tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7267150242260066392024-03-13T21:40:09.209-07:00Andrew Bolt: Ultra RacistDamian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-62992885623293151182015-11-24T12:55:00.001-08:002015-11-24T12:55:53.339-08:00ANDREW BOLT, HIS RIGHT WING MATES IN THE MEDIA AND THEIR ROLE WITHIN ISIS<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ISIS thrives on fear. It feeds on it. Without
it ISIS would wither and die. So how does ISIS create the fear it needs to
thrive?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They use several resources to promote fear.
They film their atrocities and publish them on the social networks on the
internet using mainly You-Tube and Facebook. They have progressed in creating
more fear by dreaming up ever more horrific ways of slaughtering their enemies.
Mostly they are carried out in public. The mainstream media then run stories
about these atrocities and, while not actually showing the killings, they
direct their audience to the source where they can view the atrocities ISIS
commits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The mainstream media of the right who support
the anti-Islam movement of the West then use propagandists to promote the fear
to the public using commentary and selected audience response. Occasionally,
propagandists like Andrew Bolt even link directly to atrocity films. How are we
able to live in fear of ISIS if ISIS doesn’t have propagandists like Andrew
Bolt, Tim Blair, Piers Akerman, Greg Sheridan, Janet Albrechtsen and others to
perpetuate that fear? And, if there is no fear, then how can governments spend so
much of our hard earned money on weapons they tell us are needed to defeat ISIS
and all our other ‘enemies’ – whoever they’re supposed to be – and do so with
barely a beep from the masses? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, here’s how it works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Firstly, one needs to understand that ISIS is
not the ‘global Islamic extremist terror organisation’ that we are told they
are. They are, in fact, a creation of Western elitists whose specific role is
to create fear and loathing of all of Israel and the Wests ‘enemies’. They were
created by the CIA, Mossad and some elements within Britain’s MI5. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ISIS consists of three major components: First,
there are those that are at the very top of the Western political power system.
These are the elites of Western capitalist civilisation. They are the ones that
fund, supply arms, determine policy in line with their basic agenda and ensure
that the people of the ‘West’ respond appropriately to that agenda. They most
certainly are not Muslims and do not represent Islam in any way. In fact one
may be surprised to learn that most within the group are actually Zionists and
Christians including politicians, industrialists, bankers and senior elements
of the military. There are some Middle Eastern members who are associated with this
group and who are Muslim but their fundamental interests lay firmly with being reliable
allies of Western elites and those that support the idea of ‘Western
Exceptionalism’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Within the second component there are those who,
on behalf of the first component, create propaganda, recruit, train, plan and
direct<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">the actions of those that consist of the third component.
Those within the second group are professionals who have been well trained and
are very experienced in their art which has been perfected ever since Vietnam, then
through the First Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan and the invasion and destruction
of Iraq. They include mercenary trainers, writers, journalists and other
assorted propagandists whose job is to stir up hatred against ‘Islamists’,
Islam and Muslims throughout the West. Such people work for those who have a
particular interest in perpetuating the war the West is waging against Islam. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Andrew
Bolt, Tim Blair, et al, are classic examples of the anti-Islam propagandists
who are paid by the elitists, in this case Rupert Murdoch, who have an interest
in ensuring the continuation of the war. Their interests lay in the resources
of the Middle East and providing weapons to both sides. Billions are spent on
developing and building new weapons, many of which will never be used. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Their
other interest is in ensuring that Israel realises its ambition of becoming a
Greater Israel. They also want to ensure that Palestine never becomes a
sovereign state and that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are one day absorbed
and annexed to Israel thus further projecting the West’s influence and hegemony
into the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">The third component of ISIS comprises those that
enact the program laid out for them by the first two components. They do the
killing, they commit atrocities, they commit suicide bombing missions, and fight
on the front lines, often acting as storm troops, at their nominated wars both
in the Middle East and wherever in the world it is expedient for the terrorists
to attack Western targets directly in order to perpetuate the myth of the
Islamic enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">Within the third component are a few misguided true
believers who actually believe in the righteousness of what they are doing and
are the type that usually end up volunteering for suicide operations. Mostly
those of the third component, however, are an assortment of disaffected youths,
adventurers, psychopaths, mercenaries and thieves out for whatever they can get
out of their involvement in these activities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">All ultimately serve the requirements of those who
make up the first component.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">Once members of sections of the third component
have served their usefulness they are destroyed by the ‘West’ with their
destruction serving as part of the propaganda the ‘West’ deploys in order to
deceive the people of the ‘West’ that they are in mortal combat fighting ISIS.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ISIS
is the Western elite’s weapon that ensures a compliant population that is
willing to sacrifice its wealth to remain safe at the expense of health,
education, proper housing and care for the old and the very young. Instead, we
build submarines that seem to spend more time out of the water than in it and,
just when we’ve started to iron out the problems with them, they magically
become obsolete and we need more of them; we buy and build aircraft that are so
advanced that nobody actually knows how to operate them properly, and we’re
forever buying bombs that we are told are so smart that they only ever kill
terrorists. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At
the heart of all this are the propagandists who lie to us constantly about ‘Islamic
terrorists’, who tell us how good our weapons are and why we need them to
destroy our ‘enemies’. These propagandists are the interface between the
elitists that have created ISIS and the Western peoples they have set out to
deceive. They are, in fact, part of the ISIS problem; a sort of inverse
propaganda section within ISIS itself, bought and paid for by the elites of the
West.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-80046863207644045292015-08-31T17:42:00.001-07:002015-08-31T17:53:34.622-07:00ANDREW BOLT, MURDOCH PAID MOUTHPIECE FOR THE PRO-POLLUTIONISTS, THINKS MELBOURNES COLDEST NIGHT IN 26 YEARS IS PROOF THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In
his blog today Andrew Bolt posted <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/unusual_cold_unusual_silence/">this
piece</a> demonstrating how desperate he and his employers are becoming in their fight to continue polluting the planet by using non-renewable energy
resources that are becoming increasingly more expensive to extract and use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bolt
continues to be the paid voice of the rapidly shrinking denialist movement founded
to protect and support the fossil fuel energy industry against the rapidly
expanding renewable energy industry. Slowly, however, even some fossil fuel
companies are seeing that the future belongs to the renewable energy industry
and are now diversifying and investing in the renewables sector of the energy
industry. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-28/alinta-solar-panel-offer-energy-battery-in-wa/6733340">Alinta
Gas, Western Australia’s household gas supplier</a>, for example, will begin
