Tuesday 25 June 2013

They are clueless – and worse / much worse

From: g87
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:58 PM
Subject: They are clueless – and worse / much worse

They are clueless – and worse / much

worse

Think it through: Julia’s spin doctors create the worst / best unintended parody -  mockery of the PM in recent political history,

They proudly invite the media.

Then her Communications Director congratulates himself via the unforgettable words: "It was a no-brainer,"

It must be shattering to the few  remaining true – believers appreciating how many layers of astonishing ineptitude are involved? I count at least four.


Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Gr
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299





Her spin doctors agree: the request to be photographed purling and knitting came from her office.
"It was a no-brainer," communications director John McTernan said of the decision.

To The OZ: Courage, Vice Chancellor Spence

 ▼  June (33)

From: g87
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: Courage Vice Chancellor Spence

Courage, Vice Chancellor Spence
Perhaps Michael Spence the vice Chancellor of Sydney University can explain his declaring the BDS against the only democracy in the Middle East as ‘’inappropriate’’ – yet take no action against his in – house progenitors of same -  Jake Lynch and Stuart Rees.
Speak up and take courageous action, Vice Chancellor.
I am amazed that it takes mere membership of the nearly defunct League of Rights for inappropriate letters to be published. Why do you give Nigel Jackson oxygen to promulgate Holocaust denial in defending the egregious discredited Tobin?
Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Gr
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299
GS: Throughout it all we have the Vice Chancellor  Spence  vitiating the boycott – yet allowing it to be promoted at his University!

Support Jake Lynch's Academic Boycott of Israel and End USyd's ... 

www.communityrun.org/.../support-jake-lynch-s-academic-boycott-of-is...
The Vice Chancellor Michael Spence argues that the Australian Government's diplomatic relations with Israel make the university boycott “inappropriate”.

Monday 24 June 2013

How evil Greens, Academics BDS valley

From: g87
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:51 AM
Subject: How evil Greens, Academics BDS valley

How evil Greens, Academics BDS  valley
We are living in dangerous times: The Greens invite Holocaust Denier Tobin to support their defacto illegal BDS against Israel.
Then rapidly back down when the opprobrium decimates them: the public are plainly not supporting Holocaust denial!
Yet a so – called self – described ‘’Jewish Green’’ – former Communications Director Tim Hollow plainly supports the BDS in his mealy – mouthed denouncement quoted in The Australian 21/6:
‘’Mr Hollow condemned Mr Riboldi's conduct: "As a proud Jewish Green, I have spent years convincing people it is wrong and offensive to conflate criticising Israel's government and armed forces with anti-Semitism. In this context, David Shoebridge's staffer's approach to Fredrick Toben is an inexcusable error that is completely out of step with Greens policies, values and action.’’
The key to Hollow’s raison d’etre is the favoured phrase of Israel bashers – it all comes under the convenient aegis of ‘criticism of Israel’ and associated confected codswallop.
This is the way of our enemies – Jewish and otherwise.
Their ‘criticism’ is always antithetical to mere reasonableness or historic accuracy; that is the way they are!
Oh – and arch BDS entity Lee Rhiannon ‘’declined to comment.’’
On 15/5 Professor S Rees of Sydney University thought the signing by more than 40 Parliamentarians of The London Declaration against anti semitism was ‘’childish, thoughtless but easily populist.’’
Throughout it all we have the Vice Chancellor  Spence seemingly vitiating the boycott – yet allowing it to be promoted at his University!

Support Jake Lynch's Academic Boycott of Israel and End USyd's ... 

www.communityrun.org/.../support-jake-lynch-s-academic-boycott-of-is...
The Vice Chancellor Michael Spence argues that the Australian Government's diplomatic relations with Israel make the university boycott “inappropriate”.
Who would have believed any or all this a mere few years ago?
Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Grove
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299
          ’Professor Rees dismissed their action in emails obtained by The Australian as "childish, thoughtless, but easily populist".

