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

The Cretinization of Oz.

Shane picking up the pieces.

G'day Possums,

as the ruling rabble shambles increases we hear that defence secrets have been hacked over a 16 month period... "Nothing to see here......(again)" prissily spouts the Whyne and Perfect Prat of a Prefect, Pyne "It's not our fault." Then beady eyed Tudge of Robo-Debt infamy explains why an international security company managing the refugee gulags on Manus and Nauru, Serco, is the ideal entity to handle phone calls from the unemployed and welfare recipients after 1200 Australian staff were made as redundant as auto manufacturing workers.

Rabid-the-Hun, frothing at the mouth with like minded troglodytes in London droolingly mis-informs us with his cherry-picked "facts" that mitigating the effects of climate change is doing more harm than (that which doesn't really  exist) climate change itself; and further asserts, falsely that a little warming hurt no-one. It's a pity that he didn't have the information that in Australia over the past ten years, deaths due to heat have increased amongst the frail by a factor of 25 or talked with a Californian or Puerto Rican.

In another brilliant Onion-moment bon-mot and displaying the full gamut of his empathy and sensitivity for the sexually abused, Rabid quipped that although he went to a Catlic school he was never targeted for abuse...possibly because he wasn't "attractive" enough.

 

Fresias

Australian taxpayers stupidly, are footing a bill of more than $130,000 a day to renumerate the Ruling Rabble's legion of barristers as it fights to salvage seven administrively incompetent  ministers, including Deputy Prime Miniature, Barnyard Joyce.

Apparently the final cost of paying the 24 barristers over the course of the "citizenship seven" case could end up as much as $2 million for the Snouts in the Trough. Meals on wheels downgraded, medical fees up .... privatised electricity charges going through the roof,  penalty rates for hospitality workers slashed, industry superannuation funds and other penalty rates under severe attack, further talk of the privatisation of education and now we have to pay for these incompetent federal bastards legal bills?

Economic body’s Fiscal Monitor shows Australia’s 30-year inequality growth is similar to the US, India, China and the UK.  Last month the pretend treasurer, Scummo Morrison opined but refused to release the Treasury analysis that income inequality was not getting worse in Australia, telling his only friends, the Business Council of Australia, that they had found in specific analysis of current wage fundamentals, that Australian wages were growing slowly across most industries in the economy, and most regions of the country, so the slow growth was evenly shared. No wonder he's a "Happy-Clapper," too.

Noted minister for alternative information sources,  Wiki-Ozone-Hole Hunt has decided that Private health Insurance can be 10% cheaper for young people by foregoing  Pilates, Yoga, Bowen's Method and other alternative therapies and medicines.  Based on no cost benefit analysis nor any study of how many millennials will avail themselves of this panacea to private health fund and pharmaceutical profits, or indeed of its efficacy as a remedy, this move only furthers the monopolization effect on treatment. I'm sure that hospitality workers losing their penalty rates, some up to $6,000.00 pa, will be overjoyed at a $0.70c per week reduction in their private health insurance.  And as one well publicly re-numerated mogul from a health insurance company said, "We want to get back to the situation where at least 70% of the population have private health insurance...as they did before Gough Whitlam introduced Medicare."

Isn't it interesting how under the ruling rabble you pay twice for every single service which then becomes increasingly inferior?

Hunt therefore provides further evidence not only of the paucity of Ruling Rabble commitment to public health with another "look-over-there-moment" but also his possible interest in a board seat, post politics!

Truffle's Turnbull's short-winded energy package will be released as soon as Rabid-the-Hun approves the energy committee of cabinet dog's-dinner after clearing  major troglodyte hurdles in The National Party to the policy's release.

Dumping spurned Chief Scientist Alan Finkel's proposal for a clean energy target and instead, returning to a C19th model of electricity generation Truffles is expected to announce vintage Knitting manuals for all and more matches for the coal-fired bar-b-q. In what was supposed to sound a positive note Truffles and Fictions Frydenberg announced that there would be subsidies for turning your air conditioner down or off to which one wit commented that "... would it be acceptable as they currently didn't have an air conditioner, to buy a dud second-hand one and claim the rebate for not switching it on?" Similarly, in the Wombat's Mt Gambier Stone house which rarely exceeds 26C after days of extreme heat can we claim a subsidy for building appropriately for the climate?

The ruling rabble were policy bereft before they achieved control and since have only been the most predictable economic, environmental and social debacle possible. And who does one blame ...? Not Labor as they persistently do but The Ugly American, Murdoch, the Biggest Miner, Rinehart and their funded IPA, particularly  its chief proselytiser John, Le Jongleur, Roskam and his bevy of ABC acolytes who continue to muddy waters and misinform at every destructive Quisling step as they lead the Ruling Rabble and nation to oblivion!

The cretinization of the nation under these anti-social, free-marketeers is almost complete but when their time is done, as it nearly is and Labor returns to power attempting to reverse these mongrels last four year's negative actions, I can already hear the self righteous wailing of the Murdoch right wing press chorus telling us again the sky is falling in because equality to them is like a crucifix is to a vampire.

