Beneath the veil?

This could be happening in Rwanda, South Africa or Zimbabwe surely not in Australia.
What is being squashed here: http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/connor/2011/09/what-are-they-hiding
Who is being protected...surely someone in power needs to get to the bottom of this!!!!
This speaks to the very heart of government in this nation!
Who is running this country and why are we floundering, which begs the question; is this mess deliberate?

Wolves in wolves clothing.

The parry, cut and slash of descriptive erudition by Theodore Dalrymple on youth culture today:

"The vulpine lope or swagger, the face that regards eye contact with a stranger as a challenge to be met, the adoption of fashions that are known to signify aggression and dangerousness, the grotesquely inflated self-esteem combined with a total incapacity for doing anything constructive: all could and should have sounded an alarm in our politicians."

Our 'queen' of hearts.

VETERAN political journalist Glenn Milne has been dumped from ABC TV’s The Insiders because of a column he wrote in News Ltd’s The Australian.

The column, retracted in full after furious demands from Julia Gillard, made claims about the Prime Minister’s one-time relationship with former unionist Bruce Wilson, the embezzlement of union funds and his eventual fraud conviction.

                                                              OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

Art Souls!

I  have on occasion blogged about my appreciation of Matt Haydens blog: http://www.cultureofthearts.com/search/label/poets

I am going to quote from his latest blog here, but before I do that I would like to preface it with a warning to sensitive readers that a small degree of bad language ensues.
If you are easily offended then please do not read on.
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The blog is about a recent Q&A session on the ABC, and may I begin by stating my recognition of Matt's admirable self-restraint in being able to sit through a whole program without pulling an 'Elvis' on the TV set.

The quote I reproduce is from the end of his blog and features the 'musings' (pun intended) of Poet Omar Musa. An opinion that like so many left-wing luvvies is so blatantly hypocritical that it reinforces my assumption that these people are either completely without understanding about the very notion of hypocrisy or are just unbelievably blinkered to it when issued from their own mouths, perhaps a sort of 'hysterical blindness'?:

I admire Musa's commitment to such noble principles. But strangely he calls Abbott a pugilistic shape shifting wing nut-knob head without trial.

Omar, you've forgotten his right to a presumption of innocence! That's a basic human right, remember. You can't deny him that, can you? As Tony Abbott might himself say, "I am not a pugilistic shape shifting wing nut-knob head. I am a human being!"

But nup. Omar thinks he's guilty as charged. And in a strange parallel with the Thomson affair, Abbott's perceived attitudes to prostitution inform this belief:

OMAR MUSA: Yeah, probably. I mean but, then again, this is a guy, it came out today, who said that he would be willing to sell his arse, you know, to get the support of the independents.

Omar was obviously trying to provoke conservatives here. But I fear he may have offended some of his fellow Greens voters as well. Surely it's a basic human right to sell your arse, isn't it? Clearly, it would be deeply homophobic and puritanical to say otherwise.

Intriguingly, he follows up with this:

OMAR MUSA: Yeah, but he'd even consider - I mean, that implies that he'd be willing to sell his soul as well.

Eh? He thinks people's souls are located in their arses.

Well, he certainly has a very creative mind. His poems must be wonderful.

If I may end with the observation that this rather imaginative passage reminds me of a description one could apply to so many 'intellectuals' and 'artists' I have met as well...arsesouls! 

When Red becomes Green.

This is the real issue facing us:

The global warming alarmists are not interested in our adaptation because they don’t want to let us voluntarily adapt. They want to change us, to change our behaviour, our way of life, our values and preferences, they want to restrict our freedom because they themselves believe they know what is good for us. They are not interested in climate. They misuse the climate in their goal to restrict our freedom. What is endangered is freedom; the climate is okay.

The whole issue of 'Global Warming' is one of control, of course it is control of the elite over the bourgeoisie and for 'their own good', we know this, because it has happened before and we, the 'bourgeoisie' have been called stupid, ignorant and naive long enough to recognise our 'betters' when we hear them...don't we? Consider one of the prime movers behind the whole debate (debacle?), Al Gore. What was it that he failed so spectacularly in before he became poster boy for AGW? Let us just thank someone on high that he didn't succeed in his lust for power because it is hard to imagine what he might have done with the (then) American superpower at his control.
More on the reality of the agenda:

The environmentalists have been arguing for decades that we should reduce our consumption of fossil fuels—but for another reason. They naively warned against the exhaustion of natural resources, which proved to be total nonsense. They talked about the population bomb. They talked about imminent mass poverty and the inevitable starving of billions of people. The same people—shamelessly and unhumbly—talk about dangerous global warming now. They don’t care about resources, poverty or pollution—they hate us, the humans, they consider us selfish and sinful creatures who must be controlled by them. I used to live in a similar world—called communism—and I know that it led to the worst environmental damage the world has ever experienced. 

