“The Sword of the Right” strikes again

( A related item immediately follows the main item in this one post.)

Is Andrew Bolt , aka “The Ethanol Kid”. an Outrageous Liar?

What brought this on?

We’ll do this by the numbers, commencing with an “article” by Bolt in August 2009 . In it, he struck a genuine blow:

Why killing jobs won’t save the planet

He tells ‘readers’ it’s ‘flawed policy’ that will hurt jobs. (What, Bolt, counts as ‘flawless policy’?) Oh, he doesn’t say so directly. He uses “experts” to say it. Well, he got one thing right, it’s the neatest cut and paste job in the Herald Sun site he’s ever managed (Bolt likes to call his blog).

Well, well, well, the economics experts are none other than his patrons of the Right-wing clique and, best of all, the articles he quotes are all in one of their clubrooms. This is real investigative journalism and research at its best and it is the calibre of everything he “investigates”. Quadrant magazine.

Professor James Allen

His case against carbon taxation is: It’s bad.

So is cancer, gee. That’s it? This is an argument? From a university Professor? What do you expect from a Professor in law? Law? Don’t be daft.

The Right-wing clique knows that a law degree instantly makes them economists, physicists (cf. Greg Hunt, Green cultist Leftist) and neuro-scientists. It’s a wonder they omitted engineering, but who needs that when you have mechano and lego sets!

Professor Sinclair Davidson

He is a professor in economics. He proves that beyond reasonable doubt that you don’t have to know what you are talking about to be an economist in Australia.

His argument: “green jobs” require massive subsidies, proving they are inefficient.

Why? I mean to say, Professor Sinclair Davidson, arguing the conclusion is a whopping bad fallacy, but to merely assert it? We’ll help the Professor in economics: He can’t say why because he doesn’t know why, and what’s wrong with the whole proposal in the first place. Strewth! Give him a break, he’s still working on what a Laffer Curve is.

Until Davidson decided to oppose carbon taxes, if what he writes can be called ‘attack’, he supported carbon taxes. His argument is: it would force the government to introduce a flat tax. I can’t be alone in musing, why? Making this all the more risible is a sum, there are no earnings to tax when the generator of earnings is annihilated by carbon tax. That’s your flattener tax Davidson.

Andrew Bolt didn’t have the guts to attack Davidson for his support of carbon tax. Now Bolt is using the Herald Sun to promote him as an economic genius and carbon tax warrior.

Ray Evans

He’s a walking pandemic. Beyond a shadow of a doubt vaccination is required against his presence. Why would Bolt spread the disease to his readers?

I know. Ray Evans is another member of the Right-wing clique into which Andrew Bolt has been inducted (hence Bolt’s PR  promotion of Sinclair Davidson). Bolt had passed the first initiation ritual, feasting on a teaspoon of caviar at Michael Kroger’s joint without spilling a drop of a thimble of Bollinger.

But let’s be fair to Ray Evans. We must be fair, and examine his argument on its merits, so it won’t take long.

Carbon taxes (ETS): It is bad.

“Alternative energy”: It is a fantasy.

What’s an ETS Evans? It is noted you didn’t say what it is. Could it be some kind of newt that blows bubbles? What does it do, belch? Why is it bad, spreads a pandemic? Darn, Evans doesn’t know either.

A “fantasy”. Why? I really don’t like to help a guy out when he’s so able but here’s a hat-tip: massive dis-economies of scale and the power of three.

Well, he has, as Davidson has, really paralysed the Left. I mean, really really paralysed them, with mirth.

Alan Moran

He is the Institute of Public Affairs’ expert on markets. Now everyone knows why the IPA have failed to defend them.

His argument is: It is bad.

Let’s be fair and give it in full:

Because fossil fuels are 1/3 of exports and this is vulnerable to carbon taxes and other restraints.

This is an argument? That’s it?

How about this Alan Moran for an argument:

It destroys capital and thus living standards.

Dr. Alex Robson

He is another one of Ray Evans’ pals, ie. A member of the HR Nicholls Society. What’s Dr. Robson’s response?

His argument is, It is bad.

Here it is in full: “It will have large incremental costs”. These are “negative”. It’s bad policy.

That’s it? This is the best he can come up with? So, how about this for an argument:

The Government is about to impose a carbon tax that will destroy the capital structure of Australia. Now this is what Jackson of Brookesnews nailed and explained, using capital theory and with demonstration, long before it occurred to Andrew Bolt’s experts that there might be something wrong with an ETS, a and they still don’t know what is wrong with it and any other type of carbon tax.

Summation of Andrew “The Ethanol Kid” Bolt’s expert evidence

“It is bad”.

Readers, you can try this for yourself. I have, over some years. There are in fact a very large number of economics experts whom you can consult at no charge. You can consult them at your leisure. What you do is, walk into a paddock of sheep and question them about carbon taxes. They will answer effortlessy, quite in contrast to the strivings of the above experts:

“Tisssss baaaaaaaaaad”

These are truly brilliant economists and we eat them for lunch, dinner, Sunday roast, barbecues and breakfast. You didn’t realise, did you, that you munch on Professors of the Sorbonne, Cambridge, Yale, Tubingen, Melbourne and Sydney?

Here is the rub

As soon as Jackson had nailed it, they all realised he had. They all know this. What do we see? Andrew Bolt and his pals pretending to have got in and fought tooth and nail all the way and, by the way, this lot have never fought any cause .

Moreover, Bolt knows that Jackson did so, and did so years ago.

Why is it possible that I can consider Andrew Bolt a liar, and in my opinion he is?

That last sentence, Bolt knows the facts is demonstration of:

Andrew Bolt is deliberately misleading Herald Sun readers, Victorians and Australians

He presents nonsense spouted by his little pals, his patrons, when he knows there is the sound, solid and therefore highly moral case, banged down by Jackson. Instead, Bolt asserts his pals tripe as the case. This is deliberate misleading of readers.

He is stating that his little pals’ case is the only one around in Melbourne and in all of Australia. He doesn’t say this directly. He is lying indirectly.

These reasons alone are sufficient to arrive state that in my opinion Andrew bolt is a liar. Andrew Bolt, in my opinion, you are a liar.

Andrew Bolt is not only a liar, in my opinion. In my opinion, he is also guilty of theft. Andrew Bolt is stealing credit from whom it belongs to. It was Jackson who long ago nailed what a carbon tax is, what the danger is and that it had to be fought. He did it in the 1990’s.

Andrew Bolt, the credit you are stealing belongs to Jackson. I attack Right and Left over carbon taxes, but I acknowledge Jackson, I don’t pretend otherwise. I acknowledge the fineness and calibre of Jackson’s work, without which it would be a tad difficult to do what I do, a very large tad difficult to say the least.  And, also Dr. Shostak’s too. These two are the best writing for Australians and they are of the first rank in economics.

What does Bolt commend instead? Mediocrities who cannot even scramble onto the lowest rank without looking entirely out of their depth. Going for this lot is like shooting fish in a barrel, and I’m a mere layman in economics!

You, Bolt have done none of it. You haven’t even managed to do what I have done. Instead, you pretend you are leading a fight that neither you nor your little mates have fought. In the process Bolt, you are misleading readers as to the truth and have been doing so for years. You, like your mates, don’t give a damn about modest Australians and what carbon taxes can do to them. So long as you and your fellow parasites are OK, the rest can get stuffed.

Oh, journalistic integrity? Andrew Bolt, this retarded, ignorant Krogerite buffoon has none, it is my opinion guided by the evidence. There is more to expose. We are doing this by the numbers.

We finish off this part one on the question of whether Bolt is a Liar with a brief note on what is also wrong with the article.

The title is wrong. The article leaves readers completely in the dark and led astray, wildly astray, thank you very much to a gutless, idle ignorant little man called Andrew Bolt. Here’s the rub:

It undermines and discredits the fight against carbon taxes. Bolt is severely damaging what is a fight and Australians are now in great peril. This is what Bolt does all the time, as he did over labour markets. This will be raised in an item. Anyway, here’s the second, related item.

The title, Andrew Bolt, The “Ethanol Kid” moonlighting as a bob a job schoolboy

Let’s point something out for the benefit of Bolt. Even primitive tribesmen have ‘jobs’, trying to find food, knocking over other tribes, making bows, arrows, spears, carrying water. They are jobs. So is weeding the garden a job. Anyone can have a job, Mr. Bolt. In the Ancient world and in the Roman Empire there were job creation schemes called slavery. Totalitarian regimes have their own variations on this and other job creation schemes. Rudd’s and Abbott’s “Green Army” “jobs” aren’t novel. The Nazi and communist regimes got in first.

Jobs are not the reason why millions go to work each day. Take a straw poll and it would be surprising if the vast majority didn’t say that if they were in a position to they would never go to work again. They go to work to earn a pay packet.

Now, Bolt, I can pin precisely where you got this rubbish about jobs from. You got this nonsense from your mates in the HR Nicholls Society and the IPA. I can skewer this rubbish and, in fact, have an item in drafts for this very purpose. I know this Bolt, because it is part of the bilge they pour out as part of their notion of ‘labour market economics’. Bolt and his pals thoroughly, publicly discredited what is in fact a sound and therefore highly moral case, free labour markets.

How could Andrew Bolt get it so badly wrong, “jobs”? Don’t try to answer it too quickly, because it spoils the pleasure of contemplation.

Harry the snail, the real brains behind the Right-wing clique ran away. Some bastard, with malice aforethought, squished it while staggering out of a pub in Toorak one rainy evening.

To earn, Andrew Bolt, by working capital, something neither you, nor your Right-wing clique pals have done. Oh, there is a couple of exceptions, which shows they have a screw loose joining up with this lot of wealthy “dole-bludgers”.

Capital, Andrew Bolt. This is the target of the hard Left, and not jobs as such.

They, Bolt, are using the superstitious, magical, pantheistic ‘green’ beliefs as an excuse for one aim only. This aim is to destroy capital with carbon taxes. Bang! This is the case and the fight.

It means the immiseration of millions of Australians, but free markets and modest Australians are as inconvenient to Bolt (as we shall document) and his pals, as they are to the hard Left. It sounds weird but it is true.

Right-wing think tanks the toast of the Left

In leftist rag,The New Matilda, Ben Eltham subjected Des Moore’s and Professor Sinclair Davidson’s efforts to careful analysis. Ben Eltham simply threw some of their nonsense back at them. Neither answered, again. Eltham’s articles could convince readers who are unsure whether the free market case is wrong, immoral and destructive. It degenerates. If Eltham is an economist, it is a well concealed secret. (1)

Pensions

Eltham certainly has a point.

The reason given for retention of the WWII war tax, PAYE, was to ensure all Australians had a retirement income. Politicians have since used it for buying toys and votes. So, naturally, they had to cut pensions by imposing ‘means tests’ (whatever that callous insult means), RBA’s monetary poison lopping more off and, as uncle Tony Abbot says, granting benefactions - unobservable increases – even pensioners didn’t spot the last one!

Those lucky enough to get a pension, either:

1) Go without main meals. Many don’t use life preservers, eg. air-conditioning. Some stay in bed all day shivering in winter, and starving, because they bloody well can’t afford to look after themselves.

2) Those able to, shove off to what they assumed they’d finished with, hard work. They “pension sacrifice”, earning back the “sacrifice” and then some more to afford rent, power and food. Thrilling, isn’t it?

What do they get from from the CIS, IPA and Tony Abbott ? “The little lazy ingrates lazing about in bed all day can jolly well go out and work until they drop dead.” (2)

Am I missing something? The politicians have broken the oath sworn obligation. The CIS and IPA say it is ‘economic theory’, it is principled to starve them back into work after 60 and flog them to death.

The CIS, IPA, Tony Abbott, Rudd, Swann, Dr. Ken Henry also believe it is fine to do in pensioners, who have worked damned hard all their lives and been taxed to the eyeballs. Rudd, Swann and Henry want to do this to those building their own nest eggs too - I expect to hear the Right say, “Foine, foine, foine”.

It’s moral. No fraud involved. They are irked only by the little shriveled up sods who won’t co-operate.

Eltham didn’t mention many leftists mates, who enough like the Rudds got wealthy from pseudo-businesses and psuedo-charities (The Wilderness Society for one), are no damned better. Yet, Eltham has a point.

It’s OK for the left to immiserate millions and abuse pensioners. It’s another matter when the Right do it. It is despicable. This alone has driven many to the ALP. There are readers who have queried in emails the claim the Right is the reason for the hard Left’s “success”.

Eltham, though, isn’t honest. There is “middle class welfare” doled out in billions of dollars. Local Councils and States’ and Federal Cabinets have raised ‘armies’ of ‘careerists’ and Kommissars who are not public servants. They are an insult to public servants (this is genuinely meant). On top of this, of course, there are more of these types such as legalists (not common law lawyers) making heaps out of enforcing decrees and another special mention must go to:

IPA and CIS, collecting off hapless shareholders thanks to witless directors and executives. Ron Manners, besides also funding the CIS and IPA, has encouraged more of these useless dumbkopfs through his Mannkal Foundation. All you bought, Ron Manners, is duds. Are you daft, or just in love with the self-PR photo shoots?

