Wednesday, January 29, 2020

A Very Brief Interim Post

Howdy y'all and equally brief apologies, got some stuff goin' on and some more to come, but just wanna' get this stuff posted quickly...no attempts at humour or 'style' today, just this...

Was just beginning to think perhaps I'd imagined it, but have 're-found' the official document that specifically identifies that indeed it was the Insidious Commissioner Assisting Corruption...(or as some call him, the 'Independent Commissioner Against Corruption'-Ed)...whatevs, My Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Comm Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander, it was my mate Bruce himself who directly referred me to SAPol (police) Anti-Corruption Branch in February 2014, leading to ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone' purely me about me and this 'ere blog, for my supposedly heinous crime of  'talking about' Bruce's/ICAC's fraudulently fake investigation of Mt Gambier City Council...

ICAC Comm Lander was/is the complainant against me, directly referring me to SAPol ACB, leading to the ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone'...

This relates then directly to my attempts to hold the definably corrupt Magistrate Ian White to account, via my multiple correspondencings with both Attorney-General Vicki Chapman and Chief Magistrate Mary-Louise Hribal...as y'all are aware, AG Chapman refused to respond to me at all until November 2019...(and only then after a journo contacted her in October 2019-Ed)...indeed, and then Vicki denied responsibility, lied and deceived, refused to act, stated that she wouldn't respond to anymore letters/emails, and then threatened me about printing that farcical 'response'...please see previous post on this issue if y'all wish to...

Just watching Scott 'Scummo' Morrison fact-rorting his way towards increased government control to 'call out the defense forces'...he's using his litany of abject failures re the current bushfire disasters to justify this frightening grab for militarisation of the government's response to public disorder and organised opposition like marches and strikes...he's using his own bush fire failures to justify giving himself openly Fascist control of the military...and repeatedly using the re-defining language of "natural disasters", and 'land clearing' and 'hazard reduction', etc, etc, all the same deliberate obfuscations and denials of the real problem, namely him and his gross failures in ignoring multiple professional warnings given over an extended period, and his coal-lovin' freak show of a government who desperately blame everyone and everything else, eg, it's because of all those arsonists and the Greens...he is a sickening individual at the head of a sick government...and now he's defending coal again...(wow-Ed)...

But I digress, back to my ICAC farce...Chief Magistrate Hribal, knowing that Bruce mate is the original complainant against me, that he personally and without any apparent actual ICAC investigation, Bruce himself instigated the rankly Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution of my "bizarre trial", knowing this, CM Hribal referred my complaints about Magistrate White back to Bruce in his other guise as Judicial Conduct Commissioner...CM Hribal stated that it was down to Bruce to decide whether or not his previous involvement compromised his functioning as JCC...CM Hribal was/is also aware that any complaint to the JCC subjects the complainant to the same bizarrely undefinable and Fascist legislation of Section 56 of the ICAC Act 2012 that I have been 'Convicted' of, legislation that effectively silences the complainant...and as I discovered recently after lodging a complaint about police conduct, Bruce as Police Complaints Commissioner applies exactly the same legislation, word for word verbatim, of the ICAC Act 2012 Sec 56...said it before and I'll say it again because it is critically important...

If you lodge a complaint about a State or Local Government Politician, or state Public Servant, or SA Police Officer, or SA Magistrate/Judge, then that complaint is overseen by the definably corrupt Bruce Lander, and the complainant is subject to Section 56 of the ICAC Act 2012.

The ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 is text-book Fascism that threatens/targets those who seek to speak-out against SA's Institutionalised Corruption.

With my own Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution under the ICAC legislation, I also found those documents proving that SAPol Prosecutions knew very early in proceedings that 2 of the 18 'Counts' I was ultimately 'Convicted' of were actually (alleged) breaches of Section 54, not Section 56...(really?-Ed)...yep, the 'Counts' of talking to the ABC and The Border Watch newspaper do not constitute 'publishing' and therefore fall under Sec 54, and as their own documents prove, SAPol knew this but continued to pursue the charges under Sec 56...(but why didn't Magistrate White pick this up?-Ed)...didn't know, didn't care, whatevs, his definably biased and corrupt conduct clearly demonstrates that he only had one goal, getting through the 'Trail' to his intended conclusion, to finding me 'Guilty' regardless of what had happened and/or what happened at 'Trial', etc...(and didn't Comm Bruce and the then Labor AG li'l Johnny Rau actually add that definition of 'To Publish' to the ICAC Act in November 2014, months after you'd been raided by SAPol ACB in May 2014, and long after the period of alleged breaches, being December 2013 - April 2014?-Ed)...yep, indeed they did change the legislation so as to retrospectively prosecute/persecute me, as I've proven on previous posts back in February - May 2018...

And yes dear availees, I do know I bang-on about this stuff repeatedly, but honestly, does it get anymore corrupt than the ICAC Commissioner and the Attorney-General conspiring to change the law specifically to facilitate retrospectively prosecuting a private citizen?

On a related topic, I was just gob-smacked to see a very naive journo praising-up the NSW Police about their alleged concerns with their ongoing refusal to investigate numerous Rapes and Sexual Assault complaints...(naive or stupid or complicit-Ed)...well quite, NSW Police are only being 'incredibly cooperative' because they've got a journo in their faces about it, their actual conduct defines the reality...as Ed says, you'd have to be either extraordinarily naive, box 'a' hammers stupid, or sickly complicit...and I completely reject the NSW Police's 'excuse' that it's largely down to 'inadequate resources'...like so many of these farcically deceitful denials of responsibility, it takes me directly to the lame excuses we were given as to the deliberately woeful SAPol Mt Gambier 'investigation' of "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, and the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(well I think that lack of services/resources in Mt Gambier is a very real issue though mate, I mean, look at the recent Rape at Robe where-in the young woman had to be 'escorted to Adelaide by SAPol officers' due to a lack of appropriate services here in Mt Gambier-Ed)...fair point, but in the case of the St Martins Cover-up, both realities are true...(fair enough-Ed)...

The Dorling/St Martins Cover-up was/is a deliberate construct to protect the Lutherans and assorted other vested interests, eg, state politicians, but it was put to us parents by groups like Flinders Child Protection Services/Unit that the whole case would have been handled much differently had it occurred in Adelaide...as FCPS put it to me, "we have grave concerns about how well he (Dorling) has placed himself within the system to abuse children and get away with it, namely, as the Teacher's Union representative in a privately run religious school in a country town"...and I've put that in direct quotations because it is literally a direct quote that has rung in my ears every day since I heard it in August 2002...and time has proven those comments exactly accurate, eg, the lengths that the Teachers Registration Board went to to protect Glyn Dorling, a TRB loaded with Teachers Union reps acting in collusion with the Lutherans, SAPol, and Labor and Liberal, etc, etc, et al...but for all of the rankly corrupt Pro-Paedophile Collusion, the issue of a lack of resources in Rural/Regional South Australia is still relevant...it is a classic example of how one truth doesn't necessarily deny another...and it's the same thing with this NSW Police stuff, whilst their may be issues of limited resources, their current attitudes are defined by their current actions or lack of, not by flowery public statements about 'concerns' and 'wanting to change', etc...   

And y'all will again please pardon my abjectly absolute cynicism about this sort of stuff, but we live under an openly corrupt and increasingly Fascist Federal government, in a Pro-Paedophile State that already has openly Facsist ICAC legislation in place...(and as officially ratified by your rankly corrupt 'Conviction'-Ed)...indeed, and there's still a raft of rancidly Right Wing nutters spewing forth their bigotted and usually proudly ignorant bile, usually via the Murdoch media but too often on the supposedly Left Wing ABC, and just so many equally proudly ignorant human-sheep bleatingly regurgitating whatevs they're told, regardless of how carefully or factually you explain it to them...I again refer to my specific personal experience of this phenomenon, eg, the recent torrent of abuse anonymously hurled at me in the 'Comments' of this 'ere blog...(yeah, but that is almost certainly an 'organised political attack' rather than just random moronicisms-Ed)...true, but there's just as likely some randoms involved who have simply taken the opportunity to publicly display their cowardice and stupidity...(sure, but Josh Lynagh's stuff is clearly a politically-motivated and desperate attempt to redefine realities about his own appalling conduct-Ed)...agreed, but again, can't both truths stand together, namely, it is a political set-up attracting other randoms...(I'll give ya' that-Ed)...cheers...    

