The original description of this blog pre 2000

 Andrews is determined to make history.  Victoria's Bracks /Brumby Labor government was determined, but not wise. Where will Baillieu get the wisdom he needs to make a difference?
  Libs need more than the tried and failed idea of theirs " that business is government'. 
If they had the wisdom and will  they would have avoided much of the consultant driven dopey stuff of the last few decades.
The people are depressed because L&R leaders are afraid to take the hard medicine  Don't give the prisoners some bread-  kick em out.

Dumber and Dumber in Charge

(Some readers have got the impression from the article below that I am against wind and solar power. I am not. I think a wider combination of well timed and appropriate to plac engines will carry us at least well beyond the time we get out of jail and can make some more choices . 

That particular windfarm may have paid for itself,  but we don't know that until we see the contract . What we need to know isthe  same with the contracts signed with big solar panel companies, If you know what these contracts say,  tell us . 
We know there is currently an oversupply of one thing and undersupply of another and that in a free market means one party goes broke and the other makes a killing, If Labor want to run the business,  theyneed to make it pay.We shouldn't  be the ones that are checking the books. 

I am saying the restriction of choice options ( and early buy in ) is what has prevented us buying in at an economical time to something ( being a combination of energy sources ) that will carry us through. 
The choice is not between a Ford and a Holden but between what we have got and what we can afford as we build, rather than quickly ditch the old vehicles that actually can play their part .
If I spell out my quite concrete thoughts here m, you will miss my call to stop the panic and the quick fix.  

You might need to read Ellul and others to see why i too am hedging on not naming the glorious incarnation.  The disease that is killing sound investment is in widespread use.in the economy.

There are a lot of salesman and not enough scientists and economists at the table. 
The future  should be about long term complex and time related combinations and I am not going to mention the ones i think will work because some of them are not popular with those in power AND because its largely HOW we wire them up over time that will prevent us running into the  catastrophic scenarios fears and no final choices that can be before those who drive themselves bankrupt buying new cars  
Despite requests to spell out specific "solutions "I am not going to do that . I don't really think that is my job , My job is to remind you to not leave out things just because you don't like things and if you are going to say " its not economic": you maybe just incapable of juggling the figures and risk  , I don't think you are capable of saying it's not economic ( that retricts choice and talk of HOW  )or not eco ( that defines risk) Both of the forementioned jobs i can do better than you , so best you ask me first ? 
 
You all know what those most likely solution names are and I will just get a drubbing if I mention how these known methods can work, In another setting of honest and respectful responses, I am happy to have a go. 
 If you properly read the following and related articles you will realize I am saying that it is the current Labor Governments drug culture commitments which are sending us broke simply because they keep buying the fast vehicles and the hard stuff that is overly expensive and only works for the short term in small pictures.
There are too many still useful near new vehicles in the backyard of their toy shop.  

The blind technofix drug addicts still manage to feed us but the bank account is in the RED  

Yes the first wind power towers near Portland are finished and falling apart .

Yes but they won't be the last OLD idea dressed up as NEW by the extremely dumb and easily fooled technophiles who run our country.

This HIGHLY ADVERTIZED con , where we are made to think an idea is NEW and better is called by all true conservationists, a technological fix ( like a drug fix) , It's common real evil ( esp across the MEDIA) and its correctly described as a process.

--Short term gain long term pain .
Same with the NEW IDEA politics that surrounds it = " short term political gain , long term public cost ". They dare to use the word " sustainable".

The Fan in my picture of 2023 had broken off just before we went past, worn pins from younger hydraulic control arms appear in the scrap yard at Colac and 24 tonne gearboxes on towers less than 10 years old have to be replaced. Hot oil and wear and tear realities do not compare to turbines which generate AC directly. Lots more could be said but we have to listen to experts , not those dummies who worship nature or mutton dressed up as lamb - those hooked on the drugs with a label "new technique".

WE should ALL refuse to take subsidies to be " an early adopter"( = guinea pig - one of the key doctrines of the dopey technophiles in charge ) when we should know from scientists ( including economists engineers ), if we listened to them closely, that the long term cost benefit of much ADVERTIZED as NEW technological advancement can be very low.

