Mangled Thoughts

Illumination

Demonstration No.1: Hot under the collar

The power blackouts this week in Victoria are a taste of what will be total, complete, and permanent under carbon taxes. It will be ugliness made brutally hideous.

Some in Melbourne have enjoyed three days without power and are into the 4^th day of nothing. Needless to say, they have thrown out their no-longer frozen supplies of meat. They have no cold water. They have no lighting, no cooking heat, no air-conditioning.

How are firms faring? Nothing, as far as one is aware of, has been reported on this question. Oh, of course, some have emergency generators, but they are for emergencies and not full-scale operations over a week. Then there is traffic, cars and trucks motoring along and, suddenly, out go the traffic lights.

At night, Melbournians wonder around in the dark. Criminals like the dark; something to do with, presumably, murdering decent souls without being identified. Frustrated residents telephone relatives - “Is the power on? It is? Good! I’m coming round for a shower, a feed, and a good lie down.”

It’s bad enough as an adult stewing because, zap, the split cycle stops pumping nice, chilled air. Pity is reserved for the infirm, the aged, and children. Decent adults have a dickens of a time trying to find a way to relieve their children from great, heat caused distress.

Then there is the irritation, the PC is a blank screen. Except for “mystic Mikes”, many sanely appreciate that it won’t brighten up until the power is on again. To make it a really fun time, there is the risk a bushfire will flare up and wipe out a transmission station or two.

Bush fires in Victoria commence where they are expected to commence, in government owned land and returned into an ugly, fuel loaded bomb. As it is, property owners have had to worry whether fires this week would destroy their precious little all. Another case of Australians sacrificed on the bloody alter of the cult of the environment. Oh, my mistake, there is a silver lining in bush fire: ugly scrub wiped out, vicious wildlife barbecued.

Bang! As I wrote the last word of the above paragraph it was announced over the radio:

Bush-fires are threatening transmission plants.

Aside from this, why are Victorians put through this misery by politicians? Why the blackouts? They have, Left and Right, stuffed the power companies. They have made it a criminal offence for them to invest the capital required to produce for Victorians and keep supply running 24 hours a day, every day. That is the bloody fact of the matter.

In return, the politicians, the Right too, have treated the firms their slush funds, disguised by the cloaking device of not having established production on genuine free market foundations, but ‘privatised’ them, retaining direct control over them. Yet, it is also a reflection on the executives of the firms.

No genuine entrepreneur would have agreed to such abuse. This is all besides also the politicians use them as propaganda machines for Greens’ lies and as extra sludge funds to prop up scams called alternative energy. In all this, to repeat Bracks and Brumby made it unlawful for the firms to invest correctly. What has been the Right’s response? They have supported all this criminal meddling, and Victorians are suffering,

Joy in the morning. It’s a real joy waking up to have the nostrils greeted with the burning scent of an unwatered city. It’s comforting in the evening to be greeted in the even with the same stench. It’s really jolly knowing these pleasures will be repeated the next day, and the next day and the next How can a chap be depressed over no water and now power?

The news reports of Victorians on the war path against the politicians and their thuggery, are wrong. They are really having a gay time folk dancing in the streets.

Demonstration No.2: Bedraggled and Blacked out

A matter of a few weeks after ‘earth hour’ in 2008, the storm that swept Melbourne, flooding the street, delivered a nice touch. It hit transmission. A large swathe of Melbourne was blacked out.

Meeting someone at a railway station gave a hint of WWII blackout, London. Needless to say, driving the streets was more nerve-wracking than usual. It was a real joy, arriving home to discover our street had escaped an unwelcome nightfall, and most crucial, the fry pan would fry the steak, and a hot shower. Many Melbournians had to be satisfied with bleak-house.

Demonstration No.3

“Earth Hour” last year was a success. Brumby ordered power be cut off, and lights went out. Melbournians in an instant were stumbling in the dark.

Manyt reported barely having escaped serious crashes, being run over by drivers thrown by the sudden darkness, pedestrians stumbling and falling as they walked along pathways. Crims rejoiced. The politicians put the lives of Victorians in danger that night, as they are in danger this week, apart from the danger of unnecessary bush fires.

Those two economic ignoramuses, who have done much to discredit capitalism off their own bats, Bolt and Tim Blair celebrated victory over the Greens. (It wasn’t Greens who switched off the power. It was cretinous, ‘mainstream’ Leftist and Right-wing politicians who did it.) They supplied as their weighty evidence, a photograph of lights on in one inner suburb, a couple of streets, Carlton. Yeah, these two really showed the diseased Left (can’t fathom why they are rolling around laughing).

The good news is, late last year it was mentioned on the news but barely reported on: the aim for this year is to make “Earth Hour” an even greater success than last year’s. Splendid. I’ll spend that week out of Melbourne and somewhere where the locals are not criminally insane.

Demonstration No.4: 1 million homes to be cut off the grid this evening.

This has just been broadcasted over the radio.

Another ‘wunnerful energy saving measure’. Many more ‘initiatives’ and Victorians will be right round the fury bend.

Let’s see. No water, much else failing, and energy rationed out to a lucky few. I didn’t know some of the nicer features of the defunct Soviet regime had been simply translated into Brackstian. Well, a sound chap is big enough to admit when he’s wrong. Soon enough, we’ll see millions of serfs queuing in shop fronts to buy food and dinking water.

Heck, many tens of thousands have been doing that for over a decade now, as they have relied on “free” Mudicare Medicare  and the Victorian Government’s torture chambers for the ill ”free, public hospitals”. What a sight: patients dropping dead in chairs and slumped on floors, and no one notices. Oh, I suppose they do, when they have to sweep the floors and shove the detritus into the dustbin.

They enjoy living in pain and the threat of death because they cannot obtain surgery. Though this is Brackistan and so it must be a criminal offence but I’m clinging on for grim life to my medical insurance cover. I want to live and if I have to go to hospital, it will be a nice, comfy private hospital, with efficient staff , good food, and surgery on tap.

Well, a lucky few will have a nice evening tonight. As for everyone else, well, as the Right have made plain, serfs are merely whining ingrates; “What are they complaining for? Scraps off mastah’s table not good enough?! Lucky they get that, the brutes. John, John, they’ve upset me.”

Summing up the evidence

The above is a small taste of what carbon taxes will do to all Australians. Australians should heed it as a warning and once they do, they will know what to do to the culprits.

I will leave it at that for today, because on Monday I will funish data, which is also only more damning evidence of carbon taxation and ‘alternative energy’.  The data also develops what was summarily related in, Power shortages, thanks to politicians. In particular, on existing power generation capacity and that it helps to put into perspective how abysmal are “alternative energy” scams. 

The data nicely forks the CIS. It makes for wonderful reading. Yes, Greg Lindsay, it’s Friday the 13th for you and your super fund CIS again, and again, and again. It’s a really fun show.

In the mean-time, linked below is another insight into Malcolm Turnbull. It’s a speech he gave on what a wonderful future Australians will enjoy once carbon taxes have wiped out all that makes life a pleasure, and we are all plugged into a windmill. I’m betting on how long before we see a lynching party of angry, genuine Liberal Party members and enjoy the entertainment of more than a few Rightwing thugs swinging.

