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Was a little gem in sea of media sludge, seeing the Prof with the Man in Black again, Paul Davies pointing out the way things are so far, and the hopes and extrapolations, and possibilities, seems we are gravity trapped on our once lovely planet, and the odds of there being other beings quite high, the odds of making contact, actually ever knowing seems quite remote... Feeling Lonely?
The sad knowledge behind the long odds being that a technological advancement wouldn't last long spose, in the Universal Time Scales human transmissions into space will be a mere blink... Anyone who thinks that this human civilisation will last is dreaming that fools paradise stuff... Always fascinating to dream up the scenarios of the future, if they're still intact, how will the cities and machines and constructions appear to the future? Like pyramids in deserts? Like heads on Easter Island? Like members of the conservative right?
The LimboLand of Elections, not knowing what will eventuate, democracy, bit of a joke sometimes... The Little Never Ever PM blundering through the tax evasion debates, the Toady Treasurer dropping the 3 year broken promise idea, meanwhile the rest are hanging on for dear life while Queensland goes over the big dipper election campaign and the Wun Nazi Nation drags out a Colonial Pom to perpetuate the dumb downer ideas, and somehow or other the USA big house on the hill seems to think Bart Sumpsin encapsulates the last 100 years, duh...
So who's writing PH's questions in Parliament? With words she has trouble saying? Not the pretender to the Senate is it? The one who always turns up on Lateline where it gets a bit too deep for her? When something has to be said about topics above her comprehension, this bloke really is one of the classic manipulators, and he's headed for balance of power pretensions for our beloved country, the most dangerous sneaky snaky operator to do with the Wun Nazi Nation, pulling PH's strings, spose they'll dig out the influences in back of it all, seems the PH appeal is most profound in the Deep North Bible Belt, speaks for itself, god help 'em... So the old Qld Nats are pulling hoods on for the Wun Nazi Nation, that's like another Joe for Canberra push maybe, least Joe had metaphors to mix, poor PH just sings the anthems, cripes, is there something missing in the brain food up there? Iodine supplements in the salt? Seems it's too late...
Mixed blessings, with the dumping of the Paper Mill in Burnie Tasmania, always felt the presence of that looming darkness hanging over the lovely Bass Strait Coastline, had that flavour of exploitation and degradation and now desperation, well the workers are dropped onto the redundancy heap, their purchasing powers and knock-on effects will drain the life out of another community, why have it so... Had an inevitability about it though, sucking the life out of the forests, short term viability, but now the business interests will transfer to wholesale exploitation in Indonesian forests, maybe Burnie needs some other protected industry, as do all the regions dying from Free Trade Holy Markets...
Hang on, down in Burnie they're are going to continue to export the Wood Chips! So it's another value adding industry let go down the gurgler... While we continue to deforest, when we could be growing Paper Pulp Marijuana... That's what will turn the tide on these pollies, these desperate votes will desert the major parties and we'll be stuck with some Nazi style people in power, it's so dangerous, damn that Little PM, there was a most damaging piece done on him on the ALP Soapbox E-Mail, painted him out as the sour stolid creep... Still everyone knows who knows spose...
"Tis so disappointing the way politics is going in Australia, seems the strictures of the system we live in, squeezing people, putting pressure on, insisting on competition in all walks of life, imposing dollar values on every activity, being tight, being cheap, being mean and cruel, that's where these unhappy times are rooted, being left out, dumped and discarded, for the knee-jerks like Wun-Nazi Nation to get a run, the poor buggers feel so threatened and ignored, they have that Well, give her a go then, meaning PH and getting David Goldfield, and that's where the real manipulative nastiness lies, the irony of it all... They showed him sitting under the desk, while she did interviews, prompting her...
It seems from the Sydney Morning Herald that Pauline's Puppeteer Goldfield was a failed Tory from Manly, has a reputation for disruption, baiting and non-attendance of the Manly Council, was tipped out of the State seat by Dr Peter McDonald, the Independent Voice so welcome in the NSW State politics, and Goldfield has also ran foul of the wonderful Godfree Bigot, another Manly councilor, the man who popped up behind the MegaManiacal Bronny Bishop for Canberra Push, and ridiculed her out of sight, thank lower case god... As well there was the beliefs of some of the conspiracy theorists, always good for a giggle cept for the horror, one has it that the Port Arthur Massacre was a set up for the Gun Buy Back, cripes, see what happens when they get their heads together, we fall apart laughing...
However, I am troubled, because some of the one-liners put about by PH have that ring of sympathy, the safety and security and ? the other one, has been lost pursuing, or being propelled, into this globalised free trade era, and the security is gone, forced to become risk takers and gamblers, it so happens that deep north bible belt section of the community harbours the racist resentment, just scratch it, stemming you'd think from their own inadequacy as well, fear drives it, but when I pushes the Protectionist Cause it feels like being tarred with the same brush, dear oh dear...
So there has to be action on the causes, otherwise it's us using their stupid reactionary policies, by slapping them down is going to make it worse, the same Law and Order crap they espouse, to really treat the problem is to get at what ails them, and it's really Economic Rationalism, and making us compete with the rest of the world, just imagine how much of a run they'd get on their racist madness if there was full employment and security... And guess who's gonna be swamped with imports even more?
The difficult thing about Wun Nation is that the deprived regions are clotting together due to the prevailing bi-partisan policies of the eco-rats, from both sides of politics, besides having all the racism stirred up rather than being cured with kindness and tolerance and nurturing respect, and besides having the Green Agenda put squarely on the table and dealt with for the sake of all our futures, the thing is derailed... Like that dreadful concertina of the Very Fast Train, that's an omen too...
It comes back to full bellies and complacency and apathy, the more laid back and apathetic the voters are the better the democracy is operating, seems now the Tories and the Eco-rats have created this hothouse of political turmoil and allowed all these deranged issues to drown out some decent government...
You'd think the Tories would have known better, but it seems they too did a step to the right when Labor took theirs, everyone should take a big step to the Left again and balance the books, that's what's really wrong, if the politics were balanced properly, it would be the gap between industry and the environment that the pollies could argue about...
Meanwhile in order to get the pendulum swung back in favour of Public Services and Welfare and Protection of Local Businesses and Full Employment, you've got to pull it over towards the Left, poor Me, every time you promote Inward Looking policies it sounds so Wun Nation... Well to get rid of Wun Nation racist sentiments is to get the Australia back before all the restructuring and reform and competition took place... Labor had better get people believing in the Light On the Hill, those right wing Tories that are now in power ought to be diminished way out where the Right Wing Rednecks are...
Such a relief to see that USA Proposition 226 go down in the Citizen's Initiated Referenda too, that's another Wun Nazi Nation Redneck proposition, having CIR for Australia as well, in the USA they tried to muzzle Union's funding political parties, it started with over 70% prepared to kill off Unions in politics, never mind big business bribing, but eventually was voted down by about 56%... See how dangerous they are... Eternal vigilance, but I reckon there could be a truce, a long secure peace should Unions be representative of the workforce...
I had these terrible feelings of having the Wuns coming out with his protectionist policies, even Graham Campbell sounded like me carrying on about Burnie closing down, and the Pigmeat coming from USA via Canada to dump on us Aussies... It's just that the Powers That Be say Protection is out, that's the imposition of capitalists, but you only ever see evidence that protection worked once at least, the best living was in the Protected 60's, they were saying tonight that the boomers kids have no idea of that period, like that fabulous piece on Little Winston had the Picket Fence days, but that was when the Protected Welfare State was in place, and the Wuns think so too, cripes... Strange bedfellows... Oh dear what a horrible thought...
And it's all up to Little Winston as the Faeries say... If he doesn't call a double dissolution, her mob probably won't get any Senate seats. And if he, as well as Labor, puts her last in the preferences, she won't get in anywhere. But I will bet the Wuns will win some seats, just on closed minds, they'll have gone into that fundamentalist mindset and wont be budged no matter what...
Starting to think that the criticism of Wonky Wuns may harden them up, it's a world wide phenomenon this lurch to the Religious Right, we had it under the PC carpet, but this Little PM has been so stupid to let it out, he's the problem, Keating could have busted her balloon... c'est la vie... They're scared of insulting her fans so much, they both know how shallow the philosophies are out there, it's scary how basic these people are... Like sheep, the A-bombing religious flocks...
Meanwhile the Wharfies are now to be made redundant with robots, well the unions all over have to put their foot down, if it stays solid, they can't be beaten, but how many would stay out on a National Stoppage? The voices of Faerie reason: But whatever happens, the job numbers will have to be decreased. I don't think the MUA can avoid that in the long run. Just like the rest of the country. Un-happily right, too true, just that the MUA carved out a more decent slice of living, setting a standard, and instead of others getting in for theirs, they deny them... That's the mindset again... Twits... They need a Union for Twits, have to be compulsory spose, Whooops, Shhhhh...
See that in Russia the Unions are active, trubble is it's coal mining and dirty business they're in... I Can't support that CO2 mining stuff Greenhouse Gas, terrible how our more powerful Unions are to do with mining and forestry...
