Feather duster a rooster again

 

Sick of bush-walking and doing Abraham Lincoln pastiches on the standup circuit former NSW premier Bob Carr has got himself a new job as minister for US interests in the ALP with special responsibility for delivering Julian Assange

Meanwhile Assange is settling into solitary confinement at the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge

 

Facts are sacred and my lawyer is naked

That's no Kenny Everett hand...

That's the Bain strangling hand

Ryan: No taxes for deserving corporate persons

Mitt 'Romnoid' Romney : I pledge to be a deserving corporate person

Malcolm Turnbull waits, and salivates

 

 Australia would have to be the only country going which would seriously consider a merchant banker as a sober alternative Prime Minister. 5 years into the financial crisis. We have a hairy monk to thank for that. Savonarola in budgie smugglers

But a merchant banker is a merchant banker. it will be interesting to watch for liberal policy to fix the NBN for corporate and financial sector profit over public interest. And somehow protecting Foxtel's  sports cartel. 

Whatever contortions are required

 

monetizing existence is rewarding... fruit of the pin-stripe plant, an invasive weed

More merchandise

For devotees of the Socialist pantheon, we introduce the all-new Babushka Buddha series of Latin American revolutionary leaders. Opening Hugo Chavez reveals Fidel Castro - with complimentary cigar. Peel him away to find Che Guevara. Next is Allende - imagine Kissinger bombing his palace.  Then comes Evo Morales in a cornbread headdress. Inside them all, long-necked Simon Bolivar, wearing an angular military hat

A big shout out to all my money

 

Whether hot and anonymous, or relaxing in tax havens: Mitt Romney dreams of a plutocratic orgy in Washington

Trust me, I worked for Goldman Sachs

Mario Draghi takes Gordon Brown Pudding for a walk

Bullingdon boys at the Olympic

Check the merchandise! Free Boris Bankster with every happy meal.

Or, for those who come second, Lord Dave Snooty, Cameron of the (British Virgin) Isles

George Osborne reminisces:  When I was at school I wore a necklace of Bob the Builder dolls to give me power over those other idiots. To those ambitious schoolboys out there I would suggest - a string of Boris Banksters adorning your throat will take you far...

"you fired": pre-game entertainment

 

 A new gladiatorial event at the olympics: presidential campaigning

 

Kevin Costner as Mitt Romney. Who else could play him? Twin talents for epic disaster

Lieutenant Minnie to the bridge : Kim Jong-Uhuru takes command

Aboard the Great Leader Enterprise Kim Jong-Un purges the geriatric generals and promotes Minnie Mouse to head of the army, and Dumbo is to be interior minister

face of a banker: Lord HSBC. British minister for trade

 

Money laundering is a nice little earner. Making drugs illegal is a great spur to capital accumulation

The Pope markets his incontinence - perhaps by mistake

More evidence that satire has been overtaken by events

If you bankers descend into theft, debauchery and excess, don't leave me out of it!

German satire magazine 'Titanic' took the piss out of the pope, showing him 'having spilled a fanta' onto his cassock while celebrating the discovery of the source of leaks threatening the dark secrets of papal banking.

Now the pope has sued the magazine for libel, ensuring that der Spiegel picked the story up internationally. Is the continence of the Pope an article of doctrine(ie subject to Papal infallibility)? Did God have a brainfart?

According to Benedict, the Pope can hold his piss, and that's official. Those making claims to the contrary will be excommunicated.

Hilary Clinton theatrical mask

No 1: wide-eyed exasperation - "you're not following the script buddy"

The bankers pout = a consortium of octopuses

 

Bob Diamond, the face of the octopus

Dave's Gherkin, scene 2

Some fellow on the trading floor dropped his trousers for a bottle of Bollinger, but we'll soon get to the bottom of that (BOOM BOOM)

 

Sir Michael Agius, pouting on behalf of the Barclays board

It was some rogue trader what done it, but someone must show responsibility, so why don't I resign for a day and then resume my chair.

