Cave-Hermits Union of Australia
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So, it's Mark Latham, the new Leader, it's sort of amazing that Labor got it right, the history of the Labor Party has another new chapter to fill in, but he has caught some imagination, and the wearisome dithering about with the resurrection of the Beazley past, so glad that's over, I watched the body language of the old guard and it was going nowhere...
But the Latham image has the brash armour of youth, and the honeymoon of banging heads together, and I hope the spin words don't blemish the background of Sydney's West that Latham has been able to throw into the Bib and Bub world of Spinning Poll Watchers...
The other thing to take note of are the voices you hear supporting either candidate too, like the intelligent considered thoughtful people with passion went for Latham, well even though Carmen Lawrence drew the most considered Light on the Hill support, so it became more and more expected Latham would take over, with that hope springs eternal component, whereas the thought of Beazley being resurrected did nothing for me, I could see another wishy washy period with me-too-ism to put up with...
So it feels like a fresh change in the wind, as if a new broom will sweep through, seems the factions had collapsed for this challenge anyway, and lost the influence they once held, the power brokers are always a worry cause it really amounts to corruption, making promises and kick backs and jobs and influence peddling, the back room deals have always been disgusting, but they have That's The Way It Is garbage excuse in reply...
And then the typical Pink Rinse rubbish pops up about the Latham speech standards, the So-Called bad language, like they did with Keating, and while that Neo-Conservative pack of droobs have lied and bullied their way into the George Dubbya-Dubbya-III Wars, using nice words to disguise their evil ways, where they go about knocking off villagers in some far away country for deceitful reasoning put forward as truth to the Australian people, so who really uses bad language? The lies of the Little Prevaricator, or the more truthful comments of Latham, about what Coalition Dogs do to each other around their nether regions...
I reckon Australia missed out on a chance to have a decent Prime Minister with Simon Crean though, he had what it takes to be a real Labor Prime Minister and to have dudded him for the newspaper pollsters was a bad move, and it was instigated by the Beazley Bombers, so having Simon there in the leadership team, with Latham up front to lead the charge, it will work out OK...
It's one of those twists of fate where the Beazley intent to turn over the apple cart, has rearranged all the deckchairs, and shuffled the seating arrangements, and tossed the balls into air, come down trumps in a mixed suit, and in a capricious soufflé sort of way, which he must have completely un-expected, in the long run, given that ad infinitum, and whereas the balloons come down I know not where, and so on and on and on... Given that I never could follow what it was he saying for such a long time, but let him say this, I should never have listened...
So it's off and running, the next Federal Election is sort of on, straight-away with Mark Latham doing his own thing, un-owned by a faction, only whimsical baggage, and coming out with collective motherhood statements, and being able to toss in a few shin kicks to the Rotten Neo-Con Govt, and ripping a few rungs out of their ladder, and he has Teflon it looks like, those stupid jibes that the Snotty Smarmy Smirking Costello Doggy yapping falls flat on, just slide off, he's terrific, and such a relief from that Me-Too-Ism Small Target spin doctored garbage, so good luck to him, seems we've learnt more about Mark Latham in just 24 hours than all the waffle for all those years from the Bomber...
Another personal history well worth hearing of is the life of Peter Cundle, the ABC Gardening Peace Activist, his take on life from his experiences, from an abusive childhood, an early atheist, an army man and survivor of the conflicts from the Middle East to Korea, and finally to become the wonderful Dark Greenie with little quotes like, I just can't stand to see the world being destroyed by Greed... Well Peter Cundle is a real good man, and has a good message and I'm sure he's one of the most loved and respected people we have in Australia...
So Peter Cundle is on the Press Club today, and you should hear him take the mickey out of Rumsfeld & Co, he has been in war and horror and these people who send the kids in uniform haven't, and invariably avoided it themselves, and kept their own kids out as well, so he packs a punch in his talks, good on him... He'd be my choice for Governor-General if I wasn't already prepared to see Simon Crean get the nod from Latham, but not the Bomber... Maybe the Bomber ought to get into some Academic area where he can be argued with interminably, but, That's Ya Lot For Today, y'know Peter Cundle is the best ex-Pommy I know of, come to think of it...
My Hero, the Whistle-Blowing, King Has No Clothes bloke, Andrew Wilke, has decided to join the Greens, cause they are a match to his social justice and commonsense ideologies... I really like this man, he's come out of the Secret Service and spoke the truth about the Coalition Liars, just as the World now knows the whole George Dubbya-Dubbya-III War on Tourism is a sham to get business deals done, what a lot of baloney it turns out to be, the Weapons of Mass Deception were punctured by Andrew Wilke with his assessments being realistic, and now will get a voice in the Greens, excellent move I reckon, he'll get a lot of votes for just being there...
