Fox News confuses ISIS with Ferguson :s

Ferguson looks like doesn't fit the agenda/propaganda of Fox News. I'm not sure what to make of this video. The Barbie doll is raving about ISIS and then on the screen comes live pics from Ferguson US. The Barbie doll gets pissed off and wants to go on preaching about ISIS and the beheaded guy and the death of an American. Why are American deaths made out to be more valuable than others?. And why is a black American's death less valuable than a white Americans? In the end it's a split screen with her on about terror, and Ferguson pictures.

 

Palmer kills AMA co-payment proposal

Well that's it for that one. I dunno how much effort the Australian Medical Association put into their proposal but it's kaput now. Palmer has rejected it, and any notion of any sort of co-payment:

Labor and the Greens oppose a Medicare co-payment as a matter of principle, asserting that it would undermine the principle of universal access to healthcare regardless of wealth. The measure cannot pass without support of the Palmer United party (PUP) senators. 

“We’re against any co-payment,” Palmer told Guardian Australia on Thursday. 

Asked whether he had a favourable view of the AMA compromise, including exemptions for pensioners, the PUP leader repeated his general opposition: “We’re against any co-payment – can’t be more clear.” more 

Newsflash - fix pollution by pricing carbon!

Australia loses Chinese solar investment/R&D

Ignoring solar power also ignores solar power investment, which is exactly what the Abbott gov is doing. He's making it so unfavourable for solar power companies in Australia that companies will simply up and leave for greener pastures. Which is exactly what's starting to happen now that Abbott has ripped the guts out of the clean energy industry here. "Open for business"?

Exit one huge Chinese solar company's R&D investment in Australia.

Suntech, founded by Australian-trained former "Sun King" billionaire Shi Zhengrong, will next month close its Suntech R&D Australia unit with the loss of about a dozen jobs. 

The company, now owned by a Hong Kong solar tycoon Cheng Kin Ming and renamed Wuxi Suntech, said in May it invests more than $3 million a year in Australian research and development. 

"Suntech wants to continue a relationship with Australia, but it no longer makes the same sense to keep a research team [here]," Renate Egan, managing director of the Sydney-based R&D unit, said.

Dr Egan said Wuxi Suntech recently announced a plan to consolidate most research activities at its base in China. The Abbott government's signals that it will cut the national renewable energy goal also reduced confidence about future opportunities. 

"Clearly the market's not going to grow here," Dr Egan said, referring to large-scale projects. Read more 

More cracks appear in the Lieberals

Finally, finally.......  It seems to be starting to sink in to their thick bloody heads that the key budget measures will not get through the senate in anything like their present form. I don't know how many times they've been told over and over that their cruely doesn't want to be on the senate's conscience. Seriously, who would want suicides to deal with - blood on their hands? Because that's exactly what will happen if some of these harsh measures go through.

Now suddenly there's no more "budget emergency", and a way is being opened for the gov to try and save a bit of face and get out of this whole budget mess; to simply say Oh well, there might have to be tax increases at some point in the future. Evidently that's supposed to be some kind of threat? *pfffft* Sounds good to me. How about they actually get highest income earners paying their fair share of tax for a start. 

In line with the government’s dramatic rhetorical shift about the “budget emergency” last week, the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, insisted there was “no rush” to win Senate approval for budget savings measures but added that if spending cuts could not be achieved over time the government could be left with no choice but to raise taxes. more  

OMG! Smokin Sloppy Joe = SSJoe :)

Ha ha ha ha ha .........

I've always in recent years referred to Joe Hockey as "Sloppy Joe" as that's what he's been known on the internet as, well back then anyway. In recent times, after his unforgettable cigar incident filmed on National telly, he's become known as "Smokin Joe". So I just added it all together and have recently started referring to Hockey as "Smokin Sloppy Joe".

I just realised. That's "SSJoe" :) 

SS in the sailing world means "steam ship", the inference therefore in SSJoe is that he is a steam ship. A steam ship blusters a lot of steam doesn't to for little avail really..... ha ha ha haa.........

I hereby then christen Smokin Sloppy Joe forever more on this blog as SSJoe. May he sink soon :)

 

Newscorp in decline in Australia

Little wonder. His stuff is so biased readers are turning away. It's easier just to read what's on the Lieberal party website, why go read a paper saying the same thing?

