All hail democracy!

This week some interesting news from the freshly blossoming 'democracy' Afghanistan emerged. Afghanistan quietly passes 'marital rape' law, reports ABC, and the media echoed this information nearly as quiet. Australia is a massive island, and naturally mass media caters more for local interests than providing a global outlook. At the moment 'democratic' elections are held in Afghanistan, which made this bit of medieval legalisation of gender inequality disappear from the hearts and minds of the Australian public.

The meaning of the word 'democracy' has been perverted by the US's imperial wars in this century. US troops terrorized the civilian populations of Iraq and Afghanistan, ostensibly to bring 'freedom' and 'democracy' to the people living there. Bereft of any reason, like lemmings, a number of countries, among them Australia, supported the US terror campaign. About 8 years after the US has started its war against the world, more than a million civilians have been 'freed' of their lifes, several millions have been 'freed' of their homes.

Iraq transformed from a secular totalitarian regime into a US satellite divided along religious lines, Taliban and sharia law have again a stronghold in Afghanistan. The right to vote, so it seems, does not necessary mean an influence to the way people are governed. The German population elected the Nazi party, certainly not with the intention to replace democracy by a totalitarian system.

In hindsight, many people wonder how this systematic destruction of human life could happen. Somebody asked me lately whether you can be born as a Nazi. Although Germany's major event in recent history (the peaceful revolution in East Germany just 20 years ago) indicates the non-existence of 'Nazi genes' or any other prevalence of Germans for genocide, the memory of Germany's 'evil' phase in history and of the 'heroic fighters' against them dominate the stories about this nation.

The winners of the second world war wanted to prevent history from repeating, or at least said so. They failed badly, violence is still used to prevent peace on this planet. Humans learn a lot by imitation, and glorifying violence to achieve selfish goals sets a truly bad example. History shows the impossibility to prevent civilian casualties in warfare, and even in the 'just' war against Nazi Germany the glorious winners used systematic terror against the population to win the war. Using fire to transform city centers into furnaces that cremated civilians alive in their bomb shelters does not harm the enemy's military, it's an act of terror, nothing else.

This simple lesson from history, warfare always kills innocent people, should have at least cautioned nations from engaging in war. I can't see any justification to kill innocent life, and deny any support to those killers. I don't care too much about the bible, but the commandment "Thou shall not kill" makes a lot of sense to me. Not being a Christian, there must be an amendment to the commandment that allows exemptions for overlords which i haven't seen.

The loss of innocent life was taken as an excuse to kill more innocent life, and in hindsight, all that happened was another imperial war propagandised as a 'just war'. The lies that have led to the invasion of Iraq are now known, hardly anyone cares anymore remembering the start of the invasion of Afghanistan.

Without any evidence about the famous infamous 911 attacks, US officials declared Osama Bin Laden (Immanuel Goldstein) as 'mastermind' behind the attacks. Besides a dodgy video confession there's still no evidence for his involvement in the 911 attacks, and the 911 commission reports names Khalid Sheik Mohamed s mastermind. However, this report came out after the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the war propagandists used 911 rhetoric in both cases.

Without any evidence linking Osama Bin Laden to 911, the Taliban denied handing over OBL, and the US terrorised the Afghan population for the distrust of their leaders in American supremacy and story telling. The massacre in Dasht-E-Leili, another Min Lai, and using prisons in Bagram, Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay to torture democracy into civilians came next.

After WW2, the use of secret service against its own population, war propaganda, experiments with human and unjustified invasions were identified as hallmarks of fascism. Government out of control, uniting with big business in order to create a living hell for the majority of its population. Of course, it can not happen 'now', we are only allowed to believe historians belonging to the winning side, it just looks a little bit like corporatism to unqualified spectators like me.

It's not a myth that especially American 'intelligence' services have 'special rights'. There's plenty of evidence for systematic torture, and none that this fascist strategy has ended. It's obvious that Bush and Blair lied to their people to win their support for this terror tour, yet their war crimes remain unpunished. Privacy ceased to exist in the western world, and thought crimes have been established.

Once the American empire has ceased, historians will probably will call the beginning of this millenium 'violent rise of US corporatism'. Now, it is kind of politically incorrect to come to this conclusion, as long as the US repeatedly claim to be the best democracy on this planet they cannot lie again...

Hindsight does not help to learn from history. We have to be honest enough to identify lack of control of national leadership as the major source of injustice on this planet. No matter how we call political systems of government (democratic, monarchistic, totalitarian, fundamentalistic), governments are the biggest threat of innocent life on this planet in the 21. century. Without control, governments are nothing but a gang of criminals. If Bush can get away with murdering more than a million civilians, there political system might be called heaven on earth, but it fails to serve justice. The responsibility to run torture camps looks meager in comparison, so why on earth should Obama do anything to stop it?

Obedience in the military prevents (and often contradicts) reasonable thinking. Australia, as the US lap dog, won't bite the hand that steals their tax payers money for outdated military equipment, and drags Australian soldiers into their business wars. Even now, as the Afghan government reinstates the right of marital rape, Australians soldiers protect 'freedom and democracy'.

As long as the American idea of 'democracy' includes torture, invasion of foreign countries, arbitrary legal systems, no responsibility in office and massive surveillance of its own population, to name of few expressions of American freedom, I dont want democracy. Support for US politics means currently supporting torture, killing and enslaving other countries. Any leader aligning with the US might just promote this idea of 'democracy' in their country. But then, marital rape happens relatively unnoticed and unpunished in this country as well, if it's the law, it can't be wrong, right?

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Carbon Trading Scheme



For once in the life time of this young nation, Australia wants to set an global example. Australia's responds to the Climate Change meme with a Carbon Trading Scheme, or at least tries to.

In the pre-digital age Australia was too remote from the 'civilised' world (Europe and North America) to have a voice in international politics. The acting empire of the time nevertheless involved the Australian army happily as cannon fodder in wars all over the world, a big part of the Australian National identity consists of bemoaning this useless loss of life while fulfilling 'heroic duties'.

Advances in communication and travel made Australia more accessible and brought it a little bit more on the international radar. Nevertheless, 20 million people on a planet of 6 billion can only interest a limited amount amount of people. Among those are poor and desperate people from Asia and Africa, that even keep up to date with the latest administration changes in Canberra. Although politicos claim rock star status on national level, Mr. Howards war against asylum seekers went unnoticed in most parts of the world.

