The pond must start by mentioning it, if only because the pond had to endure the actual surreal experience of the interview …
It's there in the header …
Angus Taylor again falsely claims Australia's greenhouse emissions are falling … and the tag that flows says it all: The energy minister repeats PM’s line that emissions fell by 1% when the government’s own figures show the opposite
Why does it irritate the pond so? Apart from them being desperate liars up policy shit creek without a paddle, just old onion muncher and Malware routines to show they believe in recycling?
Well it means the reliable Rowe has to use precious time devising a cartoon … and the pond has to spend time away from the reptiles, who would never dare to mention that Taylor is a bullshit artist full of horseshit …
Well there's more reliable Rowe here, and now thanks to the Major, the pond can turn to the urgent matter of Gramsci's long march through the institutions …
The pond can already hear shouting in the fleapits and jaffas being rolled down the aisles …not again, not a conflation and confusion between communism and socialism and government programs in democratic countries, all in the aid of a ratbag far wing wing demagoguery that somehow never managed to locate that Order of Lenin medal..
But of course, what else could be found in the lizard Oz?
Ah, so we've reached the point of doddering senility … of the "what I did 17 years ago" kind …
But hang on, is the Major in the process confessing to being an abject failure, a loser, as well as a drop kick?
17 years of publishing loons of the Kev kind, and things have got worse? Well worse in the Major's mind, but then if you're inclined to festering paranoid conspiracy theories and hunts for Order of Lenin medals things always look worse …
17 years of publishing loons of the Kev kind, and things have got worse? Well worse in the Major's mind, but then if you're inclined to festering paranoid conspiracy theories and hunts for Order of Lenin medals things always look worse …
But that name Switzer seems familiar. Isn't he on that bastion of socialism, the ABC? Isn't he a sell-out quisling lickspittle fellow traveller with the cardigan wearers? Isn't he on the government dime and so a model to millennials in search of a little socialistic cash in the paw?
Shouldn't the Major be mentioning this fellow's shameless appearances on RN, and use him as a warning against the seductive powers of socialism and the shameless way grifters will do anything to get themselves on to the government purse?
No such luck ...
Shocking. Fancy blaming Paulo Freire, when everybody who reads dashing Donners knows that the real problem is Gramsci's long march through the institutions … though strangely the long march of the Catholic church through the institutions, snatching government money in the manner of a Tom Switzer, Ponzi scheme lovers that they are, never gets a mention …
But you have to hand it to the Major, his sources are impeccable, If you want good old-fashioned lizard Oz loons, is there anyone better to cite than Kempie?
Left-wring thought derides the idea of competition in global labor markets?
Strange, isn't it the Brexiteers, the Donald and the US Murdochians who deride the idea of competition in global labour markets? Don't they want to leave, lock up, put up barriers and tariffs and such like?
Meanwhile, millennials might care to read about the Nordic model to come to some understanding of why the Major is inclined to scribble nonsense when in desperate search for fodder for a weekly column …
It would take another column to unpick the monstrous stupidity of talk of the Scandinavians abandoning the dead hand of state socialism, which contains within it, first the assumption that Scandinavians embraced the dead hand of state socialism before abandoning it …
Why Greg Hunters would be better off heading off to the wiki listing to learn that a tendency to massive and meaningless generalisations are one good reason to celebrate the way the Major has had no apparent influence over the education system ...
Rigorous education, hard work, saving and personal responsibility got them through Vietnam?
Actually it was government-imposed conscription that got them into that sorry mess … but there was a way out …
Actually it was government-imposed conscription that got them into that sorry mess … but there was a way out …
By golly that almost set the pond off on a whole raft of bone spur jokes, but that wouldn't leave room for young people to be reminded that it also helps if your daddy is filthy rich and leaves you a lot of money …
And so to the Caterist offering for the day, and as befits a man on the government purse, a cash in the paw man of the first water, he's worried for the poor ...
Thoughtful words from a variant on Tom Switzer …
By golly, how did that socialistic bludger on the government dime end up in the same paper as the Major?
You might as well ask the Caterist for expert guidance on the movements of flood waters in quarries as ask the Caterist about climate science ...
Yes, the truth isn't the truth until the truth has been filtered through the gigantic sponge known as the Caterist brain …
And oh fuck the pond dead, but do it gently, what do you know, Brian Fisher turns up quoting the Menzies Research Centre, which means the Caterist is quoting Brian Fisher quoting the Caterist propaganda arm, propped up by government grant …
And people wonder whether incest or being up one self or wanking is the most appropriate sexually charged metaphor to describe this sort of tosh …
The thought that the Liberal party, the Caterists and all the rest of the reptiles at the lizard Oz give a flying fuck about poor people - as opposed to scoring their vote - is just the sort of surreal loonacy that makes the pond's day get off with a bang …
And others have fun too … here's Guy Rundle doing a little Caterist reading at Crikey (paywall affected):
Ah, glorious days indeed…
And then there's this ...
