Mangled Thoughts

First a note: had intended to post an explosive item today, and a scoop. It will be up Monday. Matters and setting below up consumed time. It’s no idle promise, what will be delivered Monday is ripe.

John Quiggin hasn’t been mentioned this week to simply admire his demolition of the CIS’ and IPA’s joint paper generator machine, Professor Sinclair Davidson, and them. The point is why he can bounce these rubber balls and, that the latter cannot bounce him and grovel before him, and why they do. This item is to show a few points.

Before launching into Quiggin, one will pay credit where credit is due. I do not object to his contempt for the “Right”, and his demolition jobs on them. There is an objection to why and how. Secondly, Quiggin does acknowledge guns of genuine Liberals ranks who have to be reckoned with, unlike the screaming ninnies of the “Right”.

Quiggin is not alone. I have had it from sources in the ranks of ACTU heavies, they fear someone and were relieved during the labour market wars they did not have to face him, Jackson. Quiggin acknowledges has to be reckoned with:

Why I am not an Austrian, John Quiggin (1998):

“Much of my writing consists of pointing out the intellectually incoherent nature of these arguments, with such success that, as Gerard Jackson observes, ‘the Federal government has no answer to Quiggin’s economic fallacies’.

“Jackson’s objection to my analysis rests primarily on the claim that the neoclassical economic framework is inadequate because…

“I endorse the criticism that the neoclassical model is inadequate because of its static and mechanistic nature. Nevertheless, I am not attracted by the Austrian alternative and would argue…”

Here’s the rejoinder, from my archives:

Why Mr Quiggin is wrong on Austrian economics: a rejoinder, Gerard Jackson (1998)

“Professor Quiggin expended nearly 1100 words on his article,* none of which were allocated to a critical analysis of Austrian economics. He begins by implying that many Australian economic commentators have allowed their economic arguments to be determined by “pro-business prejudices” such as health and education are an economic burden or competition makes work smarter, etc. Though these accusations may…”

Read the rest below in, Continued, along with another exchange.

John Quiggin is a liar?

He is another who cheats Australians. He has something in common with the Right and their clunker tanks the Institute of Public Affairs, The Centre of Independent Studies, and the HR Nicholls Society. The honour bound duty of a Professor is the quest and advance of truth? Why the “Right” does not is obvious. What’s Quiggin’s excuse?

If it is a choice between truth in all things or pushing the aims of the alien country the cult of socialism, diseased Leftists plump for the latter course. Truth for the diseased left is whatever advances their aims. Whereas, Quiggin lends his standing as a Professor to asserting distortions. In the following article, he commences with a straw woman, that idiot wrecker of Liberal causes and Party, Janet Albrechtsen, to blur what is a very serious matter,

Un-Australian activities

Continuing his dissembling, he ran the line; objections against Islamo-fascists are nothing but hyped up, vicious spin of “Rightwingers”. He seals it with, for example, smearing Daniel Pipes. “Bargaz” picked this up, Bad taste quote:

“John Quiggin recently posted on his views of the sins of Daniel Pipes (who is at times a tad excessive in his demands). IMO, John was too quick to judge Pipes as politically distasteful and thereby decided to willfully ignore the bulk of his work. I agree that repression of speech is unacceptable but forceful aguement is not. Don Arthur was closer to the mark when he utilised the term propaganda to describe the media “war” in which Pipes is involved, often against the likes of CAIR.”

Here is Pipe’s website. I can see Quiggin’s problem, Pipes has relentlessly and effectively pursued these matters. This is unpleasant to the Left.

Quiggin’s tripe only provides cover for Islamo-fascists and their fronts such as CAIR. What about this, Quiggin:

Anti-CAIR

And this:

Standing up to Islamic terrorism, Chuck Morse

“Organizations that apologize for Islamic terrorists on a regular basis, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), are engaging in character assassination when they equate honest criticism of Islamic extremism with anti-Muslim or anti-Arab prejudice.

“A case in point is an attempt by CAIR to seek damages from US Airways for ejecting a group of six bearded imams who publically chanted “Allah Akbar” before boarding a passenger jet in Minneapolis last November. While this would be part of a prayer for moderate Muslims, for an Islamic terrorist such an utterance would be the equivalent of Nazis’ shouting “Heil Hitler!” before gassing a group of Jews. (Hijackers shouted “Allah Akbar!” as they seized the passenger jets on Sept. 11, 2001, turning them into missiles.)