selling PV solar panels with battery storage systems beginning in November. <a href="http://aglsolar.com.au/?utm_source=agl.com.au&utm_medium=website-navigation-main-solar&utm_campaign=bau">AGL,
one of Australia’s largest energy suppliers</a> is also diversifying into
renewable energy resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Carpetbagger
salesmen like Bolt who write the anti-climate change propaganda for the fossil
fuel companies will soon be out of a job as desperation sets in and they have
nothing to write about to support their nonsense except how cold it was in
Melbourne last night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-70192878704536044502014-11-11T16:20:00.000-08:002014-11-11T16:20:10.670-08:00BOLT’S THINLY VEILED RACISM IS EXPOSED<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In his blog today the convicted racist Andrew Bolt writes two articles that lays bare his disgusting
racism. In the first titled ‘<a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/condemning_child_savers_as_child_stealers_the_poison_of_the_stolen_generati/">Condemning
child savers as child stealers: the poison of the “Stolen Generations” myth’,</a>
Bolt tries to tell us that the Aboriginal children taken from their families
were actually taken for their own good. He attempts to assert that indigenous
children were some four times likely to suffer sexual abuse than other
Australians. Bolt neglects to mention that most of that abuse came from
non-Aboriginals and much of it after they’d been removed from their families
and in the care of the so-called missions and foster homes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In his second article, ‘</span></span><a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_jobs_in_the_desert_so_why_keep_the_towns/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">No
jobs in the deserts so why keep the towns?</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">’, Bolt argues that Aboriginal
communities </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">aren't</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> worth continued support and that Aboriginal people would be
better off if they ‘assimilated’ into the nations metropolises. Bolt knows full
well that, if Indigenous and Aboriginal people deserted the bush and ‘assimilated’
into the nation’s cities then they’d likely extinguish themselves within a
hundred years – which, of course, is exactly what he wants to happen. For Bolt ‘assimilation’
is a euphemism for breeding out of existence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-91169413763702301592014-11-03T20:21:00.001-08:002014-11-03T20:21:44.315-08:00WILL BOLT JUMP FROM CHANNEL 10 BEFORE BEING PUSHED?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In light of Gina Rinehart leaving the Channel Ten board, one has to
wonder if Bolt is thinking about ‘bailing’ out before the board cans his
unprofitable Bolt Report Sunday slots. If <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/rinehart_quits_ten_board/">Bolt’s
blog today</a> is anything to go by it would seem that it’s crossed his mind.
When a reader suggested Bolt could be "very lonely in the staff room", Bolt
responded by saying: “And as a News Corp man even lonelier. Might have to bail,
Frank.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One can only hope!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-72600675414432793622014-10-05T15:43:00.000-07:002014-10-05T15:43:47.537-07:00BOLT’S TWIST TO SUIT THE MOMENT<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Back in August 2010 Bolt argued <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/islam_is_an_ideology_not_a_race/desc/P40">that
Islam was an ideology and not a race</a>. Armed with this argument Bolt
attempted to extricate himself from being accused of being a racist over his
stance on Muslims. It’s also an argument that has long been used by his anti-Islam
supporters especially those that comment on his blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today, however, Bolt has done a complete U-turn and is now saying <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/lets_see_raids_on_anti_muslim_terrorists_too/">that
it is indeed racist to be anti-Muslim</a> as he calls for something to be done
about “racists” that are terrorising Muslims in Australia – particularly the
Australian Defence League (ADL).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As it happens, it’s been Bolt’s anti-Islam stance over the past few
years that has probably done more than anything else to foster the growth of
the Australian Defence League and anti-Islam sentiment generally in Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-89597494586125323182014-09-12T18:03:00.001-07:002014-09-12T18:03:28.998-07:00BOLT HYPOCRISY: FREE SPEECH FOR THE RIGHT BUT NOT THE LEFT<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today Bolt complains in <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/no_sale/">one
article</a> about students exercising their right to freedom of speech against
uni fees and implies that students be denied all help for their education
because they are a ‘violent mob’ (someone swore at Tony Abbott, another knocked
over a police officer [makes a change; normally it’s the other way round] and a
car window got broken) while in <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/for_free_speech/">the
article</a> just before that Bolt’s going on about how important it is for
people to be able to express themselves
freely. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So it’s OK, as Bolt, et al does, to promote hatred toward boatpeople
who end up in concentration camps where they can be beaten to death or so
neglected they die through lack of proper treatment when they fall ill, and it’s
OK to promote hatred of Islam to a point where you can support going to Islamic
lands to kill them and then wonder why ‘they’ hate us so. But it’s not OK to demonstrate
against high education fees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-31501880694597984732014-09-07T17:14:00.001-07:002014-09-07T17:16:21.510-07:00BOLT: THE PRO-POLLUTIONIST CARPETBAGGER<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">‘Carpetbagger’ is a derogatory term which originated in the US during
the Reconstruction years (1865-1877) after the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
It referred to the opportunistic and mostly fraudulent Northerners who migrated
to the war-torn South in order to take advantage of the Southerners caught up
in the chaos that existed there after the war. The ‘carpet bag’ itself was a
fashionable piece of luggage that looked like it was made from pieces of carpet
that these fraudsters and conmen arrived with in the South. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today the term ‘carpetbagger’ is used to define those that move – more
metaphorically than literally these days – into areas of dispute in order to
take advantage of a given situation by which they can make money both for
themselves and for their backers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The climate change debate is one such situation in which ‘carpetbaggers’
can thrive. In particular, climate change deniers, especially those among the mainstream
Murdoch commentariat, who are currently making heaps by cashing in on their
boss’s own interests in non-renewable resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The likes of Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair, Piers Akerman, Janet Albrechtsen,
Greg Sheridan and many others are paid handsomely by Rupert Murdoch to demonise
Green energy technology and ideology in order to halt the diminishing demand
for non-renewable energy, a resource Murdoch and many of his fellow businessmen
and associates have heavily invested in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Contrary to the collective opinion of the extreme right-wing commentators
and neoconservatives who Murdoch and others, including various neoconservative
and right-wing think-tanks around the world financially support, renewable
energy resources are making a huge dent in the bottom line of the non-renewable
energy sector, particularly among the traditional energy providers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Domestic use of solar energy in Australia generated from both
photovoltaic (p.v.) roof-top panels and wind turbines has risen sharply over
the last decade or so. In South Australia some 20%-25% of domestic energy
consumption is derived from solar energy. Indeed, in July 2014 South
Australia’s wind farms managed to provide up to 43% of the states power needs. And,
as photovoltaic and battery storage technology advances, the commercial and
light industrial sector is also increasingly making use of solar energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These advances in both technology and the expanding use of renewable
energy resources has had a considerable affect on the more conventional
