Super Quick Post On Liberal/National Party Born-To-Rule Hypocrisies

Howdy y'all dear availees...and as advertised, a super short post based on the LNP's class-based Institutionalised Corruption and the many ways it manifests itself...we've covered most of this stuff in recent posts, so's I'm just gunna' mention that stuff and jump to the new bits...

As most availees would be aware, the LNP is defined by it's relentless pork-barrelling of LNP electorates and/or marginal seats, eg, Sports Rorts, etc, and/or other misappropriations of various 'funding structures', eg, via the Building Better Regions, and straight-out theft of monies, eg, the Angus Taylor/Barnaby Joyce Watergate deal...(then there's the vast sums being gifted to LNP supporters via Closed Tenders, etc, for 'consultancy' and/or service provisions, eg, the bizarre $450million and other contracts awarded without Tender to Paladin, a murky 'shelf company' operating out of a beach shack down a dirt road on Kangaroo Island-Ed)...indeed, and then there's the $450m to the Greater Barrier Reef Fund, who's board members are almost entirely fossil fuel industry executives...(which takes us to the gas industry executives appointed, by PM Scott 'Scombover' Morrison, to be the COVID Recovery Commission, a supposedly independent advisor whom, mucho surprise, recommended that massive gas extraction and associated infrastructure is the way to recover from the 'COVID-19 Recession'-Ed)...which is a Recession that we were already well on the way into before COVID kicked-off earlier this year, etc, etc...

And along the way we've had JobKeeper, JobSeeker, JobMaker, et al, and HomeBuilder, and gourd knows how many other 'announcements'...and at every step it's been 1) state Premiers, especially Labor ones, who effectively forced the Federal LNP/Scombover to act, especially early on with border closures and the intro of JobKeeper/Seeker, etc, and 2) Scombover's relentless capacity for self-promotion by making perpetual 'announcements' about funding for things, but then failing to provide any related funding and/or support, etc...and he does it over and over and over...and here's an unfortunately hilarious dissection of that reality as spoken in Parliament by Labor's Julian Hill...it's all over Twitter, and here's one copy...

https://twitter.com/davidbewart/status/1331477488258539521  

And at every turn it's been the hateful, demonising class warfare ideology from the LNP, with big businesses profitting most whilst workers and their wages and superannuation, etc, are continually attacked...(and the poor and/or unemployed, etc, are routinely used as scapegoats and/or justification for tax cuts to big business, etc, etc-Ed)...indeed, Scombover has been a hot mess of gas-lighting pariahtisation and faux funding announcements, and over-all dodging any and all accountability...(like dodging-off to Japan for an entirely unnecessary meeting, to avoid accountability for the LNP's gutless capitulation on their openly criminal RoboDebt bastardry-Ed)...and then the War Crimes findings as well...(and coming back to hide at home 'In Quarantine' whilst doing shameless carefully posed 'casual photo-ops' in-line with his 'Daggy Dad' faux-persona-Ed)...and don't get me started on the hateful, wasteful bastardry of the Indue (Welfare) Card, where-in billionaire mining magnate Twiggy Forrester is getting $10,000-12,000 per person to run the 'program'...(yep, just another LNP rort to help fund a mate by commoditising/marketting the suffering of the disenfranchised-Ed)...and the ultimate hypocrisy is that the drug-addled alcoholics who populate the LNP 'justify' the Card by demonising those people subjected to it's almost fuedal controls as being 'drug addicts' who have to be helped/controlled 'cos that's what's best for them...(meanwhile, politicians actually get a 'booze allowance' as part of their pay structure-Ed)...indeed they do...

Further meanwhilst, in New South Wales, Premier Gladys 'I Don't Need To Know That' Berejyklian has personally redefined LNP corruption by having a 'secret affair' with the disgraced former LNP colleague 'Dazzling' Daryl Maguire, which involved various funding and/or contract issues...(then blatantly lying to the NSW ICAC about what she did and didn't know about Dazzlin' Dazza's dodgy dealings, etc-Ed)...yep, including the $30m for 'airport' land worth $3m...(and then she was caught-out for shredding and/or deleting all official records relating to a $250m of 'grants', 90% of which was awarded to LNP electorates-Ed)...and now, after those approval records were forensically retrieved from someone's computer, proving the above pork-barrelling/rorting, she's defended it all as 'political business as usual' and 'everybody does it'...(and check-out this latest expose about her Deputy Premier, National's John 'Puttin' The Pork In' Barilaro-Ed)...absolutely, various Barilaro family members engaged in multi-layered corruption to rip-off an Italian community group...here's the link to yet another excellent piece by Michael West Media, here in conjunction with FriendlyJordies..

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/a-barilaro-affair-how-the-barilaros-ended-up-with-the-clubhouse-when-the-club-went-under/

And that, of course, is just some of the LNP's corruption...but if all of that ain't enough to get y'all buzzin' with rage, then there's this...recently retired LNP Finance Minister Matthias Cormann has taken the LNP's Born-To-Rule corruption to literally and actually new heights by jetting around Europe in a government provided, $4,000/hr Taxpayer-funded RAAF luxury jet, supposedly to spruik his credentials for a position with the OECD...(a job interview that will be conducted 'on-line', not personally-Ed)...thus identifying this li'l jaunt as being exactly that, a li'l Taxpayer-funded post-retirement holiday floggin'-around Europe in a private jet, a lavish reward for his bastardry and incompetence whilst in government...(and don't forget the 8 staff with him, also Taxpayer-funded-Ed)...pardon me, my bad...(and of course there'll be the accommodation costs and meal expenses, etc-Ed)...but honestly, his personal entourage/retinue goes without saying, I mean, how many Royals travel without someone to crack open the champers and make sure the Beluga's fresh and correctly chilled...(well quite darling, well quite-Ed)...but all joking aside, whatta' prick...

Twitter has been awash with comparisons between Cormann's wholly unjustifiable Taxpayer-funded largesse, and what average Australians are struggling to survive on, in particular, those thrown back into poverty by the LNP's ideology-driven bastardry in hacking 'JobSeeker' back to far below the Poverty Line...(plus dealing with the many issues of the Indue Card-Ed)...absolutely, and here's an excellent graph that explains in 'graphic' detail exactly what millions of Australians know and endure as their/our reality courtesy of the same LNP who are using their/our money for relentless Rorting whilst exercising the LNP's ideological hatred agenda by screeching blame at us as being the problem...

https://twitter.com/TomisCrowley/status/1329554010475401217   

I have always acknowledged my genuine sense of gratitude that I live in a society that supports me via the Disability Support Pension and Public Housing, and has Medicare, etc, but even with all of that 'support', I exist right on and even just below the Relative Poverty Line...and have a look where NewStart/JobSeeker sits...with the COVID Supplement it rocketted up to the Henderson line, relating to a family of 2 parents plus 2 kids, but has just as quickly plunged back to sub-poverty... 

And if you don't have a problem with that, then you are the problem.