Pilger did a piece on the perpetual apartheid entrenched in South Africa, I watched the gist of it too, even saw him smile a few times, and then there he was telling everyone everything they didn't want to hear... Kill the messenger... What's the answer? Will they ever cope? It's the distribution of wealth inherent in those racial problems, vastly starker... The only weapons are Democratic Free Unions...
There's another breed of collectivism where the industry rednecks get together in Open Office? They have nagging mantras stuck up saying evangelical slogans like Work Harder! The idea is participation of all levels in management, where all is disclosed and everyone is made aware of what they themselves cost, like the dollar value of going to the toilet is made clear... Has a scary ostracism for people who don't fit in, a right wing anti-union union... Hmmm... The big corps are doing courses in it! Watch out, it's a born-again type cult thing on the personality...
The Little Miss-Interpretation of Leadership is adding more debacles to the political mess every day, his Non-Recommendation Party Room must seem like a war zone spose... Just sit there and Lissen! And put those good looking sheilas behind me in Question Time... Must be like being in church being preached at from the Big End mission statement... Speaking up is fraught with danger... Ex-Tory Zammit was good though, Don't blame us for the tax mess, ha... Now it's Tax Money for television campaigns pushing the unannounced, secret, conspiratorial style, Tory GST Tax on the Poor, this advertising gimmick is another anathema tactic, particularly when you have a Tory Government full of Tax Avoidance Trust Holders being the ones pushing it, the built in attitude they have to avoid tax at all moral costs, and to cut and slash spending and sharing and providing for the community, their whole rotten ethic is not to put in to the community pot, get away with mean and cruel impositions on the poor while they look after themselves...
Still trying to come to terms with Tony Smiling Blair's Britain, from Politics In The Pub, excellent speakers, Stuart Rees, originally a Welshman, a Prof in Social Policy, and Kirk Mann, a good decent left wing Pom from Leeds, Methodism or Rationalism, all about what had happened to Britain under Thatcher, never once mentioned the dead hand of Major, and now there's Blair on a landslide, so how it is living with Tony's popularism as father of the People's Princess and the model for the aspiring New Labourites in the New Small England, having given away Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, By Jove Old Chap, and getting away with the pomposity they love...
The speakers painted an apprehensive picture with the euphoria of the New Labour carrying on in the now downtrodden ruts of the Tories, and imposing a social welfare big brother system, most interesting stuff, saying to expect it here, the deeper themes of it all to classify the people on the bottom, and on the surface how you had to have a life-plan, and a manager to monitor you, like a Sign This Mission Statement or be ostracised, and you have to conform to have a life-plan to get assistance, you have to be of good character in all things Methodist... How you had to have character or be rejected, how you had to be helped to change yourself into what they want... And to make yourself available to be called on occasionally at the Whim of the Market, to work... A pool of chooks with their Union Heads cut off, to scratch about for work tickets...
And told of Thatcherism's complete "stuffing" the Unions got, and the wipeout the Left has become... Like Wales was 160,000 unionised workers now 20,000 individual contractors... The death of the Left under Thatcher, the closure of Wales' employment opportunities and the rest of Old Labour support was "stuffed"... And even with New Labour in power, it's really Clinton Blair Keating stuff, magical men, but where are we headed? You get USA style Heartless Capitalism, and the hazardous playing fields of market economies of Cheating Europe, not to mention the Soccer World Cup Wars to come, and the looming Monopoly Europe, where sovereignty's are disappearing, but the gains are there too, so along with the Euro Standards and Regulations there are still the trade cheats and corruptions, and the fortress against migration, where racism is raising it's right wing nasty nazi head again...
Another good time with the Pollies In The Pub Supper Afterwards, such a relief to finally meet some people who are on top of things, plenty to say and air and substantiate, and it's a varied and diverse group as well, so going on who reminded who of who, there was Marlene Dietricht and Michael Pallin, putting out a Socialist magazine, the editor of which, donated a copy of, nice thoughtful bloke, and she reckoned I was a Gerard Depardeau... Cripes... And all the others most impressive too, an outlet for unvoiced frustration, as well as the wonderful sisters being into bicycling and environmentalist, makes for a good night, so see ya there next time, it's on bluddy Privatisation for anyone who wants to raise their ire...
The way home was another surreal trip, a lovely Canadian tourist picked Me up on the Bus Stop this time, sort of, she was doing the East Coast and would soon go South and West, so there was a lot to speak of, then the train reflected the sorry state of society, on the way in a young AustralAsian kid was so happy to be spoken to, told me about school and his big brother and the novel he was doing, The Wizard of Aussie? Not the Dorothy one going off in a tornado... These kids love a bit a attention, but on the other side a blonde girl coming home put on a drunken tantrum, started when a beautiful brunette got on board and jealousy flared, an off-duty Security Girl intervened, she was like that Flashing Dark Indian Bandit woman, fearless and eventually the drunks were off the train, the girl swearing was seeking attention too, and got it spose, one bloke said How would this be in the Olympics... I said we'd win the shouting competition with her... Too much TV to model on you'd suspect...
But it's a crime, these other two boys I got talking told of being hopeless, even going into the city, the dress culture, the gangs, the suburbs of origin discrimination, the bouncers who just say no, and how the fear of attack was in the air, one of them had a dad who'd lost his pool building business from a heart attack and stroke, they were broke... Funny how they open up when you give then the chance, like last week the kids on the train got their stories out too, even to supporting football sides from all over rather than being saddled with a losers tag... Although the girl with them was going into the Police Force, plenty of over work coming along in that profession you'd expect...
Having extremely popular Prime Ministers isn't the done thing, unless you can pull the nations heart strings like Tony Smiling Blair has done, New Labour, coming along after the Thatcher years and Conservative drudgery, killing off the unions, massive privatisation and changing the political landscape, opening up to the ravages of competition and the scariest thing is the social engineering of the massive proportion of the public reduced to supplying cheap labour for the euro-market and globalisation, having to sign up for welfare management on a life plan, and to be sustained you have to have conformist character, British style, Blair style, hand over heart style... The Left is left out of the philosophical debate, crushed out, so even having the joy of a New Labour English Government, it seems the Tories still rule the roost...
But give him his due respect, Tony Blair has brought on the hope for peace in Northern Ireland, and he just announced the need for intervention in the Serbian genocides, and closure of the Dounray, the Reprocessing Horror and Nuclear Menace, and he does revive the national pride after the dark ages of Thatcher, so if England can do well in the World Cup without ransacking Europe, being shamed into good behaviour by Tony's Character, then that's what they voted for after all, it's a democracy, and already their opponents are moving their policy settings towards New Labour's, so let history be the judge, just hope the Unions spring to the defense of the needy, and maybe even reverse the privatisation, or at least resurrect some mixed economies, where Private competes with Public, that ought to be a reasonable compromise...
I don't want to quote figures cause I might get them wrong... 'Twas on Neins Sunday, the Wun Nation candidates got a little policy grilling, dear oh dear, things like, If the judges don't do what we want we'll put them on the roast-rack, and this was from a bloke with a questionable experience in law hisself, the sheer folly of their candidacy, even saying how the illiterate nature of their inarticulate utterances were appealing because people were sick of smooth talking pollies, see, it's Capital I Irrational... The Wonky Wuns can't possibly attract support surely, but it's excellent tactics for the media to ask questions, like What's the Education Budget? Health? And get embarrassing evasions, unless it's Law And Order and you get Execution, quick summary death, from hanging handpicked intimidated judges... Surely not...
And then also on Nein's Sunday was the Tax Evasion Industry, well if ever zero tolerance ought to be applied, that is where you need it, seems the emphasis is on spreading the pain so the smarties can gain, and who take advantage of the evasion? Who can afford the trickery? The Little Bigoted Twit apology for a PM, who doesn't want to hear recommendations for Zero Tolerance of his Tax Evading Cronies...
Been hooked by Seachange, the Our ABC Aussie Soapy, it's amazing, haven't had a show to watch like that ever, it's got poor Me in, and it has these cute jokesy things, it's sort of clever, and has a believability good enough for a little fantasy fishing town, and the damn simple music sticks in your brain too, what do ya call it when you're hooked like that, a serial follower, and as well the Good News Week will move to the Weekend, yippee... Your Our ABC is about all there is left of the good Australia...
The Man in Black with Paul Davies again and Many Universes, the everyday world and then the many others, is Schroedinger's cat alive or dead, taking the observer into account you'll know, as against arguing the observer away with many universes, out of the picture can't be right, and commonsense of evolution in the jungle hasn't equipped us with visualising atoms and black holes, well maybe not for him but I Can do black holes, he says realistically it can only be described mathematically, but then you have Prof Paul Davies tell you anyway, seems reasonable to Me, and he reckons he's only one of two who wants the observer taken into account... So unobserved all these possible probabilities exist in the Quantum world, and when you take a peek, it becomes classical... Uncertainty turns into Classical History, and you can't change history, and you can't know what's going to happen, so what now?