non-renewable resources on fuel suppliers and particularly on energy generators
who are experiencing a drop in demands and, therefore, profits and revenue
which, in turn, has forced them to increase their charges. Increasing prices on
non-renewable energy, in turn, leads to customers turning to p.v. panels and
alternative power resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The pro-pollutionist carpetbaggers have tried every trick in the book
to get people to ignore green energy. They have attempted to demonise the use
of green energy by pigeonholing green energy advocates as ‘left-wing hippies’. Bolt
has even tried to say that advocates of alternative energy <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_return_of_the_green_nazi/">are
like the Nazis</a> because the Nazis were a “romantic, anti-science, nature
worshipping, communal and anti-capitalist movement that tied German identity to
German forests.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The pro-pollutionist carpetbagger’s biggest ploy is their denialism
about global warming and climate change in which they attempt to argue that
there is no need to stop using non-renewable energy because it doesn’t create
global warming or climate change. They ignore, however, the vast amount of
pollution that coal, oil and gas produce and which can be seen on a daily basis
hanging over the world’s big industrial cities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The non-renewable energy industry has spent billions on promoting their
coal, oil and gas products while, at the same time, spending further billions
on paying their carpetbagger minions in the media to demean green energy. They
have even offered <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climatechange">climate
scientists inducements to become climate change deniers</a> in order to give
their arguments some semblance of credibility while others pay journalists and
media commentators to demean the green energy industry using outlandish and
extremist propaganda which they attempt to link with left-wing politics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But Tony Abbott’s recent axing of the Renewable Energy Targets program
will unlikely stop renewable energy from continuing to grow as people from all
walks of life get to hear about the huge savings that can be made by using p.v.
panels and, in the not too distant future, going off grid completely as battery
technology makes it increasingly a more realistic option to non-renewable
energy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-85219457550846772142014-08-09T17:50:00.001-07:002014-08-09T17:51:06.388-07:00BOLT SPINS A SIMPLE LINE FOR SIMPLE PEOPLE<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In his <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/want_peace_tell_it_to_hamas/">column
today</a>, Bolt accuses Hamas for breaking the ceasefire in the battle for the
Gaza Strip. Using a simplistic narrative that his tiny band of followers is
able to understand, he writes: “Hostilities had resumed because, as with the
previous four ceasefires, Hamas started firing rockets at Israeli civilians”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is a blatant piece of overly simplistic nonsense and ignores the
actual reasons for the resumption of hostilities. The aim of the ceasefire was
to allow the two sides an opportunity to discuss a long term agreement that
might lead to peace. Hamas is merely asking for freedom. It wants the blockade
lifted, it wants the freedom to trade with whoever they want to and they want
the facilities like a seaport and airport to be able to make these things
happen. On the other hand, Israel wants Hamas to disarm; it wants to extend its
no-mans land even further into the Gaza Strip thus limiting the Gaza’s ability
to produce agricultural and horticultural products, and Israel wants to control
what goes in and out of the Strip. Since it was clear that Israel was not going
to allow the people of the Gaza Strip their freedom, Hamas and their allies
have no other choice but to fight on in the only way they know how to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of course Hamas want peace, but they also want their freedom. Israel
doesn’t want to give it to them. What Israel really wants <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/feiglins-liberating-palestinians.html">is
the Gaza Strip for themselves</a> in order to exploit <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jul/09/israel-war-gaza-palestine-natural-gas-energy-crisis">its
gas reserves</a> and to realise their dream of a Greater Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-804578797190841492014-07-27T17:10:00.001-07:002014-07-27T21:55:39.906-07:00BOLT PROMOTES ABBOTT AS LEADER OF THE WESTERN WORLD<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tony Abbott seems set to get his fifteen minutes of fame - courtesy of
Bolt and a tragedy that Abbott seems willing to milk for all its political
worth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_abbott_leads_fight_against_evil_and_a_superpower/">In
his blog today, Bolt writes</a>: “Tony Abbott is leading the West into a
confrontation with nuclear superpower Russia over the downing of MH17. The
stakes are incredibly high, as the Prime Minister organises, effectively, a
small army to move into Ukraine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What utter tosh! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The ‘small army’ turns out to be a small group of Australian Federal
Police officers who will be unarmed and, rather than actually confronting ‘nuclear
superpower Russia’, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-27/security-fears-force-afp-to-delay-mission-to-mh17-crash-site/5627404">they’ve
postponed going into Ukraine</a> because it’s too dangerous due to the fighting
between the Ukrainian forces and Russian separatists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The way Bolt tells it you’d think Abbott was the saviour of the world
instead of a bumbling lunatic who has staggered onto the misfortune of others
and realised that he can make political hay from it while he has the
opportunity to strut the world stage and allow his right-wing backers in the
commentariat to promote him to status of ‘world leader’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">What a load of puffed up
nonsense. </span>Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-48938910363824380182014-07-23T16:36:00.001-07:002014-07-23T16:37:37.387-07:00HAS BOLT FINALLY LOST HIS MARBLES?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lately Bolt seems to have become increasingly disassociated with
reality. <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_mr_putin_produce_the_murder_weapon/">On
his blog today</a> he’s insanely demanding that Putin hand over the ‘murder
weapon’ that was used to shoot down flight MH17 over the Ukraine. Bolt writes: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Where is the Buk
missile system that almost certainly brought down the Malaysian airliner?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In any murder
investigation, the weapon is usually second only to the body in the search for
physical evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That the Buk has
not been produced proves Russia is actually hiding evidence of a crime — one in
which it is deeply implicated.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Buk is so
massive it should be the easiest thing for Russian President Vladimir Putin to
find. It’s nearly 10 metres long and four metres high. The killers can’t drop
it down a drain or toss it in a dumpster.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Moreover, it is an
incredibly lethal and expensive weapon that no army would somehow lose.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of course, Russia is no more ‘hiding evidence of a crime’ than the Americans
were when they shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. Like the 1988
incident, the shooting down of Flight MH17 was a tragic case of
misidentification. The Americans did not hand over the Surface to Air Missile
launcher that was used to shoot down the Iran Air Boeing A300. Apart from anything
else, what would be the point? The fact is; Russia, apart from the fact that it
either directly or indirectly supplied the weapon, actually had nothing to do
with the shoot down of MH17. There is no way the Putin or any of his military
would have authorised the shoot down of a commercial aircraft. Clearly, the
entire incident, like that of the shoot down of 655, was a simple case of misidentification
which, in his case, was carried out by inexperienced militiamen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Bolt’s over-the-top demands are symptomatic of a person slowly losing
his marbles as he sees support for his vision of a world reflecting his notion