Obviously I do this 'ere blog to try and influence as much as inform dear availees, and whilst factually as accurate as I can genuinely produce, it is by definition my opinion...having said that, if you read my blog and cannot see how y'all are being manipulated and gas-lighted, etc, by the LNP and Main Stram Media, and instead wanna' cut-crook at me and/or my bleedin' Leftie rantings, etc, then mates and/or matettes, y'all are the problem...and having said that, I know that the vast majority of dear availees read this 'ere blog because they are of like mind and do believe in and support a caring and supportive Australia where everyone does get a genuine fair go and does succeed, etc, and failing that, that we are wealthy enough as a nation to provide better support than we currently do...(I've got a revolutionary idea-Ed)...you're not going to do the ol' joke about 'forming a people's army and seizing control of the state'?...(no no, but just as likely unfortunately...let's get Australia's biggest mining magnates and other businesses to actually pay some tax-Ed)...oh nice one man, but you do understand that's exactly why these people work so hard to keep the LNP in power, so they never have to pay, you got that, yeah?...(I know, I know-Ed)...and so do they mate, so do they...

Purely for balance, I've included a link here to an article that's fully supportive of Cormann's jaunt...obviously I completely disagree, so I'll continue "hyperventilating" if it's all the same to the gimp who wrote this...I particularly reject the premise that this all could not be done via technology rather than personally...

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/the-hyperventilating-over-cormann-s-private-jet-is-as-predictable-as-it-is-short-sighted-20201125-p56i0x.html

Tomorrow: FARC And Stride

'Unforeseen Carpark Costs' aren't the only lie that Mt Gambier City Council have been spewing relating to their farcically corrupt mismanagement of the $57m?/$64m?/$Gourd Knows? Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre disaster...even then, any major function will see people needing to park streets away and walk...(and of course no public transport-Ed)...well not in the evenings or on weekends, no...

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

#PMScombover - When Personal Abuse Is Okay

Howdy dear availees in Costa Rica, Romania, Bulgaria, and Aotearoa (New Zealand), welcome one and y'all...in my personal space I'm still struggling with motivation, energy, and general 'depressiveness', etc, but still pushing forward with this 'ere blog, and not least of all by shamelessly harvesting the Interweb, majoritively via Twitter...and as always, I'm quick to acknowledge where and/or if I'm wrong, etc...(and it's usually cause for celebration, if memory serves-Ed)...indeed, in the context where I'm perpetually 'cynical' about and/or questioning of whatevs is being shoved at me by the relentlessly pro-LNP biased Main Stream Media and ABC...(and a local case in point, owning your doubts and/or criticisms, etc, about Mt Gambier City Councillor Kate Amoroso, and expressing unqualified support for her-Ed)...indeed, and that support is genuinely an issue of how appallingly Cr Amoroso is being treated by the rankly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council, it's not just about me using her personal/political situation to bash the MGCC...(albeit a thoroughly deserved 'bashing', in the metaphoric sense-Ed)...said it before, saying it again, 'Crooks, Thugs, and Liars'...and for very recent new availees of this 'ere blog, please to be availing y'allselves of those recent posts to flesh-out what I'm referencing here...

And in that broader context of owning my mistakes, maybe it is wrong of me to hurl personal mockery at PM Scott Morrison for his hilarious, slightly bizarre and occasionally demonic 'hairstyles', but I'm comfortable with it...(well mate, that fuzzy green hair thing of a few weeks ago, that was just bizarre, he looked like Pennywise the Clown from 'IT' by Stephen King-Ed)...where he'd been in Queensland campaigning for the state election, albeit doin' that by frantically focussing attention on himself and rabidly 'Mansplaining' everything to everyone, even with the Queensland LNP Opposition leader Deb Frecklington standing right there...(well she is after all a woman, so it was incumbent of Scummo to step-up and run the show for the poor li'l woman, I mean, some of those were really tough questions with some really big words involved-Ed)...your sarcasm is duly noted, as is/was Scummo's relentless self-promotion, which, as it turns out, appears to have been at the expense of the QLNP who promptly lost said election by a near-record margin...(indeed, and Scummo came away from it looking like he'd spent all that week in an over-chlorinated hotel pool, hence the fuzzy green hair, and the Pennywise comparisons-Ed)...mate, that's exactly what he looked like, that inverted avocado shaped head with the frizzy green hair...just Interweb search 'Morrison Green Hair' for images...

Captain Mansplaining Word-Salad:...is another slab of mockery I'm more than happy to hurl at Scummo, because quite frankly, he has defined this game and has therefore so thoroughly earned it...his mere presence as PM makes a mockery of the fundamental principles of Meritocracy, Democracy, and Accountability...(well I reckon the 'Comb-over' is the perfect metaphor for Scummo's ministerial 'style', for lack of a better word-Ed)...how so?...(well he's constantly making grandiose declarations about all manner of 'funding and/or initiatives', etc, and that's like saying 'hey, check-out my luxurious bouffant, how good is hair?'-Ed)...errr, not quite with you...(but then it all blows over and there ain't no hair anymore, there ain't no funding, never was, it's all bullshit, etc, and he quickly moves onto the next 'Comb-over', and on it goes ad infinitum-Ed)...well done Ed, unfortunately that makes perfect sense...and excellent mockery to boot...(cheers-Ed)...and Scummo's 'Text-book Trumpisms' of relentless self-promotion and perpetual election campaigning and bare-faced deceits and associated gas-lighting, it's all worthy, nay demanding of equal quantities of base mockery...(well quite, he is a lying, thieving clown, and that is how he should be described and treated-Ed)...and across Twitter et al, many have observed that his hair seems to suddenly thicken/return, but then next self-promoting press conference it's thinned again, etc, etc, and of course there's the Fuzzy Green Gimp look from last month...look it up, it's tres hilarity...

And here's a link to channels 10's The Project panel show-style news program...I have been critical of them on occasions, and gourd knows they've been appallingly off-beam with some stuff they do...(for example, having that drivelling Right Wing drongo Steve 'Angry Dwarf*' Price as a regular guest panellist-Ed)...yes, for example, and for frequently doing the subtle 'gas-lighting' stuff of using the LNP's version of events and/or talking points as the underlying 'reality' of the discussion...(oh, the ABC is atrociously predictable for doing that these days-Ed)...indeed they are...(just days ago, when South Australia suddenly shut-down due to a suspected COVID-19 'Super Spreader' outbreak via a hotel quarantine security guard, etc, Patricia Carvellas referenced SA's outbreak as 'unfortunate' and in literally the same sentence, about the exact same situation as it occurred in Victoria, that was a "bungle"-Ed)...and that in a context where our/SA's security guard outbreak occurred post the Victorian experience, so 'we' have actually repeated the same mistake...(but of course we're a Liberal State so the Murdoch-dominated MSM barely mentioned it, and certainly not in a critical way, eg, it's all completely understandable and unfortunate-Ed)...exactly, it's been an unrelenting, maniacal, often unhinged assault on Premier Dan Andrews by talentless Murdoch hacks like Rachel Blaxendale and Peta Credlin and LNP simps like 'Dim' Tim Smith and Josh Frydenburg, etc, etc, but nothing but sympathy for poor ol' Liberal SA Premier Steven Marshall...   