A Green Carbon Initiative - Investing in our Land, Energy and Food Security and Jobs, Saturday, 24 January 2009, Source: Speech to the Young Liberal Convention - Canberra

Next week, Mangled Thoughts will also demonstrate what a fine brood of spoilt brats have stuffed the Young Liberals wing of the Party. They are a chip off their seniors’, the Right, block. They are all blockheads together.

As occasional news reports relate, there are “Wallies” who believe it is the quick and bright way to get a bonfire roaring. It is!  The drawback of instant self-immolation heightens, apparently, the enjoyment. It does, treacherous Leftists are having a right jolly time watching it.

If the Rudd Cabinet and the Coalition crying out, ”More petrol, more petrol”, and the RBA willing to lend a hand are not enough Wallies, the International Monetary Fund has decided to empty a jerry can of fuel too. More, though, as an exhortation and advice to politicians to ensure it’s a proper immolation not of them, but of millions of companies and modest employees.

Terry McCrann is not the odd man out in believing there is a ‘dual economy’.  Kevin Rudd also believes there is a “real economy” and the other one, ‘financial markets’. If they were consistent, they should call financial markets “unreal”. Take it a step further :

The umpteen millions of shareholders, whether by super funds or direct holdings, must be taking an imaginary pounding. Their pain is not real. Those planning to retire can, because their capital, their nest eggs, are incidental to the real economy!  Neither is it only Rudd and McCrann who hold this falsehood.

The economically illiterate Right do too. How good is that, they are on a par with those diseased Leftists the Greens! Their fulsome support for Carbon Tax Destruction Day amply shows  it. For some unfathomable reason the Right’s claim to have trampled all over the “Watermelon Red Greens” seems a tad ‘unreal’. Then there is the IMF, which declared:

“The main risk is that unless stronger financial strains and uncertainties are forcefully addressed, the pernicious feedback loop between real activity and financial markets will intensify, leading to even more toxic effects on global growth.”

What is “pernicious” is those pushing such bilge are in positions which can cause grief to millions around the world. Their advice isn’t ‘toxic’, it’s an atom bomb.  These guys are in need of prep school level tutoring; lesson number one - Financial markets are markets in capital. 

Terry McCrann on radio this morning asserted the fallacy, consumption drives growth. Consider it:

If consumption spending drives business spending, why do firms borrow in order to spend? This has a certain current force, why are some firms now pleading for borrowings? According to the fallacy, savings are not needed because consumption drives business spending and, therefore, supplies firms’ spending. So, if the consumption claim is true, why are firms struggling with how to obtain savings? Why have some firms gone to the wall because they could not obtain funds? Why on earth do firms borrow funds at all?

Bingo! What is missing is capital theory. If a cultivated man such as McCrann is missing it, nothing better can be expected of the IPA and CIS, and an inspection shows they are a vaccuum. The trouble is, McCrann knows there are alternative sources he should consult but does not and the upshot is, asserting the consumption fallacy misleads the man in the street and let’s politicians and the RBA off their kenyesian hook and worse, has cleared the field for politicians to freely pursue destructive keynesian spending, euphemistically called ’stimulus policies’.

The media commentariat and the Rightwing clunker tanks are one thing, the Business Council of Australia is another matter. This is an association funded by companies or, rather, shareholders, on the presumption the BCA is equipped and willing to fight the right causes. The BCA is a waste of shareholders’ funds too.  Jackson has already had grave cause to cane them, eg., Business Council of Australia’s quack cure for recessions.

This morning it declared to the media that there should be no tax cuts. (There should be, so that savings can be built up.) It then declared the way out of recession is ’stimulus’ spending -  ‘Coordinated budget needed from COAG’. Things were helped along by Turnbull declaring this morning, there should be tax cuts because they will deliver increased consumption. So, will the BCA follow through and declare, savings and borrowings are a waste of time?

Rudd and Swann and the Left, oh and Turnbull, Bishop and the Right too survive and thrive because of the commentariat and PR outfits dressed up as business associations and think tanks.

Rudd and Swann have done enough damage already and are preparing to cause even more. Why, just now, Deah Leadah of Brackistan, John Brumby, declared Rudd must get on with spending it up big. This  sod and his pal, Steve Bracks, have spent Victorians into the ground - also literally. After all, preceded by Kennett and still encouraged by another Liberal party wrecker, Ron Walker, untold billions of dollars have been taken from Victorians and thrown at ’sports infrastructure’ and ‘elite sports’.  

McCrann then proceeded to give listeners the benefit of his formidable learning in a masterly  summation of capitalism:

‘it is the only way we know of in order to live.  We have to consume more in order to prosper. If there was a better way, we could follow it. This is how business succeeds and grows.” Let’s straighten this out, or rather, McCrann should by stating the implication, capitalism is a concoction because man is too stupid to come up with a really good “way”?!

Man and in his actions is physcis manifest. Economics is the extension. Whether primitive tribal man or civilised man, all have to consume in order to live. The distinction is, the latter made discoveries that enabled him to escape the tyranny of the tribe and bestial dependence on whatever food and water might exist in a territory. McCrann: in order to consume, we first must produce. In order to produce, we first must invest. To invest we need capital markets. Secondly, capitalism is not an ideology; it is physics manifest. Capitalism is manifestation of laws of action and not some mystical “way”.  

A great comedy show

Is stitched together with non-stop rollicking sketches, and on it rolls, from yesterday:

“… for immediate tax cuts to stimulate the economy has been “directly contradicted” by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released overnight, federal Treasurer Wayne Swan says.”

It must be a send up of Punch and Judy, with doppleganger puppets thrown in - bonus! What with Turnbull and Julie ‘The Plagiarist Girl’ Bishop, Rudd and Swann, it’s a side-splitter. 

The Gruesome Rightwing Duo are hanging by their thumbs as Swann whips them with a leather feather. The Duo call: “Help, help, CIS and Professor Sinclair  Davidson!” (who is striving in his effort to “rediscover” the Laffer curve), “Bring your big, coloured crayons and scribble something nasty about, hmmm, Jackson”. Meanwhile, Rudd is contentedly picking his nose and humming to himself “Ode to Me, Deah Maximus Leadah.” 

Why should things have come to such a pass?

The Right and their Pulitzer Prize winning economics pillock, Peter Costello, had over a decade to:

- Come to grips with sound economic theory, and in particluar of money, and stop the RBA dead in its tracks.

- It had a decade with which to get off the backs of investors and the firms they invest in.

They did the contrary:

- Costello and his advisers idled away the time in praising him as the Uber Economist of the Universe, as the RBA engaged in recession causing monetary expansion.

- They multiplied and intensified taxation and regulatory control over capital. They did this in the good times, when it was easy to get out of the way. The Right stuffed Australians as surely as Hawke and Keating did before them (though, at least Keating realised the need for savings is no fiction).

