The Burden of Unfunded Empathy on the Fortunate 2%.

Shane on the Banister

 G'day Possums,

It's been a peculiar week. One where a normally supine media has provided some clarity as to the speed at which we are sliding further down the fascist banister into abyss of a new Dark Age.

Hence the apposite pics of stairs albeit, French ones and unfortunately, awfully attractive ones to boot.

There seems to be a rather virulent outbreak of Unfunded Empathy emanating amongst those who would lead us from the Canberra Bubble... now even infecting some the Ruling Rabble.

Strains of this malady were earlier detected as far away as the Reserve Bank and, horror of horrors, a body usually immune to any of the corrupting contagion of social equity, The Business Council of Australia who noted that it had already laid low fellow billionaire Dick Smith, who deliriously wished to return his $500,000.00 of unearned taxpayer funded Franking Credits.

Champion of his small flock, Scummo, Anti-Christ, Happy Clapper-Pentacostalist and faux Xtian Prime Miniature did his bogan best to stamp out an outbreak in parliament by coining, spitting and sneering his devilish one liner of "unfunded empathy" at the Labor Leader, hoping to cast out the evil miasma that Albo was insidiously suggesting by threatening the welfare of the 2%'s tax breaks with the clinical observation that as the majority of our nation is getting poorer the economy too was becoming sick and an inoculation of funds was the remedy required, not bleeding it to death.

Ambergris and herb filled pointed masks will be procured forthwith for all Ruling Rabble members, particularly the four doctors who voted to repeal the Medivac legislation whose faces, like their ethics, should be hidden from the public in perpetuity.

Even Barnyard The Unfaithful, Joyce caught the bug and had his revelatory "Road to Damascus" on his way to family No#2 in Tamworth.

Bewailing his Catholic prowess at attempting to over-populate the shire and which was now causing strain on his $215,000.00 (+ perks) yearly pittance in supporting both responsibilities; he empathetically identified with those on $250.00 a week, and by tugging at our heart strings described how he can only afford one coffee a day and has to slaughter his food and go without a dishwasher, and heating in winter... and oh, how hard it is to run a car in the bush (particularly if it's not a Comm-Car) and besides, the $280 a night living-away-from-home allowance really doesn't cut it, does it?

Yes Petals, a sick nation. Diseased with " Aspiration".... it is a very sick nation!

It is probably not without some truth that the histrionic "casting-out" performed by Scummo was perhaps more related to his ego being badly bruised by a studied lack of opposition interest in his self perceived miraculous magnificence than the weeping bulboe of fiscal collapse but by them paying more attention to his haplessly corrupt and incompetent minister for despoiling the environment, Goofy Taylor.  Having entertained many parliamentary questioners with multiple versions of why he wasn't responsible for illegally poisoning 30 hectares of protected grasslands that weren't his, (only his undeclared company's) and lobbying Fictions Frydenberg "for a friend" (who will ask for this to be done 6 months hence) to have the restrictions "eased," Goofy was only saved from an enquiry by the aegis of the Deep North's  Red Terror, Poor-Lean Handstand's vote, who probably thought the Ruling Rabble would return the favour and support her idiot immigration bill.

They didn't!

Then came the revelations that Crooks launder money through Crown Casino and that corruption is rampant.

Well, blow me down! Who'd ever have thought or imagined that, with a Casino?

Certainly not failed ex-premier The Bully-Boy, Boof-Head Kennett. He of sacking teachers, closing rail-lines that now need re-opening and schools... the same, and de-regulating the building industry and privatising public utilities in an orgy of Neo-Fascist right-wing economics that the state is still suffering the consequences of and still recovering from. Yes, it was he who expanded the Casino for his mates and Packer's benefit!

My Goodness, Potato-Head Dutton's boys are fast tracking visa's for criminals to spend up big... one, allegedly $800 million in a year...Nooooo!

State police moonlighting as security for gangsters... Noooo!

Trafficking women for prostitution... Noooo!