Mr. Howard lost the position of primary defender of white Australian supremacy to Kevin Rudd, who recently gained global fame as roo killer. Most people involved in the planetary debate about climate change would fail to name Rudd's position in the creation of the next stage of global monetary Ponzi scheme, sorry, Rudd's position towards climate change.

From an Australian perspective his stance toward climate seems more obvious, he wants to introduce a trading scheme to tackle the problem of global warming caused by man made co2. Hold on a second, what exactly do this well sounding abstract terms mean?

The simplified mass media presentation of the 'problem of climate change' goes along that lines: A majority of climate 'experts' interpret data about global warming in a way that suggest CO2 produced by man as 'cause' for this effect. Critics of this interpretation are called 'climate sceptics', and are often pushed into one corner with conspiracy theorists and similar loonies.

The simplified discourse, popularised by George W Bush (you're either with us, or you're a climate sceptic terrorist), helps picking a site. The polarisation follows also the diversion between Dawkinists and religious fundamentalists. 'Science' backs the side of doomsday salesmen, and in our o so rational society one cannot seriously doubt the findings of science, right?

Interestingly, 'science' also backs the other side, so both sides get busy accusing each other of 'wrong science'. Luckily for us, who will have to pay for whatever lunacy is presented as 'solution' to this 'problem', the wise maintainers of our tax money have taken sides for us. They chose the side that allows them to collect more money for their uncontrollable disposal.

I confess my interest in global affairs, I believe my existence as human being entitles me to live where ever I want you, unfortunately this complicated phase of the evolution of human society denies me this natural birth right. The pleasures of every day life, however, require resources from all the world, I think it's quite absurd that the component of the computer I'm typing this rant on might have travelled further around this globe than I have so far. We can no longer distinguish easily 'local produce' and 'globally sourced' products, most manifactured products use materials from all over the world. You need to a lot of ignorance to deny the global interconnectedness of modern life.

Australia owns one of this valuable resources for an industrialised society: coal. It does not help this part of Australia's economy much to have this market taken away by penalising the use of coal for its CO2 emissions. All of a sudden the clear dichotomy of 'right' and 'wrong' science concerning an intangible problem gets mixed up with tangible local business interests, so that discussion of the topic itself degenerate to the usual rhetorical mud slinging.

When we talk about 'global climate', we mean a phenomena happening in a layer roughly 20 km wide above the surface of this planet. Powered by the energy coming from the sun, the 510 million square kilometer surface area interact with the gaseous layer above, distributing water around the globe. Roughly 70 percent of this surface area consists of water, up to 11 km deep, and weather phenomena are obviously linked to this watery quality.

But science does not really understand how this complex interaction develops. The sheer size of the object of scientific prophecy makes long term predictions very doubtable. Mankind has a natural interest in weather phenomena, agricultural societies depend on knowledge of the chance of seasons and the most likely accompanying weather patterns. But we can not seriously claim to have sufficient data of the relevant variables collected to come up with really good model.

In the political debate the focus lays on CO2, sometimes Methan rears its smelly head in discussions as well. Calling these chemicals greenhouse gases creates convenient self fulfilling prophecies: Doomsday is neigh!

But how do we know about the 'effect' of CO2, and how do we do know how much CO2 is in our atmosphere? Remember, we're talking about the volume of our planetary atmosphere, stretching 20km up from a surface of 510 million square kilometers. Pretty big, eh? The only thing possible is sampling, but without clear understanding of the system itself we can hardly estimate what information the samples really carry.

The best observed variable in this game is temperature, and that's where most panic is hinged around. We can observe an increase in average temperatures in different areas of this planet, and swamped islands provide obvious evidence for a rise of the sea level. Yet even the increase in average temperatures depends on the timescale and areas selected, a lot of pseudo scientific arguments are build on skewed data.

The alleged stop in trend of warming lately, which didn't help to break the current drought in Victoria, might be just the use of rough science. Changing the global albedo by chemtrails reduces the amount of solar energy that heats the surface, but without knowing what really happens in the upper layers of our atmosphere deliberately experimenting with nukes and chemicals does not really look like a good idea.

Reducing the amount of toxins we release into the atmosphere, produced by cars, power plants and industry seems like a better idea. If you ever lived next to a coal power plant, or in an area with heavy industry, or in a city overcrowded by cars, you'll instinctively know that this stuff is not really good for the survival of our species. The current target of panicky hyperactivity coincides with those polluters of our more immediate environment, which still fails to convince me about the simple 'more Co2 = more warming = global chaos soon' formula.

I can identify with the alleged targets, reducing the amount of dirt produced by burning fossil fuels, globally, yet I still don't buy into the simplified fallacies promoted with it. I deny to panic if 'nothing happens to tackle the problem'. I rather panic when a trading scheme gets implemented. It looks either ignorant or stupid or brazen to me to praise a financial product as solution to an ecological problem, especially in a year that showed the detrimental effects of inventing monetary schemes. Markets were always quite mysterious 'beings', now they can even cure the climate. Hooray, long live the age of reason.

Science is just not advanced enough to give a reliable prognosis about the development of climate for 50 or 100 years. I don't dare the leap of faith to base my current and future decisions on the prophecies of these kind of 'experts', especially if they attack such a massive problem. Science investigated most of the time dead matter, exploring and understanding of living systems as a systematic part of science is much younger than the time scales spanned by their prognosis.

The idea of the planet as a living system is not intellectual property of the scientific community, they could no longer deny the public interest in the experiental reality of life. Spiritual communities around the globe have no problem considering the planet as living being, although couldn't properly recite any specific story of this type.

So to distract from the fruitless intergroup competition about the meme global warming I ask Mother Earth to inspire me to tell the 'real story' about climate change.

After its birth, given by the sun, young mother earth circled playful around her own father. Looking for expression, she spit out lava, sending her tentacles into the atmosphere around her skins. The outburst of lava, at different places, created a fiery symphony of mother earth's breath. Soon her breath moistened, and fell back on her skin, bringing the four elements together.

The play of fire and water provided pleasure for mother earth, happily humming in sight of her heavenly father. O lovely daughter, her father said, I will nurture you for the rest of my life, but you will have to learn to keep my love. I send you out with enough energy to play with, Unlike me, you cannot shine from the inside, but glow on my rays. Enjoy the ride.

Mother earth felt her skin, hardened surfaces poking out of swaying oceans, and tried to sense the connection to her source. Without heat, the pleasant bubblyness she bathed in, would cease. Bacteria were her first messengers sensing the presence of her father, using his energy to transmit the good news.