So to draw all that together, I again refer to the motivations and intent of the litany of abject failures and/or refusals of SAPol and the TRB and the state government and the Courts, et al, and the associated excuses about 'lack of resources', etc, when it doesn't suit them, eg, the St Martins Cover-up, and how that compares to the extraordinary time, effort, resources and expense of pursuing and persecuting and prosecuting li'l ol' moi, Nick Fletcher, the sole focus of ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone' and 3 years of "bizarre trial" and ICAC legislation changes in November 2014, etc, etc, ad infinitum...when it comes to the Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution of a private citizen, they've got all the time and all the money and all the resources...(and this of course has direct parallels with the way that the Federal Police act politically to attack journos, etc, on behalf of ther LNP government, but don't seem interested in investigating the relentless litany of glaring corruption from LNP Ministers-Ed)...yeah, I s'pose there are some parallels there, but I was speaking more specifically about this oft-proffered excuse about 'Lack of Resources', as opposed to the realities exposed by actual actions...(well sure, in that specific context, I can't think of a better example than your personal experiences of the St Martins Cover-up as opposed to your "bizarre trial"-Ed)...and where-in the ultimate irony is that the fundamental motivation for the ICAC 'Charges' is to attack me and this 'ere blog for exposing the rancid Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption in South Australia...  

Who Wants To "Meet And Beat" Scummo?:...every time they hear Scummo's relentless lies about 'meeting and beating" our Emission Reduction targets/obligations, and the associated fear-mongering about 'job losses in the coal industry', and 'electricity prices going up', etc, as it comes pouring out of that sickening smirk?...(well plenty of people if Twitter's anything to go by-Ed)...indeed, and I ain't the only one to use The Smirkers own base lies back at him as a witty quote like that, but I had thought of that joke before I saw others use it, so I'm pseudo-claiming that as my joke...just spent the last hour watching the Crime Minister at the National Press Club, an hour bravely enduring the relentless obfuscating deceits, deliberate failure to directly answer direct questions, and carefully crafted word-weaselling of Scotty From Marketting, a slick Snake Oil salesman when he's spewing forth his well rehearsed rhetoric, and an angry denier when confronted with truths he doesn't like...(I reject the premise of that question Nick-Ed)...it wasn't a question...(but the quiet Australians band together in these troubled times, that's what we do-Ed)...what?...(the Greens blocked the hazard reduction that would have denied fuel for the arsonists responsible for all these fires-Ed)...sorry?...(don't apologise mate, Labor, Labor Labor will tax you with fear and panic-Ed)...you've gone wrong in the brain-box mate...(yeah, I need a holiday, I hear the South Coast of Hawaii is lovely at this time of National Disaster, I mean year, this time of year-Ed)...don't hurry back...      

And the Ozzie media at it's pathetic best, a couple of half-attempts to raise the extraordinary Sports Rorts scandal, waved away by Scummo as 'editorialising', and 'commentary', etc, especially when confronted with the actual colour-coded Electorate spreadsheet used by the LNP...Scummo just waves it away and the press gallery simply moves onto other questions...and now it's the ABC self-reviewing with it's usual mind-numbing subservience, continuing with the appallingly sycophantic Jane Norman, arguably one of the worst in a woeful bunch, cheerfully big-upping Scummo, again...(almost every 'professional journo' in this country needs to hang their heads, shamed as they are by the ABC's Morning TV News 'Sports Reporter come fill-in host' Paul Kennedy who absolutely dismantled Liberal Ministers Greg Hunt and David Littleproud in wonderfully frank interviews-Ed)...indeed, and now they're whinging about Scummo's lack of response, but when he's right there in front of them they didn't hold him to account, they just threw it up there and then let it go...extraordinary...

Tomorrow: Is Another Day And Surely Another LNP Fraud/Rort

And I'm still working through that extraordinary litany of deceits, omissions, and incompetence that is the MGCC FARC Development Application, but 156 pages is a lotta' shizzle to have to wade through...(but we'll get there-Ed)...yes we will, 'cos it's a $50m+ disaster that will hang about Mt Gambier Ratepayer's necks for many decades to come...(I thought it's $40m?-Ed)...carn' mate, you've seen what MGCC does with these major projects, predicting a mere 25% blow-out is being incredibly generous to them I reckon...(good point, the Library and the Main Corner both went more than 100% over-Ed)...and we're still owing $2m on the Library 10 years later...(and the Rail Lands cost gourd knows how much for a fraction of what was promised, eg, no Sound Shell and no Covered Plaza-Ed)...indeed, and I remind dear availees that MGCC originally stated that Rate Increases would help fund the initial building and the running costs, but have since repeatedly and vigorously denied that there will be Rate Increases...(well at least one of those have to be true-Ed)...so?...(so only lying half the time is quite an improvement for MGCC-Ed)...I thought I said we wouldn't be doing any jokes today...(who's joking?!-Ed)...fair enough...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters...  

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Some Positively Fine News Indeed

Howdy dear availees all about the place...had a fair bit of not great stuff goin' on recently, and none more so than this past week, so apologies for the break, again, but I'll explain it all a bit down the track...and even with all that 'stuff', again I cannot believe that it's been 9-10 days since the last post...(you're not even gunna' mention that the cops have been at ya' house again, when was it, last Thursday 16th January?-Ed)...well okay, sure, SAPol did come to my house at 0730hrs to hand me some unsigned paperwork telling me to rock-up to Court in a few weeks to explain why I haven't done any of my 260hrs of Community Service...(and wasn't that the same female officer who came to your home on 27th December 2018 to tell you you'd supposedly breached that reprehensibly vile 'political' Intervention Order and couldn't write anything about the entire ABC, etc?-Ed)...yes it was her...(and what's happened with that and the other supposed breach that had SAPol at ya' house 6 times in November 2018?-Ed)...well, nothing that I'm aware of...(so those supposedly critical breaches really look like what you identified them to be at the time-Ed)...remind me...(when you looked directly down the cameras they kept waving in ya' face and called these 'visits' deliberate acts of harassment and intimidation designed to make you feel unsafe in your own home-Ed)...yeah, I did say that didn't I...

Anyhoos, more on that later/tomorrow/whenevs, but here's a far more 'positive' story...("positive"?!-Ed)...when taken in context, absolutely...(okay, in context, in comparison to all of the other shenanigans, fair enough, I'll give ya' that one-Ed)...well cheers, and it does directly relate to the stuff above, because it's about the associated massively disproportionate fine and my ongoing attempts to just get access to the recordings from my 'Trial', etc...it stems from my original advice, namely, to not commence the Community Service or start paying the fine because doing either could/would be legally considered as acceptance of the 'Verdict', something that the Fines Enforcement and Recovery Unit have confirmed just recently...(and you sure as shreck ain't accepting that rankly corrupt farce of a 'Trial', let-alone the 'Verdict'!-Ed)...no I ain't, no I am not...unfortunately, I've been getting ignored and/or screwed around so long now, that the Fines Enforcement folk have finally had to very politely lower the boom on me, and insist that I start paying the fine...(and how is that a "positive story"?-Ed)...well, it's all fairly well explained by the letters themselves, so here they is, are, here they are...*** 

Registrar
Courts Administration Authority
GPO Box 1068
Adelaide SA 5001

Re: MCMTG-15-72 SAPol v Fletcher

Dear Madam/Sir,

As the CAA are aware I have been trying to Appeal my extraordinary 'Conviction' since it was handed down by Magistrate Ian White in February-April 2018, and that my first attempt to lodge that Appeal Application (26th April 2018) was refused that day because it was allegedly on the wrong forms and filed incorrectly.

As the CAA are aware, I lodged that Appeal Application in the exact manner and on the exact forms that the Courts Administration Authority and/or Legal Services Commission advised me.

As the CAA are aware, I have no formal legal representation because I was refused Legal Aid funding, and therefore have had to self-represent in Court, against an openly hostile and biased Magistrate White, and now I am also stuck trying to negotiate my way through the lengthy and complicated Appeal legal forms, much of which I do not understand.

Since April 2018 I have written to Attorney-General Vicki Chapman multiple times trying to gain access to the Audio Recordings of my 3 year long “bizarre trial” (The Border Watch), but she did not even respond until a journalist contacted her in November 2019, and she has denied any responsibility and/or refused to act, instead referring me back to the CAA.

I understand that the Magistrates Court/CAA are now stating that the original 'Trial' (November 2016, before Her Honour Magistrate Teresa Anderson) is considered to be “Null” and therefore are refusing access to that critical recording and also to all recordings of the many Pre-Trial Hearings from February 2015 – November 2016.

