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Post by KTJ on Aug 24, 2018 14:19:18 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 14:46:06 GMT 10
Same ol' same neoliberal frog shit banana's...
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Post by KTJ on Aug 24, 2018 15:06:27 GMT 10
The following cartoon appeared in The Dominion Post newspaper (Wellington) this morning…
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Post by KTJ on Aug 24, 2018 16:29:12 GMT 10
Two thoughts from me about Scott Morrison… - He is a LIAR. Scott Morrison used to work for Tourism New Zealand before he was a politician and it was he who dreamed up that bullshit “100% PURE NEW ZEALAND” slogan which has been used in tourism advertising for many years. There is nothing 100% pure about ENZED. Our rivers are grossly polluted by dairy farmers indulging in industrial-scale dairying, raping out rivers for the water which flows in them and pouring cowshit back into those rivers. “100% PURE NEW ZEALAND” is a blatant piece of dishonest bullshit from Scott Morrison.
- Scott Morrison believes in dark-ages clap-trap. He is a fundy-mental pentecostal happy-clappy christian who speaks in weird tongues and falsly believes it is some holy spirit which causes him to speak in those tongues. His problem is that, like Tony Abbott, he believes the god delusion inside his mind is a real god. Therefore, like Tony Abbott, he is too mentally-unstable to take control of a country.
So now, you have your seventh prime minister in eleven years and he is a proven liar and a religious nutter.
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Post by pim on Aug 24, 2018 18:51:27 GMT 10
Relax KTJ, just another day in Oz! Like the cartoon though!
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Post by caskur on Aug 24, 2018 19:20:29 GMT 10
Two thoughts from me about Scott Morrison… - He is a LIAR. Scott Morrison used to work for Tourism New Zealand before he was a politician and it was he who dreamed up that bullshit “100% PURE NEW ZEALAND” slogan which has been used in tourism advertising for many years. There is nothing 100% pure about ENZED. Our rivers are grossly polluted by dairy farmers indulging in industrial-scale dairying, raping out rivers for the water which flows in them and pouring cowshit back into those rivers. “100% PURE NEW ZEALAND” is a blatant piece of dishonest bullshit from Scott Morrison.
- Scott Morrison believes in dark-ages clap-trap. He is a fundy-mental pentecostal happy-clappy christian who speaks in weird tongues and falsly believes it is some holy spirit which causes him to speak in those tongues. His problem is that, like Tony Abbott, he believes the god delusion inside his mind is a real god. Therefore, like Tony Abbott, he is too mentally-unstable to take control of a country.
So now, you have your seventh prime minister in eleven years and he is a proven liar and a religious nutter. We should have an aboriginal, dyke on a bike Satan worshipper as a PM, eh?
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Post by KTJ on Aug 24, 2018 20:03:07 GMT 10
Well no, 'cause satan is as much a delusion as gods.
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Post by KTJ on Aug 25, 2018 16:54:22 GMT 10
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2018 22:17:11 GMT 10
Mal's millions in being the major LNP party donor didn't save him it's all Gina Rinehart's climate change denying party now..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 19:31:37 GMT 10
Nasty saga you nearly missed By Paul Sheehan...SMH 26 October 2009 — 12:00am News Limited was willing to pay dearly for this story not to be published. It first offered a $110,000 payment, plus a private apology, to avoid going to court. But the price it demanded was that the matter be kept confidential. The company was told to take a jump. See you in court. The Daily Telegraph had published four stories about Michael Towke which he believed had defamed him, destroyed his political career, and caused untold stress to his family. ''These stories sent my mother to hospital,'' he told me. ''They demonised me. I wanted to confront them in court.''