(*'Angry Dwarf' refers to a comedic stunt perpetrated years ago by John Saffron, where-in he rang Priceless' radio show to prank him about a 'brand' of Ecstasy tablets circulating in Sydney, pills that supposedly had Pricey's inglorious mug (face) stamped uponst them, and when he had Stevo engaged in the conversation, Saffron 'revealed' that the tabs were known as 'Angry Dwarves', mocking Pricey's stature and nature)

Anyhoos, here's the link to The Project's spot-on assessment of the Robo-Debt situation, as seen across Twitter, with this copy from Labor leader Anthony 'Eggs Over' Albanese's Twitter feed...in less than a minute, the horrendous realities of the rank and deliberate LNP bastardry are defined...(and who gets multiple mentions as being specifically personally responsible for multiple aspects of Robo-Debt, why it's our mate Scombover-Ed)...indeed it is...  

https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1328961204908417024

In that context, in the glaring light of that harsh reality, there is no level of contempt and mockery that is adequate when it comes to delivering unto Scombover all of the abuse that he deserves...so when I say I got it half right, I'm also referring to the amount of mocking abuse I hurled at Scombover last post, 'cos quite frankly, he deserves at least twice as much...  

Whilst I'm sucking-up the bitter-sweet fruits of my own contrition, I am reminded of that great line from Rose Tattoo, "It's hard eating crow, but it's harder not eating at all."...in that exact context, I watched the ABC's Insiders program for the first time in a coupla' weeks, and solely because of the guest panellists, Karen Middleton, Peter van Onselen, and the Tik Tok 'sensation' Andrew Probyn       and I was duly rewarded...(really?-Ed)...straight-up, not only was it not completely appalling and pro-LNP biased, especially with LNP Fan-Boy host David Speers constantly talking over guests, etc, but these 3 guests went right at Scummo and the LNP, particularly about the horrendous and quite deliberate Robo-Debt...and by contrast, just last week after the LNP had pulled-out of the associated Court case, so as to protect the multiple complicit LNP stooges responsible from actually having to testify to their collective bastardry, I saw an ABC announcer referring to the 'unfortunate programming error that led to Robo-Debt'...we covered this in the last post...anyhoos, for all I've said in the past,  today's Insiders (22 November 2020) is worth watching...

Well I Got It Half Right:...'cos it's that last post about Scummo disappearing to Japan to avoid accountability with the Robo-Debt capitulation, etc, that was absolutely true when I wrote it, that's exactly what he did, but is now with the benefit of hindsight less that half the story...(how so?-Ed)...well mid-week came the official acknowledgement of Australian soldiers committing 'War Crimes' in Afghanistan, and the Chief of Defense, General Angus Campbell was left to carry the can, doing the official press conference sans any LNP Minister let alone the PM...(but then later Scummo's done a 'Oh Golly It's Terrible But None Of Us Knew' video message complete with a dozen Aussie flags behind him-Ed)...indeed he has, and that message rather than fronting a press conference is because he's in 'isolation' after returning from Japan...(how convenient for him then, no potentially awkward questions from journos, just another carefully scripted self-promotion and denial of responsibility-Ed)...yep, and if these clowns are to be believed, nobody in command/authority had any idea that these murders/executions were happening, for years, and involving 18-20 individuals, etc, etc...(but isn't former soldier David McBride currently facing a potential life sentence for exposing this stuff years ago?-Ed)...yep, and those Australian Federal Police raids of the ABC headquarters and journos related to those allegations/charges and the ABC's reportage there-of, etc...and even after these 'revelations',Mr McBride's still on Trial...

And it's all remarkably convenient for Scummo that all of this 'comes out' whilst he's overseas and/or locked away...(and it seems even more awfully convenient that these 'War Crimes revelations' also happened only days after the Robo-Debt capitulation-Ed)...my thoughts exactly, and with Robo-Debt there's direct blame to be laid right with those LNP Ministers involved, as per that piece from The Project above, and on multiple occasions/levels, it's Scummo who is responsible...pardon my cynicism, but given the events of this week;

I believe that the 'War Crimes Inquiry' release was specifically timed to follow the Robo-Debt capitulation/withdrawal and over-shadow it and dilute or even drown-out the related outrage.

I absolutely urge y'all to check-out this fantastic piece of investigative journalism as it relates to the sociopathic liar that is Scott Morrison, and here is a perfect example of 1) him obviously lying through his teeth, about a report into his conduct at Tourism Australia, a report that apparently doesn't exist now and potentially never did...and 2) some of the genius of Twitter-related journalism...

https://twitter.com/jommy_tee/status/1329874814933159936

...(wow, just wow, I see what you mean about the extraordinarily obvious Scummo lies, everything about that shifty posturing and faux-casual demeanour, it's all there-Ed)...indeed it is mate, a small child would pick that as being lies, it's so bleedin' obvious...

Tomorrow: Another FARC Post

'Cos aren't folks just thrilled with the now $64million price tag, sure to increase further... 

Just For Afters:...here's the link to a hilarious piece about another terrific Scummo moment when he scalded Australians with a vacuous 'Just Stop It' diatribe...might have posted this before but I do lose track sometimes, so here 'tis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jewyR3kxdI0

I am Nick Fletcher and this relatively short post is on my blog, cheers and laters...

Scott Morrison's RoboDebt Withdrawal Cowardice And Running Away To Japan To Avoid Accountability

Howdy dear availees in the USofA, Japan, South Africa, and The Netherlands...just a very quick post about the 'wonderful' news that the ideologically spiteful and rancidly corrupt Liberal/National Party have capitulated on the RoboDebt issue...(why the 'wonderful' with '-'?-Ed)...well I'll get to that, it's basically about the degrees of culpability of the LNP and the damage that's already been done, etc...(fair enough-Ed)...and what led to this Court case and capitulation...(right, so it's good news that they've folded, but perhaps we shouldn't even have got to this position in the first instance-Ed)...pretty much, but go even further back to things like the LNP's 'Anti-Poor' ideology that underpins the creation of RoboDebt...(and the fact that the LNP deliberately demonise the unemployed, pensioners, etc, as politically expedient scapegoats-Ed)...spot on, all of that...but some people have hit back with a Class Action that has just seen the LNP suddenly pull-out literally the day before the Trial was to begin...

For those unawares of RoboDebt and how and why it exists...(existed, it's now officially defunct-Ed)...yeah, but is it? is it really?...(well part of the massive $1.2billion Repayment/Compensation agreement includes the cancellation of some $398million worth of pending debts-Ed)...fair call, but does that mean that the LNP have completely pulled the plug on the entire program?...(mmm, dunno, good point, but just looking at the numbers, it's $721m being refunded to 373,000 people who have/had a combined total of 470,000 'debts', with $112m in compensation payments to those people, and then the $398m in cancelled 'debts'-Ed)...anyhoos, for detailed explanation of RoboDebt a simple Interweb search of that word will take you to reams of material...basically, it is/was an automated debt creation system relating to alleged over-payments predominantly of Newstart Allowance (Unemployment Benefit), but increasingly was drawing-in Aged Pensioners and Disability Support Pensioners, etc...(and that was whilst the entire 'program' was being heavily criticised for it's inaccuracies, inappropriateness, and general 'unlawfulness'-Ed)...exactly...     