of Western Exceptionalism slowly disappearing into oblivion. </span>Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-50152475333475456122014-07-13T16:17:00.002-07:002014-07-13T17:32:30.025-07:00BOLT DOES HIS MASTER’S BIDDING<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In his <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/tell_me_again_i_should_echo_rupert_murdoch/">blog
today Bolt attempts once again to deny</a> that he isn’t paid by Murdoch to
spout anti-climate change propaganda claiming that Murdoch himself is a
greenie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What utter rubbish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> What Murdoch says in public and
what he tells his journos to write with regard to climate change are two
different things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Murdoch only changed his public stance back in 2006 in deference to his
son James.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The reality is that Murdoch is not vocal about supporting climate
change policies. In fact I've heard from two now retired Murdoch journos (and
one cartoonist) that Murdoch has quietly encouraged them to support
anti-climate change propaganda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The reason is simple; he has a massive financial interest in oil and
gas resources through Genie Energy and Israeli Energy Initiatives (hence Bolt's
energetic support of fascist Israel).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Bolt claims he’s not paid to write anti-climate change propaganda for
Murdoch and that his journalism is independent. However, trying to draw on
Murdoch’s pathetic past effort at being a greenie is blatantly transparent – indeed,
so transparent that one might be forgiven for thinking Murdoch had even asked him
to write this nonsense.</span>Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-11151891398019803002014-06-25T22:46:00.001-07:002014-06-25T22:46:14.802-07:00HOW MUCH DOES BOLT GET PAID TO PUSH HIS ANTI-CLIMATE CHANGE NONSENSE?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">As we all know,
Andrew Bolt is a staunch climate change denialist and pro-pollutionist. We know
because he pushes his nonsense almost daily on his online blog at the
Sun-Herald in Melbourne and quite frequently on his talk show <i>The Bolt
Report</i> on Channel 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">What’s not quite
so well known is the reason why he so vehemently opposes climate change
science. One possible answer is blindingly obvious; he gets paid to – and not
just by Murdoch who, incidentally, has his <a href="http://bolttheracist.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/andrew-bolt-quintessential-paid-murdoch.html">own
vested interest</a> in denying climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bolt has extremely
close ties with neoconservatives and is no doubt familiar with the various financial
offerings made by neocon think tank organisations like the American Enterprise
Institute <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/23/3451810/physicist-offers-climate-denier-reward/">(AEI)
that have offered up to $10,000</a> for articles that undermine the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) reports. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One wonders how
much of this money has found its way into Bolt’s coffers. You have to wonder
who are paying his very significant legal bills and question where that money
comes from and why they keep paying them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bolt is a paid
propagandist but you can bet your boots it isn’t just Murdoch that’s paying his
bills. One has to ask if, and how much, are neocon organisations like the AEI
paying Bolt for his commentary – and whoever else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-78019255490039938402014-06-23T16:20:00.001-07:002014-06-23T16:20:31.244-07:00BOLT EXPOSES HIS BLATANT RACISM<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In his <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/we_now_foolishly_breed_our_own_jihadists/">blog
today Bolt</a> continues with his Islamophobic obsession about Muslims
migrating to Australia. In last Sunday’s <i>Bolt Report</i> <a href="http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/sm/2014/sm215656.htm">Bolt asked
Immigration Minister</a> Scott Morrison if we shouldn’t be ‘screening people
from or born of people from the Middle East for cultural compatibility’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Bolt would argue
that this is not racism because Islam is not a race but a religion. However, if
one were to criticise Judaism, Bolt would be the first to accuse you, quite
rightly, of anti-Semitism for being anti-Jewish yet Judaism is a religion and
not a race. While it is true that most folk that practice Judaism are indeed
Jewish, many are not racial Jews. Most are </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">descendants</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of converts to Judaism
but nonetheless, to criticise Judaism, regardless of whether or not those that
practice Judaism are actually racial Jews, is still anti-Semitic. But that’s
where the line is drawn. People like Bolt and his fellow neoconservatives would
also accuse those who are anti-Zionism as being anti-Semite when the reality is
that Zionism is a political ideology and race is incidental to that ideology
with, again, most adherents being </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">descendants</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of converts to Judaism. In short,
to be anti-Judaism the religion is racist but to be anti-Zionist the political ideology
is not. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">By the same
virtue, to be anti-Islam the religion, as Bolt and his fellow neoconservative
are, is racist, while to be anti-jihad as a political creed is not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Different religions
are a part of many peoples culture and to discriminate against a culture often
means discriminating against their religion and vice-versa. To discriminate
against a culture by ‘screening for compatibility’ is racist. Racism is more
than just being about blood and skin colour, it’s also about religion, heritage
and culture. To discriminate against someone on the basis of their religion or
culture is as much racism as discriminating against them on the basis of heir
physical appearance such as skin colour or blood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-57846931488847075612014-05-18T17:53:00.002-07:002014-05-18T17:53:16.902-07:00BOLT BECOMES A FANATICAL HATER OF FANATICAL HATERS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bolt <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_abc_accuses_me_of_blasphemy_in_criticising_waleed_aly/">today
continues his relentless rhetoric of hate</a> against Islam as he riles against
criticism of his hatred.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Throughout history
various religions that have at the core of their beliefs a philosophy of peace
and goodwill toward their fellow man have had within their ranks murderous extremists
who abuse the name of their faith to commit the most horrendous crimes against
their fellow man. Even political ideologies sometimes use their religious faith
to justify the most horrific crimes. Catholicism for centuries committed the
most terrifying crimes against Protestants; Judaism as a religion has been
responsible for crimes against Arabs in Palestine as they take over lands they
claim were given to them by God; Orthodox Christians in what was Yugoslavia
have committed genocidal crimes against some of their fellow citizens because
they happened to be Muslims; on and off for nearly eight hundred years
Christians from Europe embarked on crusades to wipe out Islam; there were
Christians in America who believed African-Americans were subhuman and should
be either enslaved or killed. And, of course, there were the Christians of
Europe who during the 1930s and 40s attempted to exterminate all of European
Jewry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But not in any of
these cases can their religion <i>per se</i> actually be blamed for their actions. In
every case religion was used merely as an excuse to commit these crimes. But in
not one case can the base philosophy of any religion be blamed for the crimes
committed by their adherents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And now here’s
Bolt, ready to condemn an entire religion because of the crimes of a few
misguided fanatics who claim to be part of that religion. Bolt’s obsessive
hatred of Islam has blinded and confused him. He is no longer able to
distinguish between the actions of fanatics and the reality of what they
