Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, April 19, 2016,
Greetings fellow travellers! Yes, it is I, Derek Sapphire! I have returned to the blogosphere after a very long hiatus.
Now, I know that you are all overjoyed that I have returned to social media to do my part in the ongoing campaign to deconstruct that appalling amalgam (a
malegam?) of misogyny, racism and Gaiaphobia otherwise known as "Western Civilization". And I'm sure you are curious as to where I have been all this time ...
Well, all I can say right now is that I retreated to my isolation...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, January 28, 2012,
It's truly disturbing to see how the hate media works, fellow travellers. After Tony Abbott brazenly incited the Australia Day race riot that put the Prime Minister's life in peril, they are now desperately trying to sheet home blame to Gillard's
own office, as well as the union movement! The gall of these people simply beggars belief.
The accusations were first aimed at Gillard staffer Tony Hodges. That was bad enough. But now they are pointing the finger at union official
Kim Sattler.
There's...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, January 25, 2012,
Fellow travellers, as you are probably already well aware the rancid right-wing reaches of the blogopshere are most idignant about this searingly insightful survey conducted by UWA anthropologist
Farida Fozdar. This proves beyond any shadow of a doubt what so many of us on the left have long felt: racism, flag waving and car driving are all inextricably linked. And why wouldn't they be? They all spring from that appalling, unquenchable drive in the white male psyche to
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, October 19, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure that many of you have witnessed this graphic Youtube clip of a mountain bike rider being hit by an antelope while bicycling through the South African
wilderness.
Of course most of those who are indoctrinated with so-called "rational" discourses, and who are not in tune with nature believe that this was some sort of freaky random
accident.
But we know better, don't we? Watch it closely. Would that sure-footed, graceful animal make such a clumsy mistake? Of course not...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, October 15, 2011,
Fellow travellers, of course you will all be aware of the courageous rebellion that is occurring in the
eeevil capitalist command centre of AmeriKKKa's dark heart. By making good their threat to occupy Wall Street those brave left-wing activists are offering the millions of people watching a clear alternative. Even people who have never been political their entire lives are surely thinking: "There
is a valid alternative to global capitalism after all. And these protestors are
it!"
The movement...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, September 29, 2011,
Oh joy! Joy and cat dancing! The racist hate mongering trollumnist Andrew Bolt has been silenced at last!
This is wonderful thing for democracy, fellow travellers. (And by that I mean
authentic democracy, not the shamocracy endorsed by conservatives.)
But of course you all know that. To say so is practically preaching to the converted (but not in a Christian way, of course).
Needless to say, Bolt sees the guilty verdict as something sinister. In his usual
eeevil and highly emotive way, he frames...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, September 4, 2011,
Really, these attacks on Julia Gillard are becoming even more relentless and offensive. Now, because
Insiders has dumped Glen Milne as a guest the right-wing reaches of the blogosphere are going ballistic and nuclear! They see a sinister case of censorship by
the state. And they would, wouldn't they. In their tiny, literal minds, anything they don't like is either a lie, a betrayal, or some ugly attempt at intimidation. It's just another crazy conspiracy theory to add to an already long list....
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, August 29, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure that you are as sick and tired as I am of all that fuss about
that shovel left out the front of the home of the Health Services Union's
Kathy Jackson.
Appalling right-wing commentators have gone into overdrive carping about
the culture of thuggery and intimidation in so many unions. But of
course this stereotype is completely divorced from reality. The truth is
the
exact opposite of what they say, as usual.
As we on the green left all know, union officials a...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, August 20, 2011,
Fellow traveller Graham Readfern has bravely written a searingly insightful article about the preponderance of appalling white male peenie wavers in the climate change
denialist camp.
But we have long known about this phenomenon haven't we fellow travellers? White male conservatives are past masters when it comes to bigotry. Not only are they climate change denialists, but they are invariably sexist, racist, homophobic and
fattist as well. But of their numerous prejudices it's their misogyny ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, July 30, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure you are as appalled as I am about the treatment of Christine Nixon by Rupert Murdoch's hate media. Both the
Herald Sun and
The Australian have pursued the poor woman relentlessly over her "hands off" handling of the Victorian bushfire crisis. It's completely obvious to any thinking, feeling person that if a man were to have done much the same thing as Nixon on Black Saturday there would be little complaint - less still if he were not deemed "overweight" by a societ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
One thing that we have long known about eeevil right-wing conservatives is that they will never let a crisis (or an atrocity) go to waste. Immediately something horrible happens, they are shamelessly using it to bash their old enemies, even when there is
no association whatsoever!This tendency was accurately pointed out by fellow traveller Mike Stuchbery on Twitter when he revealed the cynical use of the massacre in Norway by
you know who:
Andrew Bolt is on the same sick level as Oslo’s madm... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, July 21, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure that many of you share my disappointment over the recent Murdoch hearings. It looked like we might have finally had the Evil Emperor on the ropes! But sadly, it was not to be. There seems to be a widespread feeling that he acquitted himself well. And then there was that foam pie "attack" on him by comedian and activist
"Jonnie Marbles". That has resulted in even more sympathy for
the old tyrant.
But was the attack genuine, fellow travellers? As we on the left know ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, July 1, 2011,
Well, fellow travellers, it's not surprising that planet hating reactionaries who lurk in the right-wing reaches of the blogosphere are all howling with laughter at this parody of Petula Clark's
"Downtown". It just says
sooo much about these nasty Gaia-phobes and what goes on inside their tiny minds.
Well, apart from being a complete misrepresentation of what Bob Brown and the Greens stand for it's also
not at all funny.
And I am an expert in these matters, you know! Not only have I written an...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, June 24, 2011,
In response to what were perfectly reasonable observations from myself and fellow traveller Jill Singer about the planet-killing behaviour of eeevil climate change
denialists, the appalling Iain Hall has responded with something truly vile. In that offensively arrogant and sanctimonious manner that all conservatives seem to have, he has argued that we on the green left should "name our poison" and either neuter or kill ourselves to "make a real difference to
the environment".
Needless to say ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, June 23, 2011,
Now that justice has actually been served in the Carnita Matthews
case, the right-wing racists and xenophobes are using the decision as justification to launch a new hate campaign! They have renewed their demands to have
the burqa banned. Really, the gall of these Islamophobes is almost beyond belief.
Often, they cite the argument that it is oppressive to women. Excuse
me! These are the same people who openly tell (and laugh at)
blonde jokes! Can you believe the hypocrisy, fellow travellers? T...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, June 22, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as you well know I write this blog out of
love. I selflessly offer my deep wisdom for the good of all humankind. And while knowing that I am making the world a better place is deeply fulfilling, there is a downside. Being so far ahead of my time and so spiritually advanced, I do suffer feelings of isolation from time to time. It's lonely at the top, as they say.