Here is a link to an excellent site/story, that includes a very concise chronology of events that shows that the LNP knew full well that what they were doing was effectively unlawful and was creating vast numbers of erroneous 'debts', eg, the LNP capitulated on a private case 18 months ago, showing they knew what they were doing was 'wrong'...and then a year ago the Federal Court effectively ruled RoboDebt "unlawful"...(but despite these LNP admissions and Court ruling, the LNP bloody-mindedly forged ahead anyway, dismissing any criticism and refusing to review the legislation/operation of RoboDebt-Ed)...exactly, it's one thing to massively cock-up 'cos you're ignorant and/or incompetent, it's a whole other Cuttlefish to know what you're doing is so, so wrong, and then continue to do it anyway...("Cuttlefish"?-Ed)...oh, errr, 'kettle of fish', beg pardon...anyhoos, do y'allselves a favour and read this story and timeline, it's excellently presented... 

econversation.com/robodebt-was-a-policy-fiasco-with-a-human-cost-we-have-yet-to-fully-appreciate-150169

But this sudden capitulation by the Scott 'Scummo' Morrison LNP is not an acceptance that they have acted unlawfully or even inappropriately...(well indeed, Minister Stuart Roberts, one of the several Ministers to have overseen RoboDebt, he was in the media only last night stating that this capitulation and re-payments, etc, is not an admission by the government that they did anything wrong-Ed)...well apart from the fact that 'Rolex' Stewie has exactly zero credibility, on any issue, eg, his massive Internet cost claims and subsequent repayment, accepting a Rolex watch from a Chinese donor, falsely claiming that the Centrelink website crashing was a 'hack', etc, etc, etc...(indeed, look 'im up, it's just one hilarious debacle after another-Ed)...and apart from all that, he was one of the several LNP Ministers involved in overseeing and defending the RoboDebt program...and there-in lies the main motivation for Scummo & Co turning-tail and abandoning the Court case...this is not about the LNP genuinely admitting fault and displaying actual humility and empathy and understanding and contrition, etc, etc, this is solely about protecting the rankly complicit hacks of the LNP...this withdrawal and repayments, etc, is solely about protecting the list of LNP stooges who would otherwise have wound-up in the witness box giving evidence on their roles in this Class A Debasco (debacle meets fiasco at speed)... 

By withdrawing from the impending Trial, and making these payments and removing those pending debts, etc, Scummo is acting purely to protect the Ministers involved...(and imagine my surprise that he's one of those Ministers-Ed)...in fact, Scummo's one of the key players, if not the actual instigator of RoboDebt...and this list is headed by Scummo, then our mate Christian Porter, Alan Tudge, Stewie mate, and of course Paul Fletcher (no relation)...(then there's a litany of department heads and junior LNP Ministers/Members who are directly responsible and/or involved and/or have defended the scheme, etc-Ed)...absolutely...and 'cos it ain't their $1.2b that they're spending, it's a small price to pay to avoid accountability...(is it 'Irony' that RoboDebt and the attached political shaming strategy, etc, were supposedly about stopping these criminal unemployed/pensioner low lifes from ripping-off good god-fearing Taxpayers, etc, and the fact that the same Taxpayers are now gunna' pay even more by way of re-paying those 'recovered debts' and associated compensation, etc? is that 'Ironic'?-Ed)...I'm pretty sure that's definitively 'Ironic' Ed, text-book 'Irony'...and it may yet get worse (more expensive) 'cos there may be further Court cases and/or claims for compensation, etc...

But the most cynical and potentially evil aspect of this Withdrawal and it's genuine motivation of protecting the LNP, etc, relates to the most horrendous outcomes of the RoboDebt scheme...amongst all of the unnecessary concerns and distress caused, it is well documented that there were over 2,000 deaths related to RoboDebt recipients, and that part of that number were confirmed as Suicides directly related to receipt of an alleged debt notice...(and every one of these LNP pricks knows that, knew that and continued anyways, defended it anyways, and that's the ultimate truth that they are so desperately keen to avoid!-Ed)...in an ideal and just world, each of these soulless pricks would be sat in a chair under a very bright light and held to account...(I'd suggest the families and friends of the deceased are allowed carte-blanche verbal retribution, from a COVID-19 appropriate 2metres away-Ed)...great idea Ed, would that it might actually happen...

And as though as to self-define that there is no limit to his own professional denialist, self-involved hypocrisy, whilst this withdrawal was happening, Scummo was holding yet another interminable press conference, this time about Mental Health issues...I heard 25-30 minutes of relentless self-congratulatory word-salad psycho-babble, but he apparently went for a full 45...(mate, it sounded to me like he was on the gear, fully loaded-up with whatevs stimulant is his personal poison-Ed)...indeed, and whilst that's usually a solid serve of his own self-wonder and the joy of hearing his own voice, it did sound on this occasion like he had some kinda' chemical leg-up...(it's a popular theme on Twitter for sure-Ed)...it was a very bizarre display, even for Scummo...and the ultimate cynicism of the pseudo-Christian Scummo is pretending to give a damn about people's Mental Health whilst over-seeing and defending RoboDebt, despite knowing what devastating effects it was having for recipients of those 'Unlawful Debts'...(and then denying those people their day in Court-Ed)...just extraordinary low conduct, even for Scummo...     

And where's our illustrious leader to be seen in all this today?...(ummm, I'm gunna' go with what I hope is a cynical jibe, and say Hawaii-Ed)...ooo, so close, but nope, Scummo's done his li'l turn on the catwalk as above, then he's buggered-off to Japan, like a rat out of an aqueduct...(well Japan's nowhere near Hawaii-Ed)...yeah sure, geographically speaking it ain't, but politically distant-wise it's just as good, and it allows not only 1) for Scummo to avoid any unpleasant questions about the rank bastardry of the LNP as evident in the use of and defence of RoboDebt and withdrawal, etc...(like the rankly pro-LNP complicit Main Stream Media and ABC are gunna' ask those questions-Ed)...which was going to be my second point, namely, 2) Scummo's absence means the pro-LNP MSM and ABC can avoid any Twitter-based backlash for quietly avoiding the entire issue by not asking those difficult questions anyways, now 'cos they can't and therefore don't have to...and having said that, for some reason I watched the ABC's 7.30 program last evening, first time in a long time, and was gently stunned to see the always excellent Laura Tingle as fill-in host and some openly critical reportage of the LNP...but I digress... 

Here's a link to an excellent site/story that helps detail who knew what about what and when...it's well worth a thorough read 'cos it again helps explain/highlight how the faults with RoboDebt were widely and well known and in many instances quite deliberate...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ministers-and-officials-named-in-updated-robo-debt-class-action-claim/

And as if that weren't enough to get any of these clowns fired...(which it won't, 'cos even if the LNP weren't self-satisfied 'Born To Rule' egomanic sociopaths who ain't ever gunna' give it up no matters what, apart from all that, Scummo ain't gunna' risk his miniscule Parliamentary majority of 2, not for nuthin'-Ed)...indeed, and that's what Porter et al know, eg, ain't nobody goin' no where for jumpin' and then denigrating their staff, let alone this...and in that vein, Alan Tudge has done another piece of thinly-veiled Slut Shaming regarding his affair with his former staffer...and his pseudo-apology is so odorous in it's denials and intent it deserves a whole post all it's own...and that's what it's gunna' get...

Tomorrow: Alan Tudge Is A Right Prick

And whilst I ain't exactly perfect, these guys are absolute arseholes in every sense of the word...and it's not just their hypocrisy, it's the self-righteousness that underpins it...(and so one assumes we're gunna' include the wholly repugnant professional drunkard National's Barnaby Joyce-Ed)...well it would be very remiss of us to not include him given that he is the text-book personification of what we're talking about with Hypocritical Misogyny...(yay, Barnaby-Ed)...

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

ABC Four Corners On Ministerial Affairs - Dissection Or Deflection?

