Here we go again! Selling off more of our primary utilities and public assets that are key drivers of keeping a lid on this nation’s cost of business. The transfer of state owned assets built by taxpayers into the grasp of private investors, where shareholder value will displace decisions of national economic benefit or public security.
The Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric scheme built with Commonwealth investment is an important contributor to reasonable cost electricity for Australia. Its ownership is sleighted to be shifted from government ownership across to private hands. This is more of the idiotic privatisation mentality that holds little future in long term national planning in considering the best infrastructure strategy. When the Snowy was visualised it would have developed inside a mission of the nation's common good. When the Snowy was built do you think its fundamental consideration was how many dollars can be extracted from this huge project? No! I would bet the driver was how to build a practical solution of affordable electricity in a growing country that needed reliable, abundant electricity.
Now the obviously corporate owned NSW premier, his Victorian State government counterpart and the Federal government intend a transfer of Australia’s biggest engineering marvel, a national asset that facilitates affordable electricity. A mamoth sell-out of a successful public asset into private interests. This transfer will produce negative repercussions as shareholder value will displace the common interests of Australia's growth. Since when has a private corporate owned for-profit entity considered national good ahead of the shareholder demand for maximum dollars per megawatt of electricity?
You can place as many wonderful pieces of controling legislation as you wish to supposedly regulate and protect the electorate’s interest in the switch to privatisation. But the truth of the matter is sneaky manipulative hands of influencial big money power always locate the path of least resistance to support screwing the customer for more bucks. Turning politician’s heads from the national interest to instead bolster bottom line big corporate power is an easy job. It would be the pinacle of ignorance to think a sell off of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electricity isn’t about lining pockets. The transfer of power generation and influence over significant water resources from the public domain is a mamoth disgrace, its a kick in the face telling the electorate, “We do not give a stuff about you people and your future” – the electorate is something to be ignored and not respected.
There is no reason to sell off the Snowy Mountains HydroElectric scheme. If capital investment is required, then government can plan this. The contribution from state owned electricity generation is more than the sum of generating electricity and selling so many Mega Watts. Nations able to build basic untility services and operate them with the benefit to that nation uppermost stand an excellent chance of succeeding… for the downstream communtiy and broad society, the industries that use the electricity will compete with an ace up their sleeve. If basic infrastructure is sold off and water and power certainly qualify as essential services, shift these out of public ownership where concentration on a different corporate mission emerges, it sees the bottom line as the driver.
My experience of living in the United States where electricity costs are very high, driven by corporate shareholder value means customers pay through the nose, the higher mega watt rates are greater than necessary if the common interest existed. The city I lived in had built its own a public power company to service the city, believing the common good of public power beneficial as the ahead of shareholder value. Within the region we paid on average 25% to 30% less for electricity compared to neighboring communities who had to buy electricity direct from corporate owned power companies.
The governments of NSW, Victoria and the Federal government are once more selling out the citizens of Australia. These politicians are nothing less than cheap bastards with little right to continue to represent their constituents. When their policy is to sell of key utility and public assets you know these representatives represent corporate pockets not the nation of Australia and its future infrastructure interests.
I oppose the ongoing destruction of the primary assets of what contributes to make this nation a great country. We are establishing in the absence of public support an American style of cutthroat economy in this country. We are destroying our valuable state built and operated assets under the false policy that competitiveness, dismantling the sense of cooperation and cohesiveness for a singular driver of dollars is healthy? This is the same policy that drives most USA State and business decisions. I can say from first hand experience, the USA is not a cohesive society, it is a cutthroat nation where the common good is unheard of and draining the pocket of the taxpayer is standard operating procedure. Our politicians and their big corporate and banking associatesl are setting us up for the same cut throat idiocy and nation destroying policy in selling off the Snowy.
With 48 states of the USA bankrupt, the US current account and trade deficits reach to the moon and back, US manufacturing has evaporated… why should Australia adopt the identical privatisation policy. A policy that turns affordable state owned assets into rip off corporatised merchants - for an outdated share holder value policy based on unjust social shallowness and national impracticality?
12 Feb 2006
Australia's military stays, thank the AWB?
I wonder will we see the Australian Wheat Board scandal - at least so far as jeopardising Howard’s cabinet of ass licking politicians is concerned, back off from major exposure, and give a safer distance from further damage of ministers?