Sensing her fathers presence filled her with joy, so mother earth wanted to connect more to gift of her father. Her senses became more complex, and with it her wisdom about the wonders of life. Capturing her fathers energy requires a delicate balance, and sometimes her breath poisened the atmosphere, making the skin shiny by layers of ice.

Her endless desire for more beauty and love for her father made mother earth experimental. Her senses worked independent, creating more and more complexly interconnected balanced systems. But those sensors capable of choosing to merge with the beauty of all life can also choose to destroy the balance required for their own survival.

Mother earth likes diversity, capturing her father's rays in myriad of ways. That makes her feel warm, buzzing, cosy, vibrant, alive. Many species happily became mother earth companions, mankind seems close to make up its group mind whether to go for beauty or destruction.

Millions of years pass away fast for mother earth, having a little fever doesn't disconnect her from her father. A disconnected acting mankind destroys the balance for its own survival, and the tool will be Global Government.

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In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.

Albert Einstein said so, and like so many things he suggested about our universe, his insights still struggle their way into the mainstream meme pool.

His allusion to biblical stories demonstrate his universal geniosity, but as a non-specialist for psychology this revelation of the group mind remains hidden. We have many flock of sheeps nowadays (like always, globally seen), and not all of them organise themselves around religious themes. Music, Sport, Fashion, etc create a cornucopia of 'flocks' with its own set of rules, loves and hates. As we learn from Howard Bloom, human beings are a social species, solitary survival (in evolutionary sense) impossible.

Whether we like it or not, we get assigned to flocks, chose them ourselves or get adopted. Being male, white and german brightened my knowledge of prejudices immensely. Back to Einstein. An immaculate sheep obeys the rules, so must in first place know the rules. As each flock has its own rule set, mostly behaviourly and not written transmitted, choosing a different flock often causes conflict (sorted out by conformity enforcers).

A sheep straying away from the safety of the flocks has to face predators on its own, its survival becomes highly unlikely. Humans are predators themselves, leaving the flock for a while isn't such a big deal - in most parts of the world there is no dangerous wild life left, it's just abundant with flocks of pacified predators.

As Einstein said, to trot along one must be a sheep in first place.

Thought crimes

Manson, portrayed at his trial as a drug-crazed loner with mesmerizing powers of persuasion, ordered devotees to carry out random killings in wealthy white neighborhoods in an effort to trigger an apocalyptic race war.

Not many newspapers use 34 words in a single sentence, using 6 adjectives to colour their message. The Age obviously caters for an educated audience, capable of digesting this abstract description. The Herald Sun would have probably used more specific details, Manson's piercing, dark, gloomy eyes, Acid-head, violent blood-spattering killings, and so on.

This educated audience can easily identify with living in a wealthy white neighborhood, and most likely picks up on the religious connotations of the expression 'devotee'. Oh my fascist god, religiously misled drug-crazies randomly killing in white neighborhoods! This over-simplified implication distracts a bit from the frog-leaps in reasoning connected to the Manson case.

The Age calls Manson a mass-murderer, even though he had not committed any of murders he got accused of, and he did not kill Sharon Tate. Hidden in the middle of this propaganda piece we can find out about Manson's crime: He ordered his 'devotees' to carry out random killings.

After heaps of fear inducing ramblings the powers of reasoning of the typical audience will linger somewhere in the basement, neglecting habitually the quest for facts, which are admittedly relatively sparse in most mass media products. So let's get back to the facts: Manson ordered his devotees to carry out killings. This time only, we step back from the fear of living in a target area, instead, we play crime writer and try to see the perpetrators perspective.

The Age offers a bit of help in elucidating (or rather clouding) the 'how' of Manson's crime: he used his mesmerising powers of persuasion (which obviously failed the judge and jury badly during his trial). We won't find out any more this mesmerising powers, especially how Manson, a drug-crazed loner, acquired this extraordinary interpersonal skills.

How does one order a murder usually? That depends a lot on the moral compass underlying the definition of murder. I consider sending troops into a foreign country 'ordering murder', I don't subscribe to the inevitable loss of innocent life in war situation as 'casualties'. I also have no problem calling the death sentence ordered murder.

While the former forms of 'order to carry out murders' are not covered by any judicial system I know of, hiring a hitman certainly fits both mine and legal systems understanding of this offense. Murder for money encompasses a commercial transaction (henchmen and soldiers get paid....), and holding both sides of the contract responsible seems totally justified.

Manson did not pay any money, he used his 'mesmerising powers of persuasion' to 'order random killings'. If I had a dollar for each time I heard somebody in a pub or similar situation expressing his desire to randomly kill someone, I would be very, very rich. I had no need to work for the rest of my life if the same would apply to media products - each time Rudd justifies the random murders in Afghanistan would fill my account.

Rudd doesn't use mesmerising powers to order random killings, but a large administration and a sanitising language that disguises killings as casualties. All the promises to minimise loss of civilian life failed badly in the 21st century, more than a million killed Iraqis, hundred thousands of dead Afghanis confirm a lesson from history persistently ignored: Each war involves terror acts against a civilian population.

The 'how' of Charles Manson evil crime remains a mystery. As a pacifist, I despise every war, and I certainly feel absolutely unattracted by the idea of an 'apocalyptic race war'. The perspective of fighting in a war does not stop many Australian from joining the army, it seems like some people want to be in a war situation (the recruitment ad's of Australia war machinery make it look a bit like a bunch of high-tech salvos, and leave out the bloody bits).

'Apocalyptic race war' seems to make no sense, this term reminds me a lot of Palestine. Any war is unreasonable, the sad fact that mankind hasn't abandoned this evolutionary obstacle shows the lack of importance of reason in affairs of society. Any war requires various leaps of faith, usually explained with COWDUNG (conventional wisdom of the dominating group).

Benbrika ostensibly planned a 'war on Australian people', with essential support from ASIO. Given their lack of talent in producing terror weapons, it's hard to say whether these people were sufficiently mesmerised by the persuasive powers of Australia secret terror force to go all the way. Nothing but a thought crime. Killing someone is by far not easy, some biologists claim the existence of a 'pre-programmed' inhibition for interspecies killing (that's why war propagandists use a language that dehumanises their victims, killing vermin is easier than killing humans).

Manson did less than ASIO, he didn't provided training, intelligence, money and weapons. As a 'drug-crazed loner' he most likely ranted a lot about his ideas about society with his 'family', which mostly fits into the description of criminal organisation. I'm still mesmerised by the distortion of facts, and the shameless fear mongering of The Age, but not powerfully persuaded by their vilification of Manson.

