Mangled Thoughts

It was put as a question in the article, Centre for Independent Studies are lobbyists? (20/8/08).

The evidence is incontrovertible but, because of the implications, it was proper to give Greg Lindsay to say to the contrary.
Centre for Independent Studies and the Institute of Public Affairs are treated as charities and thus protected against taxation. This treatment also means they are free to make profit in certain types of investments at a very small percentage of a tax rate, if any tax. This a nasty irony since they wish to wipe out the capital entirely of many companies via Co2 taxation. Naturally, donors enjoy full tax deductibility for their contributions. The amusing thing is, the Lobby business is a business, and so not tax sheltered at all.

The inference is stark naked. Both the CIS and donors, on whose behalf they are lobbying for the imposition of Co2 taxes, are in breech of the tax regime. It follows that an ATO criminal investigation into all of them is a prospect Lindsay and those ‘donors’ now face.

This item, curiously enough, does a kindness to Greg Lindsay. Doing the CIS a kindness is not even in my vocabulary. Ah! the twists and turns of outrageous misfortune. If, after all, one can draw such inferences, so can the Australian Tax Office.

The Australian tax regime, and how it is enforced is hideous, with real entrepreneurs running real firms being targeted and then treated as the most dangerous criminals in Australia by ATO, and Judges who no longer give a stuff about their real duties to Australians. The ATO spies into affairs none of its bleeding business long before the victims find out (when they are suddenly on the receiving of stasi-land, pseudo-criminal charges and a gang of heavies shoving their fists into their victims’ faces). However, an ATO investigation into the CIS and the interests it serves by lobbying for Co2 taxation is an exception: it won’t disturb me, unlike ATO’s persecution of genuinely productive enterprises, their owners and entrepreneurs driving them.

This is what Gregg Lindsay gets for taking on cretins as his guns, and then lobbying for the economic destruction of millions of Australians for the benefit of a very few larcenous parasites:

A heap of trouble Lindsay was blind to and is still blind to, and it shows. If he were brighter than he is, he would not have crossed the line. Now he has to look over his shoulder to spot whether the ATO is running after him with a hatchet.

There isn’t much point in him turning to the interests he’s lobbying for. These treacherous, larcenous bastards don’t give a stuff about him either. Besides, now that the penny is dropping, they will soon enough, if they are not already, be trying to hide from the ATO too.

PS. It occurred to me long before that there are real problems and did publish indirect warnings on this site. Not only the CIS, but interests behind the horrendous, criminal Co2 tax scam obviously chose to ignore them. How stupid are they? Since they are still diving to the bottom of the ocean, it is impossible to tell.

It was predictable. Capital in the coal based energy firms is being extinguished. Victorians face blackout. The CIS, and their pals, all otherwise busy wrecking the Liberal Party, also have a lot to answer for.

Rotting Yallourn power station infrastructure threatens supply

The firms are starved of capital, just for maintenance , before increasing capacity.

“Industry sources say years of under-investment in Victoria’s electricity infrastructure…”

Infrastructure infraschmuckture. It is investment in capital goods for energy production at stake. The firms are not starved of capital; they are dying from hunger. The existing capital is being extinguished, as a nasty twist makes plain:

“ENGINEERS at Yallourn power station built a barrier of shipping containers in front of a giant turbine in case its cracked blades flew off.”

Minus the sheer brutality, here we have an echo of the communist Russian - Soviet Union regimes. Though, far worse, the Soviet factories were as good as the gulags, and death traps, reflected in the high death and maiming tolls. Here we are, in Brackistan; employees face grave dangers because the firms cannot raise capital. Somehow they have to maintain production of energy.

Luke van der Meulen, Victorian district president CFMEU in Latrobe, is in error in saying:

“These power stations are old and, if things were normal, there would be new stations built if the place wasn’t privatised.”

Not ‘privatised’, but if genuine free market enterprises, and if Co2 taxes were not axes over their heads, capital raising, capital maintenance scheduling, and increase in capacity, would have proceeded. It’s called long-term planning, something ‘governments’ are incapable of. There are several problems involved that need to be re-iterated, and are greatly compounded by Co2 taxes:

1. The Kennett administration split electricity supply into producers and retailers. This isolates producers from consumers, reinforced by regulations. This serves one of the aims of ‘privatisation’; the producers are treated by State ‘government’ and local councils as their slush funds. Revenue extraction and its impact is concealed from the immediate gaze of the public. This is the basis for what Bracks and Brumby then went on to do.

