Paris has it’s Left Bank where the ‘intellectuals’ hang out. Melbourne has its South bank located in Des Moore’s joint. Frankly, I don’t care for either of them.

Some readers have asked about whether mention of Des Moore’s little soiree is a joke. Funny that.

A mate of mine in the city was also incredulous when I told him over the phone one evening,

“You’re joking?”.
“Absolutely not.”

It wasn’t a nice thing to say; it sent him to bed laughing uncontrollably. He could hardly wait to get to work the next day to tell his pals. He must be lunching on it because it’s doing the rounds. (It’s difficult writing this, the giggles have hit.)

Des Moore’s exclusive soiree is bigger than Spring Racing bashes, for Viscount Monckton is Des Moore’s prize exhibit. Only the right people are invited. This, no doubt, means Michael Kroger, Hugh Morgan, John Stone, why even Ray Evans. Only the intellectual elite, the Clique, who have done so much to demolish good causes, will do. Is Tim Blair invited? If so, it shall be fun, for:

We can expect Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair to hit their bosses’ pcs and blab. They are, though, up against it.

To get in first, they’ll have to fight off both Des Moore and Ray Evans. They are in fine form on the Viscount Monckton tour. They’ll be at the websites of Quadrant magazine, and IPA, and HR Nicholls Society faster than lightening.

I’m off to the bookies and bang down a hundred on Des Moore to pound the hell out of the rest of them: Hugh Morgan too, if he gets in the way of a bit of hot Paparazzi publicity.

Indeed, rumour has it Des Moore is buying up a shop’s worth of photo-albums and film. The stuff will be plastered all over the place -

‘Here’s me and Viscount Monckton’, ‘Viscount Monckton shakes my hand’. “The grand entrance’. ‘He’s beaming at me.’ My guests over-awed’ ( and not by Monckton).

He’ll have ‘em processed so fast he’ll be selling them to his friends guests as they leave like hotcakes.

Des Moore polishes his resume while the Mrs struggles with kitchen staff headaches

CV Entries:

1. Viscount Monckton in my house.

I hosted gala event in honour of me Lord Monckton. Relevance: Entrepreneurship and depth in running a major.

Come Monday morning, Ray Evans will be shining his resume with new entries, while his Mrs will be labouring away wiping the bread and butter tray.

Kitchens are all the same, hot, sweaty work.

There is a spot of kitchen trouble. They, no doubt, would have used illegal immigrants to make the bread and butter sandwiches, until they realised they had to pay them. Ruddy cheek, eh. Unfair, I say. Des Moore’s Mrs has to make them herself and clean up Monday.

Des Moore is charging a $20 per head entrance fee

No joke, even scouts can swear to it and they’re bound by a blood curdling oath.

What a scally-wag, $20 for bread and butter sandwiches.

Advice to the guests, if you want to guzzle good champagne, scotch, beer, you’d better bring your own. $20 doesn’t even buy a few quiet drinks at the pub anymore, so you can’t expect Des Moore to ruddy well bankrupt himself by throwing on the good stuff. He’s got his council rates to pay too, don’t you know.

I really feel for the chap. A former top assistant at Treasury, on a fully CPI indexed, untaxed pension, really down on his luck.

Some-one asked, is this a joke too:

‘Des Moore is an entrepreneur. This is the beginnings of a new financial empire, “Des’ Soirees at Home” mega franchise chain….

‘Each new franchise will be equipped with a life-sized photo of Des Moore, Ray Evans and Hugh Morgan, autographed…. Friends and acquaintances will be truly amazed…. stunned and gob-smacked. They’ll keep coming back for more.
‘Soon, each franchisee will be able to pay their Council rates too! Stick to the $20 plan. Meet the targets. Hand over 60% and, who can tell, one day you’ll be rewarded with a personal note of gratitude - who from, I don’t know, but someone will.’

It is a joke but now I’m not so sure. A man that desperate might try anything, and he’ll have a lot of advertising photos to kick it off in a big way. It has Collins Street written all over it.

A Problem in the Tour

Right from the first, something didn’t sound right, several things really.

1.Why his house and not a large venue so many could have the chance to hear and, dare it be said, mingle with Viscount Monckton in an informal, cheerful setting?
2.The same, small closed, tight circle of the Right only.

Number one can be swiftly dealt with:

It means smelly peasants, who are not fit to mix in the company of not Viscount Monckton, but this little clique the Right.

It would also mean, Des Moore, Hugh Morgan, Andrew bolt, and the rest would be lost in an ocean of bodies. How are they to hog centre stage when Mrs. Dodson of no.35948 of outer suburbia is in the way, and everyone else. And, it’s not on, I can tell, you, if Viscount Monckton casually worked the tables.

Monckton has his place, and it is with Des Moore 1st. Remaining proximity follows understood ranking. This leaves Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair, and Ray Evans looking over the shoulders of an outer circle.

Hat tip to Ray Evans, use the chair, use the chair.

I’m not going to name-drop, but having had amusing sessions with the odd Viscount, and Lord, these guys, right screams, prefer the common as muck slap up and drinks all round. It might be presumption but odds are, they’d go for the informal and find any excuse to evade the South Bank mob. I only mention it to puncture Des Moore and the rest of the clique who define things in terms of their majestic selves.

Flatulence makes an awful sound.

Number 2 can also be dealt with swiftly

OK, no large venue. Given the purpose of the tour, an informal occasion is a time to introduce those fighting against carbon taxes and other green policies effectively.

Professor Plimer has linked up with Monckton. This is not a surprise. What about scientists unsung by the Right, and Andrew bolt and Tim Bolt?

Indeed, Bolt has returned from his holiday. His first column this week banged on about global warming and completely ignored the scientists over decades who fought. Any reader could be forgiven the fraud committed in the name of ’science’ is only a recent discovery by, well, the Right.

Economics.

It’s time to get this absolutely correct. So, where are the free market economists at Des Moore’s’ Soiree?

Don’t be daft! This is the:

‘Let’s Promote Me, Des Moore South Bank Show’, starring, tra lalala, Des Moore, at home!

The Right-wing clique is there. Des Moore is there. ‘What a coup’, ‘why you cunning devil, Viscount Monckton’.

No bookie will accept a bet on not even an invitation sent to Mr. Gerard Jackson and, though he is in Sydney, Dr. Frank Shostak.

The tour has not been thoroughly worked out. With Parliament to reconvene soon and Rudd to ram down carbon taxes with the support of the Greens in the Senate, carbon taxes have to be fought with deadly accurate ferocity and this means deadly accurate economics. The Monckton-Plimer tour provides the momentum, but it needs deepening, and also so that the momentum is not lost when Monckton returns to England.

Monckton, as a scientist, has the science side in hand. He is also attacking the impact of carbon taxes, and ethanol schemes – the sheer carnage they cause. Monckton also knows, as his open letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand makes very plain, the explanation why carbon taxes have such an horrific impact, and how it causes this impact is vital to defeating carbon taxes.

He only accurately cited Jackson to deliver the singular economic point it destroys capital and the capital structure of a country.

There it is, someone Monckton should meet, because he realised the importance of what Jackson set out. Viscount Monckton doesn’t cite Evans, Moore and the rest of the Right; Monckton has not mentioned even once any of them in his speeches, papers, and letters to Prime Ministers. Only Jackson is used.

