Still A Longshot

[P Bill]

Has anyone been following the betting odds for the fed. election? I don't gamble but this is the real pulse.

http://oddsscanner.dailytelegraph.com.a ... ning-party

Gillard as pm.......coalition 1.03
labor 14.5

Rudd as pm
after 2 days.......coalition 1.09
labor 4.5

today ........... coalition 1.38
labor 2.9


I can't find a bet for coalition leader after or before election.

[Kim]

Indeed Bill but I can't help thinking that if Rupert's shadow were drawn aside to allow the sun to shine upon some of the unfortunate facts about the Lib's so called economic credentials, that Tony "the slogan" and BooBoo Hockey would have odds longer than their donation 'owed favours list' to deal with.

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4809588.html

Yes the piece was written by an ex ALP financial advisor so perhaps it has a slanted. However the facts are the facts but facts appear to be on the 'mums the word list' in mainstream media. I guess that's understandable when those journalist left in the industry are trying to meet their own mortgage and CC repayments from earnings made in one of the most threatened job titles of our electronic age.

Listening today on the radio I heard there are numbers of "transitional support groups" that have been set up across the USA to deal with the hundreds and hundreds of journalist made redundant in the continuing implosion of media outlets that use to bring us the news..The economics of that fact is 'the' single biggest threat to democracy the world has ever faced and I'm not so sure that Sir Keith Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's father and first Australian journalist to expose the debacle of the Churchill planned WW1 landing at Gallipoli, would be the least bit proud of the incredible damage that his son's insatiable appetite for control has inflicted upon the once proud profession of journalism which, in Keith's day, had stood as 'the' beacon of a truly democratic society's right to freedom of speech.

Regardless of what people may think of me in writing this stuff I am not actually a dyed in the wool ALP supporter. But I know enough to speak out and say to all that ya gotta watch out for the neo-right because they are extremist and therefore as much a danger to a democratic society as any threat can be. To them its 'all' about business, every single thing. There's no room for anything but the accumulation of money and it needs to happen 'right now' because tomorrow is for those suckers they took advantage of and left behind to worry about. They don't give a toss what needs to be said, sold, or done to make it all turn a buck because they 'own' the means by which to tell, sell and do to make it happen their way ..To top it all off they're bloody cannibals because history shows that whenever the bastards do get the numbers and have kicked the stuffing out of the rabble, then they immediately turn the boot leather on those whom had considered themselves 'right' enough to be among their numbers to put them in power...but obviously not rich enough to buy a hand in a game where treachery makes bigger pieces of the promise pie for those that 'really' matter...

That's why we don't have a perpetual right wing government, the silly buggers are so greedy they keep eating their own like a swamp full of bloody salamanders. Apparently it's a genetic thing.. A kind of fiscal Darwinism that sees survival of only the very greediest of the bastards to rise again. But the numbers grow back pretty quick because of their short memories and insatiable appetite for pure bullshit.. I'm not smart enough to understand much more than that about the culture or philosophy because even I simply can't stoop low enough to grasp all the nitty gritty of it. So if you need a deeper explanation, then perhaps you should ask the 'Blue Shrek' of Sydney's north shore. If on the other hand your hard of hearing and need to have every three words endlessly repeated at you on a loop, then your far better off asking Tony the slogan to explain it all to ya..but... what ever you do, don't interrupt him and ask for detail or substance or he'll be off like a shot looking for a friendlier microphone quicker than you can say..."STOP THE BOATS" or "PINK BATTS" or "SCHOOL HALLS" etc, etc, etc..

Cheers

Kim

[P Bill]

As that piece stated it was probably wise of Abbot to avoid a debate on the economy. A debt analogy making the rounds
the last month........." govt. debt is comparable to someone earning $100,000 a year having a mortgage of $10,000."
I have yet to hear a counter analogy from the Coalition. As simple as that sounds it helps people like me get a handle
on our debt.

[Kamusur]

In response to Bills' link, an excellent piece of journalism yourself there Kim.

Steve

[kiwigeo]

Everytime Abbott comes on the box these days he looks like the proverbial stunned rabbit in the headlights....and Rudd comes across as the product of a well oiled PR machine. Rudd's renaissance has caught the Coaliton off guard.

[Kim]

In response to Bills' link, an excellent piece of journalism yourself there Kim.

Steve

Thanks Steve, manipulation of the press is something that has pissed me off for a long while now. There's no other word for it, it's blatant propaganda that is ramped up with each consecutive election cycle and its now reached the point where everything is being spoon fed with such a slant to the right that its dribbling all over the place and providing no food for though at all. An example of how obvious it has become that control of media = control of democracy is the fact that even Reinhardt has woken up to it...silly investment choice granted, and a bungled clumsy grab for editorial control also, but it does show that even one as self indulgent as she now sort of gets the Fox business model and has hoiked her cash up on the bandwagon to grab her piece of pie.

Breath taking hypocrisy when earlier this year the federal gov tried to introduce legislation to put an independent body in place to scrutinise accuracy an objectivity of reporting in the media when industry heads all came together to scream how such a body would be a direct assault upon freedom of speech and democracy...of course the gov was forced to back down as the outlet's side of the story was the only voice being heard and their cries did not stop until they had there way.

I am not convinced that all those diggers who died in the trenches to give us freedom of speech etc, would have been keen on the idea that lobby groups, such as the mining industry etc that are populated in the main by foreign national interest, whom are not only not Australian...but are entities that could not enrol to vote even if they were Australian, should be allowed the lion's roar in any of this countries political debates simply because they have hideous amounts of money made from this country's resources to buy the front page.

The whole arrangement is an insult to the memory of the diggers in my opinion and if entities are to use their voice in our community as a tool to influence this country's political process to their own benefit, then they should be barred from public comments altogether. Because 'they' are not we, the Australian 'people,' so 'they' affectively have no right to be indulging themselves in any of 'our' hard fought freedoms.

Cheers

Kim

[Kamusur]

But above all Kim, the bloody worse part is that those actors in the freak show are 'over' paid such damned good money its a disgrace.

Steve