'Nasty' Abbott and Howard Florey : told they'd be important from day they were born

the new Howard Florey ?

Reading David Marr's fascinating walkabout through the early years of the next Aussie PM, A. 'Nasty' Abbott, an astute student of that other hard-driving Aussie, Howard Florey, can't help but see similarities in how both men's families deliberately distorted their only son's personality to suit their parental dreams.

Both men were the only spoiled child - the only male child - in a family of girls. From birth they were told constantly they, not the girls, would be somebody--- that they had to be somebody.

Spoil a child and raise up a sociopath....

"At all costs , get there !"

Energy, sharp elbows and "take no prisoners" attitudes got them to the top but left very few, except fellow sociopaths, really liking them.

The lazy but studiously modest Alexander Fleming charmed his way into getting a Nobel Prize and most of the glory for merely discovering penicillin ("to be basically useless as a life-saver") .

Fleming left it to others to work hard (onto death in the case of Martin Henry Dawson) to prove the reverse : that penicillin is in fact the most useful life-saving medicine yet invented (my italics).

One who worked hard to prove up penicillin was Florey - but widespread dislike of Florey led the media (and Fleming and his hospital) to make Alec Fleming the star of this saga.

History isn't done with wannabe DLP leader Nasty Abbott : but I doubt it will be kind.

Both Florey and Abbott had much in their characters to admire but because they were warped from birth by their parents, the bad always seemed to outweigh the good in them, as they obeyed their parents' dictates to succeed at all costs, unceasingly issued to them since before they could even speak.

Spoil a child and ruin a nation.....

Watching the DENIERS squirm over smear that Rothschilds behind Climate Change

The so called Climate Change "debates" have moved on beyond the science of the question --- way way beyond.

One of the world's leading climate change denying groups, the immodestly title Galileo Movement, with a veritable Who's Who of the world's top climate deniers as its scientific advisors, has recently taken to publicly claiming that the people behind all this climate change talk are Jews-Bent-On-World-Domination.

Oh they didn't put it quite that baldly : since the Holocaust, that has been judged both legally and politically risky.

Dog Whistle phrases, coded phrases all the anti-semites soon learn with a broad wink,wink, hint, hint are what stands in today.

So it is Tightly knot cabals of big banking families with names like Rothschild who are the banksters that will make trillions over carbon trading, the new "fiat" currency and the grease to pave the way to one world government domination.

Shades of Henry Ford's eternally popular fake document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, lurk behind everyone of those time-worn phrases.

Over 100 years old but, apparently, still going strong as every new generation of paranoid anti-semites comes along.

The Jewish Conspiracy claims were reported without comment by the big newspapers around the world before 1945 - but after that became verboten - until this year.

And in Rupert Murdoch's native Australia, of course - the land that taught Mr Make-It-UP everything he routinely does till this very day.

One of the country's leading paper chains (Fairfax) ran the comments - without addressing them - in all their newspapers throughout the land, giving them the widest popular publicity.

(To be fair as possible - perhaps they did so out of deference to their newest (and fattest) major shareholder, a big fan of some of the more extreme climate denying members of the Galileo Movement.)

"Watching the Deniers" is relentless in pursuit of DENIER distortions

Luckily, just as greed and denial never sleeps, nor do its opponents - never more true than in the case of Mike at the aptly named Australian blog "WATCHING THE DENIERS" , better known to his many fans around the world as WTD .

Mike, a forty something IT specialist from Melbourne, who describes himself as a centre left market oriented independent, has been all over the deniers' doings like a dirty shirt.

The mainstream press ignored the "Climate Change-is-a-Jewish-Plot" allegations - as did, surprisingly, the mainstream Climate Change Believing blogs !

Mike just kept churning out his updates on this story, faster than the deniers could spin their yarn in defence of their statements.

It was all rather like the three authors of  The Federalist Papers overwhelming opponents to ratifying the American Constitution by the sheer volume and speed of their papers in favour of the federalist cause, back in late 18th century America !