Was once a great country... now perilously close to imploding.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane 

...down the gurgler

Down the gurgler…

Shane reading the new one...

 We have shot some more ballet stuff... here are some outakes

Emma, Gypsy

and this send-up by William....

So you think you can dance?

and after the formal shot...

Classically...not!

Thanks to all for your good work ...

Wombat Droppings

John Roskam Head “Coot-With-Queer-ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” (IPA) admitted, that he knew of no evidence that privatisation of the State Electricity Commission (unusual, him not knowing everything), was in any way to blame for the health disaster engulfing Morwell from the open-cut fire that has been burning for a month.

Many years ago I put a friend in contact with economic/political journo Kenneth Davidson who was writing pieces on the poor economic results from Private/Public Partnerships and the dubious benefits of Privatisation of State assets.  This friend an ex-electrical fitter with the SEC, had taken a “package” when it was privatised and then returned ten years later to do similar work contracting across the private/foreign owned electricity suppliers had expressed how shocked he was at the poor state of the infrastructure he found after starting back.

Incompatibility of equipment between sub-stations and poor maintenance from where the first American owners had literally stripped out their profits before on-selling the business to the present Asian owners.
Living rurally, the burrow used to have one or two blackouts a year under the SEC now it’s 3-4; the last being a few weeks ago when we were without power for 13 hours, caused by a transformer fire on a major highway. The most memorable “outage’ was one Summer 5 years ago when our power was fluctuating wildly. We rang our local electrician who had just re-wired the kitchen, and he asked us to go outside and check the pole that serviced our property. We did and observed its transformer crackling and sending showers of sparks down to the dry stubble below. That day would become known as “Black Saturday,” we rang the electricity supplier and told them of the fluctuation and they said it would be four or five days before they could get to us, we then told them about the sparks and the crackling and they arrived in 25 minutes. They also intimated that we should be discreet about mentioning this episode.

Privatisation is for private profit not public service. The Morwell fires have been worse than they should have been because the site has not been re-habilitated as it should have been and its fire suppression infrastructure has been stripped out.

It is interesting to note that it will be the taxpayer, the public who will probably “foot-the-bill” for this fiasco not the privatised owner.

From John Roskam’s Bio: “Working for Don Hayward [the Victorian Education Minister 1992-96] and David Kemp [the Federal Education Minister 1996-01]. You can’t shut several hundred schools [in Victoria] and reduce teacher numbers by 10 per cent without sophisticated leadership and deep, intellectual commitment to policy.” 

“Sophisticated leadership”? “Intellectual commitment”? In order to cripple State education ? To replace language teachers with satelite dishes and T.Vs, then cramming 100 primary students into a single class? Sophisticated, my arse!  If that farce of an exercise (which lasted barely three months) was intellectually sound, Roskam really should seek clinical help. Then his fellow “Queer-coot”, James Paterson pops up with the hysterical notion that Western Capitalism is better at protecting the environment than a “Command” economy! Psst, James heard of Bhophal? Heard of  Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Exxon Valdez, Libby Montana, Gulf of Mexico, and of course you’ve heard of Agent Orange?

Welcome to the parallel universe of the Tobacco, Murdoch and Rinehart mining sponsored IPA.

5000 Qantas workers are to lose their jobs as the airline spirals to earth and four of its board, over four years, waltz away with $54,000,000.00 in re-numeration.

Joe “Cereal/SPC/Holden Killer” Hockey and “Rabbott-the-Hun” are telling us “the Age of Entitlement is over….”

Abbott claimed expenses entitlements for six months in 2013 of $474,707.15. 
Remember Tony Abbott rejected a cash injection at SPC citing workers entitlements are excessive (at just $116,427 in 2013)....

One of the curious benefits of Abbott’s and Co’s ranting about wages and entitlements is to highlight the 150% over common wages executives get…………. not really something they want to have too much made of…except of course Gina “Our Biggest-Miner” Rinehart who has beached herself again to spout more drivel about wages and conditions not being close enough to third world levels for there to be a level playing field.

 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/07/gina-rinehart-wants-australian-thatcherism-but-do-we-want-to-become-northern-britain

And now a nice little compare and contrast …the first is Liarbril harridan Senator Michaela Cash http://youtu.be/pXchm5QOyyU and Greens Senator ScottLudlum http://youtu.be/dtqrfiEV8Gs

Michaela Cash to me, epitomises much of the rank nastiness of the Liarbrils whilst you can make your own mind up about the Greens Scott Ludlum

Everything is “… having a conversation…” no it’s not it’s telling you what you’re gunna hear, right!

Cheers Possums

Shane

.. back to Medievalism

G’day Possums,

Shane with Australian Auto Manufacturing

Some shots from BTA’s recent Summer Intensive

 and some local scenes looking at the bushfire smoke haze we have

Smoke haze Greenhills Rd, Greendale

Smoke haze, Ballan Rd, Greendale

Wombat Droppings or Low-Down politics in Oz

Taking a leaf out of the late Adolph Hitler’s modus-operandi from May 2, 1933: “We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike”.