Professor Sinclair Davidson’s epic journey – discovery of the Laffer curve, still trying

Eltham claims “Oz” is one of the lowest taxed countries in the world. What is that supposed to mean (including if it were the opposite)? Here we are into capital theory. Eltham is equal to the Right, which shows up in Parliament; the Right put the factor into, the cringe-factor.

It is fun reminding Professor Sinclair Davidson, RMIT’s in-house amusement arcade and IPA’s gun, how feeble he really is. It did seem, though, the Left were gassed out on Quiggin’s ‘treatment’ of “Sinker’s” efforts on the Laffer curve. Wrong!

Eltham’s treatment of company taxation is asinine but it is as good as anything Davidson and the rest of the CIS and IPA have produced. Eltham finishes with a  searing conclusion, ‘if you can stomach it, read him’. But, Eltham has crossed from cautious barbs into economics.

John F. Kennedy faced a crisis. His administration was facing falling tax revenues and he wanted to spend, and then there was the Vietnam War to fund too. The point of the Laffer curve was to show the only way out of recession and for growth is savings accumulation and it meant cutting the tax rate. Jackson demonstrated in Brookesnews, skewering Quiggin in the process, the truth of this for the Ronald Reagan and George Bush tax cuts. (3)

As surprising as it is to many on the Right also, many entrepreneurs in Australia are patriots and considerate of pensioners too. They don’t begrudge paying tax to meet these two obligations at all. Many I’ve chatted with are aghast at the treatment of both by Coalition and ALP Cabinets.

What is entirely false in Eltham’s statement is his misrepresentation of company taxes. Those which destroy capital and stop capital accumulation. It’s evident that it hasn’t occurred to Eltham, and neither to Rudd, Swann, Abbott, and the ‘think tank’ “clowns”, the only way Cabinet and Parliament can continue to meet those obligations is if production is so great that they can be supported out of earnings. If there is expansion in  government consumption and increases in payments there must be capital accumulation or something can give way, the whole “blimming lot”. Let’s quote Franz Machlup:

Austria was successful in pushing through policies which are popular all over the world. Austria has most impressive records in five lines: she increased public expenditures, she increased wages, she increased social benefits, she increased bank credits, she increased consumption. After all those achievements she was on the verge of ruin. (Fritz Machlup, The Consumption of Capital in Austria, Review of Economic Statistics, II, 1935, p. 19).  (4)

Contrary to Eltham, companies have been writing off investments in Australia over the last three decades, and it hasn’t ceased, because of taxes and regulation. Anyone who can write: company tax and regulatory burdens are light in the face of so much hard evidence is either a liar or a complete and slightly deranged moron. Which are you Eltham?

What of firms that cannot set up overseas? They go down, permanently. This is before the impact of RBA’s poison. Then there is the matter of an over-valued dollar that might have done great damage to Australia’s production structure, Yes, little Elthy, it is a nasty tax too. Oh, try telling investors and employees the contrary, and take Des Moore, Davidson, Ray Evans, Chris Berg and Greg Lindsay. A united presentation to mere oafs is “strength through joy”. I’ll book a ringside seat - just love blood sports.

ETS

Eltham mocks warnings over the impact of ETS as spooky bed time stories for children. The CIS said the same thing. The Right and Left depict it as an income tax that can be compensated for with transfers: PAYE is a pay cut, so is carbon taxation. The Right in Parliament have not departed the ‘group think’. All in all, suspicions that it might be OK are left intact. More to the point, this stupidity will see Rudd ram down the ETS this session of Parliament.

How interesting. The New Matilda is so focused on misleading its readers it peddles the lie that there is nothing wrong with an ETS. One thing is clear, it hasn’t registered in the skulls of Eltham and his welfare-ist mates that they too will be wiped out. After all, Eltham:

ETS: capital tax; 1st aim - destroy efficient coal power; the rest follows. No production =  not a zac for fifth columnists either.

(Sorry readers, but as the Right, this crew need it spelled out for them in big crayons.)

Is the rag a void in quality control too?  What research? No fact checking? Either they are deliberately lying, or thick, or IQ challenged and lying.

If the Right were only lost at sea in a fog, who’d give a damn?

The rotten thing is, they cast their dense fog over all Australians, discrediting the thoroughly sound and therefore highly moral free market cause and this is what Eltham’s is attacking without having to attempt a rebuttal. Leftists have one thing right:

The Right hand them opportunities to attack free markets without fearing savage, devastating reprisals from the dim-witted, bungling fools.

This reflects the total failure of our right to deal with this issue, and why. They are a bunch of lazy, spiteful and jealous incompetents. Eltham is a lucky guy. He has faced spineless economic illiterates only. Oh, I’m sorry, Elthy, your and your rag’s luck just ran out.

In the mean-time, Eltham, since you and your pals at the rag fancy yourselves as really crash-hot on the matter, why don’t you go for some-one really worth the effort. Just google carbon taxes, Brookesnews, and try and rebut the analysis and demolition of carbon taxes from capital theory. According to you, it’s a shoe-in. Good luck. I await eagerly your sterling demolition.

Yes, Sir, Right-wing think tanks are the toast of the Left, who don’t bother asking whether they take it charcoal burning or just crispy black fried. How inconsiderate.

Footnotes

(1) The Art of Taxation, By Ben Eltham, The New Matilda

The Myth of “Carbon Leakage”, By Ben Eltham- It isn’t ‘leakage’ Elthy, whatever that is supposed to mean. As for “myth’, compare Ray Evans, “It’s all a fantasy”. Who is channelling whom?!

(2)Tony Abbott wrote the position in his manifesto for his central planning grand plan, Battlelines, saying the pension should not be available until 72 years of age. yesterday, on radio, he was trying to extricate himself:

a) “It’s only an idea in the book.” Come again, Tony? This, you yourself declared it, is the ‘thinking man’s book even the man in the street can engage with intellectually’.

b) “It’s not Party policy”. Come again, Tony? Let’s see, you are a Liberal, and now leader of the Liberal Party. You, in 2000 as a member of Cabinet, were also responsible for RECs. RECs is fraud with knobs on. Readers, we have one of a number of items to post today, and many, many more this week. RECs is one of them.

You don’t have a clue about markets, you haven’t even worked in them in firms. You dont’ have a clue about capital. You don’t have a clue as to what you wrote, central planning, but what you wrote you wrote seriously. This is your platform. It could be Hunt’s and Turnbull’s too. Perhaps they plagiarise each other - paragraph, chapter and the whole damned book.

Now what could be going on? I know, the Henry tax report, which has as one of the policies to compel many to work until they drop dead, and to plunder super funds. Abbott and the rest, occupying what are Liberal Party seats, are rubbing their hands with glee. ALP does the dirty work, they collect, is the only inference because the Right, including Peter Costello, have swindled Australians so many times by this very tactic. I’ll withdraw the charge, if wrong. Right now, it looks dead accurate to me.

Unprincipled and oily are only two adjectives that leap before the eyeballs. Why they should, I don’t have a clue. So I have typed them in just in case they mean something.

3) To spell out it out for Professor Sinclair Davidson: It was a device for Kennedy and any President and Prime Minister to use to get past all consuming, all taxing ministers and bureaucrats tax cuts and get off the back of capital. A means of getting through what is a cornerstone of Austrian capital theory:

- Only savings drive growth

- Only savings drags people out of recession

But with the appeal edge: “Thus, Mr. President, you will find tax revenues increasing because production is greater and increasing.”

How clever is that, eh, and yet Professor Sinclair “Sinkers and Sunk” Davidson can’t get a grip.

(4) Jackson’s articles on President Barak Obama’s  ‘economic policies’ illuminate Prime Minister Rudd’s and States’  Premiers’ policies rather well. In this article, as an example, Jackson uses the quote with deadly accurate force:

Will a tidal wave of red ink sink the American economy? Brookesnews

Beware the enemy behind your back.

In, Liberal Party News: Members outraged, demand Senator Heffernan…, an article written by a friend of  a senior intelligence officer was alluded to. The best of a month later, here it is:

A Warning and a Ray of Hope from an Intelligence Operative

(Townhall, 22/12/09)
Douglas MacKinnon commences with a question he asked his friend:

“I asked him what — based on his vast experience — was the number one threat facing our nation? Without even pausing to think about it, he forcefully answered, “Our mainstream media.”

The threat is, of course, hard Left journalists. However, in Australia, “Right-wing’ journalists are doing a splendid job of helping the fifth columnists, mainly because of laziness, incompetence, and being mediocrities. (There will be, for instance, an item on Andrew Bolt’s latest antics).

The agent makes a number of points that, with adjustment, equally apply not to Australian journalists of the “Clique”  but also their “think tanks” the IPA, HR Nicholls Society, Quadrant magazine, and CIS. The unsurprising thing is, the same narrow range of ‘commentators’ and ‘economists’ of the Clique write the vast majority of ‘papers’ and articles’ for all four. Then, the IPA got its clutches on “The Australian Spectator”.

What a blunder. Who’s the genius in The Spectator head office who did that, Doug Cameron?  I mean to say, the magazine gives the very strong impression that this village idiot, Doug Cameron, is dictating editorial policy.

Tory statists (the UK’s equal to Australia’s Clique) wrested control of the Tory Party after margaret Thatcher,  eradicating the ordinary member and intellectual engagement, ending up with Doug Cameron. The Spectator followed suit and became unreadable. It was reduced to a self-indulgent, ‘dumbed down’ self-adulation exercise that is all too familar in Australia. The final end has come with “The Australian” edition. It is now totally asinine, and the cover price a “rip-off”.

Here’s another statement made by the agent that also applies to the Clique in Australia:

“Many… are vastly inexperienced when it comes to the actual plight of working Americans or corporate America, or were hired for politically correct reasons.”

Ladies and gentlemen, three things stand out in the Clique’s economics ‘experts’ heady efforts:

1)No theory
2)No evidence, marked by the absence of data in their ‘articles’.

Without 1), testable and, crucially, this means contestable evidence cannot be uncovered. What would one be looking  for, fairy-stories? Ahem, Ray Evans did, “fantasies”.  One only has to read the voluminous ‘papers’ poured out by such as Professor Sinclair Davidson, Ray, Evans, and Des Moore, to cite only the names the public recognises, to appreciate there is nothing there.

Failing in economic theory, this lot, HR Nicholls Society, IPA, CIS, Quadrant magazine are even devoid of any clue as to some of the realities which capital theory explains. Yes, Professor Sinclair Davidson, this is one of the arguments we will be putting up in an item that indicates how incompetent you and Chris Berg are. Ah, this reminds me:

Professor Sinclair Davidson has another worthless paper published recently. This time, not in the WSJ, thank God! It’s in Quadrant magazine, on ETS. There is, consistently, no economics and no evidence.

Professor Keith Windshuttle

Editor of Quadrant magazine. A man concerned for truth and defending it publicly. He has a conflict of interest:

Publishing those guaranteed to discredit the cause of truth and freedom, which is supposed to be Quadrant’s remit - assailing threats to freedom.

Can Professor Windschuttle explain how publishing ‘material’ discrediting the  pin of freedom, free markets – capitalism, sapping the fight, fulfils the remit?

Can Professor Windschuttle, as a distinguished Professor in Australian History, explain no mere lack of quality control at Quadrant?

Leftist Robert Manne is gone. Communard and fascist P.P. McGuinness (1), who amongst his many successful disasters also helped to destroy the fight for free labour markets, is gone. Professor Windschuttle is the editor now.

Here are a few more questions that, frankly, Professor Windshuttle must answer:

Why isn’t Quadrant using genuine defenders of freedom?

Why isn’t Quadrant using genuine free market economists to carry the fight?

We know of two, Mr. Gerard Jackson and Dr. Frank Shostak.

Are there are anymore of their calibre is an unknown, due to the Right, their think tanks, and their immature, ignorant ‘journalists’ such as Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair, Miranda Devine, and Janet Albrechtsen.

What is Professor Keith Windshuttle’s policy to correct this bloody disaster?

Will he contact Jackson and Shostak? Will he then seek out hitherto hidden talent to build up a fighting force?

What about genuine Liberals trying to defend the rule of common law?

What distinguished  professors has he sought out, given that such Professors have been eradicated from the University?

(Not many these days, I understand, but there are some still alive, or at least one that I am aware off.)

It seems it will soon be time for another letter to Professor Keith Windschuttle.

It is question begging that Professor Windschuttle would lend his good name to a magazine that decades ago was converted into nothing more than a navel gazing indulgence (and sod the reading public) for ignorant brats pretending to be adults. I am sorry Professor, but this is the kindest remark that can be made of Quadrant magazine’s stable of “studs”. The hard Left, Professor, call them “pompous asses”, “clowns”, and “buffoons” and, as the editor, you are publishing them.

It must also be noted that, besides the likes of Bolt and Albrechtsen, the clowns in the Clique’s think tanks are given abundant oxygen in the media too. No genuine defender is given a tiny fraction of it, the Right ensured this. We know why.

The hard Left loves them. They want to keep the bereft firmly in the public eye. Yes, Professor Windshcuttle, you have a real problem, presiding over a pack of incompetents who give comfort only to the treacherous Left.

How, Professor, do you square Quadrant’s freedom fighting intellectual pretensions aims with the decidedly gutless, back-stabbing mediocrities and the tripe they spew out by the second with Quadrant magazine’s brief?

Yes, Beware the enemy behind your back. The real ‘enemy’ is the Clique’. If it were not for them, the hard Left would have been smashed decades ago.