Bracks imposed a per tonne tax on mined coal. On top of this, the production companies and the networks are required, under another “Act” to hand over a percentage of their revenues to the windmill scam. The scam is a Co2 tax as well as a criminal fraud. This is not a complete list of the burdens that have been imposed on capital.

Capital required to maintain existing capacity, and also building in greater capacity than is currently required in the short term. The second takes care of any irregular spikes in demand and long run estimates of demand. This is long term planning. That is what the Victorian coal fired electricity producers were planning to do, when Bracks stopped in.

Steve Bracks, when Premier, capped how much they could invest for maintenance. The cap was far less than they required. It was easy for him to do this, because as privatised entities they are under effective control of the Executive. ‘Privatisation’, not genuine free market establishment, was what Kennett, Stockdale, and their advisers in the IPA and CIS did to the firms and to all Victorians.

It meant the destruction of capital for the very reason, failing to meet the capitalisation requirements of maintenance. In the first instance the Executive has been bleeding them of revenues they need to retain as capital. What Bracks decreed compounded this. At the time, when Bracks imposed his particular carbon tax - this was the reason for his decree, I predicted we would notice it in power blackouts and it has proven out.

2. When Rudd first announced he would impose Carbon taxes, by March this year, the market wrote down coal based firms by $40b dollars, and still falling.

3. To repeat other cases:

In the face of the Japanese Govt’s. determination to impose a carbon tax, Toshiba and Orix abandoned their plans to build a large scale - a massive scale, coal powered plant. The reason, the Japanese Govt’s. proposed taxes meant the liquidation of the capital.

Investors in energy companies face ’sovereign risk’: govts. slashing their savings by carbon tax. What we are seeing is not only capital in those companies being consumed, but also investors in increasing numbers not supplying new capital. What would be the point?

Dixon of Qantas, and Caltex both attacked Rudd’s carbon taxes because it would wipe out the capital in both companies.

5. Other cases cited include:

“Soaring gas prices will lead to 7,000 layoffs in plastics sector

BRITAIN’s plastics manufacturers, which make goods as varied as toys, bottles, artificial hips and car bumpers, will this week warn energy minister Malcolm Wicks that 7,000 jobs are at risk in the industry because of crippling energy costs.”

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown assumed a Carbon tax need not cause carnage. Wrong.

Carbon taxation wipes out electricity production in Britain and Gordon is eager to ram down something nasty on top

Carbon taxation has compounded the impact of Kennett-Stockdale’s conversion of the firms not into genuine free market companies but as pseudo-market entities with all the bad features of the old State monopoly, a slush fund to prop up squander by the Executive. Bracks and Brumby have compounded the damage with their carbon taxes. Rudd then knocked the stuffing right out of them by announcing his Great Leap Back to the stone-age carbon tax plan.

What other effects:

Electricity to firms as factor input finished. What about consumers? Lives of Victorians are also in danger. The smashing of energy production will do this, kill Victorians.

Britains are already becoming familiar with the real dangers smashing energy productions entails. It is not simply ‘government’ but: What stupid, cretinous politicians and their advisers are culpable of is criminal. These bastards are busily palying merry hell with Australians, their prosperity and their lives. This is a litote:

The CIS and John Humphreys made a major blunder, before they published their call for carbon taxes

The Centre for Independent Studies

They didn’t, as it emerged, blunder. They have deliberately deceived some donors - not all as it turns out as below. They have damaged the solid and thus highly moral cause for free markets. They have done their bit to wreck the Liberal Party and decieve Liberal Party members, and Australians in general. Best of all, they are serving interests who hope to make billions out of larceny through the type of carbon tax called ‘cap and trade’. The conflict of interest is direct.

a. Mr Peter Yates, a Director of CIS
and a Director of the Peking based Peony club, set up to ferret billions - where? In Swiss bank accounts? I’d like a Swiss bank account, but not by their rotten way.

b. His brother, Mr. Oliver Yates is “global head of climate change products, Macquarie Bank”. Another figure who has a conflict of interest is Alan Stockdale, head of MacQuarie Bank’s “Infrastructure Group” (MIG), and is the current Federal President of the Liberal Party.

‘Alternative energy’ schemes are not market - customer-serving formations. Macquarie Bank’s main major activity is in countries in which - surprise, surprise, Governments are engaged in large-scale larceny to set up and prop up ‘alternative energy schemes’. Namely, Britain, Europe, Canada and the United States.

