Glen Milne, the most intrepid anti-Rudd sleuth in the journo business, has written an account of the billion dollars that wasn't in the Murray-Darling deal.
After I blogged this issue last week i thought to myself, "maybe i should have mentioned the money". Now i'm glad i didn't. I seemed to know that there was much more at stake here than a billion dollars, as much as that is.
It was said the Victoria got an extra billion for bargaining hard. Not so, they stalled not out of want of money. They were in cahoots with the other state governments who also wanted that money. But every Labor govt in the country ended up getting something much more. Power. Untrammelled power. Wall-to-wall power.
The ALP's priority was always to dump Howard because he stood in the way of the unions. To dump Howard whatever the cost. Whatever the cost to the economy from protectionism and wage-regulation and intimidation of business large and small. And whatever the cost to the Agriculturalists of the Murray-Darling.
14 months of delays of vital works for crooked political gain. This is crime enough for any honest witness to condemn the ALP, but for them to stand there and allow us all to think they were more willing to negotiate than Howard is to add insult to grevious injury.
This kind of hypocrisy really burns my brisket.
Much needed comedy relief: Into this atmosphere of opaqueness comes the moves to make the budget more transparent codenamed 'Operation Sunshine'. Now THAT is scary. How communist can you get? It's double-think duckspeak par excellence. If you are going to nickname something like military operation take in to account that a military operation usually hurts people. Let's not pretend it's all sushine and rainbows and happy feelings. Let's be honest.
Oh, yeah. Forgot for a second i was talking about the ALP.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Howard's Murray Darling plan now in place for make benefit of grateful glorious nation
Today's article "Rudd delivers New Federalism" should have the headline "ALP holds Australia to ransom ... and collects!"
Commonwealth control over the Murray-Darling basin is in place. We will all benefit hugely by removing state competition over the scarse resourse of water. It's a great idea... and it's Howard's.
THe ALP now claims credit for making this happen, but it was ALP in Victoria that until now prevented it from happenning, because they did not want Howard taking the credit. They knew with the climate of media frothing against Howard they could take an extremely unreasonable position, hold out on Howard's reasonable offer, and get away with it with the Age singing their praises.
This deal never have even occurred to state labor if Howard didn't shove it down their throats. But, as with COAG generally, the ALP are now taking credit for making commonwealth and state relations work. Another Labor lie.
They say that Howard prevented the deal because of alleged intransigence and arrogance. In fact Howard put forward constructive proposals they they rejected not because they were bad, but because they wanted to damage him politically.
This New Federalism is no new spirit of cooperation and compromise. In fact it's quite the opposite. The Victorian ALP refused to cooperate or compromise until there was a Labor federal govt as well.
Labor, like teenagers, whinged and moaned until they got what they wanted. Like teenagers the lied to get their way and their parents , the public, fell into the trap of believing them. Labor can have their party now, and they will trash the house!!!
Labor accuses Howard of arrogance, but their spin and bare-faced cheek takes arrogance to a new level! Howard regularly acknowledged the achivements of the Hawke and Keating years. It will be a cold say in Darwin before the ALP acknowleges Howard's achievements. They are busy re-writing history on COAG and everything else he did.
Politics was too controntational under Howard say the ALP. That's only because the other side of politics was fighting for what was we thought was right. Now that the Libs were defeated the ALP is happy to stop fighting. Well newsflash you commo bastards, i'm not. "We dont like fighting" say the ALP. More like they dont like losing. They fought tooth and nail when they had to, or, more correctly, wanted to.
"There will ne no other political voice in the country other than us", decry the UNIONS. "All other voices are morally wrong because they do not represent the working man". And thereby give away the immorality of their position.
Labor does not represent the non-working man, he can go to hell in unemployment for all they care.
Labor does not represent the self-employed. Those enterprising individuals can hang for daring to be capitalists.
Labor does not represent the employers who actual dain to give their members jobs. They take pride in frustrating their every move, thereby restricting the number of jobs.
Labor does not represent professionals, those who work with their minds instead of their hands. I laugh at anyone who suggests that people who can't even be bothered thinking for a living somehow have a monopoly on moral virtue. A monopoly in intellectual laziness and lack of drive and ambition more like. Does labor even realise that the days of people working with their hands are numbered. Before long we will all have to work in a less robotic and more human capacity.
Needless to say, Labor does not represent me.
The Unions have staged a coup. They have bought their way into power by forcing their members, even those who vote liberal, to cough up fees for the Labor party. They are not controlling the nation. They can lie as much as they want and take credit for Howard's federalim because the media will print it and the public will believe it, under the duress of herd-intimidation.
"We are the rightful rulers of this country from here to eternity!" Labor declare, "Yes maaaaster" comes the public sheepish reply.
The Labor party are like the English cricket team. They will one series and declare they are the greatest cricketing nation the world has ever known. They give everyone and MBE, the captian a Knighthood and ridicule the opposition they defeated by the skin of their teeth by refusing to bat in the low-light of the English summer.