 A few more questions that, frankly, Professor Windshuttle must answer

The Right treat the outlets as ego polishing, PR vehicles, and are playing games with matters that have tremendous impact on Australians.Callous and contempt are only two wrods accurately describing theses antics. More-over, these people claim to stand for Liberal positions, and are used as advisers. All this makes them accountable to abused, trampled upon Liberal Party members and all modest Australians.

They make claims yet refuse to defend their claims. They publish rubbish and smear those publishing sound material. They claim to stand for things, as Quadrant does, but ‘marginalise’ any who are not in their Clique and who do not obey the Clique’s vulgar nonsense and and dicta. Obeying these self-annointed masters of Australians – and this is exactly their attitude as the HR Nicholls Society’s inmates made very plain and publicly, is all.

How, professor Windshuttle, does this sqaure with freedom, including intellectual freedom, integrity, and debate? Frankly, Sir, I can’t see that it does, but perhaps you can correct me with a sound explanation?

Take it as read, Sir, I shall be most interested in reading your defence of the indefensible.

Footnote

(1) Here is the mark of that “man”:

“McGuinness finished with the very, very non-conservative entreaty of: “Why should we not set out to become a social laboratory once more, and pioneer the policies of adjustment to population stabilisation?”
“The last century saw more than 100,000,000 souls, and it still hasn’t stopped, lose their lives because of ruthless smart-alecks who felt they had the right to turn each of their countries into a “social laboratory”.
“I cannot say that I’m really surprised by McGuinness’s attitude. After all, he approved of the political lynching of judge Bork because the judge was an originalist who questioned the constitutional propriety of Roe v Wade.
“When I. F. Stone died McGuinness wrote a glowing article about the man, while neglecting to mention that he was a traitor, a Stalinist mouthpiece and a KGB agent…”

 Australian economy, immigration and economic growth, Brookesnews (23/5/05)

Liberal Party News Flash: Quadrant caught in a scandal

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?

All but over: Rudd to ram down carbon taxes

Anyone made bets on the passage of Rudd’s first ETS Bills?

Out of the possibilities, two were lost on time only, the 1st Bill was defeated:

1. It will be passed

2. It will be passed because the Greens are bluffing; they will support it once their other demands have been defeated in the Senate.

Greens will now support the next carbon tax bill Rudd is to put to Parliament:

Greens to end ETS impasse

Well, this skewers Abbott  completely. Now all Wong and Rudd have to do is stand up and ram in the next blade:

“The Leader of the Opposition opposes the ETS. What is he complaining about? he is proposing to impose his own carbon tax. He’s quibbling….”

That’s only the warm up. It’s easy to imagine what ALP Senators will do and, for example, they completely shredded some of the Right on many matters, and on carbon taxes, shredded someone from the IPA (This is to be examined next week). Yes, Abbott’s major partial partial victory ends when Parliament resumes.

Attention has been drawn to a rather illuminating quote. Liberal members are in shock, appalled does not sum things up, at what stands in the name of the Liberal Party. The following is not a-typical of the Right, even though it is Tony Abbott who said it:

“I am far from convinced that there are any so-called violations of rights in this country, which aren’t more properly considered a conflict of rights, than a violation of rights.”

Does he have a clue as to what he is gibbering on about? Common law resolves conflicts from principles but this doesn’t seem to be what he is pondering.

He is “far from convinced”. He is sitting in his office while Spencer takes his stand, the two Pastors were persecuted, many Victorians are victims of the STO-OPA rackett, Tony’s pals in W.A. are preparing to ram down anti free association rights “laws’ and Tony mutters,

“Yup, yup, yup. It’s OK folks. Foin, foin, foin. Er, foin.”

Then he potters off to lunch at taxpayers’ expense after a hard morning’s “think”.

He has sat in Parliament watching Rudd and Wong put through more bills eliminating more inalienable Rights. He sat there as they prepared for, raised and put the anti-right’s Big Hard Red One, carbon taxation and all that surrounds it. He heard them as they outlined in both Houses what they are going to do to Australians. He heard them announce central planning and the sum of all this is:

He mutters, “Foin, Foin, Foin.”

He must be using Ray Evans, who said much the same thing, “It’s all a fantasy”.

Liberals are wondering whether the Party is finished, and whether it is time to launch a new Liberal Party. This, of course, entails ensuring the Right drop the Liberal name and use their true name:

‘The Clique of Morons, Village Idiots, and 1st Degree Inbred Cousins.’

The war looks over, Australians done, dusted, finisihed off. But is it? There remains Australians, complete strangers to the likes of Abbott. Quite a lot of them, according to the last head count. Abbott might have to join Bob Brown, in Cuba, if he keeps this up.

A brief reply to the IPA and Alan Moran on inflation

Attention was drawn to their assertion,

“Raising the official interest rate from 5.5 per cent to 7.25 per cent between 2006 and the middle of this year kept a lid on money growth. Even so, monetary growth was excessive…” (Financial Review, October 2008)

Besides pointing out a contradiction - data furnished by Jackson and Shostak showed credit expansion into 2008, then it flat-lined, until the RBA inflated again, attention was drawn to another problem. Are they asserting that some level of inflation, monetary expansion, is safe or at least ‘moderate’, and therefore of little or no consequence? Hence, the question:

The IPA might also explain why isn’t, say, 2% credit expansion ‘excessive’, or .5%?

To repeat, it might be ‘moderate’ or incidental to them but not to may others. It is still inflation. The same real phenomena is involved. Put it another way, readers try it for yourselves at home and see what happens to you.

The same real phenomena is involved. Inflation induces mal-investments that are eventually eliminated, which is recession. This is not tritely put. It means real pain, even if short-term. Firms are hit, and employees are hit. More defective policies from Cabinet, Treasury officials and central banks, instead of letting recession do its work, can intensify and extend it and they have been hard at it.

There is another consideration pointing up why no level of inflation is good, or ’safe’, or ‘moderate’. It should be to the fore in the consideration of anyone claiming to be a free market economist, even if they do not state it frequently. Why it does need frequent stating is evident:

1. It’s not a self-evident common place.

2. The likes of the IPA burying it.

Indeed, Mr. Gerard Jackson dedicated an item to it, quoting a sharp summation by Constantino Bresciano-Turroni (1968):

“The increase in banking business was not the consequence of a more intense economic activity. The work was increased because the banks were overloaded with orders… At first inflation stimulated production . . . [then it] annihilated thrift; it made reform of the national budget impossible for years. . . it destroyed incalculable moral and intellectual values. It provoked a serious revolution in social classes, a few people accumulating wealth and forming a class of usurpers of national property, whilst millions of individuals were thrown into poverty. . . . it poisoned the German people by spreading among all classes the spirit of speculation and by diverting them from proper and regular work, and it was the cause of incessant political and moral disturbance.”

Gerard Jackson, Someone tell Obama: Americans did not cause the financial crisis, the world’s central banks did

Jackson firmly sealed and drove it home:

“Irrespective of the level of inflation the Cantillon effect always takes hold. Hence the view that “moderate inflation” is not only safe but healthy is a dangerous delusion.”

This alone should draw attention of many to the question of:

How is that the IPA boasts of being a genuine free market think tank and defender when they cannot nail what inflation is, what it does, and how generally destructive of  morals it is?

Then, talk knowingly of recessions and inflation and so many matters? There it is, knowing. Mere assertions as pontifications buttressed in nothing.

To be sure, economic theory and reasoning is neither obvious nor easy. If it were, there would be no need for economists. Everyone would be their own economist of the first rank. Where does this leave the IPA? Where does this leave so many Australians?

The IPA is paid by firms and other donors to defend free markets, it has also been engaged to supply advice to Liberal Cabinets. Is it advising shadow Cabinets today? Most likely they are. Folly! It is destructive folly to use them and this is another demonstration of why.

Another nasty aspect to their rambling scribblings is, it means poisonous policies are not challenged with one aim, to prevent them or, if in place, to kill them. This means open, public fighting. Even if they were not at a disadvantage, the condition called cowardice, they cannot fight. “Policy shonks” and the hard Left love the Right; the reason why is transparent.

However, later, after another brief item, we shall be writing up the foreshadowed scandal -

A stunning case that will show how really bad this lot are in the next item. By god, does it stink! Put it this way, why use the ACCC to destroy firms when the IPA will do the job quickly and at a fraction of the tax expense. This is no joke, it is serious. A hard hitting scoop on the way!

The case is crude in the IPA’s assumptions that underpin it.Yet, this is what the IPA’s not free market reasoning amounts to, dangerous poison. The Financial Review article, and each article the IPA has published since on the recession are not merely bad in reasoning.

So, how does the IPA account for inflation? How are they going to explain away their dreadful nonsense. What is their defence of the indefensible? “’Please Sir, I didn’t realise”?

Why are firms donating shareholders’ funds to those who fail even to scale the height of incompetence? Firms fire managers for incompetence, because they don’t want to be destroyed. Yet, they are happy to be destroyed by the likes of the IPA?! Weird, scary.

Update

Interestingly, Jackson has published an article in which he makes the same point again. Yes, it must be rammed home repeatedly, along with all else, what inflation involves and the true reason for inflation and who is responsible for this poison.

This economy is no rose garden

The following article should also be read. Media commentators who have asserted a ‘booming’ China will keep Australia out of recession (it hit long ago now and is still unfolding) through exports of commodities have this, and what is going on in China badly wrong. The magnitude is shocking,

Is China’s economy the world’s biggest bubble?

As for ’stimulus spending’, what Obama and the Democrats have done to Americans should be, if nothing else is, instructive for Australians and what Federal and States’ Cabinets are committing:

No shock: stimulus is a money loser

I won’t direct readers to what the IPA has also written on these deadly matters, nor comment on it. I’m neither sadist nor masochist.

Conversation with a CEO. Recession and the ineffectual “Rightwing”

This was in late November 2008. The subject arose casually, triggered by a comment by the CEO. It is reposted as a lead into today’s posts. Firms, employees and investors are caught in what is a battle against Leftist ideologues,  and lousy economics, requiring sound genuine free market economics to fight back.

Even if the ‘ideological war’ could be ignored, even assume none at all, firms are still being hammered and strangled. The myth of perfect competition is a hammer, by way of ‘regulation’. The RBA’s keynesian monetary policies another and the consumption fallacy.

The consumption fallacy: it drives economic growth. Oh, yes? In that case, if consumer spending drives economic growth, why do firms raise capital funds? Why are they starved of funds? Savings, capital accumulation drives growth, not consumption spending. It’s now a dire problem, so called ’stimulus spending’ has one force only, to arrest savings.

Things are not looking up for the US economy  Mr. G. Jackson

Why Bernanke needs to change course to save the US economy  Dr. F. Shostak

Worse, it can incur the danger of capital consumption. Even better, consumption spending policies of governments and regulation together can slice and dice investments with terrible consequences. As it is, even before the current recession, firms have folded because of regulation and it must be stressed, regulation is a tax. It really is remarkable that these are points that have to be written in big bold crayon for the Right, frequently:

Why the US economy is facing a very unhappy New Year?

It is also why numbers of firms did not execute expansion plans in the 1990’s. The ‘brains’ in Canberra, in States’ Parliaments, Local Councils, their advisers and ‘think tanks’ inflicted the French “disease.”

There it is. GDP, aggregated consumer spending, is a defective indicator when spending on capital goods is 2/3 of total spending. It’s depressing that there are those who hold that counting spending on ‘intermediate goods’ is double accounting. Those who assert it should try telling that to entrepreneurs. Indeed, forget economics, have they bothered attending to a basic tool of management used daily, financial accounting and the sections on evaluating and treating investment in capital made by firms?

I ask the question, because most undergraduates in economics only happen to take financial accounting. It was Jackson who drew attention to the objection in articles. The first time my instant reaction was, “How thick are they.” They still insist on it! Let’s extend this in another direction, yet still germane to the reason for re-introducing “A Conversation….”

The failure of ‘free market think tanks” to defend free markets and companies is their economics and laziness. Taking shareholders’ money to do work they have not done comes across as ‘dodgy’. What makes this all the more sadder is what is also missing in the Right and their think tanks, the HR Nicholls Society, IPA, and CIS;  no empathy for the little man, investors, employees, firms and entrepreneurs.

The following remarks were some of my spontaneous notes to recent papers published on the internet by another ‘think tank’ established for the ostensible purpose of defending freedom:

1. Their curiosity and observational insight, irrespective of their ‘economic grip’, is non-existent. No curiosity evident in what entrepreneurs actually do, how they go about things, what they do to keep firms going through tough times caused by lousy policies.

2.This on top of the obvious, they can’t nail lousy policies that put entrepreneurs, employees, and investors under duress. No empathy at all.

3. What a contrast. I’ve had genuinely interesting chats with CEOS, divisional heads, so forth. Then, I’m genuinely interested in what they do, how they go about things, how they face and deal with things. They unloaded honestly, within the restrictions of confidentiality. All because there was someone genuinely interested and had empathy.

The geniuses alluded to are in Ron Manners’ Mannkel Foundaton. The papers I read are dreadful, but analysis and criticism is for another item, and will be illustrated with cases.

No reader can tell me most journalists have empathy for entrepreneurs, at least not without laughing. No reader can tell me the Right are any better.

