tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post5258018202967976338..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Silence Gives ConsentBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-21200330036984376422012-03-06T13:54:09.046+11:002012-03-06T13:54:09.046+11:00And to think, this numbers moron is teaching our k...And to think, this numbers moron is teaching our kids!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-89221262504427769502012-03-06T12:25:30.012+11:002012-03-06T12:25:30.012+11:00Things may well look different from your viewpoint...Things may well look different from your viewpoint in Canada and Israel, Avi, but on the ground here in Australia this scam is full-steam-ahead. I get the feeling that Australia is being used as a 'guinea-pig' for a 'globalist totalitarian state' test run.Andrew Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-11894827219875357082012-03-06T11:27:31.036+11:002012-03-06T11:27:31.036+11:00Carefully and not until I'm dressed, for prefe...Carefully and not until I'm dressed, for preference.Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-25007844106878248682012-03-06T11:14:58.785+11:002012-03-06T11:14:58.785+11:00Spot on Avi. The battle is still in progress, but ...Spot on Avi. The battle is still in progress, but there's no returning to looney-land now. The academics are beginning to distance themselves from this lunacy in an attempt to salvage what they can of their reputations, the rest will follow once the illusion of "settled science" fades into the distance like a really bad dream.<br /><br />The AGW campaign however is only one battlefront in a much larger war, and was used as a reason to push Agenda 21, so the war against international totalitarianism will continue.<br /><br />Nevertheless, medals should be issued now to the local heroes of this campaign such as Jo Nova, Andrew Bolt, our esteemed Professor Bunyip and numerous others.<br /><br />How do you pin a medal on a bunyip?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-9098948898020261552012-03-06T10:02:15.419+11:002012-03-06T10:02:15.419+11:00There is only one issue large enough to drive the ...There is only one issue large enough to drive the panic and the frothing rage behind this astounding bit of overtly fascistic regulatory over-reach you folks are threatened with: The collapse of the carefully constructed, heavily funded and promoted Global Warming hoax which puttered along very nicely for two decades until the blogosphere ripped it apart from end to end. <br /><br />I mean, just look at the hilarity of it all. So many involved, so much invested, so many on the take. National governments, the UN, thousands of big and small NGOs, local authorities, academia, the arts and of course crony capital and the media, all lined up behind this tax-the-air scheme, then along comes the Internet and a handful of self-funded bloggers and...kaboom! Climategate, FakeGate and whatnot. A cringe-material slow-mo act of a trillion slithering down the drain, along with millions in glossy PR, reputations, careers, industries, schemes, policies, “green” subsidies and such. What would have been the first successful step in global taxation, regulation and governance got scuttled by barely a hundred characters with some spare time between jobs or fishing trips! <br /><br />Wonderful stuff, Prof and keep up the battle, people, you are not and won’t be alone.<br /><br />Avi Barzel<br />Toronto, Canada and <br />Zikhron Ya’akov, IsraelAvi Barzelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-21507326343415152452012-03-06T09:40:33.115+11:002012-03-06T09:40:33.115+11:00Thanks. There was a time when Isaac Newton knew mo...Thanks. There was a time when Isaac Newton knew more about light than any man alive. He was uniquely right. He was solely soulfully right. With two ten dollar prisms [today's figures] he had seen what no-one alive had seen. He understood a detail no living man beside him had apprehended.<br />Yet the question remains what is white light.? Does it exist anywhere other than the mind. Light is very much invisible - only perceived when it is doing something on a time line. Then where is a "mind"? Newton's genius pales into a dim.<br />Martin Amis' "stupefied by relativism" is the greatest bit of meta-narrative of this last half century.<br />An explosion of data facts obscures an ignorance of gigantuan monumental proportions.<br /><br />Jesus is who He said He is. If that means everyone else is wrong - like Newton with white light - "one" has to get comfortable with it. Christianity doesn't just stand alone in intellectual ascendency - it is right.PhillipGeorge(c)2012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-9726460250192126372012-03-06T09:35:46.395+11:002012-03-06T09:35:46.395+11:00Ah, but do you have the requisite "Fish Fear ...Ah, but do you have the requisite "Fish Fear Me" T-shirt?mojonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-14735441612411994182012-03-06T06:46:16.049+11:002012-03-06T06:46:16.049+11:00Or as Breitbart would say "...War."Or as Breitbart would say <em><a href="http://misfitpolitics.co/2012/03/we-are-andrew-breitbart/" rel="nofollow">"...War."