It's a joke, and like the Aussie cricket team the Libs can break their hearts next time round. If the ALP is still standing on it's union funding base at the next election they are fair game. They are proferring and 19th century type of socialist politics and it won't, cant fly. They are currupt and weak. Let them score 600 runs. We'll chase them down and they'll never recover their momentum. The ALP, not the Libs, should be worried about their long term survival. Union power will inevitably fade in this country as it has done in every other. It's just a matter of time.
Tick tock tick tock
Commonwealth control over the Murray-Darling basin is in place. We will all benefit hugely by removing state competition over the scarse resourse of water. It's a great idea... and it's Howard's.
THe ALP now claims credit for making this happen, but it was ALP in Victoria that until now prevented it from happenning, because they did not want Howard taking the credit. They knew with the climate of media frothing against Howard they could take an extremely unreasonable position, hold out on Howard's reasonable offer, and get away with it with the Age singing their praises.
This deal never have even occurred to state labor if Howard didn't shove it down their throats. But, as with COAG generally, the ALP are now taking credit for making commonwealth and state relations work. Another Labor lie.
They say that Howard prevented the deal because of alleged intransigence and arrogance. In fact Howard put forward constructive proposals they they rejected not because they were bad, but because they wanted to damage him politically.
This New Federalism is no new spirit of cooperation and compromise. In fact it's quite the opposite. The Victorian ALP refused to cooperate or compromise until there was a Labor federal govt as well.
Labor, like teenagers, whinged and moaned until they got what they wanted. Like teenagers the lied to get their way and their parents , the public, fell into the trap of believing them. Labor can have their party now, and they will trash the house!!!
Labor accuses Howard of arrogance, but their spin and bare-faced cheek takes arrogance to a new level! Howard regularly acknowledged the achivements of the Hawke and Keating years. It will be a cold say in Darwin before the ALP acknowleges Howard's achievements. They are busy re-writing history on COAG and everything else he did.
Politics was too controntational under Howard say the ALP. That's only because the other side of politics was fighting for what was we thought was right. Now that the Libs were defeated the ALP is happy to stop fighting. Well newsflash you commo bastards, i'm not. "We dont like fighting" say the ALP. More like they dont like losing. They fought tooth and nail when they had to, or, more correctly, wanted to.
"There will ne no other political voice in the country other than us", decry the UNIONS. "All other voices are morally wrong because they do not represent the working man". And thereby give away the immorality of their position.
Labor does not represent the non-working man, he can go to hell in unemployment for all they care.
Labor does not represent the self-employed. Those enterprising individuals can hang for daring to be capitalists.
Labor does not represent the employers who actual dain to give their members jobs. They take pride in frustrating their every move, thereby restricting the number of jobs.
Labor does not represent professionals, those who work with their minds instead of their hands. I laugh at anyone who suggests that people who can't even be bothered thinking for a living somehow have a monopoly on moral virtue. A monopoly in intellectual laziness and lack of drive and ambition more like. Does labor even realise that the days of people working with their hands are numbered. Before long we will all have to work in a less robotic and more human capacity.
Needless to say, Labor does not represent me.
The Unions have staged a coup. They have bought their way into power by forcing their members, even those who vote liberal, to cough up fees for the Labor party. They are not controlling the nation. They can lie as much as they want and take credit for Howard's federalim because the media will print it and the public will believe it, under the duress of herd-intimidation.
"We are the rightful rulers of this country from here to eternity!" Labor declare, "Yes maaaaster" comes the public sheepish reply.
The Labor party are like the English cricket team. They will one series and declare they are the greatest cricketing nation the world has ever known. They give everyone and MBE, the captian a Knighthood and ridicule the opposition they defeated by the skin of their teeth by refusing to bat in the low-light of the English summer.
It's a joke, and like the Aussie cricket team the Libs can break their hearts next time round. If the ALP is still standing on it's union funding base at the next election they are fair game. They are proferring and 19th century type of socialist politics and it won't, cant fly. They are currupt and weak. Let them score 600 runs. We'll chase them down and they'll never recover their momentum. The ALP, not the Libs, should be worried about their long term survival. Union power will inevitably fade in this country as it has done in every other. It's just a matter of time.
Tick tock tick tock
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
MUA = public enemy number 1
Very scare article from news.com by glenn milne about how the Maritime Union of Aus is looking to re-assert itself after the ACTU, i mean ALP federal election victory.
A document has been leaked that outlines a meeting between Rudd and the MUA.
Rudd has approved a number of measures that are simply wrong, and quite humourous:
Mandatory drug tests are to be got rid off for wharfies who operate heavy machinery because it apparently disadvantages members with a recreational drug habit
The messages is cleared VOTE LABOR, BONG ON.
