Cave Hermits Union of Australia
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Bang Phloop Burst, Ahhhh, and it was all over, there went the Limp Hicks, over and out, what a crowd in the city, there were crushes and shoving, eventually caught the first train home on the last night, day after day of the big buzz, and night times in fiddling music and jigging, and late mornings and recovery, was good to feel the Multi-Cultural friendliness, like a sense of appreciation, and something magic in the air, so many people to meet, so many funny moments, so much novelty, and a little love...
Fireworks have something special, those bursts and bangs and showers have a cosmic touch for which we are all part cause of the big Moma Supa Nova which compressed all the elements of our lives, and sprayed us out into space, collected around the adopted sun, what a story, and fireworks are so symbolic... The fireworks went off right on top of us under the Harbour Bridge; people rushing one side to the other, huge crowd.... So funny and so tolerant and so friendly, and Gillian oh yes...
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Molly from a bit of Joyce |
The pubs were fabulous and funny and irreverent, the hit of the games had to be Roy and HG, like without them to seal it off every night and put the Fatso into a depth dive, it would have been a far lessor thing, what a horrible thought...
Heard one of those Genetic Engineering stories too this morning where the major crops like rice and wheat and corn could be wiped out with some GE Mould, an offensive war weapon but banned under the Treaties, but aren't Treaties for defining civilised standards of behaviour, so what with Globalism and a Holy Market of Forces with demands for such Products, what's to stop these Genetic Engineering war weapons from being produced secretly, nothing...
Is it thanks to God for another War in the deforested desertified Biblical Lands, at this rate, just think, with religions wiping one another out for God, makes you wonder just who will inherit the Earth, the Atheists must be first in the human race...
The USA Presidential Debate, if that's the best candidate, George W Bush, that the Republican's can come up with, just shows what a silly system they got with the Powerful President scenario, the very thing the Aussie Republic should avoid, they have George W up there as a possible Powerful President for the next four years and he's a goose...
Whereas, thank goodness, Al Gore has got all the credentials, that debate showed just how well across the issues Al Gore is, and how his appreciation of the Presidency just drowns the Little Guvna out, and Al Gore pushes better tax spending, better environmental protection, better energy savings, better foreign policy, better education policy, better Medicare funding, and those tax cuts that George W wants for the rich just got trashed so well, particularly with Health care, and Al Gore standing up for the middle class while championing a battle with the big powerful interests in Drugs and Health care, poor George W just got drowned out, he lost it and resorted to small Texan stories ad hoc, but Al Gore was National, International and worldly, he would list out a resume, his Curriculae Vitae was full of experience in so many areas... And Al Gore pointed out how that stacking the Supreme Court with anti-abortionists was what you'd get with George W... And Al Gore won every point, won on facts, won on policy and won on being big tall good looking, confident and knowledgeable, all George W came up with was fuzzy maths as a waffle... It looks like the maths that mattered to George W was campaign funding and he didn't want to lose his, he'd be nowhere without it after all...
Then the political commentators who popped up on both CNN and Fox were just so George W biased, it was amazing... But the satellite connection dropped out... Cosmic intervention... Seems there's the same media bias in the USA to the Right Wing with the feeds we get out here in Australia, cept for the Public Broadcaster coverage...
Had breakfast with Houie and did the political divide where everyone's on one side now, the big business corporate suck-holes are in power, and how Labor has been cuckooed with all these developers, and businessmen, and power hungries, and stackers, and cheats, and democratic corruptions, and the complete lack of representing Labor's Light on the Hill, and just representing themselves... In days of old the real Labor represented employees, the class divide was respected in it's natural state, the Labor members were workers... Not now, there's been a takeover... Like there's branch stacking stories, and ballot paper stealing from letter boxes, and intimidation to do as you're told, so how do you have trust in Labor... The enemy is in the house...
Like the candidates stack themselves in, they don't get elected on principles, the policies are honed out behind closed door deals, and based on Corporate funding, it's entirely corrupt, the annual conference is stage managed, there's no debate, there's just an umbrella of power factions, and secret deals, and strange alliances for power jobs, and weird collages of business interests, there's only that Union man, Cameron, who seems to have the working people to represent, there's been a cave-in to the detriment of the welfare state, public service and tariff protection for industries...
So what do you make in Australia? they ask as they value the price of the floating Aussie dollar, Make in Australia? Ummm, well we make beds...
What a cop out they've been, there used to be a thought that here we were, Aussies, on our own out in the Pacific and we had to do for ourselves, make everything for ourselves, be self sufficient, independent and do our own thing... Since then they cut tariffs, it was bluddy Labor that did it too, 25% across the board tariff cut by Godly Gough... And we lost the ability to make anything, they privatised, and we had our standards cut, and security cut, and live in risk, and have to pay some private rich people profits for it, as well as our taxes...