If they were investments entrepreneurs and investors would have volitionally established real, profit earning companies. That is, real capital.

Investors in markets have said the future in ‘alternative energy’ does not exist. They are only ‘get quick rich and sod the peasantry’ schemes for principals behind the scams, and those who set them up -politicians, bureaucrats, and their advisers. An axis of destroyers of investors’ capital - grab it and smash it.

Here’s a laugh

The CIS argues as the Greens do:

If you tax and so destroy capital, this will make it economic for ‘alternatives’, make them competitive and bring them on quickly. Here we are in Brackistan and capital in coal based firms is being liquidated and, there is nothing to replace them.

Oh, nuclear energy. Well, some of their pals are all for this. Nuclear energy is not competitive, not in Australia, nor Japan. Australia has an absolute advantage in coal based production. Nuclear based energy requires, in Australia, large subsidies, billions of dollars. This, taken with the destruction of clean (and they are clean), efficient coal based production instantly means falling pay to Australians.

Hugh Morgan, as one of their friends in the HR Nicholls Society, hopes to clean up by this Co2 tax act of larceny. With his mate Ron. Ron is familar with larceny, in the form of the Grand Prix, the Commonwealth Games, and the subsidisation of The “Spencer Street Soviet” Age, courtesy of Bracks and Brumby. Morgan collected a hefty packet for destroying a multi-billion dollar company. It is understandable why they’ve locked onto the latest wheeze. Their expertise in ‘entrepreneurship’ is demolition of efficient firms in favour of shelter workshops for cretins like them.

How many more associated with the CIS, IPA and HR Nicholls Socviety hope to clean up by larceny on the back of the driver, the perpetration of what is a massive crime called CO2 taxation and Kyoto compliance?

Contrary to these parasites, being wiped out by Co2 taxation means no future at all. It’s just that it will be many Australians who will be wiped out before this lot feels pain - but this is typically so of the mendacious ignoramuses of the scrofulous “Right”, and not only the treacherous Left.

Andrew Bolt

How could anyone forget Mr. Andrew “Ethanol Man” Bolt?

The ethanol fraud is another Co2 tax, which is destroying capital in the lattice of food production. What has Mr. Bolt made of this? August 11, 2006, he published his propaganda masterpiece, which reads as so many of his items do, a Parrot good at dictation :

Reap the good oil

…is the Federal Government doing enough to develop it as a cheap substitute to petrol, Andrew Bolt asks.

…All those crops, right to the horizon. See all that? Mulch it and ferment it and you have a sea of ethanol…

About 12 years ago, it was carefully explained to Bolt what the economic force of ethanol production is. He decided to ignore the advice. It is crystal clear why he did.

He is pushing the interests of the parasites behind the swindle. This is apart from when Kennett was still in office and, with his National Party chums, was trying to perpetrate the ethanol swindle. He failed but his Federal pals, David Kemp, Peter Costello, Ian Campbell, and Malcolm Turnbull didn’t. They also rammed down more ‘watermelon red’ measures and began planning greater co2 taxes for good measure. Rudd is building on their destructive efforts.

At the beginning of May, 2008, Bolt derided the compounding food crisis, due to the food production destroying ethanol fraud. He declared on radio, the cutting of supplies in Britain is due to Indians prospering and consequently eating more. No mention of food riots and ever spiralling prices in other countries. It would be nice to believe he merely ignored the truth, Indians are eating because the Indian Government has not and will not commit the ethanol fraud.

In India, food production has been scaled up. Indians eat more because a part of income is major gains in increasing food production through capital investment. Whereas, in the West capital in food production is being smashed to smithereens.

The above is apart from the callous sneering at real deprivations faced by those going without food. Bolt hasn’t observed either that food prices are spiralling in Australia, for the same reason. Consumers are complaining weekly. In one fortnight period alone, prices increased up to 40%.

Caught red-handed, he tried in May this year to cover his deceptions and backside the light and trite way:

The Wall Street Journal editorialises on the biofuels backlash

Even the environmental Left, which pushed ethanol for decades as an alternative to gasoline, is coming clean.
record 12million hectares the US will devote to ethanol production this year will consume almost one-third of America’s corn crop while yielding fuel amounting to less than 3per cent of petroleum consumption.

I love this line -

All we can say is, welcome aboard.

