Nein, Nein, Nein!

G'day Possums,

we're a bit late with this episode as we wanted to wait for the results in the bye-elections.

The supposedly "Knife-edge" seats in the Deep North weren't,  the WA pair, because the Ruling Rabble decided not to turn up were solid Labor and the Downer Duchy of Mayo has again revolted, this time more decisively to retain an independent, causing The Gorgon's daddy, Fishnets-That-Batter to complain that the peasants were very rude because "....they are new to here...." before whisking away in his Maserati.  The Gorgon herself in the best intellectualism of her IPA and Gina Rinehart funded secret society ($4.5 Mill... some charity) announced in defeat that she would put herself forward again as a candidate at next year's general election, proving that when the IPA fall in a hole all they want is to keep on digging.

 

Gina the Munificent... not just a pretty face.

It's a salient point too; the IPA is becoming very much on-the-nose. With Ruling Rabble "policy" having been lifted wholesale from the Le Jongleur Roskam's bible of deceit and more widely being viewed as "policy" not in the country's best interests;  with so many of their apparatchiks perched on the government benches like Quisling Gargoyles waiting to flay more flesh from the body politic, it looks as though the- times-are-a-changing.

And perhaps not.

Nine Entertainment has bought Fairfax newspapers which despite assertions that editorial integrity and fearless reporting will remain its hallmark it's difficult to disagree with ex PM Keating's observation that "...the pus of the Nine carbuncle will eventually seep through..." the Fairfax newsroom. And adding insult to public injury Fifi Fifield, The Ugly American, Murdoch's Communications Toy-Boy and IPA parliamentary representative stated that the merger would actually enhance media diversity.

(IPA logic?  3-2 = 4)

What I think Fifi was getting at was that the consolidation of right-wing media (making Australian media one of the most consolidated in the world) will allow for more diverse right-wing content with only "bit" players like The Saturday Paper and The Guardian to offer a print alternative. The ABC is also a loser in this as they had enjoyed some good joint investigative work with Fairfax and it is unlikely that this will continue and will come under further sustained attack by the commercials. Because forget not, ... FIFI used to work for the most  incompetent Ruling Rabble Treasurer (excepting the current imbecile), Peter Costello who now happens to be Chairman of Nine!

It was an article in The AIMN face-book blog on Italy during the latter stages of WW2 which I think it apt to quote here

Sudanese fighting at MCG

“Fascism had reduced [those men] to silence for twenty years, and [those men] explained to us that Fascism was not only a clownish and improvident misrule but the negator of justice; it had not only dragged Italy to an unjust and ill-omened war, but it had arisen and consolidated itself as the custodian of a detestable legality and order, based on the coercion of those who work, on the unchecked profits of those who exploit the labour of others, on the silence imposed on those who think and do not want to be slaves, and on systematic and calculated lies.”  Primo Levi

Sounds familiar doesn't it?

Hoo-roo petals

Shane

All Aboard...

Shane Railing

G'day Petals,

short snippets from the Tardis State (Vic) where all used to go backwards but pundits, (mostly The Ugly American, Murdoch's shills), are postulating that we may soon return to a monotonous ennui which only the Ruling Rabble can manifest.

Matty, Thug Guy, opposition Don for the Ruling Rabble, fresh from having Lobster lunches with what police allege are Mafia figures and costing the state millions in compensation for his land sales frolics has launched his cabal's election campaign with a two pronged assault on Labor. The first is a lowest common denominator, racist dog-whistle campaign against Africans, promoting fear, xenophobia and hate: negative qualities the Ruling Rabble has in spades as they seem to find positive and progressive thinking far too subtle and arduous.

Under cover of "Laura Norder" these right-wing Free-Speech-For-All hypocrites, when pushed to explain their policy in detail constantly fall back on slogans to define their parody of democracy and really might be better employed by first putting their own house in order as another NSW Ruling Rabble MP has just resigned after revelations in an ICAC inquiry involving a multi-million dollar property deal with Chinese developers.... and then there's this....

The second prong in their attack is public transport: they are going to build an extension to the Cranbourne line. Well, isn't that just fine?

 Considering it was their pin-up boy, Boof-head Kennett who closed it down 28 years ago as unviable, that  piece of history  sort of took the gloss off competing with premier Dan Andrew's achievements in the transport sphere.

Andrews has also announced that education was to be a priority if he's re-elected, recently noting that 128 schools need to be built  to cover population growth. It really was a pity that Boof-head when premier, 28 years ago closed 128 schools in his ideological jihad against teachers and state education.

One thing you can be certain of Possums, is that whenever the Ruling Rabble are elected, future proofing the state comes a very poor second to paying their dues to their supporters and consequently services to the public are degraded to a point where it takes years to redress the balance.

In the federal circus, Barnyard Joyce has been has been found not in breach of his travel entitlements because he was "on-the-job" at the time. But we all knew that anyway.

Serial fashionista and part-time foreign minister Asbestos Bishop, raised eyebrows when virtually implying that her Ruling Rabble was to be credited with organizing the team saving the Thai boys trapped in a watery cave. It is understood that in her flick of the head to moue at the TV cameras, her 15 cm  gorgeous designer drop earring smacked her jaw and she was temporarily stunned which explains another of her cringe-worthy moments.

The AFP vehicle seen outside The Harpy, Cash's office is understood not to be there to finalise their nine month investigation into her leaking media department but to seek advice as whether to have celebrity chef  Calamari Calombaris  pay his staff appropriately. This was fruitless as it seems that the address is, in effect, a retail outlet for white-boards and The Harpy who has shown no interest in wage justice, except for herself could not be found.