It’s not a mere matter of, wouldn’t it be good if he met the man who laid out the case. He needs to meet the man because it is vitally important to successfully fighting the case.

What do we see, Des Moore’s little South Bank soiree. The Right ignore, to say the least, what Monckton actually stands for. Besides, it’s not about the dagger over Australians, it’s about themselves. Monckton is merely a prop for themselves, and sod Australians.

It is telling that since Des Moore and co have ensured only the clique will meet and mingle with Viscount Monckton, it makes for a an almost certain bet they haven’t run the risk of Jackson meeting up with Monckton. Put the two together and the show’s over, eh, Des?

I’m willing to post a retraction, if I’m mistaken, but I doubt it very much and we shall certainly know some time after it is over, for the City rumour mill works hard and sources are abundant - they like corking good jokes, even better when they are true. It’s the fastest postal service in Australia!

Open Letter, in note form, to Professor Windschuttle

1. Professor Keith Windschuttle, being the editor of Quadrant, does bear responsibility for that disgraceful video, the subject of the letter to Quadrant today. Unless, of course, the website is the charge of someone else, who, then, is responsible, making them directly responsible for the scandal. It must be noted that the email is not an ad hominem attack against Professor Windschuttle, nor against the other editors. They are simply the listed contacts for mail.

2. It is a letter of righteous anger, the reasons why are explained in the letter.

3. Sir, you fought a hard battle for truth against the hard Left on the ground of Australian history. There is no excuse for the deliberate act of falsifying history, let alone for ulterior ends. You went out into the open and faced the hard Left and shredded them on this count.

4. Truth is not the preserve of a closed circle. Indeed, is it not part of the service of a Professor, whose work can be trusted, to serve the man in the street and to engage him, irrespective of how modest of circumstance they are?

5. Truth is arms and munitions. The modest man has to be armed and not only with history. He needs ammunition, and general history is inadequate.

6. The problem with Quadrant is the closed bubble the Clique dwells in, leading to such scandalous rubbish and they can’t help themselves, it comes naturally.

7. The majority of Quadrant’s articles are written by inmates of the clique. They have taken control of the Liberal Party, and squeezed out ordinary members and genuine talent. Same with their ‘think tanks’. It shows. Quadrant publishes mush.

8. It is mush that discredits truth in all things, and these truths are vital. Australians face their darkest hour because of the Right and their rubbish. The Right haven’t abandoned them, for they never had the principles and the respect for the little man in the first place in order to betray them.

9. Nostrums and asinine remarks such as Ray Evans’, “it’s all a fantasy”, is the calibre of the articles on economics Quadrant publishes from this lot. They have extensively damaged the genuine, sound, therefore, highly moral fight for free markets. With this stands and falls the defence of freedom and the fight for freedom. The second is intrinsically grounded in the first.

10. Australians are already taking great pain because of lousy economics. They are watching their inalienable rights being torn up and it is not only the Left, but the Right too, when in office, who have done this.

11. They are taking more pain thanks to a recession we did not have to have, and who presided over years during which the cause was committed - the RBA pumping poison? The Clique under former Treasurer Peter Costello.

12. They now face far worse on both counts. The Right have brought about this danger.

13. The Right hold the modest Australian in contempt.

14. Sir, you fought for truth in history, because truth is vital. What, therefore, Professor, should be done now? The freedom and prosperity of Australians are in great peril.

15. Should those who were instrumental in bringing this about be rewarded by a pretence? That they be, nonetheless, encouraged out of some perverted notion of generosity, or goodwill, deceny, or Christian charity? That they be defended by good men and women lending their good names so that they can use them as stage props to promote themselves?

The situation, Professor, is very grave.

Lastly, I do not retract the letter.  The modest Australian, imbued with good values and a sound moral grip on right and wrong, is righteously angry when they see things that are very, very wrong. That atrocious stunt put up on the Quadrant website is such an instance. It is another offence on the count it attacks genuine Liberal principles at a time when, in the midst of the wreckage caused by the clique, they have to be defended in a very hard fight.

What, Professor Windschuttle, will you do? Will you stand with that lot of shallow, callous, unprincipled, gutless bastards. Or will you extend a long arm to the modest Australian and stand with them in these dark days.

I remind you, Sir, Viscount Monckton fights from principles, for freedom for the little man whom, it is transparent, he empathises with and holds in great respect. This is the stand of genuine Liberals. This is the stand of Brookesnews. They are with the decent, patriotic, freedom loving Australian and all are sneered at, and trampled upon by the Right and enough of them write for Quadrant.

I put the above to you, Professor Windschuttle, not as a consideration, but to wrestle with on the matter of action good men must take.

Having received emails asking whether yes or no, the answer is:

You’re damned right I am.

Clauswitz wrote on the art of war.

The Right wrote: The Art of Backstabbing.  Chapter one is their manual on, How to advance to the rear.

Some readers have expressed doubts as to how much damage the Right have inflicted on the genuine Liberal cause. That officials in the ACTU and affiliates, the ALP, hard Left journalists, academics and, well rather very many of them call the Right clowns and buffoons should be suggestive. There are analytical papers for internal purposes examining the Right and their nostrums that have been fixed in the public eye as the genuine free market case and so on. It sounds odd but it is true, they publish them over the Internet.

One such paper will be used in another item. Keeping in view that it is a serious, analytical paper, the author freely uses expressions such as,”they are clowns”. It’s available on the Internet!

A union online news magazine has a riot of a time. Try this, for instance, keeping in view it is only one example out of countless examples in a magazine widely read by Australians:

It’s time to welcome back into the Tool Shed a truly unique individual, Des Moore Worker’s Online

The item is one of their tame pieces. Those guys do know how to let rip. Hmmm… the writer must have had an off-colour day when he penned that. Notice something else:

Online is written for the modest man. It’s stand is the concern for the modest man. It voices anger over things the modest man can be righteously angry about. It doesn’t hide, it goes out and confronts their targets out in the open and they can eviscerate them publicly because the Right have no principles, no spine, no guts and no passion to stand up for anything.

One look at the magazine and it spells fighting stuff, effectiveness and punch. Turn to the IPA, CIS, HR Nicholls Society, Quadrant and, they are sterile, no first principles, no passion, contempt for the modest man and they are all about themselves.

The clique is a closed bubble. One upshot of this is, they are always in ‘disequilibrium’. There is no feedback mechanism and thus they always spin out of control. Berg and IPA falsify history, attributing it to Muslims, Quadrant pulls a stunt worthy of diseased Leftists and Janet Albrechtsen.

The Left should have been smashed and minced decades ago. The hard Left cannot be defeated until the Clique is pulverised first.

Dead right it’s a campaign.

Quadrant can take it as a given, I have contacted Liberal Party sources and they are livid scandalised too.

How much more damage can the Right cause? To what depths can they sink, no sane man has plumbed. The treacherous Left have, but they are not sane either.

Viscount Monckton, to repeat, is unaware of the situation in Australia. Viscount Monckton fights for the little man, from principles, in a deadly fight. Viscount Monckton has my deepest respect.

