The Maid Of Stockholm

The Maid Of Stockholm

In 1429 Jeanne d’Arc an illiterate farm girl convinced a couple of soldiers to escort her some 250 km, half of which was through hostile occupied territory, to talk with the uncrowned king of a faltering regime and divided kingdom

She then went on to galvanise the kings army to the extent that what had largely been a dynastic squabble became a war of national identity and unification and although treated cautiously by her own side except for her adoring soldiers,and hated as a witch / heretic by her English opponents, Jeanne briefly illuminated all those around her and had a profoundly long-lasting impact on her country.

Is it drawing too long a bow to suggest that the 16 year old Swede, Greta Thunberg is having a similar, though world-wide impact in the C21st?

Ballarat Climate Rally

Recently it was interesting to note that for once a Sydney professor of climate science has stuck his head above the parapet of his Ivory Tower and called The Happy-Clapping-Bogan-Liar-From-The-Shire, prime miniature, Scummo’s climate “policy” for what it was. Bullshit!

Akin to Thunberg’s deliciously blunt speech to the United Nations which has seriously riled those automata of “the right” by succinctly pointing out that their authoritarian destructiveness toward the planet in the pursuit of profit is futile if mankind is to have a future, people now seem freer to simply express their alarm at the mess being perpetuated for future generations.

As the climate tipping point is being reached so too, it seems, is the level of disquiet by the masses of young who are now ripe for what could be revolutionary action in order to wrest control from those lukewarm politicians, lying media propagandists and the corporate criminals responsible for ignoring the facts that scientists have been consistently putting in front of us for 50 years.

Spouting their unintelligent conformity to IPA, Murdoch, The Ugly American and Koch bros. denialism and piling in to viciously attack Thunberg has not only resulted in fully exposing how threadbare their arguments are (and have always been) but also how little they are doing and unproductive they are in addressing the existential threat facing us.

In recognising the very real threat that the honest plain speaking of the young Swede inspires for change out came the usual cabal of character assassins, not singly as is usual but en masse which has had quite the opposite effect to what they were probably hoping for. They drew attention, all too clearly, not to any error in Thurnberg’s pronouncements but only to their own elitist narcissism and malignant aggression in having only one mode of action; destruction.

London Toilet-boy,Jones, The Oh-So Superior, Goward, The Idiot Red Terror of The Deep North, The Deflated Sherrin, Newman, Il Patrone Vanstone and other sundry over-entitled egos all came out swinging, thrashing wildly against the 16 year old truth teller but to no avail… they recognise in their shrivelled, fossilised hearts they are wrong, and en masse, it showed in their sadistic, worn out vitriol.

Scummo, the pentacostal and twice failed advertising apparatchik, now prime miniature, ignored her speech at the United Nations and inspected some new Macca's tecnology  but neatly projected his own reality and accused her of spreading anxiety amongst the young. The young who have no future. 
No future in education, jobs, home ownership or most importantly that the planet will remain habitable during their lifetime.

Thurnberg doesn’t create anxiety she only recognises and expresses its existence.

Whichever way you look at this, change is coming .............and the Ruling Rabble know and fear it.....

Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane.

In Liu of Integrity

Shane, not as a Fellow Traveler

G'day Possums,

"How good is Gladys?" The Hypocritical Happy-Clapper, Liar from the Shire and Pentacostal prime miniature du jour celebrated loudly on his surprise election win.

How good indeed?

Well, not very, as we shall see as she was quickly elevated to a status as one of the newest members of The Ruling Rabble to be in company as worthy as Rolex Roberts, Barnyard Joyce, Water-gate Taylor, Little-to-be-Proud-of and Landlord Ley: all due in part to this woman's dubious in the extreme connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

(Pics hopefully, are apposite to the written content) 

 

The East is Red

Touted as "...an energetic member of her local community..." but unfortunately not specifying which "community", Australia or mainland China, Ms Liu spent almost as much time attempting to gain pre-selection to the Ruling Rabble as it took to build The Great Wall, along the way becoming a very significant fundraiser for the Rabble with some very interesting "friends" only too willing to shell out much moolah for what seemed very little return. 

But what has piqued the interest of some, particularly ASIO is the number and type of Chinese organizations like the Guangdong provincial chapter of the China Overseas Exchange Association - which at the time was part of China's powerful State Council, the Chinese government's central political and administrative body as well as dozen or more other entities involved in trade and cultural pursuits which Beijing uses to promote and leverage their interests.

"Nothing-to-see-here.." roared The Not-so-Happy-Clapping  Scummo as he mangled the truth in defence of his new chosen one, (or is that a two seat majority?) St Peter-like, thrice denying that he's been as racist as he was accusing others as being by calling disgraced Too-Tricky Dastyari, "Shanghai Sam"... ever, at all, nup, not me, noooooo ... look-over -there,look-over -there!

 

On The Edge.

Ms Liu's oddly twisted face, (it looks, front-on as if it's in single point perspective. The sight lines of eyes and mouth disappearing off at an angle to the appropriate "left" horizon at infinity) crumpled into tears in parliament at Scummo's blustering vindication of her rather tainted character. 

