Andrew Bolt's Blog,17/4/18; Bolt's editorial on Syria, Russia and Trump is such a bomb it misses the target; Churnalism making new news out of old;

SYRIA: THE DICTATOR WINS, WE LOSE

These US-led missile strikes on Syria are not the big success we're told. In fact, they signal a defeat. My editorial from The Bolt Report.

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SAVING SGT TRUMP 

US media outlets are recklessly promoting war with help from neocons, including Arab American right-wingers who do not represent the views of the region they are demanding Trump bomb.

American media outlets can't help themselves. They love war. They love war more than they hate Trump. They love war so much, they are cheering on the president they hate to militarily escalate in Syria. And if he doesn't escalate in Syria, it proves he is controlled by the Kremlin, they tell us. If he wants to demonstrate that Russia isn't calling the shots, he must bomb Syria. And he must bomb Syria to punish Assad for an alleged chemical attack that has yet to be properly investigated to determine whether it took place and who is responsible. The US media isn't interested in evidence, they have been repeating that Assad was behind this alleged attack from the beginning and through repetition it has become a truth.RTA

 Peter Ford, the former British ambassador to Syria. Ford told BBC Radio Scotland that “in all probability” the alleged chemical attack never happened and that the video and image evidence used as proof by the US and its allies was falsified. There are others who believe that the attack could have been real, but that the perpetrators were anti-Assad rebels trying to provoke fresh military action from the US — in other words, it was very possibly a false flag event which served its purpose perfectly.
One of the best questions to ask when something like this happens, is: Who benefits? Very clearly, in this case, Assad has not benefited at all, but the rebel groups fighting against him have.
Whatever the truth about this alleged chemical attack, the notion of false flag events being used to prompt military action should not be met with such skepticism. The US has a long history of using lies (or ‘fake news’ you might call it) as a pretext for war. It is important to look at recent events in Syria within that context.False flags are real – US has a long history of lying to start wars

Andrew Bolt is a churnalist and his editorial is proof of it. However, notice the banner he posted above "we lose". Does it even make sense? What bombs did "we" drop? What involvement did "we" have? The"we" and our participation seem to be solely determined by Bolt's imagination, nobody elses. Did anybody notice Australia wasn't there?  Bolt nevertheless clubs us together as if Australia were. Unlike when he refuses the "we" with UK and France on Climate even though Abbott signed us up to the Paris accord.
Bolt tends to report the explanations of others like Theresa May who clearly said "the bombing was never intended to have any effect on the balance of the outcome of the war."  and then attach his hawkish propaganda opinion on it.
  It wasn't a "loss". It was an actually to help Trump save face after his extraordinary kneejerk Twittering threats.  The needed the help Abbott didn't get when he said he was going to shirtfront Putin. He just looked a fool. If there was a loss at all it was Trump's irrational Twittering response. Theresa May, in fact, made that obvious when she said the bombing was never intended to affect the course or outcome of the war. What was left unsaid it was Clayton's bombing to assist the idiot man-child President.

However, Bolt takes the opportunity Bolt to say "we" most grim and seriously because Assad is still in place and Russia is still there and now there to stay. Bolt somehow misses the fact that Russia was there before this war began, in fact, they have been there since the Cold War in 1947 and have had an established naval base in Syria since 1971. It was their HQ in both the Mediterranean and the Middle East. So what on earth is Bolt actually saying? 
He was being Trump a warmongering sabre rattling Dr Strangelove Hawke disappointed and regretful the war wasn't allowed to escalate he was pouting like Trump.  It's clear he'd prefer Australia in the thick of it dropping bombs on Damascus and not just symbolically to make Trump look a respectable President. However, that's all this bombing was 150 missiles too to destroy 3 empty buildings.  For Bolt, a world gain is a loss nobody killed is a loss and Australia not in the thick of an escalated war is a loss. He is Trump.

