“People's Bank”, “Unemployment Rates”, “GFC easing, but 'Far From Over'”, “World Food Supply”, “Energy Consumption”, “Homeless

“People's Bank”, “Unemployment Rates”, “GFC easing, but 'Far From Over'”, “World Food Supply”, “Energy Consumption”, “Homelessness” & other stuff...
09-07-09.

Comments from economic academics this week saying that a “People's Bank” is an idea our federal government should consider, were met with little enthusiasm by the federal government, by our media, and oh golly – by the four major Australian banks.

4 “Australian” banks which all have the support from the world's majors, most all based in Eurape, if-not in that grand old tax-haven and tax-dodge fortress, Switzerland.

The big brother of our media, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Aunty ABC, dutifully slipped the newsy item into their programming, with nary a sod of old dirt turned to check our passed national record in regard to “public banks”.

As I ain't bothered researching further than into my memories on the matter, I will say that most of Australia's attempts to provide money at an affordable price to the average Aussie Battler have begun with Right-minded, even-handed enthusiasm by the now pretty-much deceased generations of responsible “Public” Civil Servants, and even by a significant number of our politicians, by the also pretty-much deceased generations of fairminded media and financial commentators, and by the general slob-in-the-street.

I was a, THE “Mad Max” of motorcycle couriers in the 1980s, when Victoria was cast to the devil and recession by the collapse of the “Pyramid Building Society” which took a lot of Geelongian punters down the gurgler with it, and as well brought-on a wider recession.

John Cain's Labor government was thrown to the media wolves of Britain's elite. Cain himself was shuffled out of office, as being responsible for the shaking recession, was replaced by Joan Kirner, who could not stop the ALP slide out of government later in the decade.

Melbourne was brought into world class city status in their years in government, and retains that level of Quality for the Progressive Policies and Work their forward-thinking pollies and public servants instilled in the 1980s.

Thankfully, today Victoria has the next generation of good governors in the chair, under John Brumby's Premiership, but they didn't get their without a revolution in their own and in Victoria's approach during the dark, darker-nay-perhaps-darkest years of the Liberal-fascist Jeff Kennett.

When I wasn't playing wiff the traffic on my courier bike, I was driving taxis around Melbourne. Something I did when I needed a break from the breakneckery of giving city and suburban cars drivers heart-attacks as I raced passed their right elbows at twice the speed of their rear-view mirrors. Often I reflect with my ghosts about those days, and those two jobs, and wish I could still do either, because I still believe that they were two of the best jobs going – fast or slow – er.

Taxi driving was great mainly because one could have a good, to-the-point conversation with your passengers, which, while often a load of crap, was made great when an intelligent or thoughtful person jumped-in. Even better when they were off to the airport, or further.

But the short trips had their benefits, especially in the busy hours in town. Ah! That blessed flagfall!

But to the point of taxi-driving and our banks, in the months around and after the Kirner government was booted out, I happened to have informative chats with enough Workers in town, in the cab, to get a handle on what had happened.

“Bad management” be damned! The fingerprints of the pro-Anglo Melbourne Club and their underhanded “accountancy consultant” corporations were all over the collapses of the late 1980s in Melbourne and Geelong.

After the guillotine had fallen on Cain and his Mob, an inquiry unambiguously cleared the Victorian Cain Labor government of 'bad management', and as I recall, made clear mention of KPMG Peat Marwick, auditors, to the fegging English monarch no-less, as having been less than complete in advising the Vic ALP about how to handle the money matters of the State.

Now, in 2009, I know a bit more about Australian politrix, and having found myself in the centre of the cross between “right-and-left wings” of politics, find, too late for mememe, that most of our political fiascos are actually more rooted in our differing-yet-BOTH-erring religious cults – Protestantism-versus-Catholicism!

So it was no coincidence that the Catholic Victorian ALP was slimed out of government by – oh! the pro-Anglo Liberal Kennett mob, with the able underhandy-work assistance of Britain's world-beating MI6 super-secrecy-and-subversion bureau.

This got us a fascist and obviously propagandist Kennett government who for some “fascinating” reason, took-out a pile of public schools, selling the real estate to their speculator/developer mates, and other useful public ventures and institutions, and even introduced the evil concept of having real estate agents (for god's sake?) sponsoring underfunded government schools.