profess to be their faith. In short, he has become as fanatical in his hatred as
those he accuses of being hate filled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-131964615061048182014-05-12T16:40:00.001-07:002014-05-12T18:03:21.271-07:00AUSTRALIAN NAZIS VISIT THE REFUGEE CAMPS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">SS-Hasseführer
Morrison with SS-Obergruppenführer Angus Campbell behind are seen here
visiting the Manus Island concentration camp where prisoners are held in
appalling conditions, beaten – sometimes to death, and with no hope of ever
knowing when they will be free.</span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-52934406784402314012014-05-09T18:36:00.001-07:002014-05-09T18:37:08.437-07:00BOLT’S ISLAMOPHOBIC BLOGGIES BLIND TO REALITY ON BOKO HARAM KIDNAPPINGS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Yesterday, <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/selfies_wont_stop_boko_haram/">Bolt
posted a piece</a> about the Boko Haram kidnappings in which he inferred that
the underlying problem was Islam itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I responded with
this comment which was published:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">More fearmongering
nonsense.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The issue is not
Islam. The vast majority of the worlds Muslims do not support Boko Haram or any
other group that goes around murdering or kidnapping civilians. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Boko Haram are
nothing more than criminal thugs as are the Christian Lords Resistance Army and
the Ku Klux Klan. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Boko Haram does not
represent anyone – certainly not Islam – anymore than the Lords Resistance Army
or the Ku Klux Klan represent Christians.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">This Boko Haram
incident is just another opportunity for Islamophobes to demonise all Muslims.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bolt’s Bloggies
were quick to respond with varying degrees of venom but the jist of most of the
eleven responses to my comment was that, if the vast majority of the world’s
Muslims do not support Boko Haram, then where are the Islamic world’s denunciations
of the kidnappings?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Clearly, these
Islamophobic nutjobs are incapable of performing a basic Google search to find
out if there had been any denunciations because typing in ‘muslims denounce
boko’ would have provided all <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=muslims+denounce+boko+&rlz=1C1FLDB_en-GBAU579AU579&oq=muslims+denounce+boko&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57.366903j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8">the
denunciations from the Islamic world</a> that would have been more than enough
to change the tune of all but the most diehard of Islamophobic nutjobs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-59192930305527126462014-05-01T16:20:00.001-07:002014-05-01T16:20:34.360-07:00BOLT CHERRYPICKS STORIES TO HIGHLIGHT HIS RACISM<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">In his </span><a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/a_refugee_program_should_not_import_danger/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">blog yesterday</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">, Bolt highlighted a story
about a brawl which happened to involve some young men from an African
background. He says he’s “not certain [that] aspects of our immigration and
refugee policies are working to the advantage of Australians”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The reality
is; he’s not actually certain that these men aren’t themselves Australian. Bolt
merely assumes that, if they’re black and look like Africans, then they must be
African migrants. Maybe they are, but then I don’t know anymore than Bolt does.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Just to
reinforce his presumptuous and racist stance, Bolt links to two other stories
about brawling in the streets apparently between young men who have an African
background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The fact is
there are brawls just about every Friday and Saturday night in just about all
of Australia’s cities and towns and these involve young men, and sometimes
women, from all sorts of racial and ethnic backgrounds – including white
Australians. Indeed, front bar brawls for decades were a bit of an Aussie
tradition long before non-white migrants arrived in Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But Bolt, of
course, only cherrypicks the stories that suit his racist propaganda while his
coterie of dedicated bloggies lap it up. Read the comments (if you can stomach
it) and see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-72496411761829727612014-04-21T17:06:00.001-07:002014-04-21T17:06:29.664-07:00ANDREW BOLT AND THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE LEAGUE CONNECTION<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Last night
the <i><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s3989318.htm">7.30
Report</a></i> showed a segment exposing the activities of a neo-Nazi
anti-Islamic hate group calling itself the Australian Defence League (ADL), an
off-shoot of the English Defence League (EDL), an extreme right-wing anti-Islam
hate organisation made up mainly of ex-Nazis, skinheads and football hooligans.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Their enemy
<i>du jour</i> is Islam. They now deny their Nazi and neo-Nazi roots and the
anti-Semitism of their twentieth century background; indeed, many of their
members today support the Israeli Zionist cause despite their past hatred of
Jews. It’s a classic case of ‘the enemy of your enemy is your friend’. For them,
Nazism is old hat. Of course, there are those that will always be Jew-haters
but, for today, their hatred is directed at Islam. Today, they’ll keep quiet
about their past anti-Semitism; they have a new enemy in their sights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Many of
Bolt’s Bloggies, those that regularly comment on Bolt’s blog supporting his
anti-Islam rhetoric and hatreds, have openly supported the ADL in their
comments. Some have even inferred that they are members.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bolt
himself is smart enough not to be associated directly with these extremists but
certainly he sympathises with their views. And he is more than happy for his
Bloggies to peddle support for the ADL at his blog. ADL members, in turn, <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/category/people/andrew-bolt/">support Bolt’s
views</a> and his blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The ADL is
a growing hate organisation that Bolt indirectly supports. The Australian Federal
Police need to investigate the ADL – which I understand they are – and also
need to investigate Bolt’s association with them to assess the extent of his
incitement to violence, either directly or indirectly, against the Australian
Islamic community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-44928416891329374732014-04-09T20:27:00.002-07:002014-04-09T20:27:43.119-07:00BOLT: PAID LACKEY OF ISRAELI ZIONISM<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/carr_is_a_warning_to_jews_the_left_is_the_natural_home_of_the_bigot/#commentsmore">Andrew
Bolt in his column today</a> has admitted having been treated to a trip to Israel
bought and paid for by Australia’s Israel lobby. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">While many
nations offer </span></span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ex-gratia</i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> trips to
politicians and journalists in order to promote some political or commercial cause
for that nation, when it comes to Israeli lobby groups handing out trips to
Israel to right-wing journalists you can bet it isn’t in order to influence
that journalist into writing </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">favorable</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> tourist copy for the beaches on the sea-front of Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt is a
classic neoconservative. He presents with all the classic characteristics of a
modern neoconservative – and no, contrary to popular opinion, one doesn’t need
to be Jewish to be a neoconservative, though, of course, many are. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">All
neoconservatives are pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian. Neoconservatives all
support the notion of Israelis settling in the West Bank and all privately believe
that the territories the Israelis occupied in 1967 after the Six Day War should
be annexed and become part of Greater Israel as they did to the Golan Heights.
