Mangled Thoughts

Quality control is a dead letter to the Right and the clunker tanks. Berg sums it up.This chump has written a long list of pieces any treacherous Leftist would be proud of but it has for them a distinct advantage, they don’t face being savaged for them and Berg does great work discrediting the free market cause. Let’s begin with some of Berg’s lighter moments:

Che chic: you’ve ignored the horrors, now buy the T-shirt The Age Sunday, October 14, 2007 and in the IPA’s collection of classics.

Berg stated:

“In 1940, Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator mocked the effete airs of Adolf Hitler, without diminishing Chaplin’s serious contempt for the Third Reich.”

It didn’t gel with him that leftist Charlie Chaplin’s made “The Great Dictator” as a stinging attack on the Nazi regime.

He speaks of “capitalist culture”. The left uses this expression to attack capitalism and free markets. He also doesn’t know the source for the notion of “culture” asserted by the Left and in his flippant phrase, Hegel’s collectivist rot.

He states,

Guevara was a Marxist guerilla who made a specialty of executing his opponents and prisoners without trial. He pioneered techniques of psychological torture. And he directed “suicide squads” that were sent into battles with no hope of victory.

He also founded Cuba’s concentration camp system, extolled the virtues of class hatred, and persecuted homosexuals.

Yet, he triviliased it by a reprehensible continuation:

Even when he wasn’t waging war against civilians, he was still a disaster. After the Cuban revolution, Guevara took a government position as Cuba’s central economic planner, and promptly drove the economy into the ground. Michael Moore and Oliver Stone may flatter the achievements of Fidel Castro, but much of the blame for the poverty of Cuban socialism must be laid at Guevara’s feet.

He completes his inane descent by stating:

There is hardly a more recognisable symbol of revolutionary chic. Guevara’s image is plastered on T-shirts, backpacks and posters. One online store sells clocks with his iconic portrait to emphasise just how anti-establishment wall-mountable clocks can be.

For this reason, it would be easy to chalk up the modern admiration of Guevara to dormant totalitarian fantasies in the left. But there is already too much self-righteous indignation in politics. Just because someone has a poster of Guevara on their wall, doesn’t immediately imply that they want to send homosexuals to a prison camp and execute those who are not doctrinaire Marxists.

his is hardly surprising. Popular culture has a wonderful habit of appropriating meaningful symbols, processing them into accessible packages, making jokes…

But Nazi kitsch has not been so comfortably embraced by popular culture — perhaps a testament to our continued inability to fully comprehend the horror of the Holocaust.

Or, “perhaps it is testament to our continued ability to fully comprehend the horror of the Holocaust.” Perhaps Berg might ponder why neo-Nazis are reviled, and neo-Nazism a criminal offence in Germany. I have plenty of Jewish friends who survived Auschwitz and Buchanwald. Perhaps Berg can enlighten my friends directly, repeat it directly to them.

He finished by telling another grand lie any hard Leftist happily asserts and it sums up Rudd’s anti-free market rubbish too:

But capitalist culture doesn’t obey moral judgements.

He continued that flippant remark with,

Ironically, Che Guevara’s longevity as a cultural symbol has been thanks to the very economic system he sought to destroy.

Well, he is the kid who could dismiss values as a vague notion. He is the kid who doesn’t have a clue that free markets and capitalism involves high moral values. This is a kid who completely ingores something else in his generalised smearing of capitalists (don’t forget, the IPA is supposed to defend capitalism):

It is the diseased Left that pushes Che Guevara and Castro. The treachery of the Clintons and the US Demoncrats, and their co-operation with that Stalinist regime are no secret. It never entered the pea that is Berg’s brain it is the left who are engaged in a major propaganda exercise by producing that “chic merchandise”. There he is, helping treacherous lairs and the nice touch in all this is, The Age, aka The Spencer Street Soviet galdly published it. But this is not all.

In another article on the death of Fidel Castro in the IPA Review, he trivialised the continuation of that Stalinist regime and depicted Raul Castro as someone with whom the West can get along with. Never mind that Raul is a Stalinist butcher too - eg.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright: The Cuban Connection, Humberto Fontovo, Decemebr 2008.

Associated Press’s terrorist-linked photographer honored in NYC, David Paulin, December 2008

These are only two of a mountain of items stretching back some years (I cannot recollect how far back) relating what jolly ‘teenage idols’ those butchers are.

Due to the very helpful assistance of Obama and the US Democrats, Raul has resumed the suppression and worse of Cubans with renewed vigour:

Heads roll in Havana as Raul Castro tightens his grip, Fontovo, 23/3/09

This is what Berg wrote, Castro’s retirement brings out the narcissism of the Western left.

 Chris Berg, Nobel Prize winning economist

This section explores the amazing work of Professer “Sinkers and Sunk” Davidson’s distinguished colleague.  Let’s open with a recent contribution to, surprise surprise, The Age, 28/6/09, as well as in the IPA’s collection of classics;

Crisis? What crisis?

It begins,

By now, we’ve all read the story, dozens of times. It goes like this: the financial crisis has brought down the Potemkin village of consumerism. The recession has exposed the internal contradictions and long-term impossibility of the neo-liberal order.

This garbage ends with a touch worthy of Janet Albrechtsen, who blamed modest house buyers for the bursting of the financial bubble last year and calling them criminals who should be slung into prison. So Berg:

If before the crisis hit you were a reckless spender and debt-accumulator, then I’m glad a recession could come along to shock you out of your idiotic ways. And if you refused to share your clothes with your friends, but now that your investments have tanked you’ve been able to find just that little bit of residual neighbourliness deep within you, then that’s marvellous.

Nevertheless, for the vast majority of Australians, life will continue as before, largely unaffected by the economic downturn. The global financial crisis is a big deal. But it’s not that big a deal.

This is the same wag who in the joint paper with Davidson, Thumping the Table (see article below) dismissed manufacturing as nothing more than a home cottage occupation that should it be wiped out won’t be missed. The Right can’t help themselves, their innate callousness oozes through their pores incessantly.

However, Berg has done a service: he has shown he is not only an ignoramus in economics. He is totally ga ga.

Berg doesn’t have an inkling of the financial crisis was a symptom of and what occurs first, and what the explanation is. Let’s not prejudge this genius too soon, though. In the article below, his efforts on regulation are summed up and it is nothing more than, ‘what is the best way to strangle firms to death’.  Let’s look at Berg, exponent of free market economics and distinguished theorist, and distinguished historian.

Islam and the Free Market, Berg and his playmate, Andrew “Andy Pandy” Kemp.

Not only does the IPA rate this as one of the greatest contributions to scholarship on the history of economic thought, such is the acclaim they followed it with, Islam’s free market heritage (March 2007).

In the second opus, Berg and Kemp give their findings far greater definition and certainty in expression as to the force of their ‘thesis’ than in the first. For example, they declare Adam Smith was indebted to the great Islamic founders of economics, and here it is:

Indeed, Imad A. Ahmad argues forcefully that Adam Smith was ‘simply picking up where Ibn Khaldun left off’. Ibn Khaldun’s writings display a clear and unambiguous familiarity with many of the cenral tenets of what we know as classical economic thought….

In a PDF magnum opus, a bold header is splashed across the top of the page:

Ibn Khaldun recognised the limits of proto-Keynesianism, and he anticipated the Laffer Curve by about six centuries.

Chris Berg found remarks I made on Islam and the Free Market ‘vituperative’. This cretin doesn’t know what the meaning of expression of vituperation is. He and Andrew Kemp and the IPA are bloody lairs. That muck, and I got it right the first time, is a deliberate falisfication of history. It is a betrayal of history, the history of economics, and the West.

In a bad, straw-man of an attempt to rebut Jackson’s masterful criticism of the paper and setting the historical record right, Berg asserted theology and by implication also philosophy are indebted to Islam.

It was plain then that he was told to write what is another travesty and betrayal of history in the ‘rebutal’. These myopic halfwits seem to believe there is no-one who is actually read and steeped in a field. I rebutted the rebuttal with this:

Rebuttal of Chris Berg’s Apologia (his defence of the IPA - Berg- Kemp Paper)

Here’s a summary of some points, IPA and its editor, Chris Berg lies to readers, to Australians, and their donors.

It must be noted, their primary authority was an obscure editor of an obscure newspaper in a country that has a certain Islamo-facist connection, Turkey. That was their formidable scholarship. The question, and the scandal was very hot, prompted the City to speculate on what interests prompted the heads of the IPA to publish it. The City was speculating on whom and how much.

Berg’s and Kemp’s false, inane ’history’ of economics. Mr. Jackson demonstrated that in an address to a society and completely demolished the paper in what my sources declared a tour de force.

Michael Moore (brother of Des Moore of the IPA and one of the HR Nicholls Society clubmen who completely wrecked the fight for labour markets), alerted to the subject of the lecture, attended the forum. He declared to Mr. Jackson, and I quote sources:

He was there “to represent the IPA”. My sources are firm on this: Moore was attempting to intimidate Jackson, to protect the IPA. Jackson replied to the effect, “I’m here too”.

By the end, my informants related, Michael Moore had crumpled into a cringing heap. He crumpled up in his chair as Jackson thoroughly destroyed the fabrications of Kemp and Berg. He felt worse because he realised it exposed the IPA too - well that was why he tried to intimidate Jackson, fear of exposure.

Jackson followed his lecture on the history of economics with a podcasted survey of the history of economics, on solid vox. 

Economics, theology and philosophy owe nothing what-so-ever to Islam and it is fraud to assert so. It is a betrayal of Western history, and it betrays history to the joy of diseased, treacherous Leftists and Islamo-fascists. The IPA pushed this tripe.

Berg, IPA Editor.

I refer readers back to correspondence with Berg, The Right’s deficiency and, Scoop: Correspondence with IPA and noting the introductory remarks:

The point to this is not about Berg, as the following comments make plain. Mr. Berg is incidental, a minor figure.

It is about those at the IPA on top of Berg. Next,

It also confirms, due to their warped view, Mr. Jackson is black-banned. This, some readers can recollect from an earlier item, was confirmed by none other than Mr. Tim Blair, over the Internet.

We have more to say on this, but the response from Berg was not needed to confirm it, it only provides another block of evidence. The following needs correction:

It’s unfortunate but true that our so-called right-wing would rather see the country sink than admit they don’t have all the answers.