These recordings are critically important to establishing/proving my Grounds of Appeal, eg, the extraordinary Abuse of Process issue that saw HH Anderson suddenly recuse herself mid-Trial is acknowledged in the Certificate of Record, but HH's statements about “Malicious Prosecution” are not, despite HH using this specific term at least twice in the final PTH in October 2016.

I have received no explanation as to how my 'Trial' just continued regardless after I clearly proved that “Malicious Prosecution”, acknowledged in the CoR as “Abuse of Process”.

Access to these PTH recordings are critical as to how I proved my allegations of Political Persecution and police collusion, etc, to HH, leading to HH initially identifying that as “Abuse of Process”, which then became “Malicious Prosecution”.

The fact that HH was even using this language and Ordered me to prepare and present my “Abuse of Process/Malicious Prosecution” case at Trial (Nov 2016) is clear indication that I had already proven enough to HH in those PTHs to produce her statements and Orders.

Magistrate White has effectively refused me access to recordings/transcripts, and again that is identified in the CoR and transcript, where he Orders himself to review my request, but then fails to do so and flatly refuses to even acknowledge that Order when I confronted him about it at Trial.

I have repeatedly requested those recordings and I have effectively been refused.

I refer specifically to 'recordings' because the 2 transcripts I have received, for the 'Trial' days in March 2017 and November-December 2017, are not an accurate account of what was said, eg, the bizarre exchange when Magistrate White abusively forced me to cross-examine a witness who wasn't even meant to be there. He furiously and repeatedly counted-down the clock at me but the transcript only records a single reference.

After multiple extensions on the subsequent massive fine imposed by Magistrate White, the Fines Enforcement and Recovery Unit has been forced to act and has now imposed on me Registration and impending License restrictions, unless I can prove a current Appeal Process is underway.

On Thursday 16th January 2020, I had SAPol at my home, again, directing me to attend Court on *** February 2020 for alleged failure to complete my 260hrs of Community Service as imposed by Magistrate White.

My original advice was that I should not pay any fine or begin any 'service' because that would be deemed as acceptance of the outrageous 'Conviction' decision of Magistrate White, and the FERU has confirmed that, stating that if I enter into a payment agreement, then I am 'accepting the fine'.

I also understand that the CAA is stating that I do not have a current Appeal Process, apparently because my initial attempt was rejected even before being processed, etc.

As the matter currently stands, I feel that I have been refused access to my own recordings so as to deliberately undermine my ongoing attempt to Appeal, an Appeal Process already deeply compromised by my lack of legal support, and therefore I make the following application, namely, that I immediately be provided access to all audio recordings from;
  1. all Pre-Trial Hearings, starting February 2015 through to November 2016, and;
  2. the aborted “Abuse of Process/Malicious Prosecution” Trial of November 2016, and;
  3. the separate “Malicious Prosecution” hearings of February-March 2017, and;
  4. the SAPol/Court generated adjournments and/or PTHs of March-November 2017, and;
  5. both 'Trials' of March 2017 and Nov-Dec 2017, and;
  6. the 3 'Verdict' hearings of February-April 2018.
As identified by Magistrate White in 2017, it is possible that I be granted access to those recordings in a room at Mt Gambier Courthouse, so as to make my own transcripts.

When I have had this access and made my transcripts, and had an appropriate opportunity to prepare my Appeal, I will officially re-lodge my Appeal Application, an Appeal Process that I consider to be absolutely current and deliberately stalled and/or blocked as described above.

Yours,   Nick Fletcher

***...(and how's that workin' out for ya'?-Ed)...well that was Monday 20th January 2020, and I've had an automated response but no answer yet...(wouldn't hold my breath mate-Ed)...well quite, but I have to keep trying, I've got no other choice...(fair enough-Ed)...and I've got things a little backward there, because that letter was generated by a phone conversation I had had with the FERU after I went to register my car on Monday morning, and there was a 'block' on that relating to the fine, etc...(a block on ya' rego? still waiting for the "positive" mate-Ed)...well the first in a series of positives is that the FERU have already given me several lengthy extensions because of the ruptured Appeal Process stuff...(okay, that is fairly positive-Ed)...and I had technically stuffed-up this last one because I got their email but was waiting for an 'official' letter, etc...(well it is a very confusing situation at the best of times-Ed)...exactly, and then when I rang them about the rego stuff, they did confirm that if I started into a Payment Agreement that meant I was accepting the fine and therefore the 'Verdict', etc...(which prompted you to write again trying to get those recordings/transcripts-Ed)...exactly, as my email to them explains, thusly...***

Dear Madam/Sir,

As per my phone conversation with your office this morning, and the Registration/License restrictions re my outstanding fine re MCMTG-******. I greatly appreciate your patience and the multiple extensions you have previously granted me, and I understand your position regarding my thus far failed attempts to Appeal, but I am still stuck in the same place as I've previously identified.

I also understand that you cannot offer a further extension unless I can provide proof of a current Appeal Process, or at least an attempt to Appeal. To that end, please find attached a copy of my latest letter to the Courts Administration Authority.

I don't know whether or not this meets your criteria for a 'current Appeal Process', but as explained in the letter itself, it is not like I haven't been trying to Appeal, and this letter is the only thing I can do to try and progress this issue. I have had what very limited free legal advice is available to me, and I do not know what else to do.

If you consider that this letter is not sufficient proof of a 'current Appeal Process', and that you must therefore impose the Registration/License restrictions, please inform me immediately and I will comply with your directions and enter into a payment arrangement, eg, direct debit.

However, any such compliance is not my legal acceptance of the 'Verdict', it is not an acceptance of guilt. I have been forced into this position by the refusal to allow me my own transcripts/recordings, and a lack of legal representation. I cannot afford to have my registration cancelled/blocked and I definitely cannot have my license suspended.

Again, this is not a criticism of the Fines Enforcement and Recovery Unit, but it does not change how these actions affect me.

As this Registration restriction is already in place and the License restriction pending, please advise me as soon as possible as to what you require so that I may act accordingly.

***...(well that's all very polite and respectful-Ed)...yes, it's quite remarkable really isn't it, when people treat me politely and with respect that's what they get in return, which incidentally is my default setting anyway, polite and respectful...but abuse me and threaten me, and don't be shocked when I ain't so polite...(yeah, just ask Magistrate White-Ed)...indeed, he got back exactly what he hurled at me and as was his attitude to due process, etc...(ah, so nothing but contempt-Ed)...precisely...anyhoos, it took several phone calls, but the FERU called me first thing Wednesday 22nd January to tell me that they were duty-bound to enforce the fine because I didn't have any actual Court-related paperwork, and it had been so long, etc...(and that's "positive" how exactly?-Ed)...well my friend, let me let them explain...*** 


Good morning Nicholas,

As discussed today. 

I have set an arrangement on the fine MCMTG-*******.

I have lifted the restrictions to allow you to register your vehicle and I have cancelled the pending Driver's License Suspension.

Fines Enforcement and Recovery have agreed to set the arrangement in place while you contest issues with the Courts as the attached document is not sufficient evidence of dispute with the Courts. Due to the fact that it is not a Court document or a Court approved acceptance of any dispute.

In the event that the fine is disputed successfully by you and the fine is withdrawn and the penalty no longer applied any monies paid to the fine will be refunded back to you. 

Your arrangement has been established at $25.00 per fortnight on a balance of $3,528.00 via direct debit, your first payment will be debited on 24-01-2020. You will receive a copy of this arrangement in the post for your records within the next 7 days.

 

You can make a payment, check your balance, set up direct debit and update your contact details online



***...(wow-Ed)...I know! and I hadn't even asked about a 'refund', I was just concerned about the stuff about 'accepting the verdict' if I started paying...(wow-Ed)...and isn't it refreshing to the point of wonderful to have a "wow" about something positive...(I absolutely concur, that is "positive"-Ed)...the FERU have obviously given lengthy and balanced consideration to their decision, and I really couldn't have asked for a fairer outcome...even more remarkable, the FERU is part of the Attorney-General's Dept...(the Attorney-General Vicki Chapman whom you have been so heavily critical of? that department?-Ed)...yep...(I think I have just one more here somewhere, ah, yes, here 'tis, wow-Ed)...and as I said to the FERU person on Wednesday, whilst I'm sure that they approach all of their work in the same balanced and considered fashion, and what they've done here is indicative of that attitude/conduct, it's such a huge thing for me because I'm so used to less reasonable treatment and outcomes...(but I thought you'd said that virtually all of your interactions with actual Court staff and people over the phone, etc, almost all of that stuff was/is good, even great?-Ed)...yeah, I have said that, often, and I stand by it, but this wasn't just a casual conversation or interaction, this is an actual outcome on a very specific and fairly important issue... 

