On the post-tsunami (25th December) situation
The scale of the event and aftermath may uncover that such a rescue operation, to be effective, must approach any long-term reparations in the light that the event brings with it a different 'dynamic'.
We are accepting that global weather patterns are "hardening", becoming more extreme, and tension is mounting as to the liklihood of worse weather everywhere in the years, decades to come.
Can we insure against such events striking asunder, major western cities?
........Millions of people made abject, but yes, perhaps better educated in issues of sanitation etc., so may better survive shortages etc.
But if more Floridas or Sumateran Acts-of-Allah occur, hitting west-coast USA., or Japan, or any other big western centre, making large western populations homeless and possessionless, and worse case, making pre-event high-demographic centres post-event uninhabitable, a hard pragmatic plan needs putting together.
Of course, the same applies to all nations potentially threatened by our Wrathful Gods.
Again, worse-case for Australia (being my home, and perhaps the guinea-pig for Advancing and Mediating Global Politics for 21C), were a tsunami to be generated somewhere in the Pacific and rock-on-in, to Brisbane-Sunshine-Gold Coast, a big one could disrupt well-over a million residents. Plus their businesses, food, shelter etc., supplies.
How would governments respond?
Pause here and throw-in the worse-worse case scenario of not an Act of Allah, but of any brand of psycho, parking and exploding a nuclear device in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne or Canberra etc? (Well...., Canberra? Hmmm......)
Of coarse there's the longer-term scenario of global warming lifting sea-levels, swamping innumerable villages, towns and cities, Third World and first, definitely claiming 'traditionally'-owned valuable real estate around every coastline. ("Traditional" as-in-an illegally imposed legal-and-social system only 1000 years or so old, and less than 220 years old in Australia can be called 'traditional', as against the True Traditions of Aborigine - 20, 40, 60, 150 thousand years old???
Beyond the relative ease of planning longterm for global warming, what 'contingency plans' do the UN and any government have, in anticipation of such events?
None of any coherence or Balance, you can be sure.
"Policies-on-the-run", our Liberal government.
Obviously as we (Humanity) struggle through 21C, if the last GW scenario should occur, all coastal land will be inundated, as-good-as permanently.
It is inconceivable that any rehabilitation and relocation program - large-scale - could be effective and affordable, both by government and individuals/families, under the current, near-totally-biased system of Land Tenure.
Biased that-is, against any straight, REAL-POLITIK, Wholly Compassionate (indeed, the MOST Compassionate) "Adjustments" catering Best for All, but Best for the dispossessed post-major-catastrophe.
Large areas of privately-owned acreage on still habitable (and arable) Land, near-or-on the "new" coastlines, will have to be surrendered or appropriated to accommodate those affected, unless any natural residential, and thus business and industrial (employment) drift inland occured.
But global warming and sea-level rises may happen so slowly that any necessary migration from lost coastlines could be absorbed by the (un)economy running now.
But should issues of Pacific Islands et al, dissappearing, become one of permanently relocating whole nations, at some stage, Land Tenure imbalances, disparities and questions of Reform, must arise.
Australia is real estate Heaven, low demographics, much beautiful, sustainable, arable and habitable Land.
Therefore it must face the basic inequities of the current Land Tenure system, in consideration of our regional neighbours, and how it can help both the fallen victims of any such future local disasters, and its own People, by considering at-least, these suggestions for handling future natural catastrophes and subsequent disruptions to every regional person's life.
Australia is the last continent of "unclaimed" real estate on the big-ball. We've led the world in political progress, and in Political Progress, while I do not ignore the tragic relationship between Aborigines and we white invaders.
Australia is perhaps made-up of two cultural opposites (and much in between) - western materialism - Judeo-Christian capitalism, and the still Alive Aboriginal Way - of Harmony with People, Gods, and the Land (where "Land" means all Her Ceatures, Waters, Terrain and Atmosphere, not even seperate from the Cosmos).
I cannot deny that Australia is NOT the rightful property of HRH 'Liz'beth Two, nor in any consequence of, is it the property of any 'white' or other invader-immigrant, and do not deny that if any Human or Mob of Humans has Legitimate "Claim" to Ownership and thus Authority over Her soil, it IS the Aborigine.
While there is the denial of these and other basic Facts, and the refusal by J Howard etc., to offer any apology or recognition of the blatant fact that they-themselves now profit and live off the earlier theft of the Aboriginal People's Mother - Their Land, and profit and live off the most gruesome destruction, deaths, tears and blood of the Original Peoples, Nazist bigotry against blacks is given the OK.
This, J Howard's selective ignorance, is part of his-or-an 'establishment agenda', to keep the Indigenies on the back-foot, in the self-perpetuating fear that the slightest hint of admission of past crimes would cause the 'establishment', to be threatened with collapse and thence to warlike, covertly and viciously divide the Australian People, purely, (like 1914 Sarejevo, Yugoslavia), to distract us from facing these necessary Democratic, Transcultural, Economic and Land Tenure Reforms.