It’s not that they don’t have answers, it’s the reason why they don’t, lousy economics and they have no depth at all and their ‘publications’ and those of the CIS too demonstrate  it - vacuous, tedious rambles matched by self-referential bibliographies showing that they have not even begun to read in the field they claim to profess let alone defend it.

I stress the conclusion to the introduction:

I thank Mr. Berg for his candour and his request that the correspondence be published (as expressed in his final reply). It had never occurred to me to do this. Though reluctant to do so, the signal importance of the material that Mr. Berg is correct.

The IPA

The Right, the CIS and  IPA like to pretend they are big-hearted guys, more sinned against than sinner. They are not. They are back-stabbing vicious houswives who put up a front to donors and Right-wing heavies. Berg is only one more reflection of them.

Berg, an economic illiterate who happily asserts fabrications that otherwise only the treacherous Left would be content with. It is not, though, simply Berg.

Berg’s garbage is what the IPA pushes as well reasoned analysis and commentary. This lot has the hide to assert their vicious tripe is a defence of the free market cause. It’s not simply Berg discrediting great causes. It’s the IPA doing a spiffing job in betraying and wrecking grave causes.

This lot have the hide to smear those who are their superiors behind their backs but whine when someone comes at them from the front. What a pack of gutless, craven mendacious pansies. These are what Harold Clough and Ron Manners consider guns.  

Berg’s record amplifies how bad, feeble and incompetent they are. He amplfies them, is transparent to them and the great damage they have caused and why they have caused it.

Professor Sinclair Davidson and the IPA have done enough, have damned themselves as it is. The scoop is off the grapevine, so I can’t vouchsafe it myself  but there it is, it’s on the vine and spreading fast all around Australia. I bites and how. First, it is pertinent to recapitulate some of Davidson’s antics.

Davidson tried to help out in 2008 in the attempt to rescue Lindsay over his carbon taxes position, using such brilliant debating methods as smearing Mr. Jackson. It was very curious to observe:

Sinclair isn’t simply attempting to extricate Humphreys, and the CIS from what is now a shocking scandal. The question is: what is his position, in view of his ties [also] to the CIS? The answer is, Sinclair has been mounting arguments for carbon taxes all along.

The position was set out in the paper with joint author the IPA’s editor Mr. Chris Berg, Thumping the Table. The main body was concerned with ‘industry policy’, it invites -music to Kim “Il” Carr’s ears. Besides denying the inverse of the J curve is true, a denial Davidson is yet to defend, and failed to rebut Jackson’s criticism, it is sombre to observe the evidence rolling in demolishes their paper and confirms what Jackson set out from a solid framework of theory.

Tacked on was a statement declaring the Green’s lies are true, ‘the science is in’, and a self-exculpating bit of hand-wringing, ostensibly asking how can the Cabinet achieve carbon taxes without destroying capital. It is rather suggestive of, it’s an advert promoting the Walker-Morgan-des Crespigny ‘nuke Australians into the ground power plant’ scheme. It turns out:

Scoop:

Professor Sinclair does support carbon taxes because, according to the grapevine, he sees carbon taxes as the way to get up a flat tax.

Ladies and gentlemen, I nearly hit the floor, from laughter. How stupid can Davidson and the IPA be? Well, Davidson is right in one sense. Carbon taxes are flat taxes, they flatten capital and that means millions of Australians flattened.

What will it be called? The Professor Sinclair Davidson Flattener. Davidson’s Pyramid - the guarantee of his immortality in Australian history?

There is a need for an honest tax debate in Australia. The tax regime is hideous and has long been strangling enterprise, and is why many have located production in other countries, including China. The IPA, CIS and the Right have never fought against this. Amusingly enough, they multiplied the taxation, it includes regulation, under their Pulitzer Prize winning economist Peter Costello.

Indeed, Chris Berg wrote a dreadful little tome on regulation and how to identify the best ‘model’ of it, complete with vacuous little graphs. Here’s the punchline, Professor Sinclair Davidson’s fellow economic genius couldn’t, and never could, ask the real starting question, Why regulation at all?

The excuse for ‘regulation’ is the myth of perfect competition. Reduced, it is nothing less than an assault on free markets. One of the fortes of the IPA has been devising the ‘best way’ to regulate.

The IPA alone has published piles of papers on the destructive mush. And. have abandoned companies they have never fought for to it. They have abandoned firms, left them to be strangled to death, despite taking donor’s money for this very purpose.

Yet, the IPA has always acted as any PR man does, for self -preservation and enrichment. PR men are at least honest. They won’t fight politicians and bureaucrats because the next day they might be working for the enemy. The IPA eats cake both ways, pretending to fight while recommending how to strangle firms to death.

Now we have this:

Professor Sinclair Davidson, a Pulitzer prize winning economist in his and his pals eyes only trying to immortalise himself by seeking a ‘flat tax’ with carbon taxes as the lever.

Never mind the firms and Australians who will be destroyed by carbon taxers, this genius, typical of the Right, know what is good for all.

Stupid people are conceited, callous and cruel, and hold themselves to be the yardstick of all things and the job of everyone is to obey them. This is the attitude of the Right. Does it show – this lot laid the foundations of Brackistan, and what they did with the STO and OPA is a testament to the callousness and cruelty that stupid types are capable of.

Sinclair wants carbon tax destruction day so he can raise a flat tax. What a bloody joke. This clown is a Professor in economics? He’s not only lousy on manufacturing, money, capital theory, and the Laffer curve. This clown has no compass at all.

Ron Manners and Harold Clough funds with the IPA and CIS a right anti-intellectual freak show filled by spivs who spit on Australians, don’t care a hoot if Australians are utterly ruined so long as they and the Right-wing pals get what they want.

So, Davidson’s interests and those of the Kemp Family IPA Trust Fund and Lindsay and his CIS Super Fund coincided in more ways than a few. No wonder Davidson expended so much energy flying interference and smearing Jackson, and doing his bit to boost carbon taxes and discredit the solid, highly moral fight against this tyranny.

Well done Manners and Clough, funding this pack of spineless, indolent, backstabbing vicious fishwives.

Of course, these are also more nasty reasons why the Right proceeds to destroy the Liberal cause – can’t let principles and truths stand in the way of their ‘ambitions’ and enriching themselves. Bloody mendacious parasites.

I ask of Manners and Clough again:

Look at what your ‘pals’ did in Victoria. You look at what they did with the STO and the OPA, and the victims of this thuggery, many victims put through hell and all because of the arrogance and stupidity of your chums.

When will you, Manners and Clough, cut the bums off:

When some more mining firms and engineering firms are wiped out or all of them finished off? When only more tens of thousands Australians face greater hardships or the vast majority are ruined because of the Right and their clunker tanks.

Well, other donors, as we have observed, have cut off the funds and others are very nervous.

Sinclair Davidson, what a brain. Now I am beginning to fully appreciate why the hard Left enjoy playing around with them. After all, the diseased Left do not wish one bit to see the Right finished off. They want the Right kept centre stage to maintain the lie that they are genuine Liberals and fight causes. Besides, why bury those who are doing good work for the treacherous Left. 

Do Manners and Clough find intellectual fraud and worse comforting, and a real solid effort in fighting the free market cause? 

Kevin Rudd will, no doubt, hand Professor Sinclair Davidson a suitable gong for the advance of fascism and service to the death cult of the Greens, The Glad Badge of the order of Little Brown Shorts, first class, with a signed pic of Deah Leadah Kevin Bloody Rudd himself, and smiling!

Articles on, On Thumping the Table

Is monetary policy destroying the country’s manufacturing base?

How America and Australia’s central banks badly damaged manufacturing

Posted on Mangled Thoughts, a number of items here.

That is aside from, for example, Davidson’s drivel on the Laffer curve.

In one sentence, the point to the curve was to ram home to President Kennedy and the Democrats savings and their accumulation is the imperative, the only way out of recession and the only driver of growth and for this to occur they had to cut the tax burden.

Leftists have lied about the Reagan and Bush tax cuts, asserting they failed to deliver growth. A bloody lie but the Right and their clunker tanks, in typical form, did not come out and crumple the hard Leftists on this. Instead we see the likes of Davidson ‘rediscovering the Laffer curve’.

The Right’s non-defence of Capitalism and free markets

Making Davidson’s tedious efforts all the more dreadful is the rotten, all-consuming policies of the Rudd Cabinet, States’ Cabinets and Local Councils.  

In addition to the evidence that has rolled in from Japan, Europe, Britain and even within Australia of the disastrous impact of carbon taxes, which in Victoria led to the wide blackouts in summer that killed Victorians, we now have not only:

Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources, by G.C. Alvarez Phd., R.M. Jara, J.R.R. Julian, and J.I.G. Bielsa, Rey Juan University, 2009.  53 page report.

It can be anticipated more damning reports will roll in over the months ahead. The Spanish report alone flatly condemns each claim Greg Lindsay merely asserts - doesn’t bother attempting to justify and defend them, he merely asserts them. It is very important to note the Rudd Cabinet is using the same assertions to push its carbon tax. There’s more:

Arnold Schwarzenegger claims to be a Hayekian too. As the IPA and CIS, he’s heard of Hayek, he has like them, to be generous, seen the titles Road to Serfdom, Constitution of Liberty and stopped there. Schwarzenneger is far from being a free market Republican. Before Obama and the diseased Left Democrats were handed the keys to the White-house,

Schwarzenneger has done his bit. He has razed Californians with carbon taxes. Speaking against Obama’s villainous act of tyranny, the Waxman-Markey ‘cap and trade bill’, Republican Rep. Tom McClintock summarised the impact of Schwarzenneger’s carbon taxes and McClintock has a particular advantage, he is a House Representative from the state of California:

In addition to destruction of capital, and the flight of capital, McClintock attest to the contrary of what Lindsay also asserts:

Gov. Schwarzenegger assured us that AB 32 would mean an explosion of new, green jobs — exactly the same promises we’re hearing from cap and trade supporters. In California, exactly the opposite has happened. We have lost so many jobs the UC Santa Barbara economic forecast is now using the D-word — depression — to discuss California’s job market.

Waxman-Markey Is Our Smoot-Hawley

And this is what Greg Lindsay, the vested interests he is connected to, and Rudd,. Wong, Brown, Garrett, Turnbull and Greg Hunt want to do to Australians, wipe them out with carbon taxes and ‘alternative energy’. The difference between the Right and the diseased Left is the latter are motivated by their vile cult beliefs while the Right are motivated by their own wallets, they want to rich themsleves more by inflicting great pain and what promises to be irrecoverable long term economic damage. Let’s carbon taxes for what they are, deliberate economic sabotage on a tremendous scale backed on magical beliefs held by the fanatical Greens, propagated by their diseased Leftist allies and embraced by the kleptomaniacal, inbred, brain challenged Right.

