"Mining jobs on hold" is blackmail

19/05/10

Politics and media are two big games, played for the benefit of the elites of the world's multinational corporations and their supporters.

So it is no surprise that the big IMF-insider mining corporations threaten the Australian government with blackmail by suggesting that projects and thus jobs are to be put on hold, unless the government retracts it's attempts to slow the export of AUSTRALIANs' wealth to foreign hands.

But 'twas ever thus! Most people over drinking age remember when the major auto makers did the same thing when earlier governments sought to change the ways the makers' worked.

This is surely the biggest advantage of a “free market”, where the most economically influential can force their way with governments who operate in fear of the major industries' allies - the media - launching scaremongering campaigns.

Failing us as they have for hundreds of years, if not for thousands, governments are caught between rocks and very hard places, because they/we the People are most all in deep-psychological, paranoid addiction to the monetary system we know, and thus cannot fathom any break from the usual affairs of “getting up, going to work, and coming home with a handful of dollars,” to spend on securing the necessaries for sleeping, eating, playing, so we can get-up, go to work, and come home with a handful of dollars.

Correcting the system is an huge idea, if we are serious about stopping the rot, about stopping the ongoing degradation of the general “quality of life”, to the point where we are actually free, from what amounts to slavery, forced upon us by bankers, and the wealthy industrialists.

FOREIGN bankers and industrialists.

However, while every shock-jock and mouthy pundit, usually those on nice-little-earners for talking absolute untruths - politicians and media - talk-up our advancing economy and society, ignoring the hard truths about the overall downward trends, the majority are lulled to inaction by - blackmail and scaremongering.

Surveys are thrown out daily to keep the polies on their toes, scared shitless, and no-one has the reach, nor the power to force the pollsters to be upfront about the intended, that-is the predetermined, results and the formation of the questions which are asked.

Journalists in large media corporations are given free licence to add to the fragility of government in these days of frightening uncertainty, and each media corp has it's own team of clever little headline writers, paid to make the article appear with one glance as a must to read, if we want something to be either gossipy about or scared shitless - Sensationalism at it's lowest.

Another big winner in this downward-spiralling competitive market place.

It sells more!

So what are our so-called “leaders” actually doing?

What are they being paid - BY US - to do?

We have a highly trained military force full of brave, daring Warriors who are charged with going where no softcock private-school boy would dare go, and - dodge the bullets.

So why are we putting our politicians in the firing line?

Is there not more important stuff for those highly educated - yes, I really mean “indoctrinated” - graduates and civil servants who fall into the high-flying jobs of managing government, to deal with?

Perhaps the reality is that they are not really there to manage the economy, or the affairs of state, but are there, in our Houses of parliament, to keep the veneer polished, to keep the veil draped over our eyes and ears, to keep us the DEMOS in the mushroom nursery?

Liberal leader Tony Abbott sprung a leak the other day on the 7.30 Report saying that he cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

Why can he not tell the truth?

Because he is PAID to not tell the truth.

(“Sometimes, ah? Kerry..., ah, my mind makes me tell porkies.....”)

The same surely must apply to all our polies?

Years ago, I fell on a book in a Melbourne 2nd hand book shop, titled “The Landboomers” by a Monash Uni lad (then) Michael Cannon, who traced the money trails of our horrendous land speculators back as far as the boom and bust cycle of the 1890s.

Then, before the unions really had teeth, the politicians almost to a man, made disgusting profits from being utter utter utter bastards with the public's trust, by setting up banks aplenty for the rising numbers of better-off people to deposit their earnings and profits in, then these politician-bankers used it to buy huge tracts of land on the margins of Melbourne, to subdivide and sell to the same depositors, and whoever wanted a piece of land to set-up home.

The politician bankers had no compunction to pay exorbitant prices to their own government for the land, with other people's money, inflating the overall price of land so much that OH SURPRISE-SURPRISE the economy ran out of money, and the banks went bankrupt. Depositors were robbed, left homeless, and with a broken state economy, jobless, while the polie-bankers pleaded in the supreme court for leniency, and were let-off, let out of their bond, in many cases paying back as little as one half-penny per pound.

Does the name “Baillieu” ring any bells?

Yet, as many stayed in parliament, because they had the power of the media and the industrialists to keep them there, to keep the veneer polished.

Something like that.

Few workers did not know what was going on, but because the media, the “fourth estate” of power, and thus of control of the people, and the already totally corrupted courts, could turn things to the advantage of “the gentry” always the “landed” wealthy which included of course, industrialists, media moguls and the judiciary, nothing could be done to get the politicians to TELL THE TRUTH.

Campaigning as I did over the last decade and more for to rid Australia of the most tyrannical power-brokers we've had since John MacArthur in the early part of the 19th century, I looked hard into the Souls of those who are in government now, and thought I saw some integrity, some intelligent will and sincere determination to make our systems of governance even just slightly more honorable, than they had been for almost 200 years?

Looking into the eyes of each of the current federal team, I did see that crucial want to do it right.

But LO? Something stands in the way?

Fear. Scaremongering and blackmail, from all sides.

Industry threatens slashing jobs. Mining threatens going offshore. Unions threaten strike action (though not much lately) and the Great Virgin Mother Eartha threatens annihilation.

Surely it does not take a great deal of that rarity - Intellect - for any one of us to realise that our jobs, our nightlife, our booze, drugs and rock-and-roll, and enough of an income to afford and enjoy it all are trivial if the planet, the environment dies from underneath us?

I'd hazard a guess and say that all our current federal government representatives are fully aware of this basic fact, and that there are plenty among us who cannot break the spells they are under, and let go of the addiction to money and profits and beating the other corporation to the booty.

But even with the unions spending on advertising to support the fed's mission to stop the resources' wealth drain, the psychotics in big mining and big industry and their sycophants in lower, middle and upper corporate management, and right-wing politics and media, usually either offshore psychotics or Australians so-far-upemselves that they are tooooo far gone into the magic of wealth, to see the reality, refuse to get a grip on their greed, and employ Reason to the game, in order to defer or even to prevent a train-wreck of a planet a bit further down the track.

It's as if the game of blackmail and scaremongering is THE game to them, and that a healthy economic outcome means absolutely nothing to them?

However, from the behaviour of the majority of Australians, who seem relentless in their push to own - that-is to be mortgaged - READ-IN-DEBT - to a rip-off banking system, a FOREIGN banking system - to “own” a habitable dwelling, so they can boast that they have a home, and thus be regarded as “winners” and therefore “sane” and “intelligent”, regardless of the high likelihood that in less than a decade they will have to sell-up and go-a-wandering for something less exorbitant, and regardless of the fact that such behaviour on a society-wide scale spells doom for the next generation (research the “Kondratiev wave”), we/they, Astrayliarns remain enamoured of politicians and mining executives and banking CEOs and real estate speculator-agents and their lusciously-packaged BULLSHIT.

BLACKMAIL, CITIZEN! BLACKMAIL!!!

So, which blackmailer party will YOU vote for this election?

If I vote, it will be for a much more environmental color...

But if'n there wuz an ABORIGINAL political parteee!?!?!

“Bleck” would be lookin' GOOOOOOD!

While the wannabe Honorables remain scared of the IMF tactics of blackmail..., anyone who votes for either of the 3 major parties, is a traitor.

And not only to their nation, but to their planet!

Omaxa bin Waitin', for that
Great Leap Forward!

Apologies for the flippancy.......