I had some interesting conversations about anarchism lately. Unsurprisingly, quite of diversity of opinions became apparent, which made me wonder whether I continue to call myself anarchist when questions about categorising arise. Maybe I rather invent myself as anarchartist, leaving signs of freedom instead of the usual talking loud.

Hold on, the next groups of people get pissed off here: Artists. Groups? Well, there are the 'real' artists, inspired, driven by their artistic urge. Often unconventional to a degree which appears rather amateurish. You can find them easily in bars, pubs and coffee shops in trendy suburbs, either lounging out to collect inspiration or servicing to make a living. Let us not forget those bastards, who sold out their talent to make some money. At least, they usually know their craft and, most importantly, other people who appreciate their work.

What makes art art? I don't even attempt to answer this, but I found out what makes anarchart anarchart. It's the combination of love, work, technology, inspiration, beauty and freedom. 6 vertexes of a tetrahedron, the smallest unit in universe.

Reclaim yourself.

High levels of strangeness

It hit me like a shock -
another writer's block!
Open space stares at me,
no thing I can see.

We need no words to talk,
no phrases marked in chalk.
When our lips sink together,
this now lasts forever.

It's life we celebrate
when our bodies communicate,
spirits, unbreakable,
exploring the unspeakable.
Action writes the story,
don't you worry.

Beware of the magic powers of football. And of course, of the magic powers of commercial advertising. Even the wall to the prison Palestine looks like fun, and reality is only slightly distorted. The art of omission work perfectly here. The soldiers play within the up to 60 m wide exclusion zone within this 'fence'. A ridge in this part of the prison wall disguises the concrete wall towards Israel, it blends nicely in the background. The horrendous dimensions of this crime against humanity remain hidden- hey, look, just a tiny obstacle between football friends.

Episode 420. Say no more. Say no more.

A: Statement B is false.
B: Statement A is true.

Meme war

There's a problem that seems rather strange.
It's now known as Climate Change,
It was once called Global Warming,
but that was way too alarming.

Yet alarmed we shall be,
about melting poles and rising sea,
floods, droughts and raging storms
as our climate hazardly transforms.

A war of words has erupted,
and logic has been corrupted.
Yet no one will unveil
that the problem isn't real -
It's just another part of the wicked game
of killing democracy while keeping its name.

The interweb is a scary, scary place. But the former prisoner colony has some wise slaveholders like Stephen Conroy who protect common stupidity and mass media disinformation at all costs. Censorship- the last resort of corrupt corporatist governments.

Finally, some meaning

Take that, Peta! I rather join People Eating Tasty Animals.

Detained

What a terrible disaster! Stern Hu, an Australian business man, has been detained in China, accused of bribing and stealing state secrets. Rio Tinto is certainly on the leading edge of business with China - they can supply uranium for China nuclear ambitions, and use modern technology to exploit China's natural resources. Capitalism works a bit different in China, as the government officially meddles in business affairs (unlike the Western world, where this happens more occult).

The human rights situation in China looks quite dire. Organ trade, ban of organisations like Falun Gong, outbreeding Tibetans and strict internet censorship are just some topics Western politicians mention at home when defending their own fascist ways. Human rights make no money (unless you're AI, of course), and 'once business relations are established, the human rights situation can improve'. A fairy tale that has yet to come true somewhere.

Rio Tinto has all the hallmarks of a corporate giant. $81 billion in assets, listed in the Fortune 500, headquarters in Melbourne and London. The mining industry provided the fuel and material for industrialisation, traditionally with dreadful conditions for thew work force. Digging resources out of the Mother Earth's soil still takes many lives and shortened even more lifetimes. Unlike many other jobs in our modern world, miners still put their life at risk on a daily basis.

The common danger helped uniting miners, and many civil movements originated from this industry. But on a planet fractured into nations, an international operating entity can easily escape any improvement in one country. From a historic point of view, the mining industry is an essential component for industrialisation, and its mistreatment of its workers has contributed to some important improvements within society.

As mentioned, globalisation makes it possible to reduce the expense of 'worker rights' and 'safe workplaces' drastically. Rio Tinto does not break any local laws when they employ 10 year olds to wade barefoot through puddles of chemical solvents in their African mines - child labour supports maximising profits.

The public does not care too much about the corporate ethics of a mining company like Rio Tinto. Australian workers were paid well, and worked in quite safe environments. Miners were less visible than the blue collar workers in the corporate headquarters, being responsible of making numbers look good. Protests from the indigenous population about the mining sites could easily be muted, and friends in politics helped continuing Australia's genocide by all kind of 'interventions', removing human 'business obstacles'.

Which nicely segues into the second important area of the corporate ethics of a mining company, the mining sites themselves. The destruction of ecosystems and massive environmental pollution go hand in hand with mining, and sites of cultural importance are rarely spared. Indigenous people hardly stand a chance negotiating against a multi national company, especially when their government doesn't like them in first place.

If a 'civilised' country like Australia does not hesitate to mistreat their native people to help business, guess what happens in South America, Africa and Asia. Luckily, Rio Tinto mostly uses the term 'business ethics', in a similar way Dick Cheney talks about 'special interrogation techniques'. Human rights or environmental protection are not part of Rio Tinto's corporate agenda, they are aiming to make money for their shareholders.

"Business ethics' simply means if corruption, espionage and crime lower the total cost of operation, don't get caught. Don't forget to estimate the cost of getting caught (PR, more PR, bribery, coercion, eventual penalties) in this calculation.

Joel Bakan described corporations as psychopaths, and he made a good point. The structure of corporations allows otherwise ethically acting persons to withdraw from individual responsibility - corporate drones (and/or managers) act mainly in the shareholders interest. Shareholders want to see ROI (return of investment), or else the management gets fired.

Workers right, environmental and cultural concerns increase the cost of operation for a company like Rio Tinto, they directly oppose the shareholder interest. Stern Hu represented this company, and most likely did nothing unusual. Yet the Chinese government might interpret internationally usual business practises differently.

At least, some specific allegations have been made. These allegations sound probable to me, yet they might be entirely fabricated. Let's compare this to another case of detention of an Australian citizen, David Hicks.

Hicks was sold the US military in Afghanistan in December 2001, yet it took the US government three years to come up with some allegations. Considering the fact that the US presents itself as stronghold of justice and civil liberty, the 'evil' Chinese reacted still much faster. Rio Tinto complains that the Chinese law is hard to interpret for us, the US set up some special dictatorial legislation (the military commissions act of 2006) to deal with their ignorance for legal advances of the last 600 years or so.