           

           June (29)

           

          http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/split-in-greens-over-holocaust-denier/story-e6frgczx-1226667123665

           

          21/6 Split in Greens over Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben

          Split in Greens over Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben
          SPLITS have emerged in the Greens after leader Christine Milne refused to rebuke NSW MP David Shoebridge for his contact with Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben.
          The Australian revealed yesterday Mr Shoebridge invited Dr Toben, who has served prison time in Australia and Germany for his Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic activities -- to a fundraising event for Gaza in April.
          Mr Shoebridge said the invitation was rescinded when he became aware of Dr Toben's extreme views. Senator Milne yesterday attacked Dr Toben's views but offered no condemnation of Mr Shoebridge, placing her at odds with the Greens' lead Senate candidate in NSW, Cate Faehrmann, and her former communications director, Tim Hollo.
          "The Australian Greens totally reject and condemn anti-Semitism . . . It is abhorrent. We condemn unreservedly Holocaust denials. It has no place anywhere in Australia society," Senator Milne said. "The horrendous consequences of the Holocaust are still being felt around the world and I am appalled that people like Dr Toben engage in fabrication of history and . . . spread and engage in anti-Semitism."
          But she stopped short of condemning Mr Shoebridge.
          The invitation was sent to Dr Toben after an email exchange with Shoebridge staffer Mark Riboldi, who sent a link to a March 25 debate in the NSW Legislative Council on a study trip to Israel that was hijacked by pro-Palestinian MPs. In the exchange Mr Riboldi agreed he would "definitely not" be bending to Jewish pressure.
          Mr Hollo condemned Mr Riboldi's conduct: "As a proud Jewish Green, I have spent years convincing people it is wrong and offensive to conflate criticising Israel's government and armed forces with anti-Semitism. In this context, David Shoebridge's staffer's approach to Fredrick Toben is an inexcusable error that is completely out of step with Greens policies, values and action.
          \"He should not be allowed to tarnish the great work done by the rest of the party." Ms Faehrmann apologised for the incident. "At the very least, it was appropriate that the invitation was rescinded, however Mr Toben should never have been invited in the first place. I apologise to the Jewish community unreservedly for any hurt and upset this error of judgment may have caused," she said.
          Executive Council of Australian Jewy executive director Peter Wertheim said Mr Shoebridge was avoiding the real issue.
          "This is not about the revocation of an invitation," he said. "It's about why those who claim to be supporting Palestinian rights consistently attract the enthusiastic support of people with an explicitly racist anti-Jewish agenda."
          NSW Greens senator Lee Rhiannon, who has formerly backed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, declined to comment.

          Tuesday 18 June 2013

          BDS and duplicity

          From: g87
          Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:28 AM
          Subject: BDS and duplicity
          Well may the Sydney University vice chancellor’s spokeswoman insist that ‘’ the University of Sydney  is opposed to the BDS.’’
          It matters not: they allow the boycott to be warehoused in their Peace and Conflict Studies department through Professors Lynch and Rees.
          Whose intelligence are they insulting in the name of Michael Spence – the vice chancellor who is plainly having it both ways.
          The Oz: 18/6
          A spokeswoman for vice-chancellor Michael Spence repeated the Sydney University's opposition to BDS. "The University of Sydney does not consider the boycott, divestment and sanctions policy appropriate and it is not University of Sydney policy."
          The spokeswoman refused to say whether the university would indemnify centre staff or assist them in any other way with legal or financial support if action were launched.
          Geoff Seidner
          13 Alston Gr East St Kilda 3183
          03 9525 9299

          Friday 14 June 2013

          Lunatic definition from WIKI

          Lunatic


          From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

          "Loony" redirects here. For the Canadian 1 dollar coin (loonie), see Canadian 1 dollar coin. Or see Looney (disambiguation) or Luni (disambiguation).
          "Lunatic" is an informal term referring to people who are considered mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable; conditions once called lunacy. The term may be considered insulting in serious contexts, though is sometimes used in friendly jest. The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck".

          Thursday 13 June 2013

          Complaint to ABC HQTRS re MENU SCAM!!

