by PAUL COLLITS – THEY say the devil is in the detail. Perhaps it’s more relevant in these times of voter betrayal to say that the devil is in the politicians.
They are an evil lot and, as St Paul would have it, probably bound up with powers and principalities even beyond the globalist institutions that control them.
- Some actually believe the climate horse shit.
- But not as many as you might think.
- Certainly not the 97 per cent of scientists that’s often quoted.
As AI explains: “In theology and biblical studies, “powers and principalities” refer to an unseen, organised hierarchy of spiritual beings and cosmic forces opposed to God. Originating primarily from the writings of the Apostle Paul, these entities represent a spiritual struggle that transcends human, earthly conflicts.”
ST PAUL
More on St Paul below. But this also brings to mind the fictional Faust. Who was Faust?
According to Wikipedia, Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
It is an infamous story. All this came to mind as I was listening to the geophysicist Peter Ridd on the Sky News Australia’s Outsiders program.
Sacked by James Cook University (aka Townsville Tech) some time back for climate heterodoxy, Ridd was talking about recent reports that suggest that the Great Barrier Reef isn’t actually dying.
In fact, there is likely to be more coral on the reef by 2050. Get outta here!
While speaking about how governments respond to extortion attempts by the supra-national climate State – to keep iconic landmarks off the endangered list in return for us paying them princely sums – Ridd suggested that academics’ careers now depend on their obeisance to the big lie.
Because that is how they get their grants and, hence, their reputations. Managing up, of course.
In the case of the Great Barrier Reef, academics’ careers depend on the reef remaining very sick. Never dying – that wouldn’t do – just sick.
So, what do they write?
These academics have made their own Faustian bargain. Their original sins are a mix of sloth, cowardice and pride.
They have brought utter shame on a whole generation – well, two – of would-be scholars. Small “s” scholars, to be sure. James Delingpole calls it grant-troughing.
But the point is, they have to sell their souls to get the grants.
Okay, I realise some of them actually believe the horse shit. But not as many as you might think. Certainly not the 97 per cent sometimes quoted.
ALCO ALBO
My old RMIT boss, Margaret Gardiner, now Governor of Victoria and wife (I think, still) of Glynn Davis, Alco Albo’s right-hand man for three years, is front and centre.
Those who made the COVID Faustian deal are many and familiar. Jeanette Young was rewarded with the governorship of Queensland. Many other COVID officials, like police commissioners and Chief Health Officers – the infamous CHOs – were either rewarded or protected.
Peddlers of COVID porn like Brett Sutton became Victorian of the Year. The most evil of all, Sutton’s boss in Melbourne, is now remembered in bronze.
If the devil’s greatest trick was to convince everyone that he didn’t exist, his second greatest trick was probably to appear with a cheque book and a seductive smile.
Globalism was the devil that made Tony Blair do mass immigration. Boris was merely a useful idiot, who made his own Faustian bargains.
ScoMo was the most useful idiot going. (Of course, ScoMo is there speaking at the ARC circle jerk in Pall Mall this week. God help us all!
What he can tell anybody about the fight for Western civilisation is a total mystery.
Karl Marx was the devil that made the 20th Century’s greatest mass murderers do it. Jim Jones was the devil that made 900 goons join a cult in the late 1970s, only to kill themselves and their children in the jungle.
Angus Taylor’s Faustian bargain is with the Wets in his Party.
The blue branch of the UniParty. He does nothing without their permission. As Pauline Hanson has pointed out.
BARGAIN
It turns out that a whole generation of the UniParty has made a Faustian bargain.
The pattern is familiar and a politician’s time in Parliament is merely a stepping stone to a life of wealth and fame beyond. Provided he plays the game while he’s there.
Or more often these days, while she is there.
Their rewards may not be rich in heaven, given the evil that they do, but they are guaranteed upon leaving office. Think Obama, Blair and Keating.
Trump was rich going into politics while the others were richer going out.
The hyper-networked world of the ruling class, its sheer reach and the sting in its tentacles, ensures that successive generations of pliant politicians get their due rewards.
The company boards, the book deals, the lecture circuit, the conferences gigs, the prestigious university appointments. Think Bill Shorten, Julie Bishop, Greg Hunt, Gareth Evans, Rob Hulls – even George Brandis.
Their biggest rewards may not be in the dollars, but rather in the platforms granted them for endless high-level networking and preening. They are all addicts.
To take one standout example. Julia Gillard served the elites’ interests by enshrining feminism at the highest levels of government, going after the Catholic Church with her $400m Royal Commission.
She created multiple new avenues of corruption and mates rates with the NDIS, introducing a carbon tax after promising not to, ruining (or further ruining) our education system, and so on.
In return she gets to chair the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s home of modern eugenics and funder par excellence of the pandemic planning industry.
She has had other gigs, but Wellcome is the biggie.
Another example of post-politics largesse is China. Think Shanghai Sam Dastyari, Bob Carr, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Daniel Andrews and Andrew Robb.
LINKED
These are China’s great Aussie friends. Daniel Andrews will forever be linked to the belt and road initiative.
Robb, as a Commonwealth minister, okayed the lease of the Port of Darwin to China. Even Beijing Albo is trying to reverse that one – or says he is. With Albo, you never know.
For Robb, salaried riches followed.
Obeisance to China leads to wealth and status within the broad Left – and endless free first-class travel. You could not make this up.
Politicians serve the interests of the ruling class. They “Pass Go” and they collect their dollars.
They have sold their souls and sold out their people to enrich themselves, and their landing pads are most comfortable.
This is the currency of the Faustian political bargain – but there is a deeper dimension.
St Paul, in Ephesians Chapter Six, talks about persecution and resisting the forces of evil.
AI summarises: “The Apostle Paul addresses the challenges believers face by clarifying that their primary struggle is not against human enemies, flesh and blood. Instead, he identifies the true threat as unseen spiritual forces—the rulers, authorities, and powers of this dark world.
Paul isn’t talking about temporal rulers, but the demons that work “behind the scenes” to crush our souls.
But it is a fair bet that the powers and principalities have spotted a few globalist opportunities.
Which begs the question.If we are to follow Paul’s sage advice and resist the powers and principalities, might we not start with some resistance to the puppets and their own puppets, the ruling elites and the Faustian pollies who do them homage? PC
Western democracy, the best form of government invented by humans, is failing because of the corruption of politicians and power of vested interests. The indifference of a lot of the voters also plays a part.
Citizen Vigilante was a very interesting movie.
Turnbull & Hawke treasonous backstabbing continues on, & they wonder why they can’t get us millions of genuine conservatives back.
Morrison is a mushroom in his own compost.