Wait and see...
There was the taste of City Life today, went into the Quay and around the Harbour, Garden Island and up through the Cross back to China Town for a sickly YumCha and some shopping in Paddy's Market, had beers in the Irish Pub, and was a good day...
There's a book by a journo from the editorially influenced Sydney Morning Herald, which has stirred up sides of the Hansonite debate, the philosophers are debating it and the new World Crash of Confidence, Paul Sheehan and Barbarians something, making instant judgments but there seems to be something missing from I Saw... The Faeries were saying: Robert Manne was accusing him of assigning stereotypes to national identities. He sounds a bit weird to me, like he's saying "I'm not a racist BUT". And he was saying Labor's family reunion program was just to build a constituency. And Robert Manne has been popping up a lot, he always seems interesting, looks like he has changed his mind a few times, that's a good sign when life is changing so much as well... But the Phil Rivkin super optimist always grates on his grandiose claims, he's not representative at all, he lives in some other sort of ivory tower with the services outsourced to many poor overcrowded slaves begging to work for him...
But the interesting words come from critics of the Holy Market, was a Korean guy listing out the motives of the Money Market, and you hear basically that these Fund Managers are playing with our money, and being tied to the other currencies allows these Hedgers to corner the market and create prices, cause changes themselves and make the Reserve Banks intervention to support the market in effect drawing off the billions for their motley profits... But Don't Panic, it's all factored in, we've got the fundamentals set right, and interest rates wont go either way, and Ummm another slogan from Wun Nation will fix it... I believe in Ostrayuns...
Troubled times, stemming from changing times, caused by taking voters for granted for quite a while, and now it's the Wun Nazi Nation Wailing Wall, and every disenchanted issue that has been tossed out on the compost heap during the Bib and Bub years are now going to be harvested, and I woke up this morning to hear a snippet from an ad placed by Wun Nation, and you could hear the echoes going back through the Changing Times, brought into focus by Pork Barreling the Pig Industry of all things, but the disenchanted are deserting the three ships of state, looks like grass rooters from the left and right are protesting with their Wun Nation support... Thing is, it's got this mad Hydra Head and the threat from Fascist History wistfully thinking of what has gone before in racial discrimination as well...
So the prediction is the earth is going to open up and swallow the welfare ideals of the Left embracing multiculturalism and tolerance, it's going to reinstall the welfare ideals of the Black Jack McEwen days of the country party, where socialist subsidies and featherbedding and tariffs and protection where rife in propping up the landed gentry, where tariff walls protected the fortress of industry, and life was perceived as good, it all comes into focus with an ad placed by Wun Nation in the Queensland election, it went through some 10 or so steps in How to Destroy Australia? And I predict that the ideas in that ad are the isolating thoughts felt by those deserting both the Tories and Labor, and will change the face of government, and sits at the basis of the all the fear, and allowed this political movement to gain the momentum, and it's going to roll on, and in a democracy it seems the voters will have their say... Scary...
It's weird the way this history has unfolded, from the Right rolling the Left in Labor, from Eco Rat Dries rolling the Wets in the Tories, from the dismantling of Protection with the Free Trade debacle, and from Privatisation, particularly seeing the Australian Ownership being lost to Foreign Investment? Opening up to Competition and having your throats cut... And from the bluddy Gun Buy Back of all things, snatching the baby's security blankets, Waaaaaaaaah... And the Media, being concentrated and dumbing down, looks like it's one of those scenes from that movie where the guy screams out that He can't take it anymore! And the chorus joins in... Even Me, who can get enthusiastic with being isolated and ignored? Who is feeling represented? Who is happy with the State of the Nation? Seems with the Holy Market the world is running round like a chook with it's head cut off... Least Labor still has a Steady Hand on the Tiller with Kim, and Beatty will make Queenslanders happier than they'll ever be with a Three Ring Circus...
It's going to refocus the debate real quick onto capturing these voters back, already the backlash, the Little Shortsighted Twit will surely back down on a Double Dissolution giving Wonky Wuns seats in the Senate... It's momentous, wouldn't be surprised to see the Labor Left rise up again to balance the books, seems the Wonky Wuns have stolen all the thunder... The outcomes are bigger than the events, once the Little Politically Incorrect Bigoted Twit let the standards drop, and the Media could Pander to Pauline for Circulation Profits, the stable door was open and the horses have bolted, gees he's a twirp...
Seems the USA is in a so-called boom, Big Bank Greenspan is worried that things are just too good, where White Supremists drag themselves disgracefully into the spotlight again, that poor man dismembered, and the Feds step in to push for a death penalty, that's what we've come to now, cept the Far Right would have hung the victim first...
And I will bet there are pigeonholes everywhere being stuffed with tax reforms and sideline issues, looks like the real big redefinition is going to be the topics in the back rooms all over, nothing like the Bib and Bub Boys Club feeling the blowtorch on their own bellies, best stop looking overseas for inspiration and start rebuilding the institutions and structures that they tore down, cause now we are exposed and threatened and insecure, the Little Bad Wolf has left us without the Brick House of the Three Little Pigs... There's something in that for all of us...
Fabulous out there today on the bike paths, brisk wintry and cloudy but calm, and hearing the news from the flop of the Privatised Employment Service, to the report from Ellen Fanning on the Graciously Obeying Your Man edict from the Baptists, ha... Explain that to Hilary please Bill...
And the Bandwagon up in the Queensland Election with the Wilderness Koalas having their say behind the BoreBludger, and being shoved off stage and subject to the Throw them out! Get rid of them! attitudes, we all heard them, showing the callous cruel nature there is to deal with, tsk tsk tsk... And to the $5m offer for Sure-Bet Jeff to cut his head off, use it for the Hitler dummy spose, but there is a sliver lining, the Conservation Foundation had got Peter Garrett back on board to throw some spotlight on the Jabiluka sacrilege and good on him, see what happens when government goes off the rails, it destroys the surroundings... Fancy having the hide to stick a Uranium mine in a fragile National Park of World Heritage, that Tory Hill is disgusting, and too smart to muck up his travel dockets, what a pity...
And now the High Priests of Prediction are all saying things like Well the Market will do this, the Market will do that, like the language and mysterious visions of the Holy Market are just for them who claim to speak for it, sound familiar? God would think so... And because you have not followed the Holy Markets Edicts, You will be rebuked in the name of the IMF? Ummm IVF? or is that egg implantation... Same bluddy thing cept an Alien Monster with red hair grows in the nations belly... Call it PaulineZilla... But don't worry the Little Boxed In Twit is busy painting hisself into a corner... And will cop a great load of spite on the weekend...
Today's the day, the Paulineites are about to cast the first stones, as against using her poor husband's name, Mr Hanson had the misfortune to have once regretfully married the most frustratingly domineering woman, and has to live with his name being dragged through the mud and sludge, well the Paulineites are going to flock about in a sheepish way to vote in the Queensland Elections, if not a landslide it has still been an earthquake to shake up the politics of Australia... In a day and age of science and logic and history, to see the attitudes regress to popularist reactionaries getting acclaim, while intelligence is pooh poohed, it seems the Smart Country, the Lucky Country, ain't no more...
You get the 433 bus down Glebe Point Road to Harold Park Paceway, or any bus along Parramatta Road and then a walk down Ross Street, the Politics in the Pub this week was on the Privatisation of Telstra and had a Public Accounts expert Prof Bob Walker, and the leader of the Democrats Marvelous Meg Lees, and I have raised his appreciation of these people prepared to put the arguments against the great hoodwinks of the century, seeing Meg Lees particularly, maintaining a stance against these Eco-Rats, and battling in the information biased world to get it out there, a monumental task, while the wisdom of the Bob Walkers of the academic world at last justify with facts and figures what every sensitive person feels has gone wrong in the Privatisation debate, so feel alone no longer there are other's who see reality and not The Invisible Hand of the Holy Market... thank lower case god...
You should have heard what I heard last night about privatistion, you'd reckon there is a private conspiracy to get private hands on public revenue streams off into the future, on assets built by taxpayers of the past... It's a crime, so rolling it back will only be justice... It's cause the lessons learned and applied after the World Wars and 1930's Depression have been rolled back... Lest we forget.... What the hell we're fighting for...
'Twas said how assets were privatised cheap, sold for less than they're worth and the GIO was now valued three times what is was sold for, and CSL as well, the NSW State Bank was a Trade Sale where only one bidder remained in secret and got a government guarantee for it's bad debts on a price based on 1.5 x earnings which is normally around 15 to 17...
The strange, if not deranged, synchronism of thought that governments had to be Debt Free, when no one else was expected to, so to be Debt Free the revenue streams dry up when the assets are sold... Although one train of thought was that once public investments are established the money can be moved on into new generational asset building infrastructures to provide new innovative services where private investment is inadequate, but to retire debt? You lose the means to invest and maintain the system provide the service and to ever pay the interest... So I reckon it's just for others to get their hands on the revenue streams... That's criminal... Taking the people's money off them... Crime shouldn't pay...