The Right seeks them out to use them up, for funds and to push very limited barrows, themselves. Thus, they have abandoned them. I really do find it difficult to digest firms still persist with that lot. Is it not enough they waste funds on PR to fight and with the same success, complete defeat? On the other hand, the Right has steered entrepreneurs to themselves, freezing out genuine free market economists who can do the work and, to make sure, by also smearing them.

It is appalling. Thus I repost:

Conversation with a CEO. Recession and the ineffectual “Rightwing”

An extract only, the rest is confidental, of a discussion with a CEO yesterday. (As readers can see, in this exchange I decided to be blunt, to also observe his reactions to directness.)

The CEO is very irritated by the commentariat. They, he said, have failed to lift out what is happening  and explain the recession. Even BRW, he said, is very annoying. He is also very concerned politicians will do something very stupid.

I asked him, “‘You appreciate that recessions are caused by central banks engaging in credit expansion (to clarify quickly I tacked on, “as in money forging”), and that this monetary disruption distorts the framework of prices and hits manufacturing first and long before it boils out into financial market corrections?” His reply wasn’t a surprise, “This is not discussed. Why isn’t it? It’s what we need to be informed of.”

I then asked, “have you considered that since the J curve is true, its inverse is true?” His jaw dropped. I continued, the recession has been greatly exaggerated – “the worst since the Great Depression. Rubbish it is. What can happen, and it looks very likely, is politicians will do something very stupid to worsen it.”

I did not wish to upset him too much, so I didn’t mention that that is what the Rudd Cabinet will do if it proceeds with imposition of ‘industry planning’, which is Soviet Style planning that destroyed the USSR. I did mention Carbon taxes will destroy capital, and he is already well apprised of this and very concerned about this threat. (Who paved the way for it but the ‘watermelon reds’ in the Liberal Party, and their clunker tanks, with the CIS excelling them all by actively lobbying for “Capital Destruction Day” (by means of carbon taxes).

Needless to say, one will be sending the CEO some pertinent reading matter. I did give him a brief summary of why the media commentariat are ineffectual: “There’s nothing there. They are voids in economic theory, and hence their lousy commentary that compounds confusion where clarity and accuracy is required.”

“Look at Terry McCrann and Alan Woods, for instance. What do you make of them?” He replied, “Hopeless, bloody awful hopeless.” This interested and engaged him, so I continued:

“As for the CIS and IPA, they are not of the same cut. As self-styled free market think tanks they are worse, and also refuse to do their duty to companies that donate to them.” I asked him in the rhetorical figure, “You wouldn’t hire stunned rabbits to defend kith and kindred? That’s what you get if you use this lot.” This he appreciated very much, and so I pressed further:

“There is no need for boom busts. It’s due to Keynesian snake oil.’ I expanded on this and then, to check and invite him to challenge, asked, “Why do you believe we are in this mess?” He didn’t ping anything, but it was a leading question:

“Besides the keyensian RBA, idiot politicians and their illiterate advisers, the ‘free market think tanks’ have left the field free for politicians, their advisers, and the hard Left.” This is why we are not only in recession, and have been for longer than this year, at least a couple of years now. It is why we now face the dangers of what the politicians are about to do.” This he found an irritating but interesting revelation.

I next pointed out that there are two economists in Australia who can deliver the analysis required and that they predicted the recession long before it emerged and, importantly, gave the explanation why from within a solid framework of economic theory. Mr. Gerard Jackson and Dr. Frank Shostak. This interested him greatly and he asked, “Why aren’t they used?” This was my reply:

“The treacherous Left dominating the media are not keen on seeing anyone competent promoted to the public, and neither is the nepotistic ‘Right”. I gave the expansion of why: “It would expose the ‘Right’ and their clunker tanks for the hollow, ignorant incompetents that they are.” He had a good chuckle, bye the bye.

“They are lazy. They don’t care about the consequence of their derelictions. They don’t give a stuff about the impact of lousy non-economics on companies and modest Australians. They can’t admit that their intellectual foundations doesn’t exist but for a soup of fallacies, and face what they would have to do to rectify their lack. Lastly, they are cowards.

“Even if their economic grip wasn’t non-existent, just flawed, they are cowards and will not fight in public for things which must be fought. It’s all about themselves. That is why they, and the BCA and AIG too, do not serve companies at all – they all put on a PR front only, in order to induce donors to pour funds into them. This is why companies are in a jam.”

The above gave the CEO much to chew over. This is another executive who is now on my list of those seeking solid economic analysis and, to repeat, one obliges them by sending them solid reading material.

Liberal Party News - Ordinary Party members appalled at answer to a question -

What do China and Australia have in common?

Ordinary Liberal Party members are appalled at the obvious and what has their back up is, it didn’t happen overnight, nor in the last two years. What chills them all the more is that they know full well that the Right is as much responsible for it as the Left. It is the culmination of years of ‘policies’. Yet, it is not Liberal Party members only who are drawing the conclusion. It increasingly litters the daily conversation of the man in the street.

The answer, ladies and gentlemen, as brutal as it might seem, is fascism. For good measure, amusingly Victoria is almost what China also is, a one Party State, and the Victorian Right, whether ‘wets’ or ‘dries’ - the distinction is a mere quibble turning on their hubris, is also responsible for this. Apart from Victoria, the general question is, where is Australia’s Right in all this, fascism, and it’s rhetorical only.  Let’s lay the case out per a swift demonstration:

The case of Peter Spencer

New South Wales farmer, Peter Spencer, is fighting for his property rights. What this turns on is, all property owners in Australia own their property in name only, but pay for the expense of their upkeep. It is politicians and bureaucrats and the voting blocks they buy with the fraud and deception who realise what is crucial to inalienable property rights:

Owner’s

- enjoyment of their property

- use of their property

- development of property, in the case of Peter Spencer’s property, that means land he had developed into valuable agricultural and fishery land

- last, but not least, sale of property.

In sum, freedom of disposal of property is inseparable from inalienable property rights. The one is intrinsic to the other.

Politicians of both major Parties and bureaucrats have seized the former, for their own benefit and for the benefit of the ‘voting blocks’ they toady too. And, the Right crawls and toadies as much as the ALP does to those diseased, lying, Chavez hugging, treacherous, primitive creeps the Greens. I shall repost on Bob Brown’s and the Greens’ and other hard Leftists’ full support for the totalitarian, drug king-pin, Hugo Chavez and his gang of butchers. And the failure of the Right to deal forthrightly with them and what Brown laid out in Parliament.

Inalienable property rights are the foundation of free markets and this means the foundation of prosperity and freedom. It’s the very basis on which people everywhere have lifted themselves and their families out of the gutters, out of misery and into happiness. It is written in history, but we have a direct window into this, the work of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and it’s founder, Muhammad Yunus.

Having remarked before on the wonderful transformation wrought by this bank, the pertinent point is Yunus’ “micro-credit” didn’t simply finance vast numbers of formerly destitute Bangladeshis into their own start-up enterprises and their expansion. Many, bye the bye, were once effectively bound to old tribal chieftains. It freed them to acquire property and this drives business expansion, and issued into rapid capital accumulation. It liberated them from bondage. This transformed their lives in two ways that are inseparable:

1. The obvious, prosperity, in their own life-time, with-in a single generation. Their children, until Grameem Bank, faced the same life of hard labour, mired in appalling destitution as their parents once endured. It’s reflected in good food on the table they could not have had in the past, nice homes they never could have aspired to before, buying medical services, appliances, schools and universities for their children.

Has anyone heard of mass deaths from tidal waves in the bay in recent years, at least with the frequency that blighted their lives in the past? No, of course not. The reason is straight-forward; they not only own nice, well-built, comfortable homes, they own land in superior locations, that’s why.

2. They are free, they have gained real liberty. Their new inalienable property rights has freed them, and extended their freedoms. I detest those who say wealth ‘doesn’t buy happiness’. It does, just ask all those Bangladeshis who are now very, very happy.

It is important to note that Yunus worked very hard to convince the Government that law must be rooted in economic freedom and, this means inalienable property rights, because it was crucial if the aim of Grameen Bank, to transform not a few but millions of lives, was to succeed. He succeeded with the politicians and the evidence is written in happiness. Bangladesh thrives and what does the rest of the world do? Since Bangladesh is no longer a cot-case, but a vibrant demonstration of the truth of free market economics, it is ignored - as an inconvenient fact.

Grameen Bank is imitated in Eastern Europe with the same tremendous success.

Freedom of disposal of property is intrinsic to inalienable property rights

What the politicians and bureaucrats, in concert with Greens fronts have done is not formally stolen property but have effectively done so by ‘regulation’. Thus they have stolen not only from farmers but also-from every Australian (except, of course, themselves) by asserting that they only and not owners can dispose of property. This is what they have done, the Right and the Left, and their advisers.

In case anyone in a city is unsure of this try, for example, merely cutting down a tree in your backyard and see what happens to you. You are allowed to give effect only to how local councils and states’ governments wish to enjoy your house and land. I am aware of some brave types who have defied local councils and state governments and these examples show the ‘Acts’ are hollow but this is not the point to such ‘Acts’. Those who have rammed them down rely on two facts:

1. Millions of Australians are law-abiding and respect authority.

2. Intimidation and fear. Who wants to face the real police state thuggery Cabinets assert through such Acts, and it’s no joke. The police state powers wielded by States’ and Federal Cabinets are real and extensive. Lawlessness in the form of violent, naked coercion backed by goon squad enforcers are real threats to be wielded against Australians who refuse to comply with what is dictated to them.

Now for Mr. Spencer again, beginning with a joke:

Two farmers in1930’s Germany:

Hans: What’s the difference between National Socialism and Communism, I’m confused.

Carl: Hans, Hans, my friend, it’s simple. Under communism, the State keeps your cows. You milk them and drink all that your scraggy cow produces before they get their hands on it.

Carl: Under fascism, you keep the cow, the State milks it and drinks the milk from the mangy beast.  Hans, Hans… where are you going?

Hans: I’m going to shoot the cow. Under communism, it’s clear now,  a farmer gets to drink all the milk until the day they shoot him. Under fascism, I keep the cow, the gauleiter can throw me in prison if I don’t keep it how they want it kept and hand over specified production. So, I reckon I’ll go to jail for committing what is a crime according to them, killing Heidi. Carl, the bastards will go right round the bend when they find a fly-eaten carcass. It’s alright, though, the joke’s on them: I’ll drink milk in prison.

In not only Mr. Spencer’s case, but of all farmers around Australia, the excuse for what is nothing less than property theft on a tremendous scale has been the cult of environmentalism and expressed in regulation. It must not be forgotten that, for example, Malcolm Fraser also blitzed the way with large-scale land grabs, declaring vast tracts of forests as “heritage wilderness”. The latest twist is just that, another twist committed by the perverted sitting in parliaments, ‘carbon capture’ to excuse the indefensible.

Regulation is not rule of law; it is the overthrow of the rule of common law, which is grounded in inalienable property rights and so free markets. It is no accident that both Right-wing politicians, including Peter Costello, and Leftist politicians assert regulation is the rule of law. They are doing nothing less than attempting to convince the two are identical. Repeating a lie often does not make it true, and it is nice to see the lying bastards in the East Anglia University will be dealt with on the wrong end of trials in courts for this very reason.

A distinguished law lord made it very plain what regulation is and what it is not. Lord Mansfield’s 1772 judgement:

The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory: it’s so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.

In Victoria, Steve Bracks, John Brumby, Rod Hulls and local councils proceeded from imposing restrictions on land clearance and usage, to outright criminalisation of any activity on property they do not like, eg. clearing highly volatile scrub and trees are major crimes for which the punishment is fines and prison terms. This was not merely unopposed by Victoria’s Right, they supported it in the Parliament. Another instance, Bracks’ ‘Green belt’ through Melbourne and outlying areas.

For many in this ‘green belt’, their property was also their superannuation ‘policy’, from market gardeners, other types of firms, to home owners who had planned to split large blocks later in life to pay for their retirement. Any proposed change in land use must be submitted in a report to the Orwellian ‘Department of Enviornment’ and, if approved, the owner must pay a fee, and, should it be approved, the minimum fee is $50,000 and this for a slight, trivial alteration in usage only.

Under Commonwealth and NWS regulations Right-wing and Leftist politicians effectively stole Mr. Spencer’s and all other farmers’ rights progressively, and progressively forced Mr. Spencer and others to shut down agricultural production on their properties in a matter of a decade or so. Their farms are now, as Mr. Spencer’s is, valueless, worthless. Mr. Spencer, as are others, is left with land reverting to savage jungle and another load of fuel for more ferocious, more life-destroying bush-fires.

Victorian and NSW farmers also watched politicians and bureaucrats further steal property rights for their own expense free pleasure by making it a criminal offence to build water storage capacity on their farms.It is clear what that lot in the name of their cult expect modest Australians to do.

All of the above committed by the Left and the Right and not paying their many victims one cent of compensation. The likes of Mr. Spencer own their properties in name only, and have to pay for the upkeep and the only beneficiaries of this are politicians, bureaucrats and greens and other diseased Leftists.

And to make sure there is no room for doubt on this, three Right-wing minsters are directly guilty of these criminal actions against Australians, Ian Campbell, David Kemp and Malcolm Turnbull as successive Ministers for the Federal Department of Environment. But first, Mr. Spencer supplies a quote  from none other than Pulitzer Prize winning jurist, Peter Costello.

