Valid & sincere research constantly ignored by authorities.

Following an article titled
"Greens, carriers, question NBN privatisation"

on website of iTNews at:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/175438,greens-carriers-question-nbn-privatisation.aspx



21/05/10.

Jeeez, I must be so out of society that I have been left totally behind, when it comes to what was once called “common sense”.

People, it seems, have totally lost their ability to both think, and to do what is in reality, simple adding-up. Maths.

Anyone who maintains an independence of mind, and who has done their maths, and who is cognisant of the fundamental fact that society is NOT all about the individual, as passed governments and PMs have tried to sell us (“we must be more competitive” unquote, Johnette Howard), will tell you that privatising certain “utilities”, such as sewerage, roads, power supplies and public transport, as well, as it happens, THE LAND, is not conducive to a healthy public sector, to a healthy society, and to a healthy state of Community-mindedness.

After almost ten years since the encrazed Premier of Victoria was removed from the chair, nowdays even he, Jeff Kennett, I deeply suspect, would admit that there must be SOME limits on how we deliver basic utilities and services, and that SOME, simply should not, ARE not there for some small clique of upclub uptop boffins and egomaniacs to profit from.

Telstra was sold-off, privatised by a mad puppet of offshore investors, Johnette Howard, and he and his coven even had the gaul to flog shares in Telstra to the public, who all felt more than a twinge of regret immediately after when Telstra shares, and their lifetime savings plummeted.

Even today, years later, they are around two-thirds of the price the mug, but perhaps Patriotic Aussies paid for them.

Way back when we had some semblance of public conscience in governments, when Telecom, pre-Telstra and pre-privatisation, was under an impartial “service-provision first” management ethos, research was world-beating, and in the pre-mobile and super-tech highway days, when public phone booths were a part of life, the telephony services were, for their time, quite good.

Other utilities, like public transport (in Victoria), went the way of the money-grabbers, straight out of the banks of Zurich et al, and now run close to the red line with rising costs and prices, and in general falling quality of service.

Water, in many parts of the world, is now something we have not to pay the Great Mother Eartha for, but people must pay some corporate thieves, straight out of - Zurich, et al?

The current Labor federal government won office because the majority of Australians were heartily sick and tired of the tyrannical depletion of Community and common sense, where it seemed that everything was being sold to offshore resource capitalists, who treated Australians, at least those who were not in the upclub arsehole bracket of having had a private school indoctrination, thus a near- free-ride to opulence and the-devil-may-care excessive lifestyle, as slaves, idiots, mugs waiting for the smooth-talkers to smooze them further out of their cheese-crackers.

Thus we now have exorbitant prices, on an upward-sliding-scale of endless debt, and while other “commodities” keep many of us entranced for their low prices, mostly because they are CRAP quality, and necessary services like power and water and council services are mooted to rise, and rise, and rise?

There can be no doubt, that the majority of adult Australians today afford the level of wealth they have, because they are corrupt. That-is they know the ropes, as it were, of how to go around paying GST, or new prices for the more expensive bits and pieces.

I've detected serious and honorable efforts from within government to rein-in the disgusting sell-off of our, OUR nation's assets and talents, yet AGAIN, we see, down the track from the days when Rudd and Co announced the “National Broadband Network”, that it is to be privatised, so slamming us back into the pit of pay-pay-pay for something which, as we progress into a technology dependent, and addicted future, pay-pay-pay for something which should be regarded as being a utility, therefore should be owned by the public.

A Wise Fella of the 19th century, and I'm sure he wasn't the 1st to recognise this, deduced that things, utilities etc, which either are or become a monopoly in private hands, automatically accrue to necessarily being owned by the impartial authorities - ie., the government, so as to ensure the needs provided as accessible by all. NOT just the upclubbers of the private schools mobsters.

Communication, which is a major part of education, is fundamental to an improving world, and to an improving culture, society and individual.

So it should be recognised that every effort be made and fought to keep the best possible methods, tools and equipment of communication in public, that is impartial control.

So it should be with the proposed NBN, whether it evolves into reality as an efficient and useful product or not.

If it becomes merely a conduit for the giggle-brained to watch crap videos and junk tv etc., then perhaps the moguls of media and technology theft can have it, but if it has ANY reasonable proportion of use as a medium for the education of the masses, then we must do all we can to keep it OURS, like the Land and resources, and out of the filthy hands of the offshore Eurapists, etc.

Egomania cannot be allowed to overshadow basic, progressive Common Sense.

Common Sense is the application of our Intellect to find the best ways to live, and has kept the species alive and thriving for thousands and thousands of years. It is well passed time we regarded the whole species as "fallen" simply and stupidly because the Jewish Tora, the old Testament tells us that things began going downhill after the Adam and Eve affair.

That only applied to what has become known as "the western world". Elsewhere, Humanity sustained, yes, a rather more brutal, but ongoing world. But who can honestly say that technology, as derived by the west, has made the world less brutal?

The same applies to capitalism. Indeed, capitalism is brutality writ-large, what with the infighting we witness in all "modern societies".

Privatising things everyone comes to need is deadly for culture, for society and for each of us.

It is a passing phase. Unfortunately, if we do not pass beyond this privatise and capitalise on other people's vulnerability very soon, it will devour us all.

Just exactly like it is devouring the environment.

Valid and sincere research has proven, forever, that common ownership of the fundamentals is right, good and true for a sane world.

Those who ignore the facts for self-interest are our biggest enemies.

A comms comment from
Omaxa bin on the Eartha Highway.NT
From the chair of "Dusty Boots"