Cave-Hermits Union of Australia
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Down the pub we did the music mostly cause the Band was back, Finn McCool is just the best entertainment in town, Mark the fiddler got into it early with Welcome Back to the Bowling Club, then he switches over into some woman's skimpy dress and does his hair and turns into a drag queen, I couldn't believe it was him, I always remember some old guy once getting up close to check if he was a woman with that Musos mop of curly hair, but it's just him, cept when he looks like a washerwoman... And then Greg was doing the stirring again, he's so good, he's got this pitch about backhanded compliments and seems to be able to waffle all over about things, and he too does drop in some political comment as well, he's a clever dick that bloke... It's a fantastic band to have as that focus in pub life...
The crowds are down they say, the war and all, and then there was this Yank who flew, he had done time in the Air Force and once carried nuclear bombs and a target package, so he's the second one I've met down there who had atom bombs to drop... Now that Yank was your typical god-fearing good guy who sings in the church choir... Nice as pie cept you had to be treading carefully over terrorists and such, he carries the cross of it all...
Y'know I got into that Yank's ear about my simple little Public Service and Private Product split in the ideologies, gave him the spiel and next thing you know he's all enthusiastic and in agreement, why the hell can't they take the middle road in politics and have the Government made responsible again for Services and Infrastructure... You can still have all your Capitalist Market forces for manufacturing products, and have that competitive whip, but keep it out of Utilities and Public Services...
We can have a Govt brand of Banking, Insurance, Law, and I forget the rest, like education and health and communications... Yes, and an airline, strategic assets too, and the Private Products should be protected from Free Trade so we can have jobs for our boys again...
Funny how people react to the war like on Australia all Over on Our ABC, MacNamara wouldn't allow any war talk, but he does get in a lot of economic decay from Globalism, the free trade crap, Macca on a Sunday Morning...
Everything on Aussie TV is shoved aside though, our train wreck, our fire tragedies and razor wire immigrant break outs, not to mention the political bun fight over the Little Pre-Emptive Belligerent PM, all was swept away to cover the USA Empire's latest disaster of the Space Shuttle, with all the engineering perfection, something so small can bring it all undone with such huge forces employed, to have a little snick on the left wing allowing the friction of air to rip into the craft and boom, you see the engineering feat turned into a fireball streak, with those people who knew the risks being the losers, as well all these bits of the thing rain down over life below, but the International Space Station is probably another step into space domination for Star Wars scenarios... Thing is there is now a sort of hollowness for tragedies striking the USA, as if we're cried out, but its just beginning for that downward spiral...
Another group of Pollies have come out against the War Talk too, the So-Called Liberals bleating about the stupidity of buying into trouble with the Little Deputy Sheriff tag, same thing all over the world with some opinion polls showing a huge lack of support for George Dubbya-Dubbya-III and his cronies, and the name calling and snide remarks are being turned on George hisself, even the speech he gave over the Shuttle disaster was based on the kindergarten speak where you pronounce all your a's and the's with pauses more likely to be comprehension gaps which appear to have heavy moment in simple eyes, and those monkey features, surely he can be undermined out of it all, nothing worse than looking stupid but he does it so well...
Colon Bowels evidence has hit the fan, I spose it's true that Saddam is secretly arming hisself and others, cause it's an anti-American war, and Saddam's part of it but happens to be sitting on the oil, and I've heard a lot more evidence about the oil reserves and who controls oil controls the world, which Saddam said also, in his case though, he can buy war technology and be a threat, so what is the way to go about reducing the threat, well being nice works in the long run, I reckon, by the USA Empire attacking first, will build up a huge anti-American Islamic style war of sabotage, and in Australia we will be considered as part of the anti-American feeling and be targeted... And then how will the peace ever return? Some people say it will be perpetual war, where the Empire rules till it runs out of puff, and an Empire has no allies, so the only thing that will save us is the USA Elections where attitudes can be re-set, till then, it's WW III, thanks George, Tony and Johnny, and the rest of the Dark Side...