Mr Peter Costello on the ABC 7.30 report on the 6th of June 2007 said

“Let me come back to the point earlier, that because we stopped land clearing, some how that shouldn’t be counted. Actually, stopping land clearing was a good thing…

“Yeah well, its- that‘s – but this was all designed to stop land clearing and we stopped land clearing, and its helped us meet our Kyoto target.”

The lie, man causes ‘global warming’, and the Kyoto fraud are only recent developments in what is a long record of politicians and bureaucrats using Federal and States’ Parliaments to create the impression their actions are lawful.

Mr. Spencer recorded a damning quote. This what Mr. Ian Campbell, when Minister for the Environment, said:

Campbell:

you’ve got, you know, a lot of the natural heritage of Australia is held on private lands, on farms and pastoral leases, stations as we call them, and so the main people who look after this natural heritage are in fact the farmers… so very important that they’re on board and don’t feel like some heavy-handed Government based in Perth is trampling on their property rights.

Bingo! And, that expression, ‘don’t feel like…’  Here’s a quick and honest solution - dope farmers and their families, or shoot them outright. Either way, they won’t ‘feel’ a thing again.

That’s what private property means to the Right and the Left. Sodding little bastards called Australians expecting to prosper and enjoy real freedom are a blight on the landscape (as are factories). The serfs should be grateful to be allowed the privilege of stumping up tremendous sums to buy property and ensure their masters enjoy these pleasure parks. This is the great advance made by parasites such as Campbell, Kemp, Turnbull, Garrett, Brown, Penny Wong, Tony Abbott, Greg Hunt, Helen Kroger, Peter Costello and Kevin Rudd.

Though, at least Campbell had the decency to say:

So you’ve got to have the farmers working with you and that’s the Commonwealth’s approach, is there should be fair compensation paid when you take away peoples’ property rights…(My stress).

Yes, readers, Campbell and Cabinet fully knew what they were committing, and so did Peter Costello and they still know what they did to Australians.

Moreover, they were using coercion to cut food production through the ethanol scam, and this while they were also effectively confiscating vast tracts of land and shutting, coercing the shutdown of more food production.

These treacherous slobs had the nerve to attack the Rudd Cabinet for using taxpayers to buy a property to shut it down (it’s in Hansard). It is criminal the deliberate economic arson of a property but in this case the owners were paid, except every other little oaf risibly called an Australian had to pay for this one more green, destructive fantasy. They, the Right had the hide to whine about it when they are responsible for much that is far worse, commencing with measures that has ended in Mr. Spencer taking his stand. The right should never use the word proportion again, nor level ‘hypocrite’ against anyone.

The fact is, despite Ian Campbell’s, and Peter Costello’s best efforts to exculpate themselves and pass it off as ’sound policy’, there is no compensation for the real theft of property rights and, what is more, the fascist measures by which they effected it. But we don’t have to refer to the regimes of Hitler and Mussolini to illuminate this. China today provides chilling examples of what it means -  a living window into the force of the actions of the Right and the Left:

What Australia and China have in common

No ifs or buts, the situation is the same:

1) There are no inalienable property rights in China.

2) The fascist pin of these despicable actions is one and the same in both countries.

Both the Right and the Left together, over decades have been engaged in overthrowing inaliebale property rights in Australia. The Red Party gerontocracy must have a good, long laugh at the clowns in Canberra, daily. A very nasty, continuing case demonstrates the point rather well, and there is a further irony in it, what is happening is compounded and driven by the Green’s policies of Western politicians.

Rare earths have a wide range of uses. Keith Bradsher in, Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively (25/12/09, The New York Times) relates the alternative energy scams set up by western politicians has entailed an explosivel increase in demand for them that has, naturally, induced sky-rocketing prices. It might be mused, therefore, Australia’s politicians are also directly responsible for the economic impact this has for their use as inputs in genuine market driven production. The regime compounded this with export quotas, which it cut by 12%.

These elements come almost entirely from China, from some of the most environmentally damaging mines in the country, in an industry dominated by criminal gangs…

Miners scrape off the topsoil and shovel golden-flecked clay into dirt pits, using acids to extract the rare earths. The acids ultimately wash into streams and rivers, destroying rice paddies and fish farms and tainting water supplies.

On a recent rainy afternoon, Zeng Guohui, a 41-year-old laborer, walked to an abandoned mine where he used to shovel ore, and pointed out still-barren expanses of dirt and mud. The mine exhausted the local deposit of heavy rare earths in three years, but a decade after the mine closed, no one has tried to revive the downstream rice fields.

Small mines producing heavy rare earths like dysprosium and terbium still operate on nearby hills…

“There are constant protests because it damages the farmland — people are always demanding compensation,” Mr. Zeng said.

Green fraud aside, the kernel of the problem described, the destruction of agriculture and crude, destructive mining techniques, is that there are no property rights in China. Neither farmers nor sound mining companies have them, nor does anyone else in China. So, neither farmers nor mining companies have a basis for fighting the crime gangs destroying property by asserting inalienable property rights. Crime gangs aside, consider it:

With inalienable property rights, anyone can enforce their rights, should a neighbour use their property in such a way as to cause damage on the other’s property. A Judge, in his conclusions, will order the culprit to make good the damage they caused to the other and cease actions causing damage. Take, for example, Victoria and the firestorms of February this year, and those still waiting to be triggered.

All the firestorms were in government ‘owned’ forests. They don’t work them, they don’t clear them, they do nothing. If anyone else kept such large swathes of land like that, neighbours could sue, certainly when firestorms erupt and also press criminal charges, including murder. This is apart from also the proliferation of feral animals in those pleasure parks, including feral dogs that destroy farmers’ capital -  live-stock.

So, why are politicians and bureaucrats exempt from at least criminal charges when it is their ‘policies’ that caused the firestorms and destroyed tremendous amounts of property and murdered so many Victorians? Make no mistake, the actions of all guilty of this horror were deliberate. They imposed the’policies’, the Right and the Left. They did this to Victorians.

There is, in truth, no good reason why the whole damned lot of them should not be rammed before stiff in common law judges and tried on every criminal charge and on top of prison terms, have their properties seized and handed over to their many victims. No, seriously, readers, this is what should be done! It’s not a joke; they are rotten criminals who killed Victorians, no-one else did what they did.

Since sound mining companies do not have property rights in China, they cannot establish them in new prospective mines. Since farmers have no inalienable property rights, they cannot work with sound mining companies, and profit as a result while maintaining their farmland. The field is clear for the crime gangs, encouraged by soaring prices and the stupidity and brutality of politicians in China and in the West.

Near destitute farmers are now more than merely worse off. Brutalised and facing a very bleak future is the politest way to sum up their position. All due to the fascist, anti-inalienable property rights position of the regime. On the other hand, inalienable property rights would spell the end of that terrifying regime. Two other incidents reinforce the point;

1. In preparing for that fascist exercise in squander and nationalistic hubris, the Olympic Games, the regime simply closed down factories in Peking, fiat. Never mind the investors and employees. To sanitise Peking, to make Peking look Greenie friendly to the spivs in Europe and on the Olympics ‘committee’.

2. The recent jail term handed down to a former Communist party official for daring to consider how to end the one Party state.

It was as good as loading those unfortunates into a skip and throwing them on a garbage dump as so much rubbish. This drew praise from theOlympic Games spivs - what a ‘wonderful effort by the regime in cleaning up Peking, helping to make it a cleaner, greener, future’.

Orwell got in first, pigs spew vomit and expect the slaves to lap it up. And it was vile. Modest Chinese, whose priority is to do the best they can for themselves and their families, taxed to pay for a two weeks orgy, were rendered destitute so that parasites could feel happy and developmentally arrested juveniles could sweat and grunt in 2 weeks of exhibitionism, to win piffling baubles and, in the case of many - crossing their fingers, be made wealthy ‘career sportsmen and women’.

Well, well, surprise, surprise! What do we see but the Right and the Left have been doing exactly the same to Australians, and not in the last few years. They have been at it over decades and Mr. Spencer has drawn attention to this fact.

And there’s a sign of fascism, the cult of ‘National Sport’,

Local councillors and States’ and Federal governments seizing private property by the $billions and throwing it at ‘elite sports’. Rubbing salt into injury, they call it investment and have spawned a new army of parasites who expect sodding real taxpayers to keep them in the ‘lifestyles’ they expect as of right. You know, those sodding little elves sweating away in factories, mines, and farms to earn a living, only to see their earnings swiped off them by lying, juvenile bastards pretending to be adults. Stalin would also approve, he was a keen ‘patron’ of ‘elite sport’ in, of course, the ‘national interest’.

The message a genuine Liberal Party would give them is: “You want to star, or run a sport. Do it in your own bloody backyard, you big fat tosser.’

Peter Costello avowed fascist aims in a candid radio interview

During an interview on Melbourne radio station 3AW, Neil Mitchell asked Peter Costello:

“But, taxpayers’ money; it’s their property, right?”

Costello was about to firmly answer yes, then checked himself:

“In a way it is…”

That answer is the genuine Costello. The force of his answer is plain enough, what politicians and their enforcer the ATO do not take is, they assert, a grant made by them to sodding Australians.

The sheer amount of police state ‘laws’ that Costello alone is responsible for, through the ATO, is an indictment of the world’s greatest economist. I tracked some of them that filled volumes each, and yet they were but a tiny fraction of what Costello rammed down on Australians. My mistake, he didn’t push them through Parliament; this would credit him with what he is devoid of, energy and intelligence.

He rubber stamped them. He agreed ‘in principle’. There was nothing more to do except bang his head down into an inked stamp pad and affix his signature authorising the establishment of another goon squad, then stand up in Parliament and assert, to the unexpressed pleasure of the diseased Left, it is good ‘LAW’. No doubt every damned treacherous Leftist celebrated hard each new gift Costello, the boy wonder, handed them. I wonder who the moron was who passed him - forget University, out of prep school - because that criminal should be shot.

A reader attempted a cheap put down when some years ago one pointed out that taxpayers under the regulations are treated as criminals, guilty of what are novel crimes, and have to prove themselves innocent 365 days a year. All one will say to that clever dick is, try telling that to all those who know what the real force of the ‘tax code’ is and, as I remarked earlier this year, Rudd and Swann intensified them again to ensure many more Australians know where they really stand.

Yes, Peter Costello, as Treasurer, intensified and extended violent, naked coercion, backed by goon squad enforcers, as real, intimidatory threats to be wielded against Australians who refuse to comply with what is dictated to them. Peter Costello has the hide to consider himself a fine, up-standing Liberal and Australian, and so do the rest of the mendacious Right. I’m here to remind the Right, their guru is a true and fitting representative of them all in all their qualities.

Indeed, Costello, with his hunch back-attachment, Michael Kroger, is the Right personified. No wonder his brother, Tim, is Jesus Karl Marx Christ. They are exact mirrors to each other. Yes, Costello is the Right perfected and magnified. I’m here to remind Costello of what he really was as Treasurer, a fascist thug.

Through regulation, politicians and bureaucrats have succeeded in re-arranging their position. They are much too, too important to be mere public servants, with taxpayers as their masters. No, they are the masters of Australians and the latter are slaves, the proper order of things. It’s understandable that the Swiss are despised in Australia too.

Regulation is rooted in the myth of perfect competition, and it is at once also a direct attack on inalienable property rights, for this is exactly what is also involved in ‘anti-cartel laws’, which Costello proudly intensified. The Right are committed to the myth and in this, have done splendidly in discrediting the sound, therefore highly moral free market cause in the eyes of many voters. The truth of free market economics is an inconvenient fact that must be eradicated according to that lot, another thing they hold in common with the treacherous Left. It is why the Right’s single line of attack is to claim they are better ‘economic mangers’ and berate the left for incompetence.

Watching them and their think tanks, IPA, CIS and HR Nicholls Society, smear and slander genuine free market economists while they rammed down anti-free market policies under Liberal States’ and Federal Cabinets is a real insight into what perverted, vicious bastards the Right truly is. All this before considering, for example, what they did with the STO in Victoria during the Kennett years, and the IPA and CIS are really nervous about what I have reported to date on it. They are not looking forward to what I will further disclose, as numbers of their inmates have made plain on this site in comments. The IPA and the CIS were the Kennett-Stockdale Cabinet’s economic advisers.

But, the Right and the Left have promoted the cult of environmentalism, because, as the Spencer case demonstrates, they have latched on to it as an excuse to effect fascist plans overtly and rapidly.

The case of Mr. Spencer summed up

Mr. Spencer is fighting for his inalienable property rights, and for compensation for the economic carnage the Right and the Left, and bureaucrats, police state thugs more like, have caused him and his family. Mr. Spencer’s fight is now a general fight, as all landowners now realise that this is what is at stake, and that they are also entitled to just compensation for the damage that has been inflcited on them. It is to be noted, those who are in increasing large numbers joining Mr. Spencer, realise the crimes have not been committerd by ALP Cabinets only. They have correctly identified the Right as also culpable of these lawless actions.