The question that really comes out of Bolt's editorial is why is he such a  poor commentator presenting such extreme views? News Corp, it masks Trump and makes him look better.PR is why he needs to present a version of "facts" no matter how wrong to tell us Trump's a leader that Western allies and advisers didn't hold Trump back?  His editorial doesn't enlighten us on anything but only distorts and the sabre rattling only fogs reality that America is rudderless without a leader just getting by? 

Real targets of US-led strike were Syrian airfields, not research centers – MoD

If this was the case then the whole Bolt Report is a total misdirect by News Corp

 

 

 

HOW TO STRANGLE AUSTRALIA IN JUST DAYS

Australia has only a few weeks of petrol reserves if supplies from overseas are cut off. Liberal Senator Jim Molan, former Major General, says this is dangerous and must (and will) be fixed:

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Why has Bolt got Molan on reporting on something he said months ago? Didn't anyone believe him then? It got him elected. So Bolt's given him a second go to repeat his message after looking such an idiot in supporting Britain First? Molan doesn't seem to have progressed or moved on. Or is Bolt so short of stories and guests he has to churn out old ones? Guess it saves money by having a production line of stale repetition. News Corp needs to appear to have a show not have a show, a Clayton's Report. 

 

AUSTRALIA: A SITTING DUCK

A sobering warning from Maurice Newman: we have personal debt soaring, federal debt increasing and electricity prices at record highs. Leading economic indicators in the US, Germany and China are meanwhile softening. We're vulnerable: "Australia today is a testament to political irresponsibility."

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The fact is until Tony Abbott came in Australia was the only country ahead of the largest depression since the Great Depression. We were ahead of the world. That recession isn't looming it's never left and the LNP has successfully brought us in at a faster rate than any other OECD counties. While we are sinking from the top of the ladder others are stepping up and walking all over us and Newman is concerned Labor will get in and his ilk, not Australia will need to give back. The sitting duck quacking isn't Australia it's Newman.

 

 

DUD REPORT: TREASURY FAILS ON IMMIGRATION

Treasury tries to fool us: "Migration is making Australians wealthier, with the annual ­permanent ­intake forecast to add up to one percentage point to GDP growth each year ." But even if true, this works out per person to almost nothing: "The report found skilled migrants were ... lifting the standard of living by 0.1 percent of GDP per capita."

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Bolt our resident climate scientist, mathematician and statistician is at it again. Telling us that the amateurs in Treasury need their fingers to add up. What are Bolt's qualifications? Art, Opera, and Whiskey sounds the right combination to be our financial adviser and aloof social climbing opinionated drunk.
"A Treasury report released by Treasurer Scott Morrison tries to fool us that our massive immigration intake - three times higher than 13 years ago - is actually good for us:"Bolt
Apparently, migrants are all cost with a minimum gain according to Bolt. The fact is less than 10% are refugees and receive help. Bolt never mentions that fact in his 245.000 figure. The Kew shopping centre is largely migrant run and employs hundreds of taxpaying bludgers. It's mirrored across the nation. Migrants are more the powerhouses of the nation more productive than Andrew Bolt and are consumers of the basics driving demand and supply of real things and not just propaganda and fake news.

As for the infrastructure well the last Victoria experienced they were being blackmailed by Tony Abbott to the tune of $3billion which is still being withheld for Matthew Guy's sake. Add the cuts Abbott made to health and welfare and the stalling and cuts to Gonski one might come to realize that while Immigration is adding to the economy the Federal government is not.
The lack of difference in our individual wealth is a misdirect firstly in saying "our" he represents less than 10%. But Companies and business have on average increased their wealth by 20%-25%
but haven't shared it in terms of wages. The government has changed the Labor laws to such an extent that that unions and enterprise bargaining has come to a halt. Casualized labour is now equal to permanent and wages, as a result, have increased less than 2%. Yet the cry is still the more profits a company makes the more it invests it doesn't.

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"In short: this report is a farce that confirms the case against this high immigration that it seeks to defend."Bolt
Is scapegoating Immigration for the lack of infrastructure governments have blocked for decades and continue to do and finally have to find blame for. In the meantime, migrants are increasing the wealth of the country while governments bring it to a standstill especially the ones who don't pass bills like the record-breaking Abbott LNP