The final abject act of Schwartzenneger was to betray the Republicans, attacking George Bush and expressing his full support for that treacherous Leftist thug called Obama. The CIS is in good company.

Obama, the only time he has told the truth, did declare the object is to destroy energy production, which means, as is occurring in California under a ham whose sobriquet takes on a certain twist, The Terminator, the destruction of the capital structure of the U.S. What was that you said, Professor Sinclair Davidson? Never mind, Professor, we have cause to return to you. Obama had an amendment attached to his carbon tax, a bit redundant in some respects but not in others, namely:

The amendment reinforces the totalitarian thrust of carbon taxation. It, moreover it is a measure the Brumby Cabinet of Victoria is working on - this is in addition to all the other ‘Kyoto compliance’ frauds he and Brumby before him dictated Victorians must waste money on when building new house, sending up the cost of house up by no trivial amount. The amendment is:

RUSH:  Have you heard about this, folks?  When you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you’ve got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can’t sell — that’s in the bill.  I’m not kidding, Brian.  See, you can’t believe it.  You can’t.  It’s in the bill.  It was in this amendment that Boehner (Republican) read [the bill in the House].

 Arnie, diseased Leftist hugger and The Ratinator Terminator.

Greg Lindsay, through his monkey John Humphreys in asserting the anti-science and anti-economics lies, asserted carbon taxes are “as everyone knows the cheapest way” to effect compliance. It is lie. The Australian tax regime as it is, and by taxation I also include regulation, is very complex and very expensive to comply with and it is why companies have closed and transferred production to other countries.  Keating and the ALP, Costello and the Right intensified and extended the tax regime that strangles companies to death. Wayne Swann and Rudd have multiplied new measures which will swallow many in a right tax compliance nightmare.

Forget capital theory, the Right are no more clued in as to what is involved in running enterprises in Australia. All the evidence to date indicates carbon taxes are a nightmare to comply with but this problem becomes hypothetical, since the destruction of capital means no-one has to worry about compliance.

Anyway, the Rush page contains links to other damning items. In the meantime, the scandal of a suppressed report is blowing up in Obama’s face.  Here is the suppressed report:

Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act,  

By Alan Carlin NCEE/OPEI  March 2009.

The developments are related here:

RELEASED The censored EPA CO2 endangerment document – final report

EPA plays hide and seek; suppressed report revealed

Source inside EPA confirms claims of science being ignored, suppressed, by top EPA management

Fraud, and Lindsay and his chums see nothing wrong with its perpetration in order to perpetrate crimes on a tremendous scale, horrific crimes.

Last week we concentrated on the CIS and its treacherous betrayal of Australians and the free market cause by pushing carbon taxes. This required a follow-up today.

This item is a lead into the IPA and the tremendous damage it has caused to the free market cause and it’s success in delivering victories to the Left, and readers will recollect the IPA published a bumper issue blaming Howard for the failures that lead to the defeat of Howard in the 2007 election and so, for example:

Liberal Party: Right-wing continue to blame Howard for election defeat

A two pronged attack. The spine uniting the two tines is lousy economics and we shall proceed from this and into the IPA. Though, it must be said that at least the CIS has ceased pretending to be a genuine free market think tank when it took up the ‘let’s wipe out Australians with carbon taxes’ diseased, hard Left cause. Still, lousy economics is the common link.

A noticeable thing occurred at the forum. John Quiggin no longer attacks free markets as such. He has narrowed his attack to “neo-Liberals”, a tag that is directly pinned to the CIS and IPA. This is not an accident.  When Quiggin did directly attack free market economics, he was eviscerated by Jackson. He has not attacked genuine free market economics again and this is reinforced by the observation that when Quiggin commented on the financial market meltdown last year, he did not blame it on free markets as such, he pinned it to “neo-liberalism” and “neo-classical economics”.

Oddly enough, soon after Jackson eviscerated the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, for the atrocious rubbish he wrote against Hayek and free markets, Rudd also narrowed his attack to “neo-liberalism”. As a very good guess, Rudd was told to do this because of the obvious. He has never mentioned free markets since. The trouble is, Rudd, his Cabinet, and those ‘advising them’ are attacking free markets, sapping them, and overthrowing them through their policies. How can they get away this?

For the purposes of public warfare, the Right and their lousy notions, buttressed by the IPA and CIS has been firmly identified as the genuine free market cause. This is how destructive not only Right-wing politicians and their advisers have been. It is a damning indictment of the IPA and CIS.

The discrediting of the free market cause by these clowns has been reinforced by the mainstream media, because there is none in it who publicly correct and attack the errors and lousy economics. This has made it, along the way, for the RBA and Treasurers to get away with lousy, destructive policies. No wide public debate in coverage means Treasurers and the RBA face little or no damage and humiliation. It means they face little pressure, and the Left know this and why this is important:

Great causes are won or lost not between a few politicians, their advisers, and think tanks muttering between themselves. The Left know the voting man has to be convinced of  a cause; exactly the point to why the Right blew the campaign blew the fight for free labour markets and made it very easy for the ACTU to convince enough voters to turn against reform. Some of those responsible for this disaster are not only in the club primarily responsible for this disaster, the HR. Nicholls Society. Some, notably Ray Evans and Des Moore are in the IPA too. It might also be remarked, the CIS also did its bit to wreck that cause by publishing their own lousy, destructive, notions on labour market economics and reform. All this was, for good measure, reinforced by more garbage from Andrew Bolt and Janet Albrechtsen.

Von Mises remarked, any competent economist can smash the Left and he lead by example. What stuffs the IPA and the CIS are not competent and the Right that has wrecked the Liberal Party have no one in their ranks who is competent either.

 An article illustrates what the Left are attacking freely. The interesting thing is, it is written by a Leftist who is, on the strength of the content an illiterate but has summarised what has been identified as the free market position and it is false, entirely false. So long as the Right and their think tanks remain centre stage and identified with the genuine Liberal cause, they and not the Left will continue to sink it. It is, after all, why Rudd and his gang of thugs are in office.

Neoliberal pseudo-science

The article will be pinned to the IPA in the course of this week as we push on to carve up this pack of spineless clowns.

We leave off with a sharp contrast. Here is Jackson carving up Leftists in solid defence of free markets:

Free labour markets and a leftwing academic’s propaganda 

Australian protectionists do not even know what they are talking about 

Labour market reform and the costs argument

America’s credit crunch — we’ve been there before 

Professor John Quiggin gets it wrong on taxes and jobs 

Socialist economist screws up on free trade and Keynesian policies 

Savings, jobs and Professor Quiggin’s bad economics* 

Government spending and jobs — another Keynesian fallacy 

9-11, an academic’s libels and Letelier’s treason 

Kevin Rudd’s economic illiteracy and his attack on Hayek

What makes the contrast all the more amusing is, while Jackson shredded Quiggin effortlessly, the CIS and IPAare scared witless of Quiggin, who happily bounces these rubber balls.

It is well to add in a defence that is also in stark contrast to the IPA’s self serving “let’s bash Howard” exercise,

Kevin Rudd’s imaginary contradiction, by Charles Murton, published in Brookesnews.

Readers, to gauge, can now appreciate why one did not rush in with the treatment of the IPA last Friday. There is more involved than generalised shots. There is much involved and it needs systematic setting out and, by gum, I’ll enjoy working up every bit of it.

Carbongate, Investor’s Business Daily (26/6/09)Climate Change: A suppressed EPA study says old U.N. data ignore the decline in global temperatures and other inconvenient truths. Was the report kept under wraps to influence the vote on the cap-and-trade bill?

The data referred to is that supplied by the IPCC and what has to be stressed the IPCC has committed undiluted fraud and this is also corruption of science and overthrow of science. Greg Lindsay and the CIS is party to this by asserting the lies are true.

No matter how it is examined, Greg Lindsay’s assertion of, Australians can be compensated for the impact of carbon taxation is a lie too:

The  Waxman - Markey - Maddoff [Mass destruction ‘bill’]

Yet, it is pointless to worry about the dollar impact of carbon tax on consumers when, the generator of incomes and consumer goods, production is wiped out and this is the force of carbon taxes. Nothing living exists without carbon,  and the sheer amount of work carbon - not only in building flesh, is tremendous and Co2 in its gas phase is essential to this and making this staggering to contemplate is that the amount of Co2 gas present in the atmosphere is so small that it can be dismissed, regarded as zero.

Co2, bye the bye, does not remain and accumulate in the atmosphere. It is rapidly dissolved by water, including in the gas phase of H2O, and washed back to earth, where it commences an infinite array of work. The more Co2 the better!

Energy and its combustion is essential. Entrepreneurs discovered how to harness energy and deliver it cheaply. This is only one of the sheer array of inventions entrepreneurs developed that has made it possible for man to escape the miseries of the past. But, all this was due to free markets. Politicians are bent on wiping out free markets and cheap energy, the whole point to carbon taxes, and how many times does this truth have to be iterated before people go on the war path against the thugs and those who support them (Greg Lindsay can test out the bunker qualities of his CIS clubrooms all he likes but, it isn’t proofed against the pen and the power of the Internet):

Obama will bankrupt the coal industry

In a rare, candid moment Obama revealed he will destroy energy production with carbon taxation,

During the same interview Obama also admitted that his cap and trade plan would bankrupt anyone who builds a coal-powered plant.

This is precisely the aim Greg Lindsay is pushing.

A recently completed Spanish Study confirmed what theory predicts, and Mr. Jackson has laid this out with impeccable reasoning, tax cuts cannot offset the destructive consequences of a carbon tax. What makes the study devastating for the carbon taxers is that it is evidence of the devastation wrought by Spain’s politicians against their own people by imposing carbon taxes:

Study of the effects on employment of public aid to renewable energy sources, by G.C. Alvarez Phd., R.M. Jara, J.R.R. Julian, and J.I.G. Bielsa, Rey Juan University, 2009.  53 page report.