Here is a old internet blogsite of mine dedicated to trying to undermine that nonsense. It will outlast those old dark satanic mills the fragile DC glass monsters and the vain hope that NEW types of batteries are around the corners ahead.
http://quickfiz.blogspot.com

Empty headed idiots who know how to spend money to please their electorates

 Daniel Andrews , the man who always knew when to jump, has quit. TODAY 
Few but him know how light his flight of fancy was. It isn't hard to run the place into the ground and his and the parties choice of Jacinta Allan only show the light weight decision making which has infected our state over the last ten years. 
Labor may celebrate now but when they and the public realize he's leaving us with nothing but unproductive and imbecilic debt,  and some of the most unproductive public service jobs ( always hard to demonstrate )  his reputation  as a loser will be  his legacy  

We citizens of the productive earth have known for all his time in office that holding office was not hard for Labor .Stamp duty has kept the man in power and he knows  it cannot continue . ]. 
what we all hoped that the simple stupidity of the man would have become obvious well before now but  i guess his dependents got more than they bargained for when pretended in his last years to be acting like a Saviour .
Even he will be surprised eventually at the thickness of the people who thought he knew what he was doing . For me it's a great reminder of the old adage that if you know what you are doing , you wouldn't do it;    to be so up yourself to think being popular was not an expression of your own puppetry and nothing deeper . Yes he could play the game and played it to win . 

His childish arrogance was never more evident than in his defense of his very own big bad microbe story. , His mad determination to manage something he didn't have any idea about marks him out , as one of the most shallow water fanatics Victoria has even seen. 

Setting this stupidity in concrete is the his decision to let another inexperienced  big spender join the bunch of incompetents who sit there. 
Any more comment from me is superfluou,  as he is finally going - that can only be a good thing.    

The road out of jail is filled with changing doorlocks

 Once you have seen the bars and accepted them , any solution to escape can look good . The trick is to convince the people they are not only under great threat from outside , but that you as the leader  know a way out.
Use your imagination and think of a threat that spells big disaster but  where no-one knows how to control it. Man made threats are no good because we can sus out conspirators , clumsiness  , coverups and corruption without much trouble .  Environment is complex and resilient ,so after a while the problem will go away or resolve itself  without your help,   
So all you have to do is be up to date  and follow the motions and you can come out on top and look like saviors.
Environmental threats are good friends to the incompetent   because they not only don't rely on competency , they are capable of fixing themselves,.  


To do this for  a long 20 months also requires regular changing of the bed sheets if not changing the rooms on the way out .
Noone in prison though can put up with the same threatand same bars and doorways  for more than a few months .
Andrews made his job easier by naming the threat as evil and fearsome - there will be lots of deaths and we must go in hard to stop them . By not naming the deaths the bedsits and the comorbidities  for 18 mths any body  who wants confirmation of actual death threats haven't got anything to go on.
we end up sitting on our arses trying to keep our distance, 
and we have all these contradictions 

- people were allowed to go to the football but not to meet in their own homes ,I said early in blogs in 2020  that skin and oil  particles in the air could be implicated in maintaining the life of the RNA , let alone elements of the biomed its unique comp actability .Life in he ducts you silly ducks !

Building new facilities is an expensive quickfiz idea that has thankfully come and gone . When the epis ,admins and the micros finally work out how to best manage hospitals, they might have some chance of managing new ones ( quickfiz again by the dan and his concubine clan !) 
J Doherty confirmed this when he replied to my question a week or so ago about updated understanding of coronaviruses--its  tendency to keep changing ( known since the 1920's   great diagram but little new.
I wonder what Doherty said to Dan  because the change of tactic to living with the virus came about then . 
You never know what shallow simplicities occupy the minds of polys. Must have something to do with the confusion, lights and action  while they keep busy splashing in the birdbath?  

-- the biggest mistake made early on with quarantine is not analyzed by anybody . All the reactionaries know now is that there must be something in the recirculating air . Maybe we could all have met in our own home if we switched the air con recirculating bits OFF  ,  you can't expect these dills  to deal with complex questions when they never consider anything but really simple stand alone ones 
So ignorant are they of their own "takes one to know one" and quickfiz  that  they now recently  talk about the savior of ventilation .Melbourne  university used to have some thoughtful people go to it .