The Little Horrible Howard Govt has again been bashing up the people on their list as usual, this time the Australian Film Industry is being skewered by the So-Called Liberals on an ideological bent to destroy cultural things, they have a madness that keeps surfacing every time they get a chance to show their bigotry and idiot ideas... It's to do with the USA Slave Trade buy offs, to rid themselves of supporting Aussie Culture, and getting more Hollywood, the very criminal education system that is turning the suburbs into Arnie Flicks...
They want to take the National ScreenSound media archive and kill it off by decentralising it into Sydney and Melbourne, going against every logical reason for keeping it as a National Archive, but because the Film Industry is Left Wing the Rabid Right Wing Exterminators are sent in to destroy it, pretty much the same as they have in using the terrorism excuse to stamp on Iraq and Afghanistan... God they're hopeless, the sooner that Mark Latham gets in the better...
The last Pilger effort really put the boot on the other foot in picking scabs off American History, particularly lately with the repeal of all the Fought For Freedoms and the re-introduction of all the reactionary abuse of human rights, it is so abysmal of Republican America to introduce that pre-emptive strike crap, and the rights of prisoners thrown out, like I was thinking about those Great Escape WW II movies, where the Allied prisoners were treated far more decently by the Nazis than the Americans treat the Camp X-Ray victims, it is so much more like the stories we heard on the Gulags in Siberia which the Soviets used to be accused of... Keeping political prisoners and torture is now de rigeur of the Good Guys? Ya got to be kidding...
If there was some other Super Power who would take USA soldiers into the same conditions they mete out in Cuba there would be some outrage in the USA and it's weird media ownership, but because it's the same mindset in America that the Germans had under Hitler that is the vogue, that superiority, strutting about making demons out of people who they want to rip the assets off, it's the same game the Neo-Con Americans are playing on the whole world... And they just split and divided the world with their list of who's in and who's out in the Reconstruction of the Oil Rich... It is so sick...
Looks like the French have Seen The Light with the banning of religious divisiveness, those external marks they wear to stamp them apart from being French, like the French must feel their customs and traditions and French-ness is being subverted by foreigners who introduce styles and fashions and practises and beliefs that aren't French, so they get pissed off, isn't that the same all over, the very nature of National Pride has a homogeneity principle that immigration and Multi Culturalism steps on and then erupts, and turns into genocide, and hatreds bloom, and makes you wonder why the hell the mixing and melding of National Prejudices is ever let happen anyway, in the first place it's to get cheap labour from desperates, which ends up costing you a world war...
And here in Australia the Little Horrible Howard Govt is being cruel and indecent to these hopeless migrants no-one wants, why the hell don't they contract out to Non-Coalition Unlisted Decent Countries, the building of another State in these war-torn areas to house all the reffos, start up another country for them, it would be cheaper, and you could empty out all the camps and just deliver them all to the same place, buy it... Call it the Promised Land and ban religion, and ban any showing of icons like scarfs and crosses and special clothes, make them all wear suits, collars and ties, cept the wimmen, they would all have to undergo a '60s fashion decade with mini skirts and big hairdos...
Big pictures, big perspectives and microcosms, the inner neural networks of the strangeness of consciousness in the mind, taking in the outward activities of the Gaia Life of Earth, from the mass destruction of nature by man, to repeat and reiterate the Nouveau Colonialism or Globalisation or Empire Building, now underway with the newly growing hatred of the USA, hated for it's temerity of ruling the world, compared with the local takeover and subjugation of the West Papuans by the superiority thinking Indonesians, where this bloke just wrote a book on the clash, where the cover picture is an Indonesian Moslem soldier with a motorbike between his legs, looking disparagingly at a local naked tribesman wearing a penis gourd... And the world is heading for it's Easter Island outcome at a hundred miles a minute in metric...
The History of man out of Africa, following in the footsteps of the Neanderthals and wiping them out, then spreading and infecting the natural world with their fire sticks and primitive technologies, wave after wave of takeover and establishment, and ransacking, clearing and desertification, and genocide, time and again, ad infinitum, crusader types, till now the current crop representing the Colonialist Globalisers are hard at it still, takeovers, makeovers, lies and deceit and cruelty and intolerance, what a wonderful world all those Gods' have given us...
Just reading Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett, it means "Go for the Throat" and has a family of Vampires descending on the Castle Celebrations where the King and his Witchey Wife Magrat are naming their new girl baby, and the religious wankery gets a good going over by Pratchett, he's a gem... Magrat the Queen Mother didn't want a spelling mistake like she had suffered with her name, and so wrote down the new name, and so the Baby was called Esmerelda Note Spelling of Lancre... Gees he's cute that Pratchett, he really captures the moments... Seems I have some catching up to do with several new novels in the shops now, beats me why he didn't get the Prize for Best Books rather than Lord of the Rings, Pratchett would run magic rings around it anyway, I wonder when he'll do a book on that scenario as well?