Michael Towke's preselection for the federal Liberal seat of Cook in Sydney's Sutherland Shire was scuttled by a smear campaign. Michael Towke's preselection for the federal Liberal seat of Cook in Sydney's Sutherland Shire was scuttled by a smear campaign. Photo: Jon Reid But a court was not where News wanted to see Towke. ''They spent a lot of money fighting me,'' he said. ''Their lawyers made me jump through every hoop. They asked me 30 pages of questions.'' Near the eve of the court date, lawyers for the subsidiary which publishes the Telegraph, Nationwide News Pty Ltd, offered the confidentiality package, which Towke emphatically rejected. On the eve of the trial, Nationwide came up with another offer: $50,000, plus costs, plus removing the offending articles from the internet and dropping the confidentiality requirement. On the advice of counsel, Towke accepted. He was never willing to accept any settlement that was confidential, despite the risk that entailed. ''I was willing to bankrupt myself to clear my name,'' he said. Here is his story.Michael Towke is 34. He attended Marcellin College, Randwick. He is a Lebanese Christian, a practising Catholic and the eldest of eight children. He has a first-class honours degree in engineering and a BA, both from the University of Sydney, and won the Alan Davis Prize, the top prize for sociology. He has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. At 17, he joined the Army Reserve and served for 20 months. He is president of the Sylvania conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society and has been volunteering for Vinnies since he was 15. He works as a telecommunications engineer. He has lived in the Sutherland Shire for 10 years. Towke is also a long-serving member of the Liberal Party. In July 2007 he won preselection for the then safe federal Liberal seat of Cook. He was set to replace the outgoing member, Bruce Baird. The contest attracted a large field, including Paul Fletcher, who recently won Liberal preselection for Bradfield (vacated by the former Liberal leader Brendan Nelson), and a former state director of the NSW Liberal party, Scott Morrison. Towke won easily. On the first ballot, he polled 10 times as many votes as Morrison, 82 votes to 8, who was eliminated in the first round. His victory meant that a Lebanese Australian would represent the Liberal Party in the seat where the Cronulla riot and revenge raids had taken place 18 months earlier, in December 2005. ''The campaign against me started four days after preselection,'' Towke said. Two senior people within the Liberal Party, whose identity is known to a widening circle within the party, went through Towke's nomination papers to find every possible discrepancy and weakness. Then they started calling selected journalists to tell them Towke was a liar. The first story appeared in The Daily Telegraph on July 18, 2007, under the headline, ''Liberal ballot scandal in Howard's backyard.'' Three days later, on July 21, a second story appeared in the Telegraph: ''Towke future on hold.'' The next day, in The Sunday Telegraph, a third story: ''Party split as Liberal candidate faces jail.'' ''That was the story that sent my mother to hospital,'' Towke told me. Then came a fourth story in the Telegraph, on July 25: ''Towke lied, but just by degrees.'' Four different Telegraph journalists, two of them very senior, wrote those four stories, so the campaign of leaks and smears was assiduous. There is insufficient space to detail all the claims made and disputed. Towke was portrayed as a serial liar, an exaggerator. He disputed every such imputation with factual evidence. After it was obvious his political credibility had been destroyed by these stories, he started defamation proceedings. A year of legal attrition ensued. Shortly before the matter was to begin in court this month, Nationwide News paid and settled. It is telling that experienced Telegraph journalists appear to have based their stories on sources they trusted, suggesting those doing the leaking were both senior figures and seasoned in dealing with the media. Though Towke would eventually win his legal war, the damage had been done. The adverse media coverage set in train a reaction within the party to get rid of him. A second ballot was ordered, in which the balance of power was shifted away from the grassroots in Cook and to the state executive. The second ballot gave the preselection to Scott Morrison. Amazing. He had been parachuted into the seat over Towke's political carcass. Morrison clearly had backers who wanted him to get the seat. ''These guys were prepared to ruin my life,'' Towke said.
Why? There was a view among some senior Liberals that a Lebanese Australian could not win Cook in a tight election. Two years later, Towke's honour has been restored. His name has been cleared, his standing in the party rehabilitated, and his ties to the electorate broadened. Justice will be served when the two assassins within the party are politically terminated. That process has begun. The circle will only be complete if this Lebanese Australian represents the shire in Federal Parliament.
And Morrison proclaiming to be a Hillsong Christian an all....praying for forgiveness for his sins no doubt.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2018 19:51:24 GMT 10
Following Trump to the letter, all coal....fuck the future.
Morrison names leading anti-wind campaigner as energy minister Giles Parkinson 26 August 2018
New prime minister Scott Morrison has ended the experiment of combining the energy and environment portfolios, and appointed one of the country’s most prominent anti-wind campaigners as energy minister, and a former mining industry lawyer as environment minister.
Morrison on Sunday unveiled his ministry, two days after pipping the ultra-conservative candidate Peter Dutton as head of the Liberal Party.
He named Dutton numbers man Angus Taylor as energy minister , and Melissa Price – a former mining company lawyer – as environment minister, and in doing so appeared to abandon any efforts to seek emissions reductions in the electricity sector, or anywhere else for that matter.
Morrison said Taylor – previously the Minister for Law Enforcement and Cyber security, would be the “minister for getting energy prices down.” Adding later, when asked about emissions and the future of the National Energy Guarantee: “It’s about reliability, price, keeping the lights on and getting prices down.”
