From New York Times online article:
“U.S. Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts”
By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: May 15, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/world/16contractors.html?hp
My thinks:
While private multinational corporate capitalists are around we're gonna have spies and subversion and wars, little and big!
It's an impossibility to expect underhanded international activity to abate, in this chaotic day-and-age.
War is an industry all of it's own, and attracts the biggest and meanest businesses - Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, mega-pharmaceuticals, weapons makers (OOOR..., DERR?), etc etc.
Stock markets thrive on war, and on any catastrophe, and they thrive enormously on their own societies operating on injustice - the more unjust the society is, the greater the mega-corps profit -so while we are left to fight, for a secure home, to raise the kids, or to just do our own thing, like eat, and the governments globally fail their citizens, from whichever class, there's gonna be those who will give away their ethics, if they ever had any, that-is, if they were ever taught the value of being ethical, and will be glad to take money for spying on others, and for selling-out other people to tyrannical and paranoid authorities, and PRIVATE corporations.
Whether we're talking about the big super-dooper-spies who trip around the planet with diplomatic immunity, and set-up puppet presidents in third-world nations/regions (Saddam Hussien? Joseph Stalin? Innumerable African leaders, NOT including Mr Robert Mugabe, but across the world for centuries) or local good-for-nothings who, on being caught with their fingers on someone elses' property, are given ultimatums by the police - “spy on that fella for us, and set them up for a bashing or theft of their stuff, and we'll drop the charges we can fabricate against you!”
While the coppers and the military are slaves to the wholly unholy concept of each-man-woman-and-child for themselves, thus, as per “averages” and the nature of things, some are better positioned to do more criminal things than others, like run massive crime networks and organisations we commonly call “free market corporations”, thus affording to buy-off whole police and military forces, and “governments” who are supposed to “govern” social and economic behaviour, including the police and armed forces, so desert their obligations and duties to the polity, by leaving the masses to fend for themselves, there's gonna be a market for the immoral scum to take-down any who are not equally or better-armed.
Indeed, “spy-rings” have pretty-much always been, or evolved from “private” interests, be they monarchs, or the Rockerfeller-types, who are so upemselves that they believe they have the right, merely by having the power, to stomp on another bloke, or mob, or color or nation or culture.
Each of them tells the inquiry or judge signing the authority to spy, and occasionally the media, that THEIR cause is the most worthy! Just like the evil “public”-school boys of Britain's MI6 in the early 1990s, who set about destabilising the region of Azerbaijan and Armenia, by local subterfuge - drop in on a local market, strike up a conversation with a shop-keeper, of course a little research has been done so we know which shop-keeper to lie to, drop a few names and falsities against them, then wander off and wait for the reactions.
On the other side of town another couple of “spies” are weadling their way through the bureaucracy, weakening the system's structures for a coup de ta.
In another quarter the lads are at it firing-up the outlaws, the local freedom fighters with a bit of propaganda, and a few offers of weapons, money, a few vehicles etc etc etc.
Before you know it Azerbaijan and Armenia are at war! What was it? 300,000 people slaughtered in a few years?
Why?
Well, today's BIGGEST POLLUTERS, the old British Petroleum or “BP”, knew there was a shitload of oil within those borders, so, they sent in their PRIVATE spies, otherwise known as Military Intelligence SIX..., MI6 to do the preparatory work - spies and subversion.
So..., today's NYT report that the United States of America Is Still Using Private Spy Ring, Despite Doubts, comes as no surprise to an investigative journalist, if he/she has built their knowledge-base on simply reading the newspapers.
PUBLIC Government in reality, has NEVER in the modern world, of the last three or four thousand years, existed, unless we're talking about those Democratic Peoples who thrived all over the globe BEFORE the modern world learned how to sail across oceans, and cart masses of armed slaves and weapons across deserts and mountains.
Never existed, in the modern world, outside of where, the management of the nation was in Balance, and the Elders were Respected by the younger, purely because the Elders told the TRUTH, about such things as the perils in selling land, or of making weapons which can kill tens, hundreds, thousands with one “spear”, or of keeping things and food and land FOR YOURSELF!
Sure there would have been “spies”. Even the monkeys in the jungle had spies. But not for the benefit of some selfish rich monkey king, and thus to the deficit of the Tribe!
Even our Australian “spies” in ASIO and covert police and military operations etc, work not for the Greater and Perennial Good of the whole of the Nation/PLANET, but they do whatever the idiot above them tells them to do, subvert, undermine, discredit, bash, break, spy-on, because they know they'll get a wage for it at the end of the week/month/year to enable them 1, to eat, 2 to be housed, 3, to play, 4, to do it all again! And to buy a wife!
So, show me a spy who is not working for some private enterprise, and I'll show you a lost cause.
Because it's all a lost cause now!
It IS, we ARE now at the lowest ethical level Humanity has ever descended-to, after all?
Just ask any Kkristian living in a McMansion today!
Saducees! Pharisees!
And the coppers “protect” them???
How low, therefore, are THEY???
O! The end of days.....!
Say what, MI6, CIA, Mossad?
And I'll bet you say you don't believe in “magic”.
YOU forgive 'em, Lord! Damned if I will............
And while we're on BP or the world's BIGGEST POLLUTERS, the mess made in the Gulf of Oilico-er-Messico-er-MEXICO, surely begs us to FORCE ALL GOVERNMENTS to "resume" public ownership of that rogue IMF polluter, "the oil industry"?
For there should be NO DOUBT, that all the opposition and negative arguments against making the world GREEN, are fabricated, concocted and conspired over, in the halls of those rogue organisations, like BP, Shell, Texaco, and every other one of their DESTROY THE WORLD affiliates, managed, in-the-main, from Switzerland, London, Berlin, Brussels, etc etc etc.
And of course in their branch offices of Canberra, Hong Kong, Washington, Tel Aviv, Rome, et al et al....
Clearly, "Machiavellianism" is the snake that devours itself, tail-first.
"Everyone's fighting for a silver crust!
The richer ya' are, the deeper your lust.
For MORE of that magic of delude myself,
I'm the most important, jus' gimme more wealth!
I'm a speed-brain, can't stop to THINK!
Don't talk to me 'bout the world's on the brink!
Jus' let me mastabate as much as I can..,
Got ma hand in ma pocket, I'm a devilish fan...."
"Spy Song".
Or somethin'?
Omaxa bin Eartha
For an Honorable and Green Planet and an end to spies.
OH! And "Well Done", NYT's Mark Mazzetti and assistants!
True Lore Outlaw, Walking thru this Multiverse, Warring against dumb
Showing posts with label Green Revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Revolution. Show all posts
2010-05-16
2010-04-27
Failed Green Policies - because they are NOT REALGreen Enough!
Green policies: too much of not enough
..from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2883301.htm
Oh If they were REALGreen Policies!???
Yuss! I tend to agree with the article's author Chris Berg.
Jumping on the Green bandwagon has truly been the flavor-of-the-new-era, if-not of the new millennium.
And “RIPPA!” I say.
But what has always been roaringly clear to meself, is that huge stumbling-blocks always have policy-makers trip-over and break their polls.
I know I'm not the only one to see that the blocks are ALWAYS where profit-taking is catered to.
I have posted a few blogs over the last few years about this, but addressing the issues of making it possible for LOCALS, that-is, the bloke over the back fence (in suburbia), or down the street, who, as I wrote, may be seen as a bit of a misfit in society - a wierdo - a geek - a reclusive mad scientist - or such, to not only produce the gizmos, usually simple to make and operate, AND SAFE, but to teach those living around them, how to make our own energy, etc.
“Going Local” is the catch-phrase even the British TORIES are using in their latest election campaigning.