Those profits taken out of the money we pay for our public utilities are becoming the biggest tax we have to pay, look at all the profit we have to pay out for the Commonwealth Bank parasites, those Bludger Shareholders who rip off public service funds now, it used to belong to us, now a few sharks are biting off hunks in the profits, and speculation is the name of the game, and the banking services for ordinary suburbs and towns where people actually live are tossed to the dogs... And Labor privatised it, it was a race between the two Bib and Bub Parties to somehow sell off the silver for power, remember with all these Privatisations it wasn't the public demonstrating in the streets to have it done... It was done in Economic Rationalist Voodoo land, half stacked with Labor...
Out in rural regions and little country towns, having a bank to take the local deposits, and make loans for local improvements, was the oil that greased the rising living standards, that local bank is a community necessity, a service fundamental to modern life with decent livings standards, there was an element of civil society, where the bank was held in some awe because of it's importance, and that part of society has to be protected form Privatisation and those rotten set of self serving ethics they employ, the bank becomes integral to each community and the Public's Commonwealth Bank should be re-nationalised and given a proper charter to look after the real people in their communities all over the country, the costs of the loans pay for the interest and the bank overheads, there is no profit motive in a real bank, it's just management of money in a sensible secure way for the community, how the hell they reckon a government bank should be run for profit is complete crap... And then let the private banks compete with that...
Didn't take long for the world to go mad, there's a religious war in the biblical deserts, there's an illiterate ass Dubbya being touted as USA Presidential Material, there's some fat in the frypan over the Aussie Minister for Rorts being chased by Balaclava Dogs in the media, this is the bovver boy thug of the owners trying to ruin unions, the spook who took the jobs away, took the arbitration away, took the collective bargaining away, robbed the next generation of it's future, and they ping him for $50k, big deal, he gets that on discounts from the party bag man, for doing what you may well ask, cut the corporate labour costs?...
And then the real issue of Public Education is passed up as faith accompli, this country is supposed to have a secular government with a separation of church and state, now history proves what a debacle religions are to the world, all these silly headed superstitions inculcated into baby's heads, arguments devoid of scientific proof, the basis of human conflicts, they espouse separatism and exclusion and aren't democratic... So this country's constitution is supposed to uphold a complete Separation of Church and State, putting religion out there with all the other tricky dicky promises and claims and UFO's and spoon benders, they should not get any taxpayers money to push their shonky elitist divisive and spooky crap...
And this anti-Labor government of Australia is pouring taxpayers money into religious separate private schools, some cheating economic theory of really rich parents with low income declarations getting paid the most tax money for their asset rich, high fee paying, private, independent schools, the declared income arrived at with expensive accountants configuring their paperwork...
So the aim is to produce a class of student with religious madness, intolerant of anyone else, an elitist student with disregard of anyone else, and introduce a divisive element into society, bringing the class distinctions into the way of life, and ruining the egalitarian and multicultural evenly distributed society...
With all the cultures mixing into Australia, with all their wonderful food and clothes and music and dance and language, they ruin it all with their bluddy stupid religions, and want to perpetuate different values, different classes, different attitudes, and no friends across their divides, and they have knee jerk react to insults across their religious boundaries, all else can meld in to society, but religions can't, don't, wont and never will, they divide, split, cause hatreds, and memories to exacerbate every grievance recorded in their own selective histories...
Religions ought not to receive any encouragement at all, particularly not with Government funding, if some fundamentalist freaks want to perpetuate all that religious crap let them pay for it themselves and stop pushing it into young gullible minds, and let their children attend sensible inclusive state schools, with a proper factual curriculum, where the scientific truth prevails, and logical arguments are pursued, and realistic philosophies are studied... Streuth...
The second USA Presidential debate shows one thing, the big networks are addicts on a spin doctoring habit, you see one after another big business hanger-on shoot their mouths off against Al Gore... The Democrat's Al Gore, who talks policies, philosophies and commonsense environment, he can say sensible things, even in these wretched debates, and being so careful in the USA, as confined as they are with a xtian fundamentalist dickhead society that half of America seems to be, so these media maddies dump on Al Gore, saying he sighed at the Dubbya's son of a monkey's uncle stupid stumblings... And seems to love executions and prisons, the xtians kinda guy...
The Republicans just don't have any brains to show, shallow just ain't deep enough, seems Dubbya's trying make out his I.Q. isn't in the two fuzzy figures, one of those Would you buy a used car from this man? type things... So there's this crazy powerful leader of the Slave World, USA, going to vote, where over half of them don't vote at all, and the ones who do vote have a split of rusted on adherents, and leaves a small %age of those who aren't amongst the millions in prison, who watch this media circus to form an opinion, or get bought, or react to personal twitches, blinks, ties, sighs, stutters, and figures if not fuzzy ones... What a wonderful world leadership contest...
Was telling Houie how these rings on the web are a sort of belonging, joining in on all these like minded souls if not the other side of politics too, it's been fun to follow the rings, there's a site I found last night on FreeThought, just excellent, http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/ the Skeptics Annotated Bible, it's fantastic to see all the sex, violence, contradictions, insults to women, absurdities laid out for all to see, and colour coded as well... And it's so well done all cross-referenced and Icons and inescapable commonsense prevailing... There's also a bulletin board with each godly claim meticulously picked apart, it's a good read there's a giggle in nearly every line...
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