</a></em>spot_the_doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07595786362789726056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-39901795230308019522012-03-06T06:45:49.557+11:002012-03-06T06:45:49.557+11:00James Delingpole: Why I owe Aussie QC Raymond Fink...James Delingpole: <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100141570/why-i-owe-aussie-qc-raymond-finkelstein-a-pint/" rel="nofollow">Why I owe Aussie QC Raymond Finkelstein a pint</a>spot_the_doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07595786362789726056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-44992312684319447202012-03-06T05:10:41.340+11:002012-03-06T05:10:41.340+11:00Awwwww that was sweet. I do believe that the over...Awwwww that was sweet. I do believe that the overly earnest 173599 was chuffed to be addressed directly. High fives 173599!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-54222925163798611182012-03-06T01:09:27.830+11:002012-03-06T01:09:27.830+11:00And civvies have your old job in the cookhouse, yo...And civvies have your old job in the cookhouse, you old Blackshirt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-5437125644343202272012-03-05T22:06:10.837+11:002012-03-05T22:06:10.837+11:00Yep - visited last year. A few things have changed...Yep - visited last year. A few things have changed. There are women......<br />There are computers wall-to-wall in the orderly room. The m113s look the same, but apparently they're comprehensively re-engineered. <br />Still a great unit.1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-53029065557583028782012-03-05T21:06:35.382+11:002012-03-05T21:06:35.382+11:00The more you look at this report the worse it gets...The more you look at this report the worse it gets. Obscene in its recommendations it might be, but ‘incompetent’ is a charitable description, and to say ‘fraud’ might be a bridge too far at this stage when incompetence and internalised bias are seen in abundance.<br /><br />What first year student would get away with this in a rigorously marked paper:-<br />On page 281 this is stated (and it is a great indictment of ability of former APC Chairs), “Professor McKinnon, a former APC Chair, has pointed out several examples of transgressions of the fundamental principles of fairness, accuracy and balance”. And what are they? <br /><br />In the report:-<br />a bias in the reporting of government affairs. Evidence from McKinnon? Nil.The bald statement only.<br /><br />b. obsessive attempts to influence government policy by day-after-day repetition of issues with little or no new information of news value <br />Evidence from McKinnon? ‘the correctness of the 2008 national stimulus program; NBN, the Education Revolution, the Wivenhoe Dam inquiry’ <br /><br />Yes that was the Wivenhoe dam scandal, which has caused the reopening of the whole enquiry up there – obviously criticised because the first rate journalist concerned (former Gold Walkely winner) was the enemy due to their (Ricketson and Margaret Simons) fixation with poor old Simon Overland.<br /><br />c opposition to government policy which is commercially-driven. <br />Evidence from McKinnon? ‘establishment of the NBN program’.<br /><br />d. the unfair pursuit of individuals based on information that is inaccurate. <br />Evidence from McKinnon? ‘pursuit of Victorian Police Commissioner Overland, using information that OPI found unfair and inaccurate’. Note the “that OPI found unfair and inaccurate”. <br /><br />No mention of the Victorian Ombudsman’s report excoriating OPI for total unaccountability and that this could lead to “an opportunity for the improper use or overuse of interception powers could go undetected”. No, that would go against the ‘Poor Overland’ narrative of Margaret Simons and….yes….Mathew Ricketson!,<br /><br />Now these all make up nothing but subjective assertion, (probable) personal bias and, above all, incompetence by the report writers. To actually have these flimsy examples (none of which are objectively valid - as if even the NBN criticism by other commercial players who saw the taxpayer funding a scheme to attack their businesses doesn’t scream out for a public response to a public competitor, is nonsense). <br /><br />As I said, everywhere you look this is rubbish. <br />M Ryutin SydneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-29967772038569580392012-03-05T21:06:24.758+11:002012-03-05T21:06:24.758+11:00Hi Phill,
