherever and whenever he gets the chance. Australia's Shame is that we let him do it not privately but publicly in our press. Bolt's Blog isn't private it's an extension of News Corp and Bolt gets paid to trash Australia and it's diverstity. Resentment has trebled against Muslims and it's people like Andrew Bolt that have encouraged that and one can pin point it to the Cronulla riots when the Conservatives in the Liberal Party saw it as a political opportunity to regain power and Bolt provided the media support for Abbott.

 Yet Bolt denies this invasion

   

 

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AFL SHOULD STOP POLICING BEDROOMS

The AFL should get its nose out of the love life of its staff. By what right do bosses sack executives who’ve had sex with consenting colleagues in their private time? 

Bolt's attacking the AFL but remained totally silent when the stars of News Corp were given the boot why? Is the News Corp culture indefensible in America but defensible here? Who is having it on with who at Sky, The Herald Sun or 2GB. Who just might get named and shamed is it Andrew Bolt? After all he doesn't really seem overly proud of his wife when he speaks of his family life. He's the work horse in the family bringing home the bread and having to take them on holidays what a drudge. When an where does Andrew Bolt get his rocks off? There is a bit of projecting going on here it seems.

BISHOP INSULTS TRUMP

First the Prime Minister mocks Donald Trump at a Press Gallery ball. Now foreign minister Julie Bishop mocks him for telling the  French president's wife: "You’re in such good shape... Beautiful.” Bishop: “I wonder if she could say the same of him?” We actually pay these two to build good ties with our biggest ally, not with the media Left. 

  So we know how Bolt likes to talk to women and he's not a President. Does he ask to grab them or does he just do it and the just call it  a 30 second hand shake? If Abbott got in would he be obliged to give Bolt a diplomatic post?

 

 

 

GREEN SCAMMERS TAKE YOUR PLASTIC BAGS

How strangely convenient for Woolworths and Coles to both announce on Friday they'd ban the free plastic bags for your shopping. That way, they didn’t risk having ticked-off customers switch to their competitor. Convenient for them, but a pain in the neck for shoppers, hit with another dumb green crusade.  

Bolt is repeating himself he got it wrong yesterday I wonder whether he corrected himself today. I doubt it. Bolt is certainly anti- Coles and Woolworths when he challenges them  their decision with a UKEA research report. Bolt's saying they were making an uninformed decision based purely on their bottom line. They are justifying it by presenting a faux green argument. Amazing are we to believe Bolt's turned green, pro-science and using data collection and informed analysis to make policy decisions. If so why is he so anti- science , uninformed, and has no regard for the 97% consensus based on 14,000 research papers explaining that the planet is warming due to human activity. Further it's largely due to the burning of fossil fuels. Bolt denies this in the same way he accuses Coles and Woolworths are doing faux spin for the sole purpose of protecting their bottom line.

This didn't happen Endevour Hills 2 stabbed and one dead. The new miscommunication in the world's most livable city. Three families are down

White House Intruder Crashes Secret Service Shindig

 Omar Gonzalez, the gentleman who jumped the White House fence on Friday, apparently ruined a much-anticipated and long-awaited Secret Service mixer with the female staff of the Brazilian Embassy. He is currently being detained by the Capitol Police.

Gonzalez, thought to be living out of his car, later apologized to the Secret Service for ruining their get-together and insisted he was only there to assassinate the President

Apparently Mr. Gonzalez was able to jump over the fence and run all the way into the White House, easily sidestepping millions of dollars worth of security, because Secret Service personnel were occupied preparing the dance hall and the Lincoln bedroom for their scantily clad guests from South America.
“The boss had just left on the chopper, the band was warming up, and we were in the process of setting up a wine and cheese bar when this moron jumps the fence and ruins everything,” said Walter “Wild Man” Whitman, a 20-year veteran of the Service.
“I was really looking forward to seeing the gals Madam Fifi was sending over for the party. Everyone on earth knows that Brazilian women have phenomenal butts!”
The Secret Service officers had apparently met Madam Fifi and some of her employees while protecting Vice President Biden at the World Cup this summer.

Secret Service personnel apparently met Madam Fifi and some of her “employees” while protecting Vice President Biden at the World Cup

“We just can’t get enough of that South American poontang,” said Officer Whitman, who hails from Austin, Texas. “I can tell you from experience there just ain’t nothin’ like it. I’m here to tell you, all you stuffed-shirt anti-immigration dudes out are really missin’ out!”
Gonzalez’ “leap of faith” is only one in a series of security breaches involving the White House in recent years. Several mental midgets have jumped the fence and run around the White House grounds like squirrels on crack, and one or two have even made it inside to state dinners.

The unfortunate Gonzalez incident is not expected to put a damper on the annual Secret Service Halloween costume party, a perennial favorite with rookie officers

Gonzalez himself has been pulled over several times in his vehicle while carrying hatchets, machetes, shotguns, hundreds of rounds of ammo, a map of the White House, and a well-worn copy of Assassination For Dummies.
What puzzles the White House press corps is why Gonzalez has never been arrested before Friday. Sheriff R.W.
Scrotum of Fairfax County Virginia explained:
“Mr Gonzalez has been pulled over several times by my deputies but we never had any grounds to hold him,” said Scrotum. “He was only carrying some hunting knives, couple of assault rifles, a few grenades, and an RPG. I mean, it wasn’t like he had any drugs or cash on him or anything.”
Mr. Gonzalez is set to be arraigned later this week for trespassing on government property and the more serious charge of obstructing and interfering with federal officers while in the process of partying.