But how sincere they are is quite another cup of tea, old chum, say what?
The reason such ideal calls cannot get legs in our, or any parliament, is that it goes against the multinational corporate IMF psychosis of centralised ownership and control. Profit!
There's an American bloke whose internet website I've clicked-on over the last few years who is now, I think, making a very healthy little income, from selling for a reasonable price, kits and instructions for HOMEMADE solar electricity panels. Last time I peeked, he was under pressure from OH! Surprise surprise - multinational corporations - for being too honest about making power.
Nevertheless, I'm sure he's savvy enough and has enough Angels on his side to persist and overcome the phantoms of the multinational opera.
Every geek and home-electro-wizz knows that electricity is REALLY EASY to produce ourselves, to the point where electricity bills should be - WORLDWIDE - a thing of the profit-centred-psychosis past!
Yet, nation's full of idiots too upemselves to bother, are entrapped in debt and financial and environmental catastrophes, letting evil energy corporations and government servants, advisers and consultants cream their hard-earned money and their planet's environment from under them/us!?
The points in Chris Berg's article avoid these rudimentary questions and answers as to how we can go green and not electrocute shonky insulation-fitters, or have solar-panel schemes blow-out, and the rest.
And why?
Well, young Bergie has to earn enough to keep a roof over his head! And even THEIR ABC and the IPA (Institute for Pubic Affairs (TYPO!) with whom Bergie is a 'Research Fellow'!) are not going to sacrifice the Holy Grail of foreign control of our Souls for THE FACTS!?
Clearly, the environment DOES NOT fit nice and profitably with ruthless moneymaking corporate giants, who have the exclusive patterns and patents and rights and cash-flows to make - solar panels, household insulation, plumbing, building materials, motorised vehicles, etc etc etc, and who seem to assume the unassailable right to demand exorbitant amounts of the public's money for them! AND.., to direct government policy?
It is only because the Demos, the People, have been so divided by RELIGIOUS, corporate and foreign dynastic spin, over centuries, that we are sent to sleep with grand plans of geothermal, tidal, and other HUGE power generation schemes proposed by all and sundry of our politicians, who bend over for the multinationals' 30 pieces of silver, day-in-day-out.
In-and-out. In-and-out. In-and-out. In-and-out.
The failed “green-schemes” of the last year or so, serve best to show us that all our main-party politicians are powerless AND gutless against the blackmailing might of the multinationals, and for that off-shore blackmail, have to ignore the genuine and worthy REALGreen ideas which brew quietly in most every Local-Geeks' Brilliant mind, each time they get around paying the corps for their own home-made utilities, etc.
It IS obvious, that Australia needs quite a lot more than Reform of the taxation system!
Chris Berg ends saying that the policies weren't thought-out enough.
Yup! Probably close enough, Chris (in my humble opinion). But perhaps "thought" was constrained by (un)-economic demands of this compete-compete-compete to compete MORE false-economic tyranny we call "the system"?
Did I say Reform, or........
REVOLUTION?
A more spicy post from
Omaxa bin News-Chop.OM
as the battery goes flat at
OpenSourceGovernmentPolicy.OM
..from http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2883301.htm
Oh If they were REALGreen Policies!???
Yuss! I tend to agree with the article's author Chris Berg.
Jumping on the Green bandwagon has truly been the flavor-of-the-new-era, if-not of the new millennium.
And “RIPPA!” I say.
But what has always been roaringly clear to meself, is that huge stumbling-blocks always have policy-makers trip-over and break their polls.
I know I'm not the only one to see that the blocks are ALWAYS where profit-taking is catered to.
I have posted a few blogs over the last few years about this, but addressing the issues of making it possible for LOCALS, that-is, the bloke over the back fence (in suburbia), or down the street, who, as I wrote, may be seen as a bit of a misfit in society - a wierdo - a geek - a reclusive mad scientist - or such, to not only produce the gizmos, usually simple to make and operate, AND SAFE, but to teach those living around them, how to make our own energy, etc.
“Going Local” is the catch-phrase even the British TORIES are using in their latest election campaigning.
But how sincere they are is quite another cup of tea, old chum, say what?
The reason such ideal calls cannot get legs in our, or any parliament, is that it goes against the multinational corporate IMF psychosis of centralised ownership and control. Profit!
There's an American bloke whose internet website I've clicked-on over the last few years who is now, I think, making a very healthy little income, from selling for a reasonable price, kits and instructions for HOMEMADE solar electricity panels. Last time I peeked, he was under pressure from OH! Surprise surprise - multinational corporations - for being too honest about making power.
Nevertheless, I'm sure he's savvy enough and has enough Angels on his side to persist and overcome the phantoms of the multinational opera.
Every geek and home-electro-wizz knows that electricity is REALLY EASY to produce ourselves, to the point where electricity bills should be - WORLDWIDE - a thing of the profit-centred-psychosis past!
Yet, nation's full of idiots too upemselves to bother, are entrapped in debt and financial and environmental catastrophes, letting evil energy corporations and government servants, advisers and consultants cream their hard-earned money and their planet's environment from under them/us!?
The points in Chris Berg's article avoid these rudimentary questions and answers as to how we can go green and not electrocute shonky insulation-fitters, or have solar-panel schemes blow-out, and the rest.
And why?
Well, young Bergie has to earn enough to keep a roof over his head! And even THEIR ABC and the IPA (Institute for Pubic Affairs (TYPO!) with whom Bergie is a 'Research Fellow'!) are not going to sacrifice the Holy Grail of foreign control of our Souls for THE FACTS!?
Clearly, the environment DOES NOT fit nice and profitably with ruthless moneymaking corporate giants, who have the exclusive patterns and patents and rights and cash-flows to make - solar panels, household insulation, plumbing, building materials, motorised vehicles, etc etc etc, and who seem to assume the unassailable right to demand exorbitant amounts of the public's money for them! AND.., to direct government policy?
It is only because the Demos, the People, have been so divided by RELIGIOUS, corporate and foreign dynastic spin, over centuries, that we are sent to sleep with grand plans of geothermal, tidal, and other HUGE power generation schemes proposed by all and sundry of our politicians, who bend over for the multinationals' 30 pieces of silver, day-in-day-out.
In-and-out. In-and-out. In-and-out. In-and-out.
The failed “green-schemes” of the last year or so, serve best to show us that all our main-party politicians are powerless AND gutless against the blackmailing might of the multinationals, and for that off-shore blackmail, have to ignore the genuine and worthy REALGreen ideas which brew quietly in most every Local-Geeks' Brilliant mind, each time they get around paying the corps for their own home-made utilities, etc.
It IS obvious, that Australia needs quite a lot more than Reform of the taxation system!
Chris Berg ends saying that the policies weren't thought-out enough.
Yup! Probably close enough, Chris (in my humble opinion). But perhaps "thought" was constrained by (un)-economic demands of this compete-compete-compete to compete MORE false-economic tyranny we call "the system"?
Did I say Reform, or........
REVOLUTION?
A more spicy post from
Omaxa bin News-Chop.OM
as the battery goes flat at
OpenSourceGovernmentPolicy.OM
2010-02-15
Aussie Hospitals Need A Nationwide Community-Run Revolution
Abbott plan needs federal takeover: expert
is the headline for the ABC World Today article at:
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2819754.htm
Which is :ELEANOR HALL: But first today - who should run Australia's hospitals? As the Federal Government continues to fend off criticism of its failure to take over the hospital system from the states, the Coalition Leader Tony Abbott says local boards should run hospitals in New South Wales and Queensland.
But one of Australia's leading health administrators says it is not that simple. Professor John Dwyer argues that the only way for the Coalition to turn the management of public hospitals over to local communities would be to launch its own federal takeover.