That's why it's nice to know that there are others who share my deep compassion, and visions for a kinder, gentle...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, June 20, 2011,
Why am I not surprised that the appalling Andrew Bolt is still beating his denialist drum against respected scientists fighting valiantly to save the planet from catastrophic climate change? Now he's attacking sassy sister
Anna-Maria Arabia. And he's doing so with even more vitriol than usual. Perhaps it's got something to do with his obvious Islamophobia. Her surname just too much to bear is it Andrew, hmm?
Hmm? While there's probably some submerged racism in his latest bit of hate speech, i...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, June 18, 2011,
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is now here in Fremantle, and will speak in
Perth tomorrow. While his visit to Australia (and previously, the USA)
has been met with much love, joy and celebration from the more
compassionate among us, hard-hearted right-wingers and conservatives
continue to find fault with him.
For example, they really pounced on his admission that he is
a Marxist.
They despise that compassionate ideology anyway, and also seem to think
that being proudly left-wing is someh...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, June 6, 2011,
Sassy sister Cate Blanchett recently, and quite movingly, said of her activism on the issue of climate change: ''I can't look my children in the face if I'm not trying to do something in my small way and to urge other people."
I applaud such courage and conviction. But for me, the sense of urgency is even more immediate. If I were not waging a (peaceful) war against the denialists and alerting the world to their appalling lies then
I wouldn't be a able to look Gaia Herself in the face (and I ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, June 2, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure you have all heard of this latest appalling act by the Opposition, in which the vile David Bushby meowed at sassy sister Penny Wong. Of course the right-wing knuckle draggers in the Liberal Party have argued that it was a comparatively minor insult, and that Labor politicians are capable of vile attacks as well. Their media apologists cite Mark Latham's use of the insult "skanky ho" against Janet Albrechtsen, and Julia Gillard's description of Christopher Pyne as a...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, May 25, 2011,
Both my feminist cat Jocelyn and I were over the moon knowing that two of the world's foremost feminists would be making a TV appearance last Monday night. Yes, the sassy
Gail Dines and Australia's own patriarchal-paradigm buster
Leslie Cannold were to be panelists on our favourite show,
Q and A. We were so excited, we danced a dance of empowerment and joy!
But sadly as the debate wore on it became apparent that there was more than a little enmity between the two notable thinkers. It pains me ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, May 24, 2011,
Right-wingers are nothing if not predictable. And their greedy philosophy is not only truly eeevil, but also
inconsistent. Take their reaction to our fellow traveller David Hicks and his searing and unflinchingly honest book about his ordeal in the hell holes of the Great McSatan.
While the Australian Government decides whether to let Hicks receive the proceeds from the tome, free market zealots like Iain Hall spout fatuous nonsense
like this:
Hmm I very much hope that the profits from this boo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, May 18, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I just heard Julia Gillard on the ABC at the official launch of the National Broadband Network in
Armidale, NSW. At the risk of sounding a little patriotic this is clearly a great day for Australia.
Now that the program is well underway, and - as Stephen Conroy said, on time and on budget - all those appalling NBN naysayers will just have to shut up, won't they!
The Government is truly
doing it once, doing it right and doing it with fibre! And a year or two down the track, wi...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, May 16, 2011,
Really, these constant attacks on the credibility of asylum seekers are becoming too offensive for words. The latest racist accusation being used by the Right is that some of them are faking their ages to gain special treatment. The abominable Tim Blair takes a predictably fatuous line, sneering at the fact that some of those claiming to be teenagers
have no hair.
Well, actually it's quite possible that they can be both balding and under 18. These people are clearly under great stress, and th...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, May 9, 2011,
It's hardly surprising that media blowhard Andrew Bolt's predictably aggressive, sensationalist and simplistic tabloid talk show on Ten would rate highly for that Sunday morning time slot. Of course he and his masters and backers (no doubt including the appalling Gina Rinehart) are just over the moon with
the figures. It's typical of their thinking: more and bigger is always better.
Well, all it
really means is that a bunch of brain dead, racist, climate change denialist warmongers were happy ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, May 3, 2011,
If there's one thing we can count on, fellow travellers, it's the revolting coarseness of the conservative commentariat. Their latest display of
utter barbarism was jubilation at the clearly illegal, cold-blooded, extra-judicial murder of Osama bin Laden. This appalling act by the ultimate rogue state, performed deep in the territory of another sovereign nation and without its knowledge or permission defiles us all. Yet Rupert's rotties are calling it a "triumph
for freedom".
Can you believe t...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, April 29, 2011,
I'm sure you'll all agree that the Chaser team is the most searingly brilliant satirical comedy troupe working in TV today. Every one of their pranks and sketches is astonishingly
courageous, gut-bustingly
funny, and deeply
thought provoking. I still think that their renowned APEC stunt in which Chas Licciardello dressed up as Osama bin Laden was the greatest moment in
comedy history. Talk about speaking truth to power - and hilariously!
They could easily have just retired then and there, and ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, April 25, 2011,
As we all know, Anzac Day is a truly appalling celebration of white male war-lust. The very fact that Australia even continues to repeat this
offensive ritual is beyond me. But the nation keeps doing it for some reason. Really, it's like a dog returning to its vomit. (And that would have to be a domesticated dog, BTW. A wild one, being so in tune with Gaia, would never behave in such an uncouth way!)
And of course, there is much intolerance on show. No doubt you would have heard about this app...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, April 19, 2011,
I am starting to get increasingly annoyed about this campaign against our Tim Flannery, fellow travellers. There's a really concerted effort to make him seem like some sort of opportunist because of his various sponsorship arrangements. Can you believe it? Tim Flannery, cashing in on the climate crisis? That's as absurd as saying that Nelson Mandela advocated terrorism.
Why this has even been allowed to happen is beyond me. Frankly, I think even
criticising our Tim should be deemed a crime ag...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, April 16, 2011,
Fellow travellers, no doubt you have all heard of these rather distressing revelations about Tasmanian anti-pokies champion Andrew Wilkie during his time at Duntroon. It's reported that he made junior cadets salute the anniversary of Hitler's rise to power as part of some bizarre
bastardisation ritual.
Just as Wilkie himself noted, the revelation's timing is
very interesting indeed. Without a doubt the story's leaking to the media is part of a well orchestrated smear campaign run by the gambl...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, April 10, 2011,
Fellow travellers, why am I not surprised that the appalling Andrew Bolt thinks that our Tim Flannery's latest searing insights into the state of our planet and its potential future are "wild" and (as he said on the radio)
"freaky".
But there is nothing unscientific or totalitarian about Professor Flannery's theories. They are clearly logical and undeniably egalitarian. I mean, what could be more fair and equal than a society that does not banish nature and all its teeming life forms as "the o...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, April 8, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as you all know, Western society is based upon prejudice and bigotry. Sadly, almost every established institution we have is there to serve the whims of appalling white male peenie wavers. That is why our "civilization" is rife with discrimination and oppression.
