Australia’s Climate Grifters
Four of Australia’s most disturbing public figures – Mike Cannon-Brookes, Chris Bowen, Malcolm Turnbull and Wyatt Roy – are all in the news at the same time, and in the same story. They are stealing money from Australian taxpayers to help destroy the Hunter Valley coal industry and replace it with solar panel manufacturing.
They are what we call climate grifters. Crooks. Liars. The Cambridge Dictionary definition of “grifter” is as follows:
Someone who gets money dishonestly by tricking people.
Those mentioned above are people who take taxpayer dollars under false pretences.
In other words, it is stealing off the back of the big lie. In the case of climate grifting, the big lie is that there is such a thing as dangerous, man-made global warming that can be addressed by the state (and its corporate mates) and should be addressed by the state. Well, it turns out to be several lies, in fact.
Vocabulary.com states:
A grifter is a con artist: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud. If there's one type of person you don't want to trust, it's a grifter: someone who cheats others out of money. Grifters are also known as chiselers, defrauders, gougers, scammers, swindlers, and flim-flam men.
The climate grifter extraordinaire is, of course, Al Gore. As Jesse waters explains.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jesse-watters-al-gore-climate-grifter-stickup-artist
Many academics accepting research grants off the back of the big lie are grifters too. If you call them out on it, you are likely to get sued for defamation. Certainly you will in the USA. Anyone accepting a subsidy for renewables is a climate grifter. Oh, and anyone frequenting Davos or the COPs. John Ellwood at TCW described COP 28 in the United Arab Emirates as:
A woke confederation of grifters, chancers and shysters.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/cop28-a-woke-confederation-of-grifters-chancers-and-shysters/
Ellwood continues:
AS INFLATION soars and the temperature plummets, it is unpalatable to think of the unelected scoundrels and hypocrites in Dubai conspiring to make you poorer and colder. An email sent to TCW Defending Freedom from an outfit called University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose gives an insight into the nature of the unelected parasites who are taking it upon themselves to organise your future.
Part of the Institute’s mission is to ‘shape an economy-wide transformation that puts ambitious climate targets at the centre of how we design our economies and finance’.
He could just as easily have been talking about Australia’s Solar Four. The unholy scoundrels referred to above.
Startup Daily’s headline reads:
Mike Cannon-Brookes is in the thick of the Australian government’s $1 billion plan to turn a coal mining region into a solar manufacturing hub.
The Australian Financial Review notes:
The $1 billion of subsidies, grants and other support for solar announced by Anthony Albanese on Thursday will be delivered through ARENA [the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, aka the Grifters’ Bank] and come on top of more than $830 million the agency has already invested in 233 solar panel projects.
As the fictional Dr Evil might say, with finger touching mouth, “one billion dollars”. The project is called Sunshot. Yet another green Ponzi scheme. Evil is right.
Albanese, at the closed Liddell power station said Solar SunShot will help Australia capture more of the global solar manufacturing supply chain through support, including production subsidies and grants.
When AGL shut down Liddell last April, it announced plans to turn the site into an industrial renewable energy hub, including a 500 MW grid-scale battery.
No surprises that AGL has its greedy mits in the scheme.
Nick Cater at The Australian has been on the case.
Renewable energy is welfare-dependent as well as weather-dependent. It suffers from a condition a psychologist might recognise as Dependent Personality Disorder: a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of.
Source: The Australian, 1 April 2024, paywalled.
Cater notes that Cannon-Brookes is Australia’s four richest person, and the buttock-clenching fact that he is putting his hands into our pockets rather than his own.
Corporate welfare has a long, grim and sleazy history. Every department of state development – and I worked for one for over a decade – has been based on the perceived need for corporate welfare. Competitions to attract industries and events can be reduced to corporate welfare. It is an awful hybrid beast of corporatism, bureaucracy and the policy capture highlighted by public choice theory. We spent nearly a trillion on Covid policy, and that included a fair stash on scams like JobSeeker and JobKeeper. Pretty much all corporate welfare. Climate business welfare, like Covid business welfare, is distinguished by its being based on lies. It takes us way beyond the old-fashioned desire to attract business to our jurisdictions, and in the direction of fraudulent policy married to subsidy.