Howard’s cabinet would like to heave a joint sigh of relief from their heads falling further on the AWB chopping block. Can cabinet members keep their jobs whilst the scandal and corruption from the AWB fallout is contained, and hopefully by Howard shifted in alternate safer direction? I admit to no solid evidence but wonder if the AWB kickback scandal doesn't revolve around the “Long War” of the Pentagon? Inside the Fourth Reich of the Bush administration's global struggle against USA antagonised Islamic terrorism, holding Australia to her role as close ally remains a priority. Such a critical association is going to demand the ability to bring errant policies and politicians into line when matters shift in undesired directions.
The newly appointed Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has given firm signals that Australia’s troop deployment in Iraq will continue. After all there was talk of Australia’s deployment in Iraq being wound up as the Japanese completed their mission. The strength and credibility of the "coalition of the willing" would look very unhelpful if Australia pulled troops back home. The public relations value to the US military global strategy for prosecuting the war on terrorism would be harmed if junior partner Australia downgraded its commitment from Iraq.
Supposedly the Bush administration has refrained from public pressure on Canberra to contribute more forces to Iraq and Afghanistan. I suspect this is a public position only, and not reality behind the scene. Blackmail strings could be deployed rigorously by the Bush administration and their New World Order forces to see Canberra remained intertwined with US military operations?
Even though Brendan Nelson says Canberra has yet to make its decision, that the option of re-deployment “remained on the table”. I have trouble believing this for one minute, his statement gives the impression of Australia’s independence in deploying our military… the reality is Australia cannot pull out of Iraq if the Howard government looses office from exposure of AWB type scandals. We will probably see Australia now raise its commitment to the government manufactured war on terrorism, now that ministers have had their pants scared off their pathetic backsides.
There is little question a useful and effective tool of state control has always been potential exposure and compromise of key politicians. Canberra will pass whatever ruthless Internationalists agenda the Anglo/American agenda et all insists upon, if ministers feel their backsides heating up.
Howard’s cabinet would like to heave a joint sigh of relief from their heads falling further on the AWB chopping block. Can cabinet members keep their jobs whilst the scandal and corruption from the AWB fallout is contained, and hopefully by Howard shifted in alternate safer direction? I admit to no solid evidence but wonder if the AWB kickback scandal doesn't revolve around the “Long War” of the Pentagon? Inside the Fourth Reich of the Bush administration's global struggle against USA antagonised Islamic terrorism, holding Australia to her role as close ally remains a priority. Such a critical association is going to demand the ability to bring errant policies and politicians into line when matters shift in undesired directions.
The newly appointed Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has given firm signals that Australia’s troop deployment in Iraq will continue. After all there was talk of Australia’s deployment in Iraq being wound up as the Japanese completed their mission. The strength and credibility of the "coalition of the willing" would look very unhelpful if Australia pulled troops back home. The public relations value to the US military global strategy for prosecuting the war on terrorism would be harmed if junior partner Australia downgraded its commitment from Iraq.
Supposedly the Bush administration has refrained from public pressure on Canberra to contribute more forces to Iraq and Afghanistan. I suspect this is a public position only, and not reality behind the scene. Blackmail strings could be deployed rigorously by the Bush administration and their New World Order forces to see Canberra remained intertwined with US military operations?
Even though Brendan Nelson says Canberra has yet to make its decision, that the option of re-deployment “remained on the table”. I have trouble believing this for one minute, his statement gives the impression of Australia’s independence in deploying our military… the reality is Australia cannot pull out of Iraq if the Howard government looses office from exposure of AWB type scandals. We will probably see Australia now raise its commitment to the government manufactured war on terrorism, now that ministers have had their pants scared off their pathetic backsides.
There is little question a useful and effective tool of state control has always been potential exposure and compromise of key politicians. Canberra will pass whatever ruthless Internationalists agenda the Anglo/American agenda et all insists upon, if ministers feel their backsides heating up.
9 Feb 2006
Aust Wheat Board is not about kickbacks.
Sure tell me the Australian Wheat Board slip up emerged to the surface of earth in some incredible accidental force of coincidence. Sure the issue is about whom paid whom extra bucks when and the shock of it all? Every godamn country in the Middle East does business with under the table money…
Australia could not exist in the Middle East markets if padding of built in payoffs doled out to the layers of beauracratic takers and opportunists did not exist. More times than I can count I built in mandatory pay offs in the price of the goods when I working in export sales in the region. I recall US President Jimmy Carter oulawed American corporations from paying illegal bribes and kickbacks in the Middle East. That was the biggest joke around the expatriate circuit for several years.
The issue is not about the kickbacks or funnelled funds to non-existant trucking companies. The issue is what the hell has the Howard Government done that it wasn’t supposed to do, or failed to tow the line on that it was expected to perform on? You don’t get heavy-duty exposure on such a broad measure able to harm high profile individuals careers in government and in big Australian corporations unless some serious people behaviour corrections are going on!