We on the left certainly have no lack of targets to subvert and ultimately destroy (in a compassionate way, of course). But the fact that there are just sooo many of them can complicate this process somewhat.
Take th...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, April 3, 2011,
Fellow travellers, there has been much talk in the media about recent anti carbon tax rallies. One increasingly common angle is that they have been the result of a genuine grass roots movement of working class Aussies angry about Julia Gillard's "lies".
This is obviously not the case. As we all know, the great unloofahed are overwhelmingly shiftless and apathetic. You couldn't rouse them with a cattle prod. All they want to do is stare blankly at their plasma televisions and guzzle McMuffins a...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, April 2, 2011,
Fellow travellers, we all know that white male Christian conservatives are seething with inner violence, determined to inflict as much damage upon women, minorities and non-human persons (animals) as possible. The perfect example is that Neanderthal budgie-smuggling pugilist Tony Abbott.
The man is clearly a concentrated ball of hatred and anger. It's obvious every time he appears on the television. There's the always confrontational body language, the patriarchal walk. And his language is jus...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, April 1, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm really starting to wonder what is going on in our PM's mind at the moment. Her behaviour does seem to be very odd. I mean, she's just attacked her official partners in government with some astonishingly extreme and false claims. She's clearly trying to create a real perception of difference between Labor and the Greens in the tiny minds of the great unloofahed.
Here is some of what
she said:
The Greens will never embrace Labor's delight at sharing the values
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 29, 2011,
Fellow travellers, one of the most appalling trends in mainstream media discourse lately is this increasing perception that the ABC is somehow biased to the left. This is just completely false, and only a revolting right-wing reactionary would say such a thing.
The vile accusers making this offensive claim seem to be particularly fixated on
Q&A for some reason. They say the show is guilty of bias in several ways, including the selection of guests. But haven't you noticed, they
actually have c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, March 28, 2011,
In his usual swaggering manner the execrable Tim Blair compares fellow traveller Stephan Lewandowsky to Alene Composta, whom the good professor quite understandably took to be
a real person.
Now, what's really depressing about Stephan's piece at
The Drum is that it clearly shows that
he too has now adopted the dominant narrative on Alene: That she was a blogging sockpuppet created with the sole and malicious intention of embarrassing
the ABC. (Jonathon Holmes is another progressive duped by t...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
If anyone is in any doubt whatsoever about just how eeevil the Liberal Party is then they should have a look at this debate on the ABC's
Lateline between the abominable Scott Morrison and the sassy, feisty and
undeniably empowered Tanya Plibersek.
Here she is saying what really needs to be said about those shameful and mysogynous signs calling Julia Gillard a witch and a bitch at that wingnut rally against
the carbon tax:
TANYA PLIBERSEK: There needs to be an apology from the Leader of the
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, March 25, 2011,
In a nauseating display of triumphalism, the appalling Tim Blair describes an entirely reasonable admission from Tim Flannery in his interview with Andrew Bolt on MTR1377 as if it was some gigantic faux pas that "blows the entire scam
wide open".
The offending quote
was this:
If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years.Far from exposing some kind of scam, it just shows how wise, visionary and far-thinking Professor Flannery is. It also reve...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, March 24, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure many of you know of the final post on Alene Composta's blog. It appears not to have been written by Alene herself, but by her two sons. And from their writings we learn that Ms Composta had actually
killed herself.
Well, some may say that this completely disproves my theory that she was a real person who was murdered by eeevil right wing bloggers who resurrected her online identity for their own abominable purposes.
I must admit that this latest revelation did flum...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 22, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as you well know our enemies in the Australian media are many and powerful. As Jonathon Holmes so searingly observed last night on
Media Watch, those revolting shock jocks are stoking the carbon-spewing flames of climate change
denialism, giving scientists who
don't believe in climate change lots of air time, while denying it to scientists who
do (which is all of them).
And even though what those broadcasters are doing is against the law (that's L A W -
law - get it!) they c...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, March 21, 2011,
Of course appalling right-wingers will be feeling vindicated over last night's episode of
60 Minutes and their story on the "failure" of multiculturalism. But they so hate diversity they would say that, wouldn't they?
And the report by Michael Usher really was a disgrace. It was a truly appalling beatup of a non-problem. Thankfully, the team redeemed themselves with their unflinching portrayal of the terrifyingly cataclysmic risks posed by the damaged Japanese nuclear reactors. Surely journali...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, March 19, 2011,
As you all well know, the great unloofahed are quite happy to accept the first plausible, linear narrative offered to them as valid, then discount any other perspectives completely. But
we see things more deeply, spiritually and compassionately don't we, fellow travellers? That's why we come to very different and more searingly insightful conclusions on so many issues.
Take the case of global warming. Climate change denialists pointed out that carbon dioxide had been present in much higher co...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, March 16, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as you well know, I was deeply distressed recently over what seemed like the premature expiration of Alene Composta's blog. I was very worried that she had been so distraught over the cyber-bullying she had endured that she had
actually killed herself.
I myself have been subject to vicious abuse, both online and off, and I know how soul destroying it can be. Without the knowledge that I have so much love still to give the world, and so much attitudinal reconstruction yet to...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, March 12, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I almost feel guilty about opining on the significance of the earthquake in Japan. I mean, it has only just happened, there has been much destruction of the environment, and the body count is rising rapidly. Humans also have been heavily affected.
But opine I must, and
immediately! The reason: vile, opportunistic right-wingers have wasted no time in exploiting
this terrible event to further their own
anti-green agenda.
Completely. Utterly. Disgraceful.
It's also deeply ironic...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, March 10, 2011,
Fellow travellers, if you peruse the rancid right-wing reaches of the
blogosphere as I do from time to time, then surely you will have heard
about a blogger called
Alene Composta.
Now, there is a meme going round that she is some kind of cyber-sock
puppet created by a hateful conservative with the explicit intention of
shaming the ABC.
As regular readers of this blog know, similarly vile and false rumours have been
spread about myself. I have even been named by an appalling AmerKKKan
com... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 8, 2011,
It is
International Women's Day today, fellow travellers, which is obviously cause for great celebration! You'll all be pleased to know that I danced a dance of empowerment and joy to that
Helen Reddy classic with my feline, feminist fellow traveller Jocelyn.
But there was sadness too. My cat and I wept about the fact that blonde jokes are still being told in the workplace in this country, sometimes even
by women themselves! And our tears flowed over the tragic dearth of the gentler (and also ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, March 6, 2011,
Fellow travellers, one thing that we on the green left have to constantly put up with is this vile accusation that we don't care about the economy. Nothing could be further from the truth!