It is amazing, considering WTD's ability to build this story on the deniers' smears against Jews, that there is no Wikipedia article on this blog : a hint for someone perhaps ?

Dutch-born Andrew Bolt : silent assent to anti-JEWISH slur or denounce fellow Aussie climate deniers ?

No occupied country in Western Europe has a more shameful record on the Holocaust than the Netherlands - a fact that must weigh heavy on Dutch-born Aussie denier Andrew Bolt.

This very well known media personality is facing the biggest moral dilemma  in his career : denounce anti-Jewish slurs from his fellow climate change deniers or silently assent to their veiled anti-semitic claims.

Andrew Bolt is a scientific advisor to the the Australian-based Galileo Movement, one of the world's best known climate denier groups.

Will he resign and denounce his fellow deniers for this veiled revival of the notorious and fake "Zion Protocol" claim that Jewish banking families were a secret cabal plotting to take over the world ?

The story of the Dutch silent assent during WWII is well known enough to heighten Dutch-born Bolt's moral dilemma

Or will he silently assent to their anti-Jewish claims, hoping to hold the internally deeply-divided denier movement together just a little longer .....

new POLL : 70% of Aussies dislike "The Nasty" abbott : Drought in USA hits deniers in the gonads

Romney-the-denier's election hopes wilt in republican mid-west drought

I bring you good news, fellow bloggers, albeit perversely good news.

New evidence is emerging (er, re-emerging) that since more CO2 inevitably comes with more heat, global warming beyond what we already have will not be good news for our main calorie-producing crops like corn and soybean.

Deniers read up, carefully : yep, global warming will NOT be good for the corn and soybean crops of the Republican-Libertarian-Denier heartland of the American Mid-West.

I bet  Mittster-the-denier is wilting along with potential ex-voters' crops .

Apparently all the denier think tankers are not baking on a vacation beach but are back in their air-conditioned beltway offices - sweating the bejesus.

Thomas Homer-Dixon in Canada's Globe & Mail ( you can tell there is a real crisis when even a denier rag like the godawful G&M is willing to give a climate change believer an Op-Ed spot ) says corn and soybean can't stand even short bouts of really high temperatures ---- temperatures that are just beyond the high temperatures they normally demand to flourish.

In denier-speak, that means their response to heat is not linear but dose-dependent.

Ironic what - deniers bitten by their own rhetoric !

The news from America has apparently hit even the shores of  VAN DENIER'S LAND itself.

Aussie voters know one or two things about The Nasty abbott - in particular that he is a big climate change denier.

A  new poll  in the Australian says that 70% of Aussies don't like
him.

I don't like him myself.

I mean I am a Catholic ,like our Tony, and I actually even like some of his social conservative views ( others I hate).

So the man does not want to directly kill the unborn -- he merely wants to promote the slow and indirect killing of all life on this Earth.

  I don't recall seeing that anywhere in my pre-Vatican II daily missal, while growing up RC....

Andrew Loog Oldham Svengali to Christine Milne ? Would you let your daughter marry a GREEN ?!

For once, don't blame  Fleet Street : it was they what got took !

To this day, most people think it was a British Tabloid editor at something like the Daily Mail (or worse) who first blared out the screaming 1965 headline, "would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone ?"

If was this headline, reproduced worldwide and then forever after, that most people agreed "made" the Rolling Stones.

Actually, the original tagline was from a series of ads ran by the canny manager of the Stones, youngster Andrew Loog Oldham, in a few music weeklies --- and only later picked up and improved upon by Fleet Street heavies.

Oldham was very young - even younger than the Stones and had never run a band before - was in fact too young to legally get a music agent's license, but he made up in street smarts what he lacked in age, experience, contacts or capital.

He was half Australian which might account for a good bit of his sheer brass. Who knows, maybe he is Down Under, visiting relatives, and offering pro bono advice to our Christine.

Anyway, back to the Stones --- itt was obvious too - in hindsight - that it was a father editor , not a mother editor, who reproduced the headline along with a frantically worried editorial.