The political landscape in the normal course of events is constructed from senior ministers and top dogs that someone has something on them. Howard, Downer, Costello, Beazely, none of these men are in office unless something can be dropped on them to bring them back in line whenever they fall out of line. Out of line usually refers to them backing off the globalisation agenda, failing to tow the neocon preemptive war program. The AWB exposure deal is likely a serious warning shot to get the Howard government back on schedule with the new world order project if you want to keep your cushy political seat.
Australia could not exist in the Middle East markets if padding of built in payoffs doled out to the layers of beauracratic takers and opportunists did not exist. More times than I can count I built in mandatory pay offs in the price of the goods when I working in export sales in the region. I recall US President Jimmy Carter oulawed American corporations from paying illegal bribes and kickbacks in the Middle East. That was the biggest joke around the expatriate circuit for several years.
The issue is not about the kickbacks or funnelled funds to non-existant trucking companies. The issue is what the hell has the Howard Government done that it wasn’t supposed to do, or failed to tow the line on that it was expected to perform on? You don’t get heavy-duty exposure on such a broad measure able to harm high profile individuals careers in government and in big Australian corporations unless some serious people behaviour corrections are going on!
The political landscape in the normal course of events is constructed from senior ministers and top dogs that someone has something on them. Howard, Downer, Costello, Beazely, none of these men are in office unless something can be dropped on them to bring them back in line whenever they fall out of line. Out of line usually refers to them backing off the globalisation agenda, failing to tow the neocon preemptive war program. The AWB exposure deal is likely a serious warning shot to get the Howard government back on schedule with the new world order project if you want to keep your cushy political seat.
5 Feb 2006
Assholes in Canberra
Australia! Wonderful beaches, sunny days and home to an asshole regime that any voter with half a brain wants evicted from office. Clap Trap Jaw PM John Howard with his asshole cabinet manipulates the electorate as second nature, done with the flakiest opposition on the planet - the Australian Labour Party. The jig is a self congratulatory, taxpayer abuse institution under the pretence of democracy, supposed to be representative government. I guess the Westminster parliament system still has a few hang ups in the system.
This is a cool disguise to trick the public. Comically called political choice but there isn't any choice. The Opposition Leader is a real bright spark, closest thing to an academy award winner you could ask to see. Chops Beazely is a charicature of virtual total complicity, an original Mr. Oportunism he can easily do the Prime Minister's job and his own, you wouldn't see ANY DIFFERENCE between the two - both assholes are FASCIST!
With the Howard regime and Alternate Liberal Party Aussie battlers are stuck between a rock and a hard place, what an accident? No political party seems to represent Mr & Mrs Mainstreet in parliament. Democracy in Oz is rotten, smelly joke. The big political parties have turned on mainstream Australians. We've got sneaking snakey fascism!
The Howard regime destroys Australia piecemeal. A regime of assholes is what we have, it rides an internationalist corporate war mongeroing high. The clandestine goal is integration of Australia under a supra-national world government body. These traitors are assholes that DO NOT represent the electorate.
They are guilty of crimes against Australians as well as war crimes against Afghanistan and Iraqi people. Just taking preemptive warfare and dismantling the structure and fabric of our nation - the assholes do not deserve public office ass they rape and victimise Australians every day. Howard’s cabinet is guilty of spewing anti-freedom venom, cloaked inside claimed anti-terrorism legislation. Crimes sponsored by these assholes supposedly to save our backsides is from their own dirty coniving. Paid hands might implement the mechanics but the assholes watch complicit in their traitorous agenda to conquer our economic and civil lives.
With Special Ops and a yielding compromised intelligence community, operatives hold secrets of murder and injury at the reach of Zionist tentacles and the Fourth Reich Bush Administration directly initiating global instability. Canberra's assholes have no allegiance to little of moral merit. Mercenary elements implement terrorism acts under contract to the Anglo/American and puppet Australian regime across the globe.
The manufactured security threat against the public justifies propaganda of more anti-terrorism legislation, "For our own good." Like hell it is! Deceit strangles Australia’s freedom from Howards assholes than ever witnessed in Australia creating treachery of the lowest canon.
Decent societal common values and shared purpose of nationhood are excavated and undermined. The assholes make cut backs in social services, privatise most that is measurable from utilities, electricity, gas and water to toll roads and traffic infringements to profit big corporations balances. It’s all an income stream to bolster corporate hegemony at immense cost to middle class and blue-collar society. Your labour and life is nothing less than a mercantile data entry.
