Mangled Thoughts

What do the CIS and IPA have in common? Answer: Hugh Morgan. Besides destroying WMC, then wrecking the campaign for labour market reform and inflicting great damage on the Liberal Party, what other little destructive schemes is he involved in? The answer is, ‘alternative energy’ scams.

The CIS is less than candid with the Australian public, and its donors. It, in fact, has a direct conflict of interest, detonating on its seniors’ full endorsement of Humphrey’s very defective paper, “Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia”. The conflict is this: direct pecuniary interests in ‘alternative energy’ and ‘carbon credits trading’.

The upshot is the CIS has no credibilty at all, marked by a blatant and yet idiotic attempt to conceal their conflict of interest in what is a very serious matter. It is a matter that if executed by the Rudd Cabinet, means real misery for millions of Australians and real capital destruction on a massive scale. The dishonesty of the CIS is deliberate.

There are those who, when they have read this article, might even add, “they have deliberately committed intellectual fraud, in a lame attempt to conceal their real interests.” What the CIS has done is very bad. Read on and find out why.

A fascinating snippet.

A director of the CIS, Mr. Peter Yates, has an immediate vested interest in one of the scams. Mr. Yates is also a director of the ‘carbon credit trading company’, Peony Capital. Does anyone else involved in the CIS have a vested interest in Peony, and also any other scam called an ‘alternative energy’ or ‘credit trading’ pseudo-business?

Bill Gates and his wife supplied the funds for Peony. One never questioned Gates the entrepreneur who revolutionised the computer, delivering a great machine right into the home. Outside his forte, he has shown a propensity to silliness, even stupidity. Gates takes up leftists causes. Or, perhaps, he just wishes to feel loved. His cave in to”Global warming” is a nasty indication of shallowness, a nastiness heightened by his decision to back the fraud of ‘carbon credits’ and ‘trade’ in them.

Sucking up to the US Democrats hasn’t paid off, since they punished Microsoft or, rather, through Microsoft consumers of its products. What the Clintons and their fellow Stalinistos do, the Euro socialists adopt, and they stuck the knife in further, as the latest Euro kangaroo court ruling against Microsoft shows. It’s plain why: Bill Gates didn’t hand over a big enough bribe to the Clintons and Al Gore. Yet, Gates persists in appeasing leftists.

Peony is, curiously, based in China. How convenient, given Kevin Rudd is attacking allies such as Japan, while bending low over for the Peking Geratric Buggery club. All this and preparing to impose ‘carbon credits’ on Australians. It’s more than convenient, its a cosy set up for those who are about to fill their bank accounts on the back of another massive fraud. The purpose of Peony is to clean up in “carbon credit trading” and not capital investment in real free market production. Peony’s website is at least honest about the thuggery it was set up for:

Our focus is on achieving attractive returns by investing in sustainable development projects and then managing the carbon credits created. We make equity investments in selected projects.

Working in partnership with project developers, financial institutions and the Chinese government, Peony invests in CDM projects in China that have the potential to generate CERs.

and remaining fully involved in the project to ensure the maximum delivery of the CERs.

Ron Walker and Hugh Morgan; their ‘alterantive energy scheme’ to get hold of billions of dollars out of hard taxed Australians, courtesy of their best mates - ALP Governments.

With his mate Ron Walker, already wealthy thanks to the racket called the Grand Prix, Morgan too wants to be made wealthier than he already is via professional dole bludging. How? Morgan and his fellow scumbag called Ron Walker want the Federal Government to rob modest real taxpayers of their hard-earned pay and transfer the proceeds into their fat bank accounts through an ‘alternative energy’ racket, in the form of nuclear power generation.

The coal fired electricity plants are clean, low cost, very efficient, marked by the sheer capacity supplied at low prices – that would be even lower if it were not for Australia’s politicians and bureaucrats. Walker and Morgan consider themselves fine Liberal Party members. Ordinary members, and most modest Australians know what they, and their pals the likes of Costello and Kroger really are. Morgan considers himself a great defender of classical Liberalism and, crucially, classical economics. What Morgan really is shows up how delusional he is in this conceit.