And I'm genuinely pleased to be able to share this 'positive' story with y'all dear availees...whilst it doesn't change anything about my stalled/stymied Appeal Process, etc, it is a good thing because it's one less thing to have to worry about, and after a day on the buses, my car is now registered and there's no issue with my license, etc, and the FERU has allowed me what I understand is the minimum allowed repayment, or close to it...so all things considered, onward and upward...

Tomorrow: Something I'm Sure

Sorry I ain't got to that Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre stuff, but I have done a submission to the Development Panel about it, and read through the 156 page Mt Gambier City Council submission to re-acquaint myself with just what deceitful, manipulative shonks they are...(is this Federal $15m funding in anyway associated with the Pork-Barrelling Carnival of Delights currently unravelling in the Federal government courtesy of LNP Senator Bridget 'Fudge-It' McKenzie and PM Scotty 'Crimeminister' Morrison?-Ed)...great question Ed, I'll try to suss that out and let you know...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

Monday, January 13, 2020

Reinventing Venting

Howdy dear availees and welcome to a very committed whinge about a range of issues...just realised it's a full week, actually 8 days, since the last post and felt I should get something up...as covered previous, I'm still finding that days are slipping into weeks, weeks into months, slipping, slipping, slipping into the future...(as the song goes-Ed)...still trying to push forward and keep informed, etc, but it's a hard row to hoe, in the same context that many people experience, namely, in the current environment of Institutionalised Federal Political Criminality and Incompetence, just trying to know what's going on inevitably leads to confusion, anger, depression, brimming hatred, etc, etc...(and then you've got to deal with the fact that you're trying to keep informed via the rancidly complicit reportage of the Main Stream Media and ABC-Ed)...and if that weren't enough, there's the bloody-minded denials and deliberate, wanton stupidity of the Right Wing ignoramuses whom cannot and/or will not accept the role they have played in this disaster by voting for these corrupt politicians who are failing us so spectacularly, and/or continue to defend and support them...so here's a few choice pieces to chew over, again from a partially-drafted post from some months ago...

On an issue we've covered previous here at TMGI, there's this story, which I'll just introduce and suggest that y'all check-out further via the Interweb if you want...***

BREAKING: #Adelaide court THROWS OUT charges winemaker Kenneth John Baker, right, used his sheds as a clan lab to produce meth - because prosecutors still haven't finalised their case, 15 months after his arrest.
@theTiser

***...(ah yeah, this exact same thing happened with a group of 5 Meth dealers in Mt Gambier in May 2019-Ed)...indeed it did, and simultaneously was about to happen to charges against a married Mt Gambier teacher who had been raping one of his female students...(which was being very politely reported as Persistent Sexual Exploitation-Ed)...indeed, because Multiple Statutory Rapes of a Minor just doesn't have the same ring to it, does it...(and what's happened with that case?-Ed)...good question Ed, 'cos it seems to have just disappeared...(now there's a surprise-Ed)...I very much hope that I've somehow missed the reportage of that teacher getting convicted and gaoled, but I fear that the more likely outcome is that that case has just 'gone away', not least of all to protect the school/organisation involved, themselves multiple Child Abuse Cover-up offenders...(you don't mean it's, you know who?-Ed)...indeed it is Ed, and I've intensely Interweb searched to no avail, but just in case that 'trial' is ongoing I'm going to hold back from identifying that school/organisation...but rest assured, once I've established the reality of what I fear has happened, that that case has been 'dropped', I will fulfil my promise to go hell-for-leather on that school/organisation, etc...

Last post we went to great lengths to cover just some of the extraordinary conduct of PM Scott 'Scummo' Morrison...and sometimes you happen upon a Tweet/message/story that so perfectly encapsulates the sentiment that you wish you'd said it ya'self, so here 'tis this...*** 

It was planned for ages, it was planned for six weeks. It definitely isn’t Hawaii. It definitely was Hawaii. I’ll rush back. I’ll have a MaiTai and watch the sun go down. I promised the kids. I wanted to surprise them. I wanted family time. I wanted my QAnon buddy. I’ll burn for you. You’ll burn for me. We’ll beat them in a canter. I’ll count them twice. I’ll give you $11m. (Its yours anyway and I have given it to you before when it was also yours) I am comforted you need me - we don’t. Its such a tragedy, cracks Angus and I up. Fucking hilarious!
This deadshit has more front than a rat with a glod tooth. He has to go. We can’t even trust his lies for consistency.
@ScottMorrisonM must go along with his corrupt forging, lying, stealing, kiddy-fiddling, sex tourism, climate denying, rolex wearing, dual citizen, coalhuggingMurdoch loving, franking credit, racist, IPA cult.

***...(whaaa?-Ed)...okay, sure, that's from several weeks ago, and he's making references to a whole range of issues, but here's a quick guide...Scummo went to Hawaii and his office openly lie-denied it then he told openly conflicting stories about when that holiday was planned and how he'd promised his kids, etc, and how he was gunna' rush home but instead sat on the beach and reportedly also went to New York...(and now he's saying he was gunna' go holiday on the NSW South coast but had to go to Hawaii when he changed the dates-Ed)...and then that he was on his way to India, which is in the opposite direction, etc...Scummo said that he would "burn for you" after his re-election...'we'll beat them' refers to the relentless lies about Australia's Emission Targets, lies based on dodgy accounting using past 'credits', etc...the promise for $11m for fire-fighting was a repeated promise from 2 years before...Scummo's self-infatuated twist on how angry Ozzies were that he'd pissed-off on holiday, 'they're comforted I'm back'...he and Angus Taylor were filmed laughing on their way into a meeting with fire-fighters and victims...the rest is self-explanatory, but if you need explanation, just Interweb search it...("rolex wearing"?-Ed)...for example, refers to the incident where Stuart Roberts, Tony Abbott, and Ian McFarlane accepted $250,000 worth of expensive rolex watches from a Chinese billionaire...(ah yeah, and then claimed they thought the watches were fakes and therefore that made it ok, etc-Ed)...not just okay, fine, just fine...

And in the previous post we covered a bunch of stuff about Scummo and his apparently deliberate gross mis-handling of virtually every aspect of the current National Fire Disaster, and how his own self-approved self-promoting TV ad had so spectacularly back-fired...(not least of all by dot-pointing all of the things that he'd been embarrassed/forced into doing by the Twitterati-Ed)...indeed, and a discussion about the apparent/potential reality that Scummo's happy-clapping Pentecostal belief system about the Rapture, etc, was the genuine motivation for his inaction and incompetence and arrogance and indifference, eg, going on holidays in Hawaii...(that was a long post and even then we missed a coupla' key points-Ed)...yes we did, and there's now a bunch more stuff, literally everyday Scummo finds new and exciting ways to be a deceitful, duplicitous prick...(yay-Ed)...we missed, for example, his initial comments about how volunteer firefighters "want to be there", and that they don't want to be paid, etc...then later he's succumbed to Twitter pressure to pay firefighters because they're spending weeks and even months away from work, and now he's constantly running that self-congratulatory line about how he's paying, but the reality is that very few will actually qualify and almost no-one will get the full $6,000...(for example, self-employed contractors and farmers, etc, who will struggle to prove a specific loss, they'll get Sweet FA-Ed)...exactly...(and isn't $6,000 a pitiful amount for some who have been on duty for weeks and even months?-Ed)...indeed, why not a base daily payment?...(and aren't some people being refused Centrelink support because official maps exclude their fire-ravaged areas-Ed)...yep, there's a raft of instances where people cannot get support now, are getting minimal support, and/or will struggle to comply with criteria for 'compensation'...

And Scummo continues to focus on this 'post disaster' stuff rather than acknowledge the failings that have led us into this "absolutely unprecedented crisis"...(and Smoko keeps saying that too, firstly, that every preparation was done, second, it's all a State-based responsibility, and third, he's very keen to again deflect from his failures to listen to experts who repeatedly warned him that this exact scenario was imminent, he's denialist-diverting by saying that 'the magnitude of the damage is because these are "unprecedented fires"-Ed)...yep, he really hammered that point in the farcical LNP Scomo Promo interview he did with David Speers...(that was a rolling catastrophe of an interview-Ed)...yep, and we'll discuss it shortly...anyhoos, as you say, one is an abject lie, two is shameless blame-shifting, and three, this 'unprecedented' catch-phrase is exactly as you describe, trying to shift the focus away from his original lie about preparedness...(I also enjoy the way he tries to dismiss that advice of multiple former Fire Commissioners, etc, and denigrate them personally, by smugly, smirkingly stating 'I prefer to listen to current Commissioners/experts'-Ed)...Smirko, Scummo, Smoko, take ya' pick...(geez, every time I see that sickening smirk I just wanna' wipe it right off his smug denialist face-Ed)...you and about 23 million other Australians...(no wonder that have to send a squad of Riot Police with him to his disgusting photo-op drop-ins at fire-affected communities-Ed)...and of course carefully organise people who will actually shake his hand, not be physically forced to do it...