Here are some telling quotes from the  ‘Executive Summary’ and applies to Kevin Rudd, the Right, John Brumby and Steve Bracks:

The following are key points from the study:
1.  As  President Obama  correctly  remarked,  Spain  provides  a  reference  for  the establishment of  government  aid  to  renewable energy. No other  country has given  such  broad  support  to  the  construction  and  production  of  electricity through  renewable  sources.  The  arguments  for  Spain’s  and  Europe’s  “green jobs”  schemes are  the  same arguments now made  in  the U.S., principally  that massive  public  support  would  produce  large  numbers  of  green  jobs.  The question that this paper answers is “at what price?”
2.  Optimistically  treating  European  Commission  partially  funded  data,  we  find that  for every renewable energy  job that the State manages to  finance, Spain’s experience cited by President Obama as a model reveals with high confidence, by two different methods, that the U.S. should expect a loss of at least 2.2 jobs on average, or about 9 jobs lost for every 4 created, to which we have to add those  jobs  that  non-subsidized  investments  with  the  same  resources  would have created.

3.  Therefore, while  it  is not possible to directly translate Spain’s experience with exactitude  to  claim  that  the U.S. would  lose  at  least 6.6 million  to 11 million jobs, as a direct consequence were  it  to actually create 3  to 5 million “green jobs” as promised  (in addition to the  jobs  lost due to the opportunity cost of private  capital  employed  in  renewable  energy),  the  study  clearly  reveals  the tendency that the U.S. should expect such an outcome.

4.  At minimum,  therefore,  the  study’s  evaluation  of  the  Spanish model… serves a note of caution, that the reality is far from what has typically been presented, and [has] … considerable  employment  consequences  and implications for emerging from the economic crisis.

6. This  came  at  great  financial  cost  as well  as  cost  in  terms  of  jobs  destroyed elsewhere in the economy.
7.  The  study  calculates  that  since  2000  Spain  spent  €571,138  to  create  each “green job”, including subsidies of more than €1 million per wind industry job. 8.  The study calculates that the programs creating those jobs also resulted in the destruction  of  nearly  110,500  jobs  elsewhere  in  the  economy,  or  2.2  jobs destroyed for every “green job” created.

9.  Principally,  the  high  cost  of  electricity  affects  costs  of  production  and
employment  levels  in  metallurgy,  non-metallic  mining  and  food  processing, beverage and tobacco industries.

10. Each “green” megawatt installed destroys 5.28 jobs on average elsewhere in the economy: 8.99 by photovoltaics, 4.27 by wind energy, 5.05 by mini-hydro.

11. These  costs  do  not  appear  to  be  unique  to  Spain’s  approach  but  instead  are largely inherent in schemes to promote renewable energy sources.

12. The  total over-cost  –  the  amount  paid over  the  cost  that would  result  from buying  the electricity generated by  the renewable power plants at  the market price  -  that  has  been  incurred  from  2000  to  2008  (adjusting  by  4%  and calculating  its  net  present  value  [NPV]  in  2008),  amounts  to  7,918.54 million Euros (appx. $10 billion USD)

13. The  total  subsidy  spent  and  committed  (NPV  adjusted by 4%)  to  these  three renewable sources amounts to 28,671 million euros ($36 billion USD).16. The  high  cost  of  electricity  due  to  the  green  job  policy  tends  to  drive  the relatively  most  electricity-intensive  companies  and  industries  away,  seeking areas where costs are lower. The example of Acerinox is just such a case.

18. These schemes create serious “bubble” potential, as Spain  is now discovering. The most paradigmatic bubble case can be  found  in  the photovoltaic  industry. Even with subsidy schemes  leaving the mean sale price of electricity generated from solar photovoltaic power 7 times higher than the mean price of the pool, solar failed even to reach 1% of Spain’s total electricity production in 2008.

19. The  energy  future  has  been  jeopardized  by  the  current  state  of  wind  or photovoltaic  technology  (more  expensive  and  less  efficient  than  conventional energy  sources).  These  policies  will  leave  Spain  saddled  with  and  further artificially  perpetuating obsolete  fixed  assets,  far  less  productive  than  cutting-edge  technologies,  the soaring rates  for which soon-to-be obsolete assets  the government has committed to maintain at high levels during their lifetime.

20. The regulator should consider whether citizens and companies need expensive and  inefficient energy – a  factor of production usable  in virtually every human project- or affordable energy to help overcome the economic crisis instead.

21. The Spanish system also jeopardizes conventional electricity facilities, which are the first to deal with the electricity tariff deficit that the State owes them.

22. Renewable technologies remained the beneficiaries of new credit while others began to struggle, though this was solely due to subsidies, mandates and related programs.  As  soon  as…24. Renewables  consume  enormous  taxpayer  resources.  In  Spain,  the  average annuity  payable  to  renewables  is  equivalent  to  4.35%  of  all  VAT  collected, 3.45% of  the household  income  tax, or 5.6% of  the corporate  income  tax  for 2007.

The lengthy quotation of their conclusions is is important because in summary:

Carbon taxes and the few ‘greens jobs’ the Spanish Government set up by taxing many others has caused tremendous destruction of capital and has already impoverished many, and Spain is spirally down into greater economic carnage.

As for ‘alternative energy’ and the impact of Government imposing these scams, the findings confirm what sound economic theory.

The report is a flat contradiction from hard evidence of what not only the Left asserts, but Lindsay and other Right-wing supporters of carbon taxes. Asserted: not one of them has presented an argued case, and, needless to say, try to evade defending their claims.

Lindsay, as Bracks, Brumby, Turnbull, Greg Hunt, Rudd, Wong and Garrett, say there is nothing to debate, that the evidence is in and its supports what they assert. Well, the evidence is in and it shows their claims to be what has been hammered for over a decade by real economists and scientists, the claims economic and scientific : They are false.

Not, though, merely false. They have to be regarded as deliberate lies as a pack of treacherous parasites push measures that involve totalitarian controls and mean reducing very many Australians into abject destitution.

The likes of Greg Lindsay and Professor Sinclair Davidson smeared Mr. Jackson for a delivering rock solid analysis and predictions from solid economic theory. They smeared him for stating the truth that ‘alternative energy’ is so dilute that the dis-economies of scale are tremendous, entailing appalling implications if cheap coal energy is destroyed for those fraudulent scams.

This leaves the Hugh Morgan-Ron Walker-des Crespigney ‘nuclear power plant’. Such propositions also rest on the deliberate destruction of coal production. This, again, means totalitarian measures and the use of coercion to impoverish many Australians.

It, again, means the destruction of capital and the attempt to compel firms and consumers to pay for their very expensive nuclear power scam. This schemes means most other firms except the ‘nuclear’ scam’ will be hit; other firms will be destroyed even on the ‘nuke em into the ground power plant plant’. Walker, Morgan and des Crespigney are connected to Greg Lindsay.

[Note: I’m not opposed to nuclear energy as such, but there is no free market, economically sound justification for it. Should it be a genuine proposition that will be due to entirely sound free market processes, and not the fraud that trio would have perpetrated against Australians.]

Intellectual fraud? Oh, no, What the CIS is guilty of is worse than mere intellectual fraud. This mob advertises that it is a defender of free markets and they are experts in Austrian school economics. These two claims have never been in evidence as it is. Due to their lobby campaign for carbon taxes, however, this lot could be mistaken as another front for diseased, treacherous Leftists.

As it is, questions are being asked about the connections of Greg Lindsay.

Indeed, Obama’s energy bill is a recipe for economic destruction, Ditto of the Left and the Right in Australia and their rotten plans to grind Australians into dust.

But some telling matters are being brought out:

Self-serving know-alls fuelled fires, The Australian, 24/6/09

THE bureaucratic ineptitude being revealed at the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission is at once extraordinary and infuriating. The lessons have implications for every aspect of government in Australia and demand a radical rethink about the dominance of politicised bureaucracies within our lives.

The emerging picture eerily imitates Franz Kafka’s The Trial.

Government fire services furtively developed their doctrinaire rules, then enforced them with mindless zeal. Fire and emergency supremos were provided with limitless authority to bend citizens and communities to their rigid controls without effective scrutiny or supervision.

The article doesn’t pin why, who, and how. Let’s demonstrate with a case, the State Trustees Office. To recapitulate from previous articles:

I had originally assumed it was Bracks and Hulls who had converted the State Trustees Office and the Office of Public Advocate into a crime syndicate. This is wrong. Sources not only corrected me; they explained how and why Kennett, Stockdale and their advisers did this. From the item, What the Right did to the STO and Wards of the State, Pt.I:

The history of ‘wardship’ spans the 12th century to the present.

The origin of the STO is Henry II’s seminal decision to commit the Crown to fully uphold common law, and thus the property rights of Englishmen, and bind the Crown to being subject to Common Law. Property rights and economic free action are the grounds of common law. He swore to uphold Justice, and to ensure the rights of Englishmen. Later, consistent with this oath-sworn duty, the “Lunacy Act” formalised what had developed since Henry II. An Englishmen could have the King ensure and uphold his common law rights freedoms.

In other words, “lunatic” did not necessarily mean someone who appealed to the King was a lunatic. This is reflected in the word is as ‘depression’, loose and rubbery. By this, the King’s protection was not restricted to men, women and children who reason is impaired by an incapacitating condition. The 19^th century Lunacy Acts 1808 - 1853, for example, was a formalisation of the binding oath the Crown will execute service to those who, irrespective of reasons, sought it.

Those Acts were framed to also resolve problems discovered, arising out of executing that duty. The Lunacy Act of 1890 replaced them. Later the name was changed to “Wards of the State” and officers responsible for the administration of the Act accordingly renamed.

The Australian colonies followed all these 19th century developments. This was the basis of the establishment of the STO. This the foundation of the STO in common law and in statute…

The duty of the executive, was given crucial institutional expression, which was reflected and maintain through the  STO, to deliver on the duty to uphold the the property rights and freedoms of ‘wards’. This is not a business and Cabinets and administrative apparatus are not businesses; it is duty, and honour bound duty for good measure. 

What did the Right do?

They deliberately traduced the Crown’s duty to those who request it. They decided to establish it as a profit making enterprise. How was this to be done? The truth is, there was no lawful way it could be done. But a way was found.

They would generate the appearance the STO is a business. Secondly, they would fabricate the fiction it is a business by re-establishing it as a company entity. The original plan was to then float it on the stock market. It still exists as a shell company with the single issued $1 share still held by the Victorian Cabinet through Treasury.

To do all that, the appearance of profitability had to be generated. How was this to be realised? It was achieved by stripping the accounts of Wards of the State, and seizing other types of property, seizing property titles, imposing encumbrances, and selling them off. It was found the STO was a ‘profitable business’.