No mother would be so daft : mothers - women - in fact know damn well that lots of nice girls love to go out with bad boys.

Particularly bad boys that good old Dad can't stand and forbids them to ever see.

Okay, now cue "The Nasty".

"The Nasty", head of the Australian Liberal (libertarian ) party, is ironically enough less a libertarian on social issues and rather more a wet blanket catholic of the most hair-shirted variety.

So naturally, "The Nasty" has taken the bait that the Green party leader Christine Milne (or someone a lot like her) has so carefully laid out for him .

He and his tame newspapers are off on a tear about all the evils that will prevail upon hapless morally-muddled Aussies if they dare to think of dating a Green.

Its a risky strategy "Nasty" - just listen to ole Rupert . His papers may have gotten a one day blip in circulation out of repeating the headline ,but it was the R. Stones who have been dining out on it ever since.

And frankly, "Nasty", if you have anything left after you tithe, I 'd take it out of shares in News Corpse and put it into Sticky Fingers, PLC.

My bet is that 10 years from now, they'll be worth a lot more than a few newspaper properties filled with rusting Big Iron and no customers.

And if someday, during your watch, the Green Horror ends up in Government or Opposition, prepare to blame yourself.

Voters are a lot like daughters : they don't always like being told what NOT to do ....

Aussie papers ask "Would you let your daughter marry a Green - they drink the blood of children you know"

"Earned Media", by the tonne, for Aussie greens

If a political party sells its soul to the rich and greedy, it can afford to obtain lots of "paid media" , by buying newspaper ads.

If the newspapers talk about your party without you paying for it, then it is called "earned media" .

Normally Green parties worldwide can't get either form of media.

But not for the Australia Greens for last few weeks - or for a few weeks more apparently.

It has been a two party punch-up on the Greens - the Labor party has teamed up with the Coalition-supporting daily media to go at the Greens on every possible point around the compass.

Far more extreme than the Communists, far more loonie than the Tea Party seems the thrust of the hundreds of articles against the Greens.

Millions of Australians are waking up, drinking coffee and reading papers and listening to radio and TV and learning for the very first time that the Greens are one of the serious parties - serious as in "feared".

I think the Coalition and Labor are going to regret this punch-up :
parties that are joked about or ignored, go no where.

Parties feared by the rich and powerful tend to be seen potential governments-in-waiting by the resentful non-rich and the non-powerful.

And there are lots of them about ......

Australia's top paper makes it official : Greens now a major threat to traditional parties

GREENS replace Liberals as Aussie Labour's bete noire

The Sydney Morning Herald - "Big Thunder" - says that the Labour Party is taking a big risk by its very public declaration of war against the greens rather than against its traditional opponent , the libertarian-oriented Liberals.

The Liberals have also joined in the braying, as it too is losing some of its young educateds to the Greens as well.

A wrenching voter and party re-alignment is definitely under way down under, where the green revolution all began 40 years ago this year .....

Carbon Ate My Homework 2 : Aussie grave robbers

The Nasty 'Abbott

Last week it was Brumby's the bakers who were after stealing bread - from their customers.

And then blaming it on the new Australian carbon tax.

The head of the company resigned, after that PR disaster.

The person who really should have resigned is Libertarian Party leader Tony  "the Nasty"  'Abbott, the reputed Prime Minister in waiting, who has been smearing mistruths about the carbon tax's effect on prices from morning to dusk.

The stupid gits in the business community who fall for his line unfortunately end up falling on the sword , not our Tony.


Grave Robbers


Latest sword-faller will be someone in a Melbourne area funeral home business which told a grieving family that sequestering the carbon in their relative's body into a grave would now cost an extra $55 thanks to the new carbon tax.

Actually the increase in the price had been in the pipeline for months and had nothing to do with carbon taxes - this  just seemed ( at the time) an easy way to deflect an unpopular price increase upon any even more unpopular (er demonized) carbon tax.

