FORMER Labor Leader Mark Latham has unleashed a tirade of abuse at Kevin Rudd and other Labor figures, blaming Graham Richardson and Joel Fitzgibbon for yesterday's debacle in Caucus.

A fired up Latham, who bombed out of politics in 2004 after leading the ALP to election embarrassment against John Howard, also turned on fellow TV panellist Chris Kenny during a stormy segment on Sky News's Paul Murray Live.

Disputing Kenny's assessment that Rudd was more popular in the electorate than Gillard, Latham said: "You're part of the culture of manufactured outrage, where inside the media bubble there's this narrative about Government disaster."

The heated exchange only ended when Murray threw to an ad break.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/disaster-fired-up-mark-latham-unleashes-on-rudd-supporters/story-fncynjr2-1226603158000#ixzz2OFd5uVXS

 

Julia Gillard is far more politically savvy and far more focused that Latham ever was...

 

Latham had brilliant ideas about taming international capital back then in 2004, because he knew (and wrote a serious thesis about it) that the way capital was being used was not sustainable. He was proven right three years later when the Global Financial Crisis hit the streets...

 

Simon sez: "Kevin made me do it..." Yep, Simon now rats up on "his" boss...

Meanwhile if you have the occasion to fall upon the interview with Joel Fitzgibbon, a few minutes after the non-challenge by Rudd, you would see a man who is confused, erratic, disappointed, ungracious, as if a born loser whose thoughts are completely muddled like a woolly wombat who has lost his hole to a mouse... Joel may be good at his job whatever it is, so I'll give him the benefit the emotions of the situation that would have made him totally incoherent... As a whole, mind you, Joel been the white-anter in chief in the Labor Party... He leaked more often to the press than he ever had a piss... 
And this is where the Labor dissenters have not understood the game played by Emperor Rupus... Divide and conquer... You pit the natives against each other and plonk a nasty little rat in charge of the coop at the next election. Caesar would be proud... Nothing new...
Now what do you think the headlines would have been in today's merde-och press had Rudd gotten the gig?
"Congratulation Mr Rudd"?... "We support the Labor Party with Rudd in charge"? "Rudd has Risen"
Hell no... Don't be stupid. Get a life... 
You would have got:
"Soufflé rise twice", "Egomaniac wins", "return to the past", "Labor's jitters", "Labor weak-knees", "Labor — still divided", "On a Rudd and Prayer" "Moving the Deck Chairs" "Captain Rudd, Labor's Titanic"
Now I don't deny that people are entitled to their own opinions but before shooting off with scuds, the Labor dissenters should have checked the number of balls in their underpants. 
First, ALL the boffins in the Labor Party have to come to realise IN ANY POLITICAL PARTIES, there are various views, dissent, disagreements, etc... But they also HAVE TO know that Murdoch (and the MM) employs specialised people (opnionated journos)— trained in using very strong sneaky, engrossing, fake-empathy driven psychological techniques — to divide, prick, make unhappy anything that he does not like, to foster stronger dissent... 
It's the Detritus Syndrome. 
It makes Murdoch's next move easier, by cultivating the unavoidable difference of view points, into divisions and destabilisation of leadership, turning everything, even good stuff, into bed sores... That's his job... And the rest of the media follows along like bouncing tin-cans being towed behind the car of a just-married groom and bride going on a honeymoon. Murdoch drives.
Dissenters? Mr Murdoch through his merde-och press will give you the illusions that you could do better under a different dude, say Rudd for example... Hey! Watch Crean say "and with me as his deputy"... Isn't this a spoofy aggrandisement? 
Day in day out, the merde-och machine will supervise polls of the critical mass of sheep out there to say that they prefer Rudd to Julia... 
Why? Well, the sheep might do so for five minutes, but then they forget and realise that the flight is not that bad with a woman pilot...  It's their right to believe whatever. But like all advertisers know, unless you repeat and repeat your message, you'll go backwards making a profit at selling your soggy chips. 
So, in political manipulation, if you ask the same question day in and day out, the concept that Rudd is better than slice cheese becomes ingrained in the sheep psyche like a bad case of BSE (or whatever they call it in sheep)... 
It's called manipulation to divide and conquer... 
Chairman Murdoch did not invent it... Every ruler after Caesar used the principle. Caesar formulated it in this brief form: divide and conquer... DIVIDE AND CONQUER... DIVIDE AND CONQUER!
Let's be clear here: Murdoch wants Abbott to become the next PM... Whether Abbott lasts six days or six years is irrelevant at this stage, though there would be some beaut headlines at-the-ready at the merde-och press to make sure the little prick does not believe in the good fairy for longer than useful.
Do you think that the merde-och press would use a heading like that in the Australian today (23 march 2013) "ALP warned: WRONG WAY, GO BACK", if there was not a tinge of worry that the wind of change might bring some relief to Julia?...
Rudd has gone, so now the main task of Mr Murdoch is how can the merde-och press carry on unsettling the woman?... Don't worry, folks, the merde-och press will cultivate the Labor dissenters and blow their own "importance" for a little while longer...
Sure, the headline warning does not come from the merde-och press itself... The merde-och press is too clever to appear partisan... Ah ah ah... The warning comes "from the dissenters' voices"... BUT, the same paper could have HEADLINED the voice of the winner, Julia, that said something like "Score is settled — let's get back to work"... BUT Julia being still there shits chairman Murdoch and his merde-och press so much, they will milk the dissent as long as they can... and invent new bed sores.
Murdoch does not want anything to heal in the Labor camp — as a united Labor could become formidable against his weakling 2-pounder Abbott... Uncle Rupe is worried sick that labor might have healed by early September. He can't afford that...
The reality is that Labor can heal its wounds if the defeated should, and can — like bleeding dogs that have been mauled by a rival cousins pack — lick their balls and make peace with their cousins around the carcass of the Liberal (conservatives) mutts... That is the name of the game.
And to all the misogynists in the Labor party, there is no shame being led by a female...
Dissenters? from now on SHUT UP... I mean SHUT UP! Dissenters, you can do it, you can still be part of the brawling family of Labor — united. it will be the best move you ever made.
Don't believe anything else nor the prophets of doom out there.. Do it, help Julia win the next election...