He finished another piece of drivel with this and without any sense of irony (if he hit a brick wall the wall would crumble),

A hypocrite is better than a wrecker, after all. Unless, of course, you really, really think another…

As that last linked item shows, he doesn’t have a clue about the scientific arguments and the economic arguments against the Greens’ Great Lie, Co2 emissions causes climate change, and the economic arguments for attack. Parroting his lines and, typical of the a-neural “Right”, pontificating ex-Cathedra, not putting forward real guns as opposed to his pals in the IPA, CIS, and Kroger and Costello, he has done his bit to wreck labour market reform, the Liberal Party and now the fight against Co2 taxation.

Wrecking hypocrite - the diseased Left laugh loudly.

CIS, IPA, HR Nicholls Society, and their completely stupid ‘Right’
fan club

Ha! Mega Professor and Uber Nobel Prize winning economist Peter Costello, thicker than a dead toad on inflation, labour markets and Co2 taxation. After all, he was the Treasurer who presided over Vaile, David Kemp, Turnbull, and Ian Campbell proceeding with their own carbon taxes. Oh, and Julie Bishop the former ministeress of dumbing down Education, realised there is no need for science - “what’s that… is it a skill?”

Rudd and his Cabinet of fascists are in office because of this bloody lot. Due to them, energy firms in Victoria are crumbling. Due to them, what they and Bracks and Brumby have done will be perpetrated federally. Well, right now it is joy in the morning for Victorians:

-Facing havoc causing blackout

-No water because instead of a free market firm building massive dams and planning new capital for future expansion, Bracks and Brumby are stealing billions and blowing it on a useless de-Sal plant.

What has been noteable is the full support of the cleptomaniacal, nepotistic “Right” for what is nothing less than perpetration of large-scale, destructive crimes. Their objections have been only a mere, ‘it should be here and not there’. The reason is, they don’t want their backyard views spoiled. Bung it where it hurts the grotty peasants.

Now, as we see of the CIS, to make the peasants really know their place, it is important to thoroughly destroy them economically.

It will make very interesting reading the forthcoming CIS Paper:

Why carbon taxes are good

With the follow up:

Capital destruction is not occurring.

Well, Greg Lindsay, where are they!

As for Bolt, he’s a joke. Not credible. He’s blown out of the water, so there is no point on counting on him to continue flying cover for your CIS, the IPA, the HR Nicholls Society, Costello et al. Not that he ever could, he is transparently stupid at it. Not a shred of credibility left.

Oh, and Bolt - another Kroger and Costello lackey-toad expecting to be flung by the two mobsters into a good Liberal Party seat.

Victorian and Federal Liberal Parliamentary seats are nigh wall to wall cretins, thanks to Kroger, Costello, and Kemp. These three must really hate genuine Liberals and the Party they are strangling to death.

I can’t wait to see the Senate newbies chewn up and spat out, as an early morning prandial. It will be ghastly watching a pulped Senator Helen Kroger, the pulp will stain the carpet.

This week, Hunt compared Kevin Rudd and ‘Water and Climate Minister’ (really, mystic beings were a jolly good joke to the classical Greeks) Penny Wong to Saddam Hussein.

Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong like Saddam Hussein - Greg Hunt

He’s sticking to it;

Hunt stands by Wong-Saddam comment

It is difficult to exceed the efforts of the HR Nicholls Society clubmen, the Kemp family’s IPA professional begging cap, and the Greg Lindsay please see that I won’t be condemned to a modest pension super Superannuation policy the Centre of Indolence Independent Studies, with attachments called Michael Kroger, Peter Costello, Senator Nick Minchin, David Kemp, and philanthropist to wealthy dole bludgers and a diseased Leftist called Tim Costello brother of Peter Mr Bob Day. Mr. Greg Hunt MP has achieved an alpha +++. Outstanding!

Needless to say, Rudd and his Cabinet of cruds are having a fine time bashing Hunt’s and the Liberal Party’s heads in.

The reason for his stern, fist-shaking defiance and attack is, bogs and swamps. Not yet re-bogged and swamped by the rains, they are still drying out. Oh, I forget, it is a criminal offence to use nouns that are offensive to the death cult of nature. Stinking bogs and swamps are ‘wetlands’, while savage jungles are ‘rainforests’.

“Penny Wong and prime minister (Kevin) Rudd are set to join Saddam Hussein and the Ba’athists of Baghdad as only the second government in the world to have presided over the destruction of a RAMSAR-listed wetland,” he told ABC Television.

