The Global Warming Conflict

The current global warming issue is not being debated in the political spectrum.

The debate that is taking place there is one of values and conflicting interests.

The kyoto protocol and the Stern report are the two most visible indicators of various governments stances on Global Warming.
First of all John Howard said it wasn't going to work unless everyone was on board...somehow this was justification of his refusal to sign and instead come up with this gem..


Prime Minister John Howard will announce more Government funding for clean energy projects, valued at $60 million.



The Federal Government has been facing a barrage of questions this week about climate change, amid the dire prediction about global warming in a British report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern.

Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says the timing of Government's funding boost this morning is just a coincidence.

This morning in Canberra, he and Mr Howard will unveil the funding for 42 projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says one project is a mobile carbon catcher to help make coal-fired power stations less polluting.

"That is technology that is already on the back of a truck and ready to be rolled out and trialled in various power stations around Australia and ultimately overseas," he said.

Greens Senator Bob Brown has condemned the project and says the Government's priorities are wrong.

"It's pathetic when you see what ought to have been done," he said.

"The fact that the Government has taken much more money than that out of the solar industry, which is world's best technology, which can be implemented now - you see how lost the priorities of the Government are."


from the ABC

instead Johnny got on board with The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, also known as AP6, which is an international non-treaty agreement among Australia, India, Japan, the People's Republic of China, South Korea, and the United States, who together account for more than 50% of the worlds carbon emissions, announced July 28, 2005 at an Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum meeting and launched on January 12 2006 at the Partnership's inaugural Ministerial meeting in Sydney
this agreement allows member countries to set their goals for reducing emissions individually, with no mandatory enforcement mechanism...the Worldwide Fund for Nature stated that "a deal on climate change that doesn't limit pollution is the same as a peace plan that allows guns to be fired"

The Greens are calling for:
-A Climate Change Ministry
-The Prime Minister to take up Stern’s call for Australia to join Europe, California and Japan in a global emissions trading scheme
-Regulatory and financial mechanisms to impose a price on carbon, including a carbon tax
-An end to deforestation which, in Australia, causes huge greenhouse gas pollution
-A massive boost to Australia’s solar power technology which is being forced offshore

Now Johnny is aware Australia is very rich in uranium.
He is aware there is potentially a massive market for nuclear power and he is aware of the economic growth that would occur were we to take the nuclear option.
He is also aware of what that looks like on paper once he is gone.

This conflicting interest surrounding the growth of the nuclear energy industry, the idea of burying "clean" carbon emissions in the ground, the US Government and the world's big energy players such as American Electric Power, BHP Billiton and Peabody Energy plan to spend close to $US1 billion ($1.3 billion) to build FutureGen, a prototype of the fossil-fuelled power plant they hope will produce electricity and hydrogen with no emissions, including carbon dioxide.

As usual Johnny has his head firmly planted in the U.S tail
In Australia, a less ambitious but equally important project is under way (see graphic). Last week, researchers in Canberra announced plans to conduct the first CO2 geological storage demonstration project in Australia. At an as yet unnamed site in rural western Victoria, engineers will tap into a natural source of CO2 and methane, separate the CO2, compress it, then pipe it a couple of kilometres away to another site.

There, they will drill two kilometres into the Earth's surface and inject 100,000 tonnes of CO2 underground. The project is only small scale - you would need something 40 to 50 times bigger to cope with the CO2 emitted from a large coal-fired power station - but the team at the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies hopes it will prove CO2 can be safely and securely stored underground for long periods.

Coal is mainly made up of carbon. When it is burned it combines with oxygen in the air to form CO2. Governments and businesses the world over now agree that we are injecting too much CO2 into the atmosphere. That, along with a number of other factors, has begun to heat up the Earth's temperature and change its weather patterns, leading to the phenomenon known as climate change.

Having rejected the Kyoto Protocol and its binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions like CO2, the US and Australian governments are pursuing a technological fix: carbon capture and storage (CCS).
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/coal-comfort/2006/01/10/1136863239625.html

"Nuclear not the answer" Brown tells Sydney rally

The Greens will introduce a climate change remedy bill to the Senate, setting a timetable and targets for greenhouse gas emissions, Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Sydney today. Senator Brown joined thousands of people at the city's Walk Against Warming.