Quadrant’s unconscionable, callous act of stupidity today warranted a rapid response in rapid fire and I gave it just now. I sent the email nail to the following (”staff”, mind you):

Staff

Editor, Keith Windschuttle

Deputy Editor, George Thomas

Editor Quadrant Online, Michael Connor

Chief Executive Officer, Jean King

Dear Sir/Madam,

I watched with great interest a video on your home page titled and sub-titled:

Glaciergate in the bunker
Glaciergate: Hitler’s last Stand

(Throughout the clip, Quadrant has inserted its ‘translation’ of the dialogue)

It is a clip from a recent movie on the subject of ‘Hitler’s last days’, it’s title escapes me. The scene is commanders briefing Hitler on the German position as allies and USSR close in on Berlin.Hitler’s response is at first calm, then he quickly degenerates  in a tirade driven by fury at being let down again.

I do compare compare certain policies with fascist policies, point to the danger of totalitarianism, even mention how Rudd’s demagogic speeches resembles the likes of Hitlers’ in the 30’s. The last comparison is only because those who were children (in Britain) in the 30’s have told me this and explained why, in linguistic detail. Never once did they, nor I, compare Australian politicians to the monster Hitler showed himself after the 30’s.

When I first read Bullock’s biography of Hitler, I agreed as a youngster back then that to study Hitler and any other like him is extremely difficult because of how evil they were. Yet, to understand history, it must be done. It is not a pleasant task but it has to be done with the same objectivity an historian must apply to any subject.It never occurred to me even before I read Bullock to draw such a comparison. Neither has it occurred to me since and it never will to draw tight comparison with  Hitler, nor mock historical truth. (The “subtitles” reinforces how atrocious this “stunt” is.)

Quadrant has done great damage to what is now a desperate fight. Quadrant, along with the CIS, HR Nicholls Society and the IPA, has not defended freedom in public and from sound principles. It has discredited what is crucial for freedom and its defence, genuine free market economics. Genuine free market economists have been isolated out. Genuine Liberals over-ridden. Now this.

So, how many more great fights do you intend to wreck,noting no genuine free market economist will be introduced to viscount Monckton to form what should be a formidable front. Instead,we read:

Monckton spoke down to ordinary Australians, preceded by an exclusive lunch at which he addressed the ‘high and the mighty’.

What an irony, no ‘economist’ of the ‘Right ‘has been cited by Monckton. Mr. Gerard Jackson has, as Viscount Monckton’s open letter to the Prime Minister makes very plain. Why would he do that? I know, Jackson mounted the true defence of capital and free markets and freedom and eviscerated carbon taxes.

Over decades, Brookesnews – Gerard Jackson and Frank Shostak, John Daly, scientists, others, and, yes, I (though this is not at all important and would never mention it but for good reason)  have been fighting through the Internet…

But the experts – the scientists and genuine free market economists were suppressed by the likes of you. And the likes of you pull this stunt! This is the type of garbage the likes of Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair come out with as their great defence of a free Australia.

I will be publishing this letter on my site. I am your enemy. To defeat the Left, you lot have to be dealt with, because you lot, with the rest of the “Right”, have handed major, unwarranted victories to the Left, and you persist in this stupidity.

Asinine and facile are the politest adjectives to describe the record of the whole damned lot of you. You lot impose yourselves, have strangled the Liberal party, and thoroughly discredited major initiatives, on top of the thoroughly sound and so highly moral cause for free markets. You and you pals have made sure sound policy never emerges. You have never hurt the hard Left. Now this!

Let’s finish you lot off on this matter: I know exactly what the hard Left can do with this one more nasty bit of tripe you put together. I’d be surprised if they are not already ramming a blade into your gizzards right now and with it, having another foe free opportunity to regain lost land – the voters, in this matter.

Douglas Bignell, B.A. B.D. Of Mangled Thoughts.

Shocking, truly shocking. What will you clowns manage next?

(Ah, what follows departs from the subject. Just couldn’t help it. The IPA’s glory, The Entire History of the West, by Regius Professor, New Gnius College, IPA, Chris Berg, deserves fulsome acknowledgment for the achievement it is. Honour unstintingly heaped upon the brain behind it, as aided by his assistants Andrew “Andy Pandy” Kemp and Professor Sinclair “Sinkers” Davidson.

We will be resuming normal posting today, might even manage a Festchrift but first a break, it’s rare that such a stupendous achievement brings a tear to the eye. The Right are the cause of many, everyday, but at this early hour!)

An Over-valued currency: As the Laffer Curve, Professor Sinclair Davidson…

Spots something or, rather, trips right over it. It was a jumble of arms and legs, leaving the editor of the IPA’s Review confused. Chris Berg, was heading for greatness. Chris Berg, after all, only re-wrote the history of economics, philosophy and, though he was unaware of it, theology too. Now he is following it up with the entire un-expurgated history of the West. Why stop at economics when you can trivialise on a wet afternoon the whole lot?

Yes, readers, it is entirely wrong, according to Berg, the standard account, which holds it is strictly Hellenic-Judaeo-Christian-Western. Berg has made important archaeological discoveries, while conversing with an obscure Muslim and editor of an equally obscure newspaper in Turkey.

Berg commenced with a thesis:

Could it be the settled accounts of history are wrong?

His discoveries suggested this. The IPA sent Berg on a dangerous dig held at least once a week, “knock off” time, noon Friday, for lunch with the help and “Andy Pandy” and any of the rest of the gang buzzing round like blow flies on the scent of a bad smell or a free lunch at donors’ expense.

(Are these guys really sure they want to keep on hectoring those who work in firms about “slacking it” and why they should work harder for savage pay cuts the Right is all for inflicting on modest Australians? Some might call it bravery. Not me, I call it suicidal insouciance.)

It’s all due to some mad Muslim. It’s a wonder Berg didn’t make a right stunning advance and out with it, the entire trajectory from the 5th century BC to the present is all due to that asinine butcher called Mohammad. Mind, I’m surprised the hard, treacherous Left have not awarded Berg a few gongs, and his joint IPA David Kemp-Michael Kroger Professor of Greatness, Andrew “Andy Pandy” Kemp. Perhaps it’s envy and resentment, Berg got in first.

There are, though, some outstanding questions Berg has yet to resolve and, without question, he will. How did the  Muslims from Mohammad to the ’scholastics’ solve simultaneously the doctrines of Christ and Trinity,  infiltrate every Council examining these questions from Niceae to Chalcedon to Trent and convince Bishops and Emperors? In this achievement, how did they simultaneously manage establishing the Arianist foundations of Eastern Orthodoxy? Was splitting the Church a tactical manouvre, preparing for the conquest of the West with their intellectual greatness?

Was it the opposite, a fine scheme to deliver peace but somehow, from Rome to Byzantium, everyone, “ingrates”, cocked it right up? Noting that the settlement of the doctrines of Christ and Trinity were developed, roughly put, in tandem over centuries, is this in fact wrong? Did, as Berg suggests, Mohammad solve them right back in the last years of the 6th century? In which case, why was it lost to the Church and therefore had to be won the hard way, a right old booze up in Constantine’s gin palace? Was the West, in fact, Schismatic?

That, for instance, the Council of Chalcedon was in 451, is a mere chronological error committed by Western annalists. In fact, all Councils from the 1st of Niceae (325) to Trent (16^th c.) were held at the same time, 611 and a 1/4 A.D. Mohammad was a very busy man. Between subjugating infidels, massacring Jews, pillaging and rampaging, it’s amazing how he found the time to fit them all in at once, and write all the theological tracts from the New Testament, through all the schools to the scholastics, in which he hammered out everything.

Folks, I haven’t yet even begun on the history of theology. Then there is the rest of history to go. Perhaps a few more questions might be in order.