Yet, I’ll give Costello his due, credit where it’s due. I refer back to his declaration late last year that, as Treasurer, he knew the recession was set in train years ago. I can’t figure out, though, why it sounds odd. For, he knew but was happy to let Australians wear the full force of it… oh, now I have it. It’s not ignorance, it was this that motivated Costello:

The Kroger election strategy of letting Australians suffer pain so they won’t vote ALP. Wow, it works - wall to wall ALP Cabinets. The strategy is code-named, Callous Twits.

He delivered a sterling analysis of what caused it, George Bush! All that need be added is a bit of supportive exposition: Costello must have rote learned this lie told by treacherous Leftists because that is a line they were pushing months before Costello hit upon it.

Peter Costello being so brilliant an economist, didn’t have a clue as to the solid case for free labour markets either. Even better, he is one of that bunch of clowns who destroyed the campaign for free markets, the HR Nicholls Society.

His non-existent intellectual grip aside, as the rest of the Right, Peter Costello was never about principles and free markets. Their motivation is themselves. Genuine Liberals and Australians are a pack of ungrateful peasants, who should learn their place and funnily enough, that is what the HR N.S. also told Australians, and so did the great defender of the ethanol fraud, $3,000 plus/week Andrew Bolt.

The real laugh is: Rudd can easily be mistaken for being one of them, and he is well qualified - another blunderer stumbling in the fog inside his empty cranium.

Now we are in recession and not only Rudd and Swann but also the Right, led by Turnbull, are all for plundering umpteen billions more.  This fraud the BCA applauds! How do donor companies take suicide, painfully slow or fast? Oh, what’s this? 

Julie Bishop arrived at a conclusion and has defied Swann: “Tax cuts should be made”. That’s it, that’s all she had to say. So, as soon as someone challenges her, demands she explain why, she is dead in the water. My mistake, she is already a floating carcass.

The only thing unreal, Terry McCrann, is the notion that that lot, Left and Right, are fit to hold Office. In the meantime, below are some more accurate articles that McCrann should also study before repeating again what Turnbull and Bishop should never do, speak.

The Great Depression: fact versus myths

The economy is in recession and it’s getting worse

Bernanke and Obama’s advisors are wrong: deflation did not threaten the US economy

Obama’s fiscal stimulus will fail the US economy

President Obama gets an economic broadside

The articles covering Obama and the US are pertinent to the stupidity of the IMF, and of Rudd and Swann and what sits Opposite them, and so the real danger to Australians. The notion the recession is the worst since the Great Depression and comparable is false.

The danger is, the politicians and their advisers can convert it into a brutal time. This is what Obama is committed to, though being also a-neuronal, he doesn’t have a clue as to what he will be criminally guilty of.

Then, why should that treacherous Leftist be bothered about inflicting carnage, more so since he is busy appeasing Islamo-fascists, with Iran now so confident of what Obama is about they have officially demanded an apology from Obama:

“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has demanded President Obama apologise for past US ‘crimes’ against the Islamic republic.”

Obama has set a world  speed record for becoming an International Joke. It is very understandable why treacherous Leftists, and not a few on the Right for this matter, cheered the election win of Obama and the US Stalinist Democrats Party. Even better, to ensure it will be a great bonfire of the US, it was reported this morning Obama will impose protectionism. Add on carbon taxation and Obama and the US Democrats will destroy Americans.

They are strangely silent. Oh, dear.

Humphreys, Chris Berg, IPA, CIS, after having expressed keen interest in who I am, and having expressed repeatedly their willingness to enjoy an engagement, refuse to accept? I’m flabbergasted!

I mean to say, these publicity hungry hounds are refusing the opportunity provided by this never held before in Australia event. That’s torn it,  because I was about to suggest an alernative venue.

The event is hot, hot, hot. As much as I like the Sherlock Holmes, it’s too small to hold all those who have already expressed great interest. It’s a sell out, but we can turn it into an extravaganza, and I’m working on the advertising blurb:

“Australian Federation World Wide Debate Fighting”.  The AFWWDF.

In the green mottled yellow corner, weighing in at a combined three pounds, I give you, ladies and gentlemen, “The Vicious Housewives” Humphreys aka ESS, Chris Berg, David Kemp, Greg Lindsay, the IPA and CIS.

 In the blue corner, weighing in at 1,000 tons, Ladies and Gentlemen, is Gerard “Slasher” Jackson.

Form guides, ladies and gentlemen, are on sale now at the wet bars. The bookies are still calculating the odds and it looks right now the best bets on offer are on which emergency hospital the “Vicious Fishwives” will be wheel-barrowed off to.

What a fascinating bout it would have been. The Right have requested Queenie rules: they get to assert whatever they wish to say and then cut and run. I suggested, ladies and gentlemen, Queensberry Rules, which means, Jackson will only break their jaws clean off. But no! We have settled on no holds barred debate fighting.

Patrons feel free, are free to challenge any speaker, who must respond. Any patron is free, if they are confident, to engage also, so long as they are willing to take challenges on the chin, in the shins, solar plexus, an axe through the guts. Hard Leftists, feel free to attend. After all, before shooting fish in barrel, fill it with fish.

Remember patrons, the beer is on the House of IPA. Tickets on sale now.

Now I find out I have to cancel the spectacular. Blast, I have to cancel Carnegie Hall and the order for a caged ring to be placed in the middle, surrounded by wet bars. Very annoying, because I’ll have to pacify the financier - I’ll slip him a mickey fin of a magnum’s worth of Bollinger and, he laid out and sleeping like a baby, I’ll indulge a bit of creative accounting of his books and, presto, everything is squared.

See what headaches that lot - CIS and IPA, cause a chap.

A bit of a robust exchange accompanied, The masked crusader, ESS, un-masked.

Thanks should be extended to a number of names, and some brief comments on some points, but here we shall cut to the chase. 

I apologise to Chris Berg. I am wrong, he is not “ESS”. Many thanks to all who confirmed this, though why it required witnesses is unclear since its abundantly clear from what is posted on MT that one is not Jackson.

The identity of ESS

Cicero presciently delivered a startling suggestion:

“P.S. Ess’s moaning triggered a vague association, and now I know what it is. He sounds just like John Humphreys did when he abused Jackson for dismantling his carbon tax paper. How curious.”

I turned this over carefully with the following results. The evidence I uncovered and examined in detail is circumstantial but it is a sturdy set of legs.

1. Timing. Whenever ESS turns up, so does Humphreys and vice-versa. The first time this co-incidence occurred was the exchange over the CIS’ lobby paper for carbon taxes.