A character besmirched not only by her associations but more importantly by her woefully dishonest and lying political advertising which will be the subject of a High Court ruling which just might nullify her 1000 vote election win and make the pentacostal Scummo poop himself. Another Engadine moment?

 

Oz taking the High Ground

As a corollary to what Scummo would say is this "racist" rant, it's interesting to note that the Chinese wish to purchase for $1.5 Billion a Tassie powdered Milk business. Having near sent it to the wall by pulling trading stunts it will now offer money to get what it wants and the Chinese will no longer need aggressive syndicates to strip supermarket shelves of baby formula to export back to the mainland.

Let's hope too, that the Foreign Investment Review Board has not been as bowdlerized by The Ruling Rabble as other judicial bodies as to be inadequate to its task.

 

The Inevitable Angel

Corruption is rife in this land, integrity as we used to know it has all but vanished, the MSM looking the other way is too quiet; the ABC has effectively been neutered as the only main source of reliable news and analysis; there is no political opposition to speak of, the Federal Police are tainted politically and the judiciary suspect.

The Born-Again's, and the ideological IPA believe Armageddon is inevitable and they're going to get it via climate change but with the stupidity of The Rabble pretending to lead what is a supine and selfish nation into a period of dissolution we have never experienced before it all has all the auguries for the demise of this country as we have known it.

 

Framed

Perhaps Petals, I should make a sandwich-board with "The End is Nigh" emblazoned across it and March on Canberra?

Hoo-roo,

Shane.

PS, Mrs Wombat and I  visited a few more exhibits from the Photo Biennale in 
Ballarat.... and sadly, it only confirmed first impressions.

Lambie to the Slaughter

In for the Chop like Shane is Lambie.

G'day Possums,

 after a five week sojourn trying to think up something that approaches policy The Happy Clapping Liar from the Shire, devotee of Mammon and The Rapture, bogan prime miniature, Scummo has again assembled his motley collection of corruptible mediocrities together in Canberra to see what other havoc they  can bring down on the nation with their collective incompetence and blinkered adherence to  C19th IPA ideology .

Fresh from applauding Potato-Head Dutton's iron will in not being swayed by anything resembling humanity as he continued to torture a Tamil refugee family with their two Australian daughters by incarcerating them in the Christmas Island Concentration Camp after the courts stymied his plan to have them forcibly returned to the place they were escaping from, Scummo announced that forthwith all welfare recipients will be treated as druggies and tested for such and that they will also be forced to use the much maligned Indue Card where 80% of their welfare is retained on the card to be used only at prescribed stores.

Near Tyldon.. 

As a distraction tactic so that our supine nation will not notice the depression we are sliding into, it worked a treat. 

A whole lot better than hyperventilating about dodgy donations in Aldi shopping bags from dodgy Chinese types to dodgy Labor ones; as drawing too much attention to that practice just might end up illuminating some of the Ruling Rabble's own very murky operations.

So successful in fact, that Independent Tasmanian and balance of power Senator, Warrant Officer Lambie marched nay, paraded around in circles spouting her support for both of the patronizing, anti-social and de-humanizing "trials" of the proposed legislations.

After all, she had the info. She had talked to people (supplied it seems, by the financially involved architect of the Indue card venture, Shifty-Twiggy Forrest) and just like the concentration camp performers provided to the Red Cross by the SS during WW2 they were very convincing about what a great thing it was. W/O Lambie then on reflection made one concession: if re-hab facilities are not supplied prior, then it would be, no-go!

Having been thrown a bone earlier on The Apple Isle’s housing debt by Horse-Shite Cormann  (a devious ultra right-winger not even trusted by own party) for passing the Ruling Rabble's tax package W/O Lambie thinks she has the measure of the place and so, is also demanding that CFMMEU union secretary, Biffo Setka stand aside or she'll pass the newest draconian anti union legislation the Ruling Rabble are proposing.

Now, disliking someone on a personal level as “a meat-head” and threatening the introduction of far reaching neo-fascist anti-union legislation as the lever to remove them indicates a political and social intellect of rank quality similar to the Red Terror from the Deep North.

Like-wise, expressing support for the Indue card… something owned and managed by the Ruling Rabble’s country cousins, “The Nationals” is giving effect to privatising welfare and with it, the opportunity to use the unemployed’s taxpayer’s funding for profit and, should we mention it, possibly “donations” back to the benefactor a’la Parakeelia ...not a wise or socially responsible move....seeing as Horse-Shite has admitted that un and under-employment with lower wages is their economic model.

 Besides, when the Rabble treat each other like sharks in a frenzy nothing about them can be trusted.

Speaking of sharks, The Happy Clapping Liar from the Shire, devotee of Mammon and The Rapture, bogan prime miniature, Scummo has named his $250,0000,000.00 upgraded aircraft, “Shark 1”. 

Stooping into banality lower than a used car salesman would and naming it after the football team he follows when a fire-bombing water tanker might have been a more timely and appropriate purchase is perfectly understandable.... particularly when you don’t believe in climate change, but the Rapture instead!

Does it all seem like smoke and mirrors?

Hoo-roo Petals

Shane.