What was really going on in the period which lead to the Renaissance? One is looking forward to Berg’s masterly dissertation on this. While ‘orthodox’ historians are blinded by their closed loop of working within Western history, thus ever perplexed by contrary facts and how to explain them away, Berg broke through and recognised the amazing, stimulating, vibrant, witty circles of desert Arabs.

Pierce the clunker-camel bound, sand-fly eaten, primitive, ‘male chauvinist’ plagued world with no plumbing and loo paper, you see deeply penetrating ladies and gentlemen steeped in learning of profound depth and breadth - you know, in what that “yobbo” from the urbs, Mohammad, told ‘em to do and unto others and they continue to make the same sterling contribution.  Why the army should be fighting them, instead of sitting at the feet of Osama bin Laden is, frankly, a frightful mystery.

The accepted “orthodoxy” is” Modern musical notation was invented by the Italian Benedictine monk, Guido d’Arezzo (991-1033) as a means of training brothers in choir. This made possible polyphony , symphony and opera. The liturgy of the Church instilled the discipline of composition. This is all wrong.

It was the 3rd plus 3/18th century famous composer, ivory banger, violinist and tenor, Ibn Askenaben, who also composed the entire oeuvre of  Verdi, Wagner and Debilius. He ghost-composed for Vaughan Williams. Ibn Askenaben realised the need for notation to train “screechers” wailing out to the local population the call to come to the mosque or else you know what.

It was the 10th century poet, Mustafa bin Kipplinaden, who wrote the Charge of the Light Brigade. Before then, in the 6th and 9/1000th century, the chemist Losama Pasremada formulated germ theory, and discovered vaccination and pastuerisation. His 19th century namesake, Louis Pasteur, was actually an obscure but excellent copyist of the Koran and  Pasremada’s notes. Pasteur, realising what he had inherited from his famous ancestor, Frenchifed his name in the Arbois dialect and  emerged from the hole of obscurity in which his real talent lay buried, some were of the opinion properly buried. The Greens hold he should have remained buried.

He took to the stage. He enjoyed living in at the University of Strasbourg, thanks to his wife who was a Muslim fifth columnist too. He loved the camera and signing autographs. He dined out and died in bed.

I have to stop here, I’m overcome as, unquestionably, you are too readers. Overwhelmed, by the brilliance of Chris Berg, Regius Professor, New Gnius College, IPA University on Collins Street, his mastery of all learning. His seminal contributions all made in a single working day’s post lunch nap.

It must be awkward for Professor Sinclair Davidson, who must reconcile himself to the lowly lot of Professor in tat at RMIT, and as All Fellows College Scholar, IPA. Ray Evans, Des Moore, Hugh Morgan, Michael Kroger, the Kemps David, Rod and “Andy Pandy”. Tom Switzer, Ken Phillips… a shining host all dimmed by a genius who makes Einstein look like a right old retarded clown.

All those egos, their heroic thirst for the camera spotlight, the agony and the ecstasy of beating the others to grabbing it first… Ah vanity, all is vanity. Either that or a plague of dunces who, having paid the $20 entrance charge to enjoy an early proto-type of Des Moore’s  soiree franchise many, many decades ago. As undergraduates really. Managed to lobotomise themselves with toothpicks. Des Moore realised he’d made a mistake; supplying toothpicks bumped the costs up, cutting the profits.

This was advertised, the Melbourne leg of the Viscount Monckton - Professor Plimer tour.

Apparently it was advertised, where though is the mystery.

Sofitel Hotel 1/2/10  5.30 p.m. Contact numbers,  041 852 1304  /  041 726 9216

Apparently there is no need need to book. There is a door charge, $20 per head. Well, it might be better value than Des Moore’s $20 a head, smile at Monckton, soiree at his South-itel Yarra-mite joint, for the invited only. But bread and butter is thrown in!

Oh, it’s ok, Des, sympathy in heaps. I mean to say, the cynical might muse an ex-Treasury head on a fully CPI indexed, untaxed pension has to pay the rates somehow. Not me.

Des Moore is an entrepreneur. This is the beginnings of a new financial empire, “Des’ Soirees at Home” mega franchise chain.

Each new franchise will be equipped with a life-sized photo of Des Moore, Ray Evans and Hugh Morgan, autographed. Friends and acquaintances will be truly amazed by the sheer, intelligent conversation they exude. Watch them stunned and gob-smacked. They’ll keep coming back for more.

Soon, each franchisee will be able to pay their Council rates too! Stick to the $20 plan. Meet the targets. Hand over 60% and, who can tell, one day you’ll be rewarded with a personal note of gratitude - who from, I don’t know, but someone will.

The Guest Speaker the National Press Club had black-banned

Hastily arranged and it shows. The invite is hastily strewn together too, but here it is, for anyone who can leg it to Canberra and rile that den of hard Leftists. Who has a rocket propelled wheel-chair to ruddy well make it in time?

 3/2/2010 National Press Club, 3.00pm to 5.00  $20 per head

16 National Circuit Barton ACT 2600

PH 02 6121 2199
FAX: 02 6121 218

Professor Sinclair Davidson, R.M.I.T. and Institute of Public Affairs Fellow, Chris Berg, editor of IPA Review, say “Nyet” to economics. Economic theory and evidence bury their nyet with a mountain range of nyets.

(I apologise readers for the opening, but when dealing with the developmentally arrested it helps to use expressions they can grapple with).

In 2008, ABARE released a glowing report, “Higher milk prices boost dairy farm incomes”. Indeed, dairy farm earnings had been increasing. Why the boom? ⁽¹⁾

Something happened to spoil Canberra’s party. Earnings promptly nose-dived. Why? In the last year Victorian dairy farmers’ earnings have improved. Why? Tasmanian farmers are still ‘burning’, with prices continuing to collapse during last year and the pain doesn’t seem to be over. Why? Dairy manufacturers were blamed, though they took losses too. Why?

What drove high prices from the early 1990’s until 4/5 years ago, was surging exports for buttermilk. It was this that induced rapid increases in production, from farms to manufacturers. Then the export markets collapsed, bringing earnings crashing down for all producers. It meant considerable pain for all engaged in each stage of production.

Farmers attacked the firms, leveling the charge of ‘monopoly power’ asserted against farmers to force prices down for raw product. The ACCC must act against them some shouted. Conspiracy theories might make some feel good, but they really let the wrong types off the hook and what they did.

Tasmania has lagged behind Victoria. I’ve been told Victorian dairy farm earnings have improved substantially over the last year. The disaster is still unfolding in Tasmania and there is no question it is a brutally hard time for many.

To infer, Victorian production is back in, roughly, balance. Either demand has intensified or total farm production has been cut – some farmers shut down, others reducing capacity. If production has been cut, the processors have cut production volumes. Yet, to find out what has happened in this regard would require asking sources, eg. the heads of the processors. Penetrating statistical data would be handy too, just don’t’ expect it from the ABS.

The collapse in export volumes, bringing down prices, leads to the explanation that accounts for this tempest still raging, an over-valued Australian currency.

In March 2008, The Institute of Public Affairs published a stunning, incisive analysis of what was emerging as more than a concern, the decline of manufacturing. It was written by its two gun economists Chris Berg and Professor Sinclair Davidson. Chris Berg is modest, so let’s praise him to the hilt:

Thumping the Table:Key Questions for the Labor Party’s ‘Industry Policy’

Davidson held Berg’s crayon hand to write a most illuminating paragraph, contained within a final section that was not germane to the subject.