I just got myself an mp3 of C S Lewis &...Hi Phill,<br /><br />I just got myself an mp3 of C S Lewis "Screwtape Letters" narrated by John Cleese. It's a screamer! Your spray reminded me of this. <br /><br />I truly love your work! You must know that it flickers between translucent and opaque for most readers - me included. <br /><br />When you are on a roll, however, and I can keep up, it sets my day up in a pleasingly surreal lava flow. It bouys me as events ebb back into the quantifiable here and now. <br /><br />When not, Hey, it just passes me by and I cant apply myself to figgering out what you mean. <br /><br />Not sure what your Profession is, but mine is one where any sort of florid expression annoys the Hell out of my colleagues. <br /><br />A perfect community would be one where an ecumenism of proffessions exist. Where a bad day, could range in consequence, from one's becoming a 100 foot long streak of protein on a runway to getting the length of Hamurabi's beard wrong. Despite this diversity, the coinage would be a dilligent search for proffessional excellence in absolute (not relative) terms. <br /><br />It would also require an easy going enquiring appreciation of what the guy next to you at the bar does for a crust. <br /><br />Penny for your thoughts Buddy? Whoah ! Keep it simple ..Mark Boltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04345647263994713620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-25188386465627603012012-03-05T20:57:13.774+11:002012-03-05T20:57:13.774+11:00Why would you bring all this bile and childish cla...Why would you bring all this bile and childish class hatred here? This is an address where grown-ups meet. Take your under-developed brain back to the Drum where it will be appreciated by its delinquents’ nursery. Better still, if your parents are still alive, ask them whether you were accidentally damaged by a forcepts delivery at birth, you stupid old fool.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-30867970453904244282012-03-05T20:29:28.609+11:002012-03-05T20:29:28.609+11:00"... my youngest daughter when she was three ..."... my youngest daughter when she was three ..."<br />Ah, the wisdom of infants illustrated; why do you do so at your currently advanced age? Practising for senility?<br /><br />CheersMinicapthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13421626155178200181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-50334076706529331062012-03-05T20:21:33.940+11:002012-03-05T20:21:33.940+11:00Where it says "Blogs I Follow", you don&...Where it says "Blogs I Follow", you don't mention the good Bunyip, Bob? That's a bit rough.<br /><br />I notice that the 7th Battalion are up and running on their own again, no longer merged with the 5th. Based at the Edinburgh RAAF in Adelaide.<br /><br />I can hear the staff at the Grunt Factory nowadays "Lift your game Private, or you'll be getting posted to 7RAR in Adelaide!"Andrew Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-53968229600189262232012-03-05T20:11:17.202+11:002012-03-05T20:11:17.202+11:00So numbers,
At what age did you decide to become ...So numbers,<br /><br />At what age did you decide to become a fascist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-79531045775243614942012-03-05T19:38:00.058+11:002012-03-05T19:38:00.058+11:00You haven't read any of it by the look of your...You haven't read any of it by the look of your generalised comments. The quality of key parts of the report is of a standard which would go close to failing a first year assignment (unless it was at one of our Claytons University Journalism Schools that is). Less charitable people would call it for something else entirely.<br />M Ryutin SydneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-62809766057548523282012-03-05T18:59:33.810+11:002012-03-05T18:59:33.810+11:00"he has no excuse for failing to acknowledge ..."he has no excuse for failing to acknowledge the practical issues involved in monitoring and policing an entire nation’s chatter"<br />He wasn't asked to. It looks as if you haven't bothered to read the terms of reference -<br /> "(a) The effectiveness of the current media codes of practice in Australia, particularly in light of technological change that is leading to the migration of print media to digital and online platforms.<br /> (b) The impact of this technological change on the business model that has supported the investment by traditional media organisations in quality journalism and the production of news, and how such activities can be supported, and diversity enhanced, in the changed media environment.<br /> (c) Ways of substantially strengthening the independence and effectiveness of the Australian Press Council, including in relation to online publications, and with particular reference to the handling of complaints.<br /> (d) Any related issues pertaining to the ability of the media to operate according to regulations and codes of practice, and in the public interest."<br />"Fifteen thousand pageviews per year make a website big enough to warrant official scrutiny, according to the Media Review’s authors."<br />Means my blog would also qualify. I don't find this in the least threatening. Perhaps it's because I don't use it to smear, demean and vilify those with whom I disagree.