Meg Lees was saying the Public's Commonwealth Bank once provided a government lever, it was sold cheap too, and now it's a deregulated banking industry ripping off the public, services gone, and the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories could once be directed by Government policy to address national problems but not any more... And the MAI Foreign Ownership debate that the Wun Nation spotlighted, was stealing the Democrats thunder, like Meg Lees said how she championed these particular causes that the "Strange" person up north did, but poor Meg wasn't considered "Strange" enough to ever get the media spotlight...
So the Eco-Rats copped a pounding, was a Rational Man definition which painted out the horrible truth of it, to steal and cheat and avoid and ignore and couldn't care less, to do a Spin Doctoring and put about the two great recent furfies the "Debt" which had to be reduced, turns out Aussies are third lowest, and the "Billion Dollar Blackholes" inherited to blame previous governments when they aren't overdrafts at all, they are assumptions based on projections, how the debate revolves around the costs as against the quality of services...
There are basic questions like a Health "Market?" as against a social duty of care, and Job Finding For Profit as in the latest bizarre Tory caper, and the injustice, where's the pity? Like the Billy Boys who made the tea in Newcastle Water, being first fired from the privatisation, these mentally retarded jobs go in a flash...
And Bob Walker was shaking his head about the Toady Treasurer conveniently confusing the Public and Private Debt situation and the incredulity of the Accounts not showing the Unfunded Superannuation Schemes, which dwarf any other liability, and are conveniently left out...
And then there was the Technology rundowns where they don't maintain things at public risk, and the freeze outs of non-commercial propositions, and the herding of consumers to the rip-off services, and then how do you measure how well the service is being provided when they are "Commercially Confidential" against the Public Interest...
Then there was talk of unraveling privatisation, oh dear, and how we got the government we deserve, and why the hell can't we have KISS Economics, and how the journalists became channeled into the Financial Papers and the Political Papers and the two become diverted, and how the Land Rights had the simple relationship of there being an owner and a lessee, and the accepted idea of the owner inspecting and having access to the property, as has been normal procedure, what is all the fuss? They just do not own it... So there was intelligible logical debate in the room, it's fantastic to feel the vibes when at other times you're feeling out of step with the world... Shhhhhh...
Scotland the Brave put on a decent display with the Super Wallies as against the Poms Low Class display in the Rah-Rahs, and then the Queensland Election, with the ground shaking earth shattering swing to the election of a mob of amateurs into their governance, real smart, and with the eyes of the world upon them, seeing what a pack of country bums can do by voting for people they know are incompetent just to get back at the Little Eco-Rat Buy Back Everything that produces incomes and provides services, the Feeling Ripped Off Election...
So what should we do then to govern for the whole beloved country, our wonderful free Australia, with it's future, all these different people living here, all these different opinions, all these different visions, far-sighted, short-sighted, biased and self-interested, caring and sharing and communal, well it's the great big melting pot certainly, Diverse and Multi-Cultural whether you like it or not, so the choices are what to pursue, what to drop, and what to invent...
A 50-50 society for a start, Public Ownership restored for the Necessities Of Life and Private Ownership restricted to the Accessories, the bells and whistles, keeping Competition out of Necessities, and putting real competition into the Accessories of life, non-monopolistic, diversify, more options the better for real choice, so you get better Australian Made TV sets showing programs with a Public Interest, and better Public Education and Public Health Services and such, and keep competition out of Sign This jobs by insisting on full employment, say a Public Service job is always to be available, you cannot allow the less well endowed to be marginalised into crime and become anti-social... The racial inequalities will match up instead of competitive disharmony, unemployment would be transitory, and services would be available to everyone everywhere at the same sort of costs... Tell them that's what you want and expect and wont be dissuaded and to go figure out how to best get it done, without taking overseas trips and being conned into World's Worst Practise...
So the Left has to extract the decent policies given support to in the Queensland Election, they have a Strange if not Deranged Parliament now where several major decent policies have been mixed up with the far-right racist agendas, the support didn't swing to the Paulineites by just the race card, most Wun Nation support stemmed from the Competition and Privatisation and Protection Policies of the Bib and Bub Guvmints going Eco-Rat, and if the next political party to win adapts these policies properly they'll get the swing, and leave the racists isolated high and dry, so I hope Labor is lissening, like if they could once take on the Eco-Rats policies, they can just as easily drop them, who will mind? A few mad Tories? The Toady Dog? What do they matter now the balls are in the air, all except the Little Nobody, he's a goner...
A touch of the Princess Di's Common Person, the in-articulate bunch of amateurs promoted as spoilers into the Parliament, seems the protest vote has gone to their heads, That ought to teach them a lesson, and She's just like us, too bluddy true, so the Saint is born, cripes, she's not quite the messiah, more the miracle woman being touched and anointed by the xtians-only god, wrapped in the flag with the Union Jack on it, spew, and the image is wild-cat, the Cat-Woman who snuggles up and purrs, and they buy it, then it's the strict line, the laying down the law, standing tough, stubborn, and then she gets scratchy, heartless, snarly with the little defenceless mice... Then she gets wooed into hairdos and designer dresses, with power politics, a dangerous mixture, just wait till it really gets bitchy... I Can only be dismayed, and like the G-G, Me too weeps for our country...
There's a lot of twisted motherhood stuff in Pauline's pronouncements, like the Faeries have been saying: See the one about apprenticeships rather than doing year 11 And 12? Sounds fair enough that we need more apprenticeships, but I remember early on her saying/screeching, "there are too many over-educated young people out there". That was also when she was talking about compulsory military service for school leavers, remember that Me? And the Faeries go on to say: She is the most unmotherly creature I have ever seen. Conscription, less schooling, corporal punishment, teenage curfews, harsher sentencing. Gets 2 little boys arrested for spitting on her. Doesn't speak to her own 2 eldest children. And One Nation, meaning Anglo-Saxon, rural, just like her. What a joke, she is well off, and despite what she says, she wants to be a politician. That's just some of the adoring fan mail for her but we wouldn't know without a free press would we? Should we blame the Media or the Lack of Leadership that this person now represents, some of, us to the world?
Who are they, the Paulineites? The Bible Belt, the Genocidal Squatters, their callousness with animals, the preoccupation with breeding, the sun-struck peanut farmers, they're a weird mob, the blotched Paleskin Supremacy based on inadequacy in their deranged pecking orders, with indelicate applications of the Eroding Wheel, as against the Aboriginal Aero-Foil Inventiveness of the straight and true Boomerang, Ha... The Gun Lobby now have Moses saying deep things like they do at basketball matches... Charlton Heston is the face of their god now, once wrapped up in Biblical Epics, crazy scripts... When actors get to speak their own words from the Religious Right, watch out they'reready to rumble... And now there's the images of the Black Panthers armed to the teeth waltzing about where the three Paleskins did in the poor disabled black man, an intimidating stunt, in this day and age, what has gone so horribly wrong... xtian charity?
'Twas said last night how the Tories ploughed up the racist debate, alienating the Ethnic Groups, expecting to harvest the victimiser votes, and have been usurped by Paulineitis, she has swept up their grubby support and left them dangling... And carrying the blame of the Tories own ethnic constituents, pretty right, you'd guess the fractured conservative side of politics will draw the knives soon, looking for a Little Buy Back ...
But like I was saying, the other parties have to address what ails the Wonky Wuns, placating wont work anymore, it's the same disregard they showed Keating, like a spoilt brat turning away to something else, they just reject the politics, they are left out in the cold... And making a loud noise, someone has to pick them up and soothe them, Urrk, what a horrible thought... Well, addressing what ails them involves giving them all as many guns as they want to defend themselves in their own homes. And it involves excluding immigrants and non Anglo Australians from their "mainstream". And it involves increasingly marginalising youth that have gone off the rails. And it involves no arts. And no care for the environment. And getting rid of the separation of powers. And low interest loans to farmers And businesses, but not to the rest of us. And no overseas trade. And opting out of the UN. And so on and so on...... Just what they planned. Is it any publicity is good publicity? Could be indeed...
Labor has for the best part stuck together, and is the majority party after the Queensland Election, so if you add up all the dispirited fractured and warlike factions on the Right Wing, you get pretty much the same split as there was before, after all, the Wun Nazi Nation are just messiah seeking members of the Q-Nats and Tory "Dry So-Called Liberals", so for all the hullabaloo there is still going to be another impossibly hung parliament, only this time there's a gaggle of Wonky Wuns to take into account, things will grind even more slowly to a standstill...
And the Little Indecisive Leaderless Twit has to have his deranged mind made up to call the election date, which leaves the whole country with it's balls in the air while the world turns beneath us, what a stupid prospect, makes Gough's call for Simultaneous Elections every four years for the whole country seem a much more sensible and predictable and settling way to do things, but hang on it's time for Seachange, Ah, the escapism, getting away from it all on Our ABC, was thinking how a bit of Labor LightHouse Keeping was good for the soul, a Green Light it should be of course...
Faeries and Lighthouse Keepers,
True Believers,
Keeping the Green Labor Light on the Hill...