Also pattern bargaining, whereby wharfies and sailors who sit on their arses in the less profitable port of Melboune, and who have the convenience of sinking piss with their mates at AFL games on the weekend get paid the same as hard-working wharfies who work for busy companies that makes lots of money in WA, and endure the inconvenience of flying to Port Kembla to work while their families live in Perth.
Pattern bargaining was explicitly ruled out by Rudd before the election. Now it's back. Somehow this does not suprise me. I repeat: THE ALP AND THE UNIONS ARE ONE AND THE SAME THING!
The most terrifying aspect of the story is that Rudd has agreed to give the MUA the confidential security information of 'scabs and freeloaders' who work on the wharves and ships but are not MUA members.
Rudd has compromised the rights and the safety of Australian citizens to protect the narrow interest of this groups that have given him money.
Rudd is selling your economy and your rights down the tube. Don't be fooled.
This is not new leadership, its the same old tune of slapping the Australian worker on the back until he gives in to strong arm of the union movement. Anybody who does not understand this go and watch 'on the waterfront'.
Labor are the party of reaction in this country. They want to take us back to the bad old days of union power, but this time with the overwhelming moral support of the legacy media aswell.
A new era of herd-intimidation has begun in Australia. The individual and his or her rights at work have not been upheld, they are being trampled on by the self-righteous hyporcritucal and culturally currupt ALP.
Rudd said he would stand up to union unfluence. This was a straight up lie to the australian electorate whom he is in the process of betraying.
Howard was standing up for the rights of individual employees and employers in the workplace to be free to negotiate on their own terms. Howard was taking us forward, as he had been doing for 11 years into a place where many Australians was not confortable, a ambition and power on the world stage.
Labor has lopped the tall poppy we were growing into and taken us back to the Ned Kelly anti-authority mindset that has kepy a lid on the ambitions of Australia and Australians for too long.
It's time for all fo us ourselves what kind of country we want to live in.
It's time for the rugged individual that Australia is to stand up and be counted.
A document has been leaked that outlines a meeting between Rudd and the MUA.
Rudd has approved a number of measures that are simply wrong, and quite humourous:
Mandatory drug tests are to be got rid off for wharfies who operate heavy machinery because it apparently disadvantages members with a recreational drug habit
The messages is cleared VOTE LABOR, BONG ON.
Also pattern bargaining, whereby wharfies and sailors who sit on their arses in the less profitable port of Melboune, and who have the convenience of sinking piss with their mates at AFL games on the weekend get paid the same as hard-working wharfies who work for busy companies that makes lots of money in WA, and endure the inconvenience of flying to Port Kembla to work while their families live in Perth.
Pattern bargaining was explicitly ruled out by Rudd before the election. Now it's back. Somehow this does not suprise me. I repeat: THE ALP AND THE UNIONS ARE ONE AND THE SAME THING!
The most terrifying aspect of the story is that Rudd has agreed to give the MUA the confidential security information of 'scabs and freeloaders' who work on the wharves and ships but are not MUA members.
Rudd has compromised the rights and the safety of Australian citizens to protect the narrow interest of this groups that have given him money.
Rudd is selling your economy and your rights down the tube. Don't be fooled.
This is not new leadership, its the same old tune of slapping the Australian worker on the back until he gives in to strong arm of the union movement. Anybody who does not understand this go and watch 'on the waterfront'.
Labor are the party of reaction in this country. They want to take us back to the bad old days of union power, but this time with the overwhelming moral support of the legacy media aswell.
A new era of herd-intimidation has begun in Australia. The individual and his or her rights at work have not been upheld, they are being trampled on by the self-righteous hyporcritucal and culturally currupt ALP.
Rudd said he would stand up to union unfluence. This was a straight up lie to the australian electorate whom he is in the process of betraying.
Howard was standing up for the rights of individual employees and employers in the workplace to be free to negotiate on their own terms. Howard was taking us forward, as he had been doing for 11 years into a place where many Australians was not confortable, a ambition and power on the world stage.
Labor has lopped the tall poppy we were growing into and taken us back to the Ned Kelly anti-authority mindset that has kepy a lid on the ambitions of Australia and Australians for too long.
It's time for all fo us ourselves what kind of country we want to live in.
It's time for the rugged individual that Australia is to stand up and be counted.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
It's the corporations, acting all ... corporationy
Rudd has made all political donations over $1000 subject to disclosure rules. Previously the limit was $10,000. That seems fair enough to me. Why should a person be outed as a supported of the Liberal party, and sacked from their job if they work in media or any other PC-tyranny industry for a donation of less than $10,000.
$1000 is FA. And after a few years of wage-fuelled Labor inflation it will be worth even less - about the same as a Cornetto, I predict.
What a wanker. This is straight-up resentment-based pandering to the mob. As if a donation of less than $10000 is going to sway any decision by any party in favour of the donor. Maybe it would sway a Woollongong Labor councillor, but that's not saying much.