For a very frightening few years in the early 1990s, Victoria was being sold right down the Yarra, straight out Port Phillip heads and into the undercurrents of turmoil of the stormy Bass Strait.

All very well for the hypnotized egomaniacs, most private-schooled egomaniacs, from both the protestant and catholic indoctrination centres-er-schools. Scotch College, Christian Brothers “Parade”, Caulfield Grammar to name but three.

And goodbye to the public-(read 'government')-owned State Bank of Victoria, followed soon after by the privatization of the Commonwealth Bank, and-on and-on, until now Australia's banks are all owned, in reality, by Britain and Eurape.

All part of the longterm plans of the tall-shadows in the International Monetary Fund, IMF, ex-British East India Company. Ex-the most ruthless moguls on Earth from Brit-Eurape, who, since 1788, but more effectively since 26th January 1808 and the infamous and still incumbant “Rum Club” illegal military coup de ta, still own and run Australia.

Democracy be damned! So, on another news item of today, it should be noted that Rio Tinto mining has always been a big player in the BEIC-cum-IMF game of owning Australia, and the whole planet, and thus let all Aussies salute the Chinese authorities for arresting the boss of Rio Tinto in China, on charges of spying.

But alas! What are we to make of Australia's political musical chairs, when Labor and Liberal State and federal ex-politicians leave politrix to land VERY comfortable jobs in oh, Britain's and Eurape's largest corporations?

Perhaps this says SOMETHING about why Deputy PM Gillard and was it our finance Minister let the clearly quite PUBLIC-Minded Economists suggestions FOR a People's Bank slip through to the keeper......

Is it..., is ANYTHING..., worth thinking about or working for......?


“Other Stuff” Rave, part two....

“Unemployment Rates”, “GFC easing, but 'Far From Over'”, “World Food Supply”, “Energy Consumption”, “Homelessness”.....

Unemployment in Australia will rise, if the USA's figures are any guide. Thus homelessness will increase also, while the IMF real estate lobby still have the ears and frightened imaginations of the world's governments. Such, that “figures” thus mainstream, “Babylonian” media propaganda are manipulated to fool the majority that the GFC is passed it's worst, when in fact, the GFC is only really getting better for those on the top of the global economic pyramid.

In Australia, this is, the “top four banks”....., everyone above annual $250,000 salaries, our hallowed political class, real estate moguls, and accompanying sychophants.

Oh! and anyone in corporate management in the “energy (and mining) sector(s)”.....

Before I camped where I am, 2 nights ago, I was driving aimlessly west on the Bruxner Highway, north-west of Tenterfield, in northern NSW, and in the headlights saw a frightening plackard nailed to a few telegraph poles. It was a characature of a clenched fist with the word “FIGHT” on it. So, I stopped and shon the lights onto to one of them.

“FIGHT the powerlines!” was the message. Self explanatory, and looked like the poster-posters were, in typical rural NSW fashion ready to get vicious, against the construction of those big, ugly electricity power transmission towers and wires.

“Yeah! Fuckin' oath!” I grumped to my dashlights. I'd gone only a few metres when I thought that it was as likely the bloke/blokes who went to the trouble of designing, having printed and posting those plakards are the local rural large landowners who don't want their dreamy-delicious 10k acres of deforested land being disviewed by metal martians and 25kva wires.....

Nevertheless, irony strikes everywhere in Australia, and it struck this deeep Greenie for being onside with the bighouse land grabber mob.....

As I wandered back east, after stopping for a rest, my last smoke and a wee vodka, I thought I thought about my last email to Australia's Super-Green Senator Bob Brown, and blogpost, which you'll find in here somewhere.

The email was about the REALPolitik alternative energy scenario of people making their own solar panels, in their own shed, thus, giving themselves FREE ENERGY, forever.

As I am not able to confirm whether one CAN make their own solar panels, thus all of this is speculation, I nevertheless was free to discursively wander in my thinks room about what a REALPolitik planet would be like, if the rebels who posted the “FIGHT the powerlines” and every local community really got their shit together and brought in a Truly Democratic form of government.

One little question which bubbled in was “How much of our work-a-day efforts and time and earnings are exherted for-to afford the (electrical) energy we need and consume?”