And even then Scummo manages to thoroughly screw it up, eg, during a carefully choreographed stop on Kangaroo Island, he outrageously and ignorantly declared how great it was no lives had been lost...(the day after a father and son had been killed-Ed)...and when some-one told him, his immediate and clearly disingenuous response was 'I was talking about the fire fighters'...(that's absolute crap! he clearly didn't know or had even forgotten-Ed)...yep, classic Scummo, don't apologise, don't admit fault, just belligerently bluster ya' way through, spew rhetoric, and quickly go onto something else...and in that Speers interview/promo, he doubled-down on that tactless and dismissive lie by repeating and defending it, 'I was talking about fire fighters...(but they were fire fighters! they were caught in a fire front whilst returning from fighting other fires-Ed)...indeed, and Scummo would know that, particularly after the debacle of the original statement and denialist-lie to try and excuse that statement...(and yet he goes on national TV and repeats and defends that lie???!!!-Ed)...that's our Scotty, no shame, no respect, no responsibility, it's all about Scotty, mate...he's also very keen to re-define people's anger with him as 'their trauma and/or emotion', and he's vowed to "not take it personally"...(but people are furious with him personally, and not just with his initial failures and Climate Change denials, etc, but with his woeful response to the crisis, eg, buggering-off to Hawaii!-Ed)...no no mate, it's not Scummo's fault, and according to him 95% of people have been just ecstatic to see him...(sure, and that's why he needs a bulkily conspicuous protection squad-Ed)...well quite...       

Scummo also congratulates himself for providing $20million to lease/rent 4 more heavy water bomber planes, but he was advised early last year to have at least this many available early and full-time...now it's been exposed that there are at least 8 planes on offer from the USofA, but that Scummo has not taken-up that offer...(whaaa?!-Ed)...and similarly he has failed to accept offers of help from several other countries, eg, Denmark, France...(but why would you refuse to accept this vital help-Ed)...because you're a Rapture-Captured nutjob? or perhaps other 'conspiracy theories' are applicable, eg, clearing large tracts of land held in National Parks and removing rural/regional communities for commercial forestry or farming or Fracking or other mining enterprise...(or a combination of these-Ed)...gourd knows mate, given a litany of lunacies to choose from, does that make any of them accurate/true?...(true-Ed)...is Scummo just such a self-obsessed megalomaniac so wholly consumed by his own huberis, etc, that he has refused to listen to anyone, and then when events prove him wrong, he simply cannot accept that he has failed so completely?...(and so he stubbornly refuses to act to rectify his mistakes/failures-Ed)...and never, ever admit fault and certainly never apologise...

Language Warning:...it is easy to be 100% accurate with the benefit of hindsight, but the moment I saw Scummo furiously self-promoting his (then) upcoming interview with the 'new' ABC 'journo' David Speers, I knew that it was going to be a carefully choreographed denialist, revisionist cluster-fuck...(and boy, they didn't fuckin' let ya' down did they?-Ed)...End Language Warning...no they shreckin' did not...lies, denials, refusal to answer specific questions, relentless un-challenged rhetoric and fake statistics, etc, etc, over and over and over, ad infinitum, it was a disastrous joke...as one witty scribe described, 'you can tell when Scummo's lying because he gives overly-long answers whilst not actually answering the questions'...(spot on-Ed)...and Speers, freshly recruited across from the rancidly unhinged Right Wing Sky News channel, he just let Scummo go for it, it was pathetic and disgraceful and typical of the wholly compromised ABC...(well maybe Speers had no idea what he was talking about and therefore couldn't challenge any of it?-Ed)...mate, I use the very generous 'If Nick Knows Scale' of political knowledge, in that I'm a relative novice so if I know what's happening, I quite rightly expect a supposed political journo to know...(hmmm, fair enough-Ed)...so when I know that this bare-faced deceit about 'meeting our Kyoto/Paris/Carbon Credit commitments at a canter' is a cynical lie backed by dodgy accounting utilising previous 'credits' to fudge the current figures, etc, then I expect a 'journo' to challenge that constant lie from Scummo & Co...(and not just challenge it but destroy it once and for all-Ed)...exactly, because a lie allowed often enough inevitably is seen to be the truth...      

Mr Speers should also know Scummo's self-congratulatory lies about this being the first time that the Defense Forces have been mobilised to help in a National Disaster...(but what about all the times that the Army/Navy/Airforce have been on the ground during floods and fires previous?-Ed)...my point exactly, it's common knowledge, but apparently Speersy don't know...and through-out this interview/promo Scummo is furiously trying to re-define the focus of any discussion by shifting it away from his responsibilities and what he/the Liberals were repeatedly warned about, eg, those Fire Commissioner warnings...he's carefully and repeatedly talking about 'learning lessons' and 'adapting to a changing environment', and the classic 'we at the LNP believe in climate change'...(whilst multiple LNP Ministers continue to denounce it as 'Green propaganda alarmist nonsense', eg, Craig 'I Ain't As Stupid As I Look' Kelly on BBC TV News last week-Ed)...yep, and the LNP have tried to dismiss that train-wreck interview as not relevant because it was supposedly just Craigo's opinion, etc...(but the BBC have stated that they asked for a Minister and what the LNP sent them was Craigo-Ed)...indeed...(and only weeks ago Deputy PM Michael 'I'm Completely Sane, Really I Am' McCormick publicly denounced Climate Change as being the fevered imaginings of inner-city lunatics-Ed)...well, if anyone's qualified to identify what genuine lunacy is, it's our Mikey-boy, we love 'im...

(I love Smoko's smug smirking denigration of the former Fire Chiefs, as repeated in this Speer's interview-Ed)...and Scummo certainly seems to enjoy himself whilst doing it, and I love watching that sickening smirk while he says it...I also particularly love how he's deliberately trying to do the Overcome With Grief Voice Breaking Stutter thing...(yep, that $190,000 Empathy Training is really bearing fruit-Ed)...if only Scummo wasn't such a soulless and pitiful actor...(yep, if there's one thing worse than an uncaring, smirking incompetent at the controls, it's a clearly confected fake and failed incompetent attempt at empathy-Ed)...I've seen him give it a coupla' goes now, and pathetically fail each time, it's so obviously fake that he should just give it away as a lost cause...(the way he has to large areas of Australia?-Ed)...yeah, just like that...and while he's at it, he can give-up the responsibility-denying divertionary crap about how this is a "Natural Disaster", there's clearly nothing 'natural' about the scale of these fires, it's just another attempt to divert people's attention from the LNP's rank failure to heed the very specific multiple warnings and advice from early 2018, and  in some instances advice/warnings going back many years, eg, the Garnaut Report from 2008...

Even as I listen, the ABC South East Radio is giving free rein to Ross Hampton of the Forestry Products Association arguing that it's National Parks fault that's there such big fires and 'experts in their ivory towers', and railing against increased National Parks, etc, and then on comes Member for Barker, Liberal Tony Pasin, co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Forsetry...and he doesn't disappoint, straight into spruiking Scummo's farcical Royal Commission announcement, immediately followed by blithe platitudes about brave firefighters, etc, and back to Scummo's agenda of denying culpability about the past fsilings that got us into this disastrous situation and instead shifting to 'learn lessons' and 'load reduction', and then a classic appalling dog-whistling Liberal shot at 'those who culturally don't want management programs'...(yeah, I notice that he very carefully didn't actually say 'Greens', but that's the reference he's making, alluding to and fueling the absolutely false Right Wing narrative that it's 'The Greens' who have stopped appropriate hazard reduction burns, etc, and are therefore to blame for the current NFD-Ed)...despite clear evidence to the contrary, eg, there are bugger-all Greens in state Parliaments, there are issues of gross under-funding of Parks, etc, and NSW Fire Commissioner Fitzsimmon himself saying it's an issue of diminishing 'windows of opportunity to burn' due to shorter, drier Winters...and then Tony's on to how the Federal government show leadership, and something about using the supposed $2b Fire Fund for phone towers to improve coverage and therefore safety...(but in NSW, the first casualty was phone/internet communications, surely a radio-based system is preferable-Ed)...well exactly, dunno' what he's on about there...   