Hicks and Hu were 'illegaly' detained, surrounded by fuzzy legal circumstances. One was tortured by a friendly, human rights loving and raping nation, without having broken any law. The other one might have broken the law (simply by doing business as usual), yet both Rudd and Turnbull have no problem taking his side. The politician's big heart for crooky business and business crooks comes as no surprise to me. (Mr. Hu, this is not meant personally.)

The drama hasn't ended yet. News corporations (no pun intended) will supply us with the next developments of this story. Rest assured, Rio Tinto will invest in looking good, innocent and 'business ethical'. Will the Socialist Alternative organise rallies to 'Free Stern Hu' ?

Sky blues

Yet another day passes by
with sun and chemtrails in the sky.
A milky, ghostly haze
meets my curious gaze.

The real clouds shine in a different white,
the chemtrails' white does not seem right.
Iridescent rings blossom around the sun -
yet this more of colour brings no fun.

Clouds were once a mystery,
bringing rain and storm,
always changing their form.

Now we're too busy to see
patterns painted above our head -
Which makes me rather sad.

Back to the roots

Prinzessin der Scheiben

Entangled in a web of serendipity,
breathless, too blind to see
the beauty in front of me.

Connected by a trail of synchronity,
speechless, too smart to start
and just open my heart.

Minds started glowing
while energy was flowing,
a decent hit of randomness
turned into silly happyness.

The game is hard to play,
creating a new reality
I wished you stayed with me
but my charm was lost today.

Sittin on a tree top

Postcards from the dark side

Keep breathing

Usually the city feels tense and gritty,
all dynamics firmly cast in stone,
busyness setting the overall tone.

Navigating by and through synchronicity
I slowly lose my blindness
and regain my kindness.

From chaos to order and back,
surfing the dark side of the moon,
dismantling the narrow cocoon -
just don't trip on the track.

The city remains tense and gritty,
but I don't scream and shout -
floating in tender tensegrity,
I just breathe in and out.

A fairy tale

The corporate take over had begun centuries ago. Violence, the first pillar of government, doesn't suffice to create wealth for the vicious few to live off others. Only combined with the magic of money masses can be spellbound. 'Real' money has no power, the power of money lays in the hands of its creators.

When most people think about money, they might complain about the lack thereof. Hardly ever do they consider the illusions that make it work. The maintainers of violence, also knows as 'elected leaders of democratic nations', know better about the magical aspects of money.

Being dependent on money, leaders had to network with bankers. In exchange for the tangible illusion of monetary wealth they sold their nation's souls, the workforce of their citizens. As long as the trust in a currency exists, money is the perfect tool to accumulate the life force of entire populations, without yoke, chains and whips.

Most governments withdrew themselves from their core responsibilities like health care, education and infrastructure. Only by meme creation governments managed to justify their existence, but increased global communication made their futility more and more obvious.

Only fear managed to maintain the illusion of the need of government. The 21st century started with mass psychosis on September 11 2001, which conveniently distracted from a massive loss of money by the Department of Defense. The terror meme allowed for a systematic redistribution of resources and a erosion of the middle class in many parts of the world.

The development of technology meant that fewer people were needed to serve the useless. The trip to the moon in the late 60's had convincingly demonstrated that this planet has more than enough resources for everyone. Spreading the wealth among all was never a target for governments, tiny gifts and massive propaganda glued the myth of need of government together.

Global travel and communication enabled to dream about heaven on earth for the useless: Creating a caste of untouchables, beyond any control of the majority of inhabitants of this planet. A new world order. Global government.

Fear is again weapon of choice. Terror came first, but after eight years of chasing Immanuel Goldstein aka Osama Bin Laden, countless legal blunders and legalised torture this meme has lost a bit of its power. A healthy dose of nationalism creates latent fears against immigrants, and tolerates genocide against the few remaining indigenous people on this planet.

The next component is as invisible a danger as terrorism: Global warming. Iconfied by cute yet dying polar bears it catches the 'sustainable' oriented part of the flock. Global warming provides a 'peaceful', 'rational', even 'scientific' justification for global government. The current global strategy to deal with global warming seems odd, to say the least. A new trading scheme is prophecied to reduce carbon emissions.

Trading seems to have created inter cultural influences, the travelling salesman is probably even an older job than prostitution. Trading and sharing dominate inter-personal and inter-group inter-action. But sharing reduces the perceived need for government, so more and more memes went into the cultural landscapes propagating the commodification of life.

While the majority busied itself with selling their soul for an eclectic, commodified identity, the puppet masters invented trading schemes to accelerate the redistribution of wealth. The dot-com-bubble in the 90's could have been a warning, yet electronics and lack of national regulations for financial products brought the virtual pyramide schemes to a truly global level.

The dominant meme makers used the volatility of the 'global market' for another purpose. Fortunes could be earned in short times. The prospect of 'fast money' easily distracts thinking about the origins of money. We, the people, can trust bankers, that's why they don't need control, right?

The Global Financial Crisis meme went a bit out of control. Unlike the fear-o-meme terror it was designed to withdraw resources from the 'middle class', using national governments for immediate execution of this theft. People in Europe got fed up with the lies of their governments and their 'bail-out packages', and started protesting again.

The legal erosion of civil rights alone does not create obedience. The corporate police state needs to test out to which extent their scare tactics work out. Banning of rallies, bullying participants, detaining 'terror suspects', punishing secret service initiated thought crimes with many years of jail show a change of attitude.

No matter how well our streets are under surveillance, curfews remain the method of choice to prevent people from organising collectively. 'The flu & you' tells us explicitly to stay away from other people, the next level fear-o-meme.

And so the sky gets sprayed with flu viruses, the rainy autumn weather brings it home. With nearly 800 'victims' of the virus, the line of infection can't be traced anymore. As long as it can be summarised to a 'single' place like Melbourne an infection by contact seems probable. Using planes for delivery makes a steady incline in numbers relatively easy, the relative harmless nature of it limits the dangers of this socio-genetic experiment.

Melbourne suits perfectly to test out civic control in large urban environments. The ongoing media craze prepares the people for the curfew 'to protect them'. If authorities can pull off this stunt, if they manage to incarcerate citizens in their homes, stopping the corporate monster gets really tough.

Nothing changes

Searching for the truth is a modern hobby,
and every truth has their own lobby.
This lobby takes you by the hand,
to show you a mysterious land.

All you need is little leap of faith
and you'll receive the saving grace.
Words are your weapon now,
tidbits of truth load your bow.