We do not want to hear more of their speculation on how to get out again.
 We want them to stop messing with our lives with their overblown worries and that growing raft of "new" measures that will take more months to test . Guinea pigs is what we are .   

Most of the rest of this story is listed elsewhere.
The Premiers free ride was made possible by low numbers , reinforcing his own theory that he must be doing something right . There is nothing deep here - just long and lucky for him .
Now that his key strategy of going in hard and heavy FINALLY hasn't worked he's got to be the first to change direction again; New doors ,
 A free ride till this month when numbers grow to over 500 presence tests in a day .

The new door is  named vaccination  and the strategy is changed from nailing the disease to living with it . Vaccination is not expected to eliminate as the original aim was , but to provide a door name , 

So now Andrews can blame the Prime Minister, he's so relieved. He can't find a way of extending his attention seeking just now and. more importantly he is likely to lose the next election, whatever he says. Short term gain long term pain 
 Noone cannot have noted  that Dan the man change direction this week ( and tried to say the umbers changed his mind)  ,
Andrews abandonment of his chasing down policy to one of running and living with that " evil thing" shows how big the demon is when you try manage it with your own cleverness  

Andrews is trying hard still to sound hard by saying  some similar  things - that the threat is huge ;  What ducking and weaving children we have in charge . 
We won't have 4000 people in hospital and 2000 deaths but from today ( sept 19th )  it won't be Dan's problem . Burnet will be the target. 
  A clean exit for Dan  but will press work out why? Any scientist knows modeling is the new word for legitimated muddling but most of the public don't have any idea of what we are talking about 

whole game of nearly 2 years in lockdown ( due to the Coronavirus )

Climate of crisis works wonders for the Attention seekers

Published 9th August 2020 several days after the State of Disaster was declared, 

When the crisis precipitated by the catatrophians is finally over in relation to COVID 19, the biggest question many will be asking is why was Andrews advisory system not working .( Morrisons too but a much lesser extent)  While  there is much complexity and Bretts ignorance and arrogance must be like those in power , its  a cocontation of  similar problems into one solution preoccupied problem . 

How do these desperately dumb attention seekers get away with their simplicities for so long ? 
Andrews thinks he knows and those who work for him too are prone to think they know what they are doing, After all why do they get and keep the job except by agreeing that Andrews knows what he is doing . The longer the powerful are in power the more like the leaders the followers get>
  Previous state leaders could be to be very expected envious of just how popular all Premiers have become ( even if for different reasons  : crisi climate does that ! ).
presumably too many of them are no different in the sense that they see themselves over the issue when fo nearly all their lives it is them who are never over them ( and their brilliance )  as the issue

  For the first time in decades/lifetime in politics  they appear to be ACTUALLY  doing something and for those in the emerging emergency and policing  services ( who are growing unsustainably ) who now populate the earth,  this is their once in a decede chance to shine . Attention seeking on a grand scale . 

SHOCKINGLY SIMPLE STATS that mean what ever Andrews wants them to mean 
Fortunately for Andrews,  noone out there is very good at stats so its going to take a while before the people realize that his use of  stats  is seriously sus .  We have not deaths with COVID and deaths from COVID as we would have with pneumonia . or no of tests in diffrent localities to give cred to them on T&T basis .

SLOWLY this week ( 28th Aug ) we suddenly have deaths by postcode and institution   they still haven't got the message that numbers of tests  would have some hope of reinforcing their sus logic on how the disease  spreads and whose fault it is .
It is a wonder Andrews isn't with his T&T mindset myth blaming nurses or visitors 4 misbehaving )
The blame game suits him an d his justification for his own T&T experiment,  RNA continues to rain down on all ----his time is coming .   