           

          Corporate_Affairs2.ABC@abc.net.au;

          lateline@yourabc.net.au;

           
          ABC Headquarters and
          Programme Manager Lateline
          Dear Sir / Madame
           
          I refer to the 7 30 report of the Janet Albrechsten / Mia Freedman / Leigh Sales interview last night: it was apparently during this 3 – way conversation that the news discrediting the multiple claims re ‘MENU scam’ of the belaboured Labor government was disclosed.
          A bit of a scoop perhaps  – and Leigh Sales handled it professionally as did the other two ladies.
          It is noteworthy that whilst JA and MF hold different political views – they both lacerated the Gillard government.
          However the news was in it’s infancy – one could not expect analysis.
           
          However – there is no merit for Emma A of Lateline!
          It was a disgrace how Emma dearest allowed Minister for Girlie – Events to get away with pure humbug!
          I still find it difficult to believe what T Plibersek said in defiance of reality:
          ‘’THERE WERE NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE AT THE LIBERAL FUNDRAISING EVEN /  ANYWAY’’ ??
          The transcript is not yet available – but the detail will be worse for your acolytes at the House of Gillard / Emmerson et al!
          Instead of investigating matters material in front of her EA ignored it all! She had plenty of time....yet the intro was a ponderous, irresponsible rehashing of what she had prima – facie evidence was simply too absurd!
           
          HERE IS THE LINE COMMON SENSE ELICITS FROM ME:
          How is it possible for them to even THINK that Abbott and others were involved in this idiocy?
          And if they were – knowing that they would be easily held to account – why are you guys so besotted with this government’s multiple idiocies delivered daily in so many ways – that merely on the greatest scale of certainties [to coin a new phrase] it HAD TO BE A SCAM!!!
          Certainly worth being sceptical about it, non?
          But NO!
          The transcript will be yet another humiliation to EA’s interview style the deliberate [??] deficiencies when it comes to defending the abysmal!
          I just do not have time for now to detail her / ABC’s soft tactics on that anti coal lunatic a few short weeks ago.
          Do you people not care that you will in a few short weeks will have nowhere to hide?
          I have an expectation that you will have to change your dismal procedures – your very modus vivendi!
           
          No more for now – I simply expect a decent answer that you can take cap in hand to those enquiring into the ABC soon.
           
          Geoff Seidner
          13 Alston Gr
          East St Kilda 3183
          03 9 525 9299
           
           
           
           
           
           

          Mia Freedman and Janet Albrechtsen discuss politics of gender

          After a day in which the language of gender has been much-discussed in the political sphere, we hear the perspectives of two women in the media, Mia Freedman and Janet Albrechtsen.
          Contains: video, image,


          Health Minister

          12/06/2013 Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek, discusses the furore over a menu for a Liberal party fundraiser containing offensive language about the Prime Minister.

          PM on the menu

          12/06/2013 Obscene descriptions of the Prime Minister's body on the menu at a Liberal party fundraiser have enraged the government who have once again labelled the opposition as sexist.

          PM addresses women

          11/06/2013 With her leadership being questioned Julia Gillard has gone on the offensive and told an audience of women that the coalition would banish women from the centre of political life.

          Wednesday 5 June 2013

          75 vagabonds! Watch the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by.


           
           
          From: g87
          Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 2:22 PM
          Subject: 75 vagabonds! Watch the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by.
           
           

           

          Well may Bill Shorten and Swan  try to organize the March of the 75 odd Lightweights to the

          great Peter Dawson [Kipling] tune: The Smuggler’s Song.

          Indeed – the hapless, doomed backbenchers are sick and tired of being asked to watch the wall
          as their leaders drive them to oblivion!

           

          ’’Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
          Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.’’
           
          They are indeed political vagabonds.
           
           
          Geoff Seidner
          13 Alston Gr East St Kilda 3183
          03 9525 9299

           

           

          The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson Classic ... 

          allpoetry.com/.../8473299-The_Charge_Of_The_Light_Brigade-by-Alfr...
          Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred. / 'Forward, the Light Brigade! / Charge for the guns!' he said: / Into the valley of Death ...
           