And there was Simon Cowan, another puffed up Neo Liberal "libertarian" from one of the 15 Right-wing think-tanks polluting Australia's political discourse on "The Drum" sounding more like a block-headed spiv of a used car salesman than a thoughtful commentator saying, full of empathy with Crown Casino, "Aaaww... nothing to see here ...nehhh, what's wrong in letting them in to spend their money...No Probs!"

Which makes me think...(who pays his bills?) and further,  what an ideal mate for Princess Daisy of Cousens or Puerile McGuiness!

Imagine the retarded progeny and Australia's future.... no dont!

We are already there.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

On Being Lower Than a Snake's Belly.....

Shane burning Trash

G'day Petals,

Well, aren't the chickens coming home to roost for the Ruling Rabble's morally bankrupt country cousins?

First, we were entertained (?) at the very end of 2018 by the would-be "Sugar Daddy",  Andy of the Broad church using taxpayer funds to entertain himself with a younger woman in Honkers and seemingly forgetting to pay the "entertainer", then we had unconfirmed news that Barnyard Joyce was apparently trying to re-populate the outback all by himself whilst fronting a live export meeting with his ex staffer and new son to the tune of $6000.00 of taxpayer's money. Hot on Barnyard's heels came the rumour that he who should remain un-named because he has little to be proud of of, has ignored ones of Truffle's final diktats that staff were not for bedding nor wives for insulting and is allegedly "having it off" with one of his staff. 
And it goes without saying that all three were against SSM,  extolling family virtues and "traditional  marraige"....what hypocrites!

Unintended satire for the Sydney-sider

And now to top it all off, ex Noe Notion ring-in (19 votes) and ex Katter's Kapers loudmouth, Farter  the Fascist, Anning has had the gall to bill the taxpayer $2800 for his flight back from attending a neo-Nazi farce at St. Kilda with 100 other feeble minded thugs and racists. 

Hoping to gain more than the 19 votes a few deluded Deep North peasants awarded him at the last election as a Noe Notion candidate, Farter the Fascist  seems happy to employ any tactic to have his name in front of the public no matter what the context.

A very muted response from Scummo, Prime Miniature du Jour who twisted "multi-cultural" to "migrant" in his pathetic statement and followed with abysmally little comment from any other pollie of conservative bent should give warning that the ground work is being laid for an out and out racist, fear-mongering campaign in the forthcoming election. Hate speech is becoming with this Rabble, acceptable...or as their IPA managers would term it, "Freedom of Speech."  

Their recently appointed political lackey of a Race Discrimination Commissioner, Chin Tan says there's no place in Australia for the "apparent racist" rally organised by the tawdrey members of the far right. There was nothing "apparent " about it!

 All the symbolism of Nazism was fully employed and according to some of the Antifastas, condoned by many of the police there.

Little Johnny the War-Mongering hypocrite won the "Tampa" election on the back of a xenophobic racist refugee scare campaign and it lseems that neo-nazi slogans have become acceptable to this increasingly hard right-wing Ruling Rabble.

All bling.

Fear, dissension and the sowing of confusion is grist to the mill of these incompetent representatives. 

Unable to govern for lack of policy but able to rort the system for their own benefit and with little notice taken of their thieving by the MSM, Australia is reaching a very dark place particularly when the only large and balanced media, The ABC under constant attack and becoming increasingly muted in its coverage of events as a result of politically motivated funding cuts, constant carping criticism for not being right-wing enough to suit this Ruling Rabble and its acolytes and inundated with The Ugly American, Murdoch's mouthpieces.

Cheek by Jowl in Docklands

The culture of this place has changed  and I believe not for the better.

Hoo-roo, Possums,

Shane.

The Shambles Further Unravels

Shane, Bound like the ABC

G'day Possums,

The Saturday Paper headlined its latest edition with "Guthrie dismissal causes chaos at the ABC",  I beg to differ. ... and replace it with "Guthrie and Milne dismissals cause further chaos in the IPA's ruling rabble quest to privatize the public broadcaster."