Howdy dear availees all across The Third Rock...this Monday just gone, 9th November 2020, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Four Corners program ran a story about Ministerial affairs with staffers and/or journalists, etc, specifically about Immigration Minister Alan Tudge and Attorney-General Christian Porter...(what about others like Barnaby Joyce and David Littleproud, or anyone from Labor and/or the minor Parties?-Ed)...well that's part of the discourse, and a question many have raised, not least of all in trying to discern the real motivations for this 'expose'...if y'all ain't aware of what it's all about, here's a link to the ABC, or go to the ABC's Four Corners website and check it out...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-09/four-corners-investigation-christian-porter-alan-tudge/12862632

And even at first glance, the immediate issue is about how these 2 class acts have routinely proselytised about the unassailable virtues of the "traditional model of marriage", ie, of a man to a woman, etc...(and they've both been particularly vocal in this way/context during the Marriage Equality debate-Ed)...well I'd call it 'mouthy', but sure, "vocal", but absolutely there-in lies their bare-faced hypocrisy, lording-it over everyone else about their superior "values" when in fact they're philandering stuff-pigs...(well unless of course one considers the 'traditional model' to be one whereby the li'l woman stays home and faithfully raises the kids, etc, whilst the hubby tries to throw a leg over the staff, junior colleagues, pretty much anything that moves really-Ed)...spot on mate, at the very least this story is yet another insight into the self-important 'do as I say not as I do, Born To Rule' patriarchal attitudes in the LNP, and potentially politics more generally...(I see where Minister Matt Canavan has said that this behaviour is to be 'expected', seemingly almost admitting that he's 'guilty' of this conduct, and some witty scribes have opined that Matty won't mind then if his missus scores some strange whilst he's in Canberra-Ed)...well indeed...and many people are pointing to the vast difference between lovey-dovey kid-gloves responses to Tudge's affair with a staffer, and the relentless often rancid persecution of Labor's Emma Husar for a suspected affair that apparently didn't actually happen...here's a charming cartoon and article from the horrendous Janet Albrechtsen...absolutely disgraceful...

Sleeping Giants Oz

@slpng_giants_oz

Just a reminder of this repulsive depiction of Emma Husar in the Murdoch press. Her decapitated head in a garbage bag. #Auspol #QandA #Insiders

11:12 AM · Nov 15, 2020·Twitter Web App 

 

Here's a link to the always excellent Michael Pascoe's read of the Four Corners program/situation...I agree with most of what's said here, especially how this story exposes how culpable and complicit and compliant the MSM are when it comes to 'not reporting' stuff that goes on in Canberra...however, I think Michael has missed the elephant in the room, which I discuss later in this post...

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2020/11/10/michael-pascoe-trust-canberra-scandal/

Note the excruciatingly careful weasel-wording here, where-in 1) Porter tries directly to imply that he wasn't offered an opportunity to engage with the program by saying that he wasn't aware of all of it's content...(and 2) 'Nudge' twice says that he "regrets", but doesn't actually apologise to anyone, not even his wife and child-Ed)...indeed, he "regrets" getting outed for it, but be damned if he's going to apologise to anyone, it's the 'Never Say Sorry' mentality of the 'Born To Rule' sub-intelligent stooges who populate the LNP...and I say "sub-intelligent" 'cos I consider an intelligent person is one capable of showing and expressing genuine remorse and contrition, coupled with genuine respect and empathy...and here's a link to a coupla' spot-on hilarious cartoons that forensically represent the attitudes of the rankly pro-LNP corrupt Main Stream Media and ABC...1) intense focus on Dan Andrews ant/mole hill...(making a mountain out of a molehill-Ed)...whilst ignoring the mountains of LNP corruption surrounding them, and 2) ignoring the reality of LNP dysfunction and internal conflicts whilst trying to create a story about Labor's faults...

https://twitter.com/reinedelanuit05/status/1327740813414076417

I've also included this link below to a Twitter thread by the most excellent Ronni Salt, as she expertly explains/highlights the vast gulf between how the LNP reacts to it's male members relentless rorting and grifting, etc, and how women are crudely and crassly attacked and routinely made the scapegoats for others indiscretions/corruptionings...with Australia Post's Ms Holgate, she bore the brunt of Scummo's carefully confected pantomime-level outrage as he sought to distract from multiple LNP rorts and/or scandals...

https://twitter.com/RonniSalt/status/1325347050989314052

Another Twitterist I follow with quiet confidence is Michael West...("quiet confidence"?-Ed)...because I've read enough of his stuff to 'trust' it on face value as being extremely accurate...he obviously does his research on specific issues, and couples that with an extensive broader knowledge...take this story from his website, Michael West News, about one of the really concerning issues that perhaps this program should have covered/discussed, 'Nail 'Em Up' Porter's grossly politicised misuse of 'Terrorism Laws' to attack 'Whistleblowers'...(a gross misuse compounded by the fact that he has failed to comply with the only pseudo-restraint attached to this legislation-Ed)...indeed, the requirement to report to the Federal Parliament any usage/application of these extraordinary laws...(and this is the arrogant, self-satisfied clown who's gunna' bring us a farcically secretive Federal ICAC, how could that possibly go wrong?-Ed)...indeed... 

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/christian-porter-nsi-orders/

And I refer dear availees to the very concise 'Comment' of 'Alan' attached to that article, copied here...

Terrorists are vital to the interests of the Liberal party. The mere existence of a terrorist threat allows the Liberal party to run scare campaigns and invoke national security to restrict human rights and civil liberties and legal freedoms.

Whistle blowers on the other hand are an existential threat to the Liberal Party. A Party allergic to scrutiny. People who know too much, and are willing to talk. A clear threat to our most dishonest of governments. If you have a lot to hide, you have a lot to fear.

Literally and actually couldn't say it better myself...(wow, he really has nailed it hasn't he, this is exactly how and why these 'Laws' are being applied-Ed)...and I'd add to that the self-defining fact that the Liberal/National Party consider themselves to be and therefore operate in a paradigm whereby they are beyond the laws that govern the rest of us...(let alone the 'Laws' that are meant to govern their specific conduct, eg, not reporting his usage of the 'Terrorism Laws'-Ed)...and of course, getting back to The Tudgemeister, he was called-out for his "Criminal" conduct by Justice Flick, whom has has had very similar things to say about Home Affairs Minister Peter 'Spud' Dutton...here's a link... 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-23/judge-accuses-immigration-minister-of-criminal-conduct/12694204

And as per usual, on Twitter everybody and their support dog/cat/bison has an opinion about the real motivations for this ABC 'expose', and when I first heard it was coming-up, my initial thought was 'what pro-LNP con-job is the ABC pulling now'...and quite frankly, I reckon I was right on the money...I immediately saw this as an exercise in 'Distraction' to drag people's attention away from some of the most recent appallingly embarrassing exposures of multiple LNP rorts, eg, Sports Rorts, or the $30million Airport Land Sale, or the New South Wales Liberal Premier Gladys 'Sob Story' Berejyklian awarding $250m+ to LNP seats and then shredding and/or deleting all official records...(mate, I just cannot believe that she's done that and is still Premier-Ed)...like anyone else whom ain't a base LNP stooge...(and what's happened about her relationship with disgraced colleague 'Dazzling' Daryl Maguire?-Ed)...as best I can tell, absolutely nothing...(but what about their phone conversations discussing his dodgy dealings and her lies about that stuff in ICAC, etc, etc-Ed)...mate, what can I tell ya'? Gladys has been carefully protected by the rancidly pro-LNP Main Stream Media, where-in it's all been carefully presented as a Mills & Boon-style tale of a good woman done bad by a scoundrel...(pathetic!-Ed)...particularly when it involves the Premier of the biggest state in Australia...but we digress...