Mr Hunt accused the Australian government of “an act of monumental environmental vandalism without precedent in Australian history”.

Let’s see:

Hussein was a mass murderer. He drained marshes in order to exterminate the marsh Arabs. I heard someone else, from the sick “Right”, who bears a striking resemblance to a bozo who has done great damage - I can’t say because of the problem I didn’t hear his name. This congenital idiot described Hussein as a sainted aunt and not the Stalinistic butcher and armourer of Islamic terrorists that he was.

Mind, in the “Right” there is a disturbing number who hope Islamic-fascists will destroy Israel and exterminate the Jews. Why expect anything more of the one man Liberal Party bulldozer? It was plain what script he was parroting, the lies spewed out by The Spencer Street Soviet Age. He declared, the real criminals are the Allies for going to war against Hussein and the butchers he tormented not only Iraqis with.

Hunt is a watermelon red cultist. He believes in the death god Nature. He believes in the lie Co2 emissions causes climate change. He believes in capital destroying ‘war’ against climate change. He gave a reason for why he believes all this, and demands economic destruction:

He stated on radio that he ‘did work’ while at University on the subject. He didn’t explain, gave no reasons for his vicious and nazi echoing worship of nature. He merely ‘knows’. How does he ‘know’? He studied law! Lawyers in the Liberal Party are:

Nobel economists
Nobel scientists
Pulizer theologians
Pulitzer philosophers
The greatest professors in history Cambridge ever produced.

They are, however, modest. They have not boasted of being the most brilliant neuro-scientists and surgeons in the whole world. The reason is, anything to do with brains in the Liberal Party is as good as leprosy.

From his own pr blurb:

1990graduated Melbourne University, in Law, winning an award for the best final year law thesis.
Fulbright Scholarship for the class called a Masters degree, and in a pseudo subject, International Relations; at Yale ( yes greg, Yale is in the US and anyone who isn’t a vegetable or a swamp knows this.

While at university, Greg captained the Australian Universities Debating Team, was runner-up at the World Universities Debating Championships and won the Edinburgh International Debating Tournament. [Wow, all these captaincies. Roll over General Petreus, here’s a real commander and his name is Captain Courageous personified - ah, this is why he could call Rudd Australia’s very own Saddam.]

After university and a year spent as an articled clerk with Mallesons Stephen Jaques. [ Yes, profiting out of enforcing ‘regulation’ as opposed to out of upholding the rule of common law in, well in his case, muttering about cases so senior counsel can clean up on rule 222 bloody de 3333.]

Greg became an Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court [Clueless in the finest tradition of law, common law, what on earth could this mean? He cooed in the C.J’s. shell like ear to soothe his precious nerves from the strain of his cocooned position as C.J.?]

He was next an “intern” with the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva. [Oh, he is is a distinguished Jurist. We can tell. Bootlicking a pack of totalitarianism bent parasites is the the sort of background only diseased Leftist jurists in common law aspire to - and statist, dumbed down Rightists - and there are rather a lot of these in the Tory Party too.]

Between 1994 and 1998, Greg worked as a senior adviser to the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer… [Damn, this is why David Hicks wasn’t given his just desserts, the wrong side of a firing squad. With his hefty experience in the paradise for socialist bastards, the UN, he could advise Downer, ‘Why Lexy baby - oh, ok can I call you Lex? Islamo-fascist terrorists have to be given a common law trial and need only to be rehabilitated back into the com-moooooonity- we are all animals together.]

Damning stuff.

Hunt is typical of what Micahel Kroger and Peter Costello have doen to the Victorian Liberal Party, with Federal and State positions and seats, aided and abetted by thir gutless comrades in:

HR Nicholls Society, The Centre for Independent Studies, and the Institute of Public Affairs

Stuffed it and them with cretins, while suppressing the rabble called genuine Liberal Party members.

Greg Hunt’s branch have a clear mission, dump this parasitical ignoramus and find a genuine Liberal equipped with brains and principles. The ‘man’ is another Kroger-Costello scandal.

Greg Hunt, MP, has done Australians a great service

He’s another one of many who have done the same, opened a very large window into the wallowing Right for all to see how completely stupid they are.

The ACTU claims increases in the dictated minimum wage won’t fuel inflation. They are correct - inflation is what no one is advised by their barrister to do at home, ‘money creation’. No, it can do something else, give many Australians a large pay cut to a 100% pay cut, it’s called unemployment.