If openness is so important to Rudd why not make all donations, of even less significant amounts than $1000 public? Because there is an opposing principle at work to openness, and that's privacy. As I alluded to above people should be able to donate as private citizens without everybody knowing about it because if one's poltical allegiances are known than the frothing PC hoardes can drag you out into the street and strip you of your dignity.
I work in the entertainment business. I understand that. Why do you think I blog under and assumed name? Privacy matters because the public are not always fair in their judgments.
I wish I could leave it at that, and just remark that Rudd is a block-head rabble-rouser, but there is more to this issue.
Rudd is saying we should open the debate of capping political donations from individuals and corporations. This is vintage Rudd. It's a committment to a committee. It's also two-faced. "I commit to have a think about this issue," says Rudd "leading you to believe that I take one position, so that I get your support, and then change my mind at my own convenience later."
It's not a commitment. It's not a commitment because it wont happen. There is no way Rudd is going to cap political donations because the ALP and the unions out-spent the Libs by a huge amount - about 30 million i recall - at the last campaign. Union money extorted from union members with a special levy (still in place) delivered victory to Rudd and his sectional interests.
I note that the cap will apply to individuals and corporations. If this does not include unions then Rudd just might bring the cap in. It would also be a partisan move and could easily be argued against in the house. I doubt he could pull it off. It would expose that he is working for the unions.
And that's the whole point, as I keep repeating. For Rudd, who fronts the ALP which is a front for the ACTU, to say that the Libs are the ones wanting secrecy is bare-faced cheek of the most insidious and disengenuous sort. The ALP are a huge fraud pulled over the public's eyes. They are an institutional lie. They are the same group of people as the union movement yet the operate under a different, and therefore false, name.
Full time union employees work for the ALP during every election campaign for FREE so no disclosures are required. Whether they say they work for the ALP officially is another story. Their adds might say "approved by Joe Thug of the Slackers Union" at the bottom but they are timed to perfection to deliver the exact same message as the ALP campaign in an given week. They work in this together behind the scenes. They do polling together, knock on doors for one another. All without a single declaration. They are in cohoots and NEVER let on to the Aussie public. They pretent to be two different bodies and by that ommission huge amount of money get spent on the ALP's campaignt that are never declared!
How dare Rudd accuse the Libs of secrecy. The hypocrisy is staggerring.
Rudd is up to his neck in lies. He knows it too. That's why he knows this cap will never fly. He must divorce the ALP from the union movement. Tony Blair did it in opposition. Rudd will have to do it in office. Whether he has the motivation is unclear -he's already won the election without needed to - but it is clear that he will need the donations of the corporate sector to do it. The link between the unions and the ALP is mainly financial. This link must be severed by Rudd. Once the link is severed he's got to get his money from somewhere.
Rudd is going to need a shitload of money from business in Aus to pull this off because he will probably need to mount a TV campaign against the unions himself to succeed. Any cap on corporate donations will have to be non-existant or so high as to be effectively non-existant. With the inflation threat that will have to be very high indeed.
If this cap goes ahead, and if it does not include unions, you'll know that Rudd is truly a union puppet and will always be so.
$1000 is FA. And after a few years of wage-fuelled Labor inflation it will be worth even less - about the same as a Cornetto, I predict.
What a wanker. This is straight-up resentment-based pandering to the mob. As if a donation of less than $10000 is going to sway any decision by any party in favour of the donor. Maybe it would sway a Woollongong Labor councillor, but that's not saying much.
If openness is so important to Rudd why not make all donations, of even less significant amounts than $1000 public? Because there is an opposing principle at work to openness, and that's privacy. As I alluded to above people should be able to donate as private citizens without everybody knowing about it because if one's poltical allegiances are known than the frothing PC hoardes can drag you out into the street and strip you of your dignity.
I work in the entertainment business. I understand that. Why do you think I blog under and assumed name? Privacy matters because the public are not always fair in their judgments.
I wish I could leave it at that, and just remark that Rudd is a block-head rabble-rouser, but there is more to this issue.
Rudd is saying we should open the debate of capping political donations from individuals and corporations. This is vintage Rudd. It's a committment to a committee. It's also two-faced. "I commit to have a think about this issue," says Rudd "leading you to believe that I take one position, so that I get your support, and then change my mind at my own convenience later."
It's not a commitment. It's not a commitment because it wont happen. There is no way Rudd is going to cap political donations because the ALP and the unions out-spent the Libs by a huge amount - about 30 million i recall - at the last campaign. Union money extorted from union members with a special levy (still in place) delivered victory to Rudd and his sectional interests.
I note that the cap will apply to individuals and corporations. If this does not include unions then Rudd just might bring the cap in. It would also be a partisan move and could easily be argued against in the house. I doubt he could pull it off. It would expose that he is working for the unions.