Gravity isn't a force it's a warping of the geometry of space, stronger the field the more space is bent, so it was with Prof Paul Davies again, got into the lack of a Grand Unifying Theory of Everything, and wormholes and String Theory now turning to Membrane Theory, he was saying how the two sides of the big space and small subatomic knowledge resist being married, how difficult it was to deal with Gravity, it which must be obeyed, how the detection of gravity waves was on the scale of a hairsbreadth as against the distance to the stars, but saying that a gravity telescope would reveal the Universe all over again in that strange warped world... How mathematics are being invented to cope with ideas, how behaviour inside black holes and imaginary worm holes are still tantalising the intellects, makes you think...
Gees it was good to see AMP's George Trumble make $23m on the stockmarket today, on paper that is, spose it will all trickle down to the poor eventually, don't you worry about that, it's all factored in... Spose he sells, and they all sell, out of some scare, then how much is it really worth, to whom? Kneeedeeeeeep, Kneeedeeeeeep, Kneeedeeeeeep... That's supposed to be Jaws music... So in the wash up it's all in the conventions, seems Wun Nation is now Far Left Wing Economically and Far Right Wing Racially, Zero Tolerance-wise, should make for some interesting trickle down effect too...
Say Australia had a high standard of living, with full employment, and free education health and welfare, the internal economy carrying the taxes and providing the government services and subsidies, and then the exporters say Our prices are too high and the consumers say that Imported goods would be cheaper, then the government says Cut out all those public services and cut the costs of production so we can sell stuff, and the government lets cheap imports in, which makes our industry go belly up, and people complain that it was better before we depended on exporting our Independence to pay for importing our Addictions, and they vote the government out like in Queensland this week, and the government complains that it's Simplistic, and expect ordinary people to continue on with dropping living standards, while some sections of the community buy expensive inner city housing, and use private schools, and private hospitals, with shares in privatised public assets, living in the same cronyism that is rife in the Asian Miracle, and the Land of the Free USA, and expect people left out to cop it, while they drive the latest car, and attend the out of reach events, follow the latest trends, and allow the redundant community to cop slogans, Compete, Work Harder, Suck, and Sign This, well it's time to rebel...
And they say Globalism provides employment, but that's at the lowest standard of living they can squeeze the workers down to, to compete with exploited or subsidised workers overseas you have to drop your standards, and the only ones to benefit are these privileged few individuals who gamble in the Holy Market with other people's lives, and vote themselves huge salaries, it's a rip-off... And the Right Wing Eco Rats are in collusion, politically, they partake in all the privatisation floats, and they're the ones the Wun Nazi Nation Paulineites ought to blame and the silly buggers instead pick on poor Aboriginals and ambitious Asians and Ethnics in general, as if they themselves aren't just another redneck anglophile fundamentalist xtian group, and they spew out race hatred rather than blaming the real culprits, the Paleskins in Suits, Economists Lawyers and MBA's who push these Eco-Rat policies, Wun Nation is looking the wrong way, just using the racists and gun lobby to scapegoat the poor and impoverished, while the Globalising Crooks are out of their sights in exclusive apartheid like security havens, oblivious ...
And the mistaken Wonky Wuns targeting the non-anglos for their rural isolation problems, when it's the Big End Executive Eco-Rat Men In Suits, like that Hilmer Report with Competition Policy whipping up the dissent, that's a madness, and he's up there saying as how lift drivers had to go when automation came in, well they could have been absorbed into the Otis Elevator Company were it still here and operating under Protection Policies, but no, it's gone into Competition Heaven too, and all the skills and trade requirements gone with it...
Besides, where's the wonderful world of restructuring got us? The Angry Country, it's abysmal what Hilmer goes on about, and then the Little Lack of Judgment PM decides to pursue his lethal litany of letting the Double Dissolution strategy allow the Balance of Power to fall into the hands of the Wonky Wuns, it's Non-Core Promises given and broken to his list of enemies in the Public Services like Schools Health and Our ABC , while it's Core-Promise to keep regardless of decency to the Landed Gentry Leaseholders... A twisted Little Soul, of the arse variety...
This being the CUoA, the Cave Hermits Union of Australia and all, makes for a fine line to be drawn here, Me being a Heretic of the complete atheist variety, brought about as anybody can see with a cursory glance at history, but with a Multi-Cultural Diverse Community coalescing into the future for all Australians, it seems to me that Religion is one of the worst features of human life, it's just unintelligent, and the saving grace for us all is the Public School System, non-sectarian, where all the kids get to be Aussies first, mixing, learning, expanding, enjoying, the backgrounds and cultures from all over the world...
But this Religious Schooling idea, splitting kids off, making them different, and instilling class distinctions and prejudices, and perpetuating the trubbles of Overseas History, well if there's anything worse for the tolerance factor in Australia it's encouraging Private Schools, and the Tories are increasing the Private School subsidies while cost cutting in the Public Schools, that's an anathema and will sow the seeds of disruption and contempt and breeds intolerance, it's completely irrational and fundamentalist and crazy, and the Public Schools ought to get all the support possible for standing up to this rotten Little Bigoted Twit's Government, they are a poison to the schools, like they poisoned the water holes...
Oh dear, didja see David Goldfield on the 7.30 Report, pushing all the buttons, there he is in the spotlight, the real voice of the Paulineitus, saying Please Explain, how come? With all the wonders of Economic Rationalism there is this woeful depression, unhappiness and anger, he has it all down so pat on the Rural and Regional trubbles, if not all the dispossessed too, and it's the reason there was the voter support, so although the Little Complicated Pipsqueak accuses the Wonky Wuns of simplistic notions, this is the damn smooth talking voice that has Pauline propped up there in the New Politics... So now it's You justify Yourself! No You Justify Yourself! Where do we go from here, without a racial sandwich to choke on, cripes...
Trying to keep up with the massive media coverage of the Wonky Wuns even though it's still polling 11% nationwide, there has been a scene shift on the political stage, the David Goldfield story was all over today, he has now got up from under Pauline's desk, there is something about him, put a black moustache on him? All the radio commentators seemed to be shifting ground somewhat, Stan had the Little Bigoted Twit on, so many voices popped up on Racism, Mono-cultural crap, and out of the closet comes all these other opinions, the real Definition of Australia Debate seems to have hit the fan, the best was Peter Hand on 2GB midnight to dawn who did a word picture of the Wealthy and their Private Lives as against the dropped outs, he is excellent at times, seems Our ABC is still gagged and had a newspaper article on it being Bland Radio, sigh...
You know what this Tory Guvmint is to
Orstraya?
It's like a Pommy Soccer Crowd Own Goal...
Political Earthquakes shaking all over, I got sick of it all, but the news inundation from Wun Notion just wafted over me like a Foreign Privatisation, sort of felt downsized and redundant with the thought of Paulineitus Hysteria, looking at how the political climate changed since the Keating Good Manners, or PC, I felt disgusted, if not a bit intolerant... Paulineitus drowned out commonsense people like the Greens and issues like Kakadu, Jabiluka is underway, a crime punishing the future generations ever more, it's weird the way the spotlight sweeps onto things... And off things...
And with Ethnic Australians having this damn Finger Pointing and Name Calling and Discrimination brought about, having little racist kids following their creepy parents in Racial Taunts, picking fights and such, it's abysmal...
Yes, the Media Field Day, we've seen so much, the latest fad is Pin the Wun Nazi Notion down on policies, and then Princess Pauline scolded David 1 in the media glare, Don't you do that again! So stupid, then David 2 says David 1 is in the Admin only and doesn't do Policies and blah blah, bluddy stupid, the image in comparison with Responsible Government, which has, Oh what are they? I forget, Ummmm... looks about for rescue bloke under the desk who says, She means the State Budget... So hick, was like a skit you'd see on dumb downed TV... That little episode would have the public opinion suddenly drop, like in Victoria it's faded away...
It seems that seeing as no one else can seem as silly that they all feel like getting in on it, Tory Toady Treasure Dog did a League of Rights blurb, it's them as being the spooks under the crowded bed along with Public Servants in general, Commos, Reds, Greenies, Lefties, and all the others on their hit lists, but Dog's an idiot as well though, and the criticism falls on deaf ears, voters who don't lissen no more, She has the Saint status, can't be wronged, it's a cultish thing already... There's nothing worthwhile to comment on really, cept the human dimension, how sucked in people get...
Thankyou Queensland, it's an ill-wind that blows nobody good, so distressed after the three ring circus got elected, but Q-Labor has to save the State of the Nation and will do so, like they always do, and have done, but the other side of the coin, the Pauline guffaws have dumped these issues on the table that never would have got there, so Competition and Privatisation and Protection are back, and so they should be, complete policy failures, pushed by Eco-Rats against Public Opinion every time, no one ever demonstrated or demanded those policies to be implemented...