           
           
           
           
           

          The Charge Of The Light Brigade


          by Alfred, Lord Tennyson


          Memorializing Events in the Battle of Balaclava, October 25, 1854
          Written 1854




          Half a league half a league,
          Half a league onward,
          All in the valley of Death
          Rode the six hundred:
          'Forward, the Light Brigade!
          Charge for the guns' he said:
          Into the valley of Death
          Rode the six hundred.

          'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
          Was there a man dismay'd ?
          Not tho' the soldier knew
          Some one had blunder'd:
          Theirs not to make reply,
          Theirs not to reason why,
          Theirs but to do & die,
          Into the valley of Death
          Rode the six hundred.
           
           
           
           
           
           
          The last two stanzas of
           
          The Smugglers Song by Rudyard  Kipling
           
          'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
          You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
          With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
          A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !

          Five and twenty ponies,
          Trotting through the dark -
          Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
          Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
          Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by !  





          The last two stanzas from The Smugglers Song by Rudyard  Kipling


          'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
          You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
          With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
          A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !

          Five and twenty ponies,
          Trotting through the dark -
          Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
          Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
          Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by ! 





          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LtOIN1G4I

          Peter Dawson:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZmO3oRsSoU



          A Smuggler's Song



          IF you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
          Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
          Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
          Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.

          Five and twenty ponies,
          Trotting through the dark -
          Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
          Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
          Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!

          Running round the woodlump if you chance to find
          Little barrels, roped and tarred, all full of brandy-wine,
          Don't you shout to come and look, nor use 'em for your play.
          Put the brishwood back again - and they'll be gone next day !

          If you see the stable-door setting open wide;
          If you see a tired horse lying down inside;
          If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;
          If the lining's wet and warm - don't you ask no more !

          If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,
          You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.
          If they call you " pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the chin,
          Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been !

          Knocks and footsteps round the house - whistles after dark -
          You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark.
          Trusty's here, and Pincher's here, and see how dumb they lie
          They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by !

          'If You do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance,
          You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
          With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood -
          A present from the Gentlemen, along 'o being good !

          Five and twenty ponies,
          Trotting through the dark -
          Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
          Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie -
          Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by ! 

          "Hal o' the Draft"

          These notes are based on those written by Donald Mackenzie for the OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS edition of Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies (1995) with the kind permission of Oxford University Press. Except where stated otherwise, the page numbers below refer to the Macmillan Uniform Edition of Puck of Pook's Hill (1906, and frequently reprinted since).



          [October 7th 2011]

          Publication

          This story was first published in the Strand Magazine of August 1906, and McClure's Magazine for the same month. It was collected in Puck of Pook's Hill in 1906 and in numerous subsequent editions of that collection. It was accompanied by the poems "Prophets at Home" and "Smugglers' Song" .

          The story

          Dan and Una meet Sir Harry Dawe, one of the great architects and craftsmen of the early 16th century, who had been born and brought up in their valley. He tells the story of how he was given the job of restoring their local village church, St Barnabas'. He found the Sussex villagers strangely unhelpful. His friend Sebastian Cabot, was planning a voyage across the Atlantic; he had ordered guns for his ship from a local forge, and he too was finding it a frustrating experience, since there were constant delays, and implausible excuses for broken promises. 

          Then they find that the local ironmasters are making guns secretly for Sir Andrew Barton, a pirate who sailed off the Sussex coast, and hiding them in the church before delivery. On the advice of a wise old local magistrate, Hal and Sebastian come down with soldiers and take the guns on the bland assumption that they are destined for Sebastian's ship. They take no legal action, which saves the necks of the conspirators, and Hal gets every help from the villagers thereafter.

          Critical comments

          C. W. Scott-Giles, in the article cited in the headnote to "Young Men at the Manor", remarks on the jumbling of dates in this story and its sequel, "The Wrong Thing" in Rewards and Fairies.


          Notes on the text


          [Page 231, line 8] Jack Cade leader of a major rebellion in 1450 against the government of Henry VI. He entered London in July but was quickly driven out. Wounded and captured at Lewes, Sussex, he died at Heathfield while being transported to London.

          [Page 231, line 11] ballad of Sir Andrew Barton in Percy's Reliques (2nd series, Bk. 2).