In Canberra, Alexandra Kirk reports.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: The Prime Minister's own deadline for his big health reform plan has come and gone. Pressing home the point, Tony Abbott's delivered the first instalment of his election year health policy - that within since months of being elected the new federal government would renegotiate healthcare agreements with New South Wales and Queensland requiring them to install a local board for every major public hospital.
The Opposition's health spokesman Peter Dutton says it's a bold plan based on direct action, delivering control back to the people who make the decisions in the best interests of patients.
PETER DUTTON: Now our plan removes bureaucracy. It will put efficiencies and savings into the system so that we can get more doctors and nurses onto the front line and what Labor really hate about this plan is that it is designed to remove the spin doctors and bring in the real doctors.
There is no sign of Kevin Rudd's promised land. He made a promise that he would fix hospitals by mid-2009. We are now into February of 2010 and the Prime Minister hasn't even detailed a plan.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: He's dismissed the criticisms of the two Labor states, saying the more critical the states are the surer he is the Coalition's on the right track.
Not surprisingly, the Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon is critical too, describing the Abbott plan as a tiny, scant idea for a major problem. But for now all she can say about the Government's grand reform plan is "watch this space".
NICOLA ROXON: We have made very clear that it will be soon. We want a national comprehensive lasting solution. We have seen no such thing from the Opposition and whilst it might take a little longer than we wish, we would much rather get it right.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Professor John Dwyer has long argued the nation's public health system is crumbling and needs a major overhaul. He says of the dozens of problems besetting the sector, the one the Coalition's unveiled is way down on the priority list.
JOHN DWYER: We have our public hospitals around Australia really struggling with ever increasing numbers of patients, ever increasing number of sicker patients, not sufficient money, not enough staff, internal morale at an all time low and we absolutely have to be concentrating on taking pressures off hospitals and also working out what role in the modern system each hospital should be playing.
Now these things are infinitely more important than the governance issue which I had no objection to hospitals having community input into their governance etc but that is way down the track.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Professor Dwyer founded the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance. A former head of medicine at the Prince of Wales Hospital, now emeritus professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales.
JOHN DWYER: We need national policy. Most of us are advocating to Mr Rudd and Minister Roxon that we need definitely at the end of this reform process that the current Government is looking at, we need one set of brains with one pile of money running the health system and we want to nationalise our approach and get away from this wretched jurisdictional mess we've got with states running hospitals and the Commonwealth paying the bills for primary care and drugs etc.
So it should be a national program but you know, inherent in what Mr Abbott is saying is that he would be taking over at the federal level the running of our hospitals otherwise he wouldn't have the authority to be imposing this structure on hospitals currently run by the states. So that all needs to be worked out by what he means by that.
And the other major issue is of course is, in a modern system we want a network of hospitals all with a defined role, helping each other. Hospitals no longer should operate as islands in an ocean of health care. When you had boards before, naturally, the local board members wanted their hospital to be the Taj Mahal and have everything that opens and shuts and we simply can't afford to have all hospitals doing all things for all peoples.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: The Australian Medical Association says that local management boards are a good idea but only part of the solution. Don't you think doctors do want more power when it comes to decision making in hospitals?
JOHN DWYER: Absolutely. I mean there is no question but one of the major problems at the moment is that the fiscal pressures have seen what we call clinician manager disconnect become a real problem in our hospitals. Because the budget is so tight, doctors and nurses and allied health professionals are being excluded more and more from the decision making about their local hospital.
But without, it is going to be a very hollow victory saying, you know, you are going to be part of a board if the hospital is still broke as 3 per cent more sick patients coming in the door every year can't find the staff to look after those patients and is being asked to care for people that it doesn't have the skills to look after.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: You've had a lot to do with Tony Abbott as health minister over the years. You don't think he understands the problems besetting the public hospital system well?
JOHN DWYER: Well, he didn't when he was a health minister. I mean it is a bit rich for Tony Abbott who, when many of us who were trying to talk to him as health minister about healthcare reform found that he was totally unreceptive to any idea of major reform of the health care system in Australia.
Just tinkering at the margins is all we need he would say and wouldn't use the term reform but of course, the truth is that we need radical reform of the Australian health care system to sustain it to make it more equitable and to really swing it around, put the emphasis on prevention and give us the win-win situation of having a healthier older population and less dependence on hospitals.
I hope he has suddenly learned his lesson and now that he is in Opposition, changed his mind about all this. Whoever is leading us in this has to realise that the Australian healthcare system is in need of a major urgent overhaul from top to bottom.
ELEANOR HALL: That is Professor of Medicine John Dwyer from the University of New South Wales ending that report by Alexandra Kirk.
MY COMMENTS on their contact us web link:
Like Howard's Aborigine intervention, Abbott has plagiarized another "Max Earth" recommendation, with the concept of Local Communities operating hospitals.
Hohum... Another botched interpretation however....
But yes, as someone else said, it has to be federally implemented, and can only work if the national taxation system is simplified and also redirected to local revenue bases, a la the national land tax, of Ken Henry's Review.
States are mafia-run, decrepit, colonialist models.
Passed time Australia progressed beyond 3-tiers of government, run in-the-main by off-shore multinational corporations, a la the IMF.
But all current levels of government here are frighteningly incompetent, mired in landlord/warlord dynastic mal-adaptations of what government is about, so none of our present "parties" can solve or improve on the medical and hospital tragedies of the day.
Deliberate inefficiency profits the warlords and landlords, as is seen in our exorbitant land and housing prices.
"The masses be damned!" is their motto...
is the headline for the ABC World Today article at:
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s2819754.htm
Which is :ELEANOR HALL: But first today - who should run Australia's hospitals? As the Federal Government continues to fend off criticism of its failure to take over the hospital system from the states, the Coalition Leader Tony Abbott says local boards should run hospitals in New South Wales and Queensland.
But one of Australia's leading health administrators says it is not that simple. Professor John Dwyer argues that the only way for the Coalition to turn the management of public hospitals over to local communities would be to launch its own federal takeover.
In Canberra, Alexandra Kirk reports.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: The Prime Minister's own deadline for his big health reform plan has come and gone. Pressing home the point, Tony Abbott's delivered the first instalment of his election year health policy - that within since months of being elected the new federal government would renegotiate healthcare agreements with New South Wales and Queensland requiring them to install a local board for every major public hospital.
The Opposition's health spokesman Peter Dutton says it's a bold plan based on direct action, delivering control back to the people who make the decisions in the best interests of patients.
PETER DUTTON: Now our plan removes bureaucracy. It will put efficiencies and savings into the system so that we can get more doctors and nurses onto the front line and what Labor really hate about this plan is that it is designed to remove the spin doctors and bring in the real doctors.
There is no sign of Kevin Rudd's promised land. He made a promise that he would fix hospitals by mid-2009. We are now into February of 2010 and the Prime Minister hasn't even detailed a plan.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: He's dismissed the criticisms of the two Labor states, saying the more critical the states are the surer he is the Coalition's on the right track.
Not surprisingly, the Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon is critical too, describing the Abbott plan as a tiny, scant idea for a major problem. But for now all she can say about the Government's grand reform plan is "watch this space".
NICOLA ROXON: We have made very clear that it will be soon. We want a national comprehensive lasting solution. We have seen no such thing from the Opposition and whilst it might take a little longer than we wish, we would much rather get it right.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Professor John Dwyer has long argued the nation's public health system is crumbling and needs a major overhaul. He says of the dozens of problems besetting the sector, the one the Coalition's unveiled is way down on the priority list.