It's now turned into the War of Temerity of the USA, how the Americans have the Temerity to go about taking over the world, ignoring opposition, undermining the UN, bringing in the new Rules of Combat and Prison Camps and Torture, the new avoidance of justice, and the secret dealings to grab resources, they have the Temerity to do it, and they named it wrong, it's not the threat of people fighting back, it's the Blitzkrieg of the USA going to war with that poor excuse, and it's full of that god licking crap that George Dubbya-Dubbya-III keeps to in his bible bashing sign offs, what a lot of malarky...
Y'know, it always used to bug me, how in Physics they'd say this thing acts like a particle, no, sorry, it acts like a wave, and they'd experiment on how you could never know where it was, at that time, with that weight, so now there's String Theory to unite it all together, and describe a more likely explanation, it's fantastic and sounds so right, so when theories gain currency and some adherents it's such a relief when I catch on and follow in that belief cause when you don't it's the pits...
So string theory has it that these extremely small strings down around the Plank Length come into their own and can vibrate about and swirl in ten dimensions, six more than we can see from up here in the Topological plane, but down there underneath quantum mechanics is this tiny little vibrating changing world where even if something in a dimension goes zero it can be tolerated and normalised somehow... And it can do without the twenty or so of the convenient constants that other physics requires, just the light constant and the Plank Length? And they have membranes with properties and called things like P-Branes...
So while we see the surroundings on the surface of Earth, the animals and plants are really huge numbers of tiny cells building the internal organs and structures and making appearances seem like individuals, and giving the sense of life to humans, while inside every cell there are multitudes of molecules swanning about, and they're constructed too from atoms with swirling electrons and tiny nuclei with DNA coils, and then within each atom there are the neutrons and protons and other exotic particles carrying forces and spins and all sorts of properties, and the quandary was connecting these micro world's with the huge relativities of space, so we now go way down, down, to these minute quantum mechanical vanishing entities consisting of tiny loops, vibrating strings...
So the thing to tie it together is the String Theory where all the different exotic pieces of matter and energy and force can be explained with the tiniest looped strings, vibrating in and out of another six dimensions from our familiar four, so ten dimensions account for the popping into and out of existence to the observer, and it's all down in the tiniest Plank lengths, like rubber bands they can vibrate in enormous varieties of ways, spinning and changing contours to somehow define the thing they exist in, yet the overall topographical smoothness and reliability of the universe remains intact, with no rips or tears and possessing the hard-fast rules of physics...
So while you may be looking at an animal, there is deep, deep, inside the molecules and atoms and quarks these small strings in another six tiny dimensions swirling about vibrating the properties of their containers, it has the charm of music, the perfectly pitched notes which vibrate in such definitive ways, so strings make the vibrations of life in the universe, perhaps that's why I took to fiddling...
It's all a bit So What with the finding of Saddam Hussein in his dugout, stripped of all the finery, there he was hiding out in a little hole in the ground, without those weapons of mass destruction, not much of anything, a suitcase of money, ha, uninjured as well, I spose they'll ramp it up as if it means much anymore, it wasn't him they wanted, or his regime, or those deceptive weapons, it was his country and the resources, that's what's on the table, like that Little Bully Dog said to Latham, this is the big boys games now...
On second thoughts, dealing with Saddam Hussein being alive and talkative could be the catalyst that undoes the web of lies and deceit as well as making an example of Western justice and the whole scenario might change, with his sooky martyrdom, so the Yanks were just about to drop a hand grenade into his hole when he popped up and gave in, so how will they shut him up? Cause Milosovitch has been ranting and raving but he didn't have the Western Skeletons in his closet, but Saddam has, and his story, from his lips, might blow the Yanks out of the water, watch his lips, that's if he doesn't suddenly die from verbal diarrhoea in captivity...
Ah the broad landscapes , the big pictures, the sweeping visions, the world's history, the lessons never heeded, you can see why those religious laws of man have been so callous and ruthless and reactionary, seems every time the freedoms are given a loose reign they go off like sky rockets and rampage away against all sense of reason, every time a new era hits the world there's a stampede and a bandwaggon, and a gravy train to get aboard, like the last century was repeating everything before, but speeded up...
The civilisation swept away the strictures of Scripture and the regulations of the economies, and the morals of the youth, and the television eye swung onto the lascivious, and disrespect, and the horror, and the fads, it's all changed the children, and it's gone backwards upstairs in the corridors of Power, and the future ahead is for the social sharing battles to be re-fought, standards to be re-set, or will it continue in the Mad Max vein...