The social lubricant of responsible fair society is displaced by assholes wearing horse blinkers, driven by economic shareholder, let’s measure our profits solely, nothing else counts? Each and every quality human attainment that has been striven for is dismantled; fairness is dumped for swelling fascism. Evidence of the Howard regime asshole non-thinking is verified by idiocy in remodelled industrial relation’s legislation that elevates corporate rights superior to individual rights.
Decent standards of Australian society are sabotaged, we hurt at the greedy manipulative hands of economic globalisation, an injustice against this nation's workers and small business owners. Indecent legislation twists valid political protest into dissidence, a target for potential silencing at the reach of para military policing. This soon to be supplemented by another crime, legislation to sport the military bludgeon. The streets, the domestic battleground it will truly turn into as head butting against ordinary citizens by soldiers is planned. This inflamed fascist leap deliberately written as grit, as friction to retard society from seasoning into anything worthwhile. Unless you are on the very top of the heap.
The policies of the Howard regime drive basic survival ahead of values. Their dog eats dog of Wild West globalisation stupidly dismantles our manufacturing. Our nation is in debt to international banks. Howard’s fascistregime cuts a brutal path retarding society; Australia is a step nearer to feudalism as a hired mercenary to spot warfare, aiding the USA killing machine. Meanwhile the nation's resources, mining profits and foreign ownership of everything sucks our wealth to offshore owners.
Equal voter representation gets displaced from indifferent corporate power over the earth’s resources. Strategic military choke points include Australia in the USA military threat against our neighbours. Individual liberty and life choices are restricted further and further at each sitting of parliament.
The grab of wealth transfer from the ordinary citizen to the hands of the wealthiest family names and global corporate boardrooms is relentless. The explosive costs of war machinery, security at all cost propaganda - in a fake war on terrorism tax bite, misapropriated into non-productive croneism. We will suffer under heavy-handed state security and intelligence services linking intelligence gathering and spying on citizens under a global presence.
The assholes say it is all to protect us - what a horrendous scam. Ultimately it will be exposed to public scrutiny for lies Howard’s regime promulgates with a straight face as the knife of world government is shoved deep.
This is a theft of rights as draconiam changes that possess the character of dictators Mussolini and Hitler emerge into daylight. The difference is Howard and his regime does not wear the military uniform of the ADF in parliament.
The move by Howard’s regime has and continues to draw military units into domestic policing actions, a senseless power free to terminate citizens - behind a weak excuse to protect property. Such crap stink as the lowest of the lowest as soldiers gain immunity from state criminal law in “following orders” to blow your brains out, no liability. No soldier will show or wear name identification and can operate anonymously. Does not sound like the decent Australia I knew. The assholes need to be flushed down the toilet.
The Anglo/American ass lickers of Howard’s regime are following the steps of the mentally short changed Bush Administration. It destroys civil rights at home, murders, maim and impoverish foreign nationales offshore. All carried out by distortion of facts, the intelligence inserts fake evidence to provoke Muslim blowback to justify more premptive warfare to gain startegic and resource control. A perilous road to manipulate society of all demographics, watch this inevitably blow up in the authority’s parliamentary face with civil unrest. The communitiy resentment against government, federal and including local petty rules is building as awareness in society grows of the distortion. From seeing dismantling of fair justice replaced by imposing legislation that is aimed to create conditions for the use of “domestic violence” our government adopts to restructure society.
This is a cool disguise to trick the public. Comically called political choice but there isn't any choice. The Opposition Leader is a real bright spark, closest thing to an academy award winner you could ask to see. Chops Beazely is a charicature of virtual total complicity, an original Mr. Oportunism he can easily do the Prime Minister's job and his own, you wouldn't see ANY DIFFERENCE between the two - both assholes are FASCIST!
With the Howard regime and Alternate Liberal Party Aussie battlers are stuck between a rock and a hard place, what an accident? No political party seems to represent Mr & Mrs Mainstreet in parliament. Democracy in Oz is rotten, smelly joke. The big political parties have turned on mainstream Australians. We've got sneaking snakey fascism!
The Howard regime destroys Australia piecemeal. A regime of assholes is what we have, it rides an internationalist corporate war mongeroing high. The clandestine goal is integration of Australia under a supra-national world government body. These traitors are assholes that DO NOT represent the electorate.