JOHN DWYER: We have our public hospitals around Australia really struggling with ever increasing numbers of patients, ever increasing number of sicker patients, not sufficient money, not enough staff, internal morale at an all time low and we absolutely have to be concentrating on taking pressures off hospitals and also working out what role in the modern system each hospital should be playing.
Now these things are infinitely more important than the governance issue which I had no objection to hospitals having community input into their governance etc but that is way down the track.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Professor Dwyer founded the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance. A former head of medicine at the Prince of Wales Hospital, now emeritus professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales.
JOHN DWYER: We need national policy. Most of us are advocating to Mr Rudd and Minister Roxon that we need definitely at the end of this reform process that the current Government is looking at, we need one set of brains with one pile of money running the health system and we want to nationalise our approach and get away from this wretched jurisdictional mess we've got with states running hospitals and the Commonwealth paying the bills for primary care and drugs etc.
So it should be a national program but you know, inherent in what Mr Abbott is saying is that he would be taking over at the federal level the running of our hospitals otherwise he wouldn't have the authority to be imposing this structure on hospitals currently run by the states. So that all needs to be worked out by what he means by that.
And the other major issue is of course is, in a modern system we want a network of hospitals all with a defined role, helping each other. Hospitals no longer should operate as islands in an ocean of health care. When you had boards before, naturally, the local board members wanted their hospital to be the Taj Mahal and have everything that opens and shuts and we simply can't afford to have all hospitals doing all things for all peoples.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: The Australian Medical Association says that local management boards are a good idea but only part of the solution. Don't you think doctors do want more power when it comes to decision making in hospitals?
JOHN DWYER: Absolutely. I mean there is no question but one of the major problems at the moment is that the fiscal pressures have seen what we call clinician manager disconnect become a real problem in our hospitals. Because the budget is so tight, doctors and nurses and allied health professionals are being excluded more and more from the decision making about their local hospital.
But without, it is going to be a very hollow victory saying, you know, you are going to be part of a board if the hospital is still broke as 3 per cent more sick patients coming in the door every year can't find the staff to look after those patients and is being asked to care for people that it doesn't have the skills to look after.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: You've had a lot to do with Tony Abbott as health minister over the years. You don't think he understands the problems besetting the public hospital system well?
JOHN DWYER: Well, he didn't when he was a health minister. I mean it is a bit rich for Tony Abbott who, when many of us who were trying to talk to him as health minister about healthcare reform found that he was totally unreceptive to any idea of major reform of the health care system in Australia.
Just tinkering at the margins is all we need he would say and wouldn't use the term reform but of course, the truth is that we need radical reform of the Australian health care system to sustain it to make it more equitable and to really swing it around, put the emphasis on prevention and give us the win-win situation of having a healthier older population and less dependence on hospitals.
I hope he has suddenly learned his lesson and now that he is in Opposition, changed his mind about all this. Whoever is leading us in this has to realise that the Australian healthcare system is in need of a major urgent overhaul from top to bottom.
ELEANOR HALL: That is Professor of Medicine John Dwyer from the University of New South Wales ending that report by Alexandra Kirk.
MY COMMENTS on their contact us web link:
Like Howard's Aborigine intervention, Abbott has plagiarized another "Max Earth" recommendation, with the concept of Local Communities operating hospitals.
Hohum... Another botched interpretation however....
But yes, as someone else said, it has to be federally implemented, and can only work if the national taxation system is simplified and also redirected to local revenue bases, a la the national land tax, of Ken Henry's Review.
States are mafia-run, decrepit, colonialist models.
Passed time Australia progressed beyond 3-tiers of government, run in-the-main by off-shore multinational corporations, a la the IMF.
But all current levels of government here are frighteningly incompetent, mired in landlord/warlord dynastic mal-adaptations of what government is about, so none of our present "parties" can solve or improve on the medical and hospital tragedies of the day.
Deliberate inefficiency profits the warlords and landlords, as is seen in our exorbitant land and housing prices.
"The masses be damned!" is their motto...
2010-02-12
Green Government Department of Environmental Law
Green Government, and the Department of Environmental Law.
If a nation was so forward-thinking as to elect a Green Government, one of the 1st measures it would have to make, is to establish a Department of Environmental Law.
This department would 1st set out which Rules of Behaviour society must observe, in terms of ensuring minimum degradation to the habitat.
As society, in Australia, is so far from being and behaving within such ideal laws, the department, or these laws which guide it's administration, would have to be hypothetical.
Serious, but hypothetical.
The point and need for such a department and for such laws, is that government, contrary to popular notions of what government is about, as we've been told to understand and expect by the last 500 years of dominant western rulers and authorities, government is about the perennial sustenance of the nation, in terms of food and habitat supplies, for and from each person up to the largest enterprise and infrastructure projects.
To now, over the last 500 years, out of the “north” or “western nations”, there has been a total neglect of the fundamental need for observance of such a thing as Environmental Law, at least in the powers controlling the expansion, and colonisation of the northern culture.
These powers have gradually coalesced into today's International Monetary Fund, the IMF, which has become so large, that it's upper management has felt they are capable of doing anything, and their global dominance will ensure they get away with it.
Clearly, climate change believer or denier or not, the effects upon the Earth's environment show the world that such IMF-type beliefs, based merely on domination, are deeply flawed.
The most important Laws they have ignored, are the perennial environmental laws. Laws which every Aborigine Nation has strictly maintained observation of, forever.
So, an hypothetical Department of Environmental Law, would set-down the Rules which society, all branches, must aspire to, be-it over time from here forward, but perhaps in generational steps, so that a future, dependent upon a healthy biosphere, can be grown closer to, for and by each generation of people from here on.
A few ideas from OpenSourceGovernmentPolicy.om
If a nation was so forward-thinking as to elect a Green Government, one of the 1st measures it would have to make, is to establish a Department of Environmental Law.
This department would 1st set out which Rules of Behaviour society must observe, in terms of ensuring minimum degradation to the habitat.
As society, in Australia, is so far from being and behaving within such ideal laws, the department, or these laws which guide it's administration, would have to be hypothetical.
Serious, but hypothetical.
The point and need for such a department and for such laws, is that government, contrary to popular notions of what government is about, as we've been told to understand and expect by the last 500 years of dominant western rulers and authorities, government is about the perennial sustenance of the nation, in terms of food and habitat supplies, for and from each person up to the largest enterprise and infrastructure projects.
To now, over the last 500 years, out of the “north” or “western nations”, there has been a total neglect of the fundamental need for observance of such a thing as Environmental Law, at least in the powers controlling the expansion, and colonisation of the northern culture.
These powers have gradually coalesced into today's International Monetary Fund, the IMF, which has become so large, that it's upper management has felt they are capable of doing anything, and their global dominance will ensure they get away with it.
Clearly, climate change believer or denier or not, the effects upon the Earth's environment show the world that such IMF-type beliefs, based merely on domination, are deeply flawed.
The most important Laws they have ignored, are the perennial environmental laws. Laws which every Aborigine Nation has strictly maintained observation of, forever.
So, an hypothetical Department of Environmental Law, would set-down the Rules which society, all branches, must aspire to, be-it over time from here forward, but perhaps in generational steps, so that a future, dependent upon a healthy biosphere, can be grown closer to, for and by each generation of people from here on.
A few ideas from OpenSourceGovernmentPolicy.om
2010-02-11
NSW a basketcase of corruption! says Premier
Flipping through Google news, I read the following article from a Leader/News Limited "local" online paper, the Penrith Press. They have a spot below articles for our comments, so...., I commented....
Here's the PP article, and my comments:
Premier gives ‘full support’ to embattled Penrith MP Karyn Paluzzano
PREMIER Kristina Keneally has thrown her support behind Penrith State Labor MP Karyn Paluzzano in the wake of fraud claims that have rocked her political career.