I say ‘privately’ because, at the moment, it is not politically expedient for
their objectives to be so forthright. Having said that, there are some more
extremist neoconservatives who have no qualms at all about saying what their
objectives are but most, rather than push their own agenda, rail instead
against the Palestinians particularly those in the West Bank that throw stones
and those in the Gaza Strip that fire rockets into Israel in an effort to deter
Israelis from shooting unarmed Palestinians near the Gaza border with Israel. Israeli
Zionists and their neoconservative allies are simply waiting for an opportunity
to find an excuse to once and for all fully invade and occupy these places and
to destroy all of their enemies with the eventual aim of annexing all of the
Palestinian territories. Any war with Iran will provide the <i>casus belli</i> for the Israelis to invade
the occupied territories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Part of
neoconservatism’s pro-Zionist rhetoric is to label all anti-Zionists as being
anti-Semites in an effort to demonise them as being Jew-haters. Bolt has
frequently accused anti-Zionists as being anti-Semites and Jew-haters. However,
for this rhetoric to be effective, Bolt needs to rely on the ignorance of his
readers. The fact is; there are many anti-Zionists around the world who are
Jewish, indeed, there are many Israelis who are anti-Zionists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt has
been bought lock, stock and barrel by the Israel lobby in Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-88108269821870177702014-04-08T16:12:00.001-07:002014-04-08T16:12:40.541-07:00RACISM BY INFERENCE: HOW BOLT’S NOT SO SUBTLE RACIST PROPAGANDA WORKS<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">At every
opportunity Bolt can find he attempts to subtly push his racist agenda at his
blog by using topical news items to demonise certain targeted groups. He achieves
this by cherry-picking only news items that show non-white non-European
Australians to be the perpetrators of mainly violent crimes – especially if those
crimes include rape and murder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Today, <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/dont_help_catch_the_rapists_it_makes_a_newspaper_feel_bad/">Bolt
highlights</a> an AAP <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/two-girls-sexually-assaulted-in-fairfield-park-20140409-36boe.html#ixzz2yKh6yNuk">story
published in the <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i></a>
about two sixteen-year-old girls who were sexually assaulted in a Sydney park
by three men who the <i>SMH</i> described variously
as being of ‘dark complexion, thin build and with black hair’. Bolt then cut
and pastes the <a href="https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_releases?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGMzY5MjIuaHRtbCZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D">police
media release</a> about the crime which, as well as describing the perpetrators
as the <i>SMH</i> did, added that the three
men were of ‘Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This was
enough for Bolt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt takes
advantage of the story to push his racist agenda in two ways. First, he pans
the <i>SMH</i> by asking; why did the <i>SMH</i>, a media outlet that Bolt regards as
‘Left-wing’ and also happens to be one of Murdoch’s rival newspapers, not
mention the ethnicity of the perpetrators as the police had done in their media
release? And, secondly, by knowing the perpetrators were of Mediterranean/Middle
Eastern appearance, he knows that his readers will presume they are probably
Arab and, therefore, likely to be Muslims – indeed, everything that Bolt and his
bloggies hate. Added to this is the fact that, because the ethnicity of the two
girls was not described, it would be presumed that they were white Europeans
even though we don’t actually know their ethnicity. Bolt relies on his previous
stereotyping stories of non-European men attacking white girls to complete his propaganda
picture. He will leave it to his coterie of racist bloggies to complete the demonisation
of Bolt’s targeted group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mentioning
that describing the perpetrators as being of ‘Mediterranean/Middle Eastern
appearance’ actually means very little ethnicity-wise since the region covers a
hole region of the planet containing people of many ‘ethnicities’ ranging from
Africans to Israelis would be about as useful as merely mentioning them as the <i>SMH</i> had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-12378521889313277712014-04-01T14:43:00.003-07:002014-04-01T14:43:43.678-07:00AUSTRALIA'S CHOICE: STOP THE BOATS OR STOP RACISM<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Australians are
slowly edging toward facing the reality of what the boatpeople saga is really
all about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The catch-cry of
the right-wing Australian commentariat and politicians has been ‘Stop the
Boats’. They have claimed in their rhetoric that by stopping the boats the
drownings will stop. They have said
that, in order to deter others from making the perilous journey across the sea
in leaky boats, those that do safely make it to Australia’s shores must be
treated harshly by being told they will never be able to settle in Australia
and that they’ll be placed in camps in places that are alien and inhospitable
to them and where they may face an unknown future which may remain unknown for
a very long time. All this, so we are told, is necessary ‘to stop the
drownings’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Accompanying the
rhetoric of ‘Stop the Boats’, there has been a relentless tirade of commentary
from both commentators and politicians demonising boatpeople by accusing them
of being ‘queue jumpers’, ‘economic refugees’, ‘country shoppers’, and even
‘terrorists’. From Australia’s right-wing government the rhetoric has been no
less relentless. Policies have been wrapped in nationalistic slogans and titles
such as ‘Border Protection’ and ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ as though
Australia was being invaded by some kind of sneaky guerrilla force attempting
to stealthily infiltrate Australia rather than desperate people merely seeking
asylum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Along with the
‘Stop the Boats’ and the ‘Stop the Drownings’ rhetoric, a new catch-cry was
heard: ‘Stop the People Smugglers’ and ‘Put the People Smugglers out of
business’, both slogans clearly designed to shift attention away from the actual refugees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Both the Abbott
Coalition government and the former Labor government of Rudd and Gillard have
fallen over themselves to placate a now negative Australian public opinion
about boatpeople.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But all of these
slogans and excuses avoid saying what this is really all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">For some reason,
the non right-wing mainstream media to a very large extent have also avoided
mentioning it while the right-wing media have gone to great lengths to deny
that which the Left in the blogosphere and social media have been saying all
along; that Australia’s policies are not about ‘Stopping the Boats’ or
‘Stopping the Drownings’ or ‘Border Protection’ or ‘Stopping the People
Smugglers’ or ‘Stopping Queue Jumpers’ or ‘Stopping Economic Refugees’, they’re
about stopping non-European, non-white, Muslims from coming to Australia and
threatening the very core of what can only be called ‘Australianism’. In other
words it’s about racism – pure and simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The cheerleaders for
