GetUp turns to ShutUp
Andrew Bolt – Thursday, July 28, 11 (11:11 am)
The creeping totalitarianism of the Left:
THE Australian Communications and Media Authority is investigating a complaint about alleged inaccuracies in statements on climate change by broadcaster Alan Jones… read it all here
Bet they don’t want to look at all the other lies, by the rest of the media, like carbon is not the same as CO2, sea levels rising catastrophically, no more snow, dams to be dry before 2010 and so on, pushed by ABC, SBS, Fairfax on the sayso of Gillard, Flannery, Garnaut, Brown and co.
Yet the media fail to report all the falsifications of the science from respected scientists such as Spencer, Lindzen, Carter, Idso Bros, Loehle, Archibald, Plimer, Ball, David Evans, Ferenc Misckolczi, Pielke Sr and Jr, and all the other thousand and more listed here.
Speaking of Totalitarianism of the Left:
The following extracts are of statements made by Senator Lee Rhiannon at “Politics in the Pub” at the Gaelic Club in Sydney on 22 July 2011 from 6:00pm… I recorded Rhiannon’s opening address and some of her answers to questions from the floor, which were taken two at a time…. Rhiannon shared a platform with Antony Loewenstein. The event was chaired by Stuart Rees.
On the BDS resolution meeting adopted by the NSW Greens State Delegates Council on 8 December 2010:“It was put forward by the leadership of the Newtown Group and adopted unanimously. It was a well attended meeting… The State Delegates Council is the key decision-making body of the NSW Greens…The proposal, as required under our rules, had been sitting on our notice paper…for a month so that people could consider it. There were about 60 people in the meeting, 29 local groups represented, 9 groups represented as observers, all our State parliamentary MP’s and passed unanimously.”…
“At the national level the Greens have adopted a boycott on military trade and links with Israel. One of the pieces of misinformation was that the NSW Greens were going against the national policy. As a Greens MP I don’t do that.”
“So the boycott [resolution adopted by the NSW Greens in December 2010] was not in contravention of our [the Greens] national policy and actually we do have a position calling on the Australian government to boycott any military arrangements with Israel”.
“There is a diversity of opinion only about how we take forward the Greens position”.
[Note: Rhiannon provides no explanation as to why the policy adopted on 8 December 2010 was quickly removed from the NSW Greens website. Here is the original.]
On the obsession of the Greens and the far Left with Israel:“The other thing that we saw coming from the tactics that played out in this period is this attempt to suggest that we, the Greens, wouldn’t take on other countries, that we were only taking on Israel. Now that is so untrue. We have a very fine track record. I can say that I would hope and would like it if we could be more active if we had more members. But I am proud of our track record on Tibet, on Burma, on Indonesian issues, on East Timor, on West Papua, on peace in the Pacific, on Sudan. it’s a really fine record. But again if you read the News Limited papers and many of the other media commentators, you would think that the only country in the world that we paid attention to was Israel. [PJW Note: So where is the Greens’ boycott of China over Tibet or of Sudan over Darfur?]
“So I am very proud that the Greens adopted our position on the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions.”
Andrew Landeryou says Rhiannon is defying Greens leader Bob Brown, whose distancing from the anti-Israel campaign is weak and unconvincing.