Mrs Paluzzano has vigorously denied claims she fiddled employee time sheets and asked them to make up work hours by doorknocking during her re-election campaign.
The complaint, made by a former staffer, has been referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Mrs Paluzzano said the former employee made false allegations she would “vigorously defend” herself against.
“These allegations were made by a former staff member and are totally false,” a statement from her office said. “That person is the subject of an investigation by an independent investigator appointed by the NSW Parliament.”
Mrs Paluzzano referred the staff member to the parliamentary Speaker over workplace matters in December.
On Wednesday, Ms Keneally said Mrs Paluzzano, the parliamentary secretary for education and training, had her “full support” and would not be asked to stand down from her position.
“She is strenuously rejecting these claims,” Ms Keneally said.
“I understand that the person who made these claims to ICAC is the subject of an independent investigation by the NSW Parliament.”
Ms Keneally said MPs and public servants should always be held to account on the highest standards and she supported the ICAC’s independence and the right for anyone to refer a complaint to the corruption watchdog.
“The blunt reality is this: MPs and senior public servants are vulnerable to the extraordinary publicity that follows a referral to ICAC,” she said.
“However, MPs and public servants are entitled to due process and should not be made victims of vexatious complaints.
“Today it is a Labor MP. Tomorrow it could be a Liberal or National MP. I would support the same presumption of innocence in similar circumstances for Opposition members as I do ... for Karyn Paluzzano.”
Copied from: http://penrith-press.whereilive.com.au/news/story/premier-gives-full-support-to-embattled-penrith-mp-karyn-paluzzano/
MY COMMENTS:
The 1st words in the last line in the article, about say it all!
“Today it is a Labor MP. Tomorrow it could be a Liberal or National MP."
NSW is a basket-case of corruption, & always has been.
ICAC is yet another "Rum Corps" Kangaroo court, and shows us that NSW, along with all others in Australia, is a failed state.
Premier Keneally is a stand-in, until the next election, when Labor will be trounced.
Only hope for 21C Australia is abandonment of 3-tier system, and a total rearrangement of govt and revenue base, founded 1st on Sound Environmental Laws.
No-one in ANY NSW parliament can fix the depth of problems the state faces, so it's either "all-is-lost, thence the-devil-may-care!", or "a nationwide Democratic Green Revolution" toward Agrarian Justice, as 1st planned here, & akin to that ideal of Thomas Paine in 1797 France!
Here's the PP article, and my comments:
Premier gives ‘full support’ to embattled Penrith MP Karyn Paluzzano
PREMIER Kristina Keneally has thrown her support behind Penrith State Labor MP Karyn Paluzzano in the wake of fraud claims that have rocked her political career.
Mrs Paluzzano has vigorously denied claims she fiddled employee time sheets and asked them to make up work hours by doorknocking during her re-election campaign.
The complaint, made by a former staffer, has been referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Mrs Paluzzano said the former employee made false allegations she would “vigorously defend” herself against.
“These allegations were made by a former staff member and are totally false,” a statement from her office said. “That person is the subject of an investigation by an independent investigator appointed by the NSW Parliament.”
Mrs Paluzzano referred the staff member to the parliamentary Speaker over workplace matters in December.
On Wednesday, Ms Keneally said Mrs Paluzzano, the parliamentary secretary for education and training, had her “full support” and would not be asked to stand down from her position.
“She is strenuously rejecting these claims,” Ms Keneally said.
“I understand that the person who made these claims to ICAC is the subject of an independent investigation by the NSW Parliament.”
Ms Keneally said MPs and public servants should always be held to account on the highest standards and she supported the ICAC’s independence and the right for anyone to refer a complaint to the corruption watchdog.
“The blunt reality is this: MPs and senior public servants are vulnerable to the extraordinary publicity that follows a referral to ICAC,” she said.
“However, MPs and public servants are entitled to due process and should not be made victims of vexatious complaints.
“Today it is a Labor MP. Tomorrow it could be a Liberal or National MP. I would support the same presumption of innocence in similar circumstances for Opposition members as I do ... for Karyn Paluzzano.”
Copied from: http://penrith-press.whereilive.com.au/news/story/premier-gives-full-support-to-embattled-penrith-mp-karyn-paluzzano/
MY COMMENTS:
The 1st words in the last line in the article, about say it all!
“Today it is a Labor MP. Tomorrow it could be a Liberal or National MP."
NSW is a basket-case of corruption, & always has been.
ICAC is yet another "Rum Corps" Kangaroo court, and shows us that NSW, along with all others in Australia, is a failed state.
Premier Keneally is a stand-in, until the next election, when Labor will be trounced.
Only hope for 21C Australia is abandonment of 3-tier system, and a total rearrangement of govt and revenue base, founded 1st on Sound Environmental Laws.
No-one in ANY NSW parliament can fix the depth of problems the state faces, so it's either "all-is-lost, thence the-devil-may-care!", or "a nationwide Democratic Green Revolution" toward Agrarian Justice, as 1st planned here, & akin to that ideal of Thomas Paine in 1797 France!
2010-02-07
Planned Obsolescence and Hard Pollution.
Planned Obsolescence and Hard Pollution.
By Omaxa bin Eartha.
07/02/10.
It's hard being a Green Revolutionary.
Victories are few, and each day brings more awareness of an apparent futility in the fight to save the planet's natural environment.
Whether it's bushfires wiping Eartha's lungs off her Holy Orb, or cattle farmers, monocrop agricultural malpractices, corporate fishing enterprises, or every city and energy-consuming source of modern day information, every jet or propeller aeroplane flying overhead, and even trippers on motorbikes scampering menacingly around the reforests, the odds constantly seem great, and reversing the carnage an impossibility.
Yesterday, serfing the 'net news, I landed on a chance to ask the head of Toyota USA about the corporation's existence and more, I s'pose. I clicked-on, but couldn't be bothered signing on to Facebook, so quit.
The 1st thing that popped into my Green head, was to have a go at him, and thus the world's largest motor vehicle corporation, about the utterly unsustainable phenomenon he heads, and to ask and urge him/them to turn Green.
Surely, I let my naivety think, being the biggest motor corp on Earth, puts them in the director's chair, to SOME degree, and thus in a place where they can, that-is CAN say which way the industry-generally, goes?
Primarily, I was thinking, via the renewable polycarbonate path of using hemp for motor vehicle panels, and other parts. Parts which to now rely on mined, polluting, oil-based plastics, which are totally unnecessary when enviro-friendly options exist?
In one of my lexiconical dreamings, where I bring-down, from the Ether, ideations about the future on Earth, I created, post-apocalypse, a motorcycle, which had most of it's parts made from locally researched, grown and manufactured hemp polycarbonates.
Not my idea of course. Henry Ford made the panels of a motorcar from hemp and flax I think, in the 1930s or so. I recall seeing a photo of him wielding a sizeable sledge hammer at the front quarter-panel, made from hemp polycarbonate. I think the text caption read that the hammer bounced-off, and did not leave a mark, and certainly not a dent! Umm.., the “dent” immediately popped-back-out!
In my exile, I'm by no means up-to-date on the advances that exist in that field of hemp polycarbonates, and can be sure that any major advances are kept secreted from popular view by the monster metals and mining cartels, run, of course by the arseholes of the IMF. Hello Mr K! Mr Bond!
Mr Toyota as well, one would expect?
Nevertheless..., this morning I had a look at repairing a small torch which has passed it's use-by date, because the plastics in it are designed to wear-out or break after a year or two. As well, it's “micro” design, means that the connectors and the brackets which fit together inside, break after a short while.
I guess I've given up on that little piece of equipment.