In the latest example of this the appalling Andrew Landeryou verbals the visionary Greens Leader in a pathetic attempt to confirm this accusation. Citing a recent interview on the
7:30 Report he takes just one small quote of Bob Brown's and implies that it's an admission that the Greens are
economically irre... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 1, 2011,
Fellow travellers, like many of you I tend not to watch
the ABC as much as I used to. It seems to have become so much more conservative lately. It all started with the appointment of that revolting
Janet Albrechtsen to the board a while ago. I mean, can't we just have a purge of reactionaries and right-wingers so that balance can be restored to
our ABC?
One show in which this appalling bias is always depressingly clear
is Q&A. The producers are quite brazen about it. They have people like Mira...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, February 28, 2011,
It's a given that conservatives are
eeevil, hateful bigots who desperately want to hurt the planet. But sometimes they cloak their sinister intentions in "rational" arguments.
Take this appalling screed by Terry McCrann, one of Rupert's rotties, in which he claims the proposed carbon tax is
akin to a suicide pledge. While at first blush it may seem like a logical take on Julia Gillard's bold promise and its consequences for our nation, there is much vile prejudice and falsehood at work undern...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, February 27, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as we all know, conservatives want nothing more than to take Australian society back to the fifties. But when we point this out they always deny it. It's very much like their reaction to accusations of racism. You know for sure that someone is guilty of that if they
deny they are. Really, it's as clear as black and white (and I don't mean that in a racist way of course).
But sometimes they
don't deny it. On the contrary, they occasionally proudly claim allegiance to some opp...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, February 25, 2011,
Yesterday, Prime Minister Julia Gillard committed to the introduction
of a carbon tax.This brave, visionary pledge to the planet was verballed into a betrayal of the Australian people by the usual conga-line of Gaia-phobic
right-wingers.
I mean,
really. Why are
they so scrupulous all of a sudden? Remember when Tony Abbott admitted that what he said wasn't always
the "gospel truth". That was so ironic because clearly that was one of the few times he actually
was being straight up. They were all...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, February 21, 2011,
Fellow travellers, recently I wrote of the institutionalized hatred of crocodiles (and women) displayed in the right-wing
smearing of Julia Gillard. Quite frankly I think some serious attitudinal reconstruction is in order. So from now on I will use the term "crocodile tears" to describe only completely
genuine lachrymosity.
After all, these poor, misunderstood creatures continue to suffer greatly. Some were so traumatized by Cyclone Yasi that "they hid under water and
stopped eating". And we ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, February 17, 2011,
There is no doubt that a very serious campaign to discredit the great Julian Assange is underway. And we know exactly who is behind it don't we, fellow travellers? The CIA!
They've even got his so-called former friend
Daniel Domscheit-Berg doing their bidding. He's telling anyone who'll listen that Assange is
some sort of "megalomaniac".
Of course this all
looks plausible. He worked closely with Assange on WkiLeaks for years, then had a well-documented falling out with him. And now he's just w...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, February 10, 2011,
When our nation's sassy, feisty and very
real leader Julia Gillard broke down in tears over the human toll of the (human-caused) Brisbane floods, of course those hate-peddlers on the right just couldn't handle it. They had been pushing this line that she was robotic and unemotional for so long, after all. So they had to ask: "Was her crying genuine?"
Well of course it was! I was so deeply moved by her response that even though she was holding an Australian flag,
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, February 3, 2011,
Fellow travellers, reactionary right-wingers often claim that the mainstream media are completely dominated by liberals, environmentalists and left-wingers. But as is usually the case, the exact opposite is true.
Take this report about the impending demise of the
McMansion in Perth due to fluctuations in the property market. The possibility that these immense, carbon-spewing excrescences have finally had their day in this city is seen as a
bad thing.
Can you believe it? The piece is full of
n... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, January 31, 2011,
Appallingly, the attacks on the great Julian Assange continue. Has any
hero been treated more savagely than this great freedom (of information)
fighter?
Take these derisive claims about his methods of evading AmeriKKKan assassins in a book put out by
The Guardian.
(Actually this report is doubly disturbing considering its source. Up
to now that newspaper has had a well deserved reputation for speaking
truth to power. But maybe it's been infiltrated by the CIA? I think it's
highly likely...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, January 27, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as international socialists we can all agree that patriotism is an ugly emotion. And it brings out other malignant sentiments, for example the flagrant, insensitive and
deeply racist waving of Australian flags (still, revoltingly, including the Union Jack) by drunken revelers at various Australia Day events and gatherings.
Not surprisingly this brutal nationalism often dredges up the vile prejudice of speciesism as well. Take this regular Australia Day horse racing event tha...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, January 26, 2011,
While I think that the choices for Australian of the Year and Young Australian of the Year are at least tolerable, I do have
some reservations, fellow travellers.
My first one is general in nature, and is simply about the whole concept of the award. This idea that we celebrate one individual, as opposed to a collective, smacks more than a little of conservatism. It's also undeniably nationalistic. I mean, if we do have to laud an individual couldn't we nominate someone who does the whole Eart...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, January 21, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as one who regularly forces himself to read right-wing blogs to learn as much as possible about the change-fearing, febrile mindset of our collective enemy, I thought I'd seen it all. But no, today I read something that was
even more appalling and bizzare than even the worst rantings of Tim Blair (
on whose blog I found it, BTW).
It's a truly psychotic diatribe against our Bob Brown by an attitudinally unreconstructed Queenslander called Robyn Wuth. Some of the lines are so ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, January 20, 2011,
Why am I not surprised at the appalling Andrew Bolt's bellicose reaction to sharia advocate Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon's mildly provocative statements regarding his desire to
have the law changed in Australia.
The bilious blowhard accuses him of being 'troubled" and "angry", then goes on to say: "The guy clearly is someone with an ego that’s outsized in comparison to his real worth, and is getting off on the attention."
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! (And I don't mean that in a racis...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, January 18, 2011,
Well, well, well. Isn't the blogosphere interesting?
As an indirect consequence of this blog's mention in
Rupert's mean little rag, rumours have started to circulate that I am a satirical construction created by the loathsome
conservative blowhard Matt Hayden. Sadly, these claims have come from the left. I can't deny it, that
hurts.
I am
not a satire. I am as real as anyone walking the planet (and certainly more authentic than most!).
Those pushing the claim cite the inclusion of the words "come...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, January 15, 2011,
It's hardly surprising that amid the destruction caused by the floods in Brisbane, some people are taking matters into their own hands and relieving
unattended shops of some necessities.
Predictably, moral absolutists condemn this behaviour, calling these people "low-lifes". But thankfully there is some sensible and compassionate commentary in the blogosphere such as this offered by
fellow traveller Jeremy Sear.
I guess what sticks in people’s craw is the sense that looting is
kicking someo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, January 14, 2011,
Fellow travellers, as we all know, language creates reality. And words can hurt and oppress, too. Even the most seemingly innocuous turns of phrase can be the cause of the most intense distress.