But maybe there are larger ramifications... Labor ought to let the Conservatives tear themselves apart, and every time the Tory Libs cast stones into Wun Notion waters, either Pauline will claim she means well, or David Goldfield will knock them for six... Perhaps him being a disenchanted Dry Tory Lib who has revenge on his mind, he wants to bait them, and destroy them, and might well do it, but I bet he busts the Toady Dog's onslaught about the League thing, he's a clever bugger...
And now Banking, someone drops a 2% interest rate and Printing Money faux-pas, and then suddenly it's on, and the low interest development loans are what were used to kick start Japan's post-war economy and was used all over, that low interest banking thing was real, they did do it once upon a time, there were low interest development loans all over once, it was to get over the Depression and such, it worked too... Japan did it to get all those big Corps set up, I reckon we ought to do it too, with re-floating our industry again, you wouldn't think there is an original idea coming out of any of this... Spose it was in Labor policy once, and the Commonwealth Bank was just for that sort of thing as well, they used to have Development Loans and Rural Banks, they pump primed the place hugely, it's all gone with Privatisation, like everything else, ask Malcom Pinky Frazer, he's on side now...
so Toady Treasurer Dog pulling a League of Rights boogie is tripe although, why appeal to these stereotypes anyway, why give them publicity? Up till then Dog has been silent. Why? He's watching the Little Ex-PM-To-Be stew, he only popped up after Sure-Bet Jeff had his evasive waffle on Lateline, between the two is Deep Hate and the only green thing about them, is jealousy... Jeff had to appear relaxed and comfortable and said mollifying things about our Aussie reputation overseas, and Dog just pointed the bone...
They reckon Development Loans would have redneck farmers getting it, well there ought to be some for their land degradation, with long strings attached, Spose the Greens say so too, cause you can regulate how the money is spent environmentally, it's a government subsidy! What's wrong if it builds up the country, as against the old pork barreling pay-offs... But this is to create business, and put pay packets into the community, so there I go again backing up the Wonky Wuns on the Subsidy Protection side, I Can't help hisself...
And the Religious Right Wing xtian charity workers at it again protecting tobacco against the Public Interest, no problem for them, callous, and revengeful, they put Speilberg's stalker away for 25 years, Three Strikes thing it was, in the USA... So many things seem to be distorted and corrupted, justice, ha, maybe some sort of isolation from public life other than jail conditions, I have huge doubts about privatised prisons too, punishment for profit? If there was equity in life, call off the wars on sinners, a lot of crime would disappear, but these others want to use the big stick... Quandary...
And more quicksand for Privatisation, It's shocking...The prices of Electricity in Un-Privatised NSW are lower than these other foreign owned Public Revenue streams hijacked in Victoria and such, the Competitive Grid? They've got to be kidding...
And Tax Reform is now more about recovering the Billions forgone in Income Tax havens and trusts, the GST is sunk before it's launched, it will slide down the slip rails sinking to the bottom of the Harbour with the Little Bigoted Apology for a PM relaxed and comfortably out of his depth... No longer dry, nah...
So all in all it's been good to open up the debate on these real issues, the blessings of Pauline, and on Our ABC Aussie Talks Back, Sandy McCutThemOff had to let the Loonies have more of a say, was like the closets all opened up at once, the Eco-Rat initiative has been lost, it is no longer Holy Writ, and the new mantra that saved the world this week was Intervention, the USA bought the Yen, the Invisible Hand appears to have been spotted pulling a few levers...
The fair-minded redistribution of income seems to have gone against the natural flow, it's all upwardly mobile, to the rich and richer, the Economic Rationalism problems at Politics in the Pub: Can Capitalism be tamed in the 1990's? Well it's a bit late, but Michael Pusey, Prof. of Sociology and the ebullient Dr. Andrew Theophanous connected to the Labor Shadow Ministries, pointed out the problems and to fix it is pushing this crap uphill, and it's Economic Rationalism that is the frightening boogie the disaffected Wonky Wuns are only partially blaming, they prefer to vent on Ethnic Tensions, getting nobody nowhere... But Michael Pusey too reckons it's just as well to get the real evils, these other Eco-Rat issues, in the spotlight...
So the Benefits Of Life in the Society we all live in, have moved away, Standards of Living have been redistributed upwards, they are even sweeping the crumbs up off the Big Business Boardroom table, it goes from Low Income earners to High Income earners, from Small Business to Large Business, from the Bush to the City, from the Public Sector to the Private Sector, from the Poor to the Wealthy, so the Adapt Or Become A Loser edict... No one likes edicts like that... And it hits the basic Family Households dramatically, to the extent of splitting up, moving or suiciding, dropping out, and the voter rebellion as in Queensland...
The crisis predictions, where we all live on perceptions of confidence... Is it the next Big Market Crash Depression? The Consumer Debt looming as living on credit escalates, how will Private Banks curb their Bad Debts? And insecurity of casual part time jobs, the years in life to earn enough to get set up has shrunken dramatically, by the time you get a real job you are redundant, forced early retirements and youthful unemployment causes tremendous tensions, the real unemployment is hidden, people just give up, but could be 24%, even higher for the young and old... And retirement income, will it ever be enough? In Japan, the aging population wont spend to save for the future, it's the root of the Recession...
The Rural Meltdown where Public Services disappear and country towns die and the environment comes last... No future perceptions and people leave for the over-crowded cities... And an Underclass is forming in the poverty traps, even education, now user pays fees puts even that out of reach, and the inter generational gap causes family fights, the Baby Boomers Versus Generation X, and it's true, the Boomers have dudded their own kids...
The strange hypocrisy of the OECD where the home truths are asserting that Welfare is good for business, the Holy Market Dysfunctionals are consumers, and racism is bad for business too, and how one of the most attractive appeals Australia has for foreign investment is the stability and lack of corruption, as against the labour costs in Australia being held up not really being the determining factor, They want long term predictability... Bugger Them anyway, we want the long term good life...
The context of history with flashy Capitalism looking good on telly as against stodgy Communism, as Andrew Theophanous went into the horror story unfolding, how currencies were determined by Jaws not Jews, the sharks were gorging on deregulated currencies to excess, then there was the technology and automation revolution destroying jobs and the subsequent cultural impacts the displaced all feel...
So what are the responses? Go with the flow, like the Tories are doing, just suffer, it's the inevitable end of history? Kneel down and supplicate with the heartless Holy Market? To be flocked and herded in a Single Global Culture, where the Holy Market is deferred to, where lack of leadership takes you, in a competitive swamp, drowned out...
Another response to the Eco-Rat disaster is the Chauvanistic Racist Scape-Goating that the Wun Notions are pushing, a sort of blind simplistic blame put onto the weakest and newest members of society with some idea that once you kick them hard enough it will fix things up, so when everyone's bloodied, what then? Who's next on the list? And meanwhile the other communities feel threatened and turn against you, and you get retaliation, how is that going to help? All because they reckon no one asked them how racist they could be...
The anticipation of what could be done then, had me waiting in awe... And Andrew being Secretary in the Shadow Cabinet was revealing Labor's on-going thoughts, or those of the Traditional Democratic Left, and so with their recognised death of the Nation State's Welfare, the powerlessness of Government Sovereignty, how the Globals call the tune now, how then to Tame Capitalism? Seeing as how you're not allowed any intervention in the markets, Keynsianism being abandoned, and if you do buck the system They teach you a lesson with currency raids and sanctions, so what the hell can you do? Well? We sort of know what's wrong by now... I was thinking, Well it comes down to Unions for the Nations spose, get together to match Their Size and Strengths...
Andrew reckons it's all about developing Hi Tech People, supporting Industry, judiciously of course, stimulate Research and Development and prop up Local Manufacturing, but you need other countries! Like Keating must have been wanting with his idea of the ASEAN Trading Block, to put together a series of standards for Agreed Values, a system of values for a decent Standard Of Living which defines how resources and labour ought to be protected, an International Agreement he reckons, along the lines of the European Community... Since the Bretton Woods agreements have been torn up and the George Soros types can buy and sell Australia with $100 billion play money to gambol about in the markets... So the response so far is to boost International Agreements through the UN and anywhere else, and then he says, And if anyone else has any other ideas we'd love to hear them?
So then the question time opened up and little speeches and comments and facts came out, how shrinking households had just 1.7 members in the inner city now, not 4, but still soaking up all the resources... And how about expanding the Community Sector? Received huge applause.. Even to the extent of Arts and Culture, even have non-profit making enterprises just to get the idle hands working, and to bolster Green Industry, and protect the suffering Environment, these sectors have huge un-costed values that aren't counted, but are valuable to the on-going viability of community, and it's done locally right here... Someone brought up the Tax on Speculation, and the Greens Carbon Tax, but remember the Fundamental Tories prefer Wun Notions to the Greens let alone Labor, cripes...
How Hawke's Labor had switched to dependence on the Private Sector for jobs creation, with Social Justice provisions, and an emphasis on school retention rates, the Clever Country Solution still, how Keating did the billion dollar retraining schemes which helped but didn't really work, and in contrast how the Germans poured tax into social security and could still build BMW's, and Scandinavia had higher taxes and still run welfare states, the problems for them in joining Euro, the other way to go was Crony Capitalism, hardly an edifying philosophy...