Well the media went ballistic on this one -- burying dear old dad instead of burning him in a cremation greatly reduces, not increases the CO2 we pour into the heavens : if anything the family deserved a refund not a price increase !


Denier New Math : an extra  $100 a litre carbon tax ..... 

When I read this story I searched green and denier-fighting parts of the blog-o-sphere for their take on it.

Believe it or not, I found the story only on hundreds of climate change sites, even though the story hardly flattered their cause.

Comforting to know they are too stupid to see this - but also scary to see that they and their readers are too stupid to see this.

What sort of tax on carbon could possibly drive the price of petrol up so much that it would be an EXTRA $55, just for using a backhoe for 5 minutes to dig a grave ?

What a new $100 per litre tax or something ?

Truly, "Greed Never Sleeps" - and in this case, I do not mean  greed for money.

Even global threats quail before Universe-sized Egos

No, I mean the greed some politicians have to hold the highest office in the land: Tony "the Nasty" 'Abbott is so hungry to be PM, he can almost taste it and he will stop at nothing to win it.

Even if that means reversing his own personal position on carbon taxes from what he said but a year or two earlier.

Yes global warming is a threat to human existence but there are times when even a threat this global seems sub-atomic sized compared to the size of the threat to humanity posed by the size of some mens' egos and ambitions.....

"CARBON LOADING" : 'Carbon ate my homework' replacing unions as Aussie all-purpose scapegoat

Birth of a MEME Alert: "Carbon Loading".

Truly "Greeds Never Sleeps".

No sooner did Australia announce that it planned to introduce a carbon tax, smart businessmen figured they could have "their bread and eat it too".

Out of one side of their mouths (in public) they'd whine about how the carbon tax was a job and investment killer.

Then out of sight and in private, out of the other side of their mouths they urge their stores to up prices (even before the tax came into effect) and simply blame it on the new tax !

Taxes as profit centres -- chalk another one up to the Greed Motive.

Other countries ,like Canada* , may eventually around to introducing Carbon Taxes (perhaps after an outcry from voters hit by the sort of mega-storms such as those that hit the US Mid Atlantic States this week).

(*A hundred natural disasters that size is what would be required to focus the current  Canadian government's thoughts away from tarry mega-projects, but perhaps future - different - governments might spend less time pimping for Big Oil and more on working for the ordinary taxpayer.)

Most businesses (but not all - judging from the Aussie example)  will make the same outcry.

Some will go even further and search for the some ways to make extra profits and yet blame it on a tax not yet in effect.

So be forewarned : Carbon Loading is coming to your country.....

DEANE PRIEST led to Canberra guillotine while pot-banging housewives jeer

Whoa Pony ! Not quite there yet , but there is no doubt Aussie housewives are hot to trot about the soaring prices at the outlets of the Brumby's Bakery chain.

I learned all this from Mike at Watching the Deniers who in turn got it from The West Australian, who first broke the story - kudos to them !

Deane Priest , the MD (boss) of the chain wrote a chatty little newsletter to all of the chain's franchisee telling them to jack up prices in July and just blame it all on the new Carbon Tax.

Outrage followed when The West Australian newspaper reprinted the newsletter.

The carbon-pollution-loving ultra-Liberal party went ducking for cover and the federal government's consumer protection agency ,the ACCC, announced it would investigate for possible price gouging.

Deane Priest's only crime, as far as I can see, is stupidity and a marked lack of ability in the two-facedness-department.

He should have taken a lesson in two-faced audacity from the ultra-Liberal party leader Tony Abbott who said:

The truth is the carbon tax is going to impact on every price in our country 

Well Tony - I can call you Tony can't I ? - the government here in Canada can put up taxes all it likes on booze, fags and lottery tickets - I don't drink, smoke or gamble and as long as they don't tax swearing , I feel secure.

The fact is that taxes often have a differential impact, not a universal impact , which is why new taxes are so frequently used to nudge society in different directions rather than simply used to raise extra revenue.