The Global Warming Doctrine is an ideology, if not a religion, which lives more or less independently of the science of climatology. Climate and temperature are used or more often misused in an ideological conflict about human society.

Furtherance of the argument, i.e. the old anti-capitalist Red masquerading in the new Green:

It seems that it is not any old consumption that upsets the Greens.  It is mass consumption.  The Green foodies don’t mind expensive organic free-range food, or hand-made cashmere sweaters, or costly Italian floor tiles.  They don’t rail against posh cheese shops or vintners.  The problem is not fine-art auction houses or Persian-rug sellers. The problem is mass production and consumption.  Greens John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander deplore the vulgar bargain hunter for whom, ‘everyday low prices are the ultimate human conquest.’  The Green group Earth First went so far as to organise a ‘puke in’ in a shopping mall.

It is not exclusive, expensive delicatessens, but rather the wicked low-cost supermarkets frequented by everyday folk which they find repellent.  It is a commonly heard complaint from Greens that things ‘aren’t expensive enough’.  The ‘rebels’ down from Eton for the anti-globalisation rallies threw bricks through windows – but not the windows of high-class restaurants.  Instead they smashed up and ransacked a working class MacDonalds when they marched down Piccadilly.  It is not the luxurious Heals furniture shop that makes them angry, but the proletarian IKEA, with its affordable sofas and lamps.

The mass production and distribution of food is deplorable to them.  In fact the mass production of goods, whatever they may be, renders those goods nasty and soulless.  The mass production of houses, the mass consumption of culture … everything to do with the masses, it seems, every form of economic activity that benefits the many-headed, is held to be vulgar and an offence against the natural order.

Bob n' Jules

                                                                        King & Queen

Re-education

Miranda Devine on the new 'educational' initiatives being proposed by the Gillard regime.

“The independent and Catholic schools have a lot to worry about,” says Victorian education consultant Kevin Donnelly, one of the few experts sounding alarm bells over the Gonski review.

He believes the long-term plan is to “integrate” independent schools into the government sector. The threat of withdrawing Commonwealth funding will be tied to demands non-government schools conform to certain expectations such as implementing the national curriculum, complete with any politically correct social engineering elements.

Education is a very powerful tool for manipulating the young and impressionable and has long been a primary goal of neo-Marxist theoreticians ala the 'long march' philosophy advocated by Gramsci so many years ago. A significant level of indoctrination already exists in the school system through the 'offical text books', something I was reminded of when attempting to argue a contrarian position against the  automatic acceptance of the theory of Anthropogenic global warming. The year 9 class were insistent that my opposition was incorrect because the text book said that AGW was true.
The more this Government has control over the educational agenda the further we slip into the re-educational modes exemplified by Pol pot and various marxist Oligarchy's.

UPDATE 5.9.11

Liberals - or leftists - of today can trace their lineage straight back to the radicalism of the late eighteenth century. All the tricks of the trade we find so characteristic of today’s radical left were present in this bloody revolution. The bloodshed, violence and demonic mob activity has been chronicled plenty of times before, but Coulter offers a nice summary.

Anything associated with the old order was targeted by the mobs, but anything having to do with the church was especially focused on. Priests, nuns and lay people were massacred in large numbers, while churches were destroyed and one sacrilege after another was carried out.

Some of the gruesome descriptions of what the mobs did to ordinary men, women and children are almost too hard to stomach. Rape, torture, mutilation, and hideous forms of killing were the norm. If one had to illustrate the actions of the demonic, surely this was it. It seemed there were not enough guillotines to keep up with all the carnage and slaughter.

And all the while the crowds were cheering this on. The Jacobin program of “de-Christianization” was especially ferocious and repellent. Indeed, “the word ‘vandalisme’ had to be invented to describe” their actions as they desecrated churches, looted Christian properties, and destroyed sacred art. The revolutionaries sought to “completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state”.

Anything associated with Christianity was open to attack. Citizens were even forced to drop their Christian names. A new Revolutionary Calendar was established, with the months renamed, and even clocks were redesigned in decimal time.