The week began with the ABC chairman, Gormless Milne announcing that he and the board had sacked the MD, Michelle Guthrie. 

Now for someone who has had a lifetime in the media and was a principal (where his mate ex-prime miniature Truffles made many millions) at Ozemail:  to leave a paper trail pointing at your lack of impartiality and dropping your appointee in it ....and for an ex film editor / film company owner not to able to give a cogent interview to very soft questions in which your answers expose your lies, rather begs the question..... particularly as he and his plotters demonstrated such inept handling with this coup and excised a plethora of entrails for the press to divine... just how suitable was he for the job ? 

A job where he is to support and defend the organization, not kow-tow to political pressure.

...after the cream...

So the mayhem begins... Fifi Fifield is apparently informed Sunday night.  Milne apparently tells Scummo Monday morning.....and the Oz, The Ugly American's  Herpes of the press was tipped off, what ....Sunday night, too?

Good grief, these mongrels can't even lie about managing to do a coup properly!

"The chairman of the ABC reportedly told sacked managing director Michelle Guthrie to fire presenter Emma Alberici after former prime minister Malcolm Truffles Turnbull complained about her reporting.

The instruction came in an email from Chairman Milne to Guthrie in May, Fairfax Media reported on Wednesday.

"They [the government] hate her," Mr Milne wrote.

"We are tarred with her brush. I think it's simple. Get rid of her. We need to save the ABC - not Emma. There is no guarantee they [the coalition] will lose the next election."

The comments were reportedly circulated to members of the ABC board a week before Ms Guthrie was sacked on Monday.   Who are now complicit in this political assassination

Scummo: "The ABC Board is independent!"

In May Truffles sent a list of concerns to ABC news director Gaven Morris about Ms Alberici's coverage of the government."

Probyn (ABC chief political reporter) and Faine (774) have apparently been "discussed" by this politically tainted board as well!   Tom Ballard has his program removed ostensibly for language but really for its anti government satire and JJJ is directed to be "monstered" for showing sensitivity to Indigenous people's feelings....Well, well, well... who'da thought that the ruling rabble and IPA  would censor free speech?

Portrait of editorial independence as defined by the IPA

"Some of the ABC board members appointed by the communications minister, Fifi Fifield, were chosen despite being rejected by the merit-based panel, according to documents obtained by Guardian Australia. All five of the appointments since 2015 were direct recommendations by Fifi. In a week that has seen the national broadcaster sack its managing director, and lose its chairman, in the fallout, scrutiny is now shifting to the ABC board and the calibre of its eight directors. Of these, two did not go through the nomination panel; two were considered but not recommended by the panel and were still appointed by the minister; and one was deemed by the panel to be “very suitable” but withdrew before the final recommendations, only to be then urged directly by the minister to accept a place." Source: ABC News

contemporary viewing

"A very talented woman"....wrote one ruling rabble shill on FB, extolling the virtues of Scummo's appointment for an interim chair. “Dr Ferguson began her career by joining the military at 17 years old.... became the dux of her Royal Australian Air Force graduating class at ADF, going on to study law at the Queensland University of Technology. After leaving the RAAF, she began working in a management role at a large corporate law firm while she completed her degree.  She completed a PhD in corporate culture, leadership and governance, and has previously been awarded a Sir Winston Churchill Fellowship and has been named the Australian Institute of Management's Brisbane Young Manager of the Year.
In 2014, the Australian Financial Review named her as one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence.”

"....and knows F**k all about television, radio, entertainment, reportage, programming, presentation and audience.  Eminently unqualified!" I replied. 

A Phd in corporate culture? 
".....the new acting chair of the ABC, Kirstin Ferguson, was the head of the ethics committee at Leighton Holdings when a whistleblower disclosed to her serious allegations of foreign bribery.  She buried the report and the whistleblower was sacked.  This case will return to court on October 22 when former senior executive Peter Gregg faces criminal charges of falsifying books and records." Kaye Lee: The AIM Network 

Haven’t we seen enough of that from the RC into Banking and Finance and will undoubtedly see similar from the RC into aged care?