          [Page 231, line 12] swarved climbed.

          [Page 232, line 16] Low Country cross-bow steel The best steel for making cross-bows came from what is now Belgium.

          [Page 232, line 19] Gaffer Jonah Jonah, who - according to the Book of Jonah in the Old Testament - was swallowed by a whale, but managed to escape through divine providence.

          [Page 232, line 22] Barnabas's Barnabas was the companion of St Paul on his first missionary journey (Acts 13-14).

          [Page 232, line 32] Little Lindens Rye Green Farm on the Bateman's estate.

          [Page 233, line 18] Bramante Italian architect (1444-1514).

          [Page 234, line 29] Galilee porch the large cruciform porch of this name was added on the west side of the south transept of Lincoln Cathedral (right) in the mid-thirteenth century, during the episcopacy of Bishop Grosseteste. 


          [Page 234, line 30] Torrigiano's Florentine sculptor (1472-1528); worked on the tombs of Henry VII (right) and Henry's wife and mother in Westminster Chapel.

          [Page 235, line 19] came into England all in one year Hops were first introduced into England in 1520 by brewers from the Low Countries, who used them to flavour beer. The first record of a roast turkey at a banquet is from 1570, though turkeys may have been bred much earlier. 'Heresy' probably refers to the spread of reformist ideas from Germany or Geneva, and this could have referred to the 1520s, the decade before England's breach with Rome.

          [Page 236, line 6] the Pomps of the Flesh cf. the answer to the third question in the Anglican Catechism, `I should renounce ... the pomps and vanity of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh'.

          [Page 237, line 20] shaw a small wood.

          [Page 237, line 24] Serpentines a kind of cannon; in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries used largely as a ship's gun.

          [Page 237, line 31] Sebastianus Sebastian Cabot (c. 1476-1557); explorer and cartographer. He may have accompanied his father John on the voyage of exploration to North America (in 1497) which discovered Newfoundland.

          [Page 238, line 16] murrain pestilence.

          [Page 238, line 18] Black Death plague that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, with later recurrences.

          [Page 238, line 28] iron cramps a small bar with the ends bent, used for holding together two pieces of masonry, timber, etc.

          [Page 238, line 29] spaulty dry and brittle (Oxford English Dictionary).

          [Page 239, line 2] ary one anyone.

          [Page 239, line 15] hoy Oxford English Dictionary (quoting from Smyth, Sailor's Word-book) gives: A small vessel, usually rigged as a sloop, and employed in carrying passengers and goods particularly in short distances, on the sea-coast. 

          [Page 240, line 5] pure pute clean, mere.

          [Page 240, line 30] willow-tot clump of willow.

          [Page 241, line 7] lither wicked (in this sense normally applied to persons, not objects).

          [Page 241, line 10] demi-cannon a large gun of about 6 1/2 " (16 cm.) bore.

          [Page 241, line 27] howlet owl.

          [Page 242, line 26] carrack a large cargo ship, also fitted for war.

          [Page 2342, line 31] mell with interfere with.

          [Page 243, line 27] dozened stupefied or dazed.

          [Page 242, line 23] coil fuss.

          [Page 245, line 24] old tod a crafty, fox-like person.

          [Page 246, line 9] Our King went forth to Normandie opening line of the Victory at Agincourt (Percy's Reliques, 2nd ser., Bk. x); also the tune to which it is sung.

          [Page 250, line 13] vivers Rootlets

          [Page 250, line 30] Silly Sussex 'silly' is used here in its archaic sense of `simple, innocent, homely'.





          "Prophets at Home"



          In Songs from Books" and DV entitled "Prophets at Home".

          [line 1] Prophets have honour cf. Mark 6: 1-6 and Luke 4: 16-24

          [line 5] naughty wayward, disobedient.

          [line 9] Nineveh Town see Jonah 1-4 and especially 1, 17-2, 10.






          "A Smuggler's Song" 

          (notes by Philip Holberton and Donald Mackenzie)


          [Verse 1 Line 3] Them that asks no questions isn’t told a lie Oliver Goldsmith: "She Stoops to Conquer" (1773): 'Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.'