On first reading, several things stood out as commendable:

1. They seemed to assert Australia doesn’t need manufacturing. A variation on the ‘we are entering a post manufacturing economy’. Why, then, are Australians importing manufacturing goods, and also to replace those taken out of production in Australia?

2. Capital theory is absent.

3. Theory of money is also missing.

4. The ‘policy’ paper invitates Kim “Il” Carr  and Rudd to ram down industry policy, which is Soviet style planning.

The final straw is their assertion -

“the beneficial reallocation of resources…to their most efficient use… Profit seeking firms should eagerly pursue the competitive advantage provided by innovative business practices or products.

It didn’t occur to them that governments can wipe out comparative advantage through taxes and regulation. There is no reason at all, therefore, that lousy monetary policy can do the same and more should have jolted them. Whatever they mean by ‘innovation’, it doesn’t overcome production killing burdens.

There is not a hint that monetary policies, ending in an overvalued currency could be hollowing out manufacturing.

Before 2007 Australians were in increasing numbers becoming very concerned with what was happening in manufacturing. These concerns were not addressed by what dominates the Liberal Party, and their think tanks. The IPA made a mockery of these concerns by publishing such papers. To test, perhaps their boss, Michael Kroger can explain to those in firms why the pain is only a “fantasy”, with Davidson and Berg to help him.

Given the gravity of the problem, which concern Jackson makes rather transparent in his articles, he responded to the Davidson-Berg paper:

Is monetary policy destroying the country’s manufacturing base?

Besides such points as the above, Jackson drew the inverse of the J curve as a suggestion, and the inverse must be true. Making this point thoroughly deadly was Jackson raised the possibility of an over-valued currency could be hollowing out manufacturing:

“…a loose monetary policy resulting in an overvalued currency and a growing current account deficit would certainly cause distortions to the production structure. Older economists certainly had no problem in pinpointing monetary policy as the culprit. As one of these economist said…

“… when a country continues to inflate… under an overvalued currency this has the effect of artificially lowering import prices while raising the prices of exports thus imposing a disadvantage on domestic producers. (… an overvalued currency is akin to a tax on exports…)

“In addition it is also conceivable that some firms that had solely produced for the domestic market will now find themselves undercut by foreign competition, meaning that non-tradable goods had now entered into international trade.”

Jackson followed up it, since Davidson and Berg took exception to the article. Why, no-one has a clue really because they didn’t come up with any reasons to take them seriously. I’m mystified Jackson paid them the courtesy of accusing them of some intellectual integrity by addressing their ‘points’: I’m damned if I’d ever do that; I tell you, Jackson, can be a right scoundrel:

Will the exchange rate kill manufacturing

Professor Sinclair Davidson’s defence is to dismiss criticism as the naïve ‘rants’ of ‘amateurs’. Well, who can disagree with high authority - IPA Fellow and R.M.I.T. Professor in economics, and the Kemp-Clough IPA editor and scholar Chris Berg? What a blow.

The mountains of evidence compiled by ‘amateurs’ that has cascaded in over the Internet, on top of  dairy production has to be dumped, on this site! Worse, it’ll take a number of items over days to pour it on. We’ll have to stick the mud to, certainly, observations made by Jackson:

“Their fundamental argument being that exchange rate disequilibrium cannot persist under a floating rate regime – and to hell with any evidence to the contrary.”

Overvalued currencies and floating exchange rates

Also to another observation:

“a straightforward one that mismanaged monetary policies are a continual source of disequilibrium that frustrates the intentions of the float. If it were otherwise there would be no currency speculation.”

(ibid.)

Jackson’s articles alone leaves Davidson looking like the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Quest. Well, Davidson is on a quest, for economic grip. Oh, why not, here’s another hacking off - well, which limb is still intact?

How America and Australia’s central banks badly damaged manufacturing

There is much to unload. The case of dairy based production illuminates things rather well. Another current case will be related too – bonus! Professor Sinclair Davidson will, presumably, find a learned way to evade the inevitable.

Note: Though using particular cases, as firms contract or shut-down, they are also a very nasty symptom of  extensive damage being caused to Australia’s capital structure and what this means for all Australians. It begs the question of, to those who have been wiped out and thrown out of jobs, how many more Australians will be hit?

All this before such monstrosities as carbon taxes, something else Professor Sinclair Davidson defends. It’s great to see the IPA maintaining it’s reputation for hiring the brightest and the best. He’s a real challenger to Ray Evans and Des Moore. Lock up your cameras!

(1) ABARE, media release, September 2008

To repeat, the “Greens’ is nothing more than a hard Left front for one aim, the overthrow of the Capitalist West, the eradication of the values worth celebrating this Australia Day. Since it is Australia Day, the barbs shall be kept to a minimum. This item simply draws attention to some rather telling things.

First, having drawn out the energy firm, AusNet, yesterday late afternoon there was a knock at the door. It was two young men from a power firm. They were door-knocking to inform people there will be a price rise, and they were checking for any customers who receive discounts.

It must be a large price for a firm to pay labour to do this. Remember, Victorians, these price rises, to dampen demand at times when you need greater supply of power, are dictated by the Victorian Cabinet. And, it is Cabinet and Parliament who have crippled energy production in Victoria.

Viscount Monckton, Professor Ian Plimer, the fighting tour

Viscount Monckton related a conversation with  Poland, Vaclav Klaus,  cf. below,The Monckton - Vaclav exchange. Monckton asked Klaus why he declined requests that he attend the Stockholm show of totalitarianism. Klaus replied that they cannot be convinced. With all due respect to the great man, free marketeer and freedom fighter for his compatriots, this was a mistake.

The point to open warfare, and stepping into a den of diseased “puddy tats”, is not to convince them. They are true believers in a deadly cult, socialism. The object is to eviscerate them publicly so that everyone else can see them for what they truly are.

It is shameful that it requires the stature of Viscount Monckton and Professor Ian Plimer  for the defence of freedom and the little man to be heard. And, Viscount Monckton’s sympathy and concern for the little man rings as clear and loud as his battle against ‘green policies’, which destroys all that is good. It is shameful, despicable, that the Right have suppressed genuine Liberal talent inside and outside of the Liberal Party. This lot have the nerve to whine about Leftist censorship!

It’s unfair. The hard left use guns. The Right busily shoot guns in the back. It is an irony the Right attacks much that Viscount Monckton stands for, but are trampling all over each other in a mad rush to meet him, for the photo opps of being seen with him. Yes, all modest Australians can tell they are great, clinging to the coat-tails of a great man makes them great.

Thus Professor Plimer, and no disrespect intended at all for the gentleman. However, what about all the scientists who were fighting this deadly fight over decades and writing for Australians. Oddly enough, they are heard only because of the Internet. Read the IPA, the CIS, the HR Nicholls Society and you would never know they existed let alone appreciate they are very effective fighters. The Right has never come close to doing what should be done. Consider when Ray Evans brought John Daly to Melbourne.

Did anyone hear of the event? I didn’t either, not until the event was over. In fact, they brought Monckton to Australia last November. The IPA arranged their standard fighting closed club lunch. Yes, readers, one found out about this ‘fighting lunch’ only going through the IPA website last week! No-one had heard of it.