<br />"The Media Review is a smug, arrogant manifesto which crystallises all the noxious attitudes that have ruined Fairfax, sullied the ABC and replaced debate with an absurd insistence that the views of the tight, hooked-in, self-referential coterie of worshippers at authority’s altar represent more, much more, than a mere body of opinion."<br />Translation - Because I disagree in large measure with the opinions expressed in the Fairfax press and the ABC, and because I believe firmly that there is a conspiracy to subject extremists on the right to scrutiny, I am having no part of any rational discussion about the issue. (Reminds me of my youngest daughter when she was three and went through a stage of closing her eyes and putting her fingers in her ears when we told her something she didn't wish to hear).<br />"In the Media section of today’s Australian, various heavyweights weigh in on the inquiry with balanced and nuanced appreciations of its worth, the general view being that the report is worthy of further discussion and refinement"<br />Even the Fart of the Nation is occasionally capable of balance.<br />"the unquestioned assumption that there is both a right and need to regulate speech"<br />There is a balance to be struck between protection of individual reputation with freedom of expression. Essentially, this is well understood in western democracies. When it breaks down, the end result is totalitarianism. <br />"What Finko & Rickety have produced is an obscenity. Their recommendations need to be scuttled before they can be launched. There will be no sinking them after that."<br />The hysterical reaction to the Independent Media Inquiry is probably the most reliable indicator of its necessity. Vested interest has much to lose, and they're squealing like stuck pigs.<br />It's similar in many ways to Twiggy Forrest's full page media splurge.1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-32520881414962278432012-03-05T18:10:34.946+11:002012-03-05T18:10:34.946+11:00Tom -- I have said something like this before, I k...Tom -- I have said something like this before, I know, but again -- one needs to do more than turn up live at a demo. The meeja can too easily ignore or denigrate it; someone has to organise it; and at least for the likes of an aged protester like me, a large part of the point of the demo (finding a sexual partner, and/or a joint) has dissipated. I suggest that one needs to join a pressure group (and more particularly the Liberals or the Nationals) and propagate noisily the points of view expressed by the Prof.<br /><br />Thought needs be given to how a Coalition government would deal a Greens/Labor controlled Senate, not least to cope with legislation likely to be pushed through before the next election. Triggering a double dissolution might backfire. As I recall the law, a government can neuter a dud appointment, or a stacked body, etc by simply not making an appropriation for their activities. This might fix the ABC for example. A hostile Senate would have to block the budget to overcome this tactic.rafikinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-60953480678290129922012-03-05T17:12:11.139+11:002012-03-05T17:12:11.139+11:00Perhaps I have missed it, but I could not find any...Perhaps I have missed it, but I could not find anything on Mr Abbott's site about binning the media inquiry's recommendations and associated apparatus.<br /><br /> (http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/PressReleases.aspx)<br /><br />I think questions about the future of the recommendations etc should be directed to Mr Abbott.HRTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70412993732606157922012-03-05T16:30:32.658+11:002012-03-05T16:30:32.658+11:00Hear, hear Prof, well said.
I read somewhere yeste...Hear, hear Prof, well said.<br />I read somewhere yesterday that this legislation might be illegal under previous High Court decisions.<br /><br />"Federal Court Judge: And what Law are you basing this argument on?<br />Darryl Kerrigan: The Law of bloody common sense! "<br />(from The Castle)brennannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-84027010380750430112012-03-05T15:02:27.435+11:002012-03-05T15:02:27.435+11:00Amen Prof - this needs wider distributionAmen Prof - this needs wider distributionCaptain Queegnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-16001858279844167872012-03-05T14:27:32.965+11:002012-03-05T14:27:32.965+11:00The Greeks called it hubris. "Overreach"...The Greeks called it hubris. "Overreach" is the essence. <br /><br />The progressives have done so well in subverting media, education, and the civil service because they took their time about it, from about the time of GB Shaw. But the accelerated pace of public dialogue on the Web has made them think they must/can rush the next step. <br /><br />But the water is being heated too fast, now; the frogs (and the cane toads) are rousing, and may well escape the pot.Brian Hnoreply@blogger.com