2. Form-criticism. Both ESS and Humphreys show the same features:

a) Evade the core arguments delivered against claims they make, and skirt around at the edges.

b) Evasion , compounded by throwing in red herrings.

c) Attempting to deflect their onus to substantiate their claims by pretending the onus is on the critic.

d) Complaining they are unfairly dealt with, as ESS demonstrated by his continued attempt to wriggle out of contacting Jackson and offering his article on, “Why the free market cause does not need Jackson”, for publication on Brookesnews. ESS declared he wouldn’t waste his time having it put up on this “inconsequential site”, M.T. It was admirable ESS declared he would confront Jackson directly, but he hasn’t. He has resorted to complaining and abuse, to insinuate that somehow it’s my fault he hasn’t contacted Jackson on this outstanding promise, in order to cover-up that he won’t do it.

e) When still not making any headway, both ESS and Humphreys resort to more abuse, which is really funny when it came to Humphreys’ reaction to Jackson’s criticism of the ‘let’s strangle capital the carbon tax way’ paper. It’s no good, as you did, Humphreys, running around a number of sites accusing Jackson of what he did not do, and proceeding to hurl abuse against Jackson and then against others, ESS resorts to the same tactic. Against me, I’m not bothered, but ESS and Humphreys share another trait in this respect: abuse is effective only when anchored in solid arguments. These two never learn.

f) Stylistic comparisons show a rather striking similarity between the two.  Agreement in expression is indistinguishable.

Now, taken with also Blackjack’s own telling points in comments, the evidence is circumstantial but the sheer number of co-incidences exceeds chance. It means that ESS and Humphreys are one and the same is a strong deduction. This can be put beyond any doubt by a neutral “Unveiling Party”.

Unveiling Party

I propose an Unveiling Party. The Sherlock Holmes is a good venue, it has the merit of being directly opposite to the IPA’s office, so Chris Berg can attend too. Best of all, David Kemp should attend, in fact all the heavies at the IPA can attend. David Kmep can bring hany of his in the CIS, after all the Party is on them, so bring the cash to pay for beer and nibblies. Oh, and bring another wad of cash; I will take payment in this instance – it’s work for me.

No, the more the merrier.  Jackson, Prodos, Byrne, and any other chap in for a good show should come along. It should be a fun time.

Imagine it, for the first time Berg can defend his paper on Islam and the free market and his paper with Davidson on manufacturing, the CIS their carbon tax paper. A real debate. This is hot. It is something that has never occurred in Australia before. Blast, we could sell tickets, there’d be a real audience who’d love to see a real, genuine, free for all debate. I am warming to this fast. Can’t wait, bring it on, let’s see what erupts.

In view of such goodwill, ESS must be keen to show himself.

In view of such goodwill, ESS must be keen to show himself. The IPA,  and the CIS, given their repeated declaration they are prepared to defend their positions in public, would surely not refuse to engage in such an honest, hearty, public exchange. Beer, after all, is all about bon homme and all civilised enjoyments.  

A word to Chris Berg

Berg, I believe Cicero is very charitable, as his comments show. Sadly, Berg doesn’t know what good faith is, a fault he has to rectify and here are some good reasons why:

I am willing to bet Berg hasn’t contacted Jackson, to publish the counter view to the dreadfully wrong papers published by the IPA, through its editor, Berg.  Ten, that’s how they are. They avoid alternative views as dangerous, to themselves. Now I understand why Berg et al consider Jackson dangerous. To publish Jackson would be an act of self destruction, as their donors would be shocked by the contrast, incompetent IPA, masterful Jackson.

Berg complained about Jackson provoking them, including Humphreys aka ”ESS”. I’m not sure what is provocative with articles arguing solidly, with no abuse, from within a framework of sound economic theory but this, according to Berg, is provocative. But, Berg, you never complained against Humphreys and Professor Sinclair Davidson hurling real abuse against Jackson, and Humphreys smearing others for good measure.

Oh, bye the bye Berg, typos is illiteracy? Well, let’s remind readers of something Davidson wishes buried. After Jackson had demolished your paper on Islam and the free markets, I smashed your next false claim, theology and philosophy are indebted to Islam. I have the history of theology behind me Berg, and what went in tandem with it? Philosophy. I know who the illiterates are, Berg.

Oh, Berg, don’t let this spoil the generous mood of the Unveiling Party. I’ll be there all smiles. Well, I suppose what you published, Berg, is slightly better than Humphreys’ (aka ESS) and the CIS’ carbon taxpaper and lobbying for carbon taxes. After all, carbon taxes is about destroying capital.

Let’s spell it out in big letters for Humphreys and the CIS:

A carbon tax is not an income tax. It is not a sales tax. It’s not any other type of earnings tax. It is one, specific tax. It is a tax on carbon emissions, which means production and this means exactly what that spells out, it is direct destruction of capital. Humphreys, or as he likes to be known as, ESS (weird) has never answered this devestating criticism of the CIS’ position. He has not answered, crucially the devestating economic analysis and criticism by Jackson and here is the killer for their failure, cloaked in cowardice and slimey abuse:

Jackson set out the case against carbon taxation from within Austrian capital theory. If Jackson is wrong, then the CIS and Humphreys had to show that Austrian capital theory is false, why it is false. Now, that’s the sort of task a sane man wishes only for his enemy to commit suicide on and there it is, Humphreys, then Davidson, and the CIS rabbited on about everying trivial to the defence they had to make, anything but the defence.

Now we see “ESS” at it again. Anyway, as I say, let’s all have a jolly time at the Sherlock Holmes, and don’t forget, ESS and the IPA are paying. The beer, it might be said, is on the IPA House; Yay! You Beauty! More beer, more beer and here’s to a fun debate. Cannot wait. Cheers.

The damage is due to the same cause as for the water crisis in Australia. Meddling, ignorant politicians and their advisers willing to sacrifice Australians in the name of the cult of environmentalism and its offshoot, ’stop climate change’.

This is false: ‘whom the gods wish to destroy they first render mad.’ The gods don’t have to do a thing. Australia’s politicians are not mad, they are stark raving, psychopathically mad without any help.

Victoria faces no water shortage. It faces a catastrophe because of those determined to stop building massive dams on the Mitchell River and the Otways. It’s not for the lack of water Victoria faces disaster. Not only the Left but the sclerotic Right too is cupable for what amounts to a criminal action against Victorian. Likewise on energy.

Speculation is rife as to whether current production capacity is adequate to meet electricity demand during this hot week. The problem is, when he was Premier, Steve Bracks imposed a cap on firms scaling up capacity, which includes building in spare capacity above long run demand; they do this to ensure supply under any conditions. All this, Steve Bracks and his fellow gang of thugs, ably supported by the stumped Right, eliminated. 

Oh, and widespread blackouts, over long time periods have been a regular event since Bracks and the Right scuppered the coal based companies. Between what has been done to firms in Victoria and Federal carbon taxes, they have struggled to engage in mainetenance level investment, as related last year - thus the blackouts of increasing frequency and duration.

Carbon taxation compounded the damage, the companies are now starved of capital. This is besides another abuse of the firms: the State Government treats them, and the water companies as their private slush funds and sacks capital funds to prop up its massive spending spree (1). Needless to say, the Right in Victoria, as reflected in both State and Federal Politicians, happily support the economic sabotage perpetrated in the name of the above two cults.

Malcom Turnbull must be advised by the CIS. He’s convinced ‘alternative energy’ can be ‘economic’. Greg Hunt’s (Federal Shadow Environment Minister) pet ‘project’ is “wave energy”. As with “wind power”, the dis-economies of scale of ‘wave energy’ are so abysmal that, if they were consistent and demanded an immediate total transfer to ‘alternative energy’, they would be as guilty as Rudd, Wong, and Garret of destroying Australia (direct carbon taxes will do this anyway), immiserating millions of Australians in the time it takes to bat an eyelid.