          [Verse 2 Line 4] brishwood Sussex dialect for brushwood

          [Verse Line 1] King George’s men Soldiers hunting the smugglers

          [Verse 7 Line 3] Valenciennes lace, originally produced (c. 1705-80) in the town of that name in Northern France.


          [D. M./P.H.]

          ©Donald Mackenzie and Philip Holberton 2005 All rights reserved 



          Tuesday 4 June 2013

          : Hello Jon Faine ...re asbestos NBN and ZETA NUMBERS

          Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:53 AM
          Subject: Hello Jon Faine ...re asbestos NBN and ZETA NUMBERS

          Jon Faine
          Radio Host 774
          Greetings, Jon
          and ABC HQTRS

          It ain’t easy being on the left, is it?
          I listened how you were given an asbestos / NBN  lesson between 8 30 am and 9 35 am this morning.
          At least you admitted you have a lot to learn.
          The trouble is that Conroy and his cronys have done everything to hide everything re NBN white elephant – which has now become yet another lethal instrument in the hands of those who managed so far to kill only 4 people re their green / luvvy / insulation disaster. Never mind that he does not understand what a ‘CBA’ is – see google highlighted below.
          You see John – it is all a moot point that Conroy simply does not understand that it has to include the Potential costs of not doing the project!!!
          Seeing that he is / was / will remain being generations behind – seeing that he refuses to allow the various departments at his disposal to rationally cost any policy.
          Preferring consultants – ‘experts’ Julia is very good at running up costs like this – and usually ignoring the result! Sigh.
          But I digress. It is so easy to digress when this miserable Labor mob has reached the stage that even the true believers have given up. They have less than 40% of the mean IQ – in support – which because of the nature of mean  IQ  relationship to the mean population – Julia can surely only go up from here. Oops -  I digressed again. Cannot help myself – we live in interesting times. To quote a now reconfigured Australian curse.

          PM bent on leading ALP over the abyss | The Australian 

          www.theaustralian.com.au/.../pm.../story-e6frgd0x-1226656501382

          ... the abyss. by: Phillip Adams; From: The Australian; June 04, 2013 12:00AM ... (It's surprising he didn't call publicly for her resignation on his way out the door.) ...
          Indeed – I commend you: the very first thing you said this morning was in contemplating how one can check the veracity of asbestos fibres removal and the safety restored in situ.
          With Conroy in charge – he the one who is not bound by cost – benefit analysis
          But getting back to my main theme.
          Your ABC has multiple ways of demonstrating their bias.
          Indeed this email will be the start of my didactic list of how the programme managers manage to get away with it. Please appreciate that this is merely the start: today I have thought of only two – and I have restricted this list to merely unusual / not widely understood / appreciated scams.
          1. INVALID ASSOCIATIONS.
          2. ECONOMIC IRRATIONALISM
          3. DEBUNKING NOT LIKED IDEAS
          1. Performing a Cost-Benefit Analysis - For Dummies 

            www.dummies.com/how-to/.../performing-a-costbenefit-analysis.html

            Whether you know it as a cost-benefit analysis or a benefit-cost analysis, performing one is ... Potential costs of not doing the project ... your analysis, the more important itis to convert your estimates of benefits over costs into today's dollars.
          2. [PDF]

            Handbook of Cost-Benefit Analysis - Department of Finance and ... 