And it's widely being reported and increasingly addressed the deliberate attempts in the MSM, ABC, and particularly multiple 'bot and/or troll accounts' on 'social media' to deliberately manipulate and misrepresent the data and thusly distract and deceive on behalf of 'Climate Deniers', by spreading false stories about the current fire disaster being the fault of arsonists...(and also that it's the fault of 'Greenies' who have stopped appropriate fuel-reduction-Ed)...yeah, or a combination of both...MSM has been absolutely appalling in giving un-challenged airtime to lunatics like Barnaby Joyce, and the ABC has also allowed a lot of this stuff to go unchallenged...and yet again, even with the bots/trolls,  it's been Twitter and the like that have held the line against this wave of disinformation, effectively identifying and countering this deeply cynical and corrupted narrative...(and again, FC Fitzsimmons himself countering these claims by stating the facts, a relatively small percentage are deliberate arson-Ed)...like I said, everyday is a constant battle against the deliberate misinformation and denial and deceit, not least of all from Scummo himself, so I'm sure we'll back on this topic again later this week, but that's enough for now...

Tomorrow: A Thorough FARC Post

I know that I've repeatedly promised a post about Mt Gambier City Council's relentless campaign of deceits and manipulation as they force-feed Mt Gambier Ratepayers the Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre, so here's a brief teaser, and I absolutely promise this as the next post...MGCC has only just posted in The Border Watch last Friday 3rd January 2020, their intention to apply for State Government approval for development of the Olympic Pk site...(sorry what?! they've spent a small fortune on a dodgy 'public voting process', external consultants and architects, gourd knows how much time of Council staffers, etc, and now, nearly 2 years into the process, now they're applying for Development Approval?!-Ed)...yep...(and there's nothing at all cynically conspiratorial about hiding that official public notification of intent to apply, etc, hiding that in TBW 2 days after New Year when many people are away and/or busy with other holiday activities, etc-Ed)...no no, gourd bless, just because it's a classic political manipulation to try and hide things in the media by dropping them late of a Friday or immediately before a public holiday, etc, that doesn't mean that's what the perpetually corrupt MGCC is doing............(are you waiting for me to say something?-Ed)...no no, just saying, I'm sure it's just a complete coincidence.........(and?-Ed)...and nothing, that's all.........(?-Ed)...and that's why we're gunna' call the next post, Puttin' The FARC Before The Horse...

But it does remind me of that hilarious Australian Electoral Commission exoneration of the Liberal Party/Gladys Liu/Josh Frydenberg for deliberately using AEC purple livery on signs at polling booths at the May 2019 Federal Election...AEC Purple signs, written in Chinese, that stated that "the correct" or "the right" way to vote was Liberal...(wow-Ed)...and prepare to be further 'wowed', because that exoneration, qualified as it was with statements about 'potential illegality', etc, was justified by the bizarre statement that those signs 'hadn't influenced anyone'...(but how the shreck would the AEC know that? did they speak to every voter?-Ed)...no no, that's the AEC 'opinion'...(wow, just wow-Ed)...indeed, and we ain't done yet...(gourd spare me-Ed)...'cos that exoneration was dropped mid-afternoon on Christmas Eve...(of course it was, shreck me-Ed)...and the AEC is a completely Independent Authority, not at all complicit, colluding, or controlled by the LNP...(well now you're just taking the piss-Ed)...well quite...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters...(exactly how much 'Notice to Apply' are MGCC required to provide the long-suffering Ratepayers who are gunna' get lumbered with paying for this $40m+ FARC White Elephant? how much notice and where and how soon, etc?-Ed)...dunno' mate, but I will try to find out and include that in the post...(cheers-Ed)...laters...          


Sunday, January 5, 2020

Wrapped Ya' Presents, Spent A Coastal Christmas vs Rapture Represents A Pentecostal Christ-Wish

***...given the horrendous fire conditions and incidents of the last few weeks and even months, just an appropriately respectful partial-apology for the terrible punning of that title that otherwise I would be claiming as witty word wizardry...many people have spent their Xmas/New Years fleeing from ravaging fires, losing their homes, seeking refuge on beaches, etc, whilst their Pentecostal PM Scummo goes on holidays and has parties...I try to hide my loathing and contempt in humour...***

Howdy dear availees here in Oz, and particularly anyone in either the Fire Crisis area of New South Wales or parts of Victoria...(and to those in the Adelaide Hills and surrounds, there was a person killed and heaps of homes lost in the Cudlee Creek fire, and there's been huge fires on Kangaroo Island, and now 2 people killed-Ed)...well quite, but in NSW there's been major fires for 3-4 months in places, and apparently as bad or even worse to come...(and same with the major fires in Victoria-Ed)...indeed, and concerns that some of those fires may connect to create fire-fronts 300-400kms across, or even larger...and I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to try and face that maelstrom, not for a single day let-alone for weeks, let-alone now running into months...nearly 30 years ago now, whilst on work experience at Cleland Wildlife Park (Adelaide hills) I was involved in a coupla' minor controlled burn-offs with the CFS and National Parks, and I recall that they were mildly terrifying because of how big the fire got and how quickly it moved even in such relatively low growth and with a dozen+ fire trucks and dozens of people right there already in attendance, etc...I remember as a teenager the Black Saturday fires in the Adelaide Hills, and standing at school down in Adelaide, looking back to where I lived at the almost nuclear mushroom cloud that engulfed the entire Hills area...I also remember back when I was 9-10,  nearly getting caught in the car as a grass fire near Pt Lincoln raced down the hill just ahead of us, effortlessly jumped the road, and only stopped moments later when it got to the ocean...

So I guess I can say that like many of us I can sort of imagine, a bit, what people are going through, but I've never faced a towering wall of flame or had to be evacuated or lost my home or business or farm and livestock, etc, etc...what I can say with absolute certainty though, is that if it were my responsibility, if I were the Main Man, there's no way I'd be skiving-off on holiday somewhere...

But firstly, a quick shout-out to the hilarious response to the hateful rascist rant of 'Rob and Karen of Mildura', as caught on video, and where-in 'Karen' tries to rip-down an Aboriginal flag, but epically fails...not only is it great to hear of the 'official backlash' against these 2 appalling individuals, with companies pulling their endorsements and/or employment, etc, but now, courtesy of Senator Briggs (who I'm aware of as the musician Briggsy) there's emerging an exciting new measure for 'Flag Strength'...(and it is?-Ed)...The Karen...(nice-Ed)...it coincides with the hilarious release of the 'new Indigenous flag' that is virtually indestructible, rated to 100 Karens...the yellow centre of the flag has been replaced with a McDonalds' cheeseburger 'cos that's where Karen used to work, emphasis on 'used to'...as terrible as the incident itself was/is, it is terrific to see this sort of witty bite-back, using humour to critique and simultaneously dis-empower the abusers...

Anyhoos, regular availees will excuse me the terrible punning of the title, because they'll appreciate that it's not just witty word-play, it is a seething, scything indictment of the bizarre realities that we all currently endure with a Pentecostal Prime Minister...is his abject refusal to accept professional advice and/or accept scientific evidence and/or accept international offers of support, and to piss-off on holidays mid-crisis, etc, is this merely the extreme hubris of a self-important stooge, or is it far more concerning?...("hubris"?-Ed)...excessive pride or self-confidence, conceit, arrogance, and ironically, originally referred to this behaviour 'toward the gods'...('ironic' because?-Ed)...because the other potential Scummo motivation/explanation lies with his well documented and openly embraced Pentecostal (Hillsong Church) allegiance...and that's the reference to 'the Rapture', because that's the core Pentecostal belief, that tremendous natural disasters, particularly fires, herald the onset of 'the Rapture', and with that the 'second coming of Christ', and the 'ascension to Paradise of the true believers'...now this is a very basic explanation of their/his belief system, so by all means research this stuff for y'all selves...it's also been referred to as 'Affluence Theology' or similar terms, referring to their beliefs that worship is rewarded with wealth, and even that accumulating wealth is an obligation, etc...  