FFS!

I suppose Petals what this messy week has exposed in just one organization is just how pervasive, destructive, venal, dishonest and damaging this ruling rabble is to anything of value to the nation as a whole which doesn't promote its neo-liberal agenda:  and it comes at no surprise to me although I am probably drawing a long bow here, that suicide figures for Australia released this week show that nationally it is up around by 10% yet here in what was The Tardis State (Where-Everything-Went-Backwards) the suicide rate has dropped by 10%. Could it be that a State government creating a positive mood with long overdue infrastructure programs, creating jobs, building schools, a progressive medical approach and looking after regional areas has, by pointing out a future and actively providing hope for the community, is creating a healthier society?

900mm of Pasties for Grand Final

Nahh, that's not what the IPA 's  Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe envision. That was best exemplified by their vacuous fascist princess, the preening Daisy Cousens who at a recent wank-fest for libertarian "thinkers" (an oxymoron, I  know) put forward intellectually, as far a she could for a failed tap-dancer and probably looking into a mirror at a visage already showing signs of her hard right utterances, the "research" that Right-Wing-Nut-Jobs are prettier than "Lefties!"    Now, how that observation will serve the National interest Princess Daisy only knows. This gem was more than equalled by the news from The Notional's Deputy Leader, Annie-Oakley McKenzie that Captain Cook arrived here to discover Oz  a full 8 years after he had been given "the chop" by the Hawaiins. This was greeted with huge disappointment from PM du jour, Scummo, who firmly believes HE is the second coming or at least the christ almighty for Cronulla! He in turn, announced that having two days to celebrate The Nation's Birthday, Australia Day and an Indigenous Day was just the happy-clapper gospel to unify a divided country. Annie Oakly could be excused for her historical ineptitude though, as she was likely too busy organizing thousands of dollars of RAAF flight timetables to ferry her around the country to sporting events..... a practice obviously well taught by her ex boss the philandering Tomato-Faced, Barnyard Joyce!

Unravelling it is Petals, you just can't make this stuff up.

Hoor-roo,

Shane.

PS the Magpies lost in the last minutes.

Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up…

Shane in King Valley

G’day Possums,

Mrs Wombat and I took a little sojourn to the King Valley so the pics are from there but the dog is for a sculpture so they have nought to do with the content.

Wow, what a fortnight…. the circus is in town!

In topping off his exposition as how his grand project of creating concentration camps for genuine refugees was really a good thing, (as only those who understood knew), the cadaver looking for a corpse, Senator ”Fallujah” Molan positively revelled in his shallow justification of bureaucratic cruelty dressed up as strength on QandA last week.

Around the same time one of the ex Major General’s “finest”, ex SAS captain and now Ruling Rabble member, Handy-Andy Hastie was dumping on his leader Truffles Turdball by telling all and sundry that Chinese born businessman Chau Chak Wing was a threat to our Never-Never Ozland of Pretend Democracy. Handy-Andy, who was investigated and exonerated (cough, cough) for allegedly allowing his troops to sever hands of Afghan dead as trophies (he never inhaled) and who thumbed his nose at the military hierarchy by utilising his uniform in his political advertising may well be suffering a sort of pay-back. It seems a secret report into SAS brutality has been leaked and there are calls for investigations to be widened and also for the findings to be made public. Given Handy-Andy’s exhibited propensity for arrogance this enquiry may have interesting ramifications for his political career.

Feelin' The Serenity, near Moyhu

An implosion of another sort took place too… Noe Notion’s President for Life, The Red Terror, Apoorlin Hamstrung contorted her visage and spat fury at any media she could find after another of her “party” broke ranks and defied her fiats on Ruling Rabble policy. Reprising all the anguish, anger and vileness that historically she is made of The Red Terror presented, perhaps too graphically, a fine illustration of the abject stupidity of some 10-12 % of the electorate. It is interesting to note that Section 44 offender, The Malfunctioning Mal-Addled Roberts famous for his 77 senate votes and marginal grasp of reality has again recently been polluting screens and air-waves with his mindless meanderings and musings almost as if he knew that a dumping was on the cards and that he had “the-sit” for a possible return as scourge of our political life.