this racism – and the main source of the swing in public opinion away from the
‘fair go’ attitude of the post-White Australian era of the 70s and 80s – has
been the emergence of extreme right-wing columnists in the mainstream media
dominated by the Murdoch-owned newspapers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Ironically, one of
the reasons Australians are now edging toward facing the reality of the
boatpeople saga really being about racism is because of the current debate over
the change to Australia’s laws about racial discrimination and vilification.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Much of the debate
about changes to the racial discrimination and vilification laws has be been
brought about by the judgement of a Victorian court against one of the most
vocal of the mainstream media’s anti-boatpeople protagonists, Andrew Bolt of the
<i>Herald-Sun</i> newspaper. The judgement
was not related to boatpeople but to one of Bolt’s other hobby horses, the
demonisation of light coloured Indigenous persons who choose to identify as
Aboriginal for cultural purposes, though Bolt actually accuses them of choosing
to identify as Aboriginal in order to obtain some kind of pecuniary advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt denies being
a racist; indeed, he declares that he is anti-racist. He even goes so far as to
say that those who say that he is a racist are, in fact, racist themselves because
they are preventing Australia becoming a nation where all Australians,
regardless of skin colour or ethnicity, should be treated equally as
‘Australians’. He argues that recognising ‘race’ differences – and that
includes recognition of different cultures, heritage and religions as well as
actual race – is dividing Australians and, therefore, is racist. He calls it
the ‘New Racism’, a term purloined from Bolt’s arch-nemesis, the historian
Robert Manne. Manne, who first coined the term ‘New Racism’ in an article
written in 2002 entitled </span><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/09/15/1032054709197.html"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">‘Beware the New Racism’</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> in which he argues
that racism is no longer restricted to just blood and biology but also to
culture and religion. Bolt, who has had a long-standing argument with Manne
about the ‘Stolen Generations’, has seen fit to usurp Manne’s tag for use in
describing his own version of ‘New Racism’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What Bolt refuses
to accept is that recognising and acknowledging the culture and heritage of
people from different ethnicities and racial backgrounds has absolutely nothing
to do with being ‘racist’ from his peculiar viewpoint but has everything to do
with the sharing of heritage and the tolerance and respect of Australians’ differences
regardless of whether it’s blood and biology or culture and religion. It’s not
about ‘racism’, it’s about embracing and recognising diversity within a nation’s
peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt and his
fellow right-wing commentators by virtue of having access to one of Australia’s
largest media organisations have over nearly two decades managed to manipulate
public opinion to such an extent that Australians have been turned from being a
nation keen to give people a ‘fair go’ to being a nation of intolerant bigots.
The problem for Australia now is how to turn Australia’s world-wide reputation
of being racists and bigots around and that can only be done by recognising
that Australia has, indeed, become racist, and that in turn can only be done by
education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The current debate
about bigotry in Australia can provide an opportunity to turn things around.
Hopefully, that process of education, a process which rebuts the notion of
Bolt’s so-called ‘New Racism’ and rejects the creeping new trend of ‘democracy
by public opinion’ which gives power to those that have the wherewithal to
manipulate public opinion, has now begun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The debates are
not about Left and Right politics; it’s about the morality of right and wrong
and the elimination of poll-driven politics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It’s time for
Australia to put this glitch in our reputation as an easy going fair-minded
multicultural society behind us and rebuild a more tolerant Australia free of
racial bigotry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-28627861626575143062014-03-21T20:18:00.000-07:002014-03-21T21:46:30.390-07:00THE DECEIT OF BOLT’S RACISM<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The other week
Bolt got all upset <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/hypocrisy-adds-insult-to-injuries-20140318-35052.html">because
someone said he was a racist</a> on Monday, 10 March, Q & A program. He
reckons he was so upset he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/18/andrew-bolt-unhappy-with-abc-apology-for-racist-claim-on-qa">couldn’t
go to work the next day</a>. However, that didn’t stop him writing because he
still managed to post a few items at his blog on Tuesday, 11 March, including <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/marcia_langtons_vilification_no_law_against_this_kind_of_abuse/">an
item about someone calling him a racist</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Q & A is a
fairly high profile current affairs program produced by the ABC and, as such,
is considered fair game by the extreme right of both the media and politics, so
when Marcia Langton accused him of being a racist Bolt couldn’t resist the
golden opportunity of the publicity he would get by coming over all hurt by the
remarks. All he needed to do was kick up a fuss by demanding an apology and
laying it on really thick about how hurt he was by this attack on him and
mumble something about suing and defamation. He then sat back at home for the
day waiting for his mates in the rest of the Murdoch propaganda machine to do
their bit supporting him. Considering how close Murdoch’s propagandists are to
the Abbott government and how thin the relationship between the ABC and the
government is, Bolt could almost guarantee a quick apology from the ABC via Q
& A’s anchor, Tony Jones, a few nights later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The whole thing
was clearly just an opportunistic publicity stunt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The truth is
everyone knows Bolt is a racist. He’s even been <a href="http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/but-andrew-bolt-is-a-racist-in-black-and-white,6292">found
guilty</a> of it in an Australian court of law. Yet still he tries to insist he’s
no racist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Not only does Bolt
insist he’s not a racist, but there are many Australians out there who support
Bolt who also insist they are not racist despite being so – and many of them
actually sincerely believe this. They’ll swear black and blue they’re not
racists. Yet they are. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Quite simply, they’ve
been conned by Bolt’s rhetoric which is based on his notion of Australianism
and, to a lesser extent, the notion of Western Exceptionalism, whereby anyone
can become Australian provided they totally accept Australia’s modern culture
and values and accede to Australia’s contemporary heritage. And, of course, Australia’s
contemporary heritage is white European.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt has managed
to con a lot of Australians – even including some Aboriginal people – into believing
that we are all equals as Australians and, therefore, do not need changes to
our constitution which Bolt sees as ‘separating’ and ‘dividing’ Australians.