In fact Green Party types like Canada's Jim Harris frequently propose "revenue neutral taxes" - for example, taxing carbon polluters but then giving all that revenue to encourage new renewable energy producers.

The net effect is that the government has no more revenue, but human society has been eased away from self-engineering its own 'climatic' doom.

So for example, a small local bakery that generates its own electricity off its own roof panels and then sells its bread in its own shop won't see the cost of its bread rise, but their big competitor, reliant on external energy and selling their bread - by carbon-burning truck - over a wide area, is going to see a true cost rise.

Ultimately, locally-made and sold bread, using local sunlight, will cost less to the customer and become more popular, while the big regional bakery (say Brumby's)  goes belly up.

Its called a market solution and its coming from a socialist government - a bit odd that , Tony, but what can you do ?

Yes, Tony, they did used to call them 'sin' taxes - "hitting only the sinners and sparing the saints" , back in the days when most people still believed in sin.

But Tony, burning carbon is a sin, when there are cost-competitive* renewable alternatives.

Cost-competitive, as in the eyes of energy accountants' bean counting.

 A lot more tough-assed than slackers like you, me and Tony, these hardnosed buggers rightfully count in the cost of externally-borne pollution costs , set them against internal profits, and then find consistently negative values.

 For example, when burning the most common types of coal (sulfur-dirty,high moisture content, low BTU per mass) used in much of our electrical production.

I  feel I can call Tony Abbott an ultra-Liberal (aka a libertarian) rather than a conservative as most media are inclined to do, because true conservatives, like myself, tend to be a censorious lot - always wanting to tax the other guy's sins.

But Mr Abbott has consistently been against taxing any sins - in opposing a tax on sinful carbon he is at least being consistent - to himself and his party's true (ultra-Liberal) values.

But just as consistently, even in very rich countries, bread remains the Staff of Life and woe be tide any party that lets its cost soar too high.

Then they face certain defeat at the polls - or even a date with the modern version of the dreaded guillotine blade, as the events of Libya in the Arab Spring  demonstrate yet again.....

Aussies in YELLOW (PERIL) LEVEL moral panic over carbon tax, but BC is okay on its tax

Thanks to a world wide fifth column of denier-watchers, I can keep up with denier activities all over the world.

Mike at WATCHING THE DENIERS is full of vim and vinegar over the deniers there attacking the new carbon tax.

It seems to be that Aussie-land is reliving its WHITE AUSTRALIA moral panic mode, only this time over The-Carbon- Tax-Peril (color undefined).

If you are still reading this by the time this post hits your internet connection, then you will know that the world did not end and the sky did not cave in as Prime Minister Gillard pressed the button to start the tax-collecting process.

Australia's latter day Millerites will have to sheepishly climb off their hilltop vigils and return home to work, mortgages and taking out the garbage.

The green-leaning Pembina Institute here in Canada has just released a report that should reassure queasy Ozzie Landers (what timing eh - or am I being needlessly cynical about my dear colleagues ?) ; they say claim that BC has taken its carbon tax in stride.

They say that 64% favour the tax ( there is that percentage again - only this time in favour of carbon taxing --- its almost like the ritualistic 99.9% that voted for Comrade X in all those commie countries long ago.)

My own view is that if the tax survives two years, it will survive for the long term --- so let us hope Gillard's government holds together that long, to give this tax , as LABOUR is wont to say, "a fair go" .....

who is WATCHING THE 63% of australians who are DENIERS ?

I will keep repeating it until I am not just red in the face, but a whale of a rainbow of colours in the face:

The true measure of the numbers of deniers in our world is not the number of highly vocal, well paid, loonies but rather it is the percentage of ordinary citizens (us) who deny we need real carbon taxes to actually cut global warming.

In the Australia that is home to "WATCHING THE DENIERS" , that percentage is 63%, according to the latest polls  from the Lowy Institute on the Gillard Government's new (& very modest) carbon tax. Green voters ? 38% of them are also opposed to this carbon tax. Weak reeds indeed !!