Here’s the shock. Victorians, already saddled with the fraud of wind power, are also burdened with ‘wave power’. The location is Portland. The ‘plant’ is nominally rated with a capacity of 29 megawatts. To put this in perspective:

Current capacity for Melbourne is roughly 10 gigawatts daily capacity, and this is not adequate, as blackouts magnifies.  The Portland ‘wave power’ plant, therefore, is worse than trivial. As of windmill energy, it can be regarded economically as zero output.

Notional capacity only because, as windmills, wave power plants achieve only a fraction of  claimed capacity. Even funnier, wave plants cost 6 times (- minimum) more to build and maintain than bloody windmills. These are costs before counting in the tremendous economic losses caused. They also have to be replaced, frequently. Storms destroy them.

What we have in Victoria is politicians, the Right as well as the Left, who are deliberately cutting the efficient production of energy by coal based companies, while stealing from Victorians to prop up ‘alternative energy’ frauds, further damaging production of energy.

Malcolm Turnbull and Greg Hunt are economic ignoramuses, as well as scientific oafs. Turnbull believes forcing prices up induces consumers to use electricity and water efficiently. The opposite is the truth. 

Victorians are being forced to pay higher prices as supply is deliberately cut and diced by politicians. As for companies, bluntly put, coercion is used to force them into loss making levels of production. This is, though, OK, because the Right find real production as aesthetically offensive as the Chardonnay guzzling, “Intemperate Left” do. Lawyers and tax collectors are real enterprises, according to the Right; so, they will be plugged into the power grid ?

There it is. It is not simply the Greens and diseased Leftists. It is politicians and their advisers,  Right as well as Left, who are guilty. To illuminate this:

Tasmania is the bastion of the Greens and yet the Tasmanian Goverment built a massive dam on the Meander River. It seems in Feral Land, Tasmanian politicians will only indulge Green fanaticism  to the point where the danger of being electorally slaughtered by angry serfs is incurred. Not on the mainland. Serfs should know their place and die without complaint.

John Brumby has established an Electricity Police Unit

The Water Usage Police was mentioned in, Water company tells Victorians to ’sod off’:

“An office of some sort has been set up, stuffed with peas for brains dribblers, whose “job” is to annoy the dickens out of Victorians, ringing them up and at any sodding hour of the day or night, and telling their victims:

“We are here to help you save water. We are here to discuss with you how you can save more water…”

“The friend must be very polite to have let them get that far. She cut in, “Yes, I have something to discuss and need your help with: I want to increase my water consumption. You can sort this out for me.”

“They are squawking buzzards, for she heard multiple gasps over the phone. The slimes went into shock. Understandable, I mean to say, she had a nerve defying Deah Leadah and his goons.”

Tuesday evening, last week, 7 o’clock, about to sit down to dinner, and the telephone rang.  It was the Electricity Usage Police. The goon rpomptly and pompously declared, “The State Government has announced a new electricity usage initiative. I am here to discuss with you how to cut your usage…”

To avoid letting loose, I cut in with a curt: “You lot have done enough damge already.  We are being forced to pay sprialling prices for the privilege of the government deliberately eradicating supply, sweltering in summer, and freezing in winter. We have been forced to do too much already by you lot. Goodbye.”

CIS and the  Peony Company

Satiating the Greens’ god of death requires,  as the Right as well as the Left happily aknowledges and thirst to ram down, totalitarian measures. People, individuals, their real rights, can get stuffed, and all in the name of a cult devised by diseased, fanatical Leftists. The following article indicates something else:

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon

I draw attention to, the mention of the involvement of foreign ‘companies’. One such company is the Peony Company. One of its directors is also a director of the CIS, Peter Yates. His brother, Oliver, is head of MacQuarie Bank’s ‘alternative energy investment division’. The CIS is lobbying for carbon tax destruction day and alternative energy scams.

The conflicts of interests, as the two names indicates, means Greg Lindsay has a much to explain to genuine Liberal members of the Liberal Party( since their fees and so party funds have been siphoned off into the coffers of the CIS, and to shareholders of companies that have funded the CIS will be smashed by ‘alternative energy’ and direct carbon taxes.  

He also owes an explanation to all those millions of modest Australians who will be ruined because of all this. Go on Lindsay, have the guts to defend what you advocate, before modest Australians, face them directly and tell them what fun it will be. What a great deal it is for them to be immiserated while spivs get rich through scams set up only by coercive government or, rather, idiot politicians asserting coercive power against Australians.

Go on, Lindsay, it’s your CIS, it’s the position of this anti-free market clunker tank, your fat super fund. Defend what you support, the fraudulent claims mounted in the lobby paper. Go on, Lindsay, tell modest Australians how destitution is an innovation and the good life. Tell the serfs, now being thrown out of paying work thanks to the RBA and politicians, why permanent misery is fine, fine fine.

 (1) Which is the reason for ‘privatisation’ ( as opposed to rebasing those firms as genuine free market enterprises) as Kennett proudly explained last year. This is what the Right, with their advisers inclusive of the CIS and IPA did to Victorians - set up Vic. Inc., which paved the way for Brackistan.

This week has been interrupted, posting will be resumed properly and uninterrupted next Tusesday, 27/1/09. Then we take out the axe and weild it. 

Oh, and don’t worry, “ESS”, I haven’t finished with you yet.

The HR Nicholls Society wreaked extensive and tremendous damage to the solid and, therefore, highly moral cause of free labour markets. They disabused millions of voters of why free labour markets are good for everyone. They ensured the election win for the Rudd Cabinet, which is now busily eradicating what was finally made of reform, a bureaucratic “dog’s breakfast” (this contrived when Howard realised they had been left hanging by not only the HRNS but also its inmates in the Cabinet who promoted and covered this lot of incompetents). The cause has been set back by the best part of a century. The damage doesn’t stop at these fine achievements of the Right, as Rudd made plain yesterday.

Rudd warned companies to exercise restraint in the face of deepening recession. The man is so thick that it takes the Right, led by Turnbull, to make the man seem slightly sparky. Entrepreneurs are not employed to assert ‘restraint’.

They are employed to make discovery in markets and drive capital accordingly. They are paid, as part of their overall competence to accept and take risk. They do so, however, in the exercise of discipline they have acquired over years as they have made their way as entrepreneurs. Discipline, right down to daily ‘house-keeping’, is entirely different to Rudd’s non-existent insight into business and businessmen, but he is a technocratic ignoramus.

Rudd tied ‘restraint’ to employment, warning principals to preserve jobs. Contrary to Rudd, who has no clue about what drives employment, and the hiring and firing decisions of executives and line managers, the function of companies is not to operate as some job creation scheme. Labour is not named a factor of production for nothing and it is not personal. The job of an entrepreneur is first to serve customers, by successfully deploying capital and increasing it to serve them.