Yet the game remains the same,
idling loud with blame and shame.
Fighting for truth remains war,
and it doesn't really lead far.
Great light will return,
let it shine and not burn.

I found some great comment on the GFC meme at an odd spot. Enjoy.

The people of the village
sit close together
They seem happy and glad
They mingle as they gather in the village square

Off in the castles and mansions
the people are separate and confined
behind tall walls
Their smiles seem shallow
and no one tells the truth

Those who have little
seem filled with abundance
They have compassion and care for others
Their friendships
are as valuable as pure gold

Those who have great treasures
seem important and secure
They are surrounded by luxury and wear fine clothes
but they live in fear of losing
and have no time for others
Eat without tasting
Seek comfort from what cannot give life

One is full and happy
the other empty and sad
Therefore it is best to examine closely
the meaning of wealth.

Paradox found

A paradox is ... two doctors fishing off a pair of docks with their pair of dogs when a pair o' ducks swim by and ask the pair o' dogs if they prey in the dark. Knowing paradox to be the rule of the thumbs in those parts, the pair o' dogs told the pair o' ducks: "No, we bark in the day... do you prey in the dark?" The pair o' ducks quacked back to the pair o' dogs who simultaneously barked and excited the pair of docs sitting on their pair of docks.... while the pair o' ducks ate their worms, pulling the pair o' docs off their pair o' docks and into the waters where the pair o' ducks swam in spirals around the pair o' docks. This only excited the pair o' dogs more and in they jumped to join the pair o' ducks and the pair o' docs in the wet, wild waters.

Delicious fear

A new meme spreads the planet, looking for easy prey. It just changed its name from swine flu to Influenca A (H1N1). Unlike the 'regular' winter flu, that regularly kills about 3000 Australians, it already killed an unbelievable 160 people world wide!

Would somebody PLEASE think about the children? Maybe about those 30,000 children that starve daily world wide? No, rather get anxious about the vicious invisible killer that could sneak unnoticed into your neighborhood or your body. Consume merrily to celebrate your excellent ignorance. Eat red meat, evolution wouldn't have made us such brilliant killing engineers otherwise.

The existence of a virus in a body doesn't mean too much. Only if the immune system has problems, outbreak of a disease happens. Little do we know about the workings of the immune system, but the link between anxiety and reduced immune system activity looks quite obvious.

The 'pandemic precautions' conducted by 'benevolent' and 'concerned' governments make it unlikely to catch the vicious flu which many already survived. The wide spread fear mongering (stockpile foods! don't stockpile! don't panic!) certainly lowers the general well-being of fear attracted beings.

From what does this red herring distract? The redistribution of more US tax payers money into the hands of FIAT? It looks a bit brazen what Bilderberg buddies Geithner and Elkann pull off, yet the message to the common 'citizen' is clear: Owned.

I guess my favorite swine Kevin likes the flu as well. His amazingly imbecile plan to create more jobs by forcing young people into work repeats the same steps most European countries took to dismantle their social system, not to mention social cohesion.

Probably a lot of people still consider politicians trustworthy because they receive most their 'communication' with them during the hypnotic trance induced by the TV. Together with the repetition of certain key phrases a common illusion is created and maintained. 'Government means security', this hypnotic message successfully prevents solving some of this planets most urgent problems.

Yet government is not the nurturing mother as it wants to be seen. The Australian government still fights in two illegal wars, its judges send people for thought crimes into jail, refugees end up in camps designed in the spirit of Guantanamo Bay. Nurtured are only pet projects: War, war on terror, pipelines, desal plants, myki, connex, etc.

Disinformation



What's wrong with this picture? It depends of course on your personal preferences. O my god, hooligans have smeared slogans in our beautiful park, you might say. Bloody anarchists, they should be imprisoned/decapitated/burned at the stake somebody else might say.

My initial reaction was a smile. I like the idea of using public spaces for public communication, but something was wrong. It could have read as well: Bold people don't need hairdressers. Unless I consider this writing as purely dadaistic expression, it turns into something sinister.

The symbol suggests a statement about anarchism, yet it fails to convey anything else but public misconceptions about this way of life. Strong people don't need government. So anarchy is no good for weak people? Only the strong survive? What a lot of cow dung.

Indeed, strong people don't need government. Quite often 'strong' people govern already, or at least network sufficiently to get away with whatever nefarious scheme they came up with. I don't mind calling nepotism and corruption in politics real existing anarchy, even though it will make the expression probably even more unpopular.

A minor edit turns bullshit into a tidy slogan: People don't need government. No more neo-darwinism, no more us against them, no hierarchy of strong and weak, no implicit moral judgements. People don't need government, people need community. would even offer an answer to the panicking question about what we'd do without government.

The best way to perpetrate myths of limitations is to use unwitting helpers. Someone acted as governmental agent, and probably enjoyed the kick of doing something 'illegal'. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Who cares?

happy easter.

New World Order

Gordon Brown, the British Primate Master (PM), did it. 'A New World Order is emerging', claimed Brown, oblivious to the meaning of the word emergence, or rather, using manifactured Unspeak to disguise the global abolition of democracy.

Emergence seems like such a nice, natural thing in times of global emergency. Nobody will associate straight away a coup de monde, emergence rather suggest good intentions and best efforts. Bummer, we have a big problem, no clue about it last time we met, now only world government can help. Let's read this in G20 lingo:

We face the greatest challenge to the world economy in modern times; a crisis which has deepened since we last met, which affects the lives of women, men, and children in every country, and which all countries must join together to resolve. A global crisis requires a global solution.

Let's have a look at this 'greatest challenge to the world economy'. Indeed, for the last decades we faced the challenge of allowing every single human being a decent, peaceful life as our technology provided since then more than enough for everyone. By using the 'savings' of our planet (mainly oil and gas), technology advanced to a point that enabled sustainability, for all inhabitants. Now we don't need to use the sun's chemically transformed energy, and can instead harvest sun, wind, water and geo-thermal energy directly. Energy scarcity exists only locally due to the lack of technology and information transfer, modern economy forces the wheel to be invented several times to protect 'intellectual property'.

The G20 nations don't care about a system of world economy that needs ten thousands of starving children daily. They don't care that their system of global economy fosters the genocide of native people by legal hoops. They care about this very system of global economy, as it provided so much for so few with so little effort, at the expense of the world population.

We believe that the only sure foundation for sustainable globalisation and rising prosperity for all is an open world economy based on market principles, effective regulation, and strong global institutions.

