Food-Medicine? Labor 2006, Before And Beyond?

by Max Nichols Meredith
www.maxnodifference.blogspot.com, outta Nimbin, Australia.
6th July 2006
Recently, listening to Nimbin’s 2NIM fm's (102.3FM) Tony Stallone's health radio show, I heard him regard food as "Medicine".
How Logical! How Sensible, etc.!
Since that show, the ABC has used the same term "Food Medicine" five million times....? er.... no...., once, but that's good enough, for it is a much overlooked truth, that FOOD IS MEDICINE, when regarded and consumed aright.
So, a long way of writing what came to mind 'tother day, when reflecting on that "Food Medicine" term:
"Cultural Food-Medicine" resulted from that short ponder, which means, implies, aspires to light-up in other minds that:
Good Culture, like Good Food, is Medicine.
Tha's alll!
What’s Good Culture? Natural, Agrarian, Organic, Communal, Indigenous, Sustainable, Spiritual. Heaven-on-Hertha!

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AUM-on, for a Better Culture than has transpired thus-far across New South Wales and Queensland, deriving as they have from totally corrupted beginnings, since the military take-over of the Colonial Government in Sydney over the years 1792-to-1795, being completed in the Rum Rebellion of 1808, when the Macarthur-ites (a la Merino sheep man John MacArthur), utterly ruined Australia's chances of developing into an uncorrupted colony, nation, by having the British monopolists grab a tight hold on every form of supply of commodities and, especially grog.
With all the hooplah and revision of Australia's history, NONE of the historians, as far as I hear-see, have gone NEAR addressing the true basis of the long 13-or-so-year vicious struggle by the corrupt, to destroy Good Governance, as Governor William Bligh was on the way to instilling, upto the Rum Rebellion event of 1808.
This True Basis, is clearly stated, though perhaps a little overlooked by the Author H.V. "Doc" Evatt in his heroic book "Rum Rebellion" first published in the 1930s.
This true basis for the Rebellion, was that the greedy buggers, led by Macarthur, saw the inestimable value, potential power and profit in their own possession, ownership, of the LAND, NOT government’s ownership of Land, both in the defined precinct of the new town of Sydney, and of course (who couldn't see it?), in the endless acres beyond.
It’s necessary to NOTE, that the marked-out precinct of Land for Sydney Town was deemed before settlement, by something of a Crown Order from England, which came out with the First Fleet and Governor Arthur Phillip, to remain in government hands, ownership, perennially. MacArthur was leading the charge against these Land occupation and possession Laws, which England sought to instil. Crown Laws which, on detailed analysis (Google “Henry George”), are just Beautiful for everyone.
Until the mainstream-like-ABC-type media gets on the train of the LEGAL CASE THEREIN, behind this LAND ISSUE, politics, not just Labor, and the broad-left in Australia is designed and destined to GO NO-WHERE.
Labor today is known as a total rort on the workers, which explains why so-called "Unionists" are cynical about the "Cause", which should be Aiming to bring Communities together in the most Sane, Highest, Sustainabl-est Ways, and in-part is why Unions are very closely in bed with the multinational construction-type corporations. This, for their capacity to employ many slaves, thus, in past days, Union sites extracted large-ish fees/funds, justified with saying that this allows Union bosses to parlay with big corporate employers, etc.
That outdated type of behaviour by Unions is understandable, but is now dangerously anachronistic.
Now, Unions are living hypocritically in cities, so should employ their remnant power to Advocate Agrarian Socialism and Decentralisation.
The "Labour Movement" as-such, grew from done-over masses in industrial and post-industrial-revolution cities. Cities which grew from an earlier eviction from ancient Homelands of British Peoples, in rural agrarian Communities. That dispossession officially began in 1475 with the English parliament's first "Land Enclosure Act", but has been going on forever, say what?
"Labour's" roots are a Valid response to concentration of supply and power in new industrial centres of manufacturing etc., but today, remain fighting the monopolists, monopolists now of everything, but from within an inherently flawed, terminal industrial social/business/economic model. The "western" over-consumptive materialist/mammon “my-my-my” nuclear-family model. Most INefficient of ALL!
A necessary phase for both Humanity's Collective Progress and Australia's, and for Uniting the Workers stuck at the time in the unstoppable, increasing and deliberately divisive "nuclear family model" environment of city/industrialised high-densities of population.
Please NOTE, that the "nuclear family" housing model is almost entirely "profit-driven" in it's invention.
Workers were “stuck”, prevented by rotten Land Laws (and usury!) from pursuing a Legitimate, Sustainable and HONEST i.e., "AFFORDABLE", AGRARIAN Life-on-the-Land.
However, THE Social Model, known now through Wholistic Science (hear the cynical mainstream scientists roar!) ETCETERA!, as the BEST for Human Existence, Endurance and Progress on Earth - AGRARIAN SOCIALISM - DOES NOT CONFLICT with general underlying Union/Labour Movement's Values.
Indeed, with a Wise Community Governing itself Democratically, these two types of Governance are the Most Complimentary sets of Values to-and-for each other today.
I do not give a flying fart about any "fascist" hyperbola on this subject. But to convince the "N.S.W. Rum Inc."? Rum Inc., being, as far as I can gather, the N.S.W. Labor right wing faction(s)-run parliamentary mobsters, and their myriad "minions" across the colony-er-State.
'Tother day I heard that the old "Country Party" of Australia, now labelled "The Nationals", was the stalwart of Agrarian Socialism in it's day, which is funny to me because about two years ago, I wrote to the ALP in Canberra (during the "Mark Latham for God" Campaign of the Catholic-ABC-ALP Party faction), that their Natural Ally in the Australian political arena was....., wait-for-it..... "The Nationals"!
So it remains today, with a twist no doubt.
Unions! Australian Labor Party! GO-BUSH! and Combine your "City-Smarts" with Native, Rural Wisdom.
Agrarian Socialism with Science and Labor Community Values has to be everyone's future. Wid-a-bit-o’-Soul, o course!
Kim Beazley! The issue is NOT "Workplace Conditions" but "Workplace Culture".
Get 'em OUT of the terminal cities, Comrade.
It's about time the Greens made clear their policies in regard to the Scientific FACTS also, of "How Humans may Best, ie., Most Sustainably, Share and Prosper, Spiritually preferably, with, on and in the Land”, on issues underpinning all issues and underlying all crimes:
-Population Density Economics. Distribution.
-Common Sovereignty.
-Land, and
-Global Ethics?
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