But Scummo's happy-clapper hand-waving god-bothererness aside for just a moment, his pissing-off on holiday to Hawaii during this National Fire Crisis is simply unforgivable...(but that hasn't stopped ya' good ol' Right Wing Nut Jobs from excusing him and even praising him for 'coming home early'
/cutting short his holiday', etc-Ed)...and even when it's further 'exposed' that he 'cut short' his holiday by one whole day...(and still found time to go via New York to attend the new Hillsong facility just opened there-Ed)...extraordinary isn't it, holiday then Hillsong then National Disaster Emergency, it's a woefully inappropriate rank of hierarchies...(and no amount of blaming the missus and/or the kids excuses it-Ed)...well that was his whole justification wasn't it, 'I promised the kids a holiday'...(and wasn't it actually his third 'family holiday' in 2019?-Ed)...indeed, and even if it was the first, the NFC warranted nay demanded postponing that...and it does beg the oft-asked question, did he piss-off overseas because he genuinely doesn't care about this NFC because it's what he wants to happen, what he believes should happen, and therefore he is sans sympathy for those who suffer 'cos they deserve it, etc?...  

I've had several discussions with people where-in I expressed my hope that Scummo's alleged religious zeal was exactly that, 'alleged', that it was/is a disingenuous smokescreen to align himself with the god-botherer demographic, because the reality of the other option wasn't worth contemplating...(namely?-Ed)...that he genuinely believes this Pentecostal lunacy...

The fundamental question is one that I cannot believe we're asking as a country, let alone as a species in the 21st century, namely, is our government and therefore our country, is it being run to a Religious Agenda based on an Apocalyptic Belief System?

Is PM Scott 'Smoko' Morrison being deliberately so dysfunctional and disrespectful and altogether disastrous as a 'leader', because he genuinely believes his Pentecostal Church's teachings that this is the prerequisite disaster that heralds 'the second coming of Christ'?

Is this what Scott Morrison really wants to happen?

If we were to get all Sherlock Holmes with it, it would seem highly possible and even probable...("Sherlock Holmes with it"?-Ed)...yeah, you know, if you eliminate all other possibilities and/or explanations, etc, then what remains, no matter how improbable, unlikely or bizarre, that remaining possibility/option is the Truth...(bocconcini!-Ed)...indeed Ed, sweet baby cheeses!...(so you're saying that Scummo wants this NFC because it fits his religious belief system?-Ed)...mate, it certainly looks that way, because even if he is just a marketing executive he'd surely be attending to the appropriate 'appearances' of being PM during such a National Disaster...(or is #ScottyFromMarketting such a pathetic 'leader' and so hopelessly lost and so unencumbered by any ability to plan or apply reasonable rationale, that he's so fundamentally ill-equipped to 'lead' that he simply cannot do anything but hide?-Ed)...fair call...(is he hiding from the media and public scrutiny because he's so confronted by his own inadequacies that even he can no longer fake it?-Ed)...again, fair enough, and well, that's where it becomes the confronting choice for us, doesn't it? do we want a rankly ineffective incompetent as PM, or a rancidly religious zealot, either way we're pretty-much screwed...

On New Years Eve, literally half the country is on fire and where's Scotty, mate? He's hiding in Kirribilli House throwing a fireworks garden party for his mates, and then getting photos taken with the Australian and New Zealand cricket teams...(wow, and didn't he say something about how Aussies will be supported and inspired by their cricketers?-Ed)...yeah, not the first time either, and some more "thoughts and prayers" malarky...(and I note that he keeps dragging the missus, 'Jenny', into everything as well, 'Jenny and I think this' and 'Jenny and I went there', etc-Ed)...yeah, more deflection of responsibility and attempt to give what he's saying some credence it otherwise lacks...(I thought it was just more self-marketing stuff about being the 'Everyman, Bloke Next Door' type, ya' know, 'me and the missus', and/or a way to deflect criticism by associating his actions with his wife, eg, 'how dare you criticise my wife'-Ed)...possibly, sure...(well he's done it before with his family, dragging them into the spotlight when it suits his purpose, eg, the holiday stuff, then demanding they get their privacy when it doesn't suit, eg, scrutiny of Scummo's baby-sitter mates from QAnon and their access to him, etc-Ed)...well it's potentially any and/or all of these things isn't it, and applied so frequently so as to cover all potential contingencies...  

And no wonder he was in hiding when I started this post on New Year's Day, 'cos when Scummo tried to go out into the fire zone for his predicted self-obsessed photo-ops, it went spectacularly pear-shaped...if y'all haven't seen this footage, please to be availing ya'selves on the Interweb, but don't bother with the farcical ABC coverage, they barely show the full responses/abuse that Smoko copped, and appear to have even carefully edited the footage to 'frame-out' one particular interaction...for a 'full coverage' look to the Facebook or better still Twitter coverage, for stories that run for at least 2 minutes...you'll see a firey and a young woman refuse to shake Scummo's hand...(but he grabs them anyway-Ed)...I know, and the firey even gets up and walks away...dear availees, if you haven't seen this stuff already please look at as many sources as possible because there are several expurgated versions circulating, and it has to be seen to be believed...Scummo rocks-up in his luxury BMW, forces people to shake his hand, then when he gets abused by 3-4 people he pseudo-casually retreats to his limo and scarpers...pathetic, gutless, shameful..(you're not just gunna leave it there though, are ya'?-Ed)...damn straight I'm not...   

Did I just imagine this? I fear not...in ABC TV Morning News (3rd Jan 2020) story/footage of the young woman in Cobargo who refused to shake Scummo's hand...(and Smoko then grabbed her arm and forced her hand into his?-Ed)...yeah yeah, that's the one...(and she very calmly says, 'I'm only shaking your hand if you'll get our firies the support they need'-Ed)...yep...(but then Smoko literally just turns his back on her mid-plea, and that lecherous old man intervenes, steps between them and starts touching her and actually kisses her?-Ed)...yep, and turns out he's former local Mayor and National Party member Tony Allen and has a long history of 'touching' and/or legally attacking woman, etc...(mmm, so a classic LNP member then?-Ed)...pretty much, it certainly seems that way...anyhoos, the ABC footage is either very fortuitously or very cynically cropped so that when Scummo grabs her arm, that is out-of-shot, cut-off by the bottom of the screen, and all you see is her shaking his hand...with what I've witnessed about the rancidly pro-LNP ABC, I find it very hard to believe that this is just a chance edit... 

And just watching a trending Channel 10 interview with that young woman, Zoe Salucci-McDermott, where-in she calmly and quietly says it all, 'Don't want to judge him, but it didn't seem like he was here to help us'..."he wasn't here to help us, was he?"...and here's another direct link to another excellent story...
     https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/nsw/2020/01/03/fires-scott-morrison-anger/

But what I find truly staggering in all of this, is the mind-numbing stupidity and denialism of people who still continue to support the LNP, and Scummo in particular...how many times do you have to be lied to? how many ways do you need to be deceived and betrayed? at what point does the sickening smirk-fest that is Scott Morrison become unpalatable? how much Institutionalised Theft and Rorting and Nepotism and Greed does it take before you accept the reality of the Scummo LNP. and what you have individually done to this country by voting for them?...(come on mate, you ya'self have said 'how can you blame people when their info comes via a rankly corrupt, pro-LNP, Murdoch-controlled Main Stream Media and a wholly compromised pro-LNP ABC?-Ed)...well, yeah, I have said that...(and those same controlling factors are still very much in control, the Murdochracy is still spewing-out rancid pro-LNP propaganda and carefully ignoring or attacking anything that might possibly compromise that agenda-Ed)...sure, that's also true...(and those at the ABC who either are in direct fear for their jobs or are just sycophantically compliant, they're collectively protecting the LNP, are they not?-Ed)...well yes, indeed they are...(and haven't the majority of these 'supporters' that are appearing in the media, aren't they almost without exception LNP Members or direct associates?-Ed)...well when you're right you're very right Ed...(wasn't that appalling Mayor Liz Innes on the ABC, criticising those Cobargo people and apologising to Scummo, etc, isn't she aligned with the LNP?-Ed)...yep, and Cobargo's not even in her own Council area, ...(so why was the ABC interviewing her about that then?-Ed)...I think you just answered your own question mate...