This will be the Greens’ fourth climate change bill in a decade.

"Now even John Howard knows the urgency. The bill will have targets like those already set by Arnold Schwarzenegger in California (25% reduction by 2020), but with a 5 yearly review and an aim for 90% by 2050," Senator Brown said.

He called on both the government and opposition to adopt a carbon tax.

"However, there is now a double danger stalking Australia's next generation: climate change and nuclear power, which comes with enrichment, waste dumps and weapons proliferation. This is Mr Howard's double jeopardy solution. But nuclear cannot and will not address climate change - it would take 1 to 2 decades to get going, ensure a major waste dump in Australia and inevitably encourage proliferation in neighbouring countries," Senator Brown said.

Senator Brown called on John Howard to make at least a gesture towards renewable energy by having Greenpeace replace the solar panels it put on Kirribilli House a year ago. Mr Howard had the panels torn down. [/]

Why?
what possible motivation could he have for tearing down solar panels?
Im sensing some personal prejudices...
[i]An Inconvenient Truth, starring the former US vice-president Al Gore, "showed a degree of the peeved politician [with] the constant jibes at the Bush Administration," Mr Howard said yesterday. He urged Australians who think nuclear power is a "horrific thought" to consider the forthcoming report which is expected to find that nuclear power will become more economical as the cost of reducing greenhouse emissions makes coal-fired electricity more expensive.
doesn't that seem a little strange?
He's telling us to wait on a report because he is expecting certain results?
curious...

Now i could be wrong, but it seems Howard has adopted a particular political strategy..
When engaged in political discourse, conservatards change subjects often; preferring to point out unrelated (or even fabricated) examples of liberal folly from 20 years ago rather than directly addressing the topic at hand.
Some conservatards like to use large words like "misunderestimate" and "nukular" to impress others with their advanced grasp of English vocabulary, and by extension, their intelligence.
When cornered the conservatard will verbally attack their opposition, usually calling them a dirty, lazy environmental extremist pothead who has nothing better to do than protest.



The links between the energy industry and the economy are obvious...
the clutching onto the economic arguement for dear life position of the Government creates a small problem.

One option offers immediate economic growth...on offers long term solutions..

Mr Howard said "it is not going to overwhelm us tomorrow, we are not going to drown in the sea in a couple of weeks' time … we have to be sensible and measured and calm in our responses…"

His remarks came as an expert report on uranium found that ill-informed community suspicion of the radioactive mineral has added to the obstacles in development of Australia's uranium industry.

"The opposition, however, is mainly due to a significant misalignment between public concern and the objective risk. While risks from uranium are carefully measured and relatively low, the public perception of risk is relatively high," says the Government-commissioned report by the Uranium Industry Framework group, chaired by the Melbourne engineer and industrialist, Dr John White.

The report calls for a national "stewardship" plan to ensure Australia's huge uranium deposits - the world's largest - are developed to maximise value and minimise risks to safety, the environment and community.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/just-wait-for-a-more-convenient-truth-urges-pm/2006/11/13/1163266484014.html

The fact is there are numerous options to combat this issue...an unmodified diesel car can run on strained vegetable oil acquired from any fast food kitchen..

Biofuel, any fuel that is derived from biomass — recently living organisms or their metabolic byproducts, such as manure from cows. It is a renewable energy source, unlike other natural resources such as petroleum, coal and nuclear fuels.

Like coal and petroleum, biomass is a form of stored solar energy. The energy of the sun is "captured" through the process of photosynthesis in growing plants

Biologically produced alcohols, most commonly ethanol and methanol, and less commonly propanol and butanol produced by the action of bacteria — see alcohol fuel.

-Methanol, which is currently produced from natural gas, can also be produced from biomass — although this is not economically viable at present. The methanol economy is an interesting alternative to the hydrogen economy.
Biomass to liquid, synthetic fuels produced from syngas. Syngas in turn, is produced from biomass by gasification.

-Ethanol fuel produced from sugar cane is being used as automotive fuel in Brazil. Ethanol produced from corn is being used mostly as a gasoline additive (oxygenator) in the United States, but direct use as fuel is growing. Cellulosic ethanol is being manufactured from straw (an agricultural waste product) by Iogen Corporation of Ontario, Canada; and other companies are attempting to do the same. ETBE containing 47% Ethanol is currently the biggest biofuel contributor in Europe.