The hard Left dissemble they reflect the values of those who stood at Eureka Stockade. Bullshit they do. It is guys such as Mr. Spencer who do. Indeed, how long before we do see outright, wide defiance of the tax regimes of local councils, States’ Governments and the Federal Goverment? Carbon taxation has crystallised a few hard truths for very many Australians, all those little voters the Right as well as the hard Left despise.

One important force of Common Law is to protect Australians’ property rights against Cabinets straying down the ‘regulatory’ path. It is no wonder that the Right and the Left, bureaucrats, and sundry ‘academics’ in law, run the spin in the media that regulation is the rule of common law. They have every motive to try to brainwash Australians into believing that lawlessness and thuggery committed by political parties in Parliament and by bureaucrats is decent and, importantly, lawful. Why, the Nazi Party and its squads, the Gestapo were scrupulous to a fault, were meticulous in ensuring all that they did was legal too.They were ‘morally superior’ to the Communist regime in this respect.

No one can question the veracity of both Right-wing and Leftist Cabinets in this respect- Federal, States’, Local Councils, in ensuring that all their actions are legal and why not. They only wrote the bloody rules - as did the Nazi regime. Indeed, much time in Senate ‘debate’ on bills is prudence manifested. They are all concerned to ensure the legality of all articles, clauses and sub-sections of any Bill they ram down.

Their concern is understandable, reflected in a curious pre-occupation. They are all concerned to discover how easily a measure might be challenged in common law and, consequently, whether they could be had up on criminal charges. It’s not a joke, readers. Their lines of ‘questions’ and ‘answers’ are dominated by these two telling questions. Moreover, amendments are introduced when it is found their backsides are fully exposed.

Oh, yes, Left, Right, Upside Down, and Inside out, it doesn’t matter what Party. They are all concerned to ensure they won’t have their heads rammed down a sewer for one reason: they bloody do well know that most of their ‘Acts’ are unlawful. They do know full well what they have perpetrated against Australians, and continue to perpetrate. It’s in Hansard, in black and white.

That they know their actions are not lawful is disclosed in such telling quotes as those included above by Campbell and Costello, and also, ALP heavies in attacking Senator Barnaby Joyce, who for once has got something right:

Barnaby Joyce attacked over land-use claim (18/12/2009, The Australian).

Franklin has got it wrong, in his opening remark -

The government yesterday savaged the opposition finance spokesman as unfit for office after he backed the case of a hunger striker demanding $100 billion in taxpayer compensation for farmers for lost land-clearing rights.

The elimination of freedom to maintain and work land, which is what ‘land clearance is’, nothing more, is rooted in what has been done, the aim of the Right and the Left to seize property rights for their own benefit, and make property owners pay for it. The slimey response of Rudd’s “Finance Minister” was diversion:

The government yesterday savaged the opposition finance spokesman as unfit for office after he backed the case of a hunger striker demanding $100 billion in taxpayer compensation for farmers for lost land-clearing rights.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner also demanded the opposition explain how scrapping land-use laws would affect Tony Abbott’s promise to address climate change through direct action on land use.

The Opposition Leader “must come out today and confirm if this is opposition policy or just another erratic thought bubble”, Mr Tanner said.

This, from a Minster of a Cabinet that has plundered thousands of billions of dollars to indulge in a grotesque spending spree. Tanner continued:

“Mr Abbott and Senator Joyce must explain the cost impact their new compensation policy will have on their direct action climate change policy and exactly how they are going to use taxpayer funds to pay for it.”

Those who are victims are entitled to compensation full stop.

Cut to the chase, Mr. Tanner, it is the force of what compensation rests on that disturbs the Left and many in the Right. To ram this home, before taxpayers are touched for one cent of compensation, all those responsible for these fascist, lawless schemes, and all  those who are beneficiaries must be ordered to pay part of the compensation out of their own assests first, then taxpayers making up the difference.

There is a problem, the sheer scale involved, and I don’t mean the numbers required to compensate only farmers. What about every Australian who suffers the same problem. It is the exposure, in law, of the deception and criminal action of parasites in Local Councils, States’ Governments, and the Federal Governments, and their predecessors that scares these lying bastards shitless.

What Mr. Barnaby Joyce needs to do, but stubbornly refuses to, is turn to sound free market economics and seek those who can advise him. This is where Joyce falls down. It is not simply property rights that have to be fought for. It is the fact that property rights is the pin of free markets and so freedom, and the anti-inalienable property rights ‘policies’ of both Parties are fascist that demands solid, robust preparation. It requires sound free market economics to fight this and where it counts, out in the open and on the only battle ground that counts, with the modest voter.

Here is Kevin Rudd’s Green Cult guru and also a Pultizer jurist and yes, as Costello, another spoilt brat whose degree is law:

Environment Minister Peter Garrett also weighed in, saying land-use controls had existed for many years and had been put in place by state governments. He said: “The question for Mr Abbott is: does he support Senator Joyce’s new policy initiative?”

Garrett’s reasoning is thus: If Cabinets get away with lawlessness for a number of years, then it is lawful.

But, the legalese eagle is making a fine point, the right sort of criminal lawlessness committed by Cabinets and enforced by police state goon squads, as defined by, well, them. Now, if the Right were in Office, it would be lawful; what would be wrong are mere adminstrative details. This is what the garbage by that retarded, developmentally arrested, wealthy, ignorant, dummy sucking brat amounts to. And, he’s right, for that is the “Right’s” notion of ‘principled opposition’.

But there it is, Tanner himself has confessed the fascist force of this effective coup de tat against Australians - Australians own property in name only. They must keep them as ordered by their masters in Local Councils, States’ Parliaments and Federal Parliament. They must also pay any extra levies these parasites demand for the privilege of being allowed to keep their land. In return, accept destitution and, the truth of the matter, accept what is all too bluntly evident- the now fast slide into absolutism. And, this is what Rudd’s grand plan to ram down carbon taxes, and ‘remake the Australian economy’ will complete if passed, and so would Abbott’s version. This is central planning with naked totalitarian force.  Stalin and Mao tried and look what happened. The response of the Right? Exactly.

Oh, but for two things:

- They paved the way for the horror times ahead. Now we end up with Tony Abbott who only called for central planning to be rammed down in his manifesto. The funny thing is, this is what the Rudd Cabinet is doing.

Oh, I see, Abbott’s objection is that it’s Rudd and not him who get’s the glory and praise for this wheeze. I understand, sympathise with the poor old boxing boof-head, he had to knife Turnbull, who also wanted to do the same thing to Australians and it’s Rudd who will win the great mad mullah prize. Oh, by the way, the one time hero of the Liberal Party, John Elliott, sees nothing really wrong in all this - his disagreement is, it should be Turnbull and not Abbott leading the Liberal Party and Australians down the Shining Path to death. He’s as brilliant as Michael Kroger.

- The slide is unmistakable. It is a slide from Statism, to fascism, to outright totalitarianism. The right are directly responsible for this as much as the Left. And, so too are the IPA and CIS, and the clowns in the HR Nicholls Society in which that anti-Liberal half-wit, Peter Costello, is the star ‘economist’. The really hilarious thing in what is otherwise a chilling fact is, the Right don’t have a clue that they are directly culpable. The hard, treacherous Left, however, know they are, which is why they laugh at the Right, and call them clowns and buffoons.

Make no mistake, readers, what is now at stake is not only prosperity for millions of modest Australians. Now freedom is at stake. It’s taken decades to reach this pass, and all Australians can thank the navel-gazing, ignorant, anti-intellectual Right and their selfish, arrogant ‘think tankers’ the CIS, IPA, HR Nicholls Society.

It is silly to pretend millions of modest Australians support hard Left policies and aims. They hate the hard left and their aims. The Right has betrayed them to the treacherous Left and this is the hard, unvarnished truth of the matter.

If there had been genuine Liberal talent in the Liberal Party, backed by solid, gutsy genuine free market economists, the Left would have been smashed decades ago. The Greens, a spastic ugly little mongrel of a puppy-dog, would have been killed at birth. The threat of absolutism would not have emerged. And, bonus! Millions of modest Australians would also be far wealtheir than they are, for there would have been no policies that have hampered and crippled and wiped out investment in Australia, from regulation to the larcenous ‘monetary policies’ of the RBA.

No, instead, the great achievement of the Right and their think tanks is their success in bringing about a fascist regime.

Mr. Spencer and the many who have joined him are fighting for their inalienable property rights, and for compensation for the economic carnage the Right and the Left, and bureaucrats, police state thugs more like, have caused him and his family. What they might not realise is, they are the meat in the sandwich.

The fact that their plight is due to fascist policies points this up. Fighting through the courts alone, Mr. Spencer has realised, won’t work. But, the fight is against a hard Left ideology and neither Mr. Spencer nor his allies are intellectually equipped for this fight. Unless this, in fact, ‘war’ is fought accurately and hard, the reason for Mr. Spencer’s plight won’t be rectified, and all Australians, not only farmers, remain in great danger.

Open Challenge to Senator Barnaby Joyce

Yes, Mr. Barnaby Joyce, you ignore (genuine free market) economic laws at great peril. The perils are being realised. So, Mr. Barnaby Joyce, why do you stubbornly persist in refusing to hear out alternative sources who can lay out vital truths - not for your pleasure and whim, but so that you can do the job you claim to be doing, serving Australians the only way an MP can, from sound principle, reinforced with spine?

Like it or not, Mr. Joyce, without sound advice, you can cause great damage to this cause unless you seek out sources equipped with what you are bereft in, and worse, you are also blind to why this is so crucial. You will fail not only Mr. Spencer. You will fail all Australians in a matter that is grave and of great impact, inalienable property rights. As it is, Mr. Joyce, your stance on the ACCC, and your refusal to work through why ‘anti-cartel laws’ are in fact highly destructive and ruinous for Australians also undercuts much ground you need to hold if you are to succeed in this fight, every other fight, and the war that must be won.

The ‘Dead Right’

The Right has not merely betrayed them, Spencer and all farmers, and all decent Australians. They have sold them all out to the hard Left. The Right has never fought the Left, but then to do this requires what the Right are devoid of, sound principles and the spine to act on them and standing by those principles when they were in office. No, instead, the Right imposed on the Liberal Party venal fifth rate hacks who see nothing wrong with Statist and fascist ‘policies’. Decades of the Dead Right has lead to Rudd.

The Right does not give a stuff about Australians and Australia. They only fight for themselves, for ego inflating media publicity, and for their bank accounts. Gentle readers, I advise you not to get between the likes of Ray Evans, Des Moore, and the inmates of the IPA and a media camera.

So, they threw up the likes of Michael Kroger, Peter Costello, David Kemp. The other reason is, the Right are anti-intellectual, and it shows in the tripe put out by their ‘think tanks’ the IPA, CIS and HR Nicholls Society. These cretins, Kroger, Costello, and David Kemp, are what the Right call talent.

Slobs, who see nothing wrong with policies that ruin firms and Australians, and nothing wrong with ‘circumventing’ inalienable property rights. Come to it, I’ve never once heard nor seen Costello fight against Greens’ policies that destroy production and immiserate many. To the contrary, as Treasurer he sacked Australians to set up more Green frauds such as the ethanol scam. But then, why shouldn’t he have enjoyed loose living when he regards property, including pay packets and firms’ earnings and capital, as the private property of politicians.

Peter Costello is opposed to genuine Liberal principles

No better evidence exists than his actions as Treasurer.

Peter Costello, Hero of the Liberal Party - what a bloody nasty lie that is, but then the Right believe smelly, modest Australians really do love them. Why, when a Toorak Doctor’s Greenie-hugging wife smiles the whole world smiles with her and, heck, the likes of Hugh Morgan, who puckered up for the camera that loved him, know they have the same impact.

Fascism

We can do no better than quote von Mises, Planned Chaos, who in that singular polemical tract smashed the hard Left.

“Fascism was not, as its advocates boasted, an original product of the Italian mind. It began with a split in the ranks of Marxian socialism… Its economic program was borrowed from German non-Marxian socialism and its aggressiveness was likewise copied from Germans, the Alldeutsche or Pan-German forerunners of the Nazis. Its conduct of government affairs was a replica of Lenin’s dictatorship. Corporativism, its much advertised ideological adornment, was of British origin. The only home-grown ingredient of Fascism was the theatrical style of its processions, shows and festivals.”

Corporativo is being advanced by the Rudd Cabinet, through extensive plans and it is not only Co2 taxes that they are preparing to ram down.

Zwangswirtschaft

(Nazi economic policy, 1930’s.)

“…seemingly and nominally, maintains private ownership of the means of production, entrepreneurship, and market exchange. So-called entrepreneurs do the buying and selling, pay the workers, contract debts and pay interest and amortization. But they are no longer entrepreneurs. In Nazi Germany they were called shop managers or Betriebsführer. The government tells these seeming entrepreneurs what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. The government decrees at what wages laborers should work, and to whom and under what terms the capitalists should entrust their funds. Market exchange is but a sham. As all prices, wages and interest rates are fixed by the authority, they are prices, wages and interest rates in appearance only; in fact they are merely quantitative terms in the authoritarian orders determining each citizen’s income, consumption and standard of living. The authority, not the consumers, directs production. The central board of production management is supreme; all citizens are nothing else but civil servants. This is socialism with the outward appearance of capitalism. Some labels of the capitalistic market economy are retained, but they signify here something entirely different from what they mean in the market economy….

