Andrew Bolt's Blog,4/2/18; The ransacking of experts, facts and science for unshared gains and losses on a rigged playing field; The Peabody example; Democracy and the new Donation Laws;

 OUR GREATEST DANGER THE GROWING INCOME AND WEALTH GAP
Actually, when you come to think of it, the problem is not what they do with all that moolah, but what they do for it. And, again, because you are a simple person, you understand that if you give somebody money, you'd expect that person to do something for you. That’s the way the world works: your friend fixes a door hinge for you, so you buy him a drink; your wife helps out a neighbour and gets a sponge cake for a thank you; you drop your son’s friend off to school and his father takes you to the football a few times a year.
So you can only imagine what you would be prepared to do if someone actually gave you $95 million. You strongly suspect the folk in government must be feeling grateful to those who gave them all that money. Look, we said you are no genius and have only a vague idea what a government could do to thank those donors, but you feel they will get something for their contributions and you will miss out.
It’s actually worse than that. It isn’t just that they get something that you don’t: they get something at your expense and that of others like you. In other words, each of you pays a small amount of the reward which those donors receive. You pay it in small cutbacks in benefits to which you are entitled; in the rundown of your children’s school, in the roads that, in the old days, used to be free; in a dozen little helpings that enable the top ten per cent of the population to recoup a profit on the donation they have made to the political party.
 However, the pain paid is rarely proportionate or equally felt by those that lose. In fact, that also applies to the benefits it why labor never sees the greater proportion of any production gains but generally only suffers the greater proportion of the losses resulting in an ever-increasing wealth gap.
Is it a surprise that the USA has the worlds largest wealth gap and growing and we are chasing it down the same rabbit hole. Even Rupert Murdoch declared it to be Americas greatest danger.

 Group, Peabody Coal and the climate deniers

 



 Global warming skeptics advertising in The Australian deny funding from the fossil fuel industry, but the evidence suggests otherwise, writes Dr. Norm Sanders. The Lavoisier

This is Lobbying on a grand scale that we see occurring today in American politics without shame or care for facts and in complete denial of the concept of an informed democracy. It drives current Corporate Media is all that fuels Murdochs profit and is called justified by 'free speech' but has been usurped wrapped and packaged as News.

11 Ways Experts Say The Government's New Foreign Donation Laws Will Screw Democracy

Josh Taylor 

  

The Australian government's foreign interference legislation has been widely condemned by charities, churches, legal experts, business groups, and environmental groups who say it will harm democracy in Australia.