“Yet groups such as CAIR are shutting down our ability to identify the nature of the enemy by harassing and suing those who dare to speak of it. An example is talk show host Michael Graham, who resigned from his Washington radio gig rather than apologize for remarks he made about Islamic terrorism. His station was threatened with a lawsuit by CAIR. Today, Graham is back on the air in Boston, but for how long? Indeed, the fear is in the room.”

And this:

Making Islamists Squirm, By Patrick Poole,(Pajamas Media (10/23/08):

“… the outrageous hypocrisy of CAIR calling anyone else a front for foreign organizations, especially after an FBI agent testified two weeks ago in a federal terrorism finance trial in Dallas, identifying CAIR as a front group for the terrorist organization HAMAS and the international Muslim Brotherhood.”

It might be noted that Quiggin hasn’t refrained from smearing others, when he believes he can get away with it. Here’s an archived page that runs some of his efforts. This, from a guy who pretends to be concerned about objective debate. A Professor descends to this (besides Professor Sinclair Davidson)?

Quiggin’s rejection of science.

In between, he pushes a major Nazi Green cause, the lie that ‘man causes global warming’. Quiggin continually asserts science is behind the lie. This requires ignoring the tens of thousands of scientists around the world who say no, not from political motives but because of science. They are saying; the claims are lies and to act on them is to reject science for primitive belief in ooga booga.

Quiggin, a Professor, would reduce Australians to ooga bloody booga and the economic catastrophe to follow by acting on it. Then, that is the whole point to it. Quiggin gives it his full endorsement as a Professor.

This man is far removed from production but his income and freedom to infest a University is due to Governments taxing production and all those hard working, modest Australians engaged in it. How he expects to continue living the high life when it is wiped out by ‘kyoto compliance’ is a mystery, and Professors in the pursuit of truth have an obligation to clear up mysteries and kill falsehoods.

On the Financial Crisis

Quiggin treads between caution and confidence. When confident he blows himself up. Claiming the Bush administration is the worst since the Great Depression, is a nasty case of blowing his legs off. It is all the bloodier when he tries to pin Bush for the financial crisis. Quiggin ties to cover his backside by a brief mention of: ‘Greenspan and his monetary expansion caused’ the financial crisis.

Quiggin can’t bring himself to follow what his admission entails; confessing the recession is due to the anti-free market disease, keynesianitis. Quiggin is blaming capitalism for the recession. He tries, again, to cover himself by attmepting to tie capitalism to ‘neo-liberals’ and ‘neo-cons’. He also ties the financial crisis to the ‘neo-liberals’ “quest for perfect markets”. They are not on a quest. They believe perfect market competition is the defence of free markets. It is not, it is an assault on free markets. Free markets did not bring on the recession.

Quiggin makes a false distinction - “financial capitalism” … versus what? Capitalism?! Financial markets are markets in capital funds and raising of capital funds and their allocation into production. To divorce the two is to blow up capitalism and immiserate how many millions around the world?! Perhaps Quiggin is saying capital simply exists as the “Right” asserts it does, a falsehood Machlup long ago demolished.

He is silent, bye the bye, on the likes of Fanny and Mae are wheezes the Stalinist Democrats set up, and funnel funds from into their bank vaults. This is an aside, for he distracts readers from why they and other firms folded, in order to blame bush and free market capitalism He has a habit of eschewing inconvenient facts and truths, and circulates inventions for good measure.

Bush, as John Howard, is instinctively free market, has not been supported by free market think tanks. The ‘neo-cons’, as the “Right” in Australia, strangled alternative sources, leaving Bush hanging. Both Howard and Bush had to face voters and not the likes of the IPA, CIS, and Centre of Independent Studies. But, this has nothing to do with the cause of the recession, or as Quiggin narrows it down to a gross distortion, the crisis of ‘financial capitalism’. Quiggin wrote in 2002, omitting the fact it was the Clinton recession:

“The exposure of massive accounting fraud at WorldCom may not signal the final crisis of capitalism or…

“But it surely does signal the end of the kind of American capitalism (what Edward Luttwak called Turbocapitalism) that was presented to the world in the 1990s as the only path forward. The crucial ideas, including shareholder value, incentive-based management and the claim that stocks are always and everywhere the best investment now look every bit as discredited as the Japanese model that was touted in the 1990s.