Apart from George Dubbya-Dubbya-III being scary, the third world tribal regions of Muslim Fundamentalists are the places to hide things, and the 1st world urban slums of Islamic migrants will breed up into an urban guerrilla war, where the Police State knee jerks will thrive in opposition, and there's scant prospect of peace, like how will peace be ever maintained in the future, the world will go into Northern Ireland Belfast mode, where you have one sect of complete idiots trying to wipe out another sect...
And of course, for all those still dubious about some god thing interfering, just take a good look at history and what's going on right now, then give it up, be real, there ain't no Santa Claus going to save anything, it's your vote that has to go against these warmongers... And join a union and campaign for social justice and stop ripping off the third world cause they will keep hitting back... Pray to god that everyone becomes a complete atheist... It's really good I can recommend it...
It feels like a wave of opinion setting is going on with the general public, the tenor of the War Debate has taken on the tones of the wise and questioning and doubtful and people say things that normally never get to air, like one bloke said how the public was educated and had read about the real story of the Vietnam war after it was all over, and didn't want to be duped again and if the public was being duped then it's shameful... and another one said that there was an opinion about Bush being the worst president ever and was making a mess of everything, and had brought the general debate down to the lowest of levels, they sneer and denigrate the opposition and read out lists of accusations, they demonise the victim and then go after them, and you have the Bush Blair Howard posse taking the world down this completely stupid and dangerous path...
Another one that set off alarms bells was one bloke reckoned that he expected a disaster event real soon to throw petrol on the fire, like he thought an attack would be somehow stage managed to trigger the war, so he was just waiting for it to happen... We will see, like someone was worried about fate in philosophy talk, and all he has to do is wait and he will find out real easy...
And another weirdest of weird experiences happens every time George Dubya-Dubya-III speaks, he has gone into slow speak, long pauses, slow and listhped, and he goes into some movie role, like some other people talk and explain and try to convince but this little bugger tells you, like hear this, cripes he's a turkey...
I heard one of those crusading agents that worked as a spy I spose in the Middle East, and he speaks up cause of his own boiling blood, and with that attitude was pumping him up to say the war should go on, and then there will be a lot more boiling blood, so it makes my blood boil too, to have these wankers appearing on TV to whip up more derision... The last people you should listen to are the redneck blood boiling cranks with no brainers to throw about like fire crackers under the horses...
And here's one for the shattering of image, the Tony B Lair facade was being spoken of the other night how he'd hi-jacked England's Labour and had turned it on it's head and was now so right wing he's out on his own, they said he was on some sort of trip, but then the Blair Government released a war evidence document which had been plagiarised form some web site? Not only plagiarism by the Blair-ites, it had been spiced up, with occasional words changed to hit a bit harder...
But what really stirred up the voices on Talkback, unusual voices at that, was the interfering Ambassador of the US Empire, this guy has the gleam in the eye, the crusade burns bright out of him, and he sees the Australian Parliament au natural, where the gags have come off, cause Simon Crean has finally got an issue, so to have this USA Ambassador stick his beak in and saying the Labor Party should get in line, well that brought out more robust response, it was so good to hear sensible sensitive knowledgable people take on this puffed up galoot, he must be cause look at his boss...
One of the big influences too was in the media where Murdock has backed Bush and the Republicans in the USA and donates, and as well that influence is in Australia, and is making war talk worse, so Rupert wants war then for his new baby to deal with the aftermath, as well he is a reason for the cricketers to be put in jeopardy in Africa, he has Fox PayTV fine teams who don't perform...
In parliaments they ought to have clean seats and dirty seats, the dirty seats can be bought by Corporate Lobbies, but buying it from the Treasury, outbidding, and any other money would be corruption, you may as well try and collect that money they are willing to spend to buy a seat, well put them up for sale so as we get the money... See how crazy ideas get a run when you go down one of these wormholes? Just have absolute transparency, why are they so secretive? Why can't the corrupting deal be done out in the open? Cause it's going into pockets not the Public Coffers...