I believe I can fly... well, not really, but this song came to my mind while reading this credo. We already have regulations, global institutions and market principles in place, and with those we haven't achieved sustainable globalisation and rising prosperity for all. WTO and IMF ruined quite a lot of nations before any talks about global crisis, so they seem strong even without any democratic legitimation. 'Effective regulation' and 'open economy' sound very contradictory - in a vow for more 'openness' markets have been de-regulated, mostly with the help of obviously not yet strong enough global institutions like IMF, WTO and the like.

So the simple translation of G20's credo goes like that: "We believe that more of the fairy tales that produced the problem will solve the problem." Even though the economic system never produced its desired effects, if we fiddle around some more it will do its magic. Not very convincing.

At least, some vital aspect of the problem finds its place in the G20's communique:

We have today therefore pledged to do whatever is necessary to:

* restore confidence, growth, and jobs;
* repair the financial system to restore lending;
* strengthen financial regulation to rebuild trust;
* fund and reform our international financial institutions to overcome this
crisis and prevent future ones;
* promote global trade and investment and reject protectionism, to underpin prosperity; and
* build an inclusive, green, and sustainable recovery.

The financial systems lending ability is not kaputt, you can not repair it. The actors of the financial system withdrew from their core business, lending, to blackmail governments in the non muslim world. Lending for interest constitutes the core of the problem, as money is created on the sole basis of trust. Without trust the money in your pocket and on your bank account is worth nothing, nada, nilch, niente, nix.

According to Buckminster Fuller, our accounting mechanism are inherited from the Great Pirates, designed to allow a stealthy way of accumulating wealth. It obviously still has this capacity, and 'greedy' individuals 'abused' this functionality.

If sombunall banks stop lending, it doesn't imply that the financial system needs repair. It implies the banks power to throttle entire economies as they follow their own laws. Any interest-on-credit based economy grinds to a halt without sufficient cash flow, as we currently witness.

Injecting money directly into the banking system doesn't repair the financial system, it's nothing but a ransom. The G20 communique glosses over this fact by invoking prophetic number magic.

We are undertaking an unprecedented and concerted fiscal expansion, which will save or create millions of jobs which would otherwise have been destroyed, and that will, by the end of next year, amount to $5 trillion, raise output by 4 per cent, and accelerate the transition to a green economy.

Let's do a short recall here. After the blow-up of yet another financial product banks stopped lending, and actively called for government help to get rid of their losses. Instead of taking responsibility for their irresponsible market gambling the economy was slowed down to have a mean for blackmail. Meanwhile, diverse media campaigns shifted the blame for the 'economic crisis' into random directions, far away from its origins. Instead, the perpetrators were invited as 'independent' advisors to look a solution. Not surprisingly, they negotiated immediate uncontrolled profits and power gains.

The agreements we have reached today, to treble resources available to the IMF to $750 billion, [...] and to use the additional resources from agreed IMF gold sales for concessional finance for the poorest countries, constitute an additional $1.1 trillion programme of support to restore credit, growth and jobs in the world economy.

Last month the IMF estimated that world growth in real terms would resume and rise to over 2 percent by the end of 2010. [...] We commit today to taking whatever action is necessary to secure that outcome, and we call on the IMF to assess regularly the actions taken and the global actions required.

If the 'world leaders' complain so bitterly about the abuse of prior 'stimulus packages', why do they call on the IMF to assess themselves? Wasn't this uncontrolled form of creative self-assessment one of factor to escalate the situation?

We will support, now and in the future, to candid, even-handed, and independent IMF surveillance of our economies and financial sectors, of the impact of our policies on others, and of risks facing the global economy.

Or translated: We hand the fate of this planet over to the banking system. Well done, Bilderbergers, the prisonplanet 'emerges'. Democracy got owned.

PS:
Anarchism is not

Chaos within a bloody battle for survival.
Thats what we have at the moment.

The pursuit of your selfish interest over the needs of others.
Thats what we have at the moment.

A state of total disorganisation
Thats what we have at the moment.

The triumph of the strong over the weak.
Thats what we have at the moment.

So what is it?

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The Group of 20 fear-mongering nations meets again. Nobody elected them. A lot of people don't want them meeting in their country. The secrecy around these talks smells like organised crime. No, it rather stinks like mafia.

Take that, Pixies!

It does not follow that termination of covert testing of Operation Mindfuck on unwitting U.S. citizens will bring the program to a halt. Some testing on foreign nationals has been occuring under the present arrangements. Various U.S. deep cover agents overseas would appear to be more favorably situated than the U.S. agencies to perform realistic testing.

Synchropolis

We're witnessing the shift from media consumer to media producer thanks to the internet and universal access to technological know-how. Creative end-users, adapting to the digital age, are producing works that cohesively build community beyond geopolitical space. Virtual space is a radicalizing area, and experiencing it has already altered human society permanently. For too long the meme space has been only flowing in one direction, it has remained the tool of the few to broadcast to the many. Now, tools such as blogs, podcasts, and video are allowing individuals to redress the imbalance between their media intake and output. The character of the discourse changes as well, to reflect the concerns of these individuals rather than those of the corporate-owned media conglomerates.

Taken from the The Art of Memetics.

I declare hereby unauthorized that something went wrong when transcribing the sanskrit word 'om' into latin letters. OWNG, which coincidentally also means 'One World No Government', is the correct way of meditating about it. I have spoken. Time for some video entertainment from 1983.

I went out to see what's there -
As if I'd really care.
But then the wall spoke to me,
a weird message as you can see.

My neurons silently started screaming -
is there any bloody meaning?
I didn't stop with just one word,
only to find the next best fnord.

Seeing the invisible
hearing angels sing
mind and body indivisible
quite a spaced out thing.

There was no need for speed
to meditate about booze and weed,
just a silent satisfaction
about yet another distraction.

If you find any symbolism or messages in these shots, please pat yourself on the back.



Do it. I mean it.

"It may be human nature to lie, but it's written all over our face." "The truth is written all over our faces." "Tha average person lies three times per ten minutes in conversation." "We all look the same when we lie." "Everything you see in this show is grounded in actual science." "When you're dishonest, your body shows it."

I think I missed some of the most outrageous lies sprouted in the trailer for the drama series "Lie to me" by the fair and balanced FOX network. With impunity FOX claims that everyone is the same, and I wonder why FOX wants to promote such subversive, 'communist' thoughts.

Psychology knows the phenomenon of a 'pathological liar', and it's part of the education within intelligence services to learn to inhibit typical bodily reactions towards 'telling lies'. Science has shown already that some people can escape from even the most advanced forms of 'lie detection'. However, the implicit lie sold as byproduct has even more hazardous consequences.