ANDREWS tells us nothing but what HE wants Us to know 
Noone still knows how anyone can suddenly ignore the risk of dying just because case numbers go down  ( stupid logic now used by the press as well )  .
Noone knows whether the wave is an infection wave or a herd immunity wave ( more likely ad the ignorant spring street spaceship isn't able to tell us what they think on the subject  
  
The incompetence  in the advisory system of Vic labor is evident in many ministries. Take the ones Lisa Neville has been prominent in  
This sort of corruption will kill more than any virus,  if its not weeded out
Basics 
 Labor has been in so long that anyone who disagrees with the Cabinet /department policy either leaves or is pushed out , Disunity is aways disastrous , but when leaders stop listening The greatest evil can and does happen ( previous post )...   Urban based bias is now the norm even though they know nothing about real world risk management 
Misplaced concreteness by mere description to suit the speculators , attention seekers and dilittants 

elements 
Inoculation possibilities Yes thee was no sitting on the stupid focus  of inoculation when developing immunity talk would have prevented much insanity 

Andrews may well wonder why his brilliant logic didn't work , The trouble is his brilliant logic is game of so well refined over the years  that even he believes he knows what he is talking bout is right ,
 He is very good at being ahead of the I know game but most children are forced to give up the nonconfesssional unprofessional  of listening to one part of their own  story only earlier 

Just some of the fcas not clarified in the billions spent in speculation





Is done in the name of the best intention (Burke et al) , Governments who fail to accept this risk are most prone to commit us to it. Post Christian myth makers in the West who,  by their own new definition,  deny most of the sources of human evil  , or make new doctrines about who and what , are most prone to miss the point and cause disaster ( To have closed down business for 6 months for no decreases in the mortality rate would be a disaster ; were the told of that risk and did they take as Che-ifs that advice ?) Any leaders who tries to blame nature for evil needs to be careful - its not how many of us see nature  .Collective Evil refers to something men can be part of ( for good or ill) 
 
Governments who fail to accept that it always costs the public to effectively deal with danger are the most dangerous. If the said government is not paying for the consequences they create ( however well intentioned , were they well informed reactionary or of their own initiative?  
In other words if decisions are not made with  all cost effective considerations ( real care) then the care  ( and even discipline ) offered will be superficial and self righteous and likely to fail; likely to create many adverse consequences ( externalities ) that don't make sense  long term  ( eg no change to the mortality rate long term) This applies not only to people but the whole ecosystem elements  involved. 

All ecosystem elements play their part in creating risk , We limit talk of evil to the human component because  the first thing we can do well or badly is dealing well with the human risk component.
The natural elements we deal  with using science care and custodial wisdom but the human condition issues are often the least predictable/ controllable   
The West used to do  well to educate about risk and balance : To say that prosecution only came after based on taught simple laws ( not ones introduced for the time;); By contrast many governments of the moment have no commitment to education , believing men are determined and need incentives to act we assume  well or badly,  This heresy of raw power is unsustainable because while compliance can be obtained,  the cost and the lost opportunity cost of sound cooperation via understanding is lost  
( The Andrews government have not sought to explain how his idea of high levels of testing is mediating the progress of the disease. ) 

Governments who don't believe in evil incarnate are most  likely to miss the source and be largely  ineffective in dealing with it .  They create corruption commissions when their own arrogance and ignorance is the real reason they have the incompetent people working with them    Leaders must work hard to make sure they are listening to /getting advice they dont like 

 Such governments propensity to tyranny derives from their denial of the source of even their own  evil ( eg lack of confession ) Evil includes them because all people are prone to projecting evil onto others . 
Leaders are not gods and for them to act as if they are and do  know what to do ( God like ) is often for them to be wrong in motivation - not right as they perceive or acting with righteous authority 
This bad habit common in some , shows itself in a crisis when the normal consequences of wrong decisions are more likely to mount up and can't be covered up as easily . 
Humility in a crisis means working together at a national level ( State level CMO should quietly support the Chief)  ) 
"Getting the numbers down" is largely Daniel's idea and it maybe a very shallow idea in the context in which he has prosecuted it  ," Its a wildly infectious virus"   and his "second waves " are spoken of without explaining convincingly its not what he means , "We have a plan" often means they prosecute it even when they don;t work  .   
When something the government decides to do is not working (now quite normal) they can either admit it or get fanatical and tell us only things they want us to know ( Partial info --that deaths are increasing) 

The government ( incl National )  are not telling us what we need/want to know ( eg in my case  ratio of tests to casesand why high titre doesn't mean high herd immunity and antigen buildup for people in enclosed spaces, skin and other bioaerosol levels. The test and trace ideas assumptions i find unconvincing as if they are measuring presence or absence when it  is clearly not just that  

  A good government would try to explain whether / when /why/what sort  a solution a vaccine a likely , whether the virus will go away , whether there is any evidence of herd immunity and why the flattening of  the curve is not evidence of developing immunity  .Currently  curve talk just causes confusion and high number preoccupation will not convince epidemiologists.  