Here in New south Wales they list the political donations, and it shows all these property developers and hotel owners and casino people, it's usually coming from these Govt regulated concessions too, like how many poker machines are there, and the businesses that thrive on Government sanction and Licences for broadcasting and such, but they say the donations are for access to the ears of power?
Oh no, I've been chiacking at the ABC radio again, it's been so dumbed down, they put these quizzes on and have announcers who are supposed to walk this unbiased tightrope and it's so hopeless, I don't want to lissen to spin doctoring, I want real people to say what the hell they want, I reckon the ABC should be split up to have twice as much, so that a Left Wing and Right wing ABC can be had, well an ABC right wing could have all the quizzes and dumb downing where it belongs... I wish they'd all go away and live in the USA or somewhere...
I have read transcripts of George Dubbya-Dubbya-III talk, you know it has the conspiracy theorist feeling... I see so much conspiracy theorist stuff on the net and hear it on 2GB, and this Bush garble has the same flavour, and loaded as well with threat, like telling the United Nations what to do:
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The dictator of Iraq is making his choice. Now the nations of the Security Council must make their own. Now the Security Council will show whether its words have any meaning. |
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Having made its demands, the Security Council must not back down, when those demands are defied and mocked by a dictator. |
Just who is it being dictatorial? But Bush being boss is the image thing, and he was once the boss of a baseball team, so is that the gear we're getting, the coach talk, Now go out there and kill 'em boys... YeeHah...
The pollies in Australia have been having a say against their party lines, like the head-kickers have gone into action, and George Dubbya-Dubbya-III is getting called names, but then all these other ex-pollies, particularly from the So-Called Liberals are being rebellious and writing letters and one comes through the Sydney Morning Herald via Alan Ramsey where Bob Solomon writes, in part:
We Are Now Confronted By A US Acting The Part Of Playground Bully"We are now confronted by a US acting the part of playground bully, once again embracing the proposition that might is right. The Bush administration has been clearly hell-bent to clobber Iraq for the last year. If it could bypass the UN it would. Its champing at the bit is patently obvious as it criticises every move, report or result of the UN weapons inspections. Israel's continued flaunting of UN authority by illegally occupying Palestinian land and provocatively building still more settlements, is studiously ignored to keep the Jewish vote; and fear of a real nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan a short year ago is wholly forgotten. |
Treated Like An Idiot By People Not Bright Enough To Know We Know"Not one cowboy - not Bush or Rumsfeld or Condoleeza Rice or Britain's Blair - has even attempted to produce evidence of Saddam's plans to attack anyone, let alone the US or distant Australia. Wilful mixing of the 'war against terrorism' with the alleged threat from Iraq is an insult to our intelligence, and if there's one thing I like less than mindless war, it's being treated like an idiot by people not bright enough to know we know or too full of their own importance to care. |
Bush Seems So Uncomprehending Of Major Issues, Let Alone Nuance, And Engages In Such Blatant Double-Speak"George Bush jnr is the worst leader of a major democracy I have observed in more than 50 years. He is not helped by following Bill Clinton, the best political operator I have ever seen, but that is by the way. Bush seems so uncomprehending of major issues, let alone nuance, and engages in such blatant double-speak, that one is obliged to believe the quip that he really needs weapons of mass distraction - from domestic politics! |
The US Is Not A Society To Which We Should Aspire."A Whitlam Labor government minister wrote that the US is not a society to which we should aspire. For the first time in my life, I'm in qualified agreement ..." |
One thing is possible though, with Parliamentary democracy both England and Australia could change their Prime Minister's overnight when something like this smells so bad, or the Royal Prerogative could dismiss a government and call for an election, not a bad idea, really, wonder if the Queen and Archbishop would oblige?