Basically, I initially saw this program as an exercise in generating some sort of non-accountable outrage that would distract from all of the other actual corruption...that is, what morally repugnant behaviour can we use to wind-up the filthy masses, but that ultimately ain't anything 'criminal'...(oh I know, a lovely 'Sex Scandal', that'll get the prols* slavering and salivating and leaping onto their laptops to express their disdain and disappointment-Ed)...exactly, and all the other actual corruption just quietly fades into the background...but my ears really pricked-up early in the show when they discussed Porter's career-long aspirations to be Prime Minister, aligned as that is with constant Twitter-chatter about people moving on PM Scott 'Scummo' Morrison to oust him, etc, etc...and for my mind and/or money, that's what we're looking at here...Scummo has shown that he's more than prepared to chuck his colleagues right under the thundering bus of accountability...(well he didn't just chuck National's Bridget Mackenzie under the bus re the Sports Rorts Scandal, he drove the bus right over her, backed it up and had another go, and did that several times-Ed)...indeed, the clear evidence was/is that those 'Coloured Spreadsheets' and associated directives to fund LNP and/or marginal seats, etc, all of that originated with Scummo...(and he's done the same thing to Australia Post chair Christina Holgate, screeching his carefully confected outrage about a relatively very minor issue, to distract away from the LNP's corruptionings-Ed)...absolutely...  (*prols - the proletariat, the peasantry)

So whilst others are applauding the ABC and Four Corners for this searing expose, I believe that it was/is a political tool being wielded by Scott Morrison to scupper the aspirations of the most plausible contender for replacing him as PM...(so it's not so much an expose as a carefully orchestrated hit-job on Porter's credibility, and as organised by Morrison?-Ed)...in my humble opinion...so that's why I agree with Michael Pascoe et al even though they don't ultimately exactly align with what I think is the base motivation...1) the conduct is deplorable, 2) the MSM's failure to report it previously is pathetic and self-serving, 3) the gross gender imbalance about the reportage and responses is insightful and unacceptable, etc, 4) there is likely an element of pro-LNP 'distraction journalism' at play here, but I believe this program is ultimately 5) about protecting Scummo's position...         

And right in the Distraction Ballpark is the latest appalling misappropriation of Aboriginal disenfranchisement, etc, with Gladys Berejyklian suddenly wading into the debate about changing a single word of the Oz national anthem, from "we are young and free" to 'we are one and free' because "young" effectively excludes the 1,000s of generations of Aboriginal occupation of Australia, focussing instead on the last 250 years, but "one" includes us all, supposedly...(and this is supposed to distract away from all of her other corrupt dealings? is that the idea?-Ed)...yep, and again the simp-like complicity of the MSM and ABC make this possible...I fully agree with the sentiment, but completely denounce the self-serving political opportunism of Gladys's involvement...(and I note that Mt Gambier City Council has done the same shameless misappropriation and pseudo-respect stuff by trying to name the corruption-riddled Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre project using Boandik words/language-Ed)...absolutely identical and deplorable conduct...we'll look at this further in the next FARC post... 

Tomorrow: A Brief Review Of The 2020 Budget

Spent a coupla' hours this week catching-up on Adelaide Mail: Adelaide's Other Fake News Outlet...love this satire-style reporting, and it's a great way to de-tox after several hours on Twitter and/or a day of doing this 'ere blog, etc, etc...(I enjoy the soothing stylings of funny dog/cat videos, and/or the work of the Ozzy Man Reviews series...a bit sweary but still genuinely hilarious on occasions-Ed)...yep, loved the one about Bulls, very Aussie...

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

Pro-Paedophile Premier Jay Weatherill's Child Development Hypocrisy With Minderoo Foundation

Howdy y'all in the blogger-shere, apologies that I somehow missed this extraordinary story until someone pointed it out to me last week...I remember seeing that Weatherill had gone to work for Twiggy Forrest, but I just skipped past it without looking at exactly what my main man Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill was actually doing...so just to explain what The Shiny Man is up to these days, here's just a coupla' articles/stories about Jay's involvement with the 'Thrive Before Five' thingy...there's heaps of other stuff to look at too, just Interweb search 'Weatherill Minderoo'...

https://www.cpaml.org/post4.php?id=1577079855&catitem1=People%27s%20Issues&catid1=19

https://www.minderoo.org/thrive-by-five/news/former-sa-premier-jay-weatherill-appointed-ceo-of-minderoo-foundations-thrive-by-five-initiative/

Please note that the Communist Party piece identifies Jay Weatherill's penchant for denying responsibility and blaming others, particularly when it comes to his Pro-Paedophile Corruption, eg, blaming the heads of the Education Dept...(hey, wasn't former Mt Gambier High School Principal Gary Costello made head of the Education Dept at one point?-Ed)...yep, that's him...(and didn't we here at TMGI identify that massively unwarranted promotion as being Gary's reward for his complicit role in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?-Ed)...yeah, but we only said that 'cos it's true...(fair enough-Ed)...regular availees will remember that in February 2008, in a Year 8 classroom orientation discussion about bullying, etc, that my child and several others disclosed some of the abuses committed against them by "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling aways back in 2002 when they were 7 years old in his class at St Martins...(and wasn't the teacher so shocked that she reported that to the school's senior staff, including our mate Gazza?-Ed)...yep, but it wasn't until I went into the school and put a very polite rocket up them that they fulfilled their legally obligatory Mandatory Notification requirements...(well "Mandatory" says it all really, doesn't it?-Ed)...well apparently not well enough for Gazza & Co...

I then spent nearly 3 weeks chasing after Gazza, and when I finally got a response, it was, 'we've done what we need to do and that's all we're doing, end of the matter as far as we're concerned'...(and the cops (SAPol) refused to look at it didn't they?-Ed)...indeed, and that was when I spoke with the current SAPol Commissioner Grant Stevens in his role as head of the Paedophile Taskforce, and he stated that his superiors had told him "to drop it...to not touch it"...(strewth, is there anybody in this sad, sick state who ain't complicit in the St Martins Cover-up?-Ed)...I'll letcha' know when I find one...and right in that rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt mix is Jay Weatherill...again regular availees will be well versed in Jay's multiple complicit roles in the St Martins Cover-up, eg, when he refused in writing Child Abuse Royal Commissioner Ted Mullighan's written request to be allowed to investigate the St Martins Cover-up...(and in a context where Comm Mullighan was already investigating and had met several times with parents and been provided reams of documents, etc-Ed)...exactly, Comm Mullighan was investigating and the (then) Premier Mike Rann and Families Minister Weatherill wrote to him and stopped him...(and of course then the Mullighan Report was/is buried for 80 years-Ed)...yep, good ol' SA, absolutely not a State run for Paedophiles by Paedophiles and/or Pro-Paedophile Corrupt interests...(it just looks that way-Ed)...indeed...

