Comments on: Kevin Rudd hand-picks long-time maaate to head AG’s Department

By: John James

John James — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Interesting that Rudd is a great admirer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was executed by the Nazis. It was the German philosopher Nietschke whose nihilism, particular antipathy to all things Christian, rejection of ‘truth’ and views of the “superior man” fed much of the Aryan supremacy and views about the “Jewish problem” in the social policy of the Third Reich. Nietschke lost his mind. The concentraion camps of the three great criminal states of the 20th century, the USSR, National Socialist Germany and China, were born in the minds of those children of the Enlightenment, Marx, Hegel and Nietschke.

By: Dave Liberts

Dave Liberts — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

So John James is racist against Germans too? Just because you’re German doesn’t make you identical to Nietzsche, despite John’s suggestion that Bonhoeffer and Nietzsche must be peas in a pod because of their common nationality.

By: You Beaut

You Beaut — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It is spelled “Nietzsche” genius.

By: Stephen Rix

Stephen Rix — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Make no mistake, the appointment of Wilkins as head of AGs is a disgrace. Mitchell is quite right to suggest that Carr/Wilkins have a lot to answer for: ask Morris (iemma). Carr fled as his popularity declined and, despite the hero worship from the ABC, his transfer to Macquarie tells us more about Carr’s real politics than his membership of the ALP. Wilkins transferred to the Citi group and now he transfers to AGs. Corporate executives are attacked (but never stopped) from their million dollar bonuses when their businesses go belly-up. These two are being rewarded for what they have done to NSW and only Crikey is raising the real issues.

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Any relation I wonder to "Tony Wilkins Manager, Environment and Climate Change with News Limited" who also attended if memory serves the Rudd love fest .... err sorry 2020 conference.

One imagines it was Roger Wilkins who helped Carr implement his forest policy 95-2001 by taking a meat cleaver to the areas outside national park and saying, half half: That is 50% of the public's land and natural heritage goes to private industry and the other half is a PR badge of honour. But it was all the public's?! Too bad - 20 year logging guarrantees for private profit and Carr broke his ELECTION promise to close the wicked Eden Chip mill. 1,500 arrests against that monster - more than the Franklin River campaign.

I have always said Carr was always only as green as the political virtue in wedging the browns in the Nationals and the wets in the Liberals like Terry Metherell and his ilk. For the same reason therefore Carr donated seed funding to the Climate Institute to replay the NSW wedge model at federal level - and didn't it serve a treat.

But with Roger Wilkins in there early on review of climate policy who really doubts that Rudd is as committed to climate policy reforms only to the extent - like Carr - that it disagggregates the Coalition. As long as it serves it's purpose there is no actual philosophical commitment beyond acquistion of political power to actually implement serious political reform of the energy economy. Garrett will be a figleaf for embarrassing moments talking like a bren gun. Otherwise business as usual - Coal is king etc.

What was that about Garnaut being only one voice in the ear of govt in a major downgrade of his role post election win? And burning of forest 'waste' (read woodchips from the Eden chipper formerly upright eucalypt trees) is still being touted as greenhouse friendly by NAFI earlier this week. Wilkins would be pleased. So would Greiner. These guys really are twisted.