Ray Evans abused Daly. Daly, what a gutsy fighter. If it were not for the Internet, would Daly have emerged as the Terror of Leftist liars? No. The Right would have made sure Daly was never heard. What was needed was an open confrontation with politicians and the hard Left. A stunt as a major battle. Instead, what did Ray Evans arrange? Another self-promotion opportunity to a closed club.

Daly spoke. Evans beamed. Dinner finished, the speech finished, they all went home. Over, done, dusted. The serenity of silence remained unbroken. Australians slept on as little infants, for :

All is well, Great Ray Evans had destroyed the Left

Viscount Monckton in his one man typhoon of an assault against thugs is proving effective in Europe, America, Britain, and here. Indeed, that den of treacherous Leftists the National Press Club of Australia has caved in. The expression of odium has forced it to very resentfully accord Viscount Monckton oxygen.

I was one of those who wrote the NPC  in no uncertain terms. Yesterday, I received a hurried invitation to a hastily arranged NPC guest speaker’s lunch, Monckton is now ‘their guest’. Mind, it would be good to attend but it’s in Canberra.

In the midst of a den of diseased “puddy tats” it would be a hoot to cheer and stamp the feet as Monckton delivered each deadly point.(I shall post the invite, along with another invite to another front, so that any interested can get in quick, but if you do: Go prepared - to deliver blows in the form of well prepared “questions”.

Actually, if the Right had any principles, they would fly Jackson to Canberra. During question time, using carefully framed ‘questions’, he can stand up and aid Monckton destroy the Left, Rudd, Hunt and Abbott before the wide television audience of Australians, in delivering the economic devastation of ‘greens policies’ that destroy and kill.

There it is. The telling thing about this tour is it is an opportunity missed. It should be the event that draws all available talent into a formidable fighting front, destroying the demented and their policies each step of the way. It is not Viscount Monckton’s fault that it is not. He is not familiar with the situation in Australia.

Anyway, just an off the cuff item. It is Australia Day. It is also a celebration of all the good values that makes Australia Australia. The fight against ‘greens policies’, the hard Left, and Tony Abbott, is a fight for these values.

A Nasty “protest”

Who are the rampaging ‘protesters’ and ‘peaceful’ demonstrators, the subject of this snippet?

“In the end, they decided to turn us away, which they did with an ill grace and in a bad-tempered manner. As soon as the decision was final, the Danish police moved in. One of them began the now familiar technique of manhandling me, in the same fashion as one of his colleagues had done the previous day.

“Once again, conscious that a police helicopter with a high-resolution camera was hovering overhead, I thrust my hands into my pockets in accordance with the St. John Ambulance crowd-control training, looked my assailant in the eye and told him, quietly but firmly, to take his hands off me.

“He complied, but then decided to have another go. I told him a second time, and he let go a second time. I turned to go and, after I had turned my back, he gave me a mighty shove that flung me to the ground and knocked me out.

“I came to some time later (not sure exactly how long), to find my head being cradled by my friends, some of whom were doing their best to keep the police thugs at bay while the volunteer ambulance-men attended to me…”

Wrong! It is Viscount Moncton, being beaten up by the Danish police because their masters and the politicians, bureaucrats and hard Left fronts  from around the world wanted  Monckton stopped. This is also part and parcel of the brutal reality of what Rudd and Abbott want to do to Australians, with or without an ‘international treaty’ to establish a world totalitarian regime.

The Monckton- Vaclav exchange

A few weeks ago, at a major conference in New York, I spoke about this tendency towards tyranny with Dr. Vaclav Klaus, the distinguished economist and doughty fighter for freedom and democracy who is President of the Czech Republic.

While we still have one or two statesmen of his caliber, there is hope for Europe and the world. Unfortunately, he refused to come to Copenhagen, telling me that there was no point, now that the lunatics were firmly in control of the asylum.

However, I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treaty’s proposal for what amounted to a communistic world government reminded him of the Communism under which he and his country had suffered for so long.

He thought for a moment – as statesmen always do before answering an unusual question – and said, “Maybe it is not brutal. But in all other respects, what it proposes is far too close to Communism for comfort.”

Material not reported at all in Australia

The police-state assault against Monckton was not reported in Australia and neither was his devastating evisceration of politicians, bureaucrats and the rest of the thugs at the “Stockholm Conference”. These matters, and the conversation are covered in the links below. Some links have video up of Monckton in action shredding the politicians, bureaucrats and treacherous Left fronts at the Copenhagen binge before their horrified eyes.

The material linked below is not covered in Australia. Neither is how effective around the world Monckton is. This is, no doubt, why the hard Left’s Coward’s Castle, the National Press Club, had black-banned him, they know what they are in for.

http://sppiblog.org/news/is-the-european-police-state-going-global

http://climategate.tv/?tag=lord-monckton

http://www.iceagenow.com/Climatologists_Who_Disagree.htm

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/16/monckton-climate-change-video-goes-viral/

Minneapolis – A video of Lord Christopher Monckton warning of the impending Copenhagen climate treaty has received over 3.5 million views in 30 days, according to Minnesota Majority, the organization responsible for posting the original 4-minute excerpt of Monckton’s speech.  The organization says that its original clip, together with the 100+ cloned versions that now exist on YouTube, in total exceeded 3.5 million views as of November 15, 2009.  The video clip made Minnesota Majority the #1 most viewed Non-Profit & Activism channel in the month of October on YouTube.

Lord Monckton: “Shut Down The UN, Arrest Al Gore”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/lord-monckton-shut-down-the-un-arrest-the-warmist-criminals.html

Copenhagen Wrap-up – Lord Monckton on the final day of the conference

“The activists, who are invited delegates to the UNs Copenhagen summit, betrayed the dictatorial agenda of the United Nations and the climate change movement as a whole by having zero tolerance for any dissenting opinion crashing and shouting down a small conference of people who had merely gathered to present the other side of the debate.

“You are listening now to the shouts in the background of the Hitler youth, said Monckton, as the green thugs interrupted his speech. Monckon mentioned the fact that these same youth corps had green spray-painted Copenhagen with Orwellian messages in a frightening throwback to the red, white and black swastikas that littered the city during the time when it was occupied by the Nazis.

“It is exactly this species of tyranny that the UN would like to impose upon the entire planet, in the name of saving us from ourselves – or, as Ugo Chavez would put it, saving us from Western capitalist democracy.”

http://sppiblog.org/news/is-the-european-police-state-going-global

http://climategate.tv/?tag=lord-monckton

What is telling is, as some of the material relates, besides Monckton is broadcasted on independent TV stations in the US , Monckton is engaged in the very fighting that needs to be executed in Australia, and should have been initiated decades ago. The Right, as on so many other fronts crucial to the defence of capitalism, of freedom, have not only run away, because they are scared of the Left. They have worked hard to stop and supress those with the ability to fight with deadly accuracy. This is why Australians now face their very own “Darkest Hour”.

Never forget, the Right handed the hard Left unwarranted victories. Without the thuggery of the Right, the Left would have been smashed decades ago. Australians now face their Darkest Hour because of that lot of arrogant, feeble, gutless cretins.

The Federal Liberal Party is following the Victorian Liberal Party down the electoral tubes, and Liberal members are not responsible for this.