-Butanol is formed by A.B.E. fermentation (Acetone, Butanol, Ethanol) and experimental modifications of the ABE process show potentially high net energy gains with butanol being the only liquid product. Butanol can be burned "straight" in existing gasoline engines (without modification to the engine or car), produces more energy and is less corrosive and less water soluble than ethanol, and can be distributed via existing infrastructures.

-Mixed Alcohols (e.g., mixture of ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol, hexanol and heptanol, such as EcaleneTM), obtained either by biomass-to-liquid technology (namely gasification to produce syngas followed by catalytic synthesis) or by bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels.

-GTL or BTL both produce synthetic fuels out of biomass in the so called Fischer Tropsch process. The synthetic biofuel containing oxygen is used as additive in high quality diesel and petrol.

Biologically produced gases

Biogas is produced by the process of anaerobic digestion of organic material by anaerobes.

Biogas can be produced either from biodegradable waste materials or by the use of energy crops fed into anaerobic digesters to supplement gas yields. The solid output, digestate, can also be used as a biofuel.

Biogas contains methane and can be recovered in industrial anaerobic digesters and mechanical biological treatment systems. Landfill gas is a less clean form of biogas which is produced in landfills through naturally occurring anaerobic digestion. Paradoxically if this gas is allowed to escape into the atmosphere it is a potent greenhouse gas.

-Biologically produced gases from wastes
Biologically produced oils and gases can be produced from various wastes:
Thermal depolymerization of waste can extract methane and other oils similar to petroleum.
Pyrolysis oil may be produced out of biomass, wood waste etc. using heat only in the flash pyrolysis process. The oil has to be treated before using in conventional fuel systems or internal combustion engines (water pH).
One company, GreenFuel Technologies Corporation, has developed a patented bioreactor system that utilizes nontoxic photosynthetic algae to take in smokestacks flue gases and produce biofuels such as biodiesel, biogas and a dry fuel comparable to coal [2].

Biologically produced oils
Biologically produced oils can be used in diesel engines:
Straight vegetable oil (SVO).
Waste vegetable oil (WVO) - waste cooking oils and greases produced in quantity mostly by commercial kitchens
Biodiesel obtained from transesterification of animal fats and vegetable oil, directly usable in petroleum diesel engines.

Hemp, wind, solar power, wave power, geothermal power, tidal power...It is a matter of generating awareness of the alternatives, utilizing the taxation system is also likely to influence energy choices, together with education and public awareness initiatives.

In 2005 the Swedish government announced their intention to become the first country to break their country's dependence on oil and other ‘fossil raw materials’ by 2020 [1]. As of 2005, oil supplies provided about 32% of the country's energy supply, with nuclear power and hydroelectricity providing much of the remainder.

http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2031/a/67096

The Circle of Wagons

do you know what the circle of wagons is?

its when you put three bunks, like the circling up of the wagons in a wagon train, an old cowboy movie, and they have the sheets hanging down so you can't see what's going on inside the four bunks and inside the four bunks about two dozen boys just fucked the shit out of this little mormon kid.

Now they don't want to break your jaw because they still want your jaw to be able to work, so what it does it takes out your teeth and then they just skull-fucked the shit out of this boy. Uh... we came in and there wasn't really anything left. They ass-fucked him, skull-fucked him, they fucked his back, they've been up his shoulders and titty-fucked him with his shoulder blades.



Fucked up shit, man.
We came in here and all the convicts you know, all of them where like, "Uh..." you know, "He was fucked to death before we got here."
So we couldn't really point the finger at nobody, because it was either all or nothing, and you ain't going to book two dozen people.
and you know what else?

The sixties brought the hippie breed
And decades later, things have changed indeed
We lost the values, but we kept the weed
You've got a lot to see
The Reagan years have laid the frame
For movie stars to play the White House game
We're not to far from voting Feldman-Haim
You've got a lot to see
The town of Vegas
Has got a different face
'Cause it's a family place
With lots to do
Where in the fifties
A man could mingle with scores Of all the seediest whores
Well now his children can too
You heard it from the canine's mouth
The country's changed, that is except the South
And you'll agree
No one really knows, my dear lady friend


Just quite how it all will end
So hurry, 'cause you've got a lot to see
The baldness gene was cause for dread
But that's a fear that you can put to bed
They'll shave your ass and glue it on your head
You've got a lot to see
The PC age has moved the bar
A word like "redneck" is a step too far
The proper term is "country music star"
You've got a lot to see
Our flashy cell phones
Make people mumble, "Gee whiz"
"Look how important he is"
"His life must rule"
You'll get a tumor
But on your surgery day
The doc will see it and say
"Wow, you must really be cool"

Have you ever wondered why fosters beer still exists?