Remember, Morgan is the man who in 2005 puckered up to ABC TV cameras, in the odd belief the camera loved him. ABC TV cameras did, as Morgan destroyed the campaign for Labour market reform and the Liberal Party’s 2008 re-election chance in a matter of a few minutes.

Morgan has showed his colours. He is not a genuine Liberal at all. He, as his pals, doesn’t give a stuff about economic liberty and general Liberal principles at all. They are concerned with only one thing, themselves. Neither does he give a stuff about the damage he has inflicted on many Australians, nor the economic destruction that can be wrought by satiating the Green Goddess of Death.

Not Hugh Morgan. No, with his fellow parasite called a Ron Walker, Hugh Morgan puckered up once more for the cameras, last year. He and Ronnie “Biggs” Walker announced through the media they were setting up a nuclear power company.

Ronnie “Biggs” Walker is no more an entrepreneur than Morgan is. He is cheify weify, for example, of the Fairfax communist propaganda rag, The Age. The Age was saved from a well-deserved fate, bankruptcy and closure, courtesy of Ron’s two other close pals, Steve Bracks and Brumby. Those two thugs shovel mountains of taxpayers stolen pay packets to prop up the Spencer Street Soviet’s “Pravda”.

It’s funny really, a ‘Liberal’ in charge of a Stalinist organ, which makes ‘profit’ courtesy of the larceny of the Bracks-Brumby Cabinets. A ‘Liberal’ who appointed the Trotskyite Jaspan editor of ‘Pravda’. A ‘Liberal’ who has made another fortune by the same type of mechanism, Bracks and Brumby transferring millions of stolen property into his pockets, using that exercise in economic cretinism, the Grand Prix as an excuse. Walker and Morgan expected Morgan’s mate, Peter Costello, to do for them what Bracks and Brumby have done so generously for Walker.

It might seem sad their hopes were dashed when Howard was defeated, and their fellow rightwing parasite, Peter Costello, denied his ambition, ‘power’. It’s not sad; Ron Walker has obvious advantages as Morgan’s partner. Walker shows how you can suck up to leftists and do splendidly: “Hughie; you’ll see, Rudd will come round and fund our nuclear energy company; the left are my best bed pals.”

What has to happen for their scheme to get up is not only Rudd transferring hundreds of millions per annum into their coffers. The economically efficient coal fired electricity production firms have to be priced out of existence. In their media conference, Ron and Hugh said just that: the government should force the price of coal generated electricity up to a level that makes sinking funds into nuclear power plants viable. This amounts to three things.

It’s a direct subsidy, through govt. using coercion to force prices up, and that is before other types of transfers. Capital destruction, and not only of the coal based energy companies. The coerced immiseration of Australians, from the cut in power supply, to shouldering the consequences of economic carnage, including more unemployed Australians. The editor of Brookesnews has covered the second fact only this week,

Why is the Centre for Independent Studies supporting the destructive carbon tax?

Next to the destruction of capital and the immiseration of millions of Australians due to the ‘alternative energy’ scams and ‘greenhouse gas reduction’ fraud, the rub is clear. The racketeers behind ‘windmill’ and ‘ethanol’ ‘firms are being made wealthy due only to coercion by State’s and Federal Govts.

After all, without the violence of coercion, those schemes don’t in free markets survive a casual idea tossing and binning it session. To mark this, Bracks and Brumby compelled all Victorians by an “Act of Parliament” to directly subsidise the windmill fraud they set up. Now Victorians have to pay for another fraud cooked up between Bracks and Brumby, the ‘desalinisation plant’.

What is the definition of ‘alternative energy’?
Answer: an excuse for an already wealthy, bi-partisan oligarchy to enrich themselves many times more by seizing real taxpayers’ private property.

How the ‘alternative energy swindles are mounted.