Unemployment, according to reports, is already climbing. “The Fair Pay Commission” is to prescribe today an increase in the minimum rate. As I write this, it has been handed down, $20 per week. The ACTU pushed for a $26 increase (some) employers for $10-13 (it sounds like the 1970’s all over again). What is the problem?

So long as the minimum pay rate is no greater than the market rate, unemployment does not ensue. Prescribed minimums higher than market rates, while the lucky ‘protected’ few might be given the increase, it cannot increase total payroll. Instead, it entails an instant, 100% pay cut for many and it is called unemployment.

Even before the current rise in unemployment, real unemployment has been running higher than official figures. Those working far fewer hours than they seek is unemployment. ‘Make work’ schemes is unemployment, as are many university courses - as a means of disguising unemployment (Hawke and Keating hit upon this wheeze in the early 1980’s - ’see, low youth unemployment’).

Has The Fair Pay Commission sent rising employment exponential?

It must be stressed that the only basis on which real pay rates can by increased is capital accumulation. While the ACTU asserted the falsehoods of indeterminacy and monopsonistic ‘power of employers over employees’, they steered clear of touching upon the work capital accumulation does in raising pay.

It is the ratio of labour to capital that sets how much a job in a particular firm is paid. It’s the difference between using hand and fingernails to turn over a field to grow spuds or using a large, air conditioned tractor with PTO powered ploughs and seeding and cropping machines. This contrast illustrates who will be paid the most.

Who, really, is responsible for a new epoch of squalor?

The labour market debacle is about to be shown out with appalling force. This is the wash up of the stupidity of the HR Nicholls Society and its ‘heroes’ Senator Minchin, David Kemp, Michael Kroger, Peter Costello, Des Moore and Ray Evans. Then there were the immediate advisers to former Liberal ministers such as Mr. Jamie Briggs. How bad were they?

They ran the falsehoods the ACTU also relied on to attack freeing labour markets. They ACTU could not believe their luck. Hugh Morgan added his novel contribution to stupidity with his novel notion of “the ratio of the minimum wage to the median wage and when it is too high mass unemployment ensues”.

They, as the Centre for Independent Studies, are also a vacuum on the theory of capital in basic truths. The Cabinet swallowed their line that in free labour markets production increases without capital accumulation. The rot involved is illuminated by pressing it to the reductio ad absurdum that does follow from that notion, stone age man was as productive as capital working man, using his bare hands labour should produce more than the machine driving spudman.

The destruction of the campaign for labour market reform, otherwise a throughly sound and thus highly moral case, by those illiterates and with it the Liberal Party, was predicted by Mr. Jackson before the reform was launched, and so in 2005 he couold write,

Liberal Party labour market reform founders on ineptitude

Ignorance and illiteracy gave oxygen to the likes of The ACTU’s hired guns, Belchamber and Godfrey, and that devotee of Stalinists Kenneth Davidson. Davidson used an appallingly bad New Zealand Government paper as ’solid evidence’ against free labour markets. Mr. Jackson also read it and, evidently, found it very bad and, based on his article, for the same reasons I did:

Liberal Government and labour market reform: more fallacious attacks

As the false campaign unravelled in 2005, the HR Nicholls clubmen ran for cover and left the Ministers responsible for running the Cabinet’s reform hanging. Panicking, Cabinet sought to rescue itself by raising the substitute for the old IRC, “The Fair Pay Commission” and imposing the “Fairness Test”. Who was responsible for this final collapse? One Jamie Briggs, adviser to Prime Minister Howard, as Landeryou documents here.

Seeking Alexander Downer’s blue ribbon seat, Briggs tried to paper over his spineless and overall incompetence as a adviser to Prime Minister Howard in an interview:

In effect we declared that in May last year when we introduced the fairness test which was the key issue with WorkChoices

There is no “We” about it. It was Briggs, Minchin, Kemp, Costello, Evans, Korger, Morgan and Moore who totally failed in their duty to Cabinet, Parliament, Australians and the Liberal Party, and completely wrecked the campaign, and blew the Liberal Party out of office with it.

So the day has arrived for the final immiseration of Australians. “Professor” Ian Harper, Chairman of the Fair Pay Commission declared today, the increase he ordered willl:

1. Deliver a real pay increase to all “workers”
2. Will increase total payroll.

Harper has no justification at all for both claims. At a time of already rising unemployment, the indication is that Harper has consigned even more Australians to the abyss. This is not what Rudd and the ACTU are guilty of. It is what the “Right”, who wrecked labour reform and the Liberal Party are guilty of. By their ignorance, venality, hubris and thuggery, they brought this about.