            www.finance.gov.au/publications/.../Handbook_of_CB_analysis.pdf

            Cost-benefit analysis is also helpful where, without any commercial ... determining the money equivalent value of outcome is not feasible, cost-effectiveness .... more readily accessible, the cost of doing a cost-benefit analysis has fallen.
          The below link will take you to the reason for this email: ZETTA NUMBERS AND GILLARD. And ABC AM on 31.5 link.
          Note that the asbestos disaster – Labor disaster # 997 – has largely made the ZETA NUMBERS parody not the most important thing.
          However – I do wish to point out that the sheer idiocy behind the ABC AM producers running this as a pathetic attempt to justify the NBN – is beyond intellectual contempt!
          I sduppose moral contempt too – because the asbestos catastrophe was known – even if the story and it’s implications have not ‘dawned’ yet.
          Look Jon – no matter how large the internet becomes – it is imbecilic to try to mount the total downloading in 2017  as an excuse for the Conroy version of the NBN!!
          Oh – I forgot – Conroy has planned for 40 years  completion – even more absurd on the grounds that he will be GA GA by then – and unable to make sense – as indeed he is, essentially non compis now.
          NO MATTER how large – the material re future  downloaded does not increase exponentially. and even if it did – he is astoundingly ignorant of matters material! WHY FOR HEAVEN’s [that is secular heaven] SAKE NOT ALLOW THE PROBLEM OF 4 or 40) YEARS IN FUTURE BE SOLVED – OR ALLOW TO BE SOLVED – AS INDEED WILL BE – THEN!!
          THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED SOLUTIONS IN 2013 FOR SITUATIONS THAT MUST – BY THE VERY NATURE OF UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE – BE SOLVED THEN? MAN ALIVE – WHY NOT THE LEFT UNDERSTAND THIS??
          Yes – this capitalization indicates the new format of shouting.
          There is nothing wrong with shouting.
          Who claims there is? It is only the left who so declare as a tool of vitiation!
          Oh – and the exclamation marks? That too is acceptable – I am allowed these harmless instruments – in view  what the government of disrepute does daily.
          Indeed there are many new things daily.
          They are doing a snow – job on us! #997 is too far to count.....
          Do I need to give you a rational analysis of what I just wrote: I KNOW you understand. If you insist on not understanding – then I am sad.
          Thus I have the first 2 of above:
          1. INVALID ASSOCIATIONS.
          2. ECONOMIC IRRATIONALISM
          I note: #3 DEBUNKING NOT LIKED IDEAS
          Look Jon – the ABC creates news in attempting to debunk news they do not like – See this morning The Australian Cut And Paste.
          Thank goodness for David Karoly.



        • Karoly's regal bias - Cut and paste - 4/6/13
          see my link above
          So here I leave it.
          I am working on a method whereby the sheer dunamics [not a typo] of Labor’s disasters can be seen at a glance!
          Merely logging it on my blog is not the answer.
          The entries will get lost in the morass of madness – it will have no meaning for our grandchildren. If they survive climate lunacy. I am not sure it is worth the effort.
          Can you partner a daily entry on The Drum – so we can make a start?
          Who knows where it will finish.
          Perhaps my  maim blog is a clue. socialistdystopia.blogspot.com.au
          There is a lot of supplementary reading there for refugees of the left.
          You see Jon – I have a dream to stop Labor governments from EVER being able to do this again – no matter what iteratin any future derivations will be named.
          I know the Bretharians, Thetanites and the defunct Natural Law Party have made their moves in preselections  and takeovers to come.
          Stay tuned... or do a google searc of what I have written on this genuine conspiracy.
          However:
          •  In my utopian world – lies will not be allowed. Ho hum.
          •  Parties will be sued if they wilfully cause harm to the people.
          •  Parties will have to explicate in full detail – even if it is like the NBN / back of envelope job – all of why / what / how they ‘do’.
          •  The main point is accountability: parties will not be able to hide from the  circumstances they glibly create and the logical, indubitable financial implications thereof. That any government has to contemplate all this will mean that all is done in good faith – and they will not have to run the shredders when the day of denouement decimates their utopia.
          Look through my blog Jon.
          It is just a matter of time before it becomes obligatory reading. I am trying to bully my family and friends to do so.
          The above is being posted on my blog within seconds: In view of the precarious nature of the future of the ABC incipient privatised et al – you and management  may appreciate the opportunity of showing to the future buyer that you have become economic and political rationalists.
          And if you do not – you can describe my scribbles as ‘rambling’.
          Who knows – you may still have a lot of supporters. Up The Revolution!
          Regards
          Geoff Seidner
          13 Alston Gr East St Kilda 3183
          03 9 525 – 9299
          Ps I am one – eyed as of now: tomorrow I am having my second cataract operation.