Down the pub we went all over the war talk, what are the reason's we are going to war for? And there's a long list, I dunno, there was the Vendetta theory where the Families are involved some blood feud cause Saddam had tried to kill the old Bush? There was the Jewish Lobby in the USA Government and how it backed Israel and how the Lobby has votes, money, members and power? So it might be just George saying to his dad, I'm a gonna get em? And the Oil lolly, and the Arms Lobby, and then the Angels of the Lord thundering and whispering and theorising things...
And why does the world have this anti-Americanism, Why do they hate us? About why, they wouldn't pay into the UN for ages, they ripped up the missiles treaties, they wouldn't sign up for Kiyoto Greenhouse, they have the death penalty with all these black people on death row, they have that damn stupid drug war, they push Globalism down everyone's necks, they have the McDonalds problems, they don't bother to vote, they let these creeps get into power like Bush, they've let Capitalistic meanness denigrate people, they've gone too far with money in politics, they wouldn't sign up for the World Court and have war crime trials on themselves, they brought in this Camp Torture something on Cuba, they just go into mad right propaganda all over the TV...
And I reckon the US is going through one of those frenzy phases of nationalism like Germany has had and Italy and England and France and Russia, not so much China or India or all the receivers of Imperialism... So the American Imperialism is a question too... It just goes on, the individuals are ok, but the lobbies vote in silly buggers... I hear of all this anti-Americanism now, but then they say it's different over there with political correctness of the Right always trying to shut up criticism, that too, it's not democracy to do what those religious groups do in the USA either... It's a perversion and it's unconstitutional, they ought to have a proper High Court too... It's perverted, they pull all these tricks on the public and they let them...
Took the bike down to Parliament House and the demos in Canberra, hot weather and lots of peaceful people shouting out, good placards, but no media coverage, the networks are owned by people who don't like demonstrators...
Then rode along the south side of Lake Burley Griffin to the west, called in at Yarrulumla to tell the Archbishop to piss off and stop spending money on renovations and travel and go jump in the lake, but the boom gates come down on me and I could sense sniffer dogs and security people going redneck, so I swept on around the lake and recovery...
The next day was another chance to ride so did the entire west and east sides of the Lake, was so hot but so cool with the woollies, stopped by the High Court Wharf to catch a breath, seemed to have a lot of crackpots wandering past and exercising, there's a good atmosphere down in Canberra, has a style of living about it, whereas Sydney is full of Gooneys particularly North Shore Wankers...
Got lost in the Australian National University and had to discover a little track through the bush to get back on the bike trail, it's not very well marked, spose it's such a huge network...
Bombs that go to the core of Technological Support, the Americans will drop E-bombs to micro pulse the electronics of a neighbourhood, or palace, the pulse travels down wires and antennas and fries them out of action, and there's a bunker buster that penetrates and releases explosive gas and then creates a firestorm underground, and there are all weather target finding satellites to guide in the bombs from the new Stealth Bombers, it's like power from the skies, the whole thing has a cruel god's type of curse... And that Osama bloke has become another Jesus h christ the way he's dead one minute then alive again then talking from the grave or heavens, strange these parallels in those stupid biblical legends of history...
And what has happened to Old Europe, suddenly the Euro Community is fracturing and name calling and President Chirac is copping a demonising as well, it's weird how the denigration has whipped up a storm of old fights, the old and new members of Nato, and the impending members of the E-Community, it's all fractured by George Dubbya-Dubbya-III's calling of the tunes...
The protests all round the world came and went and were disparaged, and the media garbage was more a less an argument about how many turned up, but still to see the throngs filling the city streets of the world has had a watered down impact... The theme of how democracy has been sidelined by Lobbies and Pressure Groups and Parties have become chorus lines, like I heard one bloke saying as how the gathering of public support for a policy has been pigeon-holed, the policies are bought and sold in back room deals, so street marches don't get a look in... There's no seats at the table less you buy in... Cute way to run things, smug and gloating, brings out the worst in people when they feel secure in their little kingdoms...