And that's the whole point, as I keep repeating. For Rudd, who fronts the ALP which is a front for the ACTU, to say that the Libs are the ones wanting secrecy is bare-faced cheek of the most insidious and disengenuous sort. The ALP are a huge fraud pulled over the public's eyes. They are an institutional lie. They are the same group of people as the union movement yet the operate under a different, and therefore false, name.
Full time union employees work for the ALP during every election campaign for FREE so no disclosures are required. Whether they say they work for the ALP officially is another story. Their adds might say "approved by Joe Thug of the Slackers Union" at the bottom but they are timed to perfection to deliver the exact same message as the ALP campaign in an given week. They work in this together behind the scenes. They do polling together, knock on doors for one another. All without a single declaration. They are in cohoots and NEVER let on to the Aussie public. They pretent to be two different bodies and by that ommission huge amount of money get spent on the ALP's campaignt that are never declared!
How dare Rudd accuse the Libs of secrecy. The hypocrisy is staggerring.
Rudd is up to his neck in lies. He knows it too. That's why he knows this cap will never fly. He must divorce the ALP from the union movement. Tony Blair did it in opposition. Rudd will have to do it in office. Whether he has the motivation is unclear -he's already won the election without needed to - but it is clear that he will need the donations of the corporate sector to do it. The link between the unions and the ALP is mainly financial. This link must be severed by Rudd. Once the link is severed he's got to get his money from somewhere.
Rudd is going to need a shitload of money from business in Aus to pull this off because he will probably need to mount a TV campaign against the unions himself to succeed. Any cap on corporate donations will have to be non-existant or so high as to be effectively non-existant. With the inflation threat that will have to be very high indeed.
If this cap goes ahead, and if it does not include unions, you'll know that Rudd is truly a union puppet and will always be so.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Putting up rates increasing inflation in NZ and UK!
Check this article from the daily reckoning (financial blog i think). It explains how hiking interest rates is pushing up housing prices and increasing inflation in NZ and the UK.
Why? because foreign money floods in everytime rates go up. Great for Chinese investors. Bad for Aussies and their economy.
The ALP should stop meddling with the economy and liberate it. Only keeping workplace flexibility will manage inflation.
Why? because foreign money floods in everytime rates go up. Great for Chinese investors. Bad for Aussies and their economy.
The ALP should stop meddling with the economy and liberate it. Only keeping workplace flexibility will manage inflation.
Foreigners that hate Rudd and Loved Howard: Part I in a zillion part series, The Indians
What's this?! You mean to say there are people out there with brown skin and different accents that like Howard? Dont' they all support the ALP because of their apologetic softness? Dont they feel Labor's solidarity against everything WASPish?
It would seem not because if this report in the OZ about what one of India's most influential foreign affairs pundits, Brahma Chellaney, has to say is true then there are some people against whom we play cricket that hate Rudd's guts.
The Indians are of course pissed off because Labor refuses to sell Uranium to them because they are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty. They have nukes. Then again so does China, and we sell to them.
[quotes in italics]
Mr Chellaney noted that Mr Rudd was the free world's first Mandarin-speaking head of government, saying he "has made plain his intent to cosy up to the world's largest autocracy, China, while nullifying an important decision that his predecessor took to help build a closer rapport with the world's largest democracy."
Chellaney lashes Rudd's stance on the NPT.
"In touting its ideological resolve to uphold the NPT, the Rudd Government wants to be more Catholic than the Pope. Far from the NPT forbidding civil exports to a non-signatory, the treaty indeed encourages the peaceful use of nuclear technology among all states.
And how's this for being diplomatic?
The Indian Government was irked when, in January, it sent special prime ministerial envoy Shyam Saran to see Foreign Minister Stephen Smith in Perth and found itself being bluntly told - even though it had not asked - there would be no sale of Australian uranium to India.
Indian sources insist Mr Saran was taken aback by the minister's forthright stance as he had gone to Perth only to brief Mr Smith on New Delhi's negotiations with Washington over its civilian nuclear deal and specifically not to ask to buy Australian uranium.
Apparently shadow foreign minister Andrew Robb has said the Government's handling of the relationship with India had been "clumsy". More like downright provocative, as with the Japan and the whaling. Rudd is either stupid or deliberately annoying China's regional competators.
But we all know Rudd is on trainier wheels. They are learning and the Japan case is one example. They wanted to send the Navy to confront the Japanese ships. In the end they hired a p&O vessel of something. Friends of mine think the Navy refused to provoke their allies, and refused to be reduced to the level of spies, and Rudd backed down.
This goes to show how much power opposition forces can wield. The tyranny of the majority can and should be checked. All interests in the community need to state our cases cleary even if we are not represented by those in power. Rudd is shitscared of getting things wrong. Rudd is still me-tooing Howard.
Let the Indian community in Australia stand up and be counted. C'mon guys. We know you've got nuts. You beat us at the SCG last night. Let's hear it for the worlds largest democracy. Forget the Andrew Symonds nonsense. All the Asia pacific democracies are our mates, US and Japan included.