Faced with those bare facts, we see the difficulty faced by the racketeers. It’s not simply that their fraudulent operations could never be established in free markets. Most Australians would be very hostile at any attempt to impose them. The ‘bosses’ ( they put the Mafia to shame) have had to prepare the way through political propaganda campaigns.

The grand lie of man causes global warming has been one leg of a monstrous propaganda campaign mounted not just by the Greens, the Democrats, the ALP, and the media. The ‘wets’ and ‘ dries’ in the Liberal Party and the National Party also, having thrown millions of taxpayers dollars at it, inclusive of a deliberate brainwashing progrom which was directed at schools.

Coalition Ministers boasted in Parliament of their brainwashing progroms for school children. They probably studied Peter Garrett’s ‘bible’, the KGB handbook for the Greens, ‘How to corrupt children’). This is where the CIS and IPA come into the picture.

Morgan threw millions of WMC shareholder funds at the IPA and CIS. Morgan, bye the bye, appointed that devotee of Fidel Castro, and notorious Melbourne neo-Marxist, Joan Coxsedge as environmental adviser to WMC. It puzzles me why shareholders endured that man’s perfidious habits, and did not, instead of mollifying, him, ram him through the courts to recover every cent he plundered in order to line the pockets of Coxsedge and those professional dole bludgers in the IPA and CIS.

In the above linked article Jackson condemned the very bad paper by John Humphreys, “Exploring a Carbon Tax for Australia”. I had also attacked it, last year, in, “The odd couple”

What is pointed is, the IPA has not fought for free markets either. “Privatisation”, for example and one of their great ’causes’, has nothing to do with free market supply, and thus really serving consumers. It is about extracting as much revenue as possible from long suffering modest Australians and funneling it straight into the coffers of ‘government’. Bracks’ and Brumby’s treatment of the ‘privatised’ firms in Victoria typifies this real aim. The IPA in its “Bash Howard” bumper issue demanded what that lot did to Victorians should be made policy in all other states.

Like the CIS, the IPA’s position is not fighting politicians and bureaucrats over wrecking markets and with it, destruction of capital through regulation and all other types of taxation. No, as many an article in the IPA alone makes plain; they are concerned to ensure ‘government’ imposes the ‘right sort’ of burdens and this begs the question; What sort is the right sort?

Next to other destructive implications, taxation (regulation is a tax) is also a ‘backdoor’ means of protectionism. To follow the money trail, ask the question, Who benefits? Maintaining the lie of man causes global warming to conceal the aim, both the CIS and IPA are serving only the scammers behind ‘alternative energy’ ‘firms’.

Humphreys, in his paper, has only mounted a false excuse for what Ron Walker and Hugh Morgan seek; the ruination of coal fired plants, and additional massive capital destruction of many producers of other goods, in order to set up their grand swindle of nuclear generation of electricity. This is exactly what the CIS and IPA are leading up to.

It is blindingly obvious that is the objective because of a few simple facts. Windmills and ‘solar’ are totally useless for electricity generation. There is only one alternative to coal fired plants, nuclear power plants. Bingo! And the ugly mugs of those two parasitical scumbags emerge in full view: Hugh Morgan, Ron Walker, along with their leftist bed pals, Brumby, Bracks, and who else is behind their plan to once again defraud Australians of billions of dollars. Notice also, Bracks is now an ‘economic adviser’ to Rudd.

This is one plot the CIS and IPA are flying cover for. I am not saying that that is why Humphreys wrote the tripe he did. The question mark hangs over the CIS, which praised Humphreys’ deception on carbon taxes and co2 emissions to the hilt. Then, as set out above, there is Yates and Peony.

The Morality of the CIS and IPA

Let’s not overlook the gross immorality of both Humphreys and the CIS, and the IPA, in pushing positions that are hideous in the implications. Their morality is the same as that of Ron Walker and Hugh Morgan; they don’t give a stuff about the sheer carnage and immiseration of millions of Australians such vile positions entail. From Jackson’s article, one formed the strong impression Humphreys resents Jackson for his lucid demolition of what is a bad paper. I advise Humphreys of this:

What is truly objectionable is types like you advocating measures which are devastating in force, entail real cruelty against Australians, and are criminal in force. Types like you and your bosses in the CIS pretend to be free market economists and fighters, while in reality covering up for scumbags, and working out how to bludgeon modest Australians into the dust.