It is genuine abuse of many Australians and on two counts. They cannot enjoy higher pay without capital accumulation. Many will be delivered a real pay cut.

Rudd muddied things further by bestowing on top bureaucrats a staggering 18% increase this week. The ACTU, for obvious reasons, latched onto this act of larceny for its emotional impact on the public. Mind, what will it matter, since Rudd will annihilate Australiansthrough carbon taxation - thanks, again, to the duplicity of the “Right”.

P.S.

1. “The Right” still blame Howard for what they did, wrecked labour market reform. I remind readers of the disgusting antics of Moore and Evans, when they smeared both Howard and Cardinal Pell before a hearing of the Fair Pay commission, asserting they had been captured by neo Marxists. This was their ‘expert economic submission’.

Moore’s outstanding heroism was followed by the IPA’s “let’s blame Howard for our errors” bumper issue. These deeds were preceded by his greatest ‘daring do’ in 2005 - he smeared Howard ‘out in the open’ in The Spencer Street Soviet Age, Gutless reform dash Liberal hopes

2. It is interesting to note Hugh Morgan and the Business Council of Australia pushes for large increases in immigration. They also hold the fallacy consumption drives economic growth, instead of capital accumulation.

What they are totally blind to is, besides the very nasty implications of mass, unrestricted immigration, without capital accumulation the increase they are pushing will drive down pay rates. Unfortunately, Rudd is about to oblige them with this desire to impoverish modest Australians. That the BCA are worse than economic illiterates is shown in, for example:

Lopping the Root and Branch Tax Review Cuts Opportunity
26 June 2008, by BCA President Greig Gailey

So, Greig, why not argue for a 100% tax rate? A major assumption is the fallacy of consumption drives economic growth, instead of savings.

Well, it’s understandable with such economic geniuses as members and former board members, eg. Hugh Morgan, whose notion of business is Government transferring billions his way viz the Morgan-Walker “Nuke the coal firms Power Plant” and destroying genuine enterprises such as WMC, larceny must be the definition of economic growth.

Australia’s Emissions Trading Scheme: An Opportunity – Speech by BCA President Greig Gailey

As the CIS, Greig and the BCA run the lie of “costless carbon taxation”. The Victorian equivalent of the BCA, the Victorian Employer’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry are no more literate in economics but even they have twigged onto, carbon taxation is capital annihilation.

That is a newspaper headline and the reason is carbon taxes, but there is something wrong with it. There is a growing voter reaction to Co2 control, as reported this morning, which is the point to the item below, “Tax cuts won’t compensate for food-fuel-water price increases”.

The problem is arming voters with reasons and convincing those who tend against why the ‘plans’ are worse than wrong. It is also requires hurting those pushing carbon taxes in public, demolishing them, and finishing their lies off in plain view of voters.

The journalist is George Megalogenis, and he gives his heading a twist. He begins with this counter statistic (how was the poll he alludes to framed and conducted?):

A strong majority of voters (61per cent) say a carbon emissions trading scheme could help slow global warming.

Georgie used Murdoch’s time to write a propaganda item aimed at pushing Rudd and Nelson over the edge on carbon taxation. He didn’t have to do it. Carbon Razor Man Kev and his plastic jackbooted goons, Penny Wong and Peter Garrett and a cast of union thugs, are bent on imposing it.

Why, Rupert, do you stuff the newspapers with lying leftists and mouthpieces for those out to bring economic destruction to Australians? Why? Do you, underneath it all, do as the diseased Left and hate free, prosperous capitalist Westerners - try millions of modest Australians first up?

What did they do to you and your wealthy family to deserve this, apart from making you and your family mega-billionaires? Is this the crime? Gad, what evil sods modest Australians must be. Ah, and how could I omit the same treatment of our American friends. Here’s one example lifted out of a mountain range of the lying rubbish Murdoch abides, one that also serves as further rectification of Jeff “euthanase ‘em” Kennett:

Rupert Murdoch, anti-Americanism and Singer’s neo-Nazi views

Megalomaniac George did get one thing right: voters have to be won over, convinced. This is exactly what the “Right” have not done and cannot do. They don’t believe they have to: they know they are right and voters should just accept what they say and obey. Thus they have abandoned the voter for the diseased Left to fry. The CIS has a different motive and deliberate “policy” position, overt treachery.