It takes considerable chutzpah to write a 300-page book condemning
Australia's elitist 'Knowledge Class' and then thank no fewer than 60
journalists, academics, economists, historians, think-tank staff and
political insiders for assistance and friendship. But that's Nick Cater of The Australian
for you: the anti-intellectual sociology graduate and broadsheet
editor, the great admirer of the battlers in the outer suburbs and
regions who nevertheless chooses to reside in inner Sydney.
Yes, it helps when reading tosh to have a grasp on reality, unfiltered by Caterist truth ...
It's the same the whole world over, as the old music hall ditty goes. It's the poor what has to deal with Centrelink, it's the reptiles who corner the market in hypocrisy, and it's the Caterists who know how to get the cash in the paw …
Ain't it all a bleeding shame …
And as for those crocodile tears about Indian villagers … let's see how the Caterist goes when expressing sympathy for Bangladeshi islanders …
You know, Sea level rise may force 200,000 to migrate …
No worries, they can simply move in with the Caterist and live off the government dollar. Problem solved … though no doubt the Major will have an anxiety attack at such socialistic behaviour …
But then the Major and the Murdochians are much more comfortable with the Donald, and we know who he's comfortable with …
Shanghai? The Major is recommending the Shanghai education system? Still, I guess they don't follow Gramsci.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a day, isn't it: Maj. Mitch followed by Cater. Ignorance, stupidity and self-absorption in spades. Problem is, it's really not worth wasting any intelligence on.
ReplyDeleteBut no matter, DP, that's how it is with the reptiles: not an iota of sense amongst the lot of them.
Cant help myself GB, Cater's Indian villagers got to me. Sitting waiting for a boatload of Ozzie's best coal. Presumably with the power station, supply, transport and distribution infrastructure on subsequent vessels, then wait five or six years to put it all together.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to make sense does it? Wouldn't it be easier to use decentralised PV, wind or hydro for village level infrastructure? Five minutes googling suggests this is the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_India
Incidentally, the implication that wealthy Australians are the main ones installing PV is also wrong
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/poorer-households-switching-to-solar-faster-than-the-rich-20190222-p50zqr.html
As usual, Cater produces a mishmash of error, half understood facts and all those things that "you know for sure that just ain’t so". Yesterdays Alans, Trevors and Brians would all be nodding in approval.
Is that supposed to somehow persuade me that the reptiles - particularly Goosebumps Cater - are actually what they seem to be: ignorant, idiotic and conceitedly narcissistic ?
DeleteOh alright, it did and now I'm a believer. Besides, a lot of India's (and China's) coal-fired power stations are now operating at something less than 'optimal' (and profitable) power generating levels.
See, the thing is, as anybody born with an IQ above 50 knows, the total coat of setting up localised coal power generation plants includes putting all of the additional infrastructure in place; eg significant distribution sub-stations and large and dispersed transmission lines. India is nearly the same surface area as Australia but orders of magnitude more heavily populated so just a few heavy duty transmission lines, like in Australia, simply isn't going to cut it.
Hi BF,
DeleteSorry I’m afraid renewable energy in India is a non-starter.
How do I know? Why the late but saintly (and not at all racist) Bill Leak told us so.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/07/second-bill-leak-cartoon-cleared-by-australian-press-council
DW
Forgot about that one. What a legacy!
DeleteSorry GB - it's my therapy to state the obvious.
Maybe Cater should state at the bottom of his drivel..
ReplyDeleteNick Cater is the director of the Menzies institute, which is soon to lose its government funding.
Sadly, MRC won't lose its government funding anytime soon. If Labor cut that, they would risk having their equivalent paid back in kind the next time the Libs got back (which I agree might be a while). But the majors don't want to upset a cosy* arrangement that serves them both.
DeleteAfter all, apart from Nick's shallow and partisan sniping at people who think more than he does (what a burden to be the only thinker in the tank), what is the Menzies Research Centre for, except to be a tax-free slush fund for the Liberal Party? See, you and me donating to a party is only tax deductible up to $1500. But what about Richie McRichface wanting to donate some serious coin? Lucky for him, there is no such limit on tax-deductability to the MRC because, on paper, it satisfies some bullshit test about providing a public benefit, even if they just channel R McR'sdonations straight to the party that all of their directors just happen to belong to. Naturally, corporations can't claim a write off for donating to political parties, but they can for donating to the MRC.
Of course, Labor have similar arrangements - the Chiefly centre from memory, although disappointingly that does seem to spend some of its resources on actual policy development.
The catersite is now attached to the host and will go on sucking blood from it for years until, finally engorged, it will drop off and swim to the nearest safe Liberal seat.
*Perhaps that should be Cosi, as in Cosi fan tutte = "they're all like that".
Yair, a little bit of mutual benefit - MRC and 'Chiefly' (ha ha) being examples - is something we can kind of put up with, I guess.
DeleteIt'd be if/when they start funding the likes of Advance Australia that we'd really have something to complain about.