It is rotten, it is nasty that employees are being laid off by companies. BHP announced today it will lay off approximately 1,000 employees. What doesn’t rate mention in the media is that many executives, far from being callous brutes, do not enjoy one jot being in the position they are now in, laying off employees en masse. They do not like one bit seeing good men, women, and juniors added to the unemployment queue. 

They detest dismissing modest men and women. It is one of the downsides, one of the unpleasant things they have to do, in order to ensure the long term future of the companies they are entrusted to drive. The cause of rising unemployment should be sheeted home to the real culprits, the RBA, and the central banks of other countries (not only the US Fed) and their addiction to keynesian snake-oil.

Having raised it before on M.T., I notice Mr. Jackson has set out in an article this week, Australian mining firms are integrated into China’s capital structure,

[cf. footnote (1) to]   The economy is in recession and it’s getting worse

Manufacturing in China is in contraction due to the damage caused by central banks, with the upshot that not only BHP has to scale down production. It means not only job shedding in its direct mining operations. Where are the jobs being shed is a broad question; consider logistics to internal administrative support. It is not straightforward, looking at it from the outside.

To speak of ‘restraint’, then it is ‘restraint’ to recombine factors of production down, as unpleasant as it is for those who have to wear the impact. No decent man, inclusive of entrepreneurs, wishes to see good people suffer such hardship but it has to be done, because executives are not hired to destroy companies by driving them into loss making. There it is, what Rudd the genius stridently told companies to do - destroy themselves.    

Rudd continued; in return Unions should exercise ‘wage restraint’ so that unemployment rates are not rachetted up again. The “Fair Wage Commissioner” said the same last week. Rudd, and the ACTU are caught out. Rudd, Commissioner, and ACTU are not in a position to establish wage rates.  

Rudd was referring to, of course, imposed minimum wages versus effective minimum wages, though Rudd is ignorant of what they are. Minimum rates are from below market rates to equal to them, and thus do not cause unemployment. The ACTU is not interested in fixing minimum rates, it wants to fix effective minimum rates, which are above market rates and it is this that prices labour out of work.

Even if Rudd and those who preside on the Fair Wage Commission do know the definitions, they are not in a position to establish what are minimum wage rates, and what are effective minimum rates.  Market rates are established by marginal productivity of labour, which is not straightforward since extensive, intricate market processes are involved.

Compounding Rudd’s dangerous errors is indeterminancy, a falsehood the ACTU relied on to attack free labour markets, and the HRNS holds is true and the ACTU loved them for it. Marginal productivity theory explains why indeterminancy is false.  

In a free market ‘restraint’ is meaningless, but Rudd’s simplistic meaning is clear:

The notion of ‘wage restraint’ rests on what must now be considered a lie, because it is used in the effort to destroy free labour markets, ‘balance of power’. This lie rests, in turn  on the fiction of monopsony, which in turn rests on the fiction of perfect competition -which is not free market economics at all. Perfect competition is a myth but the HRNS reliably blew up the fight for free labour markets over this fiction too.

The Rudd-Gillard central pay fixing policies are, in part, to counter employers’ ‘balance of power’ over ‘employees’, including by restoring ‘bargaining power’ to employees, and is a tad hypocritical since it is the ACTU and not employees who would weild ‘power’.  The other part is to assert central price fixing. This shambles the HRNS also conceded.

Market rates are at once the minimum wage and the maximum wage, and their heights are set by the ratio of capital to labour. It is a tautology to tack on, only increasing capital can raise marginal productivity of labour. The real assault on market rates, apart from imposed effective minimum rates, is each ‘tier of government’ plundering capital, from ’capital gains’ taxes, to regulation, to the soon to be imposed carbon taxes.  

Rudd, Gillard, and ACTU thuggess Shane Burrows have hung themselves. Rudd was flung into office by the Right discrediting the cause for free labour markets, which the ACTU built upon with its campaign to win the 2007 election. If the ACTU now presses ahead with the rationale of destroying free labour markets, to control supply of labour and in order to extract effective minimum wages, it will not only add large numbers of Australians to recession caused rising unemployment. It is worse as it suggests: it will deliver long term unemployment, the opposite to work free markets do - elimination of unemployment. Hence, Burrows and Rudd are fretting over how to jump all over markets.

What Rudd’s exhortation discloses is, he is very worried about the only impact that truly disturbs politicians, being wiped out in an election. His strident warnings to employers and the ACTU reduces to nothing more than a plea,

‘Please, please, make me look good before all those voters.’ 

It is transparent that relations between Rudd and the ACTU are very strained. Why they are not with companies is beyond me. Just being mishieveous. It is obvious why they are not:

Companies have blundered in relying on PR and not at all ‘free market think tanks’ to fight wars requiring impregnable economic truth to win. It’s why companies have rolled over time and again, as their cave-in to Greens’ lies vividly demonstrates, and beaten into bloody pulps every time. It’s why they are nearly comatose, flat on their backs before the Rudd Cabinet and its grand plans.

“Nearly”, because though they are taking a right bashing, preceded by decades of being bludgeoned, they none-the-less cry, ‘But we are co-operating, doing all we can to work with the Government. We are doing our best to translate its plans.” This is fight! - “Rudd! We’ll take death, but only slowly!” Sad, very sad to see.

Should the danger of entrenched long term unemployment be realised, it will be another legacy of the inmates of the HR Nicholls Society - Hugh Morgan, Ray Evans, Des Moore, Michael Kroger, Peter Costello, Senator Nick Minchin, David Kemp.

Genuine Liberal Party members and modest Australians can hit the ACTU and Rudd for any damage they cause, but their ire should first be directed at those responsible for Rudd and his Cabinet of blundering elephants, the propositionally challenged, yellow flag waving Right.  

In view of the above, I draw attention to the latest article covering labour markets by someone who is feared by the ACTU and, to say the least, respected by the ILO in Geneva:

Industry fails on the wages and jobs

What’s the response from the Right to Rudd’s exhortation to companies, ‘commit suicide’, in and out of Parliament? The usual, feisty one: stone cold silence rooted in confusion.

Last Friday, it was briefly reported in the ‘financial and economics reports’ of a radio station that “experts’ now believe Australia is in recession”. Now they say the R word, when Auustralia has been in recession for some time - a couple of years. As for “experts”, one is unsure about them, when the matter is economics, requiring economic theory and, presumably, economists to elucidate it, and this is where things fell down, long ago.

Since theory is explanation of laws, of principles, we have a singularly important test of theory, prediction. If the theory is theory, then a blibble-blobble can occur. The test also propels discovery, as physics demonstrates. The same holds, or should hold in economics but oddly enough one cannot name a University Professor and any of the media commentariat who did predict the recession and, crucially, give the explanation for the prediction. Strangely enough, neither did the IPA and CIS.

They are playing catch-ups, some even going so far as to reverse their positions - Terry McCrann in a matter of a month went from denial to saying, it was all too predictable. Of the ‘free market think tanks’, the CIS mounted a seminar spectacular in October to November 2008 but, sadly, they as the IPA didn’t predict it either. The only thing predictable is, their seminar spectacular was another begging bowl wheeze.