Consider one upstanding terror of the Left on carbon taxation. He writes that the tax won’t cut Co2 emissions and cites as evidence what is occurring in Europe. This is highly selective. It ignores large scale capital extinction is occurring. Japanese firms have written off plans for new large scale energy plants. Companies are closing in Britain and thousands of employees are laid off each time. Either he has deliberately ignored this, or he doesn’t have a clue about the true impact of carbon taxation, or can’t be bothered even taking advice over a telephone or is all three - deaf dumb and blind.

The bright spark has another problem. He demands the multiplication of a specific carbon tax and it is called ethanol production. Neither does he realise that the Victorian Government’s windmill fraud is another specific, capital destroying carbon tax.

He cannot claim carbon taxes won’t have the impact Rudd and co seeks. Neither is he in a position to venture it, being an intellectual void. With not having explained the situation in Europe, his is a nonsensical argument. What he sees is:

Your petrol prices will therefore soar, perhaps by 30 cents a litre, suggest the Liberals. So will your power bills, by as much as double, warn power generators, some of whom may actually be driven bankrupt.

Nothing else. There is nothing there. Moreover, why is he only attacking Rudd and the ALP Cabinet, and their Green pals. I’ve never seen him eviscerate the watermelon reds who infest the Liberal Party for carbon taxes. Neither has he eviscerated the CIS for writing pro carbon taxation propaganda.

It’s not that he would understand why the CIS’s entire position is false, and only aids the diseased Left and Kevin Rudd. It’s enough that he should recognise that the CIS’s position is worthy of the diseased Left bu he is stone cold silent on his pals in the CIS.

Why does Andrew Bolt refuse to attack the CIS? Bye the bye, Bolt and Blair did not publicly attack their pals in the IPA over, as one example, the complete fabrication “Islam and the Free Markets”.

Why do they refuse to investigate the CIS and the IPA over such scandalous actions? Their protection of the CIS and IPA is remarked on around the city. Does Bolt find nothing wrong in the fact the intellectual frauds committed by his and Blair’s pals are no less grievous than those committed by the Left. Why the contradiction?

Bolt is also silent over another telling detail. The Rudd Cabinet is running the very arguments the CIS used to excuse carbon taxation. This is not the only time this year Rudd and Co are using ‘arguments’ raised by the “free market think tanks” to do what those “arguments” actually serve, destroy and descredit free markets. I will demonstrate this in another article.

Bolt and Blair attack the Left over conflicts of interest and yet they are strangely silent when ‘governance concerns’ involve the CIS and the IPA. Why? It is no secret now, Bolt, there is a connection between the CIS and the China based “Peony Company”.

What gives, Bolt? There are more than a few around Melbourne who find it whiffy that Bolt should have written a propaganda piece pushing capital, destroying, carbon tax ethanol production. Here’s Bolt’s handwringing over carbon taxation:

Carbon pain is priceless

The media pours out reams of propaganda daily and what does the Right produce? Nothing to disturb a flea. Dog’s scratch harder and they don’t kill fleas.

The “Right” have closed down internal debate and forums within the Liberal Party. They reinforce this by funnelling matters into their clunk tanks, which do their bit to suppress any who can do the work required. In return, their best public efforts are feeble and trite. It’s a trifecta, with the likes of Bolt, Albrechtsen and Blair propped up as media “Rightwing tigers”. Meeow. What is “priceless” is watching the Left roll about laughing at these toothless kittens.

Bolt won’t attack the CIS, and can’t hurt the Left. Blair merely blunders in relying on Bolt for ‘economic expertise’. The diseased Left roll on from one victory to the next, each of them delivered by the superficial Right. The battle ground is the voter and this lot runs up white flags all over it, and make sure no battle is fought - they simply blow the ammo sky high and stick pins into the backs of their superiors.

Joker of the Year

Sheer coincidence but Derryn Hinch just said, “Andrew Bolt is very thorough in his research…”

Mind, no one is accusing 3AW of being loaded with talent either, and Hinch of being their brain cell. It shows, they work 7 days a week promoting Greens’ lies too. Why, this evening Hinch wasted oxygen giving Chavez’ best pal, Bob Brown, air time and praising him to the hilt. Well, terrorists and the diseased Left must have appreciated this promo.