Mummy's Boy and foreign citizen from the Deep North, Bruiser Canavan fronted "Insiders" today to spruik his coal qualifications and his concept of The National Energy Agreement  which Truffles and Fiction's are trying to cobble together ...I had an image of him that his brain looked like a little kid running around a very big but almost empty toy store grabbing at whatever took his fancy and mumbling something about it then putting it down anywhere and picking up something else and mumbling on.... goodness it's obvious he knows the jig is up... all he spouts is drivel!

Just like Bookshelves Brandis appointing 72 of his Ruling Rabble cronies and mates to administrative positions just before the last election, Scummo Morrison has seen fit to fiat a Ruling Rabble staffer as Secretary to the Treasury and another staffer to a top position in the Productivity Commission. Contemplating the near disastrous fiscal situation this incompetent Rabble have managed to produce in the past five years and the blatant political stacking of key advisory bodies, if  Labor wins the next election, one might expect that the Night of The Long Knives could well look like the Teddy Bear's Picnic.

Hooroo Petals,

Shane.

Democracy's Demise in Oz

Shane in the Slammer

G'day possums,

Remember when Australia was a "larrikin" nation, celebrated as a "Fair Dinkum" breed-apart from its colonial masters, thumbing its nose at overweening authority and mythicized as the "workers paradise of the South" where "a fair go" and a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work" were part of an egalitarian social contract, and "mate-ship" was real?

Well Petals,  the "thumbing your nose at authority" bit was finally put to rest last week when Labor supported the Ruling Rabble's Foreign Influence and Transparency Bill through the Senate.

Now, thumbing your nose at the Government of the day ( may we get one soon), by writing a researched  article critical of it, planning or participating in a demonstration against its programs or intentions, will land you with a minimum of seven up to 25 years in jail.

Fair dinks!

For now, it is a criminal act to plan or to demonstrate en masse and you will be deemed a threat to security and the army can now be called in to disperse you. 

Imagine, if you will, Potato-Head Dutton taking umbrage at being criticized for lacking compassion, empathy and understanding the rights of humanity and that his concentration camps full of refugees, are illegal and an abomination? Can you imagine his pleasure in sooling the dogs of war onto his own people out of sheer venal spite because he was being held accountable for his malicious cruelty?

No?  Why are we so different to the humanity he has incarcerated illegally for so long?

Fair dinks, we are now the authoritarian state we used smugly to point at overseas.

But wait there's more... the legislation will also support the so-called "free trade deals" where multi-national business can sue a country who use legislation to protect its own or where legislation interferes with their profit. In other words your government becomes an agent for the multi-national and will use its draconian powers to suppress any dissent from the local populace being affected by the multi-national.

But wait.. it goes further...concurrent with this gross diminution of free speech and congruent to it, alleged Attorney General, the Un-Christian Porter has sent for trial (in secret) Witness K and his lawyer who blew-the-whistle on Australia's illegal bugging of the Timor-Leste government offices under the aegis of Little Johnny Howard and his cross-dressing Foreign minister Fishnets-that-Batter, Downer eleven years ago.  Then, Australia diddled the Timorese out of their fair share of the oil riches beneath the sea near their coast.

Interestingly, included in the arraigned are four ABC journalists who reported on the nefarious actions of Howard, Downer and ASIO at the time including one, Emma Alberici, who currently is no pin-up gel for the Ruling Rabble.

More interesting is the fact that the Newscorp journo who broke the story in The Ugly American's "Australian" in the first place, has not been called.  Vindictive and petty? 

Bloody oath!

Annabel Crabb was hosting “Insiders,” attempting to replicate Barrie Cassidy who is on leave. Having obviously been fed not only food on her lunch date with Truffles earlier in the week but Ruling Rabble talking points as well, Crabb was outplayed by Wayne Swann who was direct and clear in his answers, something the Ruling Rabble never are and although attempting to find division, she never followed up on a reply to tease out more content, often cutting off the end of Swann’s answer to limit him cementing a case different to the one she was pursuing.

Did we mention that Hissy-Fits Sales was at the lunch with Truffles as well?

It was like reading out a recipe of one star difficulty as the program degenerated with hosting the politically lopsided panel of Saava, Coory and Crowe all sitting and smugly agreeing with each other’s “talking-points” on just what a disaster (in their Murdoched minds) Willie Shortstuff’s tax policy adjustment was and trying to beat up a leadership challenge in the best of the Ugly American’s tradition while ignoring the fact that it was July 1^st and worker's penalty rates were being cut again but with the Prime Miniature and all other pollies simultaneously getting a 2% pay rise: Truffles raking in a $7,000.00 yearly increase …. 

A fair Go?

What started as a pie ended up bland right-wing blancmange.

I have to admit it did bring back memories of the last election night and the right-wing bias of the ABC panellists which included Crabb…

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2016/07/not-with-bang-but-whimper.html

The demise of "the Larrikin" was hastened, too when Senate clown and IPA fellow- traveller, Loopy Leyonhjelm in debate about  "respecting the safety of women" (but really wanting them all to be able to buy 7-15 shot Adler 's for their handbags) confused his own more important thoughts to the words spoken by Senator Hanson-Young and in high dudgeon retaliation, told her to "...stop shagging men"....and when she confronted him over this, then told her to "F**K Off!"  Confusing his "libertarian" cover with being an honest larrikin, and being roundly castigated in the press and at interview on this matter Loopy showed all the recalcitrance and indignant outrage of a 14 yo schoolboy pretending not to know what had gone wrong... Nahh, youse dunno anyfing.... ya pussys!  ...and it seems he is obviously garnering favour with the alt-right (he likes his Milo), Patriot Fascists and Tru-blu's for the next senate election.... if they can locate a polling booth, that is ....and read the voting form.

For those wanting to jump on the Ruling Rabble's Fascist, IPA bandwagon I have spare copies of the Horst Wessel in sheet music form ....

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.