The word "moonbat", for example is becoming more and more offensive. It is getting to the point when it really is intolerable. Soon, I may even join with some of my fellow progressive bloggers to initiate a global class action against those on the more reactionary fringes of the blogosphere. We will ei...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, January 13, 2011,
Fellow travellers, I have been informed that one of my blog posts has been mentioned in
The Australian's Cut and Paste section. For those of you who don't know, it's a sad little corner of that wretched rag that was accurately dubbed a "daily compendium of
schadenfreude and spleen" by Robert Manne.
From my experience in the blogosphere and elsewhere I know what those who read (and write) papers like
The Australian think of people who care deeply about humanity, the planet and the future - and ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, January 8, 2011,
Fellow travellers, a lot of people are saying that this story about Ted Williams, "the homeless man with the golden voice", is wonderfully uplifting;
the first big feel good story of 2011.
But it doesn't make me
feel good at all, just quite annoyed - and even a little depressed. You see, this upbeat approach relies upon many cultural assumptions that a compassionate and progressive person such as myself finds deeply suspect.
Firstly there is this idea that someone who is homeless is necessaril...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, January 5, 2011,
One thing I always find particularly annoying about right-wingers and conservatives is how oblivious they are to the presence of Gaia. Completely lacking in compassion and sensitivity, they are utterly incapable of feeling Her presence, even though She is all around, above, below and even
through them!
Full of fear and hatred, they mock and deride anyone who worships Her. Take this vicious diatribe from the always offensive Tim Blair. In it, he mocks our beloved fellow traveller
Tim Flannery f... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, January 3, 2011,
Fellow travellers, it must be remembered that Andrew Bolt, Tim Blair, Piers Akerman and Miranda Devine aren't the only reactionary, conservative columnists in the Australian media.
Don't forget Paul Sheehan as well. The fact that he is still employed by our fellow travellers at Fairfax is one of life's enduring mysteries. I mean, they did manage to get rid of the (not very) Devine Miss Miranda, who's now peddling her hatred at that revolting News Ltd tabloid
that simply doesn't bear mentionin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, December 31, 2010,
Fellow travellers, here in Perth, Western Australia we have already had some unseasonally hot days. And there are more to come. Next week several days of
40-degree heat are predicted.
Now, how can you still have your doubts about
anthropogenic global warming when such a strong trend is in evidence?
But of course the redneck climate change denialists have their doubts, don't they! Because Heathrow has been shut down for days due to the cold, and there have been
similar conditions in America, t...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, December 26, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I know that many readers of the
Sunday Times would have found this article about a Perth man who helped the irksome Andre Rieu recover from his bedridden state
due to chronic and severe dizziness very uplifting.
Frankly, I found it nauseating. So nauseating, in fact, that after purging the soy smoothie I had just imbibed, I was actually struck with severe head-spins and had to have a long lie down
myself!Because of Bill Henshall's advice, Rieu is now back to recording and t...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, December 26, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as you well know I care deeply about the welfare of animals - or as I call them,
non-human people. That's why I have been both saddened and ultimately heartened by this story about a tropical fish swallowed whole by an appalling
Brit called Chris Caswell. Not only was the poor gilled being treated barbarically by the hoon, but the journalist who reported the story couldn't even decide on its classification.
I mean, the article linked above refers to it as alternatively a gup...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, December 26, 2010,
Fellow travellers, if there was any doubt that the sex crime accusations against the heroic Julian Assange are false, there certainly isn't now.
You see, Assange's accusers' Swedish lawyer has now officially denied that there is any CIA involvement in the case. He says his clients are not pawns;
they've had their "sexual integrity" violated. Now, we know from many previous cases involving that sinister organ of the AmeriKKKan Empire (and others like it) that whenever those representing the su...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, December 24, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I am now starting to fear for the life of the great Julian Assange! The reason? Because he holds these fears himself. And since he is a man synonymous with
the Cold Hard Truth, we must take these concerns
very seriously indeed.
Speaking to the
Guardian, Assange said that if he were extradited to AmeriKKKa there's a good chance he'd be killed
"Jack Ruby-style". This quote confused me at first, because we all know Jack Ruby as a killer, not a murder victim. Was Assange implyi...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, December 24, 2010,
Fellow travellers, one thing that always angers me is how Christians are so intolerant of other people's worldviews. Be they worshippers of other gods, or none at all, Bible thumping conservatives just won't let them be.
Take the controversy over a planned campaign against Christmas by a group of UK Muslims. This collection of concerned and quite courageous citizens is rather insensitively labelled an "Islamic hate group"
in this article.
Organisers plan to put up thousands of placards around t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as we all know racism and sexism often go together, particularly in the media. This is to be expected, since the whole paradigm is dominated by white male peenie wavers.
And sometimes this sinister subtext exists even in stories that appear at first to be attempting to
deconstruct that depressing state of affairs. Take this article about how there are more and more
Aboriginal women working in West Australian diamond mines. The whole tenor of the piece implies that this deve...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, December 22, 2010,
Fellow travellers, being as philosophically, politically and spiritually evolved as I am, it's very rare that I can actually speak highly of another human being. But I certainly can in the case of
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Frankly, the more I learn about him, the more impressed I am. While he's not in my league - and never will be, of course - he's certainly getting quite close.
Not only is he a brilliant computer hacker who has made complete fools of the entire Western world and all ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, December 22, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as you well know I abhor violence. But I have to admit that in some cases it is justified. Here is a case in point: That cruel capitalist nation South Korea has decided to provoke atheist, communist North Korea by lighting up a
giant Christmas tree near the border.
As one who is regularly driven to nausea by the orgy of greed and consumerism that is Christmas in Australia, I certainly know where my fellow travellers in Pyongyang are coming from.
Not only is this a case of re...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, December 15, 2010,
Fellow travellers, even though it can be a very unpleasant experience visiting the loony right-wing reaches of the blogopshere - which are so rancid with the stench of sexism, racism, and climate change denialism that afterwards I always have to have a peppermint tea and a good lie down - it is certainly worth doing so on a regular basis. As they say, it's important to know your enemy.
(And when I say "enemy", I don't mean it in the "pro-war" sense, BTW. I am - like all of you, my fellow trav...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, December 13, 2010,
Fellow travellers, one thing that I find extremely annoying about appalling right-wing peenie-waving climate change denialists is how they constantly bleat about how there's "no actual evidence" for global warming, and that it's "all just a theory" about what's "going to happen in the future" based on "dodgy computer models".
Yet time and again there is
irrefutable evidence of a catastrophically warming planet right before their very eyes! Take this fire in Gooseberry Hill
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, December 13, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as any of us who has worked in Australia's thriving arts sector knows only too well, Australian films are without doubt the best in the world! But sadly, local audiences are usually too stupid to appreciate them. Consequently they often fail to attract substantial crowds and lose money.