Sure, I only paid about $10 for it. That, however, was after not buying exactly the same product from another shop, which had a $30 price tag on it.
Looking over the new item in the 1st shop, it was clear that there wasn't the quality worthy of $30, and I felt “victorious” when I found the 2-dollar shop around the corner, and the 2/3rds cheaper price.
A retort one has to expect when buying products which have designed-in short lifespans, is that by paying MORE, one will get a longer-lasting product.
This is no doubt the case. But this misses the point, methinks.
The point is that producing low-quality products today, where the planet is lurching toward collapse because of human's over consumption and the consequent waste, pollution, junk products cannot be justified.
Surely the majority of Humans can't afford “expensive” and apparently “high-quality” items, and as we are forced, by the global undercurrent of media, advertising, corporate and “keep-up-with-the-Joneses” pressures, in the most sinful nation – Australia – at least, we can't survive in the society without acquiring the modern appliances and lesser bits of daily-used equipment.
But, typical of the evil Christian culture, we are persuaded to neglect the effects of our excessively desirous “must-have-it” approach, and are fooled to believe that we will be forgiven at the “pearly-gates” for our wasteful lives.
The cult's founder-Prophet, Jeshua ben Joseph, apparently said “Forgive them Lord, for they are all hypnotized idiots!”
No-one reads that as saying “YOU forgive them Lord, I'm buggered if I will!”
And, as we are at perhaps the species' most serious epoch, where all life on Earth is in the balance, primarily because we have been induced, seduced and forced to be sinful slaves to materialism and over-consumption, I doubt that the future's generations will forgive those of us who blindly, selfishly and utterly stupidly consume product that is designed to break or wear-out in the short times they do?
Again, it is NO coincidence, that the most materialistic and thus wasteful culture in all of Earth's Human history – is Christian!
Sure! Japan, Toyota's homeland, is Earth's 2nd biggest economy, and they ain't exactly Christian?
But they are now also in the biggest bucket of financial debt, etc? Made so by the “Macarthur Plan” post world-war-2, which forced Japan to abandon Her Ancient and Highly Disciplined, SUSTAINABLE Culture for the market-driven ideology of the USA-read-the moguls of Britain and Eurape.
Recent reports say that China is leading the world in turning Green, but..... how can that be, when an enormous amount of the stuff, designed to last only a short time, we apparently NEED to survive in the modern world is produced there?
Perhaps 70% of everything I own is made in China, and most of it is either made of plastics and the like which do not last, in their appropriate roles, as the torch I tried to repair (and have repaired for the 5th time, because I tenaciously defy the “modern” throw-away trend).
Decades ago, I was made aware that China and the developing world had to enter the world's “products” manufacturing marketplace, in order to lift their economies, and thus the people's standard of living into the new era of modernism, etc.
This has been the venture of the IMF for decades, which, all things considered, is an honorable and reasonable thing to attempt.
No-one can say to one people or another that they cannot participate in the advances the world invents or researches into existence.
This, may be the 1st time I've ever offered compliments to the IMF, for this global plan?
Perhaps the “plan” is centuries old? Dante? One world government, ideated a 1000 years ago?
Rome? Emperor Constantine? The 4th century Councils of Nicea, which corrupted the original Teachings and Tenets of the early followers of Jeshua ben Joseph?
Adam Kadman, Moses? “The Chosen Tribe”?
Are today's multinational corporations' the end-product of 6000 years of Hebrew planning to bring the world together?
Could be? But..... the evidence appears to say that we have gone too far in abusing the environment, and that only a few of us will survive into the “22nd”, “23rd” centuries and beyond.
So what price, living an over-consuming lifestyle, and to who's final victory?
Therefore, what price, living a Deep Green lifestyle, so that the future will be one with forests and lots of biodiversity for the 'morrow's peoples to happily enjoy?
These are a few reasons why I live away from mainstream culture and people, and why I stubbornly fight to slow, at least, the degradation of the environment.
So...!
Planned obsolescence?
Now that the 3rd world, or most of Asia, and an increasing proportion of the rest of the undeveloped world, is/are “online” in terms of modernization, surely it is time, all things considered, for them to look to reducing their low-quality products.
The new era has improved everything in terms of resourcing better product quality, and China's manufacturing plants, to a large degree, have higher quality equipment, so they can make higher quality products.
So, we, they and all the manufacturing nations of the new world, really have no excuse for not making products which will last 4, 5, TEN times longer than the majority of things the majority of Humans can afford.
For China to NOT take this Intelligent course of action to minimizing pollution, soft-and-hard, by eliminating planned obsolescence, makes a mockery of their attempts, which I prefer to believe are genuine, to “Go Green”, and shows that they are not really serious in that new day venture.
As for the United States, Toyota, and every other manufacturer and government, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA's, saying they are working to clean-up the environment and the way we live, HO-FUCKING-HO-FUCKING-HO?!?!?!?!?!?!
The dependence upon mined metals and oils and other base products is/was a phenomenon of a low-tech era – the industrial revolution's aftermath, an era which served to bring the world into the new day of today's amazing capabilities.
It is passed time we ALL moved forward and left the "old kings'" ways behind us.
As an aside, one wonders how much of a reduction in power-production and energy consumption Australia might make, were we to modernize our electricity grid and all our appliances by changing from 240 volts to 120 volts?
To save spending on a household-full or office-full of, or other, new 120 volt equipment, all each end-user would need is a 120 volt-to-240 volt inverter.
Am I right in suspecting that a reduction from 240 volts to 120 volts AC would mean halving the energy production requirements?
It seems to me, that Australia standardized our electricity grid at 240 volts to counter or cater for the long distances it had to travel from power station to cities and other outlets. Households, industry etc.
But it probably had something to do also with the fact that our masters in Britain had, for a long time used 220 volts.
Again, from the old, low technology era, post the industrial revolution. Today's vastly improved electricity cabling and general distributor technology must surely enable reducing the need to produce 240 volts. But, I am a dickhead a bit, because high voltage in the order of 1000s of volts is how the electricity is shunted from power station to city, etc., and the volts are reduced at or near to the destination, I think?
NEVERTHELESSSS......?
The IMF's multinational mining corporations like Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, etc., must turn the corner of 21st century REALPolitikal thinking, and engineer themselves away from the iron-age of using non-renewable minerals and metal ores for our consumable products, and with that change of direction, that turning the corner to drive sustainably down Green Street, all manufacturers have to bring themselves up-to-speed in terms of the new day way of economic thinking and behaving, by eliminating planned obsolescence from their manufacturing ideologies.
For I put it that by far the majority of our hard pollution, the stuff which ends up in the back corner of our garden shed, after a disgustingly short lifespan, and eventually in the council garbage dump – er – sorry – refuse station – stuff which just makes waste of the environment, is the result of planned obsolescence.
Micro-technology is all-very-well, but when things are so small that they cannot be repaired or even serviced, and so once they break-down are but wasted, high-tech stuff which fits neatly in the palm of our hand, defeats itself and the macro planetary concerns.
And the end-game of the macro planetary concerns, is ensuring that the species and the biodiversity upon which the species depends, live-on, into perpetuity.
All things have to be, and can be, considered, here.
For ages I've felt that no thing should have just one purpose. All forms of packaging should be reusable.
Back to that motorcycle I dreamed-up in my sci-fi future wanderings of mind, it not only transported THREE people, with a lo-ong seat, but it also had a 2000watt, 12 volt DC-to-120 volt AC inverter inboard, as well as an air compressor and ability to power machinery via a belt drive attachable to the rear wheel.
This, it seems to a clear mind, is the way of the Green future, where everything is “Mu-Fu” or multi-functional, but is also made from renewables, and which can perhaps even be recycled OR REPAIRED, once broken or worn-out.