Deniers are nothing more and nothing less than latter day modernists, (aka skygods) and in this post 1945/ post hegemonic age, they still make up about 60% of the world.

Greens, commensalists, earthlings, "renewers*", postmodernists - call us what you will - we only make up about 40% of humanity.

Attacking raving loonies, rather than that nice-but-doubting couple next door is the moral equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel - we  shouldn't do it - I won't do it.

Too many citizens claim to be - but can't be - both in favour of saving whales and rainbows and opposed to carbon taxes.

If you won't want carbon taxes then don't be a hypocrite ; get out there and shoot every rainbow blowing whale in Nova Scotia that you can see and dig every foul black tar pit you can find.

If you are determined to have places like Harper's Canada actually led the way to Hell, at least be upfront about it - don't be Po-Faced....

* renewers is the opposite of deniers - one side denies non-renewable energy will ever run out or cause problems ( and once they HAVE mined this earth out, it is off to new vistas on Mars) - the other says we should husband our renewable energy if this earth, Life's only lifeboat in the universe) is to survive.

Australia's DUTCH DISEASE is worse than Canada's Tar Sands: ANDREW BOLT

      None of Andrew Bolt's former lovers and colleagues who have gone on the record, seem to believe he really is the "foaming at the mouth" rightie-denier that he chooses to portray himself  as --- in public ----  for fame & money.
    They think he saw a way to move up from being a relatively unknown Labour-Party-supporting hackette to become Australia's FOX NEWS' Bill 'Oh Really?' --- if he moved quickly, before some genuine Aussie right-winger did so.

    So it was a pure free enterprise move - the traditional nimble jump-in to fill a hole in the market, before something bigger and richer does it for you.
   I am in Canada miles away and what can I make of these claims?
   Only this in support of their views: in my experience, most righties have at least one unpredictable leftie flag to wave --- say opposition to the death penalty in an otherwise down the line old cold warrior.
    Andrew Bolt's (public) positions ( I mean who knows what he really thinks in the privacy of his bank vault?) are always so predictably popular with his intended audience one would think his minders test-market them before he emits them like so much leaking radiation.
   Like most of Australia's Dutch, and thus rather different than many Dutch in Canada (perhaps because of the spillover effect of the Canadian liberation of the Netherlands) his family upon arriving in the Australia of the 1950s dropped their Dutchness and their Dutch names,to 'fit in'.
        Instantly, they re-birthed themselves as typical Aussie/Brits, with typical Aussie/Brit names.
    So re-invention is in the very bath and drinking water of the average Dutch Australian---- so perhaps what Bolt has done seems like nothing particularly new for his Dutch kinfolk.
    Though it may be noteworthy to point out his bro is a leading climate change advocate.
    Perhaps even among the Dutch of Australia, petty sibling rivalry can never be ruled out for a motivating force among supposedly grown up adults.
   Psychologists , more than political scientists or theologians, might have more to say about this particular Saul's conversion on the road to TV stardom.
   Canada's DUTCH DISEASE, caused by the Oily Tar Sands, is thus not unique: excessive oiliness can cause problems anywhere.
   At least in Australia the solution is probably quite simple: offer Bolt the GG's job, in exchange for spouting views in public, while GG, that are well within the bounds of traditional Aussie right wing cant.
   ' Tone it down , a little, Andrew and we will throw in this nice uniform with a lot of gold trim and a good bit of kit to retire on '.
   I know he's up for it ----- he's an employee-controversalist for Christ's sake ! Only as controversial as his employers think profitable.
   If Bolt, by contrast, was a self employed/self funded controversalist, like myself, I would definitely believe that his public stances matched his private beliefs.
   But right now, 'employee Bolt the free-thinking, free-speaking controversalist'    (??!!)
    Give me a break - he's nothing more than a trained seal : throw him a fish and watch him snap.
    But at least the real trained seal is in a Twelve Step Program and now admits he's for sale, to the highest bidder, with the biggest and fattest fish ----in all cases, admitting you have a problem is a good first step ....