Media analyst Steve Allen from Fusion Strategy has looked over the documents and says Mr Murdoch will soon have to make some tough choices. 

"The first set of decisions would be how could we substantially slim down, how can we make all of our operations more efficient?" he said. 

"Because the trend says they won't be making money in a year or two." 

Independent financial analyst Mark McDonnell says he is staggered at how inaccurate News Corp's own internal forecasts are. 

"Pretty much for every area of their business, their internal forecasting is woeful," he said. 

"It's very surprising, it's even more surprising that external analysts can get a better fix on the companies performance than people internally. 

"The rate of decline in those titles - the Herald Sun, the Daily Telegraph in Sydney - is well into the double digits and in earnings terms is highly material and very concerning." more 

Adam Hills in Britain on Westboro Baptist Church :)

I didn't know he had a show in England. He's from Australia and been on the telly here a lot. Here he does an hilarious rant about the Westboro Baptist Church and their intention to picket the funeral of Robin Williams:

 

  The WBC said Williams was ‘burning in hell’ for being an outspoken supporter of the LGBTI community. One of his most famous roles was the cross-dressing Mrs Doubtfire, and also played gay in the films Boulevard and The Birdcage. - See more

Smokin Sloppy Joe "The Herdsman" - Moir :)

Officer in anti-gay racist rant - US

This from an officer FFS:

 

Keeping the $wolves at bay

Had to come up with a plan of action to keep the $barbarians from the door for this coming week. David and I are both now waiting for Centrelink back pay, and for our money to be put at a survivable level. Meanwhile another week goes by with virtually nothing. This week the situation is made even worse as the credit card is so high now that the minimum payment each month is getting rather a lot. If I miss that the bank will chuck a fit and freeze the account, and then we'll be really fucked won't we if Centrelink is still fart assing around with our payments.

So I've paid the rent with the credit card again. I get the meager pension amount on Wednesday, in time to meet the minimum payment date on the card. So I can use the pension money, what it is at the moment, to cover next weeks rent and the credit card minimum payment. The $wolves will be kept at bay. 

Of course that means living off the credit card whilst waiting for Centrelink now.

David's fish

He's been getting some little fish lately, he finds it very relaxing. Knows quite a bit about it all as well. These are Mexican fighting fish. They're really aggressive. Or is it foreplay? He put the female in with one of the males. We were seeing if we could get anything last night like a good picture. These were the results:

"The poorest should not bear the burden of the budget" - Falzon

A brilliant little piece rejecting the idea that the poor should pay for fixing the deficit. 


 

Douche of the week - racist Chinese coffee shop owner - video

Centrelink responds to my complaint

*faints*

Well blow me down with a feather. Centrelink has actually responded to my online complaint I made a couple of days ago. It was limited to 1,000 words so I had to make it brief. It seems though that my brevity paid off (ack, such a butchery of the language) and I was rung today by a Centrelink complaints person - an actual human being to boot - who was wanting to know all about what had happened. After getting up off the lounge from my faint (thankfully not a panic attack this time) I managed to start spluttering something. This was the warm up......

The conversation eventually started after my shock at actually getting a call from a Centrelink complaints person. I'm terrible on the phone, I think it's because I can't see the other person, but on this occasion I happily talked normally and relaxed. I explained what had happened since July 2nd when the Intention To Claim was registered, the fuckup with Births Deaths & Marriages, and Australia Post, meaning the form didn't get lodged until late July. That David's work had lied and fucked up his whole Sickness Allowance claim by saying he resigned. That he was given the impression on the phone that the switch to Newstart after that would be a simple procedure as it was part of the initial sickness claim. That a whole new claim was started for the switch to Newstart right from the beginning. That he ended up back at square one with Centrelink wanting an Employment Separation Certificate that work wasn't going to give to him. That I went to the local Centrelink office 4 times in two days, at one point in tears, at another point being told to get help from charity. That I'd worked 30 years, that I was now on the DSP, and why is this being done to me? These were some but not all of the points raised.

She offered to put me through to a social worker right then and there. I said that was OK as we'd just been assigned a brand spanking new one that we were going to see next Tuesday. Then she put in a thing that some other head honcho Centrelink person would ring me in the next few days to bla about it all. Why not? I agreed.

So in the next 2-3 working days some head honcho Centrelink person is going to ring me and bla further about all of this. How interesting. Needless to say I will be bla-ing like there's no tomorrow!