Fortunately, a further diminution of the senate’s IQ scale has not, as yet, taken place.

Feelin' The Serenity- King Valley

Demonstrating just why the commercial networks hate the ABC, Chunder Seven put on The Barnyard and Floozie pantomime in a serious attempt at exploiting the “couple’s” newly discovered relevance deprivation syndrome.

At $150,000.00, allegedly for the “grey area” sprog’s education, Barnyard and Floozie individually gave evidence to an inept interviewer as to why our political system in such a parlous state.

Barnyard, with no hint of shame, told that he only went into his section44 bye-election “out of spite” knowing that he would lose his Deputy PM position as soon as his affair was known, and that his fellow Hayseed Party members were “..the absolute scum of the earth.”

For her part, the Floozie showed no interest in the dog’s dinner she was making with this Panto and had nought to say as to how much more talent she brought as media adviser to three ministers, or was paid or whether the affair and its travel were at taxpayer expense….although its existence was perhaps a role model for the insinuation advertised against Barnyard’s potential electoral nemesis, that Tony Windsor was “doing-the-rounds!”

She was certain though, that she was the ‘adult” in the room, contradicting Barnyard when he asserted that he was, thus leaving the viewers with the impression that neither were.

Of course there was no mention of his ministerial disasters: the Murray/Darling, the live sheep trade, and the shifting of the Ag Dept, his fortuitous land purchases , his religious hypocrisy, the expense accounts etc... that could all be left to the ABC to explore... to then be criticised as left-leaning!

It is gratifying to report that the Chunder 7 Panto “bombed.”

Feelin' The Serenity, Bonnie Doon

Then in senate estimates up popped the clown from the south Vichy Abetz who language mangled an attempt to have a DFAT mandarin agree with his assertion that Xtianity is the most persecuted religion on earth. The mandarin treated Vichy with requisite kindness by not pointing out that historically, Vichy’s family “has form” in the religious persecution stakes and that 65% of the population ignoring religion is not a measure of persecution but simply sanity preservation.

It seems that Vichy’s distraction might be either a preemptive “sounding” for the results of the enquiry into religious “freedoms” which will soon be announced or a cover for his colleague The Harpy Cash whom the AFP are taking an interest in but either way, anything this Ruling Rabble indicates an interest in, is doomed!

Feelin' The Serenity, Bonnie Doon2

Playing the Pipe Organ in the back row of this circus were the Neo-Feudalists of The-Coot’s-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe, aka the IPA. Fronted in one instance by the overly loquacious but vacuous, Simon The Simple Breheny and in the other by Bunter Berg, these intellectually pre-adolescent libertarians babbled along in the background that denying donors to university courses selecting their own paths and lecturers, a denial of free speech and that taxing the rich was akin to the oppression of racism.

They did!

Full, as usual, of straw-man arguments, these contraversialists of limited depth have also been banging the drum louder on the selling off of the one serious news source, the ABC.

How do they fit into a democratic state...like Quisling did in Norway!

Hoo-roo petals,

Shane

Feelin' The Serenity, Nillacootie

The Last Gasp of the Cornered Beast!

Shane with Monsters

G'day Possums,

It seems the Rabid Right are becoming more and more strident and aggressive.... losing the argument perhaps? They have finally called for the 5 by-elections... nine weeks off... smack bang on the day of the Labor Party tri-ennial conference. Petty, vindictive, high school politics, unfair….. its all been said and its true; this mongrel lot will do anything to achieve their ends.

Hoping to run Labor dry financially and policy-wise and giving themselves time to fully utilise their links with “Cambridge Analytica” and “i360” to target select marginal electorates, there is also the opportunity, if Labor loses a couple of the seats to then call a general election with more confidence.