Nothing less than Dawkin's dogma of the existence of an objectively observable truth shines through the series of deceptive trailers, "grounded in actual science". The cage of Aristotelian logic allows FOX to give us a double whammy: Disinformation about deceptive behaviour and reinforcement of limiting beliefs.

Being aware of a lie needs empathy. If I don't know or notice that I potentially hurt/abuse/use another person by telling my unshared and/or unsubstantiated perspective of events, why should I care? An empathic human being would certainly hesitate before taking a decision that kills innocent life. Bush and Blair propagated a lie (according to facts), with predictable fatal consequences.

Deception exists a lot in nature. Chameleons change their colour, orchids mimic the appearance of horny insects, fish lure their prey with fake bait, etc. Stealth, observance, strength, speed and deception keep predators alive.

Let's do the crazy thing of comparing the successful strategies of predatory animals with the structures of government.

Stealth. Wild cats hide in the vegetation, often have camouflage pattern on their fur, and approach their prey against the wind. The prey feels safe until an immediate attack. Governments have intelligence agencies, which infiltrate social movements, collect and collate all sorts of individual data, all unaccountable to the general public. Let's call the least subtle form of stealth 'national security'.

Observance. Crocodiles just poke their eyes out of the water, using stealth to observe their prey. If their prey is caught in a habit, using the same entry twice, they strike. Collective hunters act even smarter. Most herds or schools seem impossible to penetrate, but once the mass is divided, the split individuals can easily be conquered. Representatives of the government never get tired in propagating the 'evil' groups in society, the terrorists, the dole bludgers, the incesteous native people, the bloody foreigners, internet pirates, etc. Observation helps to devise strategies for divide and conquer, employed in the hunt. Satellite surveillance, CCTV, phone records, bank statements, etc create a transparent 'citizen'.

Strength. Force brings down the prey. Guns and tazers silence resistance. The monopoly to deploy force lies in the hands of the state. Say no more.

Speed. The cheetah surprises its prey by its speed. The governmental predators simply use the time between elections to redistribute taxpayers money as 'bailout', 'economic initiative' to their friends. Or to pass legislation restricting individual freedom. Patriot I, the enslavement of the US population, passed congress less than 24 hours from when it was presented, similar to other stupid 'anti-terror' legislations world wide. Rushed in, useless, and extended since then.

Deception. "There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.", "The boat is full.", "We need to help the banks." Giving a governmental spin on discoveries of how fucked up governments act helps creating a commonly believed lie. However, spin means that we have to deal with multiple sources repeating the same message, not a single individual 'showing with his body that he lies'. Although the banking industry creates the current crisis, they can use it to concentrate more wealth in their hands.

But of course, this just adds up to a conspiracy theory. We live in a 'transparent democracy', with every move of a leader better known than any character in a daily soap. No police man, no politician evva turned out to be corrupt in this perfect country, still continuing its slow genocide.

Not every lie can be detected, but just few people want to deceive us, and can do so undetected (by observable reactions of them). Denial of the existence of the charming uncaring psychopathic liars grants them more power. Which makes me wonder why Rupert Murdock promotes so much lies about the nature of lying.

COWDUNG

When we orient ourselves by verbal definitions, when we prefer preserving our maps (even maps without territory) to checking them out against 'facts', when we fail to become aware of our assumptions and inferences and to test them out when possible, when we identify different levels of abstraction, we behave intensionally.

[...]

In many ways our neuro-evaluational, neuro-linguistic environments encourage an intensional orientation. Verbal facility in the conventional wisdom of the dominant group - what biologist C.H. Waddington called COWDUNG for short - may get confused with intelligence.

Which leads elegantly to George Bernhard Shaw:

The only man who behaves sensibly is my taylor; he takes my measure anew each time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect them to fit me.

GFC

The 21st century repeats most stupidities in history, just with more modern methods. The ability to torture, kill, blackmail and abuse regular people has increased, which throws human rights back to an all time low (or at least since the 'civilised world' came up with the meme 'human rights').

While the meme of hope still awaits desperately to become a tangible reality, another fear meme infects the planet. The Geriatric Freak Club came up with GFC as synonym for Global Financial Crisis in a desperate attempt to produce more smoke to hide the arsonists responsible for the slowdown in economy.

Capitalism ostensibly gives everyone the chance the succeed, but this word does not in any way describe the functionality of global economic systems. Lack of accountability in politics and corporations inevitably leads to fascism, or how Mussolini called it, corporatism.

'Bailing out' failed commercial enterprises with taxpayers money just redistributes wealth from the bottom to the top, society as a whole loses. No one bails out house owners who suffer from the tight grip around the neck, exerted by the global banking system.

After abusing their powers to print money to setting up absurd, risky and pyramid-scheme like 'financial products', the banks now sulk over their self-produced failures. But being outside any governmental, or even democratic control, the banks use their remaining financial and propaganda power to distract from a system that cannot work in favour of all participants.

The Australian government granted Pacific Brands $17 million, out of which $7 million increased the pay of the executive staff (yeah right, those people who fucked up their business in first place). The amount of unjustified assumptions that shines through the commentary made me laugh a lot, and sad at the same time.

One head parasite of the GFC said:

I think the workers are right to be absolutely furious with their management, and certainly their management has got a lot of explaining to do.

What a consolation, Mr. Swan. 1800 workers lost their jobs, after the government doubled the executive's pay with taxpayers money. Now, jobless and with some drastic consequences for their livelyhood, allowing their anger might distract them from the corrupt government preposterously claiming to work for them as well.

Now, after the damage has happened, the GFC will 'look into all options' to prevent that unconditionally handed over tax payers money ends up in a few pockets. What about confessing that the bailout idea simply cannot work? What about a simple sorry?

'Looking into all options' takes time, so probably nobody notices how much money the government pumps into the criminal Connex connection, or the feudalistic banking industry. 'Looking into all options' means having a club of 'experts' jabbering for week and months, and coming back with results only if the problem still has some public attention.

The result is highly predictable: If Australia wants to be competitive on the global market place, the government really can't do too much. The 'golden parachute', another meme on the rise in the 21st century, cannot be taken away from those poor creatures that feel only born to command, but not to work. Err, sorry, we really deeply looked into this, but there's nothing to be done. Thanks for the fish.

Our global monetary system lacks sustainability, it needs collapses to remain 'stable' for short periods of time. As long as the basic structure of this system remains untouched, it will continue to work as designed: Concentrating this planets wealth in the hand of a few.