Of course, I don't consider box office failure a problem in itself, since I am against the profit motive in principle. However, it is undeniably unfortunate that every time an Aussie movie l...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, December 9, 2010,
Fellow travellers, up until today I have had mixed feelings about the arrival of Oprah Winfrey in this country. Of course, her show is watched by countless people all over the globe. Australian politicians and business people are therefore confident that this massive exposure will bring many more visitors to our shores, helping our economy hugely. Hence the overwhelmingly supportive media coverage.
But being a champion of Gaia, I am concerned about the effect on our delicate natural environme...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, December 7, 2010,
Fellow travellers, there's no denying that our unique Australian environment needs protecting and nurturing. And wherever possible introduced pests should be compassionately dealt with so that they do not damage the delicate local ecosystems.
But being such a life affirming soul, I still find some of these culling techniques a
little upsetting. Take, for instance, the use of carbon dioxide to euthanase cane toads,
which has just been approved by the Department of Environment and Conservation. ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, December 6, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I am very excited about what Julian Assange will do next. It seems that he has lots of confidential files relating to UFO reports and sightings and
is threatening to release them. I suspect there will be some explosive details about the countless cover-ups and conspiracies to keep the truth about aliens away from the world's population.
And that truth - which so many of the world's governments find so scary, which is actually scary in itself! - is that aliens do come in peac...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, December 5, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I should just post an update about my new location: I am now living in the charming, creative and very tolerant city of Fremantle, which is just south of Perth, in Western Australia.
I came over here at the behest of the Department of Culture and the Arts. They want me to contribute my deep spiritual, cultural and creative insights to various long term artistic projects.
I will go into details about these later. But suffice to say I am overjoyed to be in such a lovely place,...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, December 5, 2010,
Fellow travellers I am sure that you are as shocked and offended as I am that the appalling Mel Gibson has another movie out at all, let alone so soon. But that's not the most worrying thing about
The Beaver. The film's storyline is perhaps even more disturbing than its star.
You see, it focuses on a depressed man who gets his mojo back by putting a beaver puppet on his hand
and letting it speak for him. Now, while some people may find this a charming plot device, I am not amused.
I do find it...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, December 4, 2010,
Fellow travellers, here is a story that should give those of us who truly abhor speciesism a little more hope for a better world: A man in Toowoomba called Joseph Guiso
has "married" his animal companion Honey, a labrador.
The ceremony was conducted more or less as a joke. But remember that "many a true word was spoke in jest". Also, not so long ago people were openly laughing at things that eventually came to pass - women getting the vote, and gays in the military, for example.
And the fact th...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, December 3, 2010,
Well, well, well, isn't this interesting. The scientific community is having conniptions over the discovery of a life form that can live only on arsenic. "Huh? That's just not possible!" they shriek, brandishing their yellowing old biology textbooks.
"It's against all the rules of nature!" Well, it
is possible. And they'll just have to accept it. But it's obviously going to take a while. Old thought habits die hard, after all - particularly when they have been inculcated into the scientific c...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, December 1, 2010,
Fellow travellers I am sure that you are all as deeply appalled by recent developments regarding Labor's ban on nuclear power as I am. It looks like Julia may actually allow a debate about whether they should allow it. This is horribly,
terrifyingly irrational, fellow travellers!
And this argument that if they can debate gay marriage, then they should also be allowed to debate nuclear power is highly specious (as well as
speciesist). I mean, gay marriage is an extremely important issue that i...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, November 30, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I found this story about a market stall being banned from the Rockingham local markets to be very heartening. While we can't be sure of exactly what the reason was, it was quite probably due to a strong sense of cultural sensitivity. The stall sold "bogan paraphernalia" after all.
The appalling sub-human redneck who flogs the vile merchandise
whinged about the ban.
"If I was selling porn and bongs I'd expect them to say they don't want
me there, but this is stickers and st... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, November 29, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I am deeply disturbed by the election result in Victoria. The Liberals seem to have won! And as Bob Brown said it was also the Liberal Party's fault that
the Greens didn't win a seat. We would have had
several now if not for Ted Baillieu's appallingly unprincipled decision.
Of course, evil capitalists and nature rapers will be rubbing their clammy hands with glee. It's a truly distressing outcome for human and non-human Victorians, as well as for the environment globally.
A...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, November 21, 2010,
The appalling Kyle Sandilands has declared war on beloved Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, claiming that she is trying to destroy the city's nightlife with her anti-capitalist policies. Note the various forms of hate speech in
his on air rant about Ms Moore.
''I'll get rid of that woman, you watch. Eighty-year-old woman trying to
run the town. Go to the retirement village, you old clown,'' Sandilands
said on his program.As well as the obvious sexism, note the appalling ageism in this disturb...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, November 20, 2010,
Fellow travellers, one thing that has perturbed me deeply recently is that more and more people are starting to poke fun at the environmentalist agenda! And I don't just mean appalling peenie-waving conservatives. They've been mocking us for many years now. But since they are so literal-minded and simplistic (unlike we on the left, who are so complex, sophisticated and ironic) their "comedy" and "satire" always falls flat.
No, the thing that really worries me is that now some
on the progressiv... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, November 18, 2010,
Championing the rights of animals (or as I Iike to think of them, non-human people) can be a frustrating and thankless task. I mean, it can be disappointing, to say the least, when after performing three hours of political street theatre raising awareness about our threatened indigenous bird-life, a pigeon decides to defecate on your head!
Then there is the pervasive speciesism that so many
Homo sapiens are guilty of. It's bad enough that it's a societal norm. But sometimes this appalling atti...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, November 17, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I am not at all surprised that women are deemed to
be the greener gender. They are much closer to nature than men, and Gaia is a sassy sister, after all.
They are also more likely to believe in global warming, and that it is a serious problem. This shows that, contrary to so many sexist stereotypes, they are clearly much more rational than men.
But when I say rational, I don't mean the fake male kind of "rationalism". You know, the white coat-wearing, detached, cold, clinica...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, October 18, 2010,
While reporting of environmental issues has improved over the years, many in the media continue to treat these subjects as fodder for light entertainment articles and "odd stories". Take this one about some so-called "spider goats" who are scaling
a near vertical dam wall in Italy.
The seriousness of the goats' predicament is trivialized and the story is presented as a curiosity. In the article, the goats are described as "plucky", which is a bit of anthropomorphism that I find
quite offensiv... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, October 14, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I know that a lot of people (even some on the left) are now celebrating the release of those 33 Chilean miners after their "terrible ordeal" under the ground.
Now, I don't want to condemn people outright for feeling a sense of relief. However, I do think it should be remembered that these men aren't simply heroes. After all, they are employees of a massive and hugely profitable mining company and therefore complicit in the rape of Gaia.