I have no idea what the answer is, even in general terms. But IF! Everyone was able to make and acquire FOR FREE, sufficient electricity for their own needs, wants and reasonable desires, THEMSELVES, such that urban and rural electricity “grids” were not necessary, it does seem reasonable to speculate that a fair bit of our outgoings in effort, time, employment and money would be significantly reduced.

So, logically, would the need for the terrible polluting coal-fired power stations and their dirty-dirty-very-bloody-dirty coal mines be eliminated altogether.

Oh!? To Get Her!

Then..., ALAS! What of this “nuclear power” thingo????

If my tyres were in better tred, I might well be inspired to Maralinger for a while.......

Wonder if the wireless broadband fascists inside my Telsra stick reach out there...?



“World Food Supply”

Why do I have to eat so much......?

Can't have Woolworth's upper management out of a job, aye...?

And how would they pay their electrickery bills....?



How to get DEMOCRACY into Government......

In these times of irony, it ironbars me that there are three main catagories of yet-to-be, “Logical Allies”.

Aborigine. Greenie. Biker.

Irony ironbars me thrice over here, for as-it-'appens, I belong to all three of these yet-to-be Allies.

One, is that I am part Aborigine, of the Gurnai Clan from south Gippsland in Victoria, although I've had to uncover the brutal facts about that alone, what with my own (half) family denying it all our lives, and I carry no Knowledge of Gurnai Law, Culture or Traditions.

Two is that I've been a Greenie, once called “Conservationists” since I was flung amongst them when I was a juvenile 15 or so years old. (Blimey? That's almost 40 years!)

And three, I've had several and still ongoing love-affairs with motorcycles since about the same age, and was Blessed-enough to be introduced to a rugged-as-fuck small band of ex-Hell's Angels and others when I was 17 or 18, soon after I rebuilt and began riding my first motorbike, a BSA B50SS 500cc single cylinder unit construction monster, for those who wanna know.

Now, well the reader might ask “How do these 3 Mobs Align?”

Well, firstly, as it's all goin'-off in MY mind, anything is possible.....

Secondly, all three have always been marginalized by mainstream dumb-as-doggy-doo society.
Western society. And if we strip-away the hooplah and sychophancy, not just Bikers, but still, all three are marginalized by the pontificating majority to this day.

Three, all three are, by the Science, all to be found to be “On-The-Money” in terms of their being Quite Correct in their respective “View” of the world.

A, by the Science, the Aborigine, the Australian Aborigine, are beyond doubt Godly in their Wisdom, in how they structure their societies, in their Traditions, Laws, Customs and Respect etc., and in how they would Live their Lives, were the white-bottomed bureaucrat religious cultists to get out of the way and let them.

B, by the Science, Greenies are being proven beyond doubt more each day, that their political attitude and policy-direction is Quite Correct, and is the Direction most Humans agree, we all should be going. Even up in the top storeys of global political power, a la, in the USA President's Whitehouse backyard.

And...., C, the Motorcycle Outlaw, at least the Men (Returned Servicemen) who began to Rebel against the society they went to war to defend and who on return, Rebelled against the direction it was heading, and who thus chose motorcycles for transport over cages, and remain to this day Seriously Resistant to the utterly ridiculous “trends-and-products” the white, western, mainstream over-consumption technocratic culture pumps-out, flogs the braindead “Christian”-type sociopath.

Yes, there are many anomolies herein my argument, and plenty of irony, iron-agers, iron-horses and a few potential ironbars waiting for me.

But all three are regarded by the mainstream deadheads as dickheads, because none of them are entranced by the beads-and-trinkets dropped in our begging bowls by London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and the rest of the pompus, ethics-free, plastic society trendsetters.

Trendsetters who are so fucking hypnotized by this utterly evil fraudulance we now take for granted in “technology”, “mortgages”, “false religion”, “western medicine”, “free market capitalizing on the weak” “centralized government and populations” etcetera...., etcetera...., ETCETERA!

All three of these I suggest are REALPolitik Allies, also, because, while some of us will mock the suggestion in regard to our nasty, dirty, evil Bikers, in their own Cultures, while Greenies may not yet have any Genuinely distinct “Culture” per se, they have something which the most influential culture of western materialism blatantly and “blasphemously” lack – Ethics. Real Honest, Deep and Sincere Ethics. Ethics which treat others with the Proper Respect. Ethics which treat the Great Spirit and everything, on the Mother Earth, and beyond, with the Respect they and it Deserve.