Bolt sees us as all as equals and so we should all be treated equally under one
law regardless of ‘race’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But this a
deliberate deceit. What the proposed changes to the constitution are about is
recognising the culture and heritage of Australia’s first peoples. Their race
is actually incidental. What Bolt is really trying to achieve is the
abandonment of Indigenous culture beginning with the denial of heritage of
those that he thinks he can marginalise by accusing them of not being what they
feel they are. He uses the various grants, benefits and scholarships that are
available to people of Indigenous culture and heritage as a lever to reinforce
his peculiar brand of racism accusing them of claiming Indigenous heritage in
order to obtain a pecuniary advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The fact is, while
we are all equal as Australians, we are a multicultural society – not just of
Aboriginal and Indigenous people but also Asian, Middle Eastern, European,
African, etc. We are all different – even within these groupings. However, the
reason why Australia is giving special significance to Aboriginal people is
because they were the original inhabitants of this country and, contrary to
Bolt and others denials, were displaced and ethnically cleansed from their
lands by white Europeans, some of who even attempted to wipe them out
completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Not only is Bolt a
racist, he is also a deceitful racist. He is a racist adept in the use of
propaganda to perpetuate his particular brand of obnoxious race hate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">And then there’s
his Islamophobia… I can’t wait to see his reaction when someone on Q & A
accuses him of being an Islamophobe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-38405818630104929842014-03-11T23:50:00.000-07:002014-03-11T23:50:27.659-07:00CLASSIC CHUTZPAH FROM THE MASTER RACIST<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">At Bolt’s blog today, he asks <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/which_labor_muckraker_authorised_this"><span style="color: purple;">‘Which Labor mudraker authorised this?</span></a>’ At the top of the rant is a picture of a crumbling brick wall with the words “Can you trust Habib?” painted on it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The Habib in question is Carolyn Habib, a Liberal candidate for the seat of Elder in South Australia. She has accused the Labor party opposition of being racist by producing this picture and asking the question. Bolt, naturally, concurs with her, inferring that it is indeed racist to write ‘Can you trust Habib’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But then you’d have to ask; why is it racist? It’s just a name. It wouldn’t be racist if her name was Smith. So why is Habib ‘racist’?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">There is a reason. It’s because Bolt himself has spent years spinning his Islamophobic propaganda nonsense demonising Islamic people and associating them with Arabic and Arabic-sounding names. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In other words, if Carolyn Habib wants to blame anyone for the racist connotations associated with the picture of the wall and words written on it, she should blame Andrew Bolt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Only another racist could see any racist connotations in it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt, <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_no_adam_we_are_not_so_different_or_so_guilty"><span style="color: purple;">writing at his blog today</span></a>, has yet another rant at Australian of the Year, Adam Goodes, the Aboriginal footballer who is sticking up for his people against racism and the failure of people like Bolt to recognise the evil Europeans have done to Aboriginal people since arriving on these shores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bolt’s response is predictably denialist as he reckons: “My grandparents committed no thefts, rapes or murders”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Goodes, of course, never said they did. Who Goodes was talking about are the Europeans of the past generally, not specifically. The way Bolt carries on in his article, however, anyone would think it’s just about him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Racism is still rife in Australia. Bolt mentions how Goodes had been vilified in the past but fails to concede that it’s not just in his distant past. Things haven’t changed. A thirteen-year-old only last year shouted racist taunts at him. And then Bolt tries to make out she’s the victim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">There will always be racism in Australia while people like Bolt insists that he personally cannot accept that Australia’s past treatment of Aboriginal people has anything to do with him despite being in Australia enjoying the fruits of the labours – and the misdeeds – of Europeans that came before his parents and him who exploited and stole from the Aboriginal people of this land to build that which he lives in today.</span>Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726715024226006639.post-34503323528709528012014-03-03T13:56:00.000-08:002014-03-03T13:56:15.759-08:00CONVICTED RACIST CONTINUES HATE RANT AGAINST INDIGENOUS CULTURE<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Andrew Bolt, a convicted racist, today continues to rant against his pet hate; Aboriginal and Indigenous people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">His rant against Australia’s Indigenous people begins with <a href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/my_european_ancestors_did_not_steal_or_rape_goodes_should_speak_for_his_own"><span style="color: purple;">another swipe at Adam Goodes</span></a> the footballer and Australian of the Year who Bolt says was “famous for having publicly humiliated a 13-year-old girl”. As most people remember it, it was actually the 13-year-old girl who attempted to publicly humiliate Goodes in a crowded football stadium – but the truth is never anything that gets in the way of Bolt’s own peculiar brand of hate propaganda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Bolt continues his attack against Goodes because of Goodes <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/hostility-to-john-pilgers-film-a-denial-of-nations-brutal-past-20140302-33ttx.html"><span style="color: purple;">endorsement John Pilger’s latest film</span></a>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Utopia,</i> about the mistreatment of Aboriginal people at the hands of European settlers in Australia. Bolt, despite the clear and abundant evidence shown in the film, denies that European settlers mistreated and abused Aboriginal people. And, because his own parents are only relatively new settlers in Australia, Bolt also defers any guilt as far as he is personally concerned. Never mind, however, that, while he may have no guilt about white Australia’s past, it is he that is making up for it today by perpetuating the hate a few white people still have for Aboriginal and Indigenous people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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