 “Rabbott-the-Hun” has instituted another Royal Commission into the unions rather than waste money assisting Oz’s debilitated manufacturing and agricultural sectors. This double pronged attack on workers wages and conditions and the viability of the Unions involved allegedly has been applauded by our biggest miner Gina “What Munificience” Rinehart who thinks that “Work-for-the-Dole” is too generous and should be adjusted back to C18th levels and Janet “Hisssss I never buy canned fruit anyway” Albrechtson agreed.

 “Rabbott-The-Hun” also congratulated the 50,000 Toyota and ancillary manufacturing workers who have just been told that in two years they can apply for “Work-for-the-Dole” having been relieved of the stress of working 40 hours a week. “For um, every um, job that’s um, lost”, haltingly intoned “Rabbott”, “a new um better one will um replace it…um, a better one will replace it”   Failing to specify just what these jobs will be, fewer and fewer seem to be taking him seriously.

Nikki Savva, once a minor apparatchik on the parochial Melbourne “Hun” and since elevated to the national sphere with “The Australian” (although this has made no difference to the quality of the tripe she has on sale), recently opined that Julie “Death Stare” Bishop is doing a wonderful job in foreign affairs because she has a dazzling smile and such nice manners to most of those who agree with her and has single-handedly made the Indonesians so confused as to Australia’s real intentions; that the invasion, via life-boats full of missionary’s is a complete success.

That no-one really cares what Savva thinks is probably a good thing and that the audience for the Australian seems to disappearing faster than that of “illegal” refugees, is even better.

"Rabbott-the-Hun" and friends

Casually employed Defence Minister, Senator David “Gunna” Johnston has finally surfaced from his tub after a lengthy round of submarines and upped periscope to pop-gun a broadside of invective at the ABC for reporting the news.

In the usual Liarbril, Orwellian version of truth, “Gunner” fulminated that the Navy had been “…. maliciously maligned…” for their actions in belonging to a White Supremacist Cabal and the brutal “Hazing” of other ratings. Their actions were carried out, he said, “…in a fully professional manner,” as were all other issues with hot pipes or inadvertently lost situations without the lights on. On stamping his foot for dramatic effect, “Gunna” slammed it onto the soap which causing him to slip whilst losing his towel and he fell backward, back into the bath.

This timely salvo diverted some attention from further investigation of Prime Miniature, “Rabbott-the-Hun’s” and Eric “Vichy” Abetz’s loose grasp on the facts of workers’ entitlements at SPC and allowed “Rabbott” time to meet his IPA bosses and other business constituents and to find out what to do next in his crusade on the dismemberment of civil society.

Non card carrying Liarbril and IPA (The-Coots-With–Queer-Ideas-From-A-Parallel-Universe) member, Timmy “Twat” Wilson, new commissioner designate of Speech Free of Leftist Bias, announced on his final interview on ABC with Jon Faine (and before the “Coot’s” have their way and the ABC is sold to “The Ugly American,” Murdoch) that he will be hosting regular IPA propaganda,  re-education,  damnit  education, information sessions on Community radio stations around OZ. When asked on talkback if the other commissioners would have the same opportunity he evasively replied that “…there was nothing to stop them…” and was rather shy of detailing if they would have as much opportunity as he has been “offered” to proselytise with his always abundant words spouting forth (which are essentially just ideas of the moment running around in his head replicating those of his faceless backers) in the quest to impose fundamentalist aspirational economic “values” on all of society for the benefit of the few.

Never quiet, never uncertain of his “right” and never reflective of the social damage that his “rightness” imposes by the subjugation of 90% of us to serfdom, Timmy “Twat” will be one to watch in his $330,000.00 p.a. sinecure. 

"Fiddles" Frolicking

The Till Eulengspiegel of Tardis State (Where-All-Goes-Backward) politics and de- facto Premier, ex-Liarbril, now Independent, Geoff “Fiddles” Shaw has been up to his merry pranks again, re-arranging the legislative program that Pretend-Premier, Dennis (Inutilis Rusticus) Naptime hoped to have in place before the public’s planned March Revolution. In an effort to save Tardis State citizens’ time and effort, “Inutilis Rusticus” is planning to ban pickets, rallies and demonstrations so that there is no reason to leave home. He apparently has not yet decided on the (allegedly)  IPA suggestion to limit potentially subversive conversations on FaceBook by allowing only one contact per week with only one other, which has to be conducted in Yoruba and without benefit of Google translate.

Pretend-Premier Naptime has also instituted a Courts Martial of all Liarbril Munchkins to de-frock “Fiddles” and ban him from manifesting his idiosyncratic personality in Parliament. Asked if he thought the ban on public meetings and the de-frocking of “Fiddles” un-democratic, “Inutilis Rusticus” replied that it was a natural development of a process to keep things simple and that it had been quite effective in parts of Europe in 1933.

The Labor Party was not available for comment as they were all out, looking for their Federal leader.

Dark days Petals,

Shane.