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Well, well. Akerman in today's Murdoch owned Sunday Daily Telegraph in Sydney writes what can only be described as an apologia for political mass murder:

"He [Breivik] has opened an obvious wound in a policy [multiculturalism] which has for years been defended by the soft-Left in Europe and Australia, indeed in most Western cultures, though not elsewhere because multiculturalism can only exist in liberal regimes."

Under the headline "This was a deathblow for multiculturalism" no less.

Is the subtext of this grotesquery in the Murdoch tabloid an unvarnished white supremacism, and apologia for the horror of the poltical mass murderer? 

The article is notable for not one outright condemnation of the mass murderer. Is this really acceptable press behaviour in a civil society? Should Akerman be hounded out of decent society?

How can anyone stomach this blame the victim [supporters of multiculturalism] moral excrement parading as journalism?

Over to you Lachlan Murdoch. 

Posted by editor at 5:46 PM NZT

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Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 3:08 PM

Subject: [chipstop] Robert Borsak MP on Anders Breivik email list?

Anders Behring Breivik

as it has been reported that the Norwegian political murderer had a 'high quality' email list of 8,000 across the world to share his terrorist philosophy with.

 

So it seems an important question for all those public figures on the lunar right. Including Robert Borsak and possibly some figures in the NSW National Party too.

 

Yours truly etc

 

Posted by editor at 11:45 AM NZT

Updated: Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:56 AM NZT

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The Sydney News Ltd Sunday tabloid today is more judicious. A two page feature with some straight reportage and analysis of the Norway horror, as if reaching for some self respect and a retreat from the right wing incubator traditional role.

Bolt is not for turning.  According to his German guest it's all about the dumbing down of Europe, specifically Germany, by Muslim immigrants and differential birthrates according to the alarmest meme. Nothing about hybrid vigour of multiculturalism and interbreeding (a well known biological concept), common human values, acknowledgment of Jesus Christ in Islam etc. 

No sense of deference or timing  from Bolt to those attending funerals, or the echo of alarm across the Eurocentric Australian community. Not for Bolt these civilities. The true colour of a cruel and one eyed man, drenched in red (as shown above).

The Fairfax Sydney tabloid carries a headline today "Extremists lure young minds" in another context. The Bolt Report fits the alarming headline quite well.

Some questions arises out of the two page feature in the Murdoch tabloid today:

1. Was Andrew Bolt one of the 8,000 worldwide to receive an email from Norway mass murderer Anders Breivik only hours before his murderous onslaught?;

2. Is Andrew Bolt one of the names on a list of 100 reportedly being compliled by the NSW Police "known for their fanatical viewpoints and ...deemed a "concern" to police agencies .....including white supremacists ... on the radar"?

Posted by editor at 2:50 PM NZT

Updated: Monday, 1 August 2011 3:50 PM NZT

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The Murdoch subsidised broadsheet editorial today carries an angsty editorial letter to itself, a bit like an adolescent indulging in pop psychology. It's ostensibly a missive to the world, but actually the only reader it really cares to convince is itself.

News Ltd with their brand of white supremacism and intolerance have blood on their hands from the Iraq war to sundry other hate crimes, and somewhere in their heart they surely know it is true. 

Call it blogger slander, call it what you like. The Murdoch broasheet is not the free press, it is a malicious corporate propaganda sheet. The online 'printing press' is here and your days of hegemony are drawing to a close. Thank God.

Sincerely, etc

Posted by editor at 12:38 PM NZT

Updated: Sunday, 31 July 2011 2:30 PM NZT

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The latest so called "public interest" campaign of the Sydney Daily Telegraph editor Paul Whittaker is a transparent attempt to divert attention from demonstrated bias and dishonesty in their news work.

It is also dumb as usual.

All those pictures of crumbling roads in the last few days - Question: Is it NSW Government ie Roads and Transport Authority controlled roads, or local council? Because the RTA controls repairs of most roads in Sydney. Or as the RTA are now called - the "Transport Roads and Traffic Authority - TRTA"

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au

This writer in another career shared budget decisions at Waverley Council on the Finance Committee in relation to the roads budget there 1995-1999. We well remember respected mayor Barbara Armitage like a wise old aunty telling us in open council words to the effect:

"Cr McLoughlin you have to decide if you want to spend millions of dollars on perfect roads or build the public library." 