“The NYT agrees with my take, saying U.S. Businesses Dim as Models for Foreigners.”

He hasn’t improved. As for ‘models’, they are purchased in hobby shops.

Quiggin lied about the Reagan tax cuts, re the Laffer curve. They did deliver recovery and economic growth, as they have under President Bush. He has also conveniently ignored President Bush’s tax cuts and the sound growth that followed them. There is an interesting angle to all this:

Quiggin admires Paul Krugman. Quiggin celebrated this diseased Leftist’s Nobel Prize, or as Mark Skousen properly calls it, “An ‘Ignobel’ Prize in Economics” - “we should not be surprised by this selection out of Sweden, which is famous for giving Nobels in literature to Marxists and Peace prizes to the likes of Al Gore.” Even funnier:

” Japan it could cure its economic problems by letting the money supply rip. That cheap money policies created Japan’s situation in the first place has never occurred to Krugman…” [Krugman’s bigotry vs the Bush tax cuts].

It’s not a paradox. Quiggin would have readers believe a contradiction, which one term he partially concedes, is true?! What’s going on Quiggin, Indigestion? How to attack free markets, while pretending this isn’t transparent? Why not be honest, though without Philip Adam’s crassness?

This means he is another who cheats Australians. He has something in common with the Right and their clunker tanks the Institute of Public Affairs, The Centre of Independent Studies, and the HR Nicholls Society. Professor Quiggin should be able to state the honour bound duty of a professor, but entirely lost on the idiots in the IPA and CIS.

If it is a choice between truth in all things or pushing the aims of the alien country - the cult of socialism, diseased Leftists plumps for the latter course. Quiggin’s efforts seem to weigh up as a boost to this delinquency, rather than their rectification.

Rubber Balls

The rubber balls the IPA and CIS cannot nail the lies. Neither can the “Rightwing journalists in the media” They are professional mediocrities, so Quiggin is free to bounce them.

Quiggin knows, as do the rest of the diseased left, they survive and are free to get away with their treacherous actions against Australians only because of the “Right”, and let’s not omit those buffoons Janet Albrechtsen, Andrew Bolt, and Tim Blair. Jackson Albrechtsen and Andrew Bolt even hold a rather odd notion of fighting the Left. These two geniuses are also wrecking the Liberal causes and Party through their pulp. These three run blind in search of even a fuzzy micro clue as to what to hit, with what to hit them with, and how to hit them, and make it not hurt, but rip them to bloody shreds. Quiggin knows the economics commentariat are also incapable of spotting his errors and falshehoods. This leaves the only man he fears, Jackson.

The diseased, treacherous Left know that once the Right are eviscerated and pulped, they will enjoy the same fate, but swiftly. They know why it will be swift: modest Australians detest the Left, but have never been armed by the Right against the Left. Indeed, the Right regard them as dumb oafs who should merely obey what they tell them. This odd notion of fighting the treacherous Left has driven votes to the hard Left, which is why the Rudd fascist Cabinet is in. Worse, the lies told by the Left are repeated by the man in the street, and this in itself is a major defeat inflicted not by the Left, but by the “Right”. However, the Left know what is waiting for them once the Right is killed off. Enjoy the freedom while it lasts, Quiggin, the day is not far off.

In the meantime, the above rather points to John Quiggin as Leftist Liar than a Professor dedicated to the pusuit of truth in all things. Quiggin, a front man for the hard Left and the Right grovel before that.

A couple of quotes from the report divine:

Police officers interviewed at the scene said that the authorities had heard that six women would blow themselves up in the area. “We can’t search women,” complained Atheer Allawi, a police officer. “They are wearing abayas, and God knows what they can hide under them.”

A second attack occurred inside a tent that provided shade and rest for women taking part in the march. The bomber walked into the tent, sat down and, according to a police official, Abu Ali, read the Koran with the women sitting inside. She exited the tent, leaving a bag behind that exploded moments later, killing one and wounding four.