“The Nazi plan was more comprehensive and… pernicious than that of the Marxians. It aimed at abolishing laissez-faire not only in the production of material goods, but no less in the production of men. The Führer was not only the general manager of all industries; he was also the general manager of the breeding-farm intent upon rearing superior men and eliminating inferior stock. A grandiose scheme of eugenics was to be put into effect according to “scientific” principles.”

“The slogan…[for their] their economic philosophy… Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz (i.e., the commonweal ranks above private profit)… [is also] the idea underlying the American New Deal and the Soviet management of economic affairs. It implies that profit-seeking business harms the vital interests of the immense majority, and that it is the sacred duty of popular government to prevent the emergence of profits by public control of production and distribution.”

In Australia, the term used by the decrepit “Right” and the diseased Left is neither “the majority”, nor “the collective”. They chose an infantile substitute to say the same thing, “the community”, which stretches, expands, deflates, and shrinks according to what the wheeze is.

Community rhymes with the sound cows make,

“Commoooooooooooonity”

This gels nicely with the resurrection of the cult of nature and the slogan proudly shouted by cretinous MPs busy blowing up the Liberal Party, “We are all beasts”.

They want to give the coup de grace to liberalism and capitalism; they want to overcome immoral egoism by altruism; they plan to replace the anarchic democracy by order and organization, the society of classes by the total state, the market economy by socialism. Their war is not a war for territorial expansion, for loot and hegemony like the imperialistic wars of the past, but a holy crusade for a better world to live in. And they feel certain of their victory because they are convinced that they are borne by the wave of the future.

Just as “Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini constantly proclaimed that they were chosen by destiny to bring salvation to this world”, against economic liberty, so did both the French and the Germans on the road to WWI. The same false morality is to be observed of the U.N. and boosters of that monstrous body, and the E.U. And also of the likes ofTurnbull, Greg Hunt, Abbott wrote it in his manifesto, and it litters the speech of Rudd and Wong.

I remind readers of the couple who were children in 1930’s in Britain. They were shocked into silence as they listened to Kevin Rudd. They said he sounds like Hitler, that listening to Rudd is like hearing Hitler’s national socialist slogans all over again. This, from a couple who hitherto had never compared anyone to Hitler. They were in tears. The more I listen to Rudd, I have to say, I can only conclude that they are dead right, for the couple drew attention to expressions that littered Hitler’s speeches in the 1930’s that also litter Rudd’s:

“We the nation will overcome…”

“We will build a new future…”

“Together, we the people will build the nation…”

“We need to make these sacrifices for the sake of our children…”

Rudd is also fond of stressing, “I am your Prime Minister… your leader…”

That elderly couple wept because Rudd refreshed memories that are best left well buried.

Let’s get this right:

A Prime Minister is merely the 1st minister among equals in Cabinet. Nothing more, and not a bloody Reichsfuhrer.

Well, we can all thank the Right for an Australian Reichsfuhrer, a little, over-promoted, ignorant, feeble little slob who might be Catholic in name, but not in confessional substance, for his position is also virulently anti-Christian and anti-Catholic in particular. Rudd seems tough only because he shows a very nasty character; he violently abuses those who are not in a position to deal back what he deserves. Fancy that, a gutless, schoolyard bully as Reichsfuhrer Prime Minister of Austral Department of the Greater World Soviet Union the U.N. Australia.

Thanks very much, the Right - wreckers of the Liberal Party, for your treacherous betrayal of principles, the genuine Liberal Party, and Australians to the hard, diseased left. What a fine achievement these parasites have recorded - a fascist regime. Mind, it’s a fitting tomb for Peter Costello’s reputation as an economic genius.

I implore any MP who has any principle left in them to forget them-self and for once in their parasitical life do the right thing by Australians. Yes, you too, Mr. Barnaby Joyce. There is not much time left. But, act! And, for once, drop the arrogance and turn to those who can advise you soundly, and I do include Mr. Gerard Jackson of Brookesnews and Dr. Frank Shostak as two gentlemen you need to hear.

‘Happy New Year’, rings hollow. I’d sooner eat soap coated in salt than utter what will show out a very nasty lie.

Professor Sinclair Davidson, Institute for Public Affairs, Centre for Independent Studies

Disgraces the title Professor. And a word to “ESS” at the end of this item.

The title of Professor is close to literal in meaning. Someone who is learned in a sound discipline. Steeped in its history and an impeccable exponent of it. It is not necessary to have made a seminal contribution to a field. An essential quality and test is the capacity of a Professor to expound the field. There are qualities expected of a Professor:

Integrity; upholding truth; advancing truth; honesty; rigorous reasoning; forthright debate.

Good professors serve not only scholars but also the public. Too look through the history of scholarship and not only scholarship as such but the seminal thinkers in various fields, quite a list with no degrees at all, is also to read a history of generous men addressing the public honestly. Consider a field aside from economics, theology. From St. Paul through the Fathers, into the 20th century, we find men of the first rank who paid the same respect to laymen as to their intellectual equals. Their sermons alone are not soap, they are demanding. Indeed, to recount an anecdote, as a child, I looked forward to attending each Sunday a Lutheran Church, because of the Pastor’s stunning sermons that made such a contrast to the dismal, infantile drivel and reading pumped out in school. A sheer delight.

The history of the best engaging in public controversies and fighting causes from principles is quite a record in itself. In economics, Von Mises blitzed the way in defending the free market cause. The importance of this and the success with which von Mises executed this vital work was a revelation, as it were, to Hayek who proceeded to do the same in England. They also understood the vital importance of encouraging new talent to take up the cudgels.

Mr. Jackson has the depth expected of a professor and has made theoretical contribution to economics. He also writes not only for his equals but for the public and, engages in the vital work of intellectual warfare to defend the free market cause. The Right is absent on all counts. So we arrive at Professor Sinclair Davidson:

A fifth rate mediocrity whose depth in economics is shallower than a spit of water on the ground, and whose notion of forthright honest debate is to smear others. Whose notion of serving the public is to write trite articles which end as they do, shot down in flames. Who implies he his learned but there is no demonstration of this. Who cannot hurt the Left but does not hesitate to smear his superiors. Let’s first consider another example of Professor Sinclair’s stupidity.

Professor Sinclair suffers some delusions beginning with, genuine Professors do as he does and he’s right - the disreputable types do. A few hard leftists have been noted for it and this places Davidson in good company -

Holds that debate, challenge, and responses rest on:

1. Mere assertion and then running away when someone destroys what he asserts. This he does before Leftists. Quiggin enjoys humiliating Davidson.

2. Smearing some-one who has put a soundly reasoned case, but not to a man’s face. Oh, no. Davidson runs around various blog sites to deliver his cheap shots. This is profound debate and defence.

Cheap shots loaded with ad hominem innuendo and insinuation and never explained nor substantiated. He delivers these powerful arguments in safety of numbers. He stands firm with his intellectual equals who include the economic ignoramuses John Humphreys and Chris Berg. With such talent to vouch for him, I defy any man to deny Professor Sinclair Davidson is a giant of economics.

So, for the umpteenth instance showing what a great, learned Professor he truly is, this:

CIS organ grinder, Greg Lindsay, really knows talent when he sees it. Can’t do better than his pet monkey, John Humphreys. This genius can’t help demonstrating his prowess. Smearing Jackson, with Davidson joining in and not only joining in but Humphreys citing Davidson as an authoritative source for one of his usual masterpieces (ah the scholarship) is awesome. The cynical might say which of the two hides behind the other’s fat bum but I wouldn’t say that. Not me, no fear. I take the reasonable, restrained line; they take it in turns.

Humphreys contends he is still in a debate in which, according to this warlord, he has emerged victorious. I’m referring to Jackson’s demolition of the Sinclair-Davidson paper on manufacturing inviting, to Kim “Il” Carr’s joy, ‘industry’ policy.

Surprise surprise, it ends with a call for the Capital Flattener Tax Davidson is in love. For it means he will be, in his wet dreams, immortalised. Sure will, “Sinkers”, all those livid Australians smashed into the ground by Co2 taxes might well “immortalise” you along with Greg Lindsay, Rudd, and Right-wing clique supporting carbon taxes.

Look it this way, Sunker Ker Plunker Davidson:

Immortalisation through carbonisation at the hands of millions of the immiserated sounds like a real hoot. Look at the United States. The man in the street is already up in arms against Obama and the few treacherous Republicans who supported his carbon tax. I look forward to your apotheosis along with the aforesaid criminal bastards.

In their ‘paper’, Berg and the good Professor asserted that manufacturing is only a home cottage hobby of ‘making things’ and so it won’t be missed if it is wiped out. Well, what are imports about must be a huge mystery only these two geniuses can solve, with help form Humperdink Humphreys.

Here it is, Humphreys and Davidson in courageous action, and what a gentlemanly title it is too in acknowledging Jackson:

The hater strikes again

What on earth did Jackson do. Oh, I know, he wrote this:

Is monetary policy destroying the country’s manufacturing base?

“Any paper relating to industry policy that the Institute of Public Affairs sponsors deserves to be carefully read. This is precisely what I did with their Thumping the Table: Key Questions for the Labor Party’s ‘Industry Policy’ (authored by Sinclair Davidson and Chris Berg, January 2007). It ought to be extremely difficult for any economist to write a paper on industry policy that is basically worthless. Unfortunately, Davidson and Berg managed to do just that.”

Well, I suppose telling the truth is, according to these two geniuses “hateful”. I ponder Davidson’s approach to his students and their papers. Mind, this clown struggled to work out what the Laffer curve was. He can hardly be expected to assess whether one of his undergraduates is writing crap or not, but this saves him the hateful hurt of hating them by telling them a paper is worthless.

Such hate! Sound graduates and their tutors didn’t realise they engaged in mutual hate crimes. I’ll let a couple of Cambridge Profs I know that they are hateful too, when we are not sober together and taking the piss out of each other.

Humphreys asserts that Jackson claims he is “Australia’s only Austrian economist”. It never occurred to this inveterate liar that Jackson did not write the piece in which it is set, a bio by a U.S. free market news magazine that has as one of its commentators, Jackson,

Free Market News Network Corp.

That, it might just be the editor who wrote the bio and not Jackson. That, in delivering the smear, ie. opening his fat gob first and not bothering to check with Jackson. That in ignoring this, he picked on a cheap and nasty scrap of nothing in another attempt to impugn Jackson. For good measure, the bum tacks on, “Jackson is neither trained in economics nor understands basic economics”. Let’s see:

Animals are trained. Soldiers are drilled. Scholars read deep and wide, absorb theory and advance it. The standard undergrad texbook bound economist that prevails in Australia might be ‘trained’, as parrots regurgitating their master’s voice, but:

Humpers and Sunkers are closer to trained rats. They scrabble around the Internet trolling for anything they can construe as damnation of anyone they seek to defame. They are trained. Yet, they they are an insult to rats - rats will, if cornered, come at you from the front and go for the jugular. No, just a pair of trained monkeys.

As for the second, the idiot pretending to be an economist, as Greg Lindsay tells donors -, there’s none finer than Humphreys and hey, Humphreys is a Mannkel scholar. Mr. Ron Manners, this is where your scholarship fund is being spent, on a nasty little monkey that trolls the Internet in order to get hold of something to defame his superior and genuine free market economist. Are you sure, Mr. Manners that that is what you proudly boast is a free market economist, defender, and scholar? I won’t say much more on it, for now, Mr. Manners, but is that the echo of a blown light bulb or only a loose screw hitting the concrete.

Humpy makes what he believes are killer economic statement against Jackson’s paper. I won’t go into this but they are, and I am being charitable here, as ‘worthless’ as the Davidson-Berg paper. The statements are so wild as well as misleading that they demonstrate for the umpteenth time, and we are talking millions of time, that this bozo is not only an economic illiterate, he is incapable of even a modicum of reasoning. Consider another example:

He is fond of saying to any who criticise Lindsay’s Co2 tax claims that Humphreys voices:

If they oppose a carbon tax, they must be for Cap and Trade. Ah, no. The second is a tax too and that critics have made it plain the real debate is carbon tax or no carbon tax, and the economic force of the proposition must be examined. This is what Lindsay and his putrid gofer savagely smear anyone for: challenging and examining the economic force of the proposition. How on earth did this irrational idiot matriculate, forget actually go up to a University?

Now we arrive at the Good Professor - what he’s good at is a mystery to many. Sinclair has been smearing Jackson for some time around the internet. His usual approach is innuendo and insinuation. Sometimes he can’t help himself, and really let’s fly and in this mode the nicest term he uses  frequently is , ‘Jackson rants’. In comment No. 37, providing authoritative, erudite support to Humphreys, Sinclair the Professor wrote:

Comment no. 37:

“DO a google search of Gerard Jackson and what do you find

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22gerard+jackson%22+%22corporate+tax%22&meta=

On Sinclair Davidson…and corporate tax

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%22sinclair+davidson%22+%22corporate+tax%22&meta=

I think I’ve done a bit more work on this than has Gerry.

…also I checked his references on the latest rant, and they don’t support his argument, especially the Schumpeter reference”

I shall comment on the tax allusions shortly. So, the good professor rates the Jackson paper and by insinuation all his articles a rant. No-one, if they are reasonable, can say they are rants. What they are is unmistakably well written, well argued treatments of grave matters, applying very neatly a solid framework of theory.