But on the other hand this ruling rabble is so incompetent, ham-fisted, and blunderingly stupid it could be nine weeks of shooting themselves in the foot, a minimum nine times, too!

And interestingly it looks as though the IPA’s The Gorgon, "I have returned," Downer is going to get a run for her (or rather daddy’s) money as three independents from other states are going across to campaign with her opposition candidate Sharkie….then there’s the Gorgon’s total vacuousness … how is that ever to fill nine weeks of campaigning?

Music for the Gorgon.

What a litany... and what a shambles...QandA (21/5)...THAT Jane Hume... Oi, such smug cant from a deluded woman...soporifically intoning the usual ruling rabble chapter and verse about merit, democratic process and ability in pre-selecting woman for the rabble or rather, not... and seemingly blissfully unaware of just how shallow their talent pool is…. and then The Altar-Boy, Sheridan set to; reprising the catechism of the 50's whilst ignoring the overwhelming supperuration of catholic hypocrites in the ruling rabble......it's Theatre of the Absurd written by Kafka.

ruling rabble policy agenda

Oh, dear... then another distraction for the MSM to get their knickers in a knot about rather than concentrating on a policy bereft and incompetent ruling rabble, a rabble whose corruption is overflowing like an overfull septic tank.

After The TURC probed an alleged series of kickbacks from employers to the AWU in exchange for workplace deals that allegedly sold out low-paid workers, allegedly saved employers millions of dollars and allegedly boosted the political power of Mr Melhem and Mr Shorten RC Dyson, Cadaver Heydon had these matters referred it to the police... who dropped any charges.

So the ruling rabble have now, two years after the event, concocted a civil case.

Shades of “Ute-Gate” and AFP raids on union offices….This time it’s Cesar Melum who’s being investigated.  

'Nuff said.

The Archbishop of Adelaide has been convicted of covering up paedophilia within his wolf-pack and eventually stepped aside. But not understanding “the Act of Contrition” refused to resign. He’s waiting to be sentenced but will probably appeal first.

So they want chaplains in schools... they want 150 metre exclusion zones around their churches, they want to be political players?

Then effing-well, pay taxes! 

....all lined up

The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority is refusing to release information about staff travel relating to Vikki Floozie Campion, the one-time adviser but full-time shag of ex-deputy prime minister Barnyard Joyce, claiming it could “endanger life”.

A Freedom of Information request by The West Australian newspaper sought a breakdown of staff travel for the offices of Senator Matt, Mummy’s-Boy Canavan and Damian Dum-Dum, Drum, where Ms Campion was “employed” after she was shifted ( typo? Shafted?) from Mr Joyce’s office. The I.P.E.A. refused to release any details of staff in those offices.

claiming that the release of the information would have the consequence of “endangering the life or physical safety” of the staff involved, or individuals associated.

The Westie had sought a breakdown of about $165,000 worth of travel by staff in Mummy-Boys office from April to September 2017 and details of the $27,000 of staff travel conducted by staff in Dum-Dum’s office from July to September 2017.

The silence is quite deafening…..and I haven’t yet seen the mob with pitchforks and scythes banging on the new perimeter bulwark against democracy surrounding parliament house so who’s in danger?

fog

"It’s the country’s most sought-after interview, and a likely ratings bonanza: the rights to the exclusive chat with Barnyard Joyce and his current partner Vikki ,Floozie Campion." breathlessly PR’d Channel 7 who is apparently paying this corrupt ex-minister and his floozie some $170,000.00 for them to explain who the father of the child is, why they cheated on their respective spouses and how much they enjoy fleecing the taxpayer.

Hmmm... the Gutter Press rolling in it's own faeces again!!

The Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd has been quizzed on his email communication with IPA executive director John Roskam for the strongly partisan opinions they contain. It has been revealed Petals, that formal complaints have been made against John Lloyd for breaches of the Public Service Code of Conduct although the specifics of the allegations or who made them remain undisclosed. Le Jongleur Roskam has been uncharacteristically quiet on this...

The silence is quite deafening….. again.

As Goya painted: " The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.