The above was reinforced by the lousy, not free market economics of the Right and their ‘think tanks’, the IPA and CIS, in particular, privatisation’ and the Kennett Cabinet was drawing advice from them.

VCAT - Is no court

Merely a toothless tiger serving as a goon squad to Cabinet and Parliament and this is black because the original function of Parliament is as a court of common law to stand up against lawless Cabinets.

VCAT is the instrument with which the actions of the OPA and STO against its many victims are ‘protected’.

While The Kennett administration asserted VCAT was to be a low cost resort in common law, in contrast to the expense of the regular courts, the reality is, VCAT is a mockery of the function of courts, and the result is a mockery of justice. As we have noticed in the case of Jennifer of Peter, VCAT proceedings are truly Kafkaesque. Kafka’s The Trial fits. VCAT is nothing more than an enforcer of the thuggery of politicians, and this is transparent through the operations of the STO and OPA:

They actively seek, in ways much like the actions of HEROC, to place as many Victorians as possible under types of Guardianship-Administrative orders. These orders subject victims and their property and victims under absolute control of the Government, which then strips the property, from accounts to the titles of the homes of victims. In the case of titles to homes and any other land owned by victims, the Cabinet, via STO, then sells the land and pockets the loot. Another wheeze is, closing down the bank accounts of victims, entering this as a ’sale of capital’ and charging the victim a selling fee.

It is, to say the least, a complete perversion and corruption of the true function of the STO and OPA. Mechanisms used to achieve this include the “Guardianship Act”. These mechanisms were put in place by the Kennett Cabinet, and have since been tightened by Bracks and Brumby to shut any loopholes victims could use to re-assert their liberty and property rights.

All that has happened since the defeat of Kennett, under Bracks and Brumbys is a spiralling corruption of important institutions and their functions. This has been matched, among other nasty developments and changes. It might seem trivial but it is a sign of this descent by Cabinet and Parliament into criminal thuggery that what should be mere administrators are now called, chief executive officers. The head of the Blasphemy Court, Szoke is one. ’Managing Directors’ is another abuse of language. This is all the more duplicitous because it equates those types with entrepreneurs, reflecting the descent from Statism under the Right into fascism under the Left. Their proper names are Commissar and Gauleiter.

The Bill of anti-Rights

Though imposed under the Bracks Cabinet, it was the Kennett Cabinet and their advisers who prepared the anti-Bill of Rights. Whatever alterations Bracks and Hulls made to it are trivial. The  draft“Bill” was prepared and completed by the Kennett Cabinet and their advisers, inclusive of making it a criminal offence for any Victorians to reassert their inalienable Rights against a criminal, larcenous Victorian regime by resorting to the High Court of Australia.

It is no mere usurpation of the inalienable rights of Victorians. The force of it is, the rights of Victorians are nothing more than the decree of politicians. They own and dispose of the property and lives of Victorians and this is the force of the Bill.

Things are worse than even the above suggests. Looking at the time frames involved, and the sequence in which Bracks, Brumby, and Hulls (under both of these “Premiers”) introduced the major bills and alterations, it is highly probable the Kennett Cabinet and their advisers also devised the Blasphemy Bill.

Kennett the arrogant anti-intellectual

I’m not saying Kennett and his Cabinet converted the STO and OPA, intentionally. Kennett, being anti-intellectual and this reinforced and fuelled his arrogance, as with ‘privatisation’ of water and energy supply  (as opposed to re-founding them on genuine free market foundations, a crucial distinction) eschewed rigorous examination and debate over what are very serious matters.

An acquaintance, who read the material on the STO and OPA mentioned a fierce exchange that I had missed, a few years ago. It was between Mr. John Stone, and one of the pseudo-free market ‘intellectuals’ and IPA supremo, Mr. David Kemp.

John Stone mounted a stern defence of the integrity and its maintenance of important institutions, and the conventions and practices generated over centuries that inform them, restrain them, and essential to their proper and sound functioning. Kemp sneered at the case as naive rantings, the notions having no place in the brave new, anti-free market world of the Right.

The only thing Mr. Stone has to take on board is inalienable property rights, which are the foundation, the ground of free markets, and common law and the institutions that serve freedom. This means, sound free market economic theory is indispensable and the thing is, the indication is that Mr. Stone is realising this.

The Right’s destruction of the sound and therefore highly moral cause of free labour markets and the related upshot of the Rudd fascist Cabinet has changed Mr. Stone’s long held stance that theory can be dismissed as useless. That, Mr. Stone now appreciates his previous position on economics was not merely wrong, it is a perilous position, as he now realises.

Will Mr Stone, and in view of his general standing and reputation, go forth in public on this and what that also involves, public recommendation of Mr. Jackson as a genuine free market warrior, and Dr. Shostak? For, he should in the face of the great perils Federal and States’ Cabinets, and Local Councils are forcing Australians to face, and with it the very evident fact that the ‘road to serfdom’ is now being rapidly laid by parasites called politicians.

The evidence of the corruption of the ‘public service’ and service entities presented before the Victorian Bushfire Commission is merely a symptom of the perversion of institutions and various entities. The Right have as much ‘blood’ on their hands as does the diseased Left. It has been more than a disturbing descent from the Kennett years to the Brumby Cabinet.

As for the bush-fires, they were caused by the Right and the Left, with their land-grabs and locking it up, converting them into fire-storm material. Victorian politicians killed the victims and destroyed their property. On this, the Commission is a whitewash.

Premier John Brumby preempted the white-wash, when he announced it:

Media and Brumby are daily running the line, Victorians must not ‘engage in finger pointing’ (Brumby) and descend to the blame game. It’s not a matter of a ‘blame game’ and ‘finger-pointing’. The fire-storms were deliberately caused by politicians of the major parties who used Greens policies against Victorians.

They murdered hundreds of Victorians as surely as if they walked up to them and killed them with axes. So, too, the 40 odd Victorians killed in the heatwave because of the anti-energy policies of Bracks, Brumby and supported by the Right. The Right also aided Bracks and Brumby through usurping the property rights of Victorians (the foundation of Liberty as reflected in Common Law) through such acts as the Blasphemy Act, the anti-Bill of Rights - to name only two of a very long list of bills Left and Right dreamt up to strip Victorians of their inalienable Rights. Ditto, local councils’ politicians.

John Brumby’s white-wash and Red Ted Baillieu’s agreeableness

 The new motto for car rego plates is -

Victoria The No.1 State for Lawless Politicians and Bureaucrats

Just some of the items posted on the STO and OPA: 

The Government of Victoria (Brackistan) is operating a large-scale criminal operation: Pt.1

Documented evidence for ‘Phase I’ of: Victorian Government’s criminal operation and State Trustees Office, and accomplices, and other parties.

Victorian Government has eliminated the inalienable rights of some Victorians

Victorian Government, : Office of Public Advocate caught red handed in commission of major crimes: perverting the course of justice.

I repeat the call, and justice demands it, all involved should be investigated. There must be an impartial criminal investigations and charges must be laid wherever they fall. This means politicians and their advisers cannot be allowed to escape such an investigation.

Obama is the United State’s Hugo Chavez. And an ignorant, oily, blowhard who had only two things going for him. He appealed to the treacherous, Castro and Islamo fascist hugging Leftists in the Democrats Party. He is going to reduce Americans to a living nightmare and this is all too transparent in his ‘policies’.

If anyone else did what he and the lying club of socialist cultists are perpetrating, they’d  be thrown into prison. And, if anyone else has done what central banks have perpetrated, and what successive Victorian Cabinets have committed, and what Rudd, Swann and Penny Wong are bringing down, they’d be thrown into a prison cell and the key thrown away down the sewer, lost forever. Sadly, in Australia, the Right has done much to advance criminal ‘policies’.

I  cannot but laugh each time I hear Costello boast of how he and his fellow Liberal Party wreckers have fought for Liberty. The joke is funnier when recollecting Costello’s and Michael Kroger’s account of their heroic actions as undergraduates against the hard left. ‘Airbrushing’ isn’t a good look for these two slimes. Let’s recount the historical facts, just for a jolly good belly laugh; it’s Friday after all.

When Peter was an undergraduate, he started out as a member of the Monash University ALP club. He was no Liberal then, and he is no Liberal today. Other ALP members of the club called him names, because, at a good estimation, Peter couldn’t get his way. This was unfortunate, because he and his pal Kroger inflicted themselves on the Liberal Party.

Peter cried crocodile tears and complained to ALP machine heavies, and demanded they spank the Party poopers. The gown-ups  gave him a hanky and told him to nick off. He did. At a boozey ’stooodent ooonion’ barbecue of a piss up, the ALP club members gave Costello and Kroger what for, for being a pair of whining cretins who couldn’t get their own way and then ratting. The Liberal ’stoodent ooonion’ Party welcomed them because, no doubt, they recognised in these two brats types just like themselves, and its been that way ever since.

So, Costello and Kroger airbrushed what did transpire. Every Leftist heavy knows it and rolls about laughing each time it is told; an oldie but it’s still one of their favourite jokes.

The Costello-Kroger version is that they were not only engaged in hard intellectual war against the Left, but they risked life and limb. It was real, old fashioned physical violence. They were the equal to someone who literally risked his life against genuinely violent, hard Left thugs, B.A. Santamaria.

Not to be outshone, The HR Nicholls Society held a dinner commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, how they destroyed it all by themselves. Oh, darn, Kroger and Costello are founding members of that club of buffoons. Yet, there is genuine competition between them. Unbelievable. Oh, competition in what? The heroism stakes, that’s what:

In a speech to the HR Nicholls Society - why do they bother, they all blather the same rubbish. Oh, I know, each likes to be a star and outshine Lord Olivier or Sir John Gielgud. What are two great Shakespearean actors against the poise and dramatic voices of The Village Idiots Vaudeville Troupe?

Ah yes, in said speech, David Kemp praised the heroism of his fellow, ‘gung-ho’, battle hardened combat warriors but managing to point himself up as the best of them. He is outstanding. Here it is, readers, in black and white:

Tenth Anniversary Conference, The Occasional Address, David Kemp

I am honoured to have been invited by Ray Evans to speak to this tenth anniversary dinner of the H.R. Nicholls Society…

It has been a particularly satisfying Society to belong to, not merely because it has had such remarkable success with its agenda of reform—though some here may think that success has so far been inadequate—but because it creates such consternation among one’s political opponents when they discover that you are a member of the H.R. Nicholls Society.

