Latter Day Banjo

I remain furious at the corrupt mismanagement and billionaire toadying of the worst government Australia has been forced to endure since Federation. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

We have to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide in Australia, right? Good luck with that. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, [someone], [someone else] and [another person] cover [topic]..... Toxic boys club, corruption, misogyny, climate crisis denial, suspected fraud, embezzlement and protection for rapists, cult religious groups influencing government ideology, mining industry influencing government decision-making, a Prime Minister who denies knowledge of wrong-doing ... #votehimaway #voteMorrisonout This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

An insidious local virus is laying much of Australia even lower than the other well-documented global one that just makes you sick. Some of us test negative to infection, but we have all been dangerously exposed to Scovid-19. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Good luck with one nice speech providing a panacea for 230-plus years of murder, theft, exploitation, marginalisation and paternalistic brow-beating over First Nation peoples’ failure to seamlessly fall into line with a European capitalist societal model that was diametrically opposed to every aspect of a forty-plus millennial culture centred on Country and of family groups that connected to land and its ancient Dreamtime. Or changing one word in the National Anthem. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Not only do our current political masters in Australia favour us with trickle-down economics, there are trickle-down ethics that trickle down from the big end of town right to the gutters, and flow away in the refuse and shit, never again to trouble us. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

I have appointed myself Prime Minister, after my army of progressives declared peace on the poor and overthrew the incompetent, corrupt Morrison regime. Here is my victory speech. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

My fellow Australians, here is something about how and why I am different to the recent, newly overthrown and imprisoned demagogues and multi-billionaire oligarchs who divided us as a nation – tribe against tribe – never paid tax and lived the high life at our expense. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Let's be thoughtful during the week of most solemn global commemoration, that of Remembrance Day. In the minute’s silence we will dedicate this week to those who have fallen, let’s think about declaring a lasting peace, in this world, and backing it with our actions. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revived the pan-Turkic ambitions that date back a century or more to the Ottomans, who were responsible for the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915-23, with the appalling attack by Turkish-backed Azerbaijan on the independent Republic of Artsakh, which is populated mostly by ethnic Armenians. There is a greater agenda at play here, a renewed effort on Turkey’s part to crush Armenia, utterly ignored by our mainstream media and only noted in the non-Murdoch press and on SBS and the ABC. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Autocracy Good, Democracy Bad, this is the singular rule ... as we flounder about, deep in pandemic, mired in recession, with neoliberal shitfuckerist rulers imposing their autocracy on us proles in the interests of no one at all, other than themselves and a few billionaires with room in their off-shore tax havens for some more ill-gotten gains. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

The most corrupt and self-serving government in Australian history deregulates industry, erodes job security and ignores expert warnings over Covid-19. It grants unaccounted carte blanche to map our post-Covid economic recovery to the hand-picked National Covid-19 Co-ordination Commission, a bunch of gas industry exec mates. And then there is the aged care debacle. Morrison and his henchmen descend to new depths of deviousness and disregard for the well-being of most Australians. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Fourteen months into the spread of the virulent disease SCOVID-19, here are some thoughts on 'mean and tricky' neoliberal shitfuckery ... This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week, [someone], [someone else] and [another person] cover [topic]..... Despite his frantic cash splash (three quarters of which is to already well-off businesses), Morrison still entertains the fantasy of 'snapping back' to the New Year mentality of a small budget surplus, punishing the poor for being poor and rewarding rich donors with favourable tax breaks, a kind of normal where he rules by ad slogan, controls the narrative and benefits from a tame opposition, most of whom are in the pockets of the same oligarchs he serves. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

With two years to go before any sign of relief, Coalition Shitfuckery since Morrison Steven-Bradbury-ed Turnbull has taken Australian democracy down to new lows in how dislocated the political system is from the people it is meant to serve. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Scotty from Marketing, Scomo, Smoko, or as I like to refer to him #CorruptCharlatanShitFingersMP, the worst Prime Minister in Australian history, inspires a new linguistic word stem: Scomo. This episode walks the listener through the etymology of it, as well commenting on Morrison's overlord Trump and the example he sets for the free world and how our leader has managed the bushfire calamity. It closes with some thoghts on where we might like to go next and an alternative version of the current national anthem. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

The Prime Minister is a leader with direction, stability and certainty. Unlike Labor in the Global Financial Crisis a decade ago, Morrison reminds us that the Liberals are Not Panicking, even if there are a quarter million more unemployed than in 2009. He may soon reveal policies, which may involve having them. But it’s not the right time, even though the cricket distracts us from the slow death of democracy. This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

When will Morrison interrupt his thoughts and prayers and listen to the concerns of ordinary Australians? Not today, it seems. We are right to question his Pentecostal faith, because with his fossil fuel sponsors, he stays 'on message', conveying a bare-face lie that everything is fine, while the Coalition’s failure to address carbon emissions and open favouritism towards outmoded coal mines will be the Devil that leads us to ruin.

ScoMo claims to speak for the ‘Quiet Australians’ and labels as ‘progressivism’ the ordinary person’s right to free speech, which he darkly characterises as ‘apocalyptic in tone’. He blames Labor, the poor, the globalists, and anyone else who is not rich enough to have his attention as the causes of our nation's economic woes, which he professes to fix, while effectively doing nothing. He has exposed himself as unfit to govern. We want our democracy back.

It’s been a momentous couple of weeks since the United Nations Climate Summit hothouse, with rising political temperatures just about everywhere else afflicted by buffoonish dictators. A couple of them got together recently at the White House.