Remarkably, that is almost exactly what Taylor told 2GB shock jock Ray Hadley nearly a fortnight ago: “The obsession with emissions at the expense of reliability and affordability has been a massive mistake, Ray,” Taylor said. “I do think that we’re at a point now where we can get that balance right.”
The appointment of Taylor – along with the retention of Dutton as Home Affairs Minister – seems to be Morrison gift of appeasement to the “shock-jock” Gods that are as suspicious of him as they were of Malcolm Turnbull. Taylor is one of the shock jock favourites.
Taylor has campaigned against wind farms – both near his family’s property near Nimmitabel and elsewhere – for years, but came to prominence in 2013 when – as the pre-selected member for Hume – he spoke at the so-called “wind power fraud rally” in Canberra.
The poorly attended rally – barely 100 people – in front of parliament house in Canberra was organised by an anonymous and particularly nasty and hate-filled website called “Stop These Things”. Radio commentator and fierce renewable energy critic Alan Jones was host.
The rally was addressed by several Coalition MPs – the only other speaker still in parliament is Craig Kelly, the outspoken chair of the backbench committee on energy.
Taylor’s views are no less extreme than Kelly’s, although better articulated. His particular beef is against wind farms, but he doesn’t seem to like renewables of any type very much, describing the RET as “industry pork-barrelling on steroids.”
He was one of the loudest voices calling for the end of the renewable energy target, way back in 2013, and has called state-based targets “crazy, crazy …. insane.” He was a key supporter of Peter Dutton’s push to be PM.
Taylor is considered a hero by Stop These Things (which refers to environmentalists as “greentards” and other charming names) for his relentless opposition to wind farms.
“Never in the field of political conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few,” the website said last year in reference to Taylor’s campaigns against wind energy.
It also described him as the “wind industry’s worst nightmare.” Environmentalists do not disagree with that.
Taylor insists he is not a climate skeptic, but he has also described anthropogenic climate change as “the new climate religion” telling Parliament that “religious belief is based on faith not facts. The new climate religion, recruiting disciples every day, has little basis on fact and everything to do with blind faith.”
He also claims he is not against renewables, but told the “wind power fraud rally” that wind energy was causing communities across Australia to “tear themselves to pieces tear themselves to pieces, cousins verses cousin, brothers verses brothers, for massive subsidies to the wind industry, facilitated by the Federal Government.”
RenewEconomy ran a profile of Taylor back in 2014, written by Yes2Renewables and listing his campaigns against wind in particular and renewables in general, including his opposition to the ACT government’s 100 per cent renewable energy target, and his inflated claims about the impact of subsidies.
RenewEconomy also dissected a report released by Taylor back in 2013, arguing for the RET to be scrapped,. We pointed out its inconsistencies, its inflated cost estimates for subsidies, and how certain aspects contradicted findings from the original report. The title of that story was: “The dangerous thinking behind the Coalition’s renewable energy policy.”
Morrison, his new boss, is infamous for waving a lump of coal in parliament last year, and of comparing the Tesla big battery to the big banana. His new chief of staff was deputy CEO of the Minerals Council of Australia for more than 6 years.
There’s another couple of interesting aspects to Taylor. His grandfather (on his mother’s side) was the chief engineer responsible for the original Snowy Hydro scheme, and Taylor has spoken with enthusiasm about Snowy 2.0.
The federal government now owns 100 per cent of Snowy Hydro and the dream of the 2,000MW pumped hydro scheme may not be lost with the departure of Malcolm Turnbull.
Taylor also shares a common work history with the ACCC chair Rod Sims, who holds similar views to Taylor on renewables, subsidies and fossil fuel generation.
Both were senior executives at Port Jackson Partners. Taylor did his thesis for his Master of Philosophy on competition policy, although his focus was on pubs and breweries in the UK.
Sims has now become a sort of defacto “energy Czar” following his report into energy prices, and outlining how consumers have been ripped off by networks, generators and retailers.
But his solutions are considered extreme – including the proposal for price caps, write-downs of network assets, the abolition of subsidies to small scale solar installations, and a government underwriting scheme for new “dispatchable” generation.
The Coalition has taken this to mean coal, and while people like UK billionaire Sanjeev Gupta suggest it could dramatically reduce the cost of solar and storage, the rules and design of the scheme will effectively decide the winning technology.