The race to get the 3rd world out of undeveloped poverty and squaller, is in fact a furphy, a falsity, for mostly all that race does, is carry us further away from our Ethical selves, and into sinful degradation. Not only of our own Souls, but of the planet and all it's biodiverse lives.
The long story of the Chosen Tribes seem to me to be the story of a peoples who were, for some mysterious reason – alas! - part once more, of the big Cosmic Plan for this tiny planet - kept landless, a sad reality which forced them to be inventive and cunning, and, in the end, somewhat divisive.
The many many peoples elsewhere on the planet who were not forced off their homelands, were able to be Happy and Content for eons and eons, whilst living entirely Honorable lifestyles and Harmoniously with the natural world, the natural environment, and, were the inventive “modern” world to never have been made manifest, nor to have invaded, would have lived Blissful lives in their “Gardens of Wisdom” for eons and eons into the future.
It cannot be said that we are the only occupants of this universe. Thus it has to be expected that, were humanity to exist on for thousands of years yet, we would come into contact with other intelligent species.
How they or we would be enabled to travel across space to interact is not, I say, dependent upon hard material products like space shuttles and NASA rockets etc., but was something known about and achieved by the Ancients, through their telepathic abilities.
That the western, Judeo-Christian world has just recently become aware, en-masse, of our own innate occult talents, powers and abilities, just shows us how far behind we have been, in terms of firstly, “Knowing Thy Self”, (“Forgive them Lord, for they are all hypnotised idiots!”), but secondly of what we are capable of, without the superficial aid of technological equipment, and the materialist delusions of hard pollution.
Any plans which engender disrespect of the primary habitat, to the point of it's destruction, cannot be Sound, or True, or Good for the future sustainability of the species, and as likely, are but delusion if we are led to believe we need them to be able to either travel intergalacticly or to fight off aggressive aliens.
If aliens did come to Earth 1000s of years ago, and still threaten our existence, then our apparent race to come-up-to-speed technologically to defend ourselves, is a trick, for, it is, as the Goons used to say, “all in the mind, you know?”!
Therefore it is time we ended the profit-driven farce of planned obsolescence in the material products we consume, and tuned our focus to our Inner Strengths of the mind, where all Happiness is rooted and sustained.
So! MISTER TOYOTA? where's that True Environmentally Friendly motorcar, MADE FROM HEMP?????
Where you lead, others, and even governments, will follow! A position, therefore, which carries enormous Responsibility!
Get on the Train, Nippon!
China! South Korea! United, or is that "Untied" States of America?
PS: Sorry for the "typo's"!
Green, grow the rushes O!
By Omaxa bin Eartha.
07/02/10.
It's hard being a Green Revolutionary.
Victories are few, and each day brings more awareness of an apparent futility in the fight to save the planet's natural environment.
Whether it's bushfires wiping Eartha's lungs off her Holy Orb, or cattle farmers, monocrop agricultural malpractices, corporate fishing enterprises, or every city and energy-consuming source of modern day information, every jet or propeller aeroplane flying overhead, and even trippers on motorbikes scampering menacingly around the reforests, the odds constantly seem great, and reversing the carnage an impossibility.
Yesterday, serfing the 'net news, I landed on a chance to ask the head of Toyota USA about the corporation's existence and more, I s'pose. I clicked-on, but couldn't be bothered signing on to Facebook, so quit.
The 1st thing that popped into my Green head, was to have a go at him, and thus the world's largest motor vehicle corporation, about the utterly unsustainable phenomenon he heads, and to ask and urge him/them to turn Green.
Surely, I let my naivety think, being the biggest motor corp on Earth, puts them in the director's chair, to SOME degree, and thus in a place where they can, that-is CAN say which way the industry-generally, goes?
Primarily, I was thinking, via the renewable polycarbonate path of using hemp for motor vehicle panels, and other parts. Parts which to now rely on mined, polluting, oil-based plastics, which are totally unnecessary when enviro-friendly options exist?
In one of my lexiconical dreamings, where I bring-down, from the Ether, ideations about the future on Earth, I created, post-apocalypse, a motorcycle, which had most of it's parts made from locally researched, grown and manufactured hemp polycarbonates.
Not my idea of course. Henry Ford made the panels of a motorcar from hemp and flax I think, in the 1930s or so. I recall seeing a photo of him wielding a sizeable sledge hammer at the front quarter-panel, made from hemp polycarbonate. I think the text caption read that the hammer bounced-off, and did not leave a mark, and certainly not a dent! Umm.., the “dent” immediately popped-back-out!
In my exile, I'm by no means up-to-date on the advances that exist in that field of hemp polycarbonates, and can be sure that any major advances are kept secreted from popular view by the monster metals and mining cartels, run, of course by the arseholes of the IMF. Hello Mr K! Mr Bond!
Mr Toyota as well, one would expect?
Nevertheless..., this morning I had a look at repairing a small torch which has passed it's use-by date, because the plastics in it are designed to wear-out or break after a year or two. As well, it's “micro” design, means that the connectors and the brackets which fit together inside, break after a short while.
I guess I've given up on that little piece of equipment.
Sure, I only paid about $10 for it. That, however, was after not buying exactly the same product from another shop, which had a $30 price tag on it.
Looking over the new item in the 1st shop, it was clear that there wasn't the quality worthy of $30, and I felt “victorious” when I found the 2-dollar shop around the corner, and the 2/3rds cheaper price.
A retort one has to expect when buying products which have designed-in short lifespans, is that by paying MORE, one will get a longer-lasting product.
This is no doubt the case. But this misses the point, methinks.
The point is that producing low-quality products today, where the planet is lurching toward collapse because of human's over consumption and the consequent waste, pollution, junk products cannot be justified.
Surely the majority of Humans can't afford “expensive” and apparently “high-quality” items, and as we are forced, by the global undercurrent of media, advertising, corporate and “keep-up-with-the-Joneses” pressures, in the most sinful nation – Australia – at least, we can't survive in the society without acquiring the modern appliances and lesser bits of daily-used equipment.
But, typical of the evil Christian culture, we are persuaded to neglect the effects of our excessively desirous “must-have-it” approach, and are fooled to believe that we will be forgiven at the “pearly-gates” for our wasteful lives.
The cult's founder-Prophet, Jeshua ben Joseph, apparently said “Forgive them Lord, for they are all hypnotized idiots!”
No-one reads that as saying “YOU forgive them Lord, I'm buggered if I will!”
And, as we are at perhaps the species' most serious epoch, where all life on Earth is in the balance, primarily because we have been induced, seduced and forced to be sinful slaves to materialism and over-consumption, I doubt that the future's generations will forgive those of us who blindly, selfishly and utterly stupidly consume product that is designed to break or wear-out in the short times they do?
Again, it is NO coincidence, that the most materialistic and thus wasteful culture in all of Earth's Human history – is Christian!
Sure! Japan, Toyota's homeland, is Earth's 2nd biggest economy, and they ain't exactly Christian?
But they are now also in the biggest bucket of financial debt, etc? Made so by the “Macarthur Plan” post world-war-2, which forced Japan to abandon Her Ancient and Highly Disciplined, SUSTAINABLE Culture for the market-driven ideology of the USA-read-the moguls of Britain and Eurape.
Recent reports say that China is leading the world in turning Green, but..... how can that be, when an enormous amount of the stuff, designed to last only a short time, we apparently NEED to survive in the modern world is produced there?
Perhaps 70% of everything I own is made in China, and most of it is either made of plastics and the like which do not last, in their appropriate roles, as the torch I tried to repair (and have repaired for the 5th time, because I tenaciously defy the “modern” throw-away trend).