 

A phone call to Tucker, muddy the waters...

We'll have to throw Bob under the bus I'm afraid.

trust me, I'm from the Bank of England.

 

Call in independent director Sir Michael Rake(I'm not making this up). Looks like a wonderful chap, and wonderfully independent of course

Next up, George Osborne gets spanked, but will he enjoy it?

Geopolitical handshake

 

Barack Obama and Hu Jintao

There be monsters - at the Liberal conference

It's a strange world where you find yourself agreeing with Clive Palmer, up to a point

 

Clive's deadset against any more lobbyists in politics. There's plenty of billionaires whose direct input is available. 

Look who he's up against, Santa(to himself) Santoro. Another shape-shifting lizard from the Queensland LNP. What's in the water up there?

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What's a conflict of interest? We're all mates around here

 

Alexander Downer,  foreign minister when the AWB kickback scam was on, and Reserve bank subsidiaries were bribing foreign officials, such as the head of Vietnam's secret police

After negotiating cars with Prince Jefri of Brunei, and negotiating peace on Cyprus(fruitlessly in both cases, but not before pissing everyone off),  A Downer picked up nice gig as a Lib vice-President. He's a director of the privatised spooks at Hakluyt(now famous for their employment of the guy whose murder brought Bo Xilai down). Perhaps they can explain his old habit of quoting Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld in advance


Locally he's got a lobbying company with (ex-Labor Senator) Nick Bolkus and the hubbie of (ex-Democrat Senator) Natasha Stott-Despoja. How cute, how cosy!

Tony Abbott is outside with his pan pipes, waiting for J-Liar, and the full moon

If you do find yourself agreeing with Clive, remember he's a prototype Chinese chatbot with colourful views programmable on timeshare. So the feeling will probably pass

Big Dave's wonderful Gherkin - Act 1 Scene 1

What's this erupting from the London Skyline?

Is it a prick?, is it a gherkin?

It's Bob Diamond, of Barclays bank. In an act of public spirit he's given up his bonus. 

Not to mention, while cannibalising the corpse of Lehman brothers, Barclays (and the other banks) fixed the global interest rate market to SAVE the financial system.

For services etc etc a knighthood is too little punishment. Dave Cameron sentences him to a seat in the House of Lords

Now, don't get Sarky

Not Sarkozy, but Sark, tiny tax haven under the British crown, and plaything of the Barclay twins. of the bank done for interest rate manipulations

 

Our own private island

With its own jurisdiction

and no taxes!

we can do what we want

in our own private gothic playground

on the island.

Of Sark.!

If you don't like we'll sack you and chase you from our domain .

Our democratic right!

Piss off or we'll get the dogs

Cosmic eye of Governance

At the G20

 

Julia Gillard(Jules the first): Hey Bruce, watch me sledge the Euros.

Hu Jintao: Confucius says, this too funny!

Merkel, Obama, and the sage Manmohan Singh, levitating beneath the Eye of Surveillance

Naked PM in waiting

Tony Abbott's got it bad for Julia Gillard. He lays in wait in the chamber

 

Hairshirt Harry only wants to tickle. But he won't put that in writing

More of Harry here and here.

Mitt Romney is worried about sex

 

Julian Assange is contemplating solitary at the Ecuadoran embassy, comforted only by his lawyers.

 

Back on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney receives an honorary doctorate of camouflage at Mormon Hamburger state university.

His mind's on other things, like solitary confinement. He's been reading a Don Rumsfeld poem about rubber gloves and paper bags, and dripping, dripping water.

Destroying angel

 

Returning from a bout of her Wagnerian cycle in the courts,

 Gina Rinehart finds time, as an angel, to save diversity in the media

putting the slipper in

 

Mal Brough, pensive

By the power vested in me as a former Queensland pleece ("police") officer, an ex-MP, and minister in the Howard government I take the opportunity to say cooee and have a good old dogwhistle to the members of the Queensland LNP.