 

ON THURSDAY in Australia, we saw the media in full blown raw and uncut uncamouflaged action, as they thought they were witnessing the successful culmination of another year’s hard work in unseating a female Prime Minister. And one reason for their campaign was out in the open, thanks to the magic of twitter.

From the moment the starter’s gun (in the unpredicted form of Wiley E. Crean) went off, the journalists were in heaven. Finally, they had an actual football match … er … sorry, leadership challenge, in the flesh, to report. It was as if one of those loony tunes evangelists, after years of predicting the end of the world at dates calculated by adding random numbers from hymn books, was suddenly told that a rather large asteroid was heading straight at Earth and would be hitting in a couple of hours.

Off they went, these gangs of football hooligans … sorry … journalists (must stop doing that) to roam parliament house looking for a spot of bovver … er … sorry … looking for some solid news to illuminate the story for the public.

And sure enough, these hard-headed, experienced journalists were soon coming up with real nuggets of KFC… sorry … gold. One bumped into a couple of Rudd supporters who said their man had the numbers. Others were reporting a scorecard produced by Sky which had Gillard narrowly ahead (was it 52-38*, I forget) but with “9 undecided”, numbers which seemed to have been generated by a water diviner passing a stick over a list of caucus names.

read more: http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/the-game-that-got-away/

 

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And to confirm the above article:

Winning is not Labor's priority
Federal Labor has now expressed an unmistakeable preference. It is prepared to lose government for the next three years or more, as long as it can retain its comfortable internal arrangements for the next six months.

It is a stunning choice for a political movement to make. The Liberal leadership can barely believe its luck.

The Gillard government will no longer have the excuse that it is losing in the polls only because of Kevin Rudd's destabilisation.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/winning-is-not-labors-priority-20130322-2gl9w.html#ixzz2OKSt8123

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Actually, no Mr Peter Hartcher... Labor HAS TO preserve for as long as possible the legacy of its achievements especially those achieved with a hung parliament such as the carbon pricing FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY...  It is as simple as this and with the election being penned for September we all know that a day is a long time in politics... Having Rudd come back would have shortened this overnight.

We all know that polls could flip within a week. And to some extend, Rudd not being the leader of Labor party IS A BLESSING... Actually, it's Abbott who is now quaking in his boots because he has to avoid making any major blunder between now and the elections. We all know Tony makes many mistakes but the media lets him get away with it... A big blunder and the game is off for him... He knows it...

One has to "admire" how the cunning rat Rudd got Crean to do his dirty work and challenge the Prime Minister to a duel. Rudd did not have the courage to throw the gauntlet himself, then he had the audacity not to challenge because he knew he would loose AGAIN.  Good Bye...

Chicken Kev? Yes. Kev chickened out... But the ball is now in the media's court to present a different picture of the PM, one where she is not constantly vilified or undermined by rumbles about leadership. One media picture where the success of her government are not belittled by the waftiness of the media.
But the media cannot trust itself to be "fair"...
If Labor and the Journos think that should Rudd had taken over, Labor would have had a chance to win the next election, they would have had a pigeon loft for brains... Zip chances.... The soufflé would have soon collapsed... Overnight.

Now that the Rudd issue is finally settled (hopefully), the media should desist to ask that same lame question again... So, will the media driven opinion polls stop asking about Rudd's underpants once more?... Who knows. If they don't stop, then this would show the media AND the opinion pollsters are together in bad-will, still trying to oust the present PM for no reason. 

Rudd is out, end of story (I hope).... Ah ah ah... Wait for the media to bring out the next bed pans and inflict bed sores for no other reason than nastiness... Yes Mr Hartcher, the media organisation you work for, but far more at the merde-och media of course, relies on NASTINESS to make a living. That same media also relies on wars, pestilence and diseases to make a buck... The media support for the Iraq war being a case in point...  Go get a life.

I will tell you a story here: Win or loose, the new media laws were put up to flush out the dissenters, WAY BEFORE THE ELECTION... So that the business of government till the next sitting of parliament is stable, efficient and ... the media will be served again then...
It worked... Every man and his media outlet fell for the trick...