Ah, the CIS published a paper following the fall in financial markets. The central complaint was not the RBA’s monetary policies, but its reticence in going through the keynesian motions. Odd, really, for a body that claims a masterful grip on Austrian school economic theory.

One commentator, 3AW’s financial journalist was forthright. He made the strange claim that “no-one predicted the recession”. He stressed it several times (this was a matter of days before Christmas). Why would he have stressed it, in a tone a tad too protesting? Was he aware of any economists who had predicted it, long before it emerged and gave the reasoning? Besides, no-one is not the same as saying, most did not predict it. His tenor is understandable; he too needs many to believe he is on top of things. Who can fault him and 3Aw for their dreadful, unilluminating efforts; it’s not their fault they grope in the dark too. If the CIS and IPA can’t do any better, who can?

I scratched my head and managed to come up with two names and, why, They are Dr. Frank Shostak, and Mr. Gerard Jackson! In addition to warning over a long time of the consequences of the RBA’s loose monetary policies,  in 2004 Jackson predicted the financial market correction, and what a stunning one it is too, it would occur in 2008. How does 3aw feel about looking a tad silly?  This is all very embarrassing for it’s feature economcis commentator Professor Neville Norman of The University of Melbourne, who has fared no better than the journalist. Perhaps he can reel of his predictions that he says he made but, mysteriously, have not been heard of.

Now that we are in recession, things are worse. The Rudd Cabinet faces no Opposition in Parliament, and from mainstream commentators no analysis and biting commentary on their policies. Turnbull, Bishop, and the rest of the Right bumble around in opportunistic efforts to loook good, and sinks into greater silliness.

Turnbull and his advisers can’t be bothered finding out, for example, what is wrong with Rudd’s actions. Instead, he delivers the heady attack: “Rudd’s stimulus package doesn’t seem to have worked over December. It’s on the right track but it might have been not enough.” According to this lot, the problem is not keynesian snake-oil but the danger of Rudd and Swann sending the budget into deficit.

Which is worse, small government consumption with a large deficit or an all-consuming Cabinet running a small or no deficit? It’s a tribute to Their Duncinesses, both sides, that it does not register with them, consumption is only that. Politicians, as opposed to MPs, seem to stubbornly deny the truth, their capacity to spend is driven by simply not tax revenues but what enables them to cream off, earnings from production. This is a simple line of reasoning and leads to further steps (a good next step for this lot is the penny dropping, only savings can take Australians out of recession) and they cannot manage it. Those who say they are bright, what drugs are they on?

It is a pity all the above are at sea in a fog, in view of the share markets wrote down stocks in US companies the day Obama was elected. They have already anticipated what the consequences  of Obama’s “New Old Deal” will be. It is really sad, because Rudd’s policies are no better and to save time, compare, for example, this swift summation of Obama’s grand plan to what Rudd is doing:

Obama’s spending spree won’t rescue the US economy from recession

Things look worse for companies, who might ponder corporativa and ‘industry policy’ and what they are, as opposed to what some make of them. Then again, why should directors and executives bother with economic history and analysis when Rudd is about to wipe out companies they are entrusted to run by shareholders with carbon taxation? Besides, they can be comforted by their PR men and the CIS and IPA. Why should they be disturbed over the apparently trivial matter of ruination? There’s a silver lining in the clouds too!.

With Rudd, Gillard and Treasurer Swann blaming companies and free markets for the recession, and will be even more vociferous in their attacks when their policies hit Australians, PR types will have plenty of work promoting their hirers as really nice guys. Shareholders should ask their employees, which is cheaper to use, official PR firms or the unofficial PR firms the IPA and CIS. Oh, using official PR men has merit; they are honest about not being in the job of defending their employers against meddling politicians and the RBA.

My mistake. PR firms aside, it looks very much the case some directors and executives, a lot of them really, believe firms can be defended on an individual basis. Tack on PR and they are bayonetted every time.  The only way they can be defended is from within a solid framework of economic theory, by those possessed of it and, tellingly, have the guts to engage in a public fight. There is only one thing politicians fear, losing their seats, but the Left, unlike the “Right”, have a grip on why ‘Civil War Day’ can be nasty; voters have to be convinced. Australia’s Right considers the modest voter the result of serfs crossed with sheep.  Even better, the Right is right behind the Michael Kroger-Peter Costello Civil War Day Strategy:

When Australians are in real pain because of rotten policies of RBA and Cabinet, they will run to them. It works splendidly:

-ALP has won 4 State elections, Victoria, and looks set to win at least two more.

- ALP holds the majority of States.

- Rudd and his gang of morons are in office and all the more spiffing is, they are set to win some more elections, unless there is a revolutionary shift within the Liberal Party - the Right wiped out.

To put the above in perspective, the strategy is so successful that while the Victorian ALP Cabinet is hated, and Rudd is detested, the voter is not running at all to the Liberal Party. Turnbull,  and Costello are also detested, while the rest of the Kroger-Costello kronies they stuffed into Liberal Party seats are regarded as venal, conceited spongers and buffoons; the Victorian Parliamentary Party a joke. Better still,  modest voters have spotted a virtue the Federal and State Wings have in common, they have no principles and stand for nothing. No, seriously, this is what the man in the street is saying.

- The man in the street is saying the “Liberals” are no better than what is in Office. We are not going to vote out of office one lot of rotten apples for another load of them.  

- Liberal Party members have told me they increasingly feel ashamed working the hustings. Try to work the electorates, that is. Corangamite, for example, was a Liberal Party fortress, and electioneering fire base. Today, ALP holds it, by a slim margin certainly. The trouble is, the branch membership has been virtually wiped out by the Kroger-Costello gang and their Toorak Brahmin backers.

-The few remaining genuin members, the burned remnant, are irritated by the sheer contempt with which the Right treat members and modest voters. These members have told me, they too want to wipe out the Right in Victoria. One gentleman not given to using expletives let them fly, freely.

- These members also made plain, the Right have amputated and decapitated the Liberal Party and branches. They are resigned to losing election after election. They are seriously considering whether trying to maintain branches and activity is worth the trouble anymore. They have a point, electorates reduced to a few elderly, dedicated souls is not a vigorous party, it’s an old hens’ gathering but then that’s how it should be for the serfs of the Party, according to the Right.

Not only Rudd, but Turnbull is also fond of demagoguery. Lat year, threatening banks to appear tough to the voter and out-shining Rudd was only one more bit of revealing candour on his part. When Obama’s term is over, he will be one of the most reviled men in America but, apparently, he is ‘lurved’ because he is a great demagogue. He summarised what he is all about in his inuguration address.

He promised in his inauguration speech to appease Islamo-fascists, Obama reaches out to Islam.

He is applauded by Stalinists in Latin America as their best friend and just as loveable as themselves. According to a news report, they have been dancing in the streets, deliriously happy. Well, they have reason, in view of his background, and his promise to collectivise Americans, as well as smash America economically, summed up in a single paragraph that shows a blindingly shallow psychopath in the making:

“Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age,” Obama said. “Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”

The worrying thing is, the Right and the Left in Australia are not far behind Obama in the stupidity stakes. Turnbull is all for wiping out Australians with carbon taxes. The Right backed the carbon tax and food production destroying scam called ethanol production; remembering that Kennett wanted to give every Victorian their very own backyard ethanol still. Turnbull believes supply of energy supply, water, and various resources should be drastically cut because, according to this genius, then Australians will use them more efficiently.