And with Simon Crean leading the Labor Party now there was a faint glimmer of hope as he took up the anti-war sentiment, and had the USA Ambassador at his throat and Simon did a good job, took a position, reasonable I spose, but then the polls came out suggesting the people didn't respond, but still held a tolerance for the Little Lapdog, how on earth Australians find anything at all respectful in that Little Drip is beyond me, but it goes to lower the status of Australia in world opinion that's for sure, those three, Bush Blair and Howard, are icons of the Stupid White Men phenomenon sweeping the Anti-American world, so we become the targets in retaliation, terrific...
And then there's been a racist survey in Australia, and gasp, surprise, they turn out to have a huge racist tendency just below the surface, now it's called Islamaphobia, so the intolerance levels are aimed at the groupings, there's Islam, the Asians, the Aborigines, the Jews, the Anglo Celtic, the Catholics, the Greeks, Italians and Turks, and any of the Arabs, and in Sydney it's the Lebanese being blamed for everything... They call it Law and Order, but really it's based on racism...
The only cure for these hatreds is to have a society where everyone is looked after cradle to grave by the Nation, and the ridding of Competition Policy and the whole political scene of user pays, look after yourself, you're on your own, and the law of the old west... We once were civilised mixed economies where the crucial things in life were regulated and provided by the Govt, now with privatisation and the piss off attitude, that's the harvest you gather in, social disintegration, no more can the kids come home from a Public School and have a Mum at home to care for them...
Now they're saying that George Dubbya-Dubbya-III is the new bully in the school yard, and world diplomacy has descended to schoolyard simplistic bullying levels and there just aren't any conspiracy theories like oil, it's more like poking a finger in someone's chest, certainly more so when you see how they're treating the French, the bully gang is calling the French people all sorts of derogatoriness now, it's invaded their PayTV culture and the new butt of the jokes is the French, like, how much more juvenile and dumb and unsophisticated can you get? So the one thing that really rings true is that the US Government is now in the hands of fundamentalist simple minds, I saw it happen in a USA School where they have that stupid dumb incredible debate on Creationism, but the school boards get taken over by these Fundies, more so Republican Fundies, and now they've got into the Government, how else could they be so stupid?
It's not oil greasing their palms, it's the ministries of the mad that takes over, in this US School I saw, the students were being lectured by Professors who had to sign a declaration about a six day creation by a god and they had to teach it, and they had these people being absolute that a god made them first and made everything else for them, spose to do with whatever they liked, exactly the philosophy that breeds all that contempt, it's such a conceit... The only thing special about those people is how brainwashed stupid they are... And they're the types that go about trashing other people, like Iraq for example... You could do what Euro says and disarm that Saddam regime without playing god I reckon...
And the news is full of corporate crashes and write offs and payoffs and the latest issue of gouging? That's what you get when the competition is killed off, you gouge the public to fly now, costs a bundle, monopolised, the final solution for big business... But the general economy in the USA and most of the world, is in sort of death throes while this war talk whips around, it's not the economy it's the Messianic Complex Stupid... That's their slogan now...
You see them do the Messiah thing in the Parties, specially the So-Called Liberals in Australia, they have to have a Messiah to fawn over, and go into paroxysms of the cult thing, bit like a football fan, one-eyed and mad... Our Little Messiah is staying on cause he's got a cult, the Challenger Dog in the wings is whining for a pat on the head, but there's no one to pet him...
Seeing as how everyone's gone into anti-Americanism and insults are flying round thick and fast, there's also the spit and polished American history whitewash too, to see the hypocrisy the Bush administration piling up heaps of bulldust, there's the very first pages of history where the White Man did a genocide on the Asian connected Native Americans, the original inhabitants of the great continental Americas, and then the cowboy movies they made portraying themselves as conquering heroes over the Demonised Native Tribes, they brought in all the god's promised land crap, the almighty real estate agent when it suits them to justify that patriotic mindset, it's all baseless crap, the decency of that old US Constitution of the Republic, to ignore kings popes and religions and be the land of the free, just doesn't live up to expectations... Pity...