Decades ago, I was made aware that China and the developing world had to enter the world's “products” manufacturing marketplace, in order to lift their economies, and thus the people's standard of living into the new era of modernism, etc.
This has been the venture of the IMF for decades, which, all things considered, is an honorable and reasonable thing to attempt.
No-one can say to one people or another that they cannot participate in the advances the world invents or researches into existence.
This, may be the 1st time I've ever offered compliments to the IMF, for this global plan?
Perhaps the “plan” is centuries old? Dante? One world government, ideated a 1000 years ago?
Rome? Emperor Constantine? The 4th century Councils of Nicea, which corrupted the original Teachings and Tenets of the early followers of Jeshua ben Joseph?
Adam Kadman, Moses? “The Chosen Tribe”?
Are today's multinational corporations' the end-product of 6000 years of Hebrew planning to bring the world together?
Could be? But..... the evidence appears to say that we have gone too far in abusing the environment, and that only a few of us will survive into the “22nd”, “23rd” centuries and beyond.
So what price, living an over-consuming lifestyle, and to who's final victory?
Therefore, what price, living a Deep Green lifestyle, so that the future will be one with forests and lots of biodiversity for the 'morrow's peoples to happily enjoy?
These are a few reasons why I live away from mainstream culture and people, and why I stubbornly fight to slow, at least, the degradation of the environment.
So...!
Planned obsolescence?
Now that the 3rd world, or most of Asia, and an increasing proportion of the rest of the undeveloped world, is/are “online” in terms of modernization, surely it is time, all things considered, for them to look to reducing their low-quality products.
The new era has improved everything in terms of resourcing better product quality, and China's manufacturing plants, to a large degree, have higher quality equipment, so they can make higher quality products.
So, we, they and all the manufacturing nations of the new world, really have no excuse for not making products which will last 4, 5, TEN times longer than the majority of things the majority of Humans can afford.
For China to NOT take this Intelligent course of action to minimizing pollution, soft-and-hard, by eliminating planned obsolescence, makes a mockery of their attempts, which I prefer to believe are genuine, to “Go Green”, and shows that they are not really serious in that new day venture.
As for the United States, Toyota, and every other manufacturer and government, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA's, saying they are working to clean-up the environment and the way we live, HO-FUCKING-HO-FUCKING-HO?!?!?!?!?!?!
The dependence upon mined metals and oils and other base products is/was a phenomenon of a low-tech era – the industrial revolution's aftermath, an era which served to bring the world into the new day of today's amazing capabilities.
It is passed time we ALL moved forward and left the "old kings'" ways behind us.
As an aside, one wonders how much of a reduction in power-production and energy consumption Australia might make, were we to modernize our electricity grid and all our appliances by changing from 240 volts to 120 volts?
To save spending on a household-full or office-full of, or other, new 120 volt equipment, all each end-user would need is a 120 volt-to-240 volt inverter.
Am I right in suspecting that a reduction from 240 volts to 120 volts AC would mean halving the energy production requirements?
It seems to me, that Australia standardized our electricity grid at 240 volts to counter or cater for the long distances it had to travel from power station to cities and other outlets. Households, industry etc.
But it probably had something to do also with the fact that our masters in Britain had, for a long time used 220 volts.
Again, from the old, low technology era, post the industrial revolution. Today's vastly improved electricity cabling and general distributor technology must surely enable reducing the need to produce 240 volts. But, I am a dickhead a bit, because high voltage in the order of 1000s of volts is how the electricity is shunted from power station to city, etc., and the volts are reduced at or near to the destination, I think?
NEVERTHELESSSS......?
The IMF's multinational mining corporations like Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, etc., must turn the corner of 21st century REALPolitikal thinking, and engineer themselves away from the iron-age of using non-renewable minerals and metal ores for our consumable products, and with that change of direction, that turning the corner to drive sustainably down Green Street, all manufacturers have to bring themselves up-to-speed in terms of the new day way of economic thinking and behaving, by eliminating planned obsolescence from their manufacturing ideologies.
For I put it that by far the majority of our hard pollution, the stuff which ends up in the back corner of our garden shed, after a disgustingly short lifespan, and eventually in the council garbage dump – er – sorry – refuse station – stuff which just makes waste of the environment, is the result of planned obsolescence.
Micro-technology is all-very-well, but when things are so small that they cannot be repaired or even serviced, and so once they break-down are but wasted, high-tech stuff which fits neatly in the palm of our hand, defeats itself and the macro planetary concerns.
And the end-game of the macro planetary concerns, is ensuring that the species and the biodiversity upon which the species depends, live-on, into perpetuity.
All things have to be, and can be, considered, here.
For ages I've felt that no thing should have just one purpose. All forms of packaging should be reusable.
Back to that motorcycle I dreamed-up in my sci-fi future wanderings of mind, it not only transported THREE people, with a lo-ong seat, but it also had a 2000watt, 12 volt DC-to-120 volt AC inverter inboard, as well as an air compressor and ability to power machinery via a belt drive attachable to the rear wheel.
This, it seems to a clear mind, is the way of the Green future, where everything is “Mu-Fu” or multi-functional, but is also made from renewables, and which can perhaps even be recycled OR REPAIRED, once broken or worn-out.
The race to get the 3rd world out of undeveloped poverty and squaller, is in fact a furphy, a falsity, for mostly all that race does, is carry us further away from our Ethical selves, and into sinful degradation. Not only of our own Souls, but of the planet and all it's biodiverse lives.
The long story of the Chosen Tribes seem to me to be the story of a peoples who were, for some mysterious reason – alas! - part once more, of the big Cosmic Plan for this tiny planet - kept landless, a sad reality which forced them to be inventive and cunning, and, in the end, somewhat divisive.
The many many peoples elsewhere on the planet who were not forced off their homelands, were able to be Happy and Content for eons and eons, whilst living entirely Honorable lifestyles and Harmoniously with the natural world, the natural environment, and, were the inventive “modern” world to never have been made manifest, nor to have invaded, would have lived Blissful lives in their “Gardens of Wisdom” for eons and eons into the future.
It cannot be said that we are the only occupants of this universe. Thus it has to be expected that, were humanity to exist on for thousands of years yet, we would come into contact with other intelligent species.
How they or we would be enabled to travel across space to interact is not, I say, dependent upon hard material products like space shuttles and NASA rockets etc., but was something known about and achieved by the Ancients, through their telepathic abilities.
That the western, Judeo-Christian world has just recently become aware, en-masse, of our own innate occult talents, powers and abilities, just shows us how far behind we have been, in terms of firstly, “Knowing Thy Self”, (“Forgive them Lord, for they are all hypnotised idiots!”), but secondly of what we are capable of, without the superficial aid of technological equipment, and the materialist delusions of hard pollution.
Any plans which engender disrespect of the primary habitat, to the point of it's destruction, cannot be Sound, or True, or Good for the future sustainability of the species, and as likely, are but delusion if we are led to believe we need them to be able to either travel intergalacticly or to fight off aggressive aliens.
If aliens did come to Earth 1000s of years ago, and still threaten our existence, then our apparent race to come-up-to-speed technologically to defend ourselves, is a trick, for, it is, as the Goons used to say, “all in the mind, you know?”!
Therefore it is time we ended the profit-driven farce of planned obsolescence in the material products we consume, and tuned our focus to our Inner Strengths of the mind, where all Happiness is rooted and sustained.
So! MISTER TOYOTA? where's that True Environmentally Friendly motorcar, MADE FROM HEMP?????
Where you lead, others, and even governments, will follow! A position, therefore, which carries enormous Responsibility!
Get on the Train, Nippon!
China! South Korea! United, or is that "Untied" States of America?
PS: Sorry for the "typo's"!
Green, grow the rushes O!
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