In the Parliament it still causes that frisson of fear to ripple around the Labor benches.

It gives me the same thrill as barracking for Carlton in the Collingwood stand at Victoria Park.

It is hard to believe that the Society is an organisation which holds peaceful seminars and publishes papers.

After all, no seminar group could have the apparent influence, and blanch so effectively the face of any ACTU Executive member as the H.R. Nicholls Society did. And still does today. It gives me great delight to wear my H.R. Nicholls Society tie into the House of Representatives, and wave it at poor old Martin Ferguson and Simon Crean…

It has been the awareness of that response by those who have defended the system of privilege and elite power supported by the ACTU that has made the H.R. Nicholls Society such a fearsome and feared opponent. But even a debate where victory for one side may be written in the stars cannot be won without champions, and it has been the courage of those who founded this Society and pressed ahead with the case for freedom in the workplace, who rightly receive our praise at this tenth anniversary conference.

That, readers, is only one of many reasons why the hard Left call the Right “pompous asses” and on this count let’s finish Kemp off properly. In the speech he boasted of millions of Australians are reverently and eternally grateful to them, and for representing them. Yes, so successful and so respected, and the “silent majority” such obedient serfs to this lot that they picked up their pitchforks and booted them out of office in 2007.

The Left not only roll about laughing at this lot, they send them up to their faces. Kemp believes hard leftists tremble at his approach, and sweat fear when they see the HR Nicholls Society’s badge of courage pinned to his chest. Now, as every jester knows only too well, the thing to do to conceited, humourless, dim-witted clowns whose bravery consists of holding an office by which they can freely intimidate others is to ham it up.

Jesters approach such types mimicking all the signs of fear Kemp claims to see in Leftist heavies. You know the trick:

The jester drops/tightens the jaw; squints the eyes, trembles the lips, and drops a knee to effect the cowed and beaten look.

Naturally, timing is everything. It is essential to launch it on a stage with a large audience present; this requisite is guaranteed in Parliament House. It definitely works, I vouchsafe it because I’ve pulled it myself: the pompous ass in question was deaf to the titters and laughter of an appreciative audience.

Now, it’s horrible to do this, to relate the bare, cold truth. However, and the duty pains me, it is time to disabuse Kemp of his heroic fantasies. Ditto, his brother Robert Kemp, who would during the Howard years, with a Coalition majority in the Senate, swagger in, sneer and make ad hominem cracks against the Left’s Senators. This was Senator Robert Kemp’s notion of fighting the Left, argument and debate. Otherwise his speeches were typical of the Right, numbingly vacuous.

When it was clear the Liberal Party was gone, and it was plain by 2005 they were defeated in the 2007 election, there was a happy note to the disaster caused by that lot. I took a bet on:

On the first day of the new, Left dominated Senate with an ALP President, Robert Kemp would swagger in as usual, throw out his usual loud-mouthed sneers, cheap cracks and general abuse and, the ALP would joyfully commence humiliating him, roused on by a chorus of hilarity.

He delivered in good form and they did. The President let Kemp sling a few lines and then told him to shut up and sit down. When Kemp opened his gob again, the Senator gave him another bollocking. It took the wind right of Kemp, and his smug smile fell faster than led and he couldn’t hide deep in the leather fast enough from  the ALP senators  rolling about in their seats laughing uncontrollably.

Gad it was hilarious and, best of all folks, the Right that hold all Victorian seats in the Senate give the Left a good laugh each day it sits, a belly-aching laugh. It is  hilarious listening to that lot because they really believe they are inflicting pain. Ah, they are, laughter can be painful. Helen Kroger excels at inflicting pain:

“Can the Minister guarantee the armed forces will receive their slouch hats this year?”

Now, I was crumpled up as it was but then I caught a snatch of this genius saying:

“And undies.”

It’s very difficult, readers, listening when the listener is drowning out the speaker. But I caught another word, “socks”.  Some readers can recollect that in relating how the Kroger gang did the routine (Helen’s ‘candidacy’ for the seat was rubber stamped by the branch selection committee), I stated with certainty that in the Senate she would leave the script she’s told to parrot and, believing herself formidable, open her mouth and the House would collapse in a gale.

The retarded cretin is so dense that as one no-nonsense, restrained silver-back said, “When she enters a room, the heating has to be turned up.” I dispute the gentleman’s claim. It is, uncommonly unfair of him to the lady and her talent. Chivalry demands she be praised fulsomely, to the hilt of her gifts. Helen Kroger ices polar ice caps and plunges the tundra into the winter freeze.

Wall Street Journal slams the diseased Democrats and “Hugo” Obama “Chavez”.

The article:

The Cap and Tax Fiction

Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate change bill

WSJ,  26/06/09

Change a few names and it could be the WSJ knifing the CIS and Greg Lindsay.

There is one problem in the article that blunts the proper evisceration of carbon taxes:

The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill…

The consumption fallacy. There is no consumption before production. Concern over how much it will cost consumers not only understates by a tremendous factor the cost of carbon taxes but misses the essential point.  Business spending is 2/3 of total spending, this is the crucial figure and it squares with what should be obvious. Before consumption can occur, consumption goods have to be produced, and before this can be done, capital goods have to be produced and this is not a single stage matter either -

Capital goods to produce capital goods. Capital goods for capital goods to produce raw materials to be converted into materials needed for fabrication of capital goods.

Carbon taxes destroys this complex production structure. Once this is destroyed, where on earth are consumption goods to be obtained, from elves?

It should be transparent. After all, companies work with this every day but what do we see palmed off as sound economics in the mainstream? Nothing about capital. It, apparently, just exists. Accordingly, economic activity is at best two phased - final capital goods and consumption goods, and yet even this silliness begs the question.

It is the  garbage the Right and the CIS and IPA have pumped out in the name of economic theory and analysis. Making it funnier is when the IPA’s and CIS’ claim to be free market think tanks and warriors because the claim means capitalism and these two clunker tanks are blanks.

Best of all, the CIS claims to be expert s on Hayek, but this means Austrians school economists. It means Austrian school capital theory and they don’t have a clue about it at all. Their scribblings vividly demonstrates this fact, sharpened by the sheer infantile, unadulterated muck their ‘output’ is. They are on the same planet as the HR Nicholls Society, the planet of organ grinder monkeys.

The WSJ committed a bad mistake in an otherwise good article. It lets those who are about to wreak great carnage off the hook. On the Australian scene, it is one of many reasons why the hard Left are on top, and why the Greens are beginning to eclipse the Liberal Party as a major Party - certainly in Victoria. That is the rotten, hard fact of the matter; the Greens can be destroyed on the count of capital theory alone and what do we see from the Right

1. Stupidity reinforced by ignorance and half wits pretending to be economists. No bloody clue at all.

2. The Right supports the Greens cult and carbon taxes. Two of their starlets are Malcolm Turnbull and and one of Kroger young tyro toadies, Greg Hunt, as the rubbish they spout makes very plain. Liberals, defenders of the Free Market… lying thugs need to corrupt language.

This is what pretends to be warriors for Liberal causes, for the free market cause. And now we have Greg Lindsay and his CIS baboons and monkeys campaigning for carbon taxes. Oh yes, Lindsay, the questions over the reasons for this treachery are doing the rounds. Donors cutting off the ‘philanthropy’ is a pretty a good indication of how irritated various types are becoming.

The not  trivial matter of GDP aside, the rest of the article is not bad, and this paragraph nails an error by correcting it:

The reality is that cost estimates for climate legislation are as unreliable as the models predicting climate change. What comes out of the computer is a function of what politicians type in. A better indicator might be what other countries are already experiencing. Britain’s Taxpayer Alliance estimates the average family there is paying nearly $1,300 a year in green taxes for carbon-cutting programs in effect only a few years.

Cost estimates, as ‘climate modeling’ and, indeed, ‘economic’ modeling, is a futile exercise. The only predictor of what can unfold is solid economic theory. To repeat, Mr. Jackson of Brookesnews has laid it out from within an elegant, solid, impregnable body of theory the economic force of carbon taxation. He has not asserted estimates of costs and this is the correct thing. The evidence rolling in confirms the explanatory power and conclusions from sound theory. That evidence shows:

1. Carbon taxes have already caused tremendous destruction of capital

2. From 1, very many around the world are being made poorer, forced destitution is erupting as employees are thrown out of paying jobs because companies have been destroyed by carbon taxation.

3. The destruction of capital is compounding, unsurprisingly, as politicians persist with this savage crime against millions of firms and people. That, even without Obama imposing by totalitarian decree even more savage carbon taxes, unless stopped, many face a nightmare of a future. But Obama, and Kevin Rudd, Wayne Swann, Penny Wong, Peter Garrett, Bob Brown, Malcolm Turnbull, Greg Hunt, and the rest of the Green Cult worshiping Right are bent on ramming down carbon taxers. Not to overlook their record:

4. The Left and the Right in Victoria have already rammed down carbon taxation and they are causing real damage.

5. In Federal Parliament, the Right imposed carbon taxes in the form of ‘alternative energy’ frauds. One of these frauds, ethanol production, is destroying agricultural production in other countries.

6. The Right, and not only the Left, want to expand ethanol production. This means  stealing vast amounts of capital from Australians and destroying food production in Australia. The Costello-Kroger trumpeter, Andrew Bolt abuses his employer the Herald Sun and it’s readers by running propaganda for this starvation causing carbon tax - a violent criminal action is what it is.

Greg Lindsay and the Right spin the lie, subsidised entities are real businesses. A business is a market formation for the production of goods demanded. Entities set up on subsidies are not market formations at all. They are scams. The alternative energy schemes are not only scams. They are also carbon taxes destroying real capital in real firms that are economically efficient producers of energy, food, capital goods and all sorts of consumer goods.

7. The Right and the CIS have joined in the aim to destroy sound firms. David Kemp was one of the Right-wing Ministers who did much to bring this savagery about, as Minister of Voodoo the Environment:

8. David Kemp imposed extensive measures demanded by diseased Leftists and the fanatical, violent Greens. This idiot has the nerve and the gall to declare in public that he has fought the hard, diseased Left, and that he is the terror of the Left.

The Left do not merely laugh at this stupid bastard. The Left also acknowledge how well David Kemp served them as a Minister.