None of us are poofta-bashers, those days are gone.

But take a look at this fella. He had us fooled for a long time I admit, 20 years or more. He's done the dirty and he's gotta go to make way for talent, such as meself

 

Peter Slipper

Why, this bloke told me he left the door open, to the shower

Well it sounded good, in the party room

democracy v democracy: the wargame

 

Vlad 'the putinator' Putin watches in 3-d.

This is the Kremlin remake of a Hollywood feature. The politics of the original were most unsatisfactory, but this is MUCH better

 

inter-ducing Mike 'the mikebot' McFaul, silver medallist in the 2008 international chatbot Olympics, and new US ambassador in Moscow. He's the villain of the piece(Hero in imbecile American production)

On arriving in Moscow, the mikebot decides to meet with his team, and prove he is human

The American's tame environmentalists, feminist activists, opposition party officials and election monitors come to take their instructions.

McFaul shows them a powerpoint presentation

 

Russia controlled by this evil un-American monster

Putinator is not amused

Chirikova, the environmentalist has a dream

 

which will soon be rudely interrupted

as she comes out the Embassy door.

Busted by the champions of transparency at FSB TV(note John Travolta as sympathetic but stupid diplomatic guard). "This is all propaganda", she sighs

With her comes the boss of Yabloko, western friendly liberals, brandishing policy

 

Where's your Surkovian Propaganda now?

Shibanova, the boss of the State department funded election monitor Golos is with them too.

 

Slapstick and farce

It's all a very amusing prelude to telling Barack Obama to go f#*k himself

The Sun King never tells a lie

 

Rupert Murdoch dreams of Silvio Berlusconi, and never tells a lie to the Leveson inquiry . "Blackmail business" - what exactly is 'blackmail', and how could I make a business from a concept I do not comprehend?

His little (lightweight) mate came in to back him up. Why Gordon "Magic Puddin'" Brown is well known as an habitual liar. Wouldn't trust a word he says, though he makes a great diversion to hang blame on. There, settled that up

 

Call me Dave makes a jokey evasive appearance. He says TV is very important, and newspapers not so much, so it was important not to let a trivial thing like phone hacking in newspapers get in the way of an important deal to deliver absolute control of TV to some bloke or other, whose name he can't recall, but with whom he's dined on a number of occasions. And of course he and Rebekah Brooks had not formed some sort of shady menage, why she was married to a schoolchum, and they almost never swapped spouses

 

And Cameron denies having sex with James Murdoch, 'although there was some intellectual intercourse

Wargamin' Democracy - McFoul is as McFaul does

 

If you ever wondered why Vlad "are they wearing condoms" the Putin doesn't like US administrations, wonder no longer. They spend their time trying to organise velveteen revolutions against him.

So when Barack "the plant" O'Bummer-Obama announced a reset in US-Russian relations, as reset implementer he chose neo-con Democrat and professor of regime change, Michael A. McFaul, making him US ambassador to Moscow. You see nominative determinism at work.

When he arrived his team of 'Russian opposition leaders' and 'election monitors' dutifully appeared at the US embassy to receive their instructions, to the stunned incredulity of Russian news audiences. Shades of Mark Arbib(except in Australia we don't care about the treachery of our representatives). (Who gives Hairshirt Harry his riding instructions?)

If you've heard of Yabloko - the Russian 'liberals', they were there. By liberal they mean they will open up opportunities for children to work 12-hour shifts in the salt mines. (and therefore, true liberals) . There were 'environmentalists' and 'feminists', co-opted for the cause of US imperial ambition

More pictures to come

Davros of Davos

 

Davros and some daleks and other creations

 

Rebekah Antoinette - hang her head from the parapet and let em shoot it to bits

Now 2 former British PMs have accused Rupert Murdoch of lying in evidence. His creations are turning on him