It would seem not because if this report in the OZ about what one of India's most influential foreign affairs pundits, Brahma Chellaney, has to say is true then there are some people against whom we play cricket that hate Rudd's guts.
The Indians are of course pissed off because Labor refuses to sell Uranium to them because they are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty. They have nukes. Then again so does China, and we sell to them.
[quotes in italics]
Mr Chellaney noted that Mr Rudd was the free world's first Mandarin-speaking head of government, saying he "has made plain his intent to cosy up to the world's largest autocracy, China, while nullifying an important decision that his predecessor took to help build a closer rapport with the world's largest democracy."
Chellaney lashes Rudd's stance on the NPT.
"In touting its ideological resolve to uphold the NPT, the Rudd Government wants to be more Catholic than the Pope. Far from the NPT forbidding civil exports to a non-signatory, the treaty indeed encourages the peaceful use of nuclear technology among all states.
And how's this for being diplomatic?
The Indian Government was irked when, in January, it sent special prime ministerial envoy Shyam Saran to see Foreign Minister Stephen Smith in Perth and found itself being bluntly told - even though it had not asked - there would be no sale of Australian uranium to India.
Indian sources insist Mr Saran was taken aback by the minister's forthright stance as he had gone to Perth only to brief Mr Smith on New Delhi's negotiations with Washington over its civilian nuclear deal and specifically not to ask to buy Australian uranium.
Apparently shadow foreign minister Andrew Robb has said the Government's handling of the relationship with India had been "clumsy". More like downright provocative, as with the Japan and the whaling. Rudd is either stupid or deliberately annoying China's regional competators.
But we all know Rudd is on trainier wheels. They are learning and the Japan case is one example. They wanted to send the Navy to confront the Japanese ships. In the end they hired a p&O vessel of something. Friends of mine think the Navy refused to provoke their allies, and refused to be reduced to the level of spies, and Rudd backed down.
This goes to show how much power opposition forces can wield. The tyranny of the majority can and should be checked. All interests in the community need to state our cases cleary even if we are not represented by those in power. Rudd is shitscared of getting things wrong. Rudd is still me-tooing Howard.
Let the Indian community in Australia stand up and be counted. C'mon guys. We know you've got nuts. You beat us at the SCG last night. Let's hear it for the worlds largest democracy. Forget the Andrew Symonds nonsense. All the Asia pacific democracies are our mates, US and Japan included.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Another recession we had to have?
If Rudd thinks that people will forgive excessive interest rates rises he has a short memory. If he believes that he can't remember Keating, Hell! he can't even remember his own election campaign.
Rudd is currently in the process of re-writing history as little as 100 days old. He is trying to say that Howard left the economy in a terrible state and it's up to the the true "economic conservatives" of the ALP (that still makes me laugh) to fix the situation. The story is as fanciful as the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and as farcical as Monty Python's SPAMALOT, and it goes something like this...
The Lord of Rudd, Sir Lies-a-lot, faces the crowd gathered around him. Atop his trusty steed ALPAX he breathes deeply and struggles to fill the shimmering samite suit of armour he has made for himself, for he is more Wizard than Knight. He is a man of feeble frame and feminine face, lacking in impressiveness, and with a milky heart. He would sooner make his escape with with smoke and mirrors than stand and fight. His followers, bless their maleable souls, are ignorant of his his shortcomings. He wishes to relieve himself of the terrible burden of this deception, and the all-too-heavy armour, but he has sworn an oath of service to the shadowy reclusive Union of Labor Lords, Burke amongst them, and he will not fail in his duty. He is a Wizard and the power of the illusion must hold. This small deception pales in comparison to what is to come, so for now he will accept the peasant's praises out of necessity, and humility. He wishes it were not so, but the underlings need someone to praise. It might as well be him.
From his gilt saddle he produces a parchment, holds it aloft and reads, in his thin shrill voice, the declaration of his own greatness. "I, Lord Rudd, as representative of 52% of the population of this land hereby decree that I am a living god. It is the The Divine Right of Rudd to rule this land by the virtue of my superior intellect and superficial sympathy. These first 100 days have brought a new peace between the people of this land and the media that rule them. We can now move formard in unity and unanimity to a brave new world of uniformity and conformity. The benefits have begun already. Allow me to me to list my achievements. 'Twill take a mere 4 hours out of your insignificant lives, so bear with me ... or else"
After his declaration the almighty Rudd looks down (his nose) at the crowds swooning with admiration for him and eagerly anticipating his every word. The hush turns to hisses at the utterance of one word from the master's thin lips, "Howard". Lord Rudd decries the former ruler of Australis, the black knight Howard, to the joy of the assembled flock. The evil Howard, he shreeks, has let loose inflation on the fair lands of Australis. He brought this beast from the bowels of the economy by neglecting to spend enough on education and infrastructure. The loyal vassals are blinded by the sheen of Rudd's apologetic armour and fail to see that that education and infrastructure are state (labor) responsibilities and that their link to inflation is tenuous at best. Rudd presses on, exclaiming that the mythical beast inflation was the most terrifying creature imaginable and was rampaging over the kingdom. The crowd sucks in air in fear and anticipation of what was to come.