Also, anyone who is concerned about ge...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, September 5, 2010,
Fellow tavellers, Gaia does not make mistakes. There really isn't such a thing as a "natural disaster". As we all know,
that which is natural is always good. So how can it ever be "disastrous"?
Even
when there is a lot of destruction, you can always find a lesson in the
rubble. Take this earthquake in New Zealand. Those who do not
appreciate and worship nature like we do would not notice the
significance of the location of the earthquake's epicentre - just near
Christchurch.
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, August 28, 2010,
Fellow travellers, there was much joyous cat dancing in the Sapphire
household when Adam Bandt won the seat of Melbourne for the Greens. This
can only be a good thing for Australia.
But I do find it quite
upsetting that his past as a feisty student activist is now being
dredged up and used against him. His enemies have made public some
comments he made
a whole 15 years ago!
I mean,
really! They would never do such a thing to, say, Tony Abbott. It's truly appalling, and so typical of our ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, July 29, 2010,
In what is perhaps the most appalling example of media bias so far in this election campaign, the appalling right wing peenie wavers at the
Daily Telegraph have depicted our Julia as an old biddy.
It's as sexist as it is ageist.
And these reactionaries have the gall to say that the ABC tilts to the left!
Appalling. Just appalling.
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, July 25, 2010,
Fellow travellers, why am I not surprised that the appalling Andrew Bolt is crying media bias again! This time, he thinks it's unfair that a "joke" told by Tony Abbott (no doubt one he thought was dead, buried and cremated!) has been exhumed and used against him. And why, asks the hateful reactionary, aren't journalists doing the same
with aspects of Julia Gillard's earlier life?
Well, it's simply because sassy sister - now PM, and about time - Julia (
yougogirl!) has nothing whatsoever to be a...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, June 4, 2010,
A tornado has struck
the northern NSW town of Lennox Head.
Many assume that this event is a random occurrence. But those like myself who are attuned to the will and wisdom of Gaia know that there is a reason for such destruction.
Clearly, She is protesting against the recent growth of the town, and has decided to buckle some of
the appallingly opulent seaside erections that now blight the once virgin coast. Certainly, She is peaceful, but there has been
far too much provocation of late.
Sea c...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, May 22, 2010,
Fellow travellers, sometimes events or developments that I read about in the media cause me great joy. Others cause me deep consternation. And sometimes I experience both these reactions simultaneously!
Take this article, for example. It describes a new book about how to make your sex life more green and sustainable. Part of me is greatly heartened by this evidence of greater environmental awareness. But another part of me is quite shocked. The phallus is a tool of oppression, after all! Surel...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, April 25, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as we all know today is Anzac Day, surely the most racist, sexist, homophobic and Gaia-phobic ritual we Australians
have (and we have quite a few!).
Really, why we still allow this grotesque
festival of hate to continue is completely beyond me! I mean, it is nothing less than the overt and shameless glorification of war. High ranking officials
actually line up to celebrate acts of mass murder, which peenie-waving patriarchs describe,
in their usual deceitful way, as "acts of... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, April 17, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as we all know, Gaia works in mysterious ways, so it is sometimes difficult to discern what She is trying to communicate to us. (Well, actually it's not that difficult for advanced souls like myself and my feisty feline fellow traveller Jocelyn to know. It's just a challenge for you and your friends. But don't worry, when that is the case we are happy to translate for you.)
But sometimes Gaia sends us a message that is completely unequivocal. This volcanic eruption in Icela...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, April 7, 2010,
Fellow travellers, upon reading this article about a lizard that was recently discovered in the Philippines I was deeply appalled. You see, this close relative of the Komodo Dragon
actually possesses two penises!What on (Mother) Earth could Gaia be saying with this! As we all know Nature is kind and loving - the very antithesis of phallocentric patriachalism.
I was tempted to stop reading the article because I found it so disturbing. But bravely I struggled on in the hope that perhaps there m...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, April 6, 2010,
Fellow travellers, Nature has struck another blow for justice against an evil enemy. But sadly, the brave wombat who did Gaia's righteous bidding has been felled with an axe wielded
by an appalling white peenie-waver!
The wombat was totally justified in attacking the man, who was clearly violating his territory. (As we all know, wombats have deep spiritual connections with their land.) So the butchery that ensued was doubly appalling.
But of course the media - being so human-centric - always ta...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, April 5, 2010,
Fellow travellers, as we all know, birds are often mocked for their alleged stupidity. Take that appalling insult "bird brain", for example.
(Notice also that women are often called birds, implying that they too are
bird-brained. Yet more evidence that speciesism and sexism are almost invariably intertwined!)
But where does this offensive stereotype of cognitively challenged birds actually come from? The sick minds of appalling peenie wavers, that's where! There is no evidence for it. It's j...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, March 29, 2010,
Fellow travellers, sadly
the aliens I was expecting during Earth Hour didn't show up! I was deeply mystified and disappointed.
It is very difficult to know why this might have been. It is hard to understand the motives of those who are more spiritually evolved than you are, after all. (I know this from personal experience. My many critics - who are locked in their primitive, materialist mindsets - just can't understand where
I'm coming from. So, full of fear and confusion, they accuse me of h...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, March 24, 2010,
Oh joy. Joy and cat dancing! One of our intergalactic fellow travellers has decided to pay us a visit.
Significantly,
the alien has flown over Chipping Norton, in Sydney's west. And Sydney is the very city in which Earth Hour began some three years ago. And when
is Earth Hour? On the last Saturday of March,
which is only 3 days hence!
Clearly, this is no coincidence. These highly spiritually evolved aliens are telling us that they approve of our mind-expanding, planet-loving ritual. And while t...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 23, 2010,
Fellow travellers, when is this nation (and the world for that matter!) going to realize that
climate change is real, that
man is causing it and that
the science is in!
Take this terrifying storm in Perth. It was the worst that city has had
so far this whole millennium! How could you possibly deny the link?
Of course, appalling peenie-waving Premier Colin Barnett has deemed that it was a "natural" disaster. Talk about blaming the victim! It was as
unnatural as a disaster can be, since it simpl...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 23, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I have just been listening to Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd "debating" the topic of health on the radio.
The former priest was his usual pugilistic self. I could have sworn he was going to lash out and throw a punch at several points in the standoff! He really is appalling, and I wouldn't be surprised if he arrived on his pushbike in his "budgie smugglers" to try and intimidate his opponent.
But I wasn't really listening to what Rudd was saying. And frankly, I'm not concerned wi...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, March 14, 2010,
Fellow travellers, appalling reich-wingers are fond of accusing us of harboring outlandish and ludicrous theories about the deviousness of the Great McSatan in general, and the CIA in particular.