 

Julia Gillard's new cabinet appointments have had a generally positive reception from business, particularly Gary Gray's appointment as Minister for Resources.

The Australian Industry Group, which has a particular focus on the manufacturing sector, has welcomed the addition of tertiary education, skills, science and research to Craig Emerson's current role as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness.

"The business community has enjoyed strong engagement with the Minister in his trade role. We look forward to developing this relationship further," the group's chief executive Innes Willox said in a statement.

The group was also pleased with the formal merging of the two distinct areas of Greg Combet's portfolio.

"The merger of the Departments of Industry and Climate Change highlights the importance of the general links between industry competitiveness and climate policy and the particular importance of programs that reduce businesses exposure to carbon pricing and higher energy costs," Mr Willox added.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-25/business-welcomes-new-ministers/4593164

Please note: Higher energy cost is not unique to Australia... Australia actually is still lucky in this department despite some predictable whinging about the carbon pricing and gouging by energy supply companies...
Most world energy cost is driven by ... shortage of resources and higher cost to manufacture energy... Simple. That's why renewable like wind turbine are eventually becoming cheaper to provide energy than any other means. Our ancestors had windmills...
For example when a BP oil-well explodes in the gulf of Mexico, who pays for the damage and the clean up?... BP you might say, but BP will make sure in one way or the other that all consumers pay... Consumers have to pay... That is the nature of the beast. Beyond this, oil exploration rigs are getting bigger and more expensive, with lesser returns, fracking is still as annoying as sheep farts and we end up using more energy because... because we use air conditioning units in Australia to cool off and stoves for warmth in the UK and the US.
This protection against the effect of global warming temperature trends, adds more CO2 into the atmosphere than ever before: The hotter and cooler it gets, the more global warming we engender. We're dooming ourselves by not understanding this simple formula.

 

 

David Koch: Political leadership turmoil hurts people financially

 

COMMENTS IN CAPITAL LETTERS FROM GUS...

 

WHILE most Australians just shake their head at the Government's internal leadership turmoil this week, the ripple effect can impact all our hip pockets. The financial fallout can be very real, particularly in such a fragile economic environment.

Here are five financial consequences you should be aware of.

Jobs can be lost

Political uncertainty can hit business and consumer confidence as people retreat into their bunker as they become fearful of taking risks. Consumers keep their purses and wallets shut while bosses delay spending.

GUS: YES SOME MINISTERS CAN LOOSE THEIR JOBS FOR BEING TWO FACED WEASELS... 

 

It could make the May Federal Budget even tougher

With 170 days until the scheduled September election, the pressure is now on the PM and Treasurer to prove their skills at managing the economy. After agreeing a Budget surplus was no longer realistic, they just can't afford the Budget deficit to blow out any further. Otherwise their economic credentials will be in tatters.

THAT'S A LOT OF CRAP... THE BUDGET OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE UK AND THAT OF THE US ARE WADDLING IN MASSIVE DARK PITS THAT COULD MAKE A  20 BILLION AUSTRALIAN BUDGET DEFICIT LOOK LIKE A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD...

Overseas investors lose confidence in us

Australia is seen as a "safe haven” for overseas investors. That's why the Aussie dollar is so high.

Our economy is solid, we’re politically stable, Government debt is relatively low and our legal system is world class.

GO AND GET A LIFE... THERE IS FAR MORE POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN EUROPE AND THE USA THAN EVEN BETWEEN A TORNADO AND A SANDY STORM... MAKE YOUR CHOICE...

 

Visionary projects stalled

If politicians are distracted by internal rumblings and focus on saving their jobs, they take their mind off running the economy. Decisions tend to be delayed and a general inertia sets in.

CRAP! THE NBN IS THE MOST VISIONARY PROJECT THIS COUNTRY EVER SEEN, EVEN FAR MORE VISIONARY THAN THE SNOWY MOUNTAIN SCHEME OR THE HARBOUR BRIDGE. IT'S STILL GOING AHEAD REGARDLESS WHATEVER. AS WELL ABOUT 12 NEW GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES HAVE TAKEN BIRTH TO IMPROVE AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE... THE CARBON PRICING IS THERE TO MITIGATE THE EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING AND WILL HAVE TO BE TWEAKED FOR GREATER PROTECTION. 

We don’t have the best politicians in the best jobs

When a political party fractures, so does the depth of talent available. ...

The talent pool is halved. That’s dangerous and mistakes are made.

CRAP! A DANGEROUS MISTAKE WOULD BE TO LET TONY ABBOTT AND HIS MIDGETS THROUGH THE DOOR... MEANWHILE, A NEW POOL OF GREAT LABOR TALENT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN TO REPLACE THE OLD, TIRED AND DUPLICITOUS  THAT WERE MAD ENOUGH TO SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT AND STUPID ENOUGH TO ROCK THE LIFE OF LABOR... GOOD RIDDANCE.

 

All Sweet?

ALL SWEET...

(Where was this Kochie rubbish published?... The merde-och press, of course...)