The whole “clean energy” sector is a climate scam. It is policy grifting 2.0.
Bowen and Turnbull we know about already. Their involvement in this, yet again, shows the UniParty at work. Lib-Lab. Tweedledum-Tweedledee. The progressive class. It shows that there isn’t a sheet of very thin paper between Labor and many in the Liberal Party.
Where does Wyatt Roy fit in? Famously, he was a young Liberal star who was massively involved in Turnbull’s simultaneously traitorous and disastrous leadership bid in 2015.
Wyatt served in the Australian House of Representatives and was the Assistant Minister for Innovation in the Turnbull Government. At age 20, he was the youngest person elected to the Australian Parliament; at 25, he was the youngest Minister in the history of the Commonwealth.
https://sxswsydney.com/speaker/wyatt-roy-2/
Yes, he even got a ministry under the Malchurian Candidate. Ironically, he lost his seat in 2016 in the anti-Turnbull swing, having won the seat and retained it under Tony Abbott. Loh and behold, he has now turned up as an adviser to the clinically insane Chris Bowen. After he left politics:
Roy later joined Afiniti, a global artificial intelligence company, as its Australian general manager.
Here is another of Roy’s gigs:
Former Turnbull minister Wyatt Roy has joined the leadership team at Neom, an ambitious and controversial $760 billion project to build a futuristic city from scratch in Saudi Arabia powered entirely by renewable energy.
Neom, which is wholly owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, was launched in 2017 by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a bid to reduce Saudi Arabia’s dependence on oil and to diversify its economy.
Salman’s vision for the megacity includes robots performing security, logistics and caregiving functions as well as more out-there technologies that don’t yet exist, including flying cars and a giant artificial moon.
You could not make this economic fantasyland up. Again, the case of Roy demonstrates the close affinity on climate change across the major parties, and the willingness of all sides of politics to use taxpayer dollars to create and prop up industries based on lies. It all started, of course, on John Howard’s watch. While he wouldn’t sign the Kyoto Treaty, he did sign us up for NRET (the national renewal energy target) and he did make Turnbull Minister for the Environment. Creating NRET was a little like Menzies’ expansion of the universities. Looked almost entirely benign and innocent at the time, but created monsters down the road. Monsters that are now eating us.
We are now saddled with the farcical nonsense of climate change AND entirely useless, fabricated industries backed by greenwashing, money laundering schemes created by global bankers and private equity firms. A little like the Ukraine War, as RKF Jr has wisely pointed out. Another policy grift.
It is a giant fraudulent mess of our own making. That the mainstream media (except for stars like Cater) do not see this scam for what it is, is yet more evidence that Australian journalists are now merely mouthpieces for vested interests.
Yet it is far worse than a scam. It is evil. The estimable Patrick Moore, who started Greenpeace then saw the light, notes with alarm:
"If we actually achieved Net Zero, at least 50% of the population would die of hunger and disease."
"At least 50% of the population depends on nitrogen fertiliser for its existence. And there's people trying to ban it, and Netherlands and Sri Lanka have already made these kinds of moves. So it is truly a death wish in disguise, and the disguise is to save the Earth, which doesn't need saving, particularly."
Source: Andrew Bridgen Telegram channel.
So, we are paying rich people, with our money, to enrich themselves further and to indulge their climate change fantasies, while they assist tyrannical governments to inflict on us policies (net zero) we don’t want or need … and which will kill people! It all sounds a bit like Zero Covid.
This is public policy in the 2020s. All announced with glee and ignorance by the Chief Dunce, Airbus Albo, and his barely there side-kick.
And if ever there were four horsemen of the climate apocalypse ready to drive us to economic perdition, it is Bowen, Cannon-Brookes, Turnbull and Wyatt Roy. I never realised that there could be something worse than a rich greenie. Now I know there IS something worse. It is a rich greenie with his hand in your pocket.
It is no coincidence that today is 1 April. We are all being taken for fools by the lunatics who run the country.
Paul Collits
1 April 2024
What a fantastic business investment. Get your solar panels up. Geo-engineer some hailstones and do it all again and again.
A gem. Have sent it to all and sundry. Amr