The words were like a jolt on my populist knee jerk local political instincts. 

Here is the answer to that dilemma, and I want to put on record that ethnic independent councillor Norman Lee, as champion for the local Jewish community, wanted the same money to go into ....tennis courts for Dover Heights, and tried to sabotage the library agenda:

Posted by editor at 9:19 AM NZT

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The lone wolf in the extreme right are emboldened by a certain intolerant and dishonest media drum beat, day by day. Norway is not so different to Australia.

Similarly when the neo nazis organised a coup in Chile in 1973 that society similarly had never experienced political mass murder before.

The precursor to this mass murder iin Chile was a rabidly dishonest, defamatory right wing news media who ruthlessly smeared anyone who organised against, or openly criticised big business interests.One wonders the media profile in Norway.

Anyone of left wing or liberal leanings is positioned by this abusive media for extreme right violence cloaked in self defined 'patriotism'.

The question now after Norway is to what extent the right wing rantings of Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Tim Blair, Miranda Devine, Ray Hadley, Chris Smith and a few others are creating the circumstances for extreme right mass murder in Australia?

Posted by editor at 10:12 AM NZT

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Bolt gets his conspiracy knickers in a knot today over the terms "climate change" and "global warming" and use of each by the federal government.

Turns out both terms have provenance in this area of discussion back to the 1980ies and 1970ies in the scientific community:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

Another interesting spin off of the Dolt Report this morning is that grumpy old man Barry Cohen suffering in his irrelevance, actually made a significant point about man made bushfires from arson, while ignoring the history of Labor and Liberal Party support for woodchipping destruction of wet forest types converted to dry schlerophyll which promotes megafires - like for the last 40 years.

Gerard Henderson is similary hopelessly out of his depth on the landcape and water issued relating to forests in Australia which are down 50% since 1788, and massively disturbed. Indeed in our lifetime the woodchippers may yet set the whole of Tasmania alight unless they are closed down in favour of agricultural wood and fibre production.

Meanwhile in modern Rome (USA) there appear to be many tools around for talking to skeptics, or in Bolt's case, an idiot:

http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics

Lastly who else thinks Bolt looks like a Norwegian mass murderer? Oh sorry, is that politically incorrect?

Posted by editor at 1:57 PM NZT

Updated: Tuesday, 26 July 2011 10:01 AM NZT

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The Fairfax press give the Norway massacre close to full front page treatment because the murderer is from the extreme right.

The Murdoch press goes half a front page for the same reason.

Slippery Murdoch has another pressing agenda. The other half of the front page is dedicated to the huge audience involved in Harry Potter final film, but the subtext also is that Rupert has to manage the public reaction lest the connotation that he is the metaphorical Voldermort take hold.

Not for nothing do we see the global and specifically UK launch of the final inspirational Potter emancipation story parallel the demise of Murdoch's highest selling tabloid in the UK owned by Murdoch. One could almost hear the patriotic UK cheer in reaction to a film preaching to the UK public better angels. With all that symbolism of The Blitz, St George's dragon breaking free of the bankers, and stoic facing down of death complete with Christian resurrection theme. Well it was heady stuff.

Even PM Cameron with a streak of Draco Malfoy in him has got the zietgeist in his speeches and wants to be done with the ugly Murdoch power mongers. For that one detects a lurch toward redemption by a man who above all loves his country.

Meanwhile Charles Waterstreet, a trained barrister no less, makes the common mistake of  assuming the woman in grey was Wendi Deng who intercepted the pie thrower. Shows just how brain washed by dumb big media the public, even legal experts, can be. (See our post 2 stories back.)

Complete with "left hook" - it was a right handed punch, and coming second to the woman in grey, well after the room was alert to the pie thrower and Rupert was in no imminent danger from that time on.