David Kemp’s record as a Liberal Party Minister reduces to:

- He’s betrayed the Liberal Party and helped his pals wreck it. The Victorian Division is finished, kaput, doesn’t exist, shot stone cold dead and buried some years ago by the Right. This is besides the work they did in preparing to usurp the inalienable Rights and backed Bracks and Brumby on completing this and this is only a couple of items of their thuggery in Victoria.

- With his HR Nicholls Society mates, Kemp is also culpable for the destruction of the campaign for free labour markets.

- They blew the Liberal Party out of the 2007 election waters and not in 2007. This success was complete by 2005!

- A Minister who never served modest Australians but, with his pals, the Right and the clunker tanks, has regarded modest Australians with undisguised contempt:

Smelly serfs to be abused and dictated to, taxed, punished.

This bastard has the hide to boast of how he has defended Liberty. And, this is what is the current President of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party.

It is no longer the Victorian Liberal Party. It is the Right-wing clique, Toorak Brahman - Doctors’ wives Party,  headed by Clique Party boss Michael Kroger. That’s why the real membership has plummeted from around 30,000 to at best 1,000.

Choke on all of the above, Greg Lindsay, you treacherous, craven, gutless shit shoveler. The good news is, Greg Lindsay wears an attachment. It is an irremovable growth on his neck.

It is a monkey. It is Lindsay’s pet. It is paid for by Ron Manners. Its name is Bongo Drongo. Bongo Drongo is ape-speak for, John Humphreys. For the first time in my life I’ve enjoyed visiting a zoo and hadn’t realised it is a real zoo, and in Sydney! It is the CIS. Bonga, Bonga! Oo, oo, ooo!

Here is more on how destructive Obama’s carbon taxes will be:

Waxman-Markey: Man-Made Disaster, Investor’s Business Daily, 25/6/09

Fiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump…

The 1,000-plus-page American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454)…

I was having a chat with some amiable city friends over scotch, neat. One of them casually remarked,

We are rather irritated by the carbon tax. I’ve been following your interesting articles, and we have read Brookesnews on it. Very disturbing. No names, no pack drill but I’ll pass you this:

Some donors have decided to “cut”, as you might say, “the pipe connecting CIS to their bank vaults”. Others are getting very nervous about the CIS, and other parties you have illuminated so well.

I expect I shall read about it in one of your forthcoming “scoops”.

I say this Lindsay. He wore a nice smile but, by gum, that glint in his eyes was the glint of cold, hard steel. On the strength of this, I suspect donations to the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party, already having fallen off by a large factor as a shrewd guess, are reducing again to a dribble of a trickle. As for the IPA, Strider has examined their condition closely, concluding they are amputated in the fiscal arm.

You see what is going on Lindsay, don’t you. Men and women who supported the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party have been disabused by the Right-wing clique that seized control through Michael Kroger and the membership of Liberals (as opposed to the clique) is approaching zero. Good. I can only muse on livid company heads fed up with the treachery and have pulled their support too.

I mean to say, the BCA and AIG are panicking for the very same reason. These retards cannot figure out why firms are shouting in the streets they, “the BCA and AIG have abandoned and betrayed us.” You see Lindsay, PR spin, smoke and mirrors cannot blind onlookers forever, and certainly not those who pay for service.

Now firms and  individuals who supported outfits such as the CIS and IPA, in the belief such outfits are genuine free market think tanks and might also even fight for the free market cause robustly, are realising they were gravely mistaken. What, they are muttering, is to be made of “tossers” who lobby for carbon taxes that will wipe them out.

What also disturbed my sources was when they fully appreciated the Right, the IPA, and the CIS brook no debate, refuse to defend their claims, use crude tricks to evade these responsibilities and yet expect many to swallow the shallow rubbish they put as the truth. Swallowing rubbish has left a very nasty taste in their mouths and they are reluctant to imbibe anymore of it.

You, Greg Lindsay, have done a great service. In pushing for carbon taxes, an organ grinder and his monkey by the name of John Humphreys, whose mother had dropped it on its head a couple of times, was a real eye-opener for them. Lindsay has vividly demonstrated how shallow and worse the CIS is, and it also shed light for them on the IPA, and on the Right in the Liberal Party. Oh, and another question being asked is:

Is there also a connection beteen Lindsay and that Green cultist and economic illiterate, Malcolm Turnbull?

Lindsay, might try a few adjectives to assess their musical qualities - “Disgusted”, “Blowhards”, “Windbags”, “Clown” (this was said of a certain CIS ”stud”, “Rudd’s hirelings”, “Bumbling @#*&^*.” And so forth.

I did ask myself, “Does Lindsay really believe the propaganda lies he is responsible for.”

It occurs to me that he might not. The answer has no direct bearing on questions being asked around the City, and yet in a way it does. Here are the questions and my acquaintances, in reflective mood - a second scotch is conducive to happy contemplation, also asked them:

“Who is behind Lindsay and is there a pay-off.”

“Is he now tied to Rudd? If so, is there a pay-off from the Cabinet.”

They don’t, Lindsay, like the stench.

Before a final few jottings, a clarification is in order:

When I have a chat with City friends, I never smear Lindsay, the Kemps, IPA and CIS. I keep things objective and stand on arguments. Bye the bye,I do not mention names, not even IPA and CIS - there is no need to. I rest discussion on points only and what is missing in public debate. Unlike CIS, IPA, and the Right who all, while outlawing debate and evade having to defend what they claim, freely resort to smearing those who challenge their positions. For instance, Lindsay’s monkey and Professor Sinclair whose peanut for a brain, rather shrivelled, is used by both the CIS and IPA, happily smeared Jackson.

That was their rebuttal of Jackson’s evisceration of the CIS carbon tax propaganda paper, and other papers, and they did so on various sites, behind his back. These two make mice look like tigers and that leaves Lindsay looking like a coward of the first rank. No Lindsay, when I go for types in need of a good shredding, I do it up front, on this site, and always tied to a case  - something entirely lost on Lindsay, his monkey and stud mice, and ditto the IPA - the infants’ playpen.

Lindsay, in lobbying for carbon taxes asserts:

There is no debate on the science. The CIS invokes, as remarked before, scientists as authority for this. The trouble is, they are all charlatans and, noted before, one charlatan stands out, James Hansen. Oh, I am not saying he was not a scientist in the past, but the moment he took up the Greens’ lie he ceased being a scientist and became a charlatan. A Green fanatic of a Charlatan who has demonstrated his willingness to resort to violence in order to get his and his fellow diseased cultists’ way. Now, funnily enough, here is a recent, vivid instance of this Charlatan and Green fanatic in action:

 Science Fiction, Investor’s Business Daily, 24/6/09.

Here is another take on this wealthy psychopath harbouring totalitarian ambitions:

The Man Who Cried Doom
NASA’s James Hansen is the least-muzzled climate alarmist in America.

The CIS has the nerve to cite Hansen and ignore the tens of thousands of scientists, many distinguished, who are publicly stating the Greens’ lie is a lie and it is the overthrow of Science. Lindsay relies on a violent fanatic and told the audience at the ’roundtable conference’, there is no debate, the science is in, the Green Lie is true.

He is prepared, to the extent he can get away with it, to totally deceive companies in order to push carbon taxes. Bye the bye, the AIG and the BCA are not far behind as their sites demonstrate. Fraud, intellectual fraud, is too kind a description for this.

On economics, Lindsay is telling business there is no debate. Pretending to act as the honest broker he explains, the only question is how to proceed, a carbon tax direct or the carbon tax called Cap and Trade. First off, the fallacy of false dilemma is committed - how do you enjoy a good bashing, from the right knuckle duster covered fist or the left. Lindsay poses the wife basher’s defence.

But Cap and Trade or direct carbon taxes are the same, they are aimed at destroying capital. The actual debate Lindsay does not want is, carbon tax or no carbon tax, which means a thorough debate of the economics of each side. This debate Lindsay tried to shut down by having Jackson smeared and the reason is:

Jackson smashed the CIS‘ position with an impregnable case from solid Austrian Capital theory. With Professor Sinclair Davidson in tow also, Lindsay made every attempt to divert attention from this. He is trying to deceive firms on this (noting the lobby pitch, as reflected in the video, also aimed at bringing in firms behind them). This item, with links to some pertinent links, sheds light for those not already familiar with some of the material:

Dollars, manufacturing and free trade, Jackson, Brookesnews, 15/6/09.

Lindsay has also tried to treat the flood, No! The ocean of evidence rolling in from overseas confirming exactly what Jackson argued from within strict theory, as if it doesn’t exist. I put up a small mountain of it and it was noticeable that Lindsay’s monkeys and mice avoided it. Plagues are to be avoided, not truths. Well, here is something more to skewer Lindsay’s propaganda lies with:

 Waxman-Markey Whacks Industry, By Chris Mayer, The Daily Reckoning

The Immorality Of Waxman-Markey: Intense Pain, No Environmental Gain, Paul Dreisson, 16/6/09

Climate Change Act: Now the world faces its biggest ever bill

But the essential thing is, carbon taxes destroys capital. Wipes it out. There is no compensation for this. Those who say, if the other countries do it also, then we are on a ‘level playing field’. Humph! All, in that case, are all on the same plane, it is a deep, greasy slope and all fall into misery.

Lindsay’s decision to act for carbon taxation is the final card of the CIS to fall. It hasn’t been an effective free market think tank, by any stretch of the imagination. As for priding themselves as Professors of Hayek, and that means Austrian school economics, that is a complete joke. Their output doesn’t so much lack quality control as, there was no quality to uphold. There efforts on other matters, labour market economics and monetary policy, for instance, has been as absymal as anything to be read in the newspapers, the HR Nicholls Society, Treasury and RBA. A man has to be paid to read their rubbish and ditto the IPA. No one but Lindsay himself blew it down and there is the rub:

If Lindsay had acted to ensure the CIS lived up to his claim, it would have support. Instead he chased the money and threw away principles. Satisfied with a monkey, mice and clowns, he has proceeded to finally sell Australians out to the hard, diseased Left.  

So, while modest Australians watch their super funds shredded thanks to the combination of rapacious Cabinets and the dagger of carbon taxes, Lindsay watches his super fund, the CIS, shrink as donors pull out because his lobbying for the capital killer is the straw that broke the patience of irritated donors.  No wonder he is using Ron Manner’s Mannkal Scholarship Fund; he can’t afford the peanuts for his pet monkey. How sad. Meanwhile, in the land where smelly serfs, otherwise called Australians, dwell, they are now faced with the catastrophe the Right and the clunker tanks have done much to cause.