Davidson is lying again in reference to Schumpeter. First, Davidson doesn’t explain what is wrong with it and he doesn’t merely assert there is something wrong. He is insinuating Jackson ‘fabricated the quote’ and I put it like this because one “ESS” used ‘farbication’ in comments on my site, saying with glee that Sinkers had caught Jackson out. Let’s see what this means:

1. Sinclair is saying Jackson is not deeply read, and has no thorough command of the history of economic thought - it’s slight.

2. Fabrication means falsehoods and that, in truth, means lying. So, he is actually accusing Jackson of lying. But, left at the ‘genteel’ form, fabrication, the force is clear: It means Jackson is fraudulent, cannot, understandably, be recognised as an economist.

Sinclair is the liar. Jackson’s quotation of  Schumpeter is accurate, as all the seminal economists in the history of economics Jackson quotes and this is reinforced by:

Jackson not only quotes, he supplies the work and the page.  Well, what do you know:

Jackson in the above paper not only accurately quoted Schumpeter but it is accurate usage as explanation in the argument Jackson mounts and it shows:

Jackson demonstrates routinely he is working from established theory, when it was established, and by whom. It is not Jackson saying it, it is not him, it is solid economic theory. The sheer exhaustive bibliography Jackson furnishes of leading exponents is inseparable from the hard core tradition of economic reasoning in which Jackson stands, works from, advances and defends.

And, he gives the page no.”:

…allow me to draw your attention to Joseph Schumpeter’s observation that “the ‘classic’ writers without neglecting other cases, reasoned primarily in terms of an unfettered international gold standard”. (The History of Economic Analysis, Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 732).

Actually, it is Humphreys who abuses Schumpeter, for in “Hater” he shows he just doesn’t understand what Schumpeter stated. It shows in the grammar. Schumpeter, notice, says “in terms of…”. That is, the unfettered gold standard was hard background against which, economists developed and and tested theory for explanatory power. Much like Hayek had common law before him in regards to his Constitution of Liberty.

Humphreys wrote “conceived within the framework of a gold standard”. This is garbage undilute. This is numbingly idiotic. One cannot even grace it by saying, it’s a metaphysical mistake. Humphreys ends with a final telling, slimey little sneer, again invoking the authority of the greatest living scholar on earth:

“After that, Sinclair wisely decided to give Gerry the respect he deserved, and started ignoring him.”

Now, nothing Sinclair Davidson nor the rest of the CIS and IPA produces demonstrates command of the history of economic thought. Their bibliographies show this because they are completely devoid of it. Funnier still is many of the ’sources’ they use happen to all have the same name, “I”.

In his heavy tome on the Laffer curve, in which Sinclair struggles to find out what on earth it is, a Mr. I fills each page and the bibliography. Blow me down, this Mr. I turns out to be Professor Sinclair Daavidson. Here’s someone who doesn’t have a bloody clue and he uses himself as a source ?! This isn’t unusual. It litters the junk spewed out by the Right. Which only goes to show: the Right is inbred, to Mr. I.

Mr. I doesn’t appear to have expended time and application to economics but he sure was busy reproducing himself and marrying his offspring to each other. No wonder Mr. I needed a couple of charities, IPA and CIS. A daddy has to stump up for all his little ‘dahling’ girlies’ weddings.

Now for those two links. One of the Augustan poets’ put-downs for the ‘grub-street race’ was the total weight of all the books the grub-street race had churned out. Credential-ism in Australia has achieved the same result. Quantity, no quality. Davidson’s and co. strive one better, no content at all. The link to Mr. I on corporate taxation was as to be expected, because the very expression, ‘corporate tax’, smacked of no economics and possibly destructive of the fight against a great problem:

Taxation, it includes regulation, is strangling capital and entrepreneurship in Australia. 

The point to Davidson’s contrast is transparent, to insinuate that Jackson, contrary to his claims, is not defending free markets and firms, and is idle on the matter of taxation.

No-one who is honest and has read Jackson can say that against the man. Nor would they have missed Jackson’s starting point, reasoning from free market economics. From within this sound framework he has consistently addressed the problem.

There is no economics in Davidson’s drivel on tax. Worse,  Davidson supports another tax on capital and entrepreneurship. It’s the capital destroying carbon taxes. Another thing, Davidson and the Right have been so successful on this matter that under Treasurer Peter Costello, their hero and guru, they multiplied and intensified the tax regime.  What a bloody joke.

Now, while Davidson smears Jackson the economist and free market warrior, what turned up?

Yesterday, on other matters, I came across this:

Davidson: “On this point I do have to depart from my colleague [at RMIT] Professor Legge…”

Well, that’s a relief, he found something to disagree with Legge on. Though, I don’t know why it’s a relief when it is considered Legge is the same as Kenneth Davidson, a hard Left, anti-free market economist. Funnier still, Legge once challenged Jackson. Jackson did what Davidson failed miserably in, eviscerated Legge.

Davidson played footsies with another hard Leftist economist, quibbling over a point. Well, he would. He’s afraid of Quiggin, so the notion that this mediocrity is about to acquire muscle and smash Legge in the face is a ludicrous suggestion. Besides, he can’t do it and if he tried, Legge would chop him up into little bits and just to check, here’s another Leftist smashing Davidson up for public enjoyment:

Rob Watts, Professor of Social Policy, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT,

Unrestrained markets are as noxious as unrestrained state socialist regimes

How interesting and let us quote a fascinating opening:

 SINCLAIR Davidson’s splendidly vitriolic rant….

What happened? Thanks to his incompetence and feebleness, Davidson discredits the free market cause and thus presents another cheap way for diseased Leftists to gain traction where it counts, with voters.

Brilliant. Just bloody brilliant. He keep this up and their won’t be a gong big enough to pin on Davidson’s chest. He’ll have to be content with the order of Lenin for services rendered. Here is an indication of the damage he caused:

RBA got it wrong on rates, Sinclair Davidson

While Davidson struggled long after it was too late with what the RBA might have done, Jackson was explaining and warning years before of the force of the RBA’s actions, the perils involved. Moreover, in the three articles below on Soros, it could be said that Jackson had demolished Watts’ article before Watt’s even thought of writing it. 

George Soros: economic buffoon and enemy of democracy

George Soros, economic illiteracy and monetary policy

A George Soros myth lives on

Done, finished. Notice, Jackson saw the danger Soros posed straightaway and thus immediately challenged Soros. But the Right didn’t and they ingnored Jackson. So, instead, we find Davidson, pretending to be bright, couldn’t help himself. He had to pen more muck and gave Watt’s oxygen when that hard leftist was asphyxiated. 

Professor Sinclair Davidson is an economic illiterate. He had to compound the defect with stupidity. This is what has the bloody hide to smear and impugn Jackson for one purpose only, to damage Jackson professionally. This bastard is no Professor, he disgraces the honour. He is a bloody disgrace and a liar.

Now for ESS:

It is curious how ESS’ linguistic range is the same as John Humphreys’, right down to the snide remarks, smears and the professional defamation of a man who is a learned economist.

It’s no secret that “ESS” is John Humphreys, the evidence is overwhelming. This ignorant, lying, whining, cretinous bastard has joined the IPA’s defamation of Shostak and Jackson.

Humphreys and Davidson are dragging the IPA down in the defamation effort. How much self-inflicted pain can the IPA withstand? Isn’t lousy economics humiliating enough? Feebleness embarrassing as it is? Cowardice before the hard Left shameful? To cap all the defects off with idle, illiterate, lying, thugs smearing others who happen to be their superiors is a self-inflicted icing. 

These two can’t damage the CIS any further because Lindsay has sunk CIS deep into Carbongate and they are his flag-bearers.

Does the Institute for Public Affairs stand by the smear campaign

Against Mr. Jackson and Dr. Shostak?

First a clarification. By IPA, I do not mean all at the IPA. There are, unquestionably, those who must be ashamed by the snivelling cretins smearing the two gentlemen. This matter has occupied some time, noting that I was attending to the failure of the IPA and how much damage to the free market cause they are also responsible for and this is interesting in the case of Mr. Alan Moran.

Some recent articles by Moran shows that, underneath it all, Jackson’s economic analysis and warnings of the consequences of the Right’s lousy economics and their failure to fight the Left entailed grave dangers. In a couple of articles, without fully setting it out, Moran concedes the economic impact of carbon taxes, it destroys capital. He concedes  up to a point because a more robust case means outright concession. Mr. Alan Moran’s efforts, bye the bye, are too little, too late. However, Mr. Alan Moran would not smear either gentlemen, would never occur to him and he must be ashamed that a pack of lying bastards, and they include Professor Sinclair Davidson, are engaged in this smear campaign and that they are tied to the IPA and CIS.

The IPA has idly stood by the defamation of the professional reputations of Jackson and Shostak by the retarded, developmentally arrested delinquents. This is not recent. They have been committing this against Jackson for some time now. This is now a serious matter also for the Director of the IPA, Mr. Roskam and other principals of the IPA. Any decent man would denounce the scumbags and how difficult is it to do this?  

Until I came across Jackson’s work on the Internet, it was frustrating there was no genuine free market economics voice,and I was puzzled as to why so. Then I found Jackson. As I began probing what was actually going on, and sources began informing me of the antics of the Right, it became clear, for some years, the Right simply ignored Jackson. Things changed with former Director Mike Nahan.

Mike Nahan infamously emailed a smear note calling Jackson ‘delusional’. Nahan’s companion, Warby, then declared to Jackson to be against free markets, not a defender of free markets.  What changed?

Over the Internet, Jackson was giving his warnings with his analysis and commentary, and smashing Leftists - from economists to journalists. This is work the Right, including Andrew Bolt and Tim Blair have never done and, in truth, cannot do, qualities reinforced by cowardice. There-in is the reason.

The conclusion is obvious. It dawned on the Right that Jackson is not only a genuine free market economist of the first rank, for which crime, apparently, they are now also smearing Dr. Shostak. They realised Jackson is highly effective, deadly in doing the public work the Right cannot do. Jackson is a threat to the Right. Well, arrogant mediocrities fear only one thing, being eclipsed. Resentment, jealousy born out of their inferority complex gelled with self-preservation:

They feared losing donors. The irony is, if the Right had been honest, used guns and encouraged new talent, instead of losing ‘donations’ as they are now, they would have found far greater support than there is today. They are drowning because of their own stupidity. For this, too, they defame Jackson and Shostak.

Best of all, if they had been the small and nasty types they are, and used guns and recruited and encouraged new talents, the Left would have been blown out of the water long ago and, Australians would not be enduring the impact of lousy, destructive economic policies. But, no, not the arrogant, narcissistic Right. Better to let Australians be ground into dust than act out of genuine principles. Michael Kroger made this plain in his grand ‘re-election strategy” Let the ALP inflict tremendous pain on Victorians and the serfs will come crawling back to us. This is the Right.

However, The IPA is publicly skewered. In going for Dr. Shostak, they demonstrated the truth of what I have stated time and again, all along, certainly since Nahan, the Right have engaged in deliberate professional defamation of Jackson. The likes of that little gutless liar Tim Blair joined. This ‘freedom fighter’ , this terror of the Left, this Genghis Khan, joined his new Right-wing ‘pals and called for Jackson to be censored and Brookesnews shut down; he demanded it be done. It’s no secret, the Right have Jackson on a black list and want him shutdown. So much for free speech.

[Under Prime Minister Howard, the Right, through their MPs, demanded Internet censorship but Howard stood hard against them. The Right still supports censorship. Howard, at bottom a genuine Liberal, was not supported by the Right and in the end, as was made very public they worked to hard to undemrine him and make Peter Costello Prime Minister, unelected - Andrew Bolt used his Herald Sun column to fly cover for the Right and promote this aim.]

It seems insane and it is but it is the truth. Here we are, thanks to the ignorant, arrogant Right, Australians are now about to face the realisation of appalling perils Jackson warned of over the year, and explained the reasons for why they could eventuate and the Right are still at it not eviscerating the Left. They cannot eviscerate the Left and it shows, the Left laugh at them daily. Still at it, defaming Jackson and now Dr. Shostak, and smearing other genuine Liberals. When brought to book over this, what do they do: They scream and howl and whine and cry “Unfair. You are smearing us.” What a pack of lying scoundrels.

But now, in defaming Dr. Shostak, they took a step too far. But then, the stupid cannot help themselves. Now they are exposed.

Now will the IPA do the decent thing and do it in public, and it does involve denouncing the bastards defaming the two gentlemen. Denouncing the scumbags in public. This what a decent man would do. How hard can it be for principled men to do this? This is a matter Roskam and others now need to reflect on, because:

The IPA has sat idly watching the defamation campaign. Does this mean they approve it? Support it? Encourage it?  Unlike their little army of cretinous, slimy, mediocre hacks, including than gutless, pro-carbon tax crawler called Professor Sinclair Davidson, without question there are those in the IPAwho know how serious this is (but not Michael Kroger’s chums in view of the Right’s actions within the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party. What an embarrassment to the IPA he is, Liberal Party destroyer a Director of the IPA!)

It’s up to the IPAnow. Standing naked on an ocean swept rock in the middle of winter cannot be pleasant. A little anti-freeze per the above suggestion should warm them up a little bit. But let’s not appeal to base motives, personal comfort. It’s the decent thing to do.