Tilting @

The mad-green infatuation with wind-driven energy and the deliberate obfuscation of its myriad problems gives new meaning to the concept of a ' Quixotic complex'.

Oink, oink!

I read how Gillard's polling shows a significant boost, up two points, as a result of her 'hanging tough' on her policies and I despair,(well that's not strictly true because my faith is in an unchanging person) but I cannot imagine why any in the electorate would even begin to vote for such a demonstrably incompetent leader.

The facts are; that this current government has in a minuscule period of time (politically speaking) transformed Australia from a land of financial credit and enormous potential into a country with an ever escalating debt burden, a laughing stock of failed fiscal and political stunts, a honey pot for thieves, con men and illegal queue jumpers, and the world's flagship of the mad-green-cult of 'watermelon environmentalists'.

I would state with little expectation of rebuttal, that all of the nutters who would vote for this government are being fed from the public trough or are ideologically driven by the suicidal socialistic mantras of the hard-core unionists!

Truth...schmuth!

The sentiments expressed by Elaina Plott in this article: http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/oct/25/plott-for-the-love-of-money/  are regretably accurate.

Though cloaked by a sharp cry of hatred for money, the Occupy Wall Street protestors represent, in actuality, the infatuation. Their very rhetoric should logically persuade them against protesting at all; if they indeed hate money, why bother asking for more? Why condemn those who have it? If money were so detestable, a protest centered on it would only further spread the disease.

Thus the entire movement becomes a fraud. Its smallest attempt at a thesis is rendered illogical; the protest conceals a gross infatuation with money and its supposed contribution to corruption. To the protestors, the ideal of making money is meaningless, as are the ethics that lead to it.

Instead, they consider governmental handouts meaningful and worthwhile. But taking governmental handouts — distribution of unearned money — is in fact stealing. It is an evil caused not by money but rather by selfishness. I would wager that, when presented with a dime, an Occupy Wall Street protester would be quickest to run with it.

Money’s use for corruption stems from the human condition rather than the nature of money. Only when we recognize this can we revitalize the love of the work ethic that drives money’s very existence. Until then, we must acknowledge that whoever describes money as the root of all evil has instead described himself.

...but equally regrettable is the surety that truth such as this falls on ears deafened by the cacophony created by freeloaders feeding at the public trough. Greece is living proof that economic reality is not enough to prevent the grossly indulgent from committing national suicide.

INTERESTING UPDATE 11.11.11

COMMENTARY Gateway Pundit reveals a fact that some people will find astonishing: The American Nazi Party and the American Communist Party have endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement, albeit for different reasons.
The Nazis equate capitalism, which the demonstrators are opposed to, to their hallucinations of a Jewish conspiracy. This may be reflected in some of the anti-Semitic rhetoric coming out of the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations.
The communists see the current demonstrations as a beginning of an American Bolshevik Revolution and the establishment of a Soviet-style government in the United States. Occupy Wall Street also appeals to their sense of class warfare.

Woe is us!

Melanie Phillips:

Everywhere, a sense of apocalypse is in the air. The Arab world is in revolutionary ferment and bad men there are likely to be succeeded by even worse.  Iran is poised to unleash nuclear Armageddon. Israel, under repeated rocket attack from Gaza, is menaced by genocidal enemy armies on all sides except for the Mediterranean Sea. America, for so long the bulwark of western defences, is currently out of that game thanks to the Manchurian narcissist in the White House (look at this open distancing from the US by the west’s erstwhile ally, the King of Jordan, to grasp just what damage Obama has done to the free world).

The west is teetering on the edge of financial catastrophe; the EU is staggering about like a punch-drunk boxer on the brink of collapsing with a brain haemorrhage; and Britain’s Prime Minister, panicking under the pressure of events that cannot be scripted by his pollsters, is desperately tossing out banal policy soundbites of cosmic irrelevance to these global challenges like the brief sparks from a dud catherine wheel stuttering in the face of a tornado.

If ever there was a time for the religious guardians of western civilisation to stand as its rock-solid defenders through their conspicuous moral clarity, this is surely it. But unlike the churches in the US which are have served as the bulwark of western civilisation in the culture wars that have been playing out there for decades, the Church of England has long been on its knees appeasing the enemies of civilisation -- secularism, leftism and now also Islamism.

The real church needs to rise up and be counted!

Looney Cool!

Marvellous!

How to avert disaster? It will not be easy, if for no other reason than that in America (and all through the West) the PC brigade continues to restrict genuine dissent, its fancy talk of “diversity” little short of Orwellian. The anti-establishmentarianism of the 1960s has metastasised into a form of soft totalitarianism. The supposed commitment by progressives to “rights” increasingly concerns itself with the rights of groups rather than the rights of individuals. Our ancient liberties, argues Steyn, are under threat from a left-of-centre political class who see their role as the authoritative arbiter between “tribes” rather than as the democratic sentinel of free individuals. This, sadly, represents only one aspect of the problem. It is Steyn’s contention that a “lefter-of-centre judiciary, a leftist-of-centre bureaucracy, all of whom have been educated by a lefterooniest-of-all academy”, hinders Americans from confronting Stealth Jihadism. The allegation of “Islamophobia” has become the weapon of choice for our PC hought police.