It’s worse than mere intellectual fraud.

Through the Australian Taxation Office.

The objective is to seize more private property but the increase in the already extensive police state powers is central to this land grab. To keep hammering it, not only Paul Keating but the Right also under Costello engaged in extensive police state powers acquisition through the Australian Tax Office. Peter Costello had a tad over a decade in office and this economic illiterate failed to come to grips with the RBA and the poison it pumped out (noting that this morning the ATO has announced another round of monetary expansion, fool’s gold), and committed his own lousy fiscal policies. He also presided over a tremendous increase in Government consumption, and saw taxpayers milked to set up ‘alternative energy’ scams.

Costello brays he has spent his life defending liberty. Well, Costello and his Rightwing mates are bloody liars.

The last number of months, to confess, I have not paid as much attention to all that the Cabinet is putting through Parliament and this is a mistake. Firms paid to do this as part of their services to clients, such as KPMG, relate it for a fee of thousands to firms who seem to lack initiative and have their own bright young things go to Hansard, troll through it and do what the KPMGs of Australia do, merely summarise it and draw out implications. Ha! I do a better job of this than the KPMGs of Australia and I have not charged thousands. I’ve posted such material up free to readers on M.Ts. in the past.

[’KMPGs of Australia’, for it’s not to pick on KPMG. Though putting that larcenous slob called Steve Bracks on $5,000 a week for a few days of idleness interrupted only by gas bagging to the likes of Rudd on how to build the new monument to the diseased cult of socialism in fascist form, Ruddistan, is good reason to have a dig at KPMG.]

Well, some bodies ,who look forward to 2010 gloomily, told me the taxed will be drowned in a mountain of paper work  aimed at extracting more private property. This arose out of the matter of the Cabinet’s decision to intimidate Australians into cutting their tax deductions by sending letter threats implying recipients really have committed a heinous crime, ’so come clean or we hoover everything we can lay our grubby hands on’.

It indicates the Cabinet, as Costello and the Right, and Keating and the ALP before them, has slipped in thousands of new novelties. The bumpf contains a nasty increase in the tax grab. More of what are euphemistically called criminal offences and with punishing fines attached. New ’causes’ too, no doubt, incarcerate those who dare to protect their savings.

This is all besides, Rudd has acted to steal more out of superannuation funds. Then their is the pension age increase. That has only one force: cut pension payouts by ensuring many more Australians are dead and buried before claiming it/or receive it only for a few months. Unlike parasites in Parliament on fully taxpayer kept, untaxed, CPI indexed “Parliamentary” pensions.

Rudd is still, of course, working on his scheme that he announced soon after the 2007 election: to compel super funds to hand over Australians’ savings so that he can continue his great big shopping strip spree. Taken with carbon taxation and much else besides, the politicians, also States’ and local councils’, will swallow up Australians and bury them. As for Wayne Swann:

On the radio this morning he, like the big infant that he is, clapped his little hands in glee and cried:

“The OECD has given the Governments’ stimulus package a big tick of approval. It’s proof that we are doing the right thing.”

Kenyesian arsenic is keynesian arsenic, so while the OECD and Wayne Swann draw big bright ticks on butcher paper with giant coloured crayons. Australians stand by watching manufacturing collapse, savings wiped out, and the Cabinet destroying how much more? It’s not a mystery, bye the bye (except for the likes of snake-oil seller Saul Eslake) why ASX indexes are on a long trend down, and why Super funds are looking forward to the value of the funds being sliced over the year ahead by a large factor -

This is a mystery to the likes of Rudd, and Terry McCrann who believes there is a real economy and a separate ‘thingo’ called financial markets. To follow McCrann, the even steeper and deeper cut in energy firm prices has nothing to do at all with the anti-energy policies called carbon taxes. Nothing at all, eh, McCrann!

It won’t be a mere $50b shop until you drop spend up, that is for sure, and even $300b will seem the height of prudence compare to the damage and carnage this lot will cause. For, why worry when Rudd, Swann and Penny Wong will kill the pain by destroying capital outright with carbon taxes. Australians, reduced to primitive savagery, won’t have to worry about bloody parasites in Federal and States’ Parliaments and local councils destroying their savings. It will be, no doubt, of some comfort to the newly made unemployed the knowledge that millions will soon be joining them in a spiral downwards into a condition that is unspeakably horrific to contemplate.

It doesn’t disturb the Right. They have done good work in discrediting the free market case, reinforced by Greg Lindsay and the CIS laying out the grand plan to ruin Australians completely via carbon taxation. CIS & IPA- defenders of free markets, ha!

They have taken the Leftist motto to heart: tell big lies, tell them often, corrupt language and, one day, they will be accepted as the truth and so on to the final victory - all will be reduced to the desired condition of living under socialist hell.

Well done Greg Lindsay, the Kemps, Ray Evans, Des Moore, Michael Kroger, Peter Costello and their sychophantic boot lickers pretending to be journalists Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair. Malcolm Turnbull, and the rest of the retarded cretins who have wrecked the Liberal Party and solid causes. This lot really took it up to the Left, which is why the hard Left roll about laughing every day:

This is true as sources related, with an amused smile. Sources such as Leftists journos who refer to that lot by their proper name - Buffoon. , happily related.

Or, Union heavies, who mused that if that lot didn’t exist, they would have had to invent them. And, they couldn’t believe their luck those clowns in the HR Nicholls Society - and that means Peter Costello too, were used as the source of advice on labour markets.

What a spiffing, tremendous job the Right have done: their bit in the great putsch to reduce Australia to a stinking dung heap lorded over by plastic jackbooted twerps who believe they really are MPs as opposed to the parasites they truly are and gorillas pretending to be public servants. Spiffing. Just spiffing.

I’m not referring to the MP who recently asked in question time is the Cabinet running out of money. The indication of this real prospect comes from another source kindly supplied by Cabinet via the ATO.

The ATO is mass mailing certain letters to all who claimed deductions on investments in last year’s tax returns. The letter insinuates recipients might be in breach of Tax Acts, which are full of novel crimes matched by fines that can bankrupt a poor sod rather readily and many with prison sentences added for good measure. What is interesting is that it is no longer large scale entities receiving the full treatment, as it were. It is now smaller investors. Try, right down to very modest investors.

Some acquaintances were so disturbed by the official letter that they checked with their advisers, who reassured them it is a general communication only. The perfunctory pro forma letter and attached ‘instructions sheet’, and signed by the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation Mr. Erin Holland, shows it is but that is not reassuring at all. When I read it I also found it threatening, it is intimidating; this was my instant reaction and that is the aim of the letter.

Australians are treated as criminals under the tax regime as it is but with a difference. They are presumed guilty and have to prove themselves innocent every day until they have sent in the return and then they are presumed guilty straightaway with the first day of the new tax year. 

But the letter is not about past tax returns, submitted and stamped correct by the ATO. It is about future tax returns, to frighten the payers into claiming fewer deductions and less in total. Basically, to frighten Australians into letting the Rudd Cabinet seize more of what is not theirs to take, as hideous as the tax regime is.

I rang some chaps and their responses were the same : looks like a phone call was made to ATO officers. They were told to do it. Since the beneficiary is only the Cabinet, who else could have put the squeeze on the ATO? Or is Wayne Swann willing to swear blind hideous pixies dwell at the bottom of the Parliamentary garden and Swann is up to his neck in poo as it is, because there is that very serious matter, misleading Parliament.

The ALP through Keating and the Right through Peter Costello conferred, to be blunt, police state powers on the ATO. It’s not public servants who did this, and I am certainly not saying they wanted to be put in that position. It is absurd to say they wanted to be put in the position where they are required to be nothing more than thugs.

Confined to beating up firms of a certain size passes, of course, unnoticed by the general public. Due to this, Keating and Costello dressing the ATO in jackboots, black uniform and handing them a cosh , few were disturbed by this. Once the garb was used during the night only, now the ATO has been told to wear and weild it in broad daylight. Perhaps Rudd can pin little tin stars on their chests.  

Those who paid attention to the force of what those two clowns did with the ATO, Keating and Costello, were ignored. I was one who paid attention and warned of the force of the ‘regulations’ they raised. Now it is too late to warn of the implications that are now being being weilded against many Australians. Today, the brown shorts, plastic jackboots, and rubber cosh are worn and used in daylight.

It is not simply that now smaller Australians are finding out a few more ugly truths about what Left and Right have done with taxation. It is the intimidation, direct, asserted in black and white on “Australian Government” letterheads.

This attempt to intimidate Australians into cutting their deductions points to one thing only. Cabinet is fast running out of money to prop up its horrendously destructive spending spree but more is involved.

Behind that stands lousy fiscal policy, which Brookesnews has analysed, attacked, and warned that it can result in even graver consequences. Such warnings the likes of Sinclair Davidson, his fellow ‘Professor’ of economics, Chris Berg, and the IPA sought to fend off by smearing Jackson (more musing on this duo’s efforts tomorrow).

The situation is due to both the Left and the Right, and now Rudd compounding the mess with his $50b plus spending spree, on top of the regular budget. Bleeding Asutralians to death is great fun but, sadly, as many who were in manufacturing already know, the pleasure is lost on mere serfs.

Not having the nerve to face Australians with a few confessions and, indeed, also refusing to slash its destructive spending spree, Cabinet is resorting to outright thuggery to swipe the fast diminishing private property of the vast majority of Australians. It is using the ATO as a cosh to bludgeon Australians with in order to seize their private property.

On the basis of the above, it can be asked: Who are the Commissars on the Government benches responsible for it, beginning with the Cabinet? Perhaps the Cabinet presumes such violence, and it is violence, is well within the ‘powers’ Keating and Costello and their advisers bestowed on public servants. Irrespective of the answer,  what is indicated is criminal action against Australians.

This is what Australians are being treated to. We have to also thank the gutless, unprincipled Right and their advisers, and their lousy, non grip on on sound free market economics. Things are deteriorating fast in Australia. The Right brought  on and hastened this deterioration into something very unpleasant.

A Cabinet resorting to intimidation of Australians, in order to seize more private property, is only the beginning and promise of what will be done to Australians (not to omit other warning signs such as what is being perpetrated in Brackistan and carbon ‘taxes’). Joy in the morning.

Update: I have checked with some other sources who stated these types of letters have been generated only under the Rudd Cabinet’s Administration.