The mythical beast must be stopped, declares Lies-a-lot. To do that end he would need the help of the people, and for this assistance he has now come to beg, albeit not that humbly. "We all must bear the burden," says His Ruddness. "You have more money than you ought to and it is fueling demand. Having a strong confident economy is bad. Howard left the economy with too much can-do attitude. We'll i'm afraid we can't do. You must learn that individual enterprise has no place in this country. The centralist government runs the economy by playing favourites along the Beijing/ALP model now. You money is being taken away as punishment for believing in Howard all those years."
"Together with my helpers the Reserve Bank of Aus I must put up interest rates. I know they are supposed to be independent but I actually have them in my pocket. How else do you think we got a rate rise out of them during the election campaign dispite a world-wide trend for reserve banks to drop rates signigicantly because of sub-prime. But never fear, my dear little ones, you can trust me. I will not abuse the power I have cunningly usurped."
After a deep self-satisfactory breath Rudd moves to finish his oration. "Return you your homes and tighten your belts. I know that inflation is only a problem to the extent that it causes your money to be worth less. I know what I will now force upon you has exactly the same net effect. But you must not worry yourself about these contradictions. Do not fall foul of the classical divisions between right and left, right and wrong and black and white. The time for facts has past. The variable certainty is the way of the future."
"God save the King. Hang on, I am the King, and I'm also a God. So i guess if we were to be technically correct I have to say "Me save me". Ok, now everybody say it! Rudd save the Rudd! Yippeee. What fun this all is. Toodle-oo peasants."
With that Lord Rudd turns Alpax around and trotts off. On his way back to his Ivory town his eyes dart from side to side as he muses in his mind. It was fortnute that the underlings did not protest. He had outshined them with his brilliance. No-one had dared drop a dull dampener on the sheen of the procedings. He knew that there were many things he did not mention. Firstly, the fact that inflation is only as low as it is because the the wages system is still flexible, thanks to his secret mentor, the hated Howard. He knows that if he keops the flexibility, then all those mums and dads out there in community would not have to put up with interest rate rises at all. Moreover he doubted that interest rate rises would slow the economy down stably. He wonders whether house prices inflation and mortgauges were the real driver behind inflation. If only state labor had released more land for houses he would not have to lie to the people so.
(Sorry, tense changing to past now. I guess I just could not maintain a medievil story in the present tense and it slipped in by accident)
But there was no time for negative thoughts. He had a job to do. No man can serve to masters, and his master was not the people of Australia with their house payments, it was the shadowy Labor lords of the unions movment. They they had demanded an end to workplace flexibility in return for delivering him power through adversiting, and he would not disappoint them. It was a matter of honour, and not at all one of saving face and protecting himself from Burke and the other large intimidating men.
As Lord Rudd rode across the moat of his Ivory Tower, he shivered at the thought of his dark masters beady eyes, sausage fingers and thick red necks. He pulled himself together as he rode through the gates and his servants attended to his horse. Nose in the air he strode up the stairs to his quite study. There he took off his crown and pulled the hood of 'his cape over his head. He pulled a book on the bookcase, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", and chewing on bitter irony stood back as the bookcase rotated, revealing a secret passage down to the under world beneath the Ivory Tower. Looking around to make sure nobody saw, apart from Terese who he blow a kiss to, he slipped into the blackness and decended the stairs. His masters were waiting. He hoped they would be pleased with him.
Rudd is currently in the process of re-writing history as little as 100 days old. He is trying to say that Howard left the economy in a terrible state and it's up to the the true "economic conservatives" of the ALP (that still makes me laugh) to fix the situation. The story is as fanciful as the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and as farcical as Monty Python's SPAMALOT, and it goes something like this...
The Lord of Rudd, Sir Lies-a-lot, faces the crowd gathered around him. Atop his trusty steed ALPAX he breathes deeply and struggles to fill the shimmering samite suit of armour he has made for himself, for he is more Wizard than Knight. He is a man of feeble frame and feminine face, lacking in impressiveness, and with a milky heart. He would sooner make his escape with with smoke and mirrors than stand and fight. His followers, bless their maleable souls, are ignorant of his his shortcomings. He wishes to relieve himself of the terrible burden of this deception, and the all-too-heavy armour, but he has sworn an oath of service to the shadowy reclusive Union of Labor Lords, Burke amongst them, and he will not fail in his duty. He is a Wizard and the power of the illusion must hold. This small deception pales in comparison to what is to come, so for now he will accept the peasant's praises out of necessity, and humility. He wishes it were not so, but the underlings need someone to praise. It might as well be him.