Gees the Bible Countries look like Mad Max, dust to dust, trees gone, ancient villages buried under erosion, desertification on a grand scale, and if there was no oil under it? Well, they wouldn't bother, same as the rest of the old worn out world... That's the true message of those Bibles and Scriptures, the deserts they created from the Gardens of Eden... Look and learn, don't read all that old crap, it was just hijacked for keeping people sheepish...
Since the Great Depression and the Second World War the lessons learnt and the standards set have been under withering attack from the greedy grabbers and exploiters once again, till now there's this inevitability blanket cast over the whole governance of the planet, so it's off into the Third World War now under the boot of George Dubbya-Dubbya-III and his Neo-Conservative Republican henchmen...
Their mad Globalised eyes cast onto the old sectarian enemy of the crusaders again, any enemy will do, a glare of hatred for anything different, they want to convert everyone to be subservient to them, and willing to fall for the patriotic pap to go fight those that don't, and use the lamblike religions to herd the flocks, while they devastate the planet's health, and ignore the planet's strife, and go cowboy like into what's left and don't give a bugger about the Injuns... And if only the TV could show the sniggering behind their hands... I just hope the USA Leadership has a rotten xmas, and anyway isn't time for another earthquake from their rotten god? Be interesting to see how much money the rest of the world chucks in when the Big One hits...
Reading Pratchett and doing the family, I really wanna meet other people doing music… And it's new year coming up and all the tradition I feel with it that no one else gets, they do the stupid xtian dumb things tho, and here's a New Year coming up for Christ's sake, hardly... There’s my religious celebration things to do, the fires, the night, the dancing about, and having a celestial reason for it, like early evening the moon has been the only tiny thing in the sky while it points at Venus like a tight bow... But I miss the nighttime wandering about and grooving... And being drunk for it too, it makes all the difference to be drunk with it... So the Grappa has lit me up again…
The cricket's on, the Canberra inhabitants have gone off somewhere else, so there’s not many staying in, so here we are on holidays, with empty streets and hardly a road rage, and the discoveries beckon, so it’s out to sniff around the place and see what’s what… It’s like the thinning out after an Armageddon…
While I was away down the coast nearly getting killed in head ons, by night I was down the beach and got picked up by the local holiday gang and got a few drags on this other stuff, and felt it working, I came back and they were playing serious monopoly and I was away with the Faeries... Oh dear...
Don't ever go out on those long drives away again, it is deadly, just stay in Canberra and it's all yours, they've all left, so I wanna go do the empty Canberra's with out the yahoos, cause only the appreciative ones are left I hope, hmmm, I love it here, it's been a good move...
Obligations was the word I thought of to explain xmas, why all these people do all these things together instead of being free, they all have their obligations and have to watch it, whereas you could be just cruising through, like what I do, spose that's what it is, you have nothing to worry about or there's some sort of obligation you have to behave in certain way, like sober or something, but then I thrive on witty little jibes...
So, instead of the San Andreas fault slipping under California, it was the old Silk Road town of Bam, crunch, mudbrick and all the history reduced to rubble while the big plates rub and plunge and knock... The third world cops such a hiding when nature turns on the cosmic disasters...
Big disappointment with the latest Mars explorer the Beagle II, it must've had an accident and wont talk, seems half the craft that get there fail to work properly, I just hope they find DNA, but then it may have come from the time when the Earth and the Moon kissed and hissed once in the distant past, the splash of stuff into the solar system, that crust on the untouched side is the origin of the plates that are floating around the planet now, but the most likely explanation for life is the propensity for it to develop anywhere that molecules can mix themselves up in fluid, so Mars looks to have had running water before it boiled off, lost in space...
Well 2003 wasn't much of a year, the politics have been abysmal, particularly from those suckers for Globalised Monopolies and George Dubbya-Dubbya-III's New World Order, where we've been taken back into Evil Empires and domination... And the weather becoming more extreme, the Global Warming being ignored, the destruction of forests speeding up, the sight of a feral USA schoolkid claiming he'd become feral cause there too much freedom to play up... Weird the world has deteriorated socially, the racial hatreds are out of the bottom drawers now... And the Aids hitting the families of the Laissez Fair, don't care...
Anything good in 2003? Hmmm, some voices raised in protest and some revolutions of the desperate, but no one's come out to lead the world in a better direction, cept some of the Rogue States lined up against the USA have dropped the nuclear bundles, so that has defused some situations, but Israel has become another bogeyman like the USA, they have become like one another, and no one likes bullies...
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