...In times past the concept of “cool” was adopted by many an underclass, from slaves to political dissenters, as a form of insolence in the guise of ironic disengagement. In the 1960s the psychedelic generation adopted it as a guiding moral imperative as they began discarding, thanks to the complicity or dimwittedness of their elders, the cultural traditions of our antecedents. Many of these self-styled rebels, along with their younger mimics, now hold positions of power and influence, and yet for the politically correct generations “cool” remains fundamental to their sense of self. All the allure and glamour of being cool, however, comes at the price of inertia and paralysis. Barack Obama, the coolest-ever President of the United States, far cooler than saxophone-playing Bill Clinton, is “less the leader of the Free World” than “the Bystander-in-Chief”.

Our children need to read After America and begin to understand its lessons. In the shorter term, the book’s primary value is that come November 2012 even more Americans might vote for a candidate blessed not with self-conscious aplomb (“street cred”) but with maturity, humility and common sense. The electoral demise of The One will not in itself save America, although it would be a good start.            

Imagine...A new age!

This is a picture of a large 4 segment painting I exhibited in 1988 (it currently resides in California) called SIGN OF THE TIMES and it is one of a series of works that grew out of observations made whilst walking Durban's docklands looking for subject matter. What I saw were indicators of a potential mass exodus by a significant section of the South African middle class (perhaps for valid, perhaps racist reasons, I choose not to argue the rights and wrongs of motivation, merely to observe the phenomena).
The period was just post-PW Botha's 'Rubicon' speech and during the peak of the 'state of emergency'.
As it turned out the signs proved prophetic, and large portions of the South African middle-class (white, brown & mixed) are now a new diaspora.

There appears to be another set of 'signs' converging, a 'perfect storm' perhaps and to mention just a small cross section of issues, they include:

• The fundamentalist environmentalists and their desire to 'save' the planet by manipulating the population and embracing an essentially misanthropic agenda. Top of their hate list appears to be the Judeo-Christian worldview.
• The fanatical Islamist tide which has metamorphosed from a mere 'stateless terror threat' into the 'Arab Spring'; that is a capturing of Nationhood entities, including the many national armoury's (some 50,000 missing ground to air missiles from Libya alone). The fact that the world is awash with unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction is a troubling development that potentially sets the stage for significant escalations in 'terrorist' atrocities.
• A concerted left-wing attack on freedom of speech, particularly on that which challenges or contradicts 'political correctness'. The desire to 'suspend the democratic process' in order to push through unpopular legislation and the merciless ridiculing and  litigating of opponents makes speaking out a dangerous and expensive decision.
• In Australia the current government is undermining the economy for reasons as yet unclear but control via dependence on  government largess is steadily increasing.
• There is a systematic and concerted attack on what constitutes a family and the very concept of the family unit.
• There is a push by elites for a one world government and financial system even as the Western society's are under attack from within their own borders to recognise 'tribal' rather than national agendas.
• There is a sustained and radical attack on authority in any traditional Judeo-Christian form.
• In Australia the latest attack is coming via a move on 'Cults', and in place of 'cults' read organised religion in any form coming down the road.
• Professional fear-mongers are making billions of dollars and spreading psychoses by sprouting misleading information about over-population, food and essential resources shortages etc, etc. 

All in all I do not have the faintest idea of what the 'signs' portend other making a few observations.

• A common denominator appears to be the embracing of a Utopian worldview, i.e. that man alone (as the measure of all things) is capable, skilled and clever enough to usher in world harmony if only the right conditions can be arrived at. Even the Islamic idea of a world-wide caliphate speaks of mens manipulating the conditions to suit Allah.
• There appears to be a singular agreement on a rejection of the Judeo-Christian worldview and all that it stands for, even (and including) science; because without a rational Being creating the world how could there be rational laws to discover? Rationality does not 'evolve' by chance, the proposition is self-defeating.
• Given that our educational, political, journalistic and social castes have essentially undermined the worldview that speaks of life and judgement after death, and that the Nietzschean impulse to eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow-we-die fatalism has grabbed the popular imagination, fear of what happens here on earth has become a principle motivating factor for political manipulators, 'snake-oil salesmen' and mass soothsayers.

We are being primed to worship at the altar of the elites, the 'experts' who are the sages with the wisdom, knowledge and ability to usher in the new world order sufficient for a thousand years of peace, harmony and love.
Just think John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

Beware what you hope for!

This small excerpt from an article discussing Andrew Bolts trial and its implications for freedom of speech speaks volumes about the quality of people involved in making the rules under which we currently live and it is only going to get worse. As a student of history I watch newsreels recording the rise of Nazism in Germany and  shudder when I consider the extremism already happening in Australia at the moment...and it is not the right 'wingnuts' I am talking about.

I was there at the beginning, and I was there at the end. I was in the courtroom when wit and humour became a race crime. I saw the torture they inflicted on Andrew Bolt for his wrong ideas and the pleasure they got from hurting him. I heard meanness and I saw hatred on people’s faces—but they weren’t the ones on trial. During the lunch break on the first day a woman said loudly, “I’m interested in anything against Bolt. This time he has bitten off more than he can chew.” Back in the courtroom Eatock’s solicitor, Joel Zyngier, greeted her with a kiss.