Price, from the WA mining town of Kalgoorlie, had served as deputy to former energy and environment minister Josh Frydenberg, who is now Treasurer and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.
She worked as a lawyer with Clayton Utz, specialising in the mining industry, and with mining company Crosslands Resources.
Karen Andrews is the new Industry science and technology.
Tony Abbott does not get a ministry, but could hardly be more pleased with Morrison’s moves on energy and the environment. So much for having no influence. Disgraced former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce is named special envoy for drought assistance.
Following Trump to the letter.
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Post by pim on Aug 26, 2018 20:54:32 GMT 10
Scott Morrison has always been a snake oil merchant. It stands to reason that he'd run a snake oil government. In the meantime Electoral Armageddon resumes its inexorable course towards its rendezvous with the Coalition Government - whoever might be leading it (using "leading" advisedly!) - whereupon it will engulf the Liberals and consign them to electoral oblivion.
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Post by pim on Aug 26, 2018 23:41:55 GMT 10
We'll leave you with your Kill Bill obsessions Trickles. Go ahead, you know you wanna vote for the Coalition. Their taxation snake oil hasn't changed. Go on, do it.Vote for the xenophobic bums. You know you want to ...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 2:04:21 GMT 10
Well its like this with Bill's pop. rating...Shorto is great at making speeches to an audience, not so good at the live media pitch biz, a bit dorky looking...Mal on the other hand was better at that, seemingly to be enjoying himself in front of the cameras .
Once Bill is PM his popularity will improve....certainly don't need the neoliberal we love Trump bullies in power.
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Post by pim on Aug 27, 2018 9:39:39 GMT 10
You post about an "obsession with opinion polls"? You, Trickles? You? How grotesque.
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Post by pim on Aug 27, 2018 10:56:49 GMT 10
Commentary on "toxicity" and "cancer on the Australian democracy" would have credibility if it came from a credible commentator. But Kevin Rudd has form in the deployment of his own brand of "toxicity". Let’s just say that he developed into a cancerous tumour that had to be excised before its malignancy became terminal on its host. Fortunately the host subsequently recovered and is ready not just to function as an alternative Australian government, but to lead where leadership is sorely needed. With Abbott on the other hand the cancer has developed a malignancy that will destroy its host completely unless it is excised now. The Liberals can't put this off any longer.
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Post by pim on Aug 27, 2018 14:03:35 GMT 10
If the Liberal Party were renamed "The Titanic" then this would be a story about deckchairs being reshuffled on the deck while the "Titanic" maintains course for its fateful and fatal meeting with the iceberg named "Electoral Armageddon".
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Post by pim on Aug 31, 2018 13:15:30 GMT 10
But you declared - in fact you boasted - that you intend to vote for the racist bastards Trickles because of their slavish embrace (and your religious adherence) of trickle-down economics. Oh BTW who came first? newstalkback1.proboards.com/post/110690/quote/6217
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2018 14:53:37 GMT 10
Hasn't been a good week for Dutton....asylum boat arrival and status symbol au pair girl from France...tsk tsk....and what's wrong with a Aussie sheila...?
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Post by pim on Aug 31, 2018 15:47:49 GMT 10
Not to put too fine a point on it, actually a couple of points ...
1. If things had panned out better for Dutton we wouldn't have heard about the boat people story. Breaking news can be so political.
2. If things had panned out better for Dutton the au pair story would be a minor blip, easily handled. The Waleed Aly story makes that clear. Labor has seized on it because they'd be stupid not too. If the other side scores an own goal or a foul that gives you a free kick you're not going to knock it back are you.
What we're seeing with the boat people and the au pair girl is serious blowback from the moderate Liberals against the far right extremists. This is about the Liberal civil war. The au pair story is because of a leak. That would be a Liberal leak. Turnbull perhaps? Would you put it past him?
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Post by pim on Sept 1, 2018 12:45:18 GMT 10
Perusing today's media leaves one with the impression that ScoMo grabbed the prime ministership only to find he caught a hospital pass.
They're toast.
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Post by Yassir Rebob on Sept 1, 2018 21:39:37 GMT 10
Perusing today's media leaves one with the impression that ScoMo grabbed the prime ministership only to find he caught a hospital pass. They're toast. Tell you who is fastly becoming persona no grata is Dutton, if the Herald Sun is anything to go by. A take on Au Pair gate, from Dustin Martins fathers perspective (very sympathetic to the Martin POV) and some scathing analysis, from the bloke who took over Laurie Oaks' weekly gig.
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