From his gilt saddle he produces a parchment, holds it aloft and reads, in his thin shrill voice, the declaration of his own greatness. "I, Lord Rudd, as representative of 52% of the population of this land hereby decree that I am a living god. It is the The Divine Right of Rudd to rule this land by the virtue of my superior intellect and superficial sympathy. These first 100 days have brought a new peace between the people of this land and the media that rule them. We can now move formard in unity and unanimity to a brave new world of uniformity and conformity. The benefits have begun already. Allow me to me to list my achievements. 'Twill take a mere 4 hours out of your insignificant lives, so bear with me ... or else"
After his declaration the almighty Rudd looks down (his nose) at the crowds swooning with admiration for him and eagerly anticipating his every word. The hush turns to hisses at the utterance of one word from the master's thin lips, "Howard". Lord Rudd decries the former ruler of Australis, the black knight Howard, to the joy of the assembled flock. The evil Howard, he shreeks, has let loose inflation on the fair lands of Australis. He brought this beast from the bowels of the economy by neglecting to spend enough on education and infrastructure. The loyal vassals are blinded by the sheen of Rudd's apologetic armour and fail to see that that education and infrastructure are state (labor) responsibilities and that their link to inflation is tenuous at best. Rudd presses on, exclaiming that the mythical beast inflation was the most terrifying creature imaginable and was rampaging over the kingdom. The crowd sucks in air in fear and anticipation of what was to come.
The mythical beast must be stopped, declares Lies-a-lot. To do that end he would need the help of the people, and for this assistance he has now come to beg, albeit not that humbly. "We all must bear the burden," says His Ruddness. "You have more money than you ought to and it is fueling demand. Having a strong confident economy is bad. Howard left the economy with too much can-do attitude. We'll i'm afraid we can't do. You must learn that individual enterprise has no place in this country. The centralist government runs the economy by playing favourites along the Beijing/ALP model now. You money is being taken away as punishment for believing in Howard all those years."
"Together with my helpers the Reserve Bank of Aus I must put up interest rates. I know they are supposed to be independent but I actually have them in my pocket. How else do you think we got a rate rise out of them during the election campaign dispite a world-wide trend for reserve banks to drop rates signigicantly because of sub-prime. But never fear, my dear little ones, you can trust me. I will not abuse the power I have cunningly usurped."
After a deep self-satisfactory breath Rudd moves to finish his oration. "Return you your homes and tighten your belts. I know that inflation is only a problem to the extent that it causes your money to be worth less. I know what I will now force upon you has exactly the same net effect. But you must not worry yourself about these contradictions. Do not fall foul of the classical divisions between right and left, right and wrong and black and white. The time for facts has past. The variable certainty is the way of the future."
"God save the King. Hang on, I am the King, and I'm also a God. So i guess if we were to be technically correct I have to say "Me save me". Ok, now everybody say it! Rudd save the Rudd! Yippeee. What fun this all is. Toodle-oo peasants."
With that Lord Rudd turns Alpax around and trotts off. On his way back to his Ivory town his eyes dart from side to side as he muses in his mind. It was fortnute that the underlings did not protest. He had outshined them with his brilliance. No-one had dared drop a dull dampener on the sheen of the procedings. He knew that there were many things he did not mention. Firstly, the fact that inflation is only as low as it is because the the wages system is still flexible, thanks to his secret mentor, the hated Howard. He knows that if he keops the flexibility, then all those mums and dads out there in community would not have to put up with interest rate rises at all. Moreover he doubted that interest rate rises would slow the economy down stably. He wonders whether house prices inflation and mortgauges were the real driver behind inflation. If only state labor had released more land for houses he would not have to lie to the people so.
(Sorry, tense changing to past now. I guess I just could not maintain a medievil story in the present tense and it slipped in by accident)
But there was no time for negative thoughts. He had a job to do. No man can serve to masters, and his master was not the people of Australia with their house payments, it was the shadowy Labor lords of the unions movment. They they had demanded an end to workplace flexibility in return for delivering him power through adversiting, and he would not disappoint them. It was a matter of honour, and not at all one of saving face and protecting himself from Burke and the other large intimidating men.
As Lord Rudd rode across the moat of his Ivory Tower, he shivered at the thought of his dark masters beady eyes, sausage fingers and thick red necks. He pulled himself together as he rode through the gates and his servants attended to his horse. Nose in the air he strode up the stairs to his quite study. There he took off his crown and pulled the hood of 'his cape over his head. He pulled a book on the bookcase, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", and chewing on bitter irony stood back as the bookcase rotated, revealing a secret passage down to the under world beneath the Ivory Tower. Looking around to make sure nobody saw, apart from Terese who he blow a kiss to, he slipped into the blackness and decended the stairs. His masters were waiting. He hoped they would be pleased with him.
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