Governments who see themselves largely as doers of good ( Cf Doers of what works sustainably ) can fail to accept that it always costs to effectively deal with danger are most dangerous and they must weigh up the cost benefit of their actions 

With a genuine crisis,  mistakes will be made.  Leaders who fully support the hidden info two way flow system in a crisis are unlikely to ever be culpable .
Leaders who don't actually support the integration of information up to and down to the Chief  are culpable, (Why did we get 5 CMOS )
If anyone thinks wannabes are not prone to wanting to be  seen as public authors of solutions ( even in a crisis) they are not being realistic. No one should judge error until its over, but all should check for potential for error as in such threats, few, if any know what to do exactly ( and exactly is the aim) Compare Complete Control as aim   ( not natures aim ?)  


Climate of crisis works wonders for the Attention seekers  but its costing the earth . 

This post adds unanswered to date ( 7th August) questions relevant and put to the CMO during the COVID crisis in ITALICS and UNDERLINED

The greatest evil

Is done in the name of the best intention (Burke et al) , Governments who fail to accept this risk are most prone to commit us to it. Post Christian myth makers in the West who,  by their own new definition,  deny most of the sources of human evil  , or make new doctrines about who and what , are most prone to miss the point and cause disaster ( To have closed down business for 6 months for no decreases in the mortality rate would be a disaster ; were the told of that risk and did they take as Che-ifs that advice ?) Any leaders wh tries to blame nture for evil needs to be carfeul - its not how many of us see nature  .Collective Evil refers to something men can be part of ( for good or ill)   
Governments who fail to accept that it always costs the public to effectively deal with danger are the most dangerous. If the said government is not paying for the consequences they create ( however well intentioned , were they well informed reactionary or of their own initiative?  
In other words if decisions are not made with  all cost effective considerations ( real care) then the care  ( and even discipline ) offered will be superficial and self righteous and likely to fail; likely to create many adverse consequences ( externalities ) that don't make sense  long term  ( eg no change to the mortality rate long term) This applies not only to people but the whole ecosystem elements  involved. 

All ecosystem elements play their part in creating risk , the one thing we can do well or badly is dealing well with the human risk first - the natural elements with the same custodial wisdom   The West used to do  well to educate about risk and balance : that with prosecution based on taught simple laws ( not ones introduced for the time;; By contrast many governments of the moment have no commitment to education , believing men are determined and need incentives to act we assume  well or badly,  This heresy of raw power is unsustainable because while compliance can be obtained,  the cost and the lost opportunity cost of sound cooperation via understanding is lost 
( the Andrews government have not sought to explain how his idea of high levels of testing is mediating the progress of the disease. ) 

Governments who don't believe in evil incarnate are most  likely to miss the source and be largely  ineffective in dealing with it .  They create corruption commissions when their own arrogance and ignorance is the real reason they have the incompetent working with them ) . Such governments propensity to tyranny derives from their denial of the source of even their own  evil ( eg lack of confession ) Evil includes them because all people are prone to projecting evil onto others .
Leaders are not gods and for them to act as if they are and do  know what to do ( God like ) is often for them to be wrong in motivation - not right as they perceive or acting with righteous authority
This bad habit common in some , shows itself in a crisis when the normal consequences of wrong decisions are more likely to mount up and can't be covered up as easily .
Humility in a crisis means working together at a national level ( State level CMO should quietly support the Chief)  )  Getting the numbers down is largely Daniel's idea and it maybe a very shallow idea in the context in which he has prosecuted it  , Its a wildly infectious virus  and second waves spoken of without explaining what hey mean , We have a plan .   
When something the government decides to do is not working (know quite normal) they can either admit it or get fanatical and tell us only things they want us to know ( that deaths are increasing) 
The government ( incl National )  are not telling us what we need/want to know ( ratio of tests to cases ) and why high titre doesn't mean high herd immunity and antigen buildup for people in enclosed spaces, skin and other bioaerosol levels

 A good government would try to explain whether / when /why/what sort  a solution a vaccine a likely , whether the virus will go away , whether there is any evidence of herd immunity and why the flattening of  the curve is not evidence of developing immunity  .Currently  curve talk just cases confusion and high number preoccupation will not convince epidemiologists.  