We all know about how they tried to kill fellow traveller Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar. And now a new example of their cruelty has come to light: The CIA sprinkled LSD on bread in a small French town,
resulting in widespread hallucinations.
This is deeply distressing, particularly when you con...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Tuesday, March 9, 2010,
Fellow travellers, I am heartened to know that sassy sister Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director,
and her film won Best Picture. This is certainly a highly empowering development for women all across the globe. And it's a nice coincidence that it just happened to occur at around the same time as
International Women's Day.
But I am frankly appalled that she dedicated her win to "the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
May they... Continue reading ...
Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, January 15, 2010,
Fellow travellers, a lamb has been born with a human face.
Gaia has been sending us messages for a long time. And this has to be one of the clearest yet!
As usual, the "scientific" explanation - that the abnormality has been caused by a vitamin A deficiency - is completely inadequate. Look at the photo. How could that face
not be trying
to tell us something?
And what is the lesson we must learn? Clearly, that
sheep are people too! And that we shouldn't exploit them as we do, stealing their wool ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, December 17, 2009,
Fellow travellers, as you all know I abhor violence. However, here is one event in which it is justified: A troupe of monkeys trained in martial arts
have used these very techniques on their trainer!
What they were protesting is not clear. But I suspect that with the Copenhagen conference in full swing, they were raising awareness of climate change; telling those watching that Gaia would revolt spectacularly if we did not show respect to Her and make a global deal to end all greenhouse gas em...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, November 15, 2009,
Fellow travellers, we often hear from the reactionary right that academia has been overtaken by the left. Nothing could be further from the truth. Universities across the globe are still completely dominated by eeevil white peenie-wavers who are hell bent - or should that be
straight? - on oppressing women, minorities and Gaia.
Take this latest so-called "experiment": Psychologists in California have looked into how young children cope with fears both real and imagined. They were read stories...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Saturday, November 14, 2009,
While our new Prime Minister has been a vast improvement over the last, sometimes he's just as appalling and reactionary. Take this new directive, encouraging women to
breastfeed their babies for the first six months.
This is a clear attempt to enslave women yet again. Surely, it would be much more empowering for them if the men were made to perform this duty instead.
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, November 9, 2009,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure many of you will remember Claire Werbeloff, who enjoyed a brief period of "stardom" after pretending to witness a shooting at Kings Cross.
Well, she has made the news again! It seems that she has been asked to be a Liberal candidate for the seat of Bradfield. As this article says, that appalling men's magazine
Zoo Weekly has offered to pay for her to run.
You know the Liberal Party is simply beyond hope when they are commissioning these appallingly sexist peenie wav...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, November 6, 2009,
Fellow travellers, I'm sure that you are all sick and tired of climate change deniers insisting that those determined to stop the impending global catastrophe actually want to take humanity "back to the Stone Age" and "make us all cavemen". This is a
contemptible and utterly false accusation! (But even if it weren't, what would be wrong with living more in harmony with nature, like our distant ancestors did?)
In any case, the many reich-wingers in the media and politics never miss a chance to ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
Fellow travellers, you may have read about this strange event, in which the reactionary, peenie-waving London Mayor "Bonking Boris" Johnson saved Franny Armstrong - climate change activist and director of the searing film
The Age of Stupid - from an attack by several young women.
I'm sure that this "brave" act was completely unnecessary. Ms Armstrong surely could have protected herself had he not arrived so "heroically" on the scene. That's why these comments are so bizarre:
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Wednesday, November 4, 2009,
Fellow travelers, it's almost appropriate that the horse who won this year's Melbourne Cup
was called Shocking, because I found the whole exercize shocking in the extreme. In fact it wasn't just shocking. It was
appalling!Firstly, it was extremely elitist, as races invariably are. Finding the fastest horse was highly discriminatory, since horses have a lot more to offer than just speed. And I'm sure they don't judge themselves merely by that criterion. Were
their values considered? Of course ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Monday, November 2, 2009,
That appalling oil spill off the Western Australian coast has prompted a brave protest in which sassy sisters in bikinis covered themselves in oil and paraded in front of the Perth offices of the
evil corporation responsible for the catastrophe.
While I heartily endorse the statement that these feisty feminist fellow travellers were making with their protest, did they really have to confirm the dominant paradigm of phallocentric lookism to make their point? While they weren't quite participati...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, October 30, 2009,
Just recently a clawed snake
was discovered in China. Now there has been another serpent-themed warning from Gaia. This time it was a snake with two heads found in Illinois. Significantly, it was
in a drawer full of junk.
If that's not a clear condemnation of the appalling wastefulness of Western conspicuous consumption,
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Thursday, October 22, 2009,
Fellow travellers, as we all know, Gaia is constantly telling humanity how angry She is with us. Yet, so often we just don't get it. (Well,
we get it, of course. But the rest of humanity - that is, The Great Unloofahed - sure don't!)
And here's a perfect example: During a news broadcast in Melbourne, the camera that captures the city skyline projected behind the newsreader was attacked by a seagull. Because of its proximity to the lens,
it looked like a giant, monstrous creature.
Gaia's intenti...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, October 16, 2009,
I never thought that I would be thanking an AmeriKKKan for his contribution to Australian culture. After all, their appalling entertainment industry dominates ours to the point that we might as well be their fifty first state! But I have to say a big "thank you!" to Harry Connick junior for his courageous act of defiance on
Hey Hey It's Saturday!Appalling racists in the media have made much of the fact that the Jackson Jive were mostly non-white members of racial minorities. So for white peop...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Sunday, September 20, 2009,
Fellow travellers, we all know that big business is full of appalling peenie-waving testosteroids who despise women and nature in equal measure. But most of the time they aren't overt about it. And if you do point out how sexist they are, they will invariably deny it. Sadly, most of the Great Unloofahed and even many in the media accept these furtive protestations as the truth.
But sometimes their appalling misogyny is so brazen and clear that no amount of obfuscation could possibly suffice! ...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, September 18, 2009,
Fellow travellers, I am still appalled by the dominance of "rational" approaches to thinking that still pervade human "civilization" the world over.
Take this recent event in China: An elderly woman was shocked to find a snake with a claw in her house. She killed it, and
the snake is now being examined by scientists.
No doubt they will come up with some "rational" explanation involving genetic mutation, or perhaps interbreeding with lizards. But these will be inadequate, and inaccurate.
The reas...
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Posted by Derek Sapphire on Friday, September 18, 2009,
Fellow travellers, it is with great joy that I finally return to the blogosphere to resume my cyber-activism!
As you all know, I had blogged continually in the past. But ongoing cyber-stalking from
the appalling Matt Hayden and other mean-spirited reich-wingers sapped my spiritual reserves until they were almost bone dry. And considering how rich I am in such karmic energy, that's saying something!
During a particularly depressing period, I was reminded of that Buddhist exhortation: surrender a...
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