Was thinking about the ganging up going on, the schoolyard bullying where to join the gang is to give up your freedom in some ways, there's the Industrial Unions too, where you join up to protect your freedoms but can be strong-armed, then there's all these other groupings like this Coalition of the Willing? And If You're Not With Us You're Against Us, that join up or else impelling force, so the United Nations as a Union with voting, even still has that Security Council over seeing the rest with veto powers, so what's all this talk about democracy... There's another gang on the block and theirs is bigger than yours...
And post-war Iraq will have to be administered? Democratically? Ha, seems nowadays the sub-contracting of Security Corporations is the big thing, to profit from the misery, and to run the rackets, and siphon off the budget money, and make yourself rich, it's the outsourced mercenaries who will inherit the new Iraq... Oh to be a carpetbagger now that peace is near...
Down the pub we had talk about political opinion and support at the polls, so you had to imagine that two coasters on the bar were the two Major Parties and as you move them around the people flock and follow and when one coaster picks up more support, the other one moves closer, to get in on it, till they end up way over on the right say, like it is now, when they really ought to be central, and split the ideologies between Public and Private...
The US Senator Robert Byrd, Former Senate Democrat Leader, made a speech in the passively mute US Senate, as he says, at a turning point in the recent history of the world, here is what I gleaned from it, cause he seems to be echoing the same sort of things I have:
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The Bush Administration has introduced The Doctrine Of Pre-Emption, and refused to take Nuclear Weapons off the table... |
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The Bush Administration is crippling the UN And NATO, with threats and name calling, denigrating powerful European allies as irrelevant... So has that senselessly bellicose language increased the global race to join the nuclear club? Already in Afghanistan, terrorism may already be starting to regain its hold... |
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The Bush Administration will need nations who can supply troop strength, not just sign letters cheering them on, (like Australia?). |
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What of the aftermath of War In Iraq? Because speculation abroad is rife... |
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Will The Bush Administration seize Iraq's Oil Fields, becoming an Occupying Power which controls price and supply? |
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To whom does The Bush Administration propose to hand power after Saddam Hussein? |
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Will The Bush Administration's war inflame the Muslim World, resulting in devastating attacks on Israel? Will Israel retaliate with its own Nuclear Arsenal? |
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Will the Jordanian and Saudi Governments be toppled by radicals, bolstered by Iran which has much closer ties to terrorism than Iraq? |
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The Bush Administration has squandered a projected surplus and taken the US to projected deficits... Could a disruption of Oil Supply lead to Worldwide Recession? |
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The Bush Administration's destabilising and dangerous Foreign Policy is inexcusable. On the eve of what could be vicious terrorist retaliation for our attack on Iraq, it is Business As Usual in The United States Senate. |
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We (in the US Senate) are sleepwalking through history for the rudest of awakenings. Our challenge is to find a graceful way out of a box of our own making. |
Over in England at least there's some voices of dissension, they broke in to the News Radio BBC feed to lissen to Tony B Lair give another one of those fathomless speeches, and what followed was a revolt by the English Labour Party members to put the brakes on the Coalition of the Willing, saying that no case for war had been made, so the Parliamentary system where the Prime Minister going gah-gah provides for toppling him out of the action is so valuable, just what you can't do with popularly elected Presidents, they're as hard to get rid of as kings...
And they showed the media coverage from the USA Empire where the PayTV of Rupert's Fox has gone belligerently ballistic to the extreme, they showed snippets of these blatant propagandists going over the knock em down drag em out tactics that the Empire will employ on Iraq, and how the media will this time be invited to see the carnage commercial free once the show begins...
How macabre the USA Society has become, they have that Death Penalty train of thought, like Texas Governor George Dubbya-Dubbya-III was signing death penalties on anyone he could, it's the Old Wild West scenario of wipe em out, but the rest of the world just watched those movies, while George Dubbya-Dubbya-III could see himself in a starring role... Must be where his education sank in and his elocution and vocabulary came from... That cowboy history has such revelance, relanvance, whoops, relevance...
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