Oh, and not forgetting that Jay Weatherill's law firm business partner Stephen Lieschke was Glyn Dorling's lawyer at the wholly corrupt Teacher's Registration Board Inquiry...and of course there's the several times that Jay threatened me about my supposed 'defamation', in writing, along with all the threats I've had from the rankly corrupt Crown Solicitors Office, the Lutherans, Piper Alderman lawyers, lawyer 'Bouncin' Billy DeGaris, our mate Gazza and the Ed Dept, etc, etc...(and their collective whingings to The Googles trying to have posts pulled-down, etc-Ed)...yep, all that stuff...and culminating as it has in the rancidly corrupt Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution proceedings of my "bizarre trial" for supposedly breaching the unintelligible SA ICAC legislation, eg, my very own ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone', the definable collusion between Magistrate Ian White and SAPol Prosecutions, etc...and for the record, 1) that 'persecution" started under Jay as Premier and included his Attorney General li'l Johnny Rau changing the ICAC legislation so as to facilitate prosecuting me, and 2) "this is a Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution" is exactly what I said to Magistrate Teresa Anderson, several times, which Her Honour quantified as being "Malicious Prosecution", her words...so there's some of the stuff that I lay right at the feet of The Shiny Man...      

Webinar Of Deceits:...and here's the link to The Shiny Man's latest effort on Zoom or TikTok or Grinder or whatevs...

https://aifs.gov.au/events/families-focus-webinar-series/new-early-childhood-development-system-australia

And to put it all in context, specifically about how Paedophile perpetrators can and do target very young children, here's the link to the latest 'Paedophile Ring' story...look where these people were employed, and in one case a dozen 'kindy' kids abused...

https://www.9news.com.au/national/afp-child-abuse-network-smashed-14-arrested-46-victims-child-care-centre/01c1daf3-be36-41da-a830-bfdf3b8e2e4b?ref=BP_RSS_ninenews_0_global-child-abuse-network-smashed--14-men-arrested-_111120

And to close, here's a fascinating observation as made by someone outside one of Nick Xenophon's campaigning meetings in Mt Gambier with 'his' candidate Kate Amoroso aways back in 2016...I've been holding this back since then, not least of all 'cos I do not have any direct evidence/experience of this, it is just another re-telling of an old story/rumour I'd heard many times before, but it was very calmly stated as fact by a very reliable/respected person...and I think it's very relevant in the context of 1) this post and the conduct of Jay Weatherill, and 2) the current issue of 'politically expedient loving family man' politicians who have extra-marital relationships that, apart from the hypocrisy, potentially compromise them and make them vulnerable to blackmail, etc...and so it was, standing in a circle in the carpark, this person directly identified that Jay Weatherill had a boyfriend whom he 'supported' with an apartment, etc...and as I say, it was something that I'd heard many times before in my traumatic journey related to the St Martins Cover-up, eg, 'this is the sort of stuff you're up against'...and I'm sure they'd be only too happy to confirm this discussion/disclosure actually occurred, 'cos (then) Mt Gambier City Councillors Penny Richardson and Mark Lovett were in attendance that evening and were part of that circle... 

And Dear The Googles:...if Jay matey comes bleating to ya' about 'defamation', etc, and tryin' to get this post pulled down, like so many have done before, please make sure that he's followed your own guidelines first and approached me to seek redress/removal if he feels that what I've said is something he wants to defend/deny...I respectfully remind y'all at The Googles of Bill DeGaris's repeated threats to sue me, etc, and that when I offered him the opportunity of meeting and getting everything on the record, etc, that he flatly refused and came a squealin' to y'all instead...(and he ain't Robinson Crusoe in that regard, as we covered earlier-Ed)...indeed...and just for the record, and so as to not needlessly drag her into this reeking quagmire, it wasn't Ms Amoroso and she wasn't in that circle... 

To conclude on a slightly lighter note, here's some stuff I poached from the Twitterverse...many a true word spoken in jest...and the 'Bone Spur' reference, for those who don't know, refers to the excuse that the Mango Mussolini used to avoid the Vietnam draft, 5 times...

Carrie

@TheWordOfCarrie

Well look at this

The mango Mussolini has his own special place in history

#TrumpConcede #TrumpIsPathetic #BidenHarrisToEndThisNightmare

7:53 AM · Nov 11, 2020·Twitter for iPad

And to close it out today, here's the Mango Mussolini bragging about wonderfully well he's done, yet not quite understanding that that makes him the sitting President who gained a record number of votes for an Election Losing, One Term President...(kapow!-Ed)...and as quite rightly slapped-down by whomever this 'Christy' person is...

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

·

Nov 8

71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!

Christy Masters-Christianson

@ChristyMaster14

Replying to

@realDonaldTrump

Good thing something is legal. #TrumpIsPathetic #TrumpMeltdown

11:00 AM · Nov 8, 2020·Twitter Web App

 

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and I won the USofA Election...(no no! I won the USofA Election-Ed)...no! I won the Election, and so did my wife...(oh, I thought you were Q?-Ed)...oh no no no, dear me no...(why are you winking at me like that? stop it, it's creepy!-Ed)...I've just ummm, just got a speck of dust in my eye...(still creepy-Ed)...apologies...(oh! are you Anonymous?-Ed)...yes, yes I am Anonymous, that's why I put my name to everything I do...(oh right, yes, I see what you mean-Ed)...but to be honest...(you'll never have a career in politics with that attitude young man!-Ed)...to be honest, I do actually subscribe to one of the more extreme QAnon factions...(truly? do tell-Ed)...well you know how there's the Far Left?...(sure-Ed)...and then the Far Right, right?...(yep, with you thus far-Ed)...well I'm a fully paid-up member of the Far Q...............(I really should have seen that coming-Ed)...cheers and laters...

#I Stand With Kate (Amoroso) Mt Gambier City Councillor

Howdy dear availees...I know that I've been saying it a fair bit lately, but yet again I'm not exactly sure where the last week disappeared to...anyhoos, I'm just gunna' do this quick post and then go again asap and try to move forward like that...in a recent post I referred to Mt Gambier City Council as "Liars, Crooks and Thieves", or words to that affect...(close, September 6th, "The $57M FARC - MGCC Are Crooks, Thugs and Liars"-Ed)...indeed, we quibble over terms...and nothing defines that Crookedness, Thuggery and Liarness better than MGCC's appalling treatment of Councillor Kate Amoroso...(particularly the conduct of that sick Liberal Party puppy and fellow MGCCouncillor Ben Hood-Ed)...yeah, he's a real piece of, well I'm going to say 'work', but y'all use whatevs descriptor you's think is most appropriate...(well I've got a few, most of which involve bodily functions-Ed)...mmm, and from what I'm reading on Social Media commentary, you ain't Robinson Crusoe...

Now I have known Ms Amoroso pretty much since I moved to Mt Gambier 20 years ago, our kids attended the same kindy, but I wouldn't say we're 'mates' in the Aussie sense, ie, we don't socialise, etc...in fact, I have been very 'questioning' of her move to politics, eg, I was initially very cautious bordering on cynical when she got involved with Nick Xenophon...(and if you don't know who that is, Interweb search it, but aways back in 2006-07 he was involved with families trying to get action about "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School-Ed)...indeed, literally the last thing he did in SA Parliament before going into the Federal Senate, was to help establish the Statutory Authorities Review Committee Inquiry into the Teachers Registration Board, a SARC Inquiry that self-identifies as being prompted/justified by the TRB's problematic handling of their Dorling Inquiry (March 2003 - November 2004)...("problematic"? wow, that's being wildly generous, especially for you-Ed)...well I'm just basically trying to report that SARC Inquiry as accurately and dispassionately as possible...(and your actual opinion of the actual TRB Inquiry?-Ed)...not my opinion, straight fact, the TRB were/are a rancidly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt disgrace who, in the Dorling/St Martins Inquiry, accepted Dorling's 'defence' that our 7 year old kids were forcing themselves on him and he couldn't stop them, and let him off scot-free...but we digress...