Howard's (and coven's) actions in this regard, no matter how convoluted they make it, are crimes.
Out of Respect of the Aborigine, I can only write on this issue - "Population Redistribution and Land Tenure Reform" - as my postulations being a "Best-Shot" at how to "Conciliatorily" Govern for Them, for Their Home, Their Country, Their Land, and for all who may settle in the future.
Would we not do Justice for/to All, by seeking and building a Society-Community-Nation and Planet along the lines of How our Virtuous and Wisest Ancestors would want us All to Live? ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.......
Pre-invasion Black-Fella would, in very different language, symbolism, form and Appreciation, have in their heart Understood and Concurred with the 'western' method of economic accountability and sustainability when employed to pay expenses of Government from the Land Rent, a Method of revenue collection and redistribution which would perfectly suit the relocation and rehabilitation of the worst-effected victims of the Sumateran Tsunami, should longer-term accommodation and rehab' be necessary.
In recent years, Aborigines living on the Gulf of Carpentaria in the dip of Australia's north coast, found a boat full of Asian refugees coming ashore.
So, in typical Aboriginal Hospitality, they took them in and made them Welcome, until the 'authorities' came, barated the Locals and imprisoned the Refs.
The Aborigines up there, also had the attitude that the white-bastards have treated them as refugees for 215 years, so they can only empathise with the boaties.
So I wouldn't expect any argument from Australia's Aborigine to the idea of bringing any displaced tsunami refugees, from the third world, like - the really poor, over here for a bit of Real Australian R&R, beit for three months, or three years.
Or for any other negotiable period where they can be Deeply Rehabilitated, and learn some relevent skills and customs (NOT MACDUNNIES!!!) to help them attain their own economic independence, and, even to the degree where they can confidently return willingly to their Native Land and Tribes, equipped to Truly help their own Mobs.
As I have put to Israel's President Ariel Sharon, and several other Middle-Eastern leaders, the very notion of "international borders", especially in the divisive way the 'western colonial-and-crusadorial invaders' laid them out, are a dangerously dated means of Land management, principally because the current speculative structure (of Land management) most debilitates Local Communities - the grassroots and foundation of all nations.
Aborigine is perhaps saying the same thing, in probably a far Superior, more Wholistic Way, when they call the Land "Mother".
White man has, in 216 years, tried hard to wipe such Wisdom from the hearts of non-whites (of all Lands).
Fortunately, True Culture Aborigine survives, to the extent that so too, does their Law. This is so, everywhere.
No matter how hard the crude technology of western war machines have tried, they have yet to kill the Spirit Implicit in those ancient True Traditional Communities, and their Democratic Socialism of Lore. Yes many have gone, but that some do still Live, is what's important.
And to-be-sure, Aborigine will always react negatively to mention of the dynastic trendsetters of inequitable, illegal Land domination, as upheld by our traitorous pasturalists, graziers and broad-acre farming corporates, conglomerates, consortia, conspirators and covens.
J Howard's bum-chums.
But, it's been happening since Adam-the-Ape, and is a 'global' situation now.
Aboriginal People all-over have suffered from the white, 'chosen' Judeo-Christian 'golden-calf-tribe' expansionism, often to extinction, since the first Celtic Jock McMonkey Warlords set-off out of Caucasia way-back-before-time-or-Temple.
I too, am a victim, albeit that I'm Celtic meself!
A victim in being descended from an (assumedly) involuntary English (wi' We-elsh r-r-roots, Gwynlith) convict (George Meredith)sent to Fremantle W.A. in 1854.
But I'm not complaining anymore than for to voice the angst of all hard-done-by ancestors and their living descendents.
But returning to the first question: "Can we insure against such events striking asunder major western cities?"
It leaves few other options than a major rethink on Land Tenure policy, and I have no doubt that a full-scale plan can be made, ready for a big hit, and that one can be made manifest now in relation to the estimated 100,000 deaths, decay, and desperation as happening this minute-moment-in-Nature, across south-east Asia.
As I put in an earlier weblog on this
Thus with Democratic Co-operation, Invoke Land Reforms, but of a better-accounted-for format than the disasters of China's Maoist Reforms, or the watered-down Reforms introduced by Mahatma Gandhi in India.
This would enable international, or inter-Asian-state co-operation, coping and efficiency when these (expected) Natural disasters happen.
I place emphasis on international co-operation because it is far more effective and is phenomenally stronger, considering the "deep attachment" usually more "localised" parochial, land-read-warlords have to 'territory', or even to their precious quarter-acre.
However, such disaster plans within nations are, on this scale-of-relief, where major cities are threatened, feasible, and I put-it, today, a necessity.
If the United Nations continue to ignore these HARD FACTS on LAND TENURE, they further expose their teetering relationship with landocratic corruption (the MOST untenable and dangerous corruption) as being more powerful than the Human and "Cosmic" Call for "A Fair Go", even to the Forgotten Third World Victims of this latest "Wake-Up Call", in the form of an angry couple of tectonic plates under the Sea of Bengal.
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