In view of the item posted yesterday, there’s no need for further comment. Though, in Derryn Hinch’s case, repeated use of hammer to drive a few points home is possibly a distinct requirement.

Bombers and Ethnic Clashes Kill 61 in Iraq
The New York Times, 29/7/08.

Well, that’s not the headline, but it could be.

Harvard lefties conducted a poll of Arabs who happen to be Israelis. Harvard ‘graduate’ school turns out neo-Marxist cretins such as Brackistan’s Cheify of Vic Police Christine Nixon. The graduate programme Nixon was entered in is concentrated on how to bring about the wonders of socialist hell on earth. Thus, the motive for the poll is clear - Israel is anathema and, surely Arabs inside Israel will provide a prextext for abusing Israel as a “Nazi occupation cooked up Zionists”. The good professors threw up at the results.

Despite having heavily biased the poll, the Arabs showed the B.S.itters two fingers:

It is difficult to find a more neglected story than the relative satisfaction of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel as is revealed from a recent Harvard Study. (Palestinians Arabs (including those living in greater Jerusalem) constitute 20% of the population). Aware of inconvenient polls which reveal that Palestinian living in Israel are vehemently opposed to becoming citizens of Palestine, the researchers did their best to lower the satisfaction number by phrasing the question so as to receive the most negative number.

77% of the State of Israel’s Arab citizens would rather live in the Jewish state than in any other country in the world, according to a new study titled “Coexistence in Israel”.

Let’s not forget Egypt either. Though having tried to wipe Israel off the face of the earth twice, The Gypos came to realise their best pal on the block is not Iran and Syria, it is Israel. Muslims assassinated Anwar Sadat for this heresy but, they did not kill the shift. The Gyps have even copied Israel.

They have drawn the correct conclusion, the “Palestinian Territory” is a fiction told to cover up what it is, a Muslim terrorist camp and, consequently, have closed Egypt’s borders to the rodents. It might be a tad too optimistic but, then, it would be no surprise the Gypos might, underneath it all, acquiesce through inaction in Israel blowing the mullahs of Iran to hell.

This is all bad news for:

Harvard lefties. Liars in the media. ACTU thugs. The un-Australian Chavez-Hezbollah support clud, headed by such notaries as “Phuc Phil” Adams, Nettle, Bob Brown, and Keysar Trad. The ALP’s Jill Irwin, who bleats Belinda Neal is a nice ogre. The Greens. The Democrats - on whom, wiped out in the last election, my friend Strider has a nice take -

Australian Democrats leave the Senate - Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

As he also has on Irwin and her pet ogre, Belinda Neal: Liar Liar Pants on Fire!

Oh, I cannot omit the Jew haters who have also done their bit to totally wreck the Liberal Party, the likes of:

John Valder, who said -

America is a war criminal and the liberation of Iraq “the greatest act of aggression by any Western nation since the days of Hitler’s Germany”, neatly putting Bush, Blair and Howard on par with Adolf Hitler….

He did, however, approvingly refer to the pro-Saddam London demonstration that had been organised by a coalition of Marxist-Leninists and Jew-hating Islamo-fascists.

Michael Kroger goon, Susan Chandler - one of the few Kroger thugs to be kicked off the Kroger-Costello tithe machine - the defunct Victorian Liberal Party; which goes to show that if she hadn’t supplied hard evidence by sending that email, the Jew hater would still be bludging off much abused Victorian Liberal Party members. Complete with leftie Kroger Muppet and all round village fool, Petro Georgiou, Andrew Landeryou let rip ripely.

It is not historical revisionism to set the record straight to point out, the U.S.-Asutralian-South Vietnamese forces had totally eviscerated the Communist forces of the North by before the withdrawal of U.S. and Australians in the Vietnam War. The reason is, because that just happens to be true. Just as it is true, the War was a massive economic defeat not just for Ho Chi Minh’s mass murdering thugs, but also of Russia and China. That is not revisionism, it is correction of the record corrupted by lying journalists and others, inlcuding sympathisers in the Wests, and rectification of myths and lies repeated by `historians. The loss came about through defeat in the Propaganda War waged in the West - on that hung any chance the commie butchers had of surviving. Revisionism is as Windschuttle exposed, the fiction writing about the history of relations with Aborginies since the settlement of Australia and the lies purveyed as facts to prop up not history, but leftist fictions composed of lies.