It’s worse. As we have seen, it turns out that at least one of the prinicpals of the CIS has a direct, vested interest in Governments imposing the highly destructive, wicked measure of ‘carbon credits and trading’.

Types like you put that little fat fascist called Kevin Rudd, and green guru Peter “ Corrupter of Youth” Garrett and his female Gaiae priestess Penny Wong onto the government benches. Types like you made scumbags such as Ron Walker wealthy men, out of stolen private property. Types like you have helped the Kennett - Stockdale and Bracks and Brumby Cabinets steal billions of dollars from Victorians through such deceptions as privatisation, instead of returning production to free market enterprise resting on unfettered private property rights. That is the morality of the IPA and CIS.

The claim man is causing global warming is a lie. It rests on lies and not science. First Coalition Ministers, now ALP Ministers under Kevin “Mussolini” Rudd are using the lies as an excuse to burden Australians with more regulations and smash capital. Those liars Bracks and Brumby lead the way, in punishing Victorians with windmill scams, and desalination plants (instead of letting free market entities build massive new dams), and other controls.

The Coalition ministers Kemp, Campbell and Turnbull joined in these criminal actions against Australians by setting up the ethanol scam. It’s a scam fully supported by driveling fools such as Andrew Bolt (another parrot for the racketeers behind the ethanol syndicates falsely called businesses). And the CIS and IPA are pushing for more ‘alternative energy’ swindles to be perpetrated by politicians and bureaucrats against Australians. At least one of the CIS’ principals is a direct beneficiary of these vile schemes. How many more in the CIS, and for that matter the IPA, have direct interests in the perpetration of these massive frauds?

They, the IPA, CIS, and the HR Nicholls Society are ‘defenders of Liberty’, and ‘Leading free market economists’? To use a good old ‘ockerism’, bullshit. But its worse than bullshit.

The pecuniary interests of Ron Walker, Hugh Morgan, Rudd and his Cabinet of “brownshorts”, Steve Bracks, and the CIS and its Yates and his Peony directorship intersect. This is what Humphrey so badly defended in his paper, an oligarchcy of rotters. This is the real reason for the existence of the IPA and CIS, to justify a pack of wealthy cretins trampling over Australians, as they get on with schemes the modest man would assume are merely the mad dreams of insane cleptomaniacs

Postscript.

Given the CIS’ interest in seeing Federal and States’ Govts. perpetrate massive frauds, using the total lie that Co2 emissions causes global warming as the excuse, it is clear why they had Humphreys attack Jackson’s demolition of their nasty ‘case’ for carbon taxes and ‘trading’, cowardice.

In view of his very bad paper, they must be as thick as two bricks to have Humphreys to cover their backsides by attacking Jackson’s solid rebuttal of their nonsense. Why did they have him do that? Did they believe that that way they wouldn’t be found out if they hid themselves in their bunker and sent boy Johnny out to exchange blows with Jackson?

If so, here we are, I have uncovered the most illuminiating revelations set out above. In that case, they haven’t been merely found out, they have been caught red-handed in their grotty act of deceit. A deceit papered over by a shabby attempt to conceal their disgusting, highly immoral conflict of interest.

Gee, if I could unearth the matter effortlessly, how many others have also discovered their ‘dirty little secrets’? The power of the internet seems to bamboozle them.

Didn’t it occur to them that in view of how bad his paper is, any attempt by Humphreys to rebut Jackson would only pulverise the slivers of glass from the window he smashed unaided in that paper? Apparently not. They at the CIS can rest assured, Humphreys has succeeded in throwing more bricks at the thoroughly shattered remains of their credibility.

Anyone who is a friend of Mr. Jackson might bring this article to his attention. On the strength of his news weekly, I believe he will find these revelations highly amusing.

The CIS caught red-handed.