Now, yes, a part of me is now rolling on the floor laughing at THAT one, in regard to Bikers, if we are to go by the record and reputation they have acquired, especially around the arrival lounges of Sydney airport, etc. And the most of us will never know what was behind the fight and death as occurred there recently.

But we are not right in concluding that it was merely another intergang frachar, for the Bikers as most know them, are but a part of a much larger war, and while they do go to the darker side and take on the fight, fearless of whether they as individuals live or die, they do so from a much Higher “Call to Arms” let's say, a Call to Duty, of defending their own, or their Turf, or some Principles we may never know or know of. Principles which, perhaps in youth, thus in some degree of naivity, had them “sign-up” and go fearlessly and Honorably – THAT IS ETHICALLY – to war.

And today, 2009, as the whole planet seems to be uncontrollably lurching toward an era of war, where Humanity will be at war with either itself, our neighbour, with bloody extraterrestrials or with the environment to survive, the Aborigine, the Greenie and the Biker are very aware that things have to change, EVERYWHERE, if the species is to survive, and if we are to make the world even slightly better than the ceaseless march of western progress has offered us all over the passed 1600 years.

ALL of us, Whitey, Black, Red, Golden and Tanned.

Sooooo....,

I have, to some degree “known” a few of the “older” Bikers over my life, and know that they too love clean air, Righteousness, Justice, a Good Laugh, AND, the chance to kick-back and be Peaceful-yes-Peaceful.

While many of them are set in their ways in regard to having a beer with a coon, or with a fucking hippy, once they, like an Aborigine, and like a Greenhair, can see that the “other” does have some Merit in their Ways, Customs and Beliefs, some Genuine either Grassroots or Intelligent Ethics in how they go about their business, they usually will support the other.

But that's only my opinion.

In the Australian political arena, we see several genuine attempts in the latest ALP guard of honor in Canberra, to Do The Right Thing by the Public, and to institute Good Governance nationwide.

However, in regard to those issues I go into, again, see my email-cum-blogpost to Bob Brown which attacks the environmentally unsustainable reality of the current “workforce” system, regime, scenario, the current generations of all-three levels of governance in Australia are all hamstrung, mainly it seems, by the technocrats of global finance and industry. Many of whom, it must be said, (which must temper our view of calling on the oft' ex-military Bikers), are stoic “technocrats” within all ranks and branches of the world's military.

However, yet again, most People in the three groups I suggest should be Allies, know well that something HAS to happen, if only to help, or prompt, the mainstream political class, and the mainstream voters to REALLYPolitik effect CHANGE in our world, so, our coming generations of gigglebrained, spoiled, arrogant little brats don't have to be chillingly cold, evil-to-survive adults and parents.

Finally, I know a lot of Greenies are somewhat less interested in everyone's welfare, even though they try to live sustainably, etc. I know the “Green” Movement, as we know it today, grew out-of the upper class academics and intellectuals, often those spoiled enough by daddies own middle-upper-class upbringing and corporate income, (too often enhanced through the buying-and-selling of “stolen” Black Fella's land) to not have to go daily to the mill to keep a roof over their heads and french wine-and-cheeses on the table. I also know they often can't help but look down their toffy noses at the rest of us, even though they know just how to sound “of the people”.

I guess I've met a few Aborigine who look down on most everyone else also, so there's a lot of reconcilliation needed if as I “Dream” these three Groups of oh Human Beings, would themselves “Do The Right Thing” for their own, and for the other Mob's own.

It's a very different world today, aye, Fella, Dude, Toff?

The Black Fella will tell ya, 'cause they been Knowing the Truth for a lot longer than those lost sheep Christians, and all their universities and books-books-books. “We don' need another LEADER. We just need the Knowledge. About the Land. About the Great Spirit. And about our True Selves.

We got them, Honor comes Naturally. Integrity comes Naturally. Ethics come Naturally. Justice comes True.

Lo-ongtime before that “Socrates” and that “Plato” fella spoke about Democracy, Aborigine Lived It, to the Full.

And they didn't even have the wheel!

Just as well, I s'pose?


AUM