It is fair to say the Right has been feeling the ideological pinch lately. While the fussing and feuding has been going on, the Hard Left in Australia continues its moral decay at an impressive clip with hardly a mention.
Take the animal liberationist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Usually PETA spends the bulk of its energy and time routinely supplying the ABC’s Four Corners with free footage, allowing the current affairs program to work within its budget. It’s a win-win, provided you’re a card-carrying member of PETA or a journo with an insatiable thirst for a gold Walkley.
Yesterday it surfaced PETA had written to the management of Hunters and Collectors urging the band to change its name to something less violent and antagonistic. The thought being the band, first formed in 1981, might now be inadvertently encouraging young kiddies to load up the shotties, the pig dogs and several cartons of Emu Bitter and go out blasting away at ecosystems various in a frivolous manner.
Full column here.
No Surprises.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/06/from-public-good-to-profit-margin-how-privatisation-is-failing-our-communities
All you have to do is look at your home state Dismayed – I think you guys had trouble with privatized water and the mob that bought the power distribution needs to be run out of town.
One of the problems with privatizing many state owned industries is that many are natural monopolies servicing the public.
Once they fall into private hands, there seems to be an immediate appointment of a regulator. Then the whole thing becomes cost plus which then becomes little different from being run as a Public enterprise.
Dwight would disagree with this I think.
Imagine them without a regulator! The thieving bastards have a culture of screwing every last drop of blood from the citizens. That’s the real world.
One has to have a regulator when one privatizes a monopoly. That is my point.
A privatized natural monopoly becomes a cost-plus run organization with the Governmemt setting the prices,
ergo They are rarely more efficient than when it was state run.
The Libs have religious fervor in two areas – Privatization and FTA’s
Utilities should belong to the people, like they once did. Not some greedy foreign scumbags with no interest in the customers.
Someone east of the hills figured it out? I impressed JB. I didn’t buy my own power station because of some mad green target, it was be caused we were being gouged to starvation by the power companies.
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You know when I really lost my temper and my shit with it all? Young guy in Adelaide died in a fire because he was forced to use candles for light, he just could not afford the power bills. No greenie bullshit. No coal v renewables. Just the poorest being drained by the greedy suppliers.
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The government has shamefully used and abused us to justify their own pro coal agenda, when it never had anything to do with how the power is generated.
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Hang on to your state controlled systems, because no one controls the gougers.
And the most annoying part, they flog off the infrastructure owned by us and then chuck the money around as if they by their brilliance created it.
natural monopolies….privately owned ….how dumb
Good point. I like your economy of words too.
Oh and here is more evidence on the Fossil fuel run power generation cartels pushing up prices. “As the Australian Energy Market Operator outlines significant opportunities for wind and solar farms to provide the sort of services previously only expected of coal, gas and hydro facilities, new data is pointing to a dramatic increase in the cost of these services that appears to be largely unexplained”
http://reneweconomy.com.au/wind-solar-to-fill-grid-services-as-incumbents-cash-in-while-they-can-23385/
I thought the problem was that the renewable crowd were given preference over traditional generators. The latter have had their whole cost base thrown out of kilter and in some states are just uneconomical.
The whole scene is far from a level playing field.
The political heat on over in WA this week, Mr Insider, as Premier Colin Barnett tries to explain why the government coffers are bare after many years of a Mining Boom! The State Election this weekend and Labor looks set for a win. Everyone welcome in WA this week except for PM Milton Trumble who is regarded as a dead weight to his own Party both at State and Federal level.
http://tinyurl.com/j9v4yk3
What a fascinating days cricket in India.
It is a struggle for the Aussies, but a gritty effort to get a first innings lead. Good to see that broken down hack Shaun Marsh get amongst the runs, a pivotal innings.
If I was going to the casino, I wouldn’t take Kohli to the roulette table. His track record on the DRS is a shocker. Why would you waste one of two appeals on a lay down misere not out? He also showed his true colours by berating a poor fielding effort that wasn’t actually that bad. Nothing like motivating the team.
This is going to be an arm wrestle from here on in, with the pitch playing a big part. Mitch Marsh copped a shooter, more of them to come me thinks.
A shame Renshaw had a rush of blood after all that hard work. He’ll still be kicking himself but it was a mighty fine innings and crucial to our chances.
Lao Tzu -The umpires must be cheesed orrff. The curry munchers appeal violently just about every ball as if their lives depended upon it…er well after reading Indian papers that may be correct Bald.
Could be worse – like scoring an own goal for Colombia
The way things are going in the US of A the last couple of days, it looks like Trump can’t be far off going off the reservation completely.
Looks like it may be worth dropping Mitch Marsh a couple of places down the batting order in future (except that those spaces look occupied for the time being). I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends his career as a bowling all-rounder.
Bella:
Was walking down in the Sw along the ridge above Lake Gordon today. Magnificent day – and the leatherwood and tea tree are in flower. Clumps of beehives everywhere with bees busily making the famous Manuka and Leatherwood honey.
How nice…..!
Sounds positively dreadful mate….. So jealous! haha
Customer at the pub the other night ordered a chicken schnitzel and gravy, topped with two fried eggs.
It was a sort of chicken-horror-movie moment: “I’m going to eat your roasted, battered corpse, garnished with the remains of your unborn children”.
And feed the scraps to the chooks!
We do. Jeffrey Dahmer’s got nothing on us . . .
I am a fan of the menstrual flow of chickens myself.
Whaaat?……
Echh
Mack – here ya go, needs some finessing.
T’was disgraceful behaviour by young Dexter
To even summons the courage and to text her:
“Hello I am Duckett
Your arse can I f?#&it?”
And to think he was surprised that it vexed her!
Slow scoring in the cricket. Gritty stuff.
Milton, you have surpassed my expectations. I was thinking along the lines of,
“There was a young lad from Nantucket,
whose name was Dexter Duckett………….
Go down to the bottom of the blog where the challenge was laid you linguistic miscreants.
My ancestry has me not far from Lymiric, so you are at a disadvantage.
Er, surpassed is the wrong word.
Rather good Milton
Yes, one may indeed be excused by wondering if the true strength of our economy may be measured by the extent of the glitz and glamour invested in Sydney’s G & L Mardi Gras.
Saw you there Carl darling you looked divine in pink.
somewhere trailing Brazil
Celebrating or compensating?
Anything would be better than the bullshit GDP figures that are used.
The papers are full of comparisons – Sydney versus the rest of Asia; NSW versus the rest of the world.
The Singaporeans about to invest $800 million in OZ.
All a message that the economy is BOOMING.
Something will go BOOM very shortly – not too sure what though.
Probably Snapchat shares.
Oops forgot the link.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154942512290928&id=22746335927
Thanks Bella – I think I got that notification on FB too. Disturbing indeed