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...
@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...
***...(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...