They are guilty of crimes against Australians as well as war crimes against Afghanistan and Iraqi people. Just taking preemptive warfare and dismantling the structure and fabric of our nation - the assholes do not deserve public office ass they rape and victimise Australians every day. Howard’s cabinet is guilty of spewing anti-freedom venom, cloaked inside claimed anti-terrorism legislation. Crimes sponsored by these assholes supposedly to save our backsides is from their own dirty coniving. Paid hands might implement the mechanics but the assholes watch complicit in their traitorous agenda to conquer our economic and civil lives.
With Special Ops and a yielding compromised intelligence community, operatives hold secrets of murder and injury at the reach of Zionist tentacles and the Fourth Reich Bush Administration directly initiating global instability. Canberra's assholes have no allegiance to little of moral merit. Mercenary elements implement terrorism acts under contract to the Anglo/American and puppet Australian regime across the globe.
The manufactured security threat against the public justifies propaganda of more anti-terrorism legislation, "For our own good." Like hell it is! Deceit strangles Australia’s freedom from Howards assholes than ever witnessed in Australia creating treachery of the lowest canon.
Decent societal common values and shared purpose of nationhood are excavated and undermined. The assholes make cut backs in social services, privatise most that is measurable from utilities, electricity, gas and water to toll roads and traffic infringements to profit big corporations balances. It’s all an income stream to bolster corporate hegemony at immense cost to middle class and blue-collar society. Your labour and life is nothing less than a mercantile data entry.
The social lubricant of responsible fair society is displaced by assholes wearing horse blinkers, driven by economic shareholder, let’s measure our profits solely, nothing else counts? Each and every quality human attainment that has been striven for is dismantled; fairness is dumped for swelling fascism. Evidence of the Howard regime asshole non-thinking is verified by idiocy in remodelled industrial relation’s legislation that elevates corporate rights superior to individual rights.
Decent standards of Australian society are sabotaged, we hurt at the greedy manipulative hands of economic globalisation, an injustice against this nation's workers and small business owners. Indecent legislation twists valid political protest into dissidence, a target for potential silencing at the reach of para military policing. This soon to be supplemented by another crime, legislation to sport the military bludgeon. The streets, the domestic battleground it will truly turn into as head butting against ordinary citizens by soldiers is planned. This inflamed fascist leap deliberately written as grit, as friction to retard society from seasoning into anything worthwhile. Unless you are on the very top of the heap.
The policies of the Howard regime drive basic survival ahead of values. Their dog eats dog of Wild West globalisation stupidly dismantles our manufacturing. Our nation is in debt to international banks. Howard’s fascistregime cuts a brutal path retarding society; Australia is a step nearer to feudalism as a hired mercenary to spot warfare, aiding the USA killing machine. Meanwhile the nation's resources, mining profits and foreign ownership of everything sucks our wealth to offshore owners.
Equal voter representation gets displaced from indifferent corporate power over the earth’s resources. Strategic military choke points include Australia in the USA military threat against our neighbours. Individual liberty and life choices are restricted further and further at each sitting of parliament.
The grab of wealth transfer from the ordinary citizen to the hands of the wealthiest family names and global corporate boardrooms is relentless. The explosive costs of war machinery, security at all cost propaganda - in a fake war on terrorism tax bite, misapropriated into non-productive croneism. We will suffer under heavy-handed state security and intelligence services linking intelligence gathering and spying on citizens under a global presence.
The assholes say it is all to protect us - what a horrendous scam. Ultimately it will be exposed to public scrutiny for lies Howard’s regime promulgates with a straight face as the knife of world government is shoved deep.
This is a theft of rights as draconiam changes that possess the character of dictators Mussolini and Hitler emerge into daylight. The difference is Howard and his regime does not wear the military uniform of the ADF in parliament.
The move by Howard’s regime has and continues to draw military units into domestic policing actions, a senseless power free to terminate citizens - behind a weak excuse to protect property. Such crap stink as the lowest of the lowest as soldiers gain immunity from state criminal law in “following orders” to blow your brains out, no liability. No soldier will show or wear name identification and can operate anonymously. Does not sound like the decent Australia I knew. The assholes need to be flushed down the toilet.
The Anglo/American ass lickers of Howard’s regime are following the steps of the mentally short changed Bush Administration. It destroys civil rights at home, murders, maim and impoverish foreign nationales offshore. All carried out by distortion of facts, the intelligence inserts fake evidence to provoke Muslim blowback to justify more premptive warfare to gain startegic and resource control. A perilous road to manipulate society of all demographics, watch this inevitably blow up in the authority’s parliamentary face with civil unrest. The communitiy resentment against government, federal and including local petty rules is building as awareness in society grows of the distortion. From seeing dismantling of fair justice replaced by imposing legislation that is aimed to create conditions for the use of “domestic violence” our government adopts to restructure society.
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