So there was this Lousy User-Pays response, even the privatised job debacle, $50 a job madness, and now to impose GST on the poorest, where all's that left to do is robbery! And why the big effort to make people work? Even now the elitist workforce works longer hours and wont give up overtime, the shrinking work is done by fewer and fewer and thus the growing disenchanted uninterested underclass, don't know any better and rolling over...
And the answer? To get International Co-operation on the matters of Rights, for Humans and the Environment... And that was it... I walked out into the night to discover the very Pub was about to be redeveloped for serviced apartments, seeing as how the license wouldn't let it stay open till later... So there goes Politics in the Pub, The Glebe Comedy Hotel, Harold Park, what a joke it all is...
Didja see the Little Mad Grinner waffling on Ten's Meet The Press? Can't he ever speak straight? They ought to be put subtitles on him, he certainly can't speak Australian, he's more foreign than the Immigration Debate... So for all those people suffering from changes due to Economic Rationalism we have concern and sympathy and will be listening to them and ignoring them cause we're getting all the upwardly mobile gains ourselves...
Protesting on E-Mail has lost it's significance, the bombing messages have to be filtered out, it's said all your email is being scanned and filtered and may be used by others... Big interest in encryption, but then there are always ways around security, besides what's wrong with disclosure, seems that businesses are waking up to the Web, even Nein's investment was seen to be the waste, it's a fad, will be a grandiose Mail Ordering System for the big bucks, and just porno peep shows, but the political powerhouse can still be a source for hope, knowledge is power...
There was Mighty Kim Beazley on Nein's Sunday, and sounding off at the Little Dopey Divider, how the Conservative Tory Coalition was disintegrating underneath the Little Lack of Leadership Loony and to blindly push ahead with the Double Dissolution tactic was disastrous, the presence of Wonky Wun Notions in the Senate and even the House of Reps would disable the Government right through the next term of office, can you imagine, look at the damage the Little Bigoted Twit has done with just one term, cripes...
The clockwork Universe can't be, prediction fails in the exquisitely minute world that dwells within us, so chaos reigns, you just don't know what will happen next, feeling Uncertain? Evolution has us on the edge of Chaos, in a strangely Biologically friendly Universe, free will to openness, but not anarchic, what are you going to say next, so the edge of chaos applies to human thought, sleeping on problems and then scattered thoughts fall back together differently, voila! An amalgam of chaos and order to give the best of all possible worlds... There you are, in it up to your essence...
There's big questions being asked, the USA is looking back upon Free Trade and it ain't pretty all round... RCA gone south to the border, televisions coming out of cheap Mexican Labour and nobody wins but the corporate executives and Unionism is their mortal enemy... GM is on a big strike and the USA is having a rethink on Globalism in the Grass Roots... Meanwhile Competition Policy and the MUA are in deadly embrace, fancy having this Competition Commission thing picking on an Aussie Union when the big mergers are all ticked off, needs millions of Worldwide Unionists to put their collective foot down...
And Indonesia, with 20 million unemployed, 50 million in poverty and the collapsed economy, all that building stupid skyscraper rubbish on borrowed money and then Paying it back? Oh never thought of that... bluddy hopeless, it will affect us, the Asian Meltdown keeps looming... And now there is a Reverend Tim cry to forgive all the debts, like they do from to time, it's called rescheduling, Holy Market Unspeakable Speak...
What should happen? Should the Tories go early to a Double Dissolution? On principle to not let the Wonky Wuns in... But seems the Little Bigoted Twit is one of them at heart, ??? heart ??? Well the Little Arch Conservative would prefer to see the Wonky Wuns in the Senate... They're his kind of people... He'll lose y'know, he's a dead hand already, see the coming global depression will change everything as well, but it's all to no avail, the Little Lonely Lamentable Leader has no friends left, he's on the nose......
Launching that Tax thing now is poison too... They say the GST makes jobs, replaces the Black Economy, Increases savings, but not one country had done any of it... So the Job Creation policies of the Tories have Centrelink staff and clients bashing one another, creating demand on hospital services... But there are the timeless sweeteners... Railways on the Private Sector... Anyone fixing the bridges or tapping the train wheels for cracks?
Billy McMahon's now looking down on the Little Toot from above, on the list of worst ever Prime Ministers, he's tied himself to the railway tracks, and a train's started coming...Yes it's true, they are radical right wingers, like Keating warned everyone last time... and Me too... Least Keating understood the psyche of leadership and the vision, and instilled the pride and respect... How come the other side are so blind, dear oh dear, despair, this backlash may go on for years, but Labor is expected to get a landslide now, Wun Conster-nation...
Wonder how conservatives think? It's really about the Cruelty in Efficiency, and the Caring Inefficiently to be kind... Like the hypocrisy is so utterly blatant, Harradine and his Power? He sacrifices Native Title against banning TV Sex? He blinked? He saw himself losing his power, that's what, drowned out with Wonky Wuns, he's a little xtian devil if ya ask Me, and the Religious Right aren't racially tolerant, they wont even tolerate homosexuals, yet are riddled with Pedophiles, so don't be fooled... And then there all these twirps Praying to win the World Cup, jeeeeessus h superstitious christ... Atheists are what you need in there...
The Sharp Monoculture got an airing too, the conceit of these people making out that anyone else would want to be like them, the talk-back tossed all the words around about what to call the Australian Culture of today, the image we are supposed to hold, and there are twenty million of them, but the name calling is the Anathema, and you apply your Aussie Mateship to someone new till you hear the intolerance they think they can now spew, while normal Aussies are taking to YumCha and soaking up the wonderful tastes and flavours of the World of Richness in Diversity...
The Coral Reef's are still dying - China's population is suffering and heading for market economics and those words, restructuring, downsizing competition and profits, meanwhile the Aussie Population questions competing ideas for growing, stabilising or shrinking, and is there a policy? No, and without one what do you get? Scapegoating divisions, and Dr Tim Flannery ought to be heading up a Think Tank for the future, like a ConCon, and one on Taxing, and one on Services, and one on Industry, and one on Environment, could go on and on, cause there's a bluddy big Leadership Vacuum that Globalisation is exploiting... And the weather, seems we've switched to La Nina from El Nino, so the patterns are reversing and it's being felt hard, the planet is complaining about us and our human activities...
But then there's the big Clinton trip to China, and how you have to understand why nothing gets done, genocides in Kosovo getting more attention? After the USA got heartache from Vietnam, the blind eye to Bosnia, and now how to approach China? And Bill reckons you have to know about each country's worst fears, for China it's us in the West, and for us it's them being like us? Why cause there are differences? Don't they want two car households with appliances, at no cost to the environment?
Meanwhile way, way, back in Queensland the horse trading, and then some commonsense and intelligence... A Queensland Labor Government for stability, as stable as you can get, even some new idea of private members bills going to Parliament, like the pig industry is flying high at the moment...
So many projections and forecasts, the future is Prime Minister Simon Crean and Deputy Gareth Evans if Kim gets dudded by Wun Notion in his own seat, that's what Deputy Tim reckons...
Wild Side, Our ABC local cops drama, didn't get me impressed much, with the famous Withheld Episode on Paulineitus, but Seachange did... Seachange, oh dear, the twists and turns and typecasting, so is everyone in there? I luv that thing somehow, that's the sort of talent to envy, to write like that, stuff like that would come out in your dreams, it's so cute, makes you watch and smile and laugh and feel, and surprises you, and even makes you wistful...
Walked along Broadway which is getting broader, they reckon the city is being widened for pedestrians, with traffic choked off spose, walked right along Glebe Point Road, all the shops and restaurants and cafes and a pub here and there, and some rundown society hall things, stickers graffiti and that disappointed look, they reckon neatness breeds pro-society politeness? And past Bidura Children's Court, a frowning concrete blockhouse stuck in behind a Colonial Rich Heritage Residence, with a sign out the front for redevelopment tenders, seeing as how there's a water view spose... First things first...
Sat on the big table, and spoke to the speaker Patrick a very earnest chap, Eva Cox had tactical complaint to make about being a bleeding heart, but Me told Eva he agreed with having issues coming from the heart... Passion in Politics is what's missing again...
All the food shops along Broadway, it's coming back to life... Ah, Falafel Roll Please... Where'd we be without the diversity... You follow the World Cup? You hear... Yeah, sorta, So who are you following, Eh not Spain now... Well he looked Spanish... Oh no, I guess not with the tabouli and all, Lebanon? Are they still in it? I dunno then... Who do you follow? Where do you come from? And he says Turkey.... Ah, are they still in it? No ,no, no, So what about England, Did you see how England got done 2-1 by Rumania? Ha, yes, and everyone laughs, seems to be some joy in who gets done, particularly the most unpopular supporters of the self-superiors on Earth... So we ended up with picking Holland, maybe Denmark but you never know about Germany... Is Italy still in it? Must be from the traffic jams... Falafels were good though, as against culturally deprived fish and chips and a Please Explain...
