With Rupert’s rabid tabloids in full McCarthy mode today, it’s almost like the Berlin Wall didn’t come down — 25 years ago this week, writes Dr Martin Hirst.

WHAT A STRANGE BUNCH OF HEADLINES today in Rupert Murdoch's Australian tabloid newspapers.

It's almost as if the last 25 years never happened. In the week that the world is celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall ‒ the most potent symbol of the end of the Cold War ‒ Murdoch's crazy liquid modern tabloid editors have raised spectre of

THE REDS ARE COMING

You couldn't make this stuff up, but Murdoch's minions apparently can and will.

The Russian boats are not even close to Australia's territorial waters (see below), but the editors ‒ juiced up on Rupert's kool-aid ‒ cannot resist a good old-fashioned front page

RED FLAG

Without a moment's hesitation the claxon sounds and it's all hands on deck as the plucky crew of HMAS NutsandBolts rallies 'round the flag to repel all boarders and

STOP THE BOATS

Yes, even that classic, elastic, all-purpose, sea-going three-word slogan gets another run and is put to a good secondary dog-whistle use.

https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/news-corps-new-scare-the-russians-are-coming,7089

Idiots !....

The opportunity to rub shoulders with global leaders usually gives the prime minister of the day a boost. Not this time, writes Barrie Cassidy.

Only now are the political negatives from Tony Abbott's threat to Vladimir Putin blindingly obvious, and "shirking the shirtfront" as one television newsreader put it, is only part of the problem.

For the past week, the Prime Minister's appearance at APEC - and probably at the G20 in Brisbane still to come - has been traduced and cheapened by a media obsession with the undiplomatic overreach.

These opportunities to rub shoulders with global leaders don't come along often. When they do, they usually give the prime minister of the day a boost.

Not this time.

The reporting, the photographs and especially the cartoons, have reduced serious diplomacy to high farce. For that Abbott has to take a large slice of the blame.

The hysterical reaction from parts of the media to the presence of Russian ships in international waters off Papua New Guinea only served to underscore how ridiculous the whole episode has become.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-14/cassidy-how-a-shirtfront-became-an-own-goal/5889054

The prime minister tells an audience of business leaders that Australia was 'nothing but bush' before the British arrived. Tony Abbott said for the British who arrived in 1788 'everything would have seemed so extraordinarily basic and raw'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/nov/14/tony-abbott-says-australia-nothing-but-bush-before-british-video

"The marines and the convicts and the sailors that straggled off those 12 ships, just a few hundred yards from where we are now, must have thought they had come almost to the moon.

"Everything would have been so strange. Everything would have seemed so extraordinarily basic and raw, and now a city which is one of the most spectacular cities on our globe."

Kirstie Parker from the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples said the comments do tremendous damage to the relationship between the Prime Minister and Aboriginal people.

"I'd say they were a blunder except this is becoming a habit for the Prime Minister," she said.

"On several occasions just in the last couple of months, he has made comments that have erased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from the landscape."

Ms Parker said it was not a case of reading too much into the remarks, or taking them out of context.

"For the Prime Minister to say there was nothing here but bush is incorrect; there were people here with sophisticated systems and societies and rules," she said.

"We were here."

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-14/abbot-describes-1778-australia-as-nothing-but-bush/5892608

Of course Tony Abbott, Turdy the First, with god and red coats on his side, is still a pommy bastard who has NO CLUE ABOUT anything especially about the first inhabitants of this country who lived on the Sydney shores, most likely in peace and in harmony with the world around them... Tony is an idiotic turd and proud of it. 

The government’s default communication strategy is to to tell people they’re wrong. And, unsurprisingly, it’s not working.

Yesterday morning, at 7.30, the Prime Minister’s Office issued a “message from the Prime Minister — Future growth and prosperity”, accompanied by a YouTube video filmed in the Prime Minister’s courtyard.

read more: http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/11/24/keane-the-black-and-white-world-of-abbotts-spinning/

The most frightening thing is that I'm beginning to think that Tony Turdy starts to believe in his own shit... He used to tell big whoppers, shit lies and big porkies, but now that he got the job, it seems HE BELIEVES THAT ALL THE PORKIES HE TOLD ARE THE TRUTH... So not only he has been a BIG liar, he is also utterly ignorant of the value of his former deceit... Unless, Turdy is smarter than this, as he tries to make us swallow crap... Don't click on the video. Turdy already has been viewed by 305 unsuspecting gullible souls and that's plenty enough...

I did not watch I just got there to see the number of idiots, including myself, hitting the button of stupid telling us rubbish wrapped up in a blue ribbon and flanked by two aussie flags feeling sorry for us....