LSD can be derived from the ergot virus which is commonly found on
hops and wheat. While it's possible to scrape the virus off the stalks
of these plants, there's a much easier way to get ergot...

Foster's Beer is one of the few beers made with ergot-containing grains,
and it is definitely the most available. First, you'll need some big, blue
cans of Foster's Beer, which you can purchase at most local supermarkets.

1. Buy 12 cans of Foster's Beer. In a pan, heat the beer to a slow boil, in
order to remove the water and isolate the ergot-containing compounds.


Boiling off the water should take approximately 36 hours -- don't rush
the process, or you risk damaging the ergot-containing compounds. As
the beer evaporates, simply add more beer. In this way, eventually, you'll
have the essential compounds from all 12 beers in the bottom of the pan.
2.Do a whole bunch of other stuff..i'm not telling you what, you can guess.

5. Now, for the final step in preparation, add 4 ounces of pure ammonia to
the solution and let sit at room temperature for 3 days. This waiting
period allows for the slow reaction to take place -- at higher
temperatures this reaction occurs much more quickly, but you risk
decomposition of the LSD. At the end of the three days, you've done it.

The expected yield of LSD is 100 grams, over 1,000,000 doses! Be VERY,
VERY careful at this point, because the solution you're dealing with is
*extremely* *concentrated*. If any gets on your hands, you'll be
tripping for years Now, put about 20 gallons of water in a barrel,and
stir in the LSD using a large oar. At this level of dilution, a 1/4
cup contains about 100 hits so don't drink it.. get an eye dropper or something.




So now you know
Go forth and get busy


Next week well smoke bannana peels and get high on water...

It'll be mad gully
nuke the whales









erowid.org

Which Sydneyite are you?

Eastie, is a derogatory term used in Sydney, Australia for a (generally but not exclusively) Anglo-Saxon and/or Jewish demographic of individuals, typically from a white collar or upper class background, who choose to reside in the city's generally more affluent eastern suburbs (cf. Westies (people)).

Commonly held beliefs relating to this group's behaviours, attitudes and dress sense are noted below.
Appearance

men: regularly overweight with professionally trimmed or fashionably cut hair (possibly of varying length in keeping with current trends), designer label suits, ties and soft leather (often slip-on) shoes. Often seen throughout Sydney's 'trendy areas' sporting designer (or manicured) stubble and large, black, brand name sunglasses.


See also: Fashion victim.

women: the 'money is no object' look is in. When it comes to the fashion of the East, the power suit continues to stamp its authority. Designer accessories such as Gucci handbags, uncomfortable (yet fashionable) shoes, and excessively large sunglasses are a must. The Britney Spears or 'Paris Hilton-esque', custom made 'doggy bag' (containing a miniature dog - often a Chihuahua or Shih Tzu) is also currently part of the look.

Age bracket

Easties are generally in their late teens to mid-thirties, are regular party-goers (especially those involving cocktails or wine), and are known to be users of social drugs such as alcohol, cocaine and ecstacy.

The stereotype
Drink of choice: Latte
Drug of choice: Cocaine
Vehicle of choice: Anything German, preferably a BMW or Mercedes. May own a second Australian built car.
Real estate: Anything with water views
Children: 1 or 2, elite private schooling only
Limitations: Gets lost west of Sydney University and south of Coogee.


Temperament: Ill-natured, grumpy, impolite, elitist, greedy
Religion: Generally, but not exclusively Christian or possibly Jewish
Sport: Rugby Union
Daily activities:
Women: Tennis, golf, bridge, luncheons, brunches, shopping
Men: Work, golf, talking loudly into mobile phones in public places or on public transport
Driving Habit: There is no one else in the universe
Where you'll find them


Easties are also said to be fond of:

Expensive eastern suburban restