http://cognatesocialistdystopia.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/of-shirpas-and-incompetents-shorten.html
What Julia and electricity Bill have in common:
SHIRPAS!
See above and follow the links
GS
The modus vivendi of this blog is plainly self explanatory. ........ From 2020 onwards I intend to attempt to use my blogs also as an adjunct and index of sorts for my Facebook efforts.............Structure being formulated...... My main other blogs are: cognatesocialistdystopia.blogspot.com...... mediaspinners.blogspot.com...... cognatemediaspinners.blogspot.com....... gsscribbles.blogspot.com......... Geoff Seidner
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Great Cartoon from Bill Leak! 30/12
As published in The Oz 30/12/13
GS re bds this morning - Derision is the handmaiden of contempt!
From: g87
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 7:51 AM
To: the australian
Subject: Derision is the handmaiden of contempt!
Derision is the
handmaiden of
contempt!
We
should all thank Stuart Rees of Sydney University Letters 31/1 for so openly
indicating that Shurat HaDin is getting under his thick skin!
He now becomes the best vindicator for my new phrase:
Derision is the handmaiden of contempt.
The
boycoteers have being so contemptuous of history, so careless with truth, so
laissez – faire with claims against democratic Israel that plainly
nothing but derision and contempt for their twisted derivations will move
them.
Oh -
and the law:
The
sheer fear of losing in open court will also do it.
Strength to your slingshot, Shurat HaDin!
Geoff
Seidner
13
Alston Gr
East
St Kilda
3183
03 9
525 9299
Derision is the handmaiden of contempt!
YOU should be thanked for telling readers about the derision used by the lawyer representing the Israeli law centre Shurat HaDin in their legal action against my Sydney University colleague Jake Lynch who is supported by more than 4000 signed-up co-defendants from 60 countries.
Shurat HaDin's action is a hysterical, albeit planned, response to the increasingly successful worldwide boycott of staff from academic institutions that assist in the occupation of Palestinian lands and thereby run roughshod over international human rights laws.
Without adherence to such laws, there can be no civility, no justice for Palestinians or for their supporters within Israel.
Stuart Rees, Sydney University, NSW
Monday, 30 December 2013
Hi PVO... George Brandis has responded...
From: Van Onselen, Peter
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 3:28 PM
To: g87
Subject: Re: Hi Peter.... George Brandis has responded to you in
today’s The Oz.
Hi Geoff
Enjoy your fun, as I enjoy the many many benefits of what I do (and love to
do). Currently relaxing on holidays.
All the best
Peter
Sent from my iPad
Sent from my iPad
Hi Peter,Please note that George Brandis has responded to you in today’s The Oz. It was inevitable. The A - G is of course very generous to you in his carefully considered item.I am of course not so encumbered with trying to optimise my electoral popularity VS the need to respond to your pretty outrageous efforts.Fortunate perhaps is that most people are on hols.You should contemplate my heroic incipient efforts. I have lots of interests – and have tried to invent a means of stopping time.You will see my response reasonably soon.Note also that Catalaxy has also taken the ‘parody weapon’ to you. See below.Do you intend a decko at the comments?Other salient links will be posted as convenient during the silly season; we are regularly taking days off to be with the grandchildren and whatever else we pick to relax with.I somehow hope we all continue to have fun at your expense.As a further aside: you should really not continue this farce in yet another column.Sadly – you may just do that.RegardsGeoffFrom: Catallaxy FilesSent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 11:11 AMSubject: [New post] PVOs watch list for 2014
Sinclair Davidson posted: "Peter van Onselen has put out a pollie watch list for 2014. So he has 5 on the up and 5 on the down. It is the on the down choices that I'm interested in. First he nominates Wayne Swan - but Swan has more or less disappeared from public life, if not actu"
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PVOs watch list for 2014
by Sinclair DavidsonPeter van Onselen has put out a pollie watch list for 2014. So he has 5 on the up and 5 on the down. It is the on the down choices that I'm interested in.First he nominates Wayne Swan - but Swan has more or less disappeared from public life, if not actually the Parliament, when Julia Gillard lost office. PVO does suggest that Swan might be snapped up by the private sector. Surely not. The only people who could credibly employ him would be some union dominated super fund.PVO also nominates the shadow ministry.The collective of ageing shadow ministers who should have retired when the Labor government lost. It is remarkable how many former ministers past their prime stayed on to hog frontbench spots which should have gone to the likes of Nick Champion, Stephen Jones and Ed Husic. Expect a few to fall away next year, as they realise opposition ain't much fun.This is correct. These are the people to watch because much the same thing happened after 2007. The then Coalition shadow ministry had the same problem. But as it became clearer that opposition was going to be a short term proposition the older members didn't retire and make space but hung on there. If the now shadow ministry starts retiring then that reveals their expectations of returning to government.So far all good.Then:George Brandis or Christopher Pyne: Neither probably will fall from grace, but both have had poor starts as ministers. 2014 will either see them find their feet, or the mistakes will pile up and Abbott will need to act. The former is more likely for both men, but they will be closely scrutinised next year.on Christopher Pyne I agree. While I think dumping Gonski would have been good policy, he completely fluffed the implementation.What of George Brandis? I can't see him being in the same category as Pyne. I don't perceive him as having had a poor start. So I asked PVO on twitter what the story is. PVO nominates three areas where Brandis is vulnerable. Entitlements, hypocrisy, and not abolishing the Human Rights Commission.So we're in full agreement on not abolishing the Human Rights Commission.It is hard to get too excited about the entitlements thing. We covered it here at the Cat at the time and it is disgraceful and politicians should be paid in cash and all that. Okay - but I'm not convinced that Brandis is uniquely vulnerable in this area. Ultimately there is no real political cost in this area. If criminality come be demonstrated then it is a different story - but exploiting vague rules may cause a temporary stink and excite journalists and bloggers but I doubt there is any long-term cost here.Then PVO and Brandis have been exchanging barbs in The Australian over hypocrisy and the meaning of partisanship. That is pure self-indulgence on PVOs part. Nobody cares. More importantly that isn't the risk Brandis faces in 2014.The risk Brandis faces in 2014 is that the political left succeeds in discrediting Tim Wilson. I have no doubt they will give it a red-hot go. If they succeed an already overly cautious government will become more cautious. If they fail the Abbott government may acquire more of a backbone.
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From: Van Onselen, PeterSent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 2:41 PMTo: g87Subject: Re: Hello again PVO!Good luck with it Geoff, do get back to me when you have some substantial and cogent words completed. I look forward to reading it if you manage to follow through on this commitment.RegardsPeter
Sent from my iPadHello PeterCongratulations,You have in your two recent articles given me enough incentive to base a major essay, thesis, monograph or even a book on the subject ofMEDIA MANIPULATION AND INSULTS TO THE INTELLIGENCE.I may change the nomenclature – but methinks some people may recognize that it will be based on theWINTROP PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM AT WA UNI.I will send you advance copies as I write it: you may be prepared to comment on salient segments.Oh – by the way – I will try to find room for Emmerson: remember him?His article is right next to yours in Saturday’s Oz.Yours SincerelyGeoff SeidnerDecember (66)
- PVO - 28/12 ..A lesson for Brandis on the meaning ...
- Emmerson 28/12: Deep thinker says subs are the sol...
- GS: 29/12 LYNCH AND MEALY - MOUTHED PHRASES OF RAC...
- Complete Catalaxy and comments re Dreyfus and Tr...
- Att: M Dreyfus: brilliant Catalaxy re disgraceful ...
- J'ACCUSE Mark Dreyfus of weakness
- 24/12 -Lauren Wilson.. Brandis fends off demands t...
- BRANDIS [et al] RESPOND/S TO PVO 23/12
- PVO responds again: Of Viccisitudes and muting the...
- PVO RESPONDS - Greetings, PVO
- PVO IS ALSO A FOOL
- The ultimate Labored fool - Emmerson???
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Sunday, 29 December 2013
Hello again PVO!
Hello Peter
Congratulations,
You have in your two recent articles given me enough incentive to base a
major essay, thesis, monograph or even a book on the subject of
MEDIA MANIPULATION AND INSULTS TO THE INTELLIGENCE.
I may change the nomenclature – but methinks some people may recognize that
it will be based on the
WINTROP PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM AT WA UNI.
I will send you advance copies as I write it: you may be prepared to
comment on salient segments.
Oh – by the way – I will try to find room for Emmerson: remember him?
His article is right next to yours in Saturday’s Oz.
Yours Sincerely
Geoff Seidner
- PVO - 28/12 ..A lesson for Brandis on the meaning ...
- Emmerson 28/12: Deep thinker says subs are the sol...
- GS: 29/12 LYNCH AND MEALY - MOUTHED PHRASES OF RAC...
- Complete Catalaxy and comments re Dreyfus and Tr...
- Att: M Dreyfus: brilliant Catalaxy re disgraceful ...
- J'ACCUSE Mark Dreyfus of weakness
- 24/12 -Lauren Wilson.. Brandis fends off demands t...
- BRANDIS [et al] RESPOND/S TO PVO 23/12
- PVO responds again: Of Viccisitudes and muting the...
- PVO RESPONDS - Greetings, PVO
- PVO IS ALSO A FOOL
- The ultimate Labored fool - Emmerson???
GS: 29/12 LYNCH AND MEALY - MOUTHED PHRASES OF RACISM
see links below!!!
From: g87
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:08 PM
To: the australian
Subject: LYNCH AND MEALY - MOUTHED PHRASES OF
RACISM
RE: Lynch like 'publican denying blacks, Jews' 28/12
I refer to Professor Jake Lynch’s comment in The Australian 28-29 December 2013:
Lynch like 'publican denying blacks,
Jews
Seemingly Lynch needs to abuse and
pervert a standard figure of speech used by Professor Dan Avnon in applying for
the fellowship:
‘’...
"Shurat HaDin appear to forget when I was
approached by Professor Dan Avnon it was to ask me for a favour....’’
Is this
not some mealy – mouthed additional justification for denying the Israeli Prof.
Dan Avnon access to a fellowship created by the family of Sir Zelman Cowen? He
has plainly created problems for
himself.
Furthermore,
someone tell me how is it that Lynch has been given the right to deny an Israeli
Jew the right to a Fellowship created by Jews in the name of the late Sir Zelman
Cowen?
The
much – parodied Professor of Peace and Conflated studies incredibly goes on to
say:
‘’I reserve my right not to
co-operate with schemes that provide for institutional links with Israeli
universities, to which I object on
principle."
In
‘principle’!
What
principle - of outrageous plain racism?
It
is timely that Shurat HaDin the Israeli Law centre is taking legal action
against racism that local Jewish organizations like ECAJ astonishingly lacerated
Shurat HaDin for.
That
too is outrageous!
Plainly
Shurat HaDin and The Australian have done more to obliterate the BDS boycotters
than the ECAJ!
Geoff
Seidner
13 Alston Grove
East St Kilda
3183
03 9525
9299
December (64)
- Great The OZ - 28/12 Lynch like 'publican denying ...
- 28/12 lightweight letter from Herzog
- 28/12 - The ultimate cant letter.. great
- great letter! Legal limitations 28/12 - Eric Locke...
- Cut and Paste - 27/12 A little bit of niggle, a lo...
- 27/12 Free-speech safeguards letter [ncm]
- 27/12 Salt in the Left's wounds letter
- GREAT The OZ ..27/12 - Academic hints at link betw...
- 27/12 Discrimination: the ugly truth by A Creighto...
- 26/12 - More Labor hypocrisy letter
- 26/12 - Left fights a rearguard action against lib...
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‘’Professor
Lynch told The Australian yesterday: "Shurat HaDin appear to forget when I was
approached by Professor Dan Avnon it was to ask me for a favour. How I chose to
respond to that request was a matter for my discretion. My decision to turn down
his request had nothing to do with his religion or nationality. I reserve my
right not to co-operate with schemes that provide for institutional links with
Israeli universities, to which I object on
principle."
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Complete Catalaxy and comments re Dreyfus and Triggs
Australia's leading libertarian and centre-right blog
Filling the AHRC with luvvies
It is incredible that the AHRC President, Gillian Triggs,
warned on Monday that Mr Wilson’s appointment as a commissioner to the AHRC – with a salary of about $320,000 a year – may have to come at the expense of programs on school bullying and education for older Australians.
The Attorney-General rightly points out that the staffing budget for the AHRC has risen by $5.4 million over the past 3 years – an increase of almost 50 per cent over that period.
As at 30 June 2013, the organisation comprised 143 staff:6 statutory (ie: the President and Commissioners), 1 SES Band 2, 2 SES Band 1, 26 EL2, 33 EL1, 32 APS6 and 43 other.
It has been stacked by the luvvies and now Tim Wilson will be one out of 143 (or thereabouts). The Human Rights Commissioner will be vastly outnumbered by those who want to deny him human rights.
Triggs should resign in disgrace. She has shown herself unable, as the organisation’s CEO, to control expenditure which has spiraled out of control with her in charge.
Once Triggs has resigned, the Attorney-General should appoint Tim Wilson as President and Human Rights Commissioner.
Catherine Branson was appointed President of the HRC on 7 August 2008 and then appointed the Human Rights Commissioner on 12 July 2009 before resigning from the Commission on 29 July 2012.
So there is precedent for Tim to be both the President and Human Rights Commissioner.
Brandis should make it so.
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2013: 2 x $343k (+27%), 4 x $303k (+12%)
They’re called “Public Serpents” for a reason.
Tim Wilson of the right wing thinktank the IPA waffles on our free speech. The IPA would have
the HRC closed in an instant if they had their way.
Meanwhile, at a kneesup at the IPA earlier this year he and another defender of abuse and
defamation, Andrew Bolt lionise the wealthiest person in Australia Gina Rinehart.
At the time Rinehart was pursuing legal action against two journalists , Steve Pennells and Adele Ferguson
to force them to reveal confidential sources of information involved in the ugly spat with her children.
Ask any journo if this is an abuse of free speech.
Hypocrisy shown by right wing defenders of ” free speech” is breathtaking in this instance
Iolanthe – The Lord Chancellor: Ah, my Lords, it is indeed painful to have to sit upon a woolsack which is stuffed with such thorns as these!
Here’s an idea, add 75 commmisioners at 300k each, don’t add any budget for salary. Whole budget is used up on salary. HRC can’t do anything at all.
Merry Christmas.