Greetings from the Australian Greens bunker. I can report all your favourite Green MPs are hunkered down here, painstakingly avoiding any public statement, dodging the media and when time allows, assuming the foetal position, rocking slowly from side to slide, murmuring gently, “Everything’s fine, everything’s fine.”
The one exception is Lee Rhiannon, who last week was told by the party’s National Council to go and sit in the naughty corner and think about what she did. She didn’t and hasn’t.
Rather she wrote an Op-Ed in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday advising the Greens were an undemocratic disgrace but only with her careful management and that of her NSW branch colleagues could it become a beacon of participatory democracy. I recommend you read it just for laughs.
Full columns here.
And in the UK, the left engages in a circular firing squad: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4664678/Animal-rights-charity-PETA-slammed-70s-style-sexism.html
Looks like the meals are good in the canteen too.
We all know what’s going on here , Liberal Party in turmoil the Greens in turmoil , the answer is obvious Russian Intelligence Agencies , Russian hackers or whatever and elements of the Right Wing Press . Putin is starting on us now… Resist !!! …
Almost forgot tips. Can’t decide the cat fight. Geelong by a whisker but its’s a shaky tip. Cats don’t do well on the road. With Viney out Blues a good chance to roll D’s. Port over Weagles.
Apologies all for slow posts. The wordpress server was painfully slow yesterday and I got the shits and walked away from it. Normal service has been resumed.
All of the North Korea rhetoric is exaggeration…… not to worry North Korea would be stomped out by the rest of the world in 5 seconds if it showed even the slightest aggression. South Korea though, has a reason to be worried. North Korea is not a blimp on the radar and is definitely no harm to us unless of course we follow Trumper into another mad American war. Our own Defence heads have stated the same-North Korea is not a threat to us.
Sorry to have to tell you this but it is about the same old stuff.
It is all about this……conservative governments getting re elected on a fear ‘we can keep you safe’ ticket.
Right wing war mongering governments ramping up fear (like Mad Barnaby did today) so they can take away our rights and liberties, inflict more secretive govt on us with the lie they can keep us all safe….and the excuse….so conservative govts can keep us in wars that have nothing to do with us and spend billions on war toys and out of date subs and planes.
I have no qualms with ANY country for that matter defending itself against the USA or anybody else, the country that has invaded more countries than any other since 1945.
Why should USA, China, Britain, France etc be the only country to have nukes. And us? Since this blog’s inception I have said we must have a phalanx of ICBM’s across the top of Australia with a red button in Canberra and who and behold some of our pollies are mouthing the same. I can recall bloggers all of those years ago heavily chastising me. Hmm not so now. Why? Our coastline coupled with our small population is too vast to defend conventionally.
Of course, ICBM’s are not toys, eh.
You silly man. I have been advocating such a defence system for Oz over the other useless crap we buy for many year. These are not toys……AND……THEY WORK!!!
BASSY, if you believe North Korea is no threat to us, and plans, discussions and decisions about our defence capabilities are only all about right wing war mongering to win elections, why do you advocate that we “must have a phalanx of ICBM’s across the top of Australia”?
Or is there a boogeyman out there that you’re not telling us about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EH1G4EwljM
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/05/hopes-of-mild-climate-change-dashed-by-new-research?CMP=share_btn_tw
If we live long enough we will see how people twenty years from now will judge the Greens compared to other political parties especially those with a preponderance of AGW denying or obfuscating charlatans and morons.
It was always going to be pushing shit up hill with a pointy stick for any party putting itself in the way of the great gravy train. The Greens were damn lucky to have Bob Brown to get them as far as they got.
For all their faults the Greens will still attract a lot of votes, perhaps even more than ever as AGW really begins to bite and thinking people will ask “who else do we go to?”
Kudos smoke, for the link.
The Guardian?
Always attacking the messenger but never understanding the message. No Surprises.
https://theconversation.com/why-the-climate-is-more-sensitive-to-carbon-dioxide-than-weather-records-suggest-80463
Couple of big fast tracked nuclear power stations will do the job.
At least there will be a planet for the scientists to get a handle on the waste.
Will love to know how Mrs Merkel is going to lead the charge on Climate Change with this sort of stuff going on
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/germanys-dirty-little-coal-secret/7840578
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-carbon-emissions-rise-2016-despite-coal-use-drop
What ever made you think nuclear energy would be cheap?
Fast tracked? You want to rush Nuclear technology? Putting aside the massive Risk of “Fast tracking” it would still take 15+ years and cost $$$$$$$ huge sums. Echo echo echo. Oh there is again.
I say smoke, forget about the IPCC’s latest “climate sensivity” angle attempting to explain why AGW has stalled for the past couple of decades or so, and spare a thought for the ‘penurious” Poms. They’d surely be pissed about the Brexit induced imminent 50% cost rise in British strawberries.
It stands out like you-know-whats in the footnotes.
That’s “sensitivity” of course.
While we are talking “Lettuce Leaf” Politics, Mr Insider, here’s a “Monty Python Communist Quiz sketch” starring Marx, Lenin, Mao and Guevara.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s
Yes, you’ve got to have apathy for Lee. Seems she got the rub of the green.
Or is that empathy?
A cracker!
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/cetaceans-in-ceduna-this-looks-like-a-job-for-sarah-hansonyoung/news-story/b11fb7224d143963ec9b83bf928488af
I see your worthless drivel and raise it with something right up your alley. You claim you care about jobs well the industry apparently does too and don’t want the adani scam. The ongoing personal attacks by News on anyone who has a differing point of view especially woman, it seems should, be a concern for all thinking Australians.
http://www.afr.com/news/special-reports/resources/adani-rail-subsidy-to-hurt-southern-queensland-mine-jobs-report-shows-20170705-gx52p3
You should get someone to explain this to you.
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” -Plato
Turn the light on Dismayed. You know you want to.
Crikey! A politician with dubious expenses Who’d a’thunk it!
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/where-is-all-our-money-going-how-politicians-are-really-spending-our-cash/news-story/52db5922a7d32b80725e7050bbde3cea
The coalition claimed $52 Million more. No Surprises. Give em heaps JB.
Familiar writing style oui? Reminds me of someone.
Lee Rhiannon says the Greens are an undemocratic disgrace. As a card carrying Trotsky, she would no doubt prefer an undemocratic dictatorship, but the Party won’t yield.
Put more simply, the Greens are a disgrace. They’ve gone from thinking they stand up for what they believe in, to all just wanting to stand up. Are they remunerated by minutes aired and column inches printed? More monkey business than a zoo. A great legacy left by BB.
BTW Jack, that was a nice Orangutan photo heading the full article OTOS.
They’re only trying to do what they know is best for you Lou.
The Mocker has an interesting take on SHY. He/She often is skilled at skewering those most in need.
Very good isn’t it.