Wun DamNation has taken over the debate, it's so shallow with that Right Wing Extremist crap, best left unsaid all that, but the can of worms has been opened up, these other Eco-Rat issues are so big, a change of course required, none of this twiddling, they have to change direction to Protection and Public Ownership, open up real competition within Global Big Business, bugger them... Those unelected world domination freakos have robbed the democratic public blind...
Our ABC Radia National had the racist areas of genetics too, how so much similarity is tweaked with the Appearance Genes of human families, we are all the same race... How the definition of human traits will bring up all the quandaries, apart from all the restrictions, somewhere around the world people will be promising the tall blonde blue eyed baby, or the baby without the despondency gene, or a baby without the debilitating disease, or a baby of your favourite clone, how the warrior princess Xena-Pauline-Phobia could be filling parliament...
Heard a biography on a Robert Green, made fame and fortune with cartooning and comics, and elaborated on his life stumbling about in scenes of depravity like a Jack Kerouack, through the drop out dives and fads and cults and mindsets, and how he had the set of ethics which amounted to I didn't give a Shit... Whereas other tortured souls and bleeding hearts have, poor me always has, what a burden it is to have to carry... Could go on about it but wont, just to say how a whole lot more scandal and notoriety and devilishness wouldn't go astray, spose atheists don't get the same kick out of not having any stupid rules to break, still there's a long, long way to go yet...
The Genetic Material is precious to these privacy invading Genetic Businesses, the Genome Pioneers see the advantages accruing at the expense of individuals again, and take these genetic samples and "own" them, like prospectors "owned" minerals, how come these public domain valuables can become privatised right off? Like minerals are such valuable commodities? Then who profits? Tory Ministers of the Crown, Parer variety? Genetics also is not theirs to exploit and dominate, but they do anyway... The prediction is, based on human history, the worst of all weapons will wind up threatening us all, even if it's to keep up with your enemies, what a prospect...
Globalising had McMurder Burgers becoming the cultural cement of the global village, how it's where you do your homework, hang out with oldies for tea, no smoking, no alcohol, that sameness standard, but not necessarily The Forced Smile, how some places you are supposed to wear a diligent look, and how in other cultures the spruikers explained to queuing crowds for their Initial Ingestion that the weird smile was meant to be real... How some kids travel overseas and see Their McMurders and think they've exported their own culture... A certain sameness, and for every meal they serve, it takes away from the local cultural menu, which shrinks and is going to be lost, why aren't there copy cat shops? With the 1001 menu items spose, it's just that Big McMurder Fries And A Coke, the international meal? How some YumCha friends invite you to go the McMurders, yech... I've been once only... So damned principled a hypocrite...
We like things neat clean and tidy, we don't like to live in a pigsty, so that's why Superiors are wiping out Inferiors... Nice eh... Just substitute your ethnic/religious hate groups all over the world for superior or inferior... Human Nature being what it is... So Kosovo they say is the fabled cradle of Serb people, and is full of Albanians, like half full Macedonia next door, if Serbs continue doing an ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, then Albanians respond from both Albania and Macedonia, which lets Bulgaria and Greece get in for their claims on Macedonia, which lets Turkey have a go at Greece... Is that it? Cause of a Nationalist dream going back only a few centuries or so... It's one of those blood and soil things... But really it's xtians and muslims... again... Just as well it's none of our Aussie business, how that sort of thing wont drag us in again... Isn't it? The Lucky Country?
Politics In The Pub with Why Are Children The Last Political Priority? Cause the wealthy Privateers prefer it that way, they don't want to look after other peoples problems, so the class war ravages the kids of the poor, the vulnerable ones get dudded and besides they don't get a vote...
So Sally Loane, journalist from the Sydney Morning Herald filled in excellently for Moira Raynor, and there was Patrick Parkinson an impassioned advocate of the vulnerable being a Lawyer, and as Eva Cox was moved to point out, one of the bleeding hearts, and the topic has another tinge of swimming against the tide about it, the great forces of Privatisation and Cut-Backs and User Pays have further denigrated the opportunities and living conditions of all those poor Public School kids...
So whoever gets the Poisoned Chalice of Welfare under the reign of the Tories becomes the Cost Cutter and is the dead end job... There's no votes in Public Education when all those Private Schools Fees disappear nicely into the Tory Family Trusts... And of course they care about kids, their kids, and the main objective of Tory Welfare Ministers is to keep it out of the papers... So it falls to the advocates, but their funding is cut as well, hear where that Contemptible Tory Kemp is abandoning the experts in the area to call in some 50 young So-Called Liberals to advise him? If they survive the Job Queue Wars...
Getting pro-children articles published is a battle, finding funding is impossible, till adults murdering kiddies gets a front page, and the usual excuse is the same old State spending of Federal Money and the result is the underclass out there, how a nation is judged includes the way it treats it's children, and the Tories are failing on that count abysmally...
Sally Loane was committed to the Child Care Issues, and she'd done a book on it all, and paid homage to Adele Horan's series on the child deaths, the money shifts underway from Generation X to the Boomers, how successful child care was the one suiting the parents, with a 12 hr span, and how the facilities for the kids were of lessor consideration, how the Pink Ghetto's female workers were another disadvantaged poorly paid class as well, and how these Child Care Centres were putting about Intensive Courses in languages and development and stressing kids out who just wanted to play and fantasize, producing the performing child with out a self...
How for some families it seemed to hit your kids was what brought any attention or assistance, then Eva Cox dumped on the bleeding hearts and promoted the idea of expecting community support as the normal way of life, she's the advocate for Civil Society, she's a big advocate, Me told her he appreciated her crusade too, she pops up everywhere it seems, reckoned the headline grabbing abuse was a small proportion to the more prevalent neglect, gees it's a rotten thing to have the poor parents desperate and dispirited then to expect the kids to be given every chance, just seems to be hopeless with the type of Governments nowadays...
The questions ranged over the lack of a Minister for Children, the pooh poohing of International Rights of the Child, the lack of planning in civics and sports and play and how TV had become the extended family... And Win Childs, Politics In The Pub person, did a piece on the Psyche of the Aussie pioneering struggle myth, the toughness on kids intrinsic, the macho against the vulnerable, bullying and domination, and then to have Eco-Rats dumped on top of that, now the Aussie Psyche has turned on the kids, the Law and Order thing to intimidate and punish and outlaw, she is an excellent advocate for the woman's movement and reckons there is another wave of awakening coming out of Paulineitus...
The Desecration of Public Schooling had been further flailed with Comprehensive Schools being split up with a lower class still, now called Residual Schools! Scandalous, how everything was subservient to the market, there's nothing of value, the market descends to junk...
Saw that Doco on Prohibition on SBS Ethnic Television, how the Temperance USA had amended the constitution to go Dry, and then descended and descended into Gangsterism and Bootlegging and poisonous liquor sales, and the corruption and crime it induced, same old story of prohibition, and the battle of the Bigoted Wowser Women's Temperance to get it installed, and then the Wonderful Women's Battle for Repeal, and how the Republicans Right Wingers had persisted in their religious mania till the Depression hit, and finally the Democrats with Roosevelt straightened things out again, beer became properly regulated and taxed, but the crime barons had infiltrated society, that's what we've got now again with the Dopey Drug War, the Criminal Black Market which dwarfs National Budgets! As well as avoiding tax and destroying social cohesion and manufacturing criminals of the children... What a pack of Wowsers can do when they wack all their wonkiness on normal people... Excellent Doco though, had it all nice and concise...
Oh Shock, Horror, Disillusionment, Poor Pauline has been hoodwinked by David-12.5%, and David-200%, Triumvirate Agreement on the Privatised Enterprised Paulinised Party, claimed by the big xtian Boswell to have been infiltrated by evil ones with their claws firmly into the body of Pauline's Party, he did a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald and he should know, well it's not so much a party more of a cult, if not a Product, if not a Puppet Pauline being string pulled by David Goldfield particularly who has now put himself in as Number Wun on the NSW Senate Ticket! Shock horror, who would have guessed... Well the guessing's over cause the string of defectors grows bigger and louder and angrier and of all things disillusioned...
And here's an example of how ridiculous it all gets, seems in Turkey? Was it? The moustache defines if you are Islamic or Socialist Lefty or Marxist Leninist by having M shaped Mo and L shaped sidelevers, so the edicts are coming down about how to cut your own hair now, the dictatorial look is no facial hair... An attack of the Neat Clean and Tidy Sameness Club again, what a conceit they have to think they can dictate in such a way, like the Suits Club, and ties... But the good news is the Pope is rumoured to be about to forgive themselves for the Inquisition on Heretics and Gypsies and every other poor sod who told it like it is... Atheists rejoice, what a joy to be barely tolerated, bad luck about your genetic predisposition to any other lifestyle, and too bad if your ancestors were incinerated alive or departed minus your head and entrails and arms and legs and gold teeth etc etc... Nice to say they're sorry... Oh did you notice how the flat Earth goes round the Sun now? 500 year old news to them... Progress...
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