Kev Gillet has popped up another apologist for mass muderers.

Kev Gillett begins;

I have just attended a reunion of the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment at Fremantle in Western Australia and can only express amazement at Peter?s naivity, or is it blinded ignorance?

On the Indian Pacific a fellow traveller asks me why I was going to Perth, I mention the reunion and he says ah yes, Vietnam?such a waste. I enlighten him and for the first time in his lifer he thinks beyond the 10 second audio visual bites he was fed on the evening news. I tell him we who fought it don?t think it a waste. At the very least we stemmed the flow of the scourge of communism for a decade and depleted the coffers of the USSR and Communist China to such an extent that the events that lead to the fall of the Berlin War were set in train.

Millions escaped after the fall of Saigon by boat, by plane, by anything that would remove them from the hell that was coming. Millions didn?t.

Lefties still mintain the soft view of Ho Chi Minh that portays him as a nationalist with his only intention being to…

The twit of a culprit argues, as Kev states, a `legalese’ international load of rubbish purveyed as `Law’, with the conclusion:

By interfering, the USA was responsible in causation for the deaths of (correction 3)?5.1 million Vietnamese, give or take a few.

Others in comments have pointed out a few things to Peter Kemp. In addition to which, Strocchi, along with other objections, properly skewers the nonsense in, as it were, Peter’s case:

“NV legitimately repudiates the agreement for ?breach??, or terminates for ?frustration?? and goes for damages. Which is what they did, in a manner of speaking.” [ Strocchi has quoted a para. in Peter’s article.]

It is silly enough to apply the principles of contract law to relations between states. THese have always been understood as being half-way to the law of the jungle. (Hobbesian state of nature ruled by Machiavellian culture.)

To apply such cocepts to relations with communist states, whose very existence is based on rejection of contract law, is brazen lunacy.

A further reply to Peter’s rubbish is in order and here it is,

The lies and hypocrisy of the America-hating John Pilger
Gerard Jackson, Brookes News.

It’s not just about Pilger, it covers lying journos, and one journo who repented of covering up the atrocities committed by Ho Chi Minh and his fellow butchers. It relates only some of the atrocities, a number of many systematically planned mass murders of peasants by the commie monsters, as, as Gerard relates, part of their aim to subjugate the whole of Vietnam.

It is shocking reading, that which Gerard Jackson sets out, and Peter has the hide to blame, which is Kev’s point, the U.S. and, by inference, Australia, for savage massacres of Vietnamese!

If Peter cannot figure out what is disgusting in that notion, just as it is disgusting as leftists did, blame the U.S., Bush, Howard, the West for barbaric Islamo-fascists and their horrid, evil actions, then, he should never have left his mother’s knee for he hasn’t grown up yet.

Next to the systematic, large scale mass murders committed by the commie butchers, Peter might contemplate the commie butchers press ganged very many Northern Vietnamese and what for during the War. Peter might notice, what they were pressed into doing was as good as murdering them anway but, any who refused were shot on the spot.

Peter might ponder, such facts never disturb leftist liars who apologise for totalitarian monsters, so why aid the lying bastards with puerile garbage?

Go on, Peter, tell all and sundry how the U.S., and Oz, is to blame for the real mass butchery committed by commie savages lead by Ho Chi Minh and backed by the U.S.S.R. and China.

Go on, Peter, tell the Vietnamese, who managed to get out of Vietnam before the final end, Ho Chi Minh’s pack of primitive butchers really were nice guys who were simply misunderstood philanthropists. No doubt Vietnamese in Oz would like to hear your explanation why they are wrong, the U.S. was wrong, why Oz is wrong and how, the U.S. and Oz caused Ho and his fellow mud heap dwelling mass murderers to systematically commit mass murders of a very large number of the Vietnamese population.

Go on Peter, show it, show your legalistic book and `law’ which establishes the `case’. What a joker.

With exceptions, Howard’s reflection on the inadequate rigour with which history is taught in schools brought out the usual demented reactions of leftoid teachers and other assorted feral animals.