Governments who see themselves largely as doers of good ( cf Doers of what works sustainably ) can fail to accept that it always costs to effectively deal with danger and such leadership simpleton ideas are most dangerous , Idealists must weigh up the cost benefit of their actions or not be in Parliament .  

With a genuine crisis mistakes will be made , leaders who fully support the hidden system in a crisis are unlikely to ever be culpable . Leaders who don't actually support the integration of information up to and down to the Chief  are culpable,

If anyone thinks wannabes are not prone to being seen as public authors of solutions ( even in a crisis) is not being realistic. No one should judge error until its over,  but all should check for potential for error , as in such threats,  few if any know what to do .  Confession time ????

Locked in literally.

The reactionaries didn't all join Parliament , Some of the sitters friends  could only continue to  do what they loved doing in their youth - finding  fault;  by finding fault at the ABC.   You know what I mean;  not finding fault with yourself, but finding fault beyond yourself .
There are many ways to join the smartarse club, not just the Liberal way  . Its often only when we fail to find a way that we realize SA is just a stupid waste of a way to live . Its OK to want  a revolution,  but just eliminating bad people would mean none of us would survive ( guillotine ).




  In a paradox of profound proportions, many of those incompetent in science thus came to expound science . ( Adams Williams Feine  2 name a few ) They came to their new doctrine of religious self righteousness about who should be judge of good science ( ie me ) by using  the good name of the doctrines of separated prejudices ( another name for cynicism ) Pity such stupidity simplicity and evil values places the truth second . (If they interviewed real scientists these dominating dummies wouldn't make so many blunders and be more effective education agents)
Joining  the Public service and the ABC they  found themselves happily paid to continue to preaching the safe new gospel of cynicism.  Those who don't understand the limits of something tend to worship or fear that thing. If you work with science you don't worship it ,but you respect its awesome power .
These mere reactionaries to the road set for travel in science are 2 groups who remain good friends to this day , As there friendship relies on their shared fault of mere reaction,  they can't see the weakness.Their presentation of the truth is likely to be limited. Ita Buttrose and Scott Morrison-- if you are interested in " Clever country" and the dilemma of trying to use a dumb and determined ignorant ( of how things work) media scrum in forcing an advance . 

As Chesterton pointed out nearly 100 years ago .What this means in practical terms  is that  neither of the blinkered road hogs can see the rocks in the high seas in which they insist we all keep sailing in.   

 "The emancipated man must cast a weird and suspicious eye round him at all the institutions of the world wondering which of them was destined to die in the next centuries . ....There was, in this thirst to be"  progressive " a subtle sort of doublemindedness and falsity ....... he had to SNEER at ( old insitutions) , as old fashioned out of a servile and snobbish fear ( because its not studied) of the future.     Chesterton on  Shaw and The progressives .

Noticed any sneer in the room ?

THUS the ABC and the sentimentalists inside the stockade  keep missing the opportunity to get scoops on  cul desacs that are wide open for complete wastage . Buying into ship wreck things other can see through.  Here's a brief list of some for you to explore .Naked emperors
The problem with not showing respect for history is that you forget studying and accepting this-- tere are old but good things that prevented disaster; we need to see why communities so readily still ignore them. 

The day is coming when those who have called themselves progressive,  will be known as those who,  now huddle  lost in an epistemological muddle , and always talked fear  and "what they hadn't got " ;  condemned to immaturity by their highest points of doctrine in their limited plane of view.

Pushing Shit uphill

Not content to follow their forebears , repent and give the job to someone who knows , Andrews the puppet and his team continue to try to do the impossible with nature .
Such is their arrogance they dare to advertize it ; Such is their ignorance of their ignorance that they are not even aware that they are wasting our money big time.


Daniel Andrews, when the sums are added up from all that stamp duty he has had to play with , will go down as Victoria's most wasteful wooden and woosy leader.

Not content to try and stop land doing what it does naturally at Wye River they try to replace sand on the beaches they allowed to erode .https://www.facebook.com/DELWPBarwonSouthWest/
The women who keep wasting this money on their own /close friends ideas should resign and give the jobs for people who do know .