Australia is in trouble. Not as much trouble as America now is under Obama and the US Stalinist Democrats Party, but in trouble. It is all due to meddling, economic illiterates called politicians and their advisers. They can continue to blunder on because of the commentariat, and begging bowls misnamed ’think tanks’. Australia has been in recession for some time, and, with the odd University Professor lending their credential weight, it is the unpleasant reality is that the politicians will make sure it will turn very ugly. The voids in their records under the entry, Predictions, points to why. Lousy economics begets hard times. A wrecked Liberal Party stuffed with shallow, unprincipled, spineless jobbers makes capital punishment a certainty.

Here’s a link to the complete rubbish called Obama’s inauguration speech. Last week, Obama declared, it is in hard times Americans show what they are made of and shine. So, millions are to be ruined so that Obama can make Americans morally superior, and feel good. He is a psychopath. It is not for nothing the diseased Left in Europe celebrated his election and bought up truck loads of Marx’s unpleasant bile.

About to post yesterday, but server trouble killed that. A day late, irritating but that’s that.

I know why Chris Berg insists on being called “ESS”. He is the masked crusader and this jogged the old grey cells. In dress he is Miss Piggy. There was a news full sized photo of this super hero, in the gay Mardis Gras. It figures, it’s Chris Berg ‘to a t’.

“ESS”, as the masked one likes to be known as, is understandably upset but there’s no getting around it, I’m not publishing a photo of him in alter ego, it would be bad for the indigestion.

Insistent on, he’s not Berg, he’s rather emphatic, is more than a tad suspicious. It takes a petulant adolescent to bang on as ESS does. His whine is on the same level as the cranks who apply for the James Randi million dollar challenge, when the time comes for them to show their amazing powers. They first try to wriggle out of the commitment and when that doesn’t work they come out smearing. Oh, and another of their tactics shows up, like many of them, ESS, alias Chris Berg. pretends to find some condtion which is unjust to him, not fair he cries.

What on earth are you on about ESS? It’s you who made the claim, the free market cause does not need Jackson. It’s you who committed yourself to writing a searing paper on why so. I offered to publsih it, and you rejected this, because you consider my site “inconsequential”. You declared you wish to to be published on Brookesnews, and I agree that that is an admirable decision, though why you couldn’t have contacted Jackson long before you started throwing tantrums, is beyond me.

I mean, does the chump realise how silly he looks in public? Of course he doesn’t, or else he would simply submit his paper, to Brookesnews. I am happy to publish it entire but, it really is more honest for “ESS” to confront the man directly.  Bye the bye, what, ESS is this supposed to mean?

ESS wrote:

Is that a yes? or a no? just say it “Douglas”.

You have to contact Jackson in order to have it published on Brookesnews. Of, course, if that is what you mean, you will contact Jackson, then yes, go ahead, all my blessings and what not on top. How hard can it be? I mean to say, it has a contact button that pops up the email form immediately. Readers are impatient, they want to see you deliver on your promise, that you can demonstrate in searing style why Jackson is not needed. Lookl at Cicero, he has given you a right good working over for what are some pretty good reasons. Bye the bye, you’re not gutless Chris Berg?

 It is a minor note, but it might have serious force. ESS wrote,

“While the blogosphere quickly determined that Dr Sharon Gould was really Katherine Wilson, I regret to inform that I am not Chris Berg.”

A very odd comparison to make because Wilson perpetrated a hoax, managing to get published a bogus paper in Quadrant, and Quadrant didn’t pick it up! that’s the funny bit The point to it is it’s a Leftist ‘tactic’ they call “culture jamming”, pretending a hoax is a serious position in order to attack oh, let’s see, free markets -oh let’s cut it short, all that the Left wishes to destroy. They needn’t bother, the Right are doing a splendid job in destroying grave causes that must be won against the diseased Left.

 Now, I’d never compare anyone on the Right to Wilson and co. The Right is a standing joke in their own right, a rather black one. The material they publish is not a hoax, they do purvey their rubbish as the truth on serious matters. Accusing this lot of intellectual fraud, it assumes they have the intelligence to draw the distinction.

What the Right and their clunker tanks fear is exposure and the risk of being cut off company funding. Here’s the rub “ESS”, I engage in my own ‘activism’. I work on company diurectors and executives, to get them to read not only my site, but also Brookesnews and this is why I do it:

CIS, IPA and HR Nicholls Society have caused tremendous damage that has to be rectified, before the diseased Left can be pulped. Companies need soudn advice, it is urgent because, even if they don’t fully appreciate it, they are now in an ‘ideological’ war in which their very survivial and Australia’s is at stake. It’s not a game, as what carbon taxation will do demonstrates. It means demonstrating to them what that lot really are. It is also crucial to direct them to sound, solid economists engaged in defending free markets. It means getting them to the point where they will stop wasting shareholders’ funds on a pack of ignorant, gutless fishwives who give a damn for one thing only, themselves. Steve Edwards’ reaction to my articles on the STO and OPA, same in tone as “ESS” shows what a stupid and callous but self centred, naval gazing cowards this lot truly are. In short, it is as a genuine Liberal, out of principle, I do this.

Contrary to ESS, it has never occurred to me to do what the CIS and IPA do, knock on company doors, begging for money, and I would cringe inshame if I even dared contemplate it. I’m not out after money at all, not one cent, ESS . Jackson’s site is self -unded. He doesn’t beg, as his site makes plain, unlike those of the IPA and CIS, with begging bowls proudly displayed on their home pages.

It’s principle that drives me, ESS. Any who read Jackson can readily observe it drives him to. It’s plain to see, principle and real concern shows through his articles.  How dare, you ESS, insinuate to the contrary. Just because your chums are parasitical bums, not all Australians are, and you spit on all genuine, free market Australians also concerned to fight.

Septuagenarian Des Moore still remains an adolescent locked up in an elderly gent’s body. So, what hope for the rest of the tantrum throwing Right? This is their typical response to challenges. This lot believe they do not have to defend what they propose. They believe they should not be held responsible for real damage they have caused, as their singularly infantile footstamping response to the expose on the STO and OPA showed rather well.

So, here we have ESS, stamping his little feet, trying to smear Jackson on MT through slimey insinuations and now continues to prattle on in a very lame attempt to weasel out of his commitment to write a paper demonstrating his claim. Chris Berg in action. ESS reflects the calibre of the CIS and IPA.

Now, be a man ESS, contact Jackson. I look forward to reading your paper on Brookesnews. It’s up to you ESS to put up.

Now, this second item of the day is it for the week. I’ve been called away, unfortunately. I will be back in the saddle Tuesday, 20/1/09. Unfortunate, because roasting toads is fun but, hey, it is something to look forward to, coming back and picking up the cudgels again.