(And when Scummo tries to do a retrieval media photo-op pit-stop in another small community, accompanied by well respected local Member Darren Chester, was that not Darren's dear mum, in the guise of a volunteer, albeit a genuine volunteer, wasn't it Darren's mum there to greet Scummo with welcoming smiles, etc?-Ed)...you are joking right? that wasn't Darren's actual mum?...(apparently it was-Ed)...noooo???...(when Scummo et al 'secretly' lobbed at Lucknow, the main greeter was Darren's mum-Ed)...and how do we know this?...(because it's all over Twitter mate, the locals are jumping all over it-Ed)...which is quite ironically where virtually all accurate 'reportage' occurs in this massively shrecked-up media climate...and look, forget what I said before, I am gob-smacked that so many insular, bigotted, dim-witted denialists refuse to acknowledge what is happening right in front of them, regardless of how much it happens or how carefully it's explained to them, etc, etc...(I somehow sense that that's a bit of a snide dig at the recent spate of anonymous 'Comments' on this 'ere blog-Ed)...sorry, did I not make that clear enough? I'm referring exactly to those 'Comments' as perfect illustration of just what moronic, bigotted, and/or corrupt people are capable of, and there's none so pig-ignorant as those who choose to be... 

And just when I thought I couldn't be anymore staggered or smacked about the gob or numb-minded, Scummo commits possibly his greatest act of gas-lighting...(and that's saying somethin' for a man who effectively governs by gas-light-Ed)...nice one Ed, but anyhoos, Scummo is now denying that he walked away from (Ms) Salucci-McDermott, and is saying instead that he stood and discussed with her what she wanted, etc...(well that's just bizarre bordering on delusional, we've all seen the footage, she starts talking and Smoko just turns and walks away!-Ed)...I know, I know...so again dear availees, for example, just check-out this Twitter feed...*** 
   This is bizarre PM @ScottMorrisonMP now says he talked this this woman the video literally   
   shows him walking away twitter.com/samanthamaiden
***...(well I see it, but I just cannot believe it, I think he really is struggling with the reality, or rather, just with Reality full-stop-Ed)...I think he's a slippery marketing executive who ain't got nuthin' but smoke and mirrors slogans and is completely lost when true leadership is required...that or the Rapture stuff is what he wants and it drives him to such contempt and disinterest...(great, what a choice, regimented incompetence or religious indifference-Ed)...

And as every day passes, it just gets worse and worse, Scummo just gets worse and worse...now he's released a super-sexy slick promo advertisement for himself, officially signed by him, bangin'-on about how the Defense Forces have been deployed and there's 140 aircraft involved and $20million for more aircraft, etc...and released originally on Facebook, attached to it is/was a link encouraging 'donations', but that link is directly to the Liberal Party, not an actual fund-raising group...(well now you're just making shizzle up, that can't be true-Ed)...true as mate, and it was immediately spotted and outed via Twitter and shortly thereafter that 'link' was removed...and he hadn't informed the NSW Emergency Headquarters that they were about to suddenly have 1,000s of Defense Force Reservists thrown into the mix unannounced, and then this morning does yet another lengthy press conference where-in he/Minister Linda Reynolds blamed the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian for that 'failure to communicate'...(well Gladys's hardly covered herself in glory has she? cutting funding to Fire Protection Services and/or National Parks, etc, and refusing to talk about Climate Change, etc-Ed)...sure, there's a whole bunch of stuff to discuss there, but in this instance, they are contradicting each other, Gladys and Scummo, so who's telling the truth?...and then, wait for it, then Linda Reynolds very reluctantly admits that she's been on holidays in Bali...(wow-Ed)...deadset, after all the grief that Scummo's Hawaii jaunt produced for the LNP, she's gone to Bali while the nation burns...

And again being widely discussed on Twitter and remarkable by the total lack of discussion in the Main Stream Media or the ABC, etc, is 'where's the rest of the bloody government?, are they all on holiday as well? gourd knows he ain't exactly missed, but where that actual shreck is Federal Emergency (Border Force/Home Affairs) Minister Peter Dutton? where've all the LNP politicians disappeared to?...(it's almost like it's another 2019 Election campaign, ya' know, where they all vanished and it was the Scummo show from dawn to dusk-Ed)..interesting observation Ed, but I think it's more along the lines that either 1) none of them want to compromise their personal wealth-streams from their Fossil Fuel Industry paymasters by even accidentally acknowledging the Climate Change Crisis associated with Fossil Fuel dependence/exploitation, etc, or 2) they've abandoned Scummo to his fateful demise...(and possibly a combination of both, they're hiding to protect themselves and their self-interests whilst letting the sacrificial lummox cop all the flak-Ed)...sure...    

And our other good mate, 'Angry' Angus Taylor, Minister for Misinformation and Water-Rorting, he's got the sheer bloody-mindedness to piggy-back on the McGrath Foundation (Breast Cancer) fundraising day at the Ozzie/Kiwi cricket test today (Sunday 5th Jan 2020) with a $3,000/head Liberal fundraiser...now I ain't a huge fan of Glenn 'Elephant Murderer' McGrath, and some people have questioned his apparent self-interest and/or apparent profiterring, etc, from that 'foundation', but how shameless is Angry Dingus to pull this stunt, spruiking this Liberal soiree...(well latest news is that apparently Dingus has pulled his own plug, and now won't be attending that soiree today-Ed)...yet another Twitter victory?...

The irony in what has been happening for weeks now, is that this country is effectively being governed by Twitter, with the ultimate irony being Scummo's own comments....when asked a coupla' weeks back about whether or not he/the government had responded appropriately and provided sufficient support, etc, re the fires, Scummo denied any failure, etc, and then went swerving-off into a rant about how 'we won't govern according to Twitter, etc'...(talk about a guilty conscience, denying an allegation that hasn't even been made-Ed)...absolutely, and it gets better, because not only is it the undeniable Truth that indeed it is the Twitterverse forcing government policy, the Truth that Scummo's alleged 'governing' is knee-jerk reaction to try and counter Twitterverse discourse and dissent, etc, this slick marketing self-promo ad that he is currently copping so much criticism for, that ad/promo pretty much encapsulates exactly what he's been forced into doing by Twitter, eg, more funding for aircraft, engaging the Defense Forces, etc...  

It was Twitteratti who exposed Scummo's Hawaii holiday whilst the PM's Office openly lied in denying that he was away and the MSM failed/refused to report any of it, etc, then Twitter exposed his New York Hillsong jaunt, etc...Twitter has led the charge on so many of these issues for so long now, eg, all of the rank corruption of Angus Taylor and Barnaby Joyce with Watergate fake buy-backs, and Barnaby's affair with his staffer and her subsequent 'fake jobs' in LNP offices, etc, etc, etc...as we've discussed before on this 'ere blog, given the wholly complicit to the point of being corrupt MSM and ABC, so many of these issues start on Twitter until they develop so much momentum that the issue/story literally forces itself into the MSM/ABC...(and even then the MSM/ABC spend the vast majority of their subsequent coverage furiously apologising for the LNP and trying to undermine and/or underplay the rankly corrupt realities-Ed)...indeed they do mate, just today the ABC instead of an LNP Minister had Georgina Downer on, a twice-failed Liberal candidate and member of the rancidly Right-Wing IPA...yet again today the ABC cut-off Labor leader Anthony Albanese, and they've done it so often they're becoming notoriously predictable for it...

What does it say about the State of the Nation, the state of our Government, and particularly the state of our Media, when Twitter has become, 1) the trusted go-to source for news, and 2) the force that governs the nation?      

Tomorrow: The Long-Awaited Latest FARC News

Just as a quick aside, I've been reading some reports/allegations that across New Years, telephone communications with the Fire Region in South-Western NSW were simultaneously and potentially deliberately cut, and that these 'outages' were being reported in the media before they actually happened...(how do you know that?-Ed)...well obviously I don't, I'm in Mt Gambier, I'm just reading-off the Twitter stuff, which is talking about this very strange occurrence of reportage before the actual event...(sure, but why would that happen?-Ed)...well, the 'conspiracy theory' is that elements within the Federal and/or State governments didn't want unpleasant stories/pictures circulating and thusly compromising/embarrassing the LNP government...again, I dunno', I'm not there, but these allegations are largely coming from people within the fire zones themselves...  

Oh, and in case y'all missed it, USofA President Donald Trump has done his level best to kick-off World War III, or at least another major Middle East conflict, by killing a senior Iranian official, and then tweeted the USofA flag...no words, just the flag...and almost instantly is there circulating footage from 2011(?) of The Orange Roughy (Trump) holding forth about how President Obama is trying to start a war with Iran as part of his (Obama's) re-election strategy/attempt to distract public attention from other domestic issues...(but isn't that exactly what Trump is doing right now with this attack?-Ed)...absolutely, and yet another classic example of bare-faced hypocrisy and gaslighting from the gibbering lunatic at the head of the Free World...

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