Tony Abbott’s immigration policy, lobbed Saturday morning, has proven the final straw for some Australians. Consider the concerns:

Modest Australians are very irritated by the ‘balkanisation’ of Australia through the euphemistically named  ‘policy’ of ‘multiculturalism’ as it is. The concern is rather understandable, balkanisation multiplied and intensified by open, mass immigration. Rubbing salt into injury is the risk of a flood of undesirables.

Next, there is a deeply felt concern over the implications for employment and pay rates. This concern is not mistaken either.

Impact of mass immigration on labour markets: wage rates and the prosperity of modest Australians

The war for free markets is not over, but in order to win it means, for instance, killing the asinine nonsense the Right put up as the case for free labour markets and restoring what was missing in it, economics. Indeed, capital theory does not even exist for them. Then, for the good of the Liberal Party and Australia, the Right has to be smashed too.

Since the height of  pay rates is decided by the ratio of capital to labour, unless capital accumulation is occurring, mass immigration points to falling pay rates. The modest Australian understands this intuitively and, therefore, is saying that they are worried they will see their pay rates fall, and will be made poorer. Now as a matter of fact, the argument of the HR Nicholls Society does reduce Australians to:

What is holding Australia back economically is high pay rates. They don’t explain this assertion. From asserting, Australians are paid too much, they conclude that pay must be slashed. It is, indeed, the only conclusion that emerges from all that they said and wrote. They simply want to slash pay.

You can hide a sore thumb, but you can’t hide what they decided will be done to Australians. The ACTU really did not have to do much, the Right did the job for them. This defeated Howard in 2007, but the election was already lost in 2005.

In arriving at their claim, they committed the major fallacy of indeterminacy, which is hilarious. For while Des Moore, Ray Evans, Hugh Morgan, Michael Kroger, David Kemp, Peter Costello, Joe Hockey, Tony Abbott and Senator Nick Minchin refused to use Jackson and other accurate material, marginal productivity theory is in the two textbooks set for undergraduates. (The Right extol Costello as an  economic genius?)

Though those textbooks are rooted in the myth of perfect competition, the theory is unavoidable. Begg, Fischer and Dornbusch  (McGraw-Hill, 1984)  introduce it (pp 151-153) with a heading in big, bold, red ink:

The Marginal productivity of labour and Diminishing marginal Productivity

Funnier still, it has a short summary in big bold red ink that says, beyond some combination of capital and labour , productivity falls, - decreasing marginal productivity, called diminishing returns. It deteriorates, pages 222-224 is a paraphrastic expansion ending in big, bold, black ink:

wage = marginal value product of labour

Perhaps it was because Jackson, the rotten spoiler, used it and worse, with deadly accuracy, that convinced Evans and Moore, with a heady contribution from Morgan, to write their own expurgated economics textbook.

Labour is not cheated in free markets. Employees take home full payment they earned in production for the labour services they have delivered.  Due to the Right, the ACTU safely and successfully ran the lie, in free markets labour does not receive the full value of its product and free markets means employees will be cheated. Never mind the truth, and never mind all those given a 100% pay cut called unemployment, eh, Sharan Burrow, who gives a sod about them?

Even better, another matter Ray Evans and Des Moore got completely wrong, the labour cost curve is derived from the market prices for labour. These two geniuses held, employers stand out in the street with a billboard flashing prices. They bid prices up until they obtain all the labour they need.

Des Moore should adhere to his convictions. Can we expect to see Des Moore on the footpath, dressed in a billboard, waiting for punters to bid up the entry fee to the $20 he has fixed, or even higher, to his soiree featuring Viscount Monckton? He’s throwing in a grand spread of bread and butter that his ‘missus’, Desi, is sweating in the kitchen over. They, obviously, found out illegal immigrants expect to be paid, what a nerve!

It never occurred to these geniuses to take even one single, ordinary step and consider, entrepreneurs cannot combine factors of production in a price vacuum. The nonsense that they do is due to the the extension of the myth of perfect competition, monopoly, but it is not nearly so incompetent as what that lot fathomed. They conceded to the ACTU two other major falsehoods, as well as many sundries:

Firms make profits by forcing wage rates down below their market prices.

In other words, firms make profits by working capital at a loss. They hit earnings by destroying themselves. We know Hugh Morgan did in destroying WMC (and he still can’t figure out why investors were upset), but no entrepreneur and investor subscribes to the notion.

Secondly, firms exercise power over employees. Rubbish. Marginal productivity theory kills this notion stone dead. But the root fallacy is indeterminacy.

One of two things can happen because of  an immigration flood. In the absence of capital accumulation at least sufficient to prevent rates falling below prevailing rates, very many Australians will be made poorer. Or, some Australians will not be, because effective minimum rates are in force, while others are given a 100% pay cut called unemployment.

There is a problem. Before this one more recession we did not have to have, because of the RBA’s rotten monetary policies, how high was unemployment running? What about employees working far fewer hours, restricted to casual, short hours. On the official statistics, they are counted as employed? How many Australians were diverted from the unemployment statistics by various government schemes, before the recession hit?

I recollect in the 1980’s some on the Right, and some in associations such as the Business Council of Australia asserting that for economic growth immigration has to by increased by a large factor. The aim should be a population of around 30 odd millions to 40 odd millions.

The consumption fallacy is the pin of the aim. Yet, in labour markets, the Right committed another falsehood, simply adding labour increases productivity. Tony Abbott and the rest ran this line, as well as another falsehood: free markets will increase productivity.⁽¹⁾ The Rudd Cabinet runs these nostrums as the ‘reason’ for some of its measures on ‘education’ and employment ‘policies’.

Yes, the modest Australian for very good reasons opposes  ‘open-door’ and mass immigration ‘policies’. This, at a time when instead of capital accumulation, The Left and the Right are ’shoulder to shoulder’ behind policies that halts capital accumulation  - government spending and policies that destroy capital, ‘greens policies’.

Tony Abbott’s policy entails additional hardships 

They are only some of the problems modest Australians face. Investment in supply and energy has been killed by both Right and Left. Housing prices have been sent through the roof not only because of RBA’s monetary policies, but also by “Green policies” and additional taxes by which the Right and the Left have:

Constricted house building, eradicating altogether housing that those on the most modest means can pay for.

In Tasmania, for instance, homelessness, with some sleeping in cars and a council supplying tent sized winter sleeping bags for very many more, is a terrible toll thanks to the politicians and their destructive policies. It’s a very serious problem in Tasmania. How bad is it on the mainland? What will be the impact of mass immigration on all this?

Australians’ evulation of Tony Abbott’s policy

Let’s turn to some modest Australians’ assessment of Abbott’s policies in the Herald Sun. Readers called Abbott a “moron” and worse. Not only did they call him names, some declared they will not be voting for the Liberal Party at the next State and Federal elections. Well done, Tony Abbott. That’ll show Rudd how to really wipe out parliamentary seats.

Here’s a few:

“reg of monty Posted at 11:17 PM January 22, 2010
I can’t decide whether Tony Abbott is an evil genius or a total moron.” Or what about an absolute hypocrite? Was it only last week he wanted to turn the boats around? What makes you think he wont do another 180 next week? Do the libs have any lasting policies?

“Damien of melb. Posted at 11:24 PM January 22, 2010
Tony Abbott is a Moron of the first order where is he planning to house the mad     rush this will cause, cities will expand eating away already depleting farm land. Build cities in the outback where farming is not viable. Typical T. Abbott starts talking an hour ahead of his brain kicking into gear. I was planning to vote liberal not now after this stupidity.