Which just leaves w*nker Lachlan Harris in the opinion column of the Murdoch smear sheet. What does he think he is playing at? Time you moved on young man to a decent news outlet and got your hand off your grasping 'career'.

Posted by editor at 10:47 AM NZT

Updated: Sunday, 24 July 2011 2:05 PM NZT

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We've had this discussion with quite a few Gen X colleagues over recent times. One, a barrister was commenting on a mad bad magistrate.

I explained my observations based on some Dr Google and personal observation of a high functioning alcoholic relative now dead - father in fact.

It's about the "dry drunk" routine. As the alcohol over years, and decades in the case of boomers, alters brain function causing a trend towards depression, the otherwise high functioning and generally unaware boomer starts lashing out at seemingly trivial bits of uncertainty and chaos that occur in every normal day.  A typo, a slip up, a correction or fudge that needs to be clarified.

Everyone is an idiot or a f*ckwit except of course our hero the high functioning dry drunk boomer, when actually the every day mishaps trigger a deep and powerful  subconscious and alarming reliance on the alcohol fix to smooth things out, especially after hours of withdrawal. This reliance creeps up so incrementally, probably over decades, the addict probably doesn't even realise the source of their deeper seated fear, powerlessness, depression and anger. Not for nothing is alcohol known as the Great Deceiver:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2237210/pdf/jroyalcgprac00352-0047.pdf

It's very destructive too with the mood swings, the belittling pre-emptive innuendo, the degrading personal comments - all to project the addict's problem onto others just as long as they can get that alcohol anaesthetic for the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Here is one description of the behaviour of the so called "dry drunk":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_drunk

and here complete with "grandiosity":

 http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/what-is-a-dry-drunk/

The worrying thing is that this effect surely applies to everyone who takes alcohol fairly regularly over the years, whether they believe it affects them or not. Really every bad mood they have may or may not be caused by alcohol cravings. They will never know without a reasonable period of abstinence and self aware monitoring to note any difference in the upward or downward trend of their moods and contentment.

Also given alcohol is the drug of choice of older working Australians the younger generations will have to deal with the associated pathology of their older colleagues for a long time to come and probably forever.

Posted by editor at 7:12 PM NZT

Updated: Saturday, 23 July 2011 7:29 PM NZT

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Just how unreliable is the big media?

Very it seems. 

Even the simple interpretation of a global media event can't be accurately described.

In the now (in)famous assertion that Wendi Deng acted like a tigress to protect her mogul husband Rupert from a pie thrower, the facts just don't bear that out.

Upon re watching the incident on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3SfSBjo7YE

it is quite clear Deng came in AFTER the pie man was intercepted by another woman in grey (next to and to the left of Deng) using a left arm basketball style forward stance. Then AFTER general alert in the room and crucially for the pie thrower the lost element of surprise, Deng either seeks to consolidate the interception or less charitably to seek revenge.

The woman in grey is simply not Deng, who is in pink. Both women have black hair but that's the only similarity.

Consider these two pictures of the event which makes it quite clear the woman in grey is not Ms Deng.

We suggest the former possible intention by Deng would be lawful, the latter a defence to unlawful assault by Deng of the pie thrower due to provocation, to add to the pie thrower's unlawful assault of old Rupe. Deng is clearly shown here in the pink:

Not so cut and dried as the big media are posturing this last week. And arguably two wrongs don't quite make a right, though any judge would be likely to dismiss it for provocation. Certainly Deng is not the tigress surrounded by coppers on the move. The woman in grey surely is.

To reinforce the point about how hopeless even the best of the big media and big politics can be about this otherwise trivial posturing:

 1. On reconvening the committee a member of the parliamentary select committee tries to smooth things over by commending Wendi Deng for a great left hook. Trouble is it was her right hand, not left that threw the punch.

 2. Have a look at this re-enactment on youtube which airbrushes the woman in grey power suit out of the picture and puts a man next to 'hero' Wendi Deng. Talk about rewrite history. Pathetic really. It's here 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgcBbVQA8Y

Posted by editor at 6:34 PM NZT

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