But as per usual, I am delighted to be proven 'wrong' in the sense that Cr Amoroso is as clearly genuine and committed to her community as the rest of MGCC are bent, thuggish liars...I have had several people express to me their admiration for and appreciation of Ms Amoroso for her efforts, eg, her work with issues of addiction, including her positive influence in specific individual cases...(and kudos mate for yet again embracing your errors and/or misjudgements and/or personal biases, etc, and being prepared to openly acknowledge and modify them-Ed)..well, as I've repeatedly said, I ain't interested in thinking I'm 'right', I'm borderline Narcissistically-obsessed with being 'correct'...(and could there be a more positive application of Narcissism?-Ed)...dunno', but whatevs, just as MGCC's appalling attitude and bullying, abusive conduct towards her defines them as Thugs and Crooks, so the exact same conduct defines Cr Amoroso as being genuine and community focussed...(I see, they're attacking her 'cos she's honest and acting to support Ratepayers and the broader Citizenry, not motivated by personal greed, Nepotism, Insider Trading, and any of the other Institutionalised Corruptionings that otherwise define MGCC, she ain't in the Crooked Crew so she's gotta' go-Ed)...spot on mate, spot on...

At it's most basic, not including various other similar issues/interactions, there are two main issues at play here, and one clearly precipitates the other, namely;

1) Nearly a year ago Cr Amoroso tried to get MGCC to publicly disclose the massive cost blow-out of the wholly corrupted Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre (FARC) project...(the $18million blow-out from $39m to $57m, or the $25m blow-out to $64m?-Ed)...fascinating question Ed, asked with just the right amount of seething sarcasm, 'cos the $39m to $57m to $64m is in-and-of itself a perfect descriptor for exactly how disingenuous and corrupted MGCC have been in shoving the FARC down Ratepayer's throats with a litany of weasel-word deceits and outright lies...(yep, even when they eventually fessed-up to $57m, that was a lie, a $7m lie!-Ed)...a $7m minimum lie, it'll likely go even higher...(yep, minimum $7m, and they knew it!-Ed)...and of course MGCC voted against Cr Amoroso's 'Disclosure Motion' with deceitful pseudo-justifications about 'Contract Confidentiality', etc...bottomline, MGCC knew about the blow-out at least a year ago, and given how deceitful they have been (are), it's highly likely this was their genuine intent/plan right from the off aways back in early 2018...(well given their carefully manipulated Development Plan Application that identifies a '$40m box sans fittings and fixtures', etc, this 'blowout' really does look like a deliberate construct that starts at the start, so to speak-Ed)...indeed, and we've discussed this in previous posts, but again we digress...

2) Cr Amoroso has had a major health issue, including as I understand it, several major surgeries and a lengthy period in hospital...I cannot say where her health is currently, but I do know that she did provide Council with a Medical Certificate, or the equivalent, whatevs, and Council have basically refused to accept it...(sorry, what? that doesn't even make sense-Ed)...yeah, I know, I'll re-research that and provide a more specific analysis next post, but that is how I understand it's played-out thus far...(but ultimately, MGCC are fully aware of Ms Amoroso's 'condition' and treatment/surgeries, etc-Ed)...exactly...now Council is refusing Cr Amoroso attending meetings via phone/Skype/whatevs, and have also refused her a Leave Of Absence, and are actually threatening/moving to kick her off Council for 'failing to attend'...and to quantify how this ain't just callous politicised bastardry motivated by a desire to attack/get Cr Amoroso, there's also the gross hypocrisy of the patchy attendance records of some other Councillors, and one Councillor in particular...(indeed, in discussion of this issue, others have laughingly stated that there's one Councillor who only shows-up when that Councillor has a particular self-serving Insider Trading/Nepotism/Corruption item they want to vote for-Ed)...well quite, if it weren't so seriously corrupted, it'd be quite hilarious...

And if y'all cannot see this connection between MGCC's appalling mistreatment of Cr Amoroso and her genuine pro-Ratepayer activism, then I can't help ya'...I see some are calling for ICAC to investigate MGCC, but I respectfully remind y'all that ICAC pretended to investigate MGCC in 2013/14, an alleged investigation that I proved in Court comprised 2 un-recorded conversations in public settings, one with me at Metro Cafe with 6 -8 people within earshot...(and a second conversation with (then) MGCC CEO Mark 'Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans' McShane in a hallway of the Adelaide Convention Centre-Ed)...indeed, and that was it, no actual hearings, no inconvenient questions, no evidential processes, etc, not nuthin', SFA...and as regular availees well know, it was me the 'Whistleblower' who ultimately was 'charged' and convicted for 'publishing and/or causing to be published' info about that wholly corrupt alleged ICAC investigation...so, y'all are absolutely right, ICAC should act to hold MGCC to account for it's duplicitous Institutionalised Corruption, but in reality, good luck with that...

Now it is a super short post today, with so many associated issues that I'll have to dedicate multiple posts to them over coming days/weeks, but my one goal here today is to set-up the above identified hashtag...(que?-Ed)...that Twitter hashtag in the title, namely, #IStandWithKate...(ahhh, channelling the spirit of the very successful #IStandWithDan one supporting Victorian Premier Dan Andrews when he was being beseiged by the rancid Right Wing Nut Jobs from Murdoch Media and SKY News and the Liberal Party, etc.-Ed)...exactly, and whilst I don't expect that #IStandWithKate will get anywhere near the nation-wide support that Dan's did, I'd reckon that once it gets out into the local community there may well be some reasonable backing for Cr Amoroso...and quite frankly, she doesn't just deserve that support, she's damn well earned it!...(hurrah!-Ed)...so get to it people, #IStandWithKate, it's good fa' what ails ya'...

Tomorrow: Just How FARC-ed Are We?

Seemingly monthly cost blow-outs coupled with outright lies from MGCC about 'No Rate Rises', etc, leads inevitably to the question, just exactly how much are all our lives going to be negatively effected by Rate Rises, decreased services, etc, etc, as they relate to the FARC?...what will be the impact on our lives for decades to come?...and it won't be positive and it will be decades...

In closing, I refer y'all to this fabulous Twitter thread about the appalling Murdoch minion Rachel Blaxendale's latest appallingly erroneous attack on Premier Andrews...it's all there, errant 'revelations' denying/ignoring the Federal Liberal role, dog-whistling about China and the abusive 'Dictator Dan' stuff, etc, in what is clearly a clumsy and base attempt to distract away from the huge 'actual' story that it's a Liberal connection who has just been outed/arrested/whatevs as a 'Chinese operative'...(nice work Rach, yet again, never let the facts get in the way of a good distraction-Ed)...she's a shocker... 

https://twitter.com/HaydenJOConnor/status/1324319906574131200

And just to try and bring it on home with some actual humour, here's the link to a hilarious mock-up photo-shop sortta' thingy of Donald Trump playing a toy piano accordion whilst he speaks, The World Accordion To Trump...the final clip, I nearly fell off my chair...

https://twitter.com/Spider_ma012345/status/1324069618265198592

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