“at a loose end Posted at 11:24 PM January 22, 2010
very good point raised by Chris of Too crowded…there has been no alternative to vote for on the topic of immigration since Pauline Hanson was lost to politics.”

[Herald Sun, 22/1/10, Immigration the key to boosting population growth, says Opposition Leader Tony Abbott]

Here’s the result of a Gallaxy poll:

Poll shows Aussies want immigration capped

“Two-thirds of respondents - 66 per cent - think the Federal Government should cap immigration rates. Of these, 72 per cent of Australians polled favour an immigration cap, while 55 per cent of those who live here but do not consider themselves Australian also favoured an immigration cap.

Leading immigration expert Dr Bob Birrell said…”

Radio phone-ins, en-masse

Saturday and Sunday on the Radio, callers flooded switchboards. Was melt-down avoided, and not because of the sheer number of callers? Comments included:

Balkanization.
Open door to undesirables.
Mass unemployment.
We are being completely savaged in our living standards.
What hope for my children.
They really hate us: Kill off Australia, kill patriotism, kill prosperity with ‘green policies’ and mass unemployment.

This is only a fraction of the scathing comments callers made. It’s not racism motivating the reaction. Many callers stressed:

Germans, Italians, Greeks, Poles, Jews, Hungarians, Asians, French, rather a long list really, have enriched Australia. They made the point that these people either share the same values, or have escaped brutal regimes precisely to enjoy the values of a capitalist Australia in which not ‘positive law’ of politicians, but common law is the rule of law.

They are the words of modest, patriotic Australians. Australians are, at bottom and to use a Rush Limbaugh-ism, hard wired for freedom. They not only know something is terribly wrong with what the Right and the Left are doing. Modest Australians are fingering some of what is dangerously wrong with ‘policies’.

Tony Abbott and the Right are serving the hard Left. Along with the likes of Julie  Bishop and Helen Kroger, when were Liberal Party members told the Goons were incarnated and elevated to Parliament?

Tony Abbott cannot but be Eccles, “Yup, yup, yup. it’s alright folks. Foin, foin, foin. Er, foin.”

He is the perfection of all the qualities prized by the Right, including contempt for Australians and their inalienable rights. Closed, and, in his chilling anti-intellectualism, stupid.

The stupid don’t merely commit mistakes and blunders that only hurt themselves. Their stupidity contains a nasty edge which is why they are stupid, cruelty. They inflict pain on others and are blind to, that is exactly what they do. When they are informed of it, they not only pretend they haven’t.

They ignore the fact and protest to the contrary that they have been ‘more than generous’ to others. Indeed, over many years now the right have vociferously protested their innocence by smearing and slandering genuine Liberals. No answer to criticism and challenges, just smears and sneers. Peter Costello did just that in his “dummy spit”.

Costello protested his selfless concern for Australians. Bawling out how hard he “worked for Australians” draws attention only to whether he had. Well, then Peter Costello, show all that ‘hard work”. Where is it?

In the mean-time, there are enough who can walk Peter Costello through the graveyards of firms, and firms choking to death on hospital beds. Firms ruined with the ‘regulations’, ‘tax laws’, and intensification of ‘anti-cartel laws’ he rammed down as Treasurer. This, before reflecting on the RBA and also what has followed from its ‘policies’, an overvalued currency that, as Jackson suggested, could be hollowing out production.

Funny thing is, Jackson is dead right. I have case examples of this, one of which is large-scale and current. But Professor Sinclair Davidson, still struggling with the Laffer Curve (last sight he was tied up trying to spot one), arrived at one of his many unreasoned, off the cuff conclusions. Davidson knows that even if a currency is over-valued, it cannot have that impact.

His reason is fallacious. I’m here to say, Professor Sinclair Davidson doesn’t have a clue and what on earth he pumps into students at RMIT is something one dare not ponder, there are enough frights as it is. Rubber balls bounce:

Will the exchange rate kill manufacturing

The Right don’t give a stuff about what they have done to others and what they continue to do. This is in contrast to the treacherous Left, who are deliberate in their aim to inflict pain and worse on Australians. The Right inflict pain and believe they are good. They consider their actions benevolent. Abbott comes up with a “benefaction” every day, straight off the cuff, for which we mere oafs should be grateful for.

He is a complete idiot.

How many Liberal Party votes has Tony Abbott destroyed?

Thousands, tens of thousands, or any multiple of tens of thousands? Extrapolating from the electoral success of the Right in Victoria, and from the impact of the Right’s demolition of the fight for free labour markets on the 2007 federal election, a good guess is in the hundreds of thousands of voters.

Well, in his office, besides “thinks”, one thing is clear, Abbott is engaged in a song writing contest with Rudd on the theme of, “Ode to Deah Leadah”. They are locked in mortal combat to have their version entrenched in the Constitution. What a horrific fight it is too.

Footnote

(1) When labour markets are freed, there can be an initial rise in productivity, because labour can now be freely combined with capital. But as unemployment is eliminated, unless capital accumulation is occurring, productivity falls, as the theory of marginal productivity explains.

The phenomenon, therefore, is not a contradiction. It is a short-run phenomenon.  Jackson carefully explained this in his Labour Market Wars and in articles on Brookesnews.

Even though it also the conclusion that follows from even the perfect competition myth rooted set textbooks for undergraduates, the Right in Parliament stood up, armed with the ‘classics’ written by Ray Evans and Des Moore, with a heady contribution from Hugh Morgan, and more from the IPA and the CIS,  and declared:

“Free markets means rising productivity.”

Now, the ALP did not attack them when they adhered to the only truth they did manage to come to grips with, free markets clears unemployment. Mind, it is not clear how they managed to stumble upon it. Indeed, something curious indicates something else (it will be raised in another item  - we shall leave them sweating until then).

The ALP disemboweled them when they strayed from that single point. The best evisceration came in the Senate, for the obvious reason, Senate proceeding give members the time and the room for each Senator to have a lengthy go. And, did ALP Senators go at ‘em.

As with every other line of attack the Right get wrong and don’t so much blunt as melt like butter, the ALP sat back, absorbed the worst the Right could manage, let them exhaust themselves with wind, then stood up and hit each of them in the solar plexus.  It’s acid in the mouth but, to confess, it sure is fun listening to ALP Senators shred them. They are welcome to shred them and often.

Oh, the Right claim to work. Well, ALP Senators, not necessarily all, but enough do work. You can tell.

They go in armed. ALP members use guns to advise them, and the motivated to dig out even more material. They are fully briefed on possible opposing positions, which are fully analysed, and on how to counter them.

ALP members (yes, the ALP has real duds too inc. Rudd, Wong, Garrett), apply themselves to what their advisers supply them. They seek out the advice and apply themselves to thoroughly digesting it. When they go into the Senate, they have the Right fully covered and are ready to smash them.

The rotten thing is, if it were genuine Liberal talent holding the seats, they would not only be fully armed. Armed with the impregnable free market case, and fully briefed on the flaws, errors and falsehoods of the Left’s positions, they’d reduce the Left to little, bloody heaps of mince-meat splattered all over the furniture, the carpets and the walls.

The only thing left to do would be to bring in the fire hoses and flush the mess out of the whole damned place.

Even better, the Left knows it is exactly what would be done to them should genuine Liberal talent come to the fore.

With the three items below, that’s it for today and this week. Until Monday, thankyou readers.