History debate rages over narrative
Imre Salusinszky
January 27, 2006
AUSTRALIA’S national day of celebration was marked by a renewed outbreak of the culture wars as education experts debated the way Australia’s story is taught in schools.

The latest hostilities were provoked by John Howard’s comments at the National Press Club on Wednesday, where he claimed the teaching of history had degenerated into a “fragmented stew” of post-modernist ideas with no clear narrative thread….

next to the usual rants such as:

Australian Education Union secretary Andrew Gohl told The Australian:…”
Does it mean we can’t talk about the invasion of Australia, or the appalling treatment of indigenous Australians?”

Entirley lost on the pillock is, the `appaling treatment’ dished out to aborgines has been committed by the socilaito policies, at great burden to real taxpayers to keep as many aboriginies as possible ground into the dirt of primitive tribalism. As for invasion… what? Like Hitler’s spring-time? Gohl has to stop sucking on acid drops.

This, however,gives away how thoroughly debased the subject of history is, once a sound scholarly discipline with schools ensuring pupils walked out with at least a comprehension of the building bolcks of the subject and thus able to read sound works for their pleasure and interest,, it is now an exercise in brainwahsing young things into woo woo - pol potian beliefs. History rendered ugly, something to throw away on the instant of leaving school :

the NSW curriculum for younger students shows that, as in the other states, history is being taught as part of “human society and its environment” rather than as a free-standing subject.

The NSW curriculum also stipulates seven “perspectives” that should be applied to the subject matter: Aboriginal, civics and citizenship, environmental, gender, global, multicultural and work.

Mr Donnelly argues the relativist approach, in which no single perspective dominates, is inherently contradictory. On the one hand curriculum documents point to the subjectivity of historical understanding, while on the other mandating approaches such as feminism and environmentalism as templates for students’ understanding.

The oxymoron involved in, ‘history is being taught as part of “human society’, is wrose than a vulagrism of vulgarisms, which shows what is problematic with, States’ Govts. and their Bureaucrats dictating education and the short cut to teaching , the crapola of `bachelor of education’. Schooling is no longer , in govt. schools certainly, dominated and ordered by graduates holding real university degrees’. Of course, that is, these days begging the querstion when history in the university is dominated not by Professors of History but mythologisers inculcating the voodoo beliefs of socialistos.

Dah environment: `environmental science is bunk’. The only reason why it ha sbeen proliferated is becuase the bloody pollies have embraced woo beleifs to the hilt and thus fund charltanism to the hilt. Just consider, fir further illumination, that load of bullshit called sociologists and the derivatives, `relgious studies’ and `social work’ and such crapola real taxpayers are plundered to fund on a grand scale. Basically, those charlatans, the politicians and the bureaucrats are turning out of schools and unis ignoramuses who are useless, can’t make their own way, and reliant on bloody `govt.’ non-jobs to do what… feel good, that is all.

`Environmental science’ is the same, an expensive load of crap etnailing the corruption of science and the turning out of so many are nothing but mouths for quacks. Reading through universities’ `course’ descriptions for it alone makes plain how shoddy, what garbage `enviro-science’ is. it is nothiong more than a lie and a propaganda effort, as well as a brainwashing exercise, to justify what is another rotten cult, environmentalism and the source, Pol Pot’s bum wipes, the Greens. Jolly, how many millions, it is certainly more than a hundred per annum thrown down that sewer. The upshot: those schools, such as they are, tyurn out little totalitarian, infantile shits who, backed by the police state `environmental laws ‘ of each tier of `govt.’, turn out to be only nasty little KGB-Gestapo fingerwagging little shits.

So, in the name of history, the commie bastards of N.S.W., applies also to, say, Victoria, and Federal `Education’. called politicians and bureaucrats have corrupted botrh science and history and converted history into nothing less than nothing less than ,mystical commie shite. Now, that is a crime,for, in schools certainly, poinko arseholes such as Grohl are engaged in nothing less than corruptioon of youth as well as brainwashing pupils into tjhe garbage they plaming of as the scholarly discipline, history. If a company were to do that, they wouuld be charged of a number of offences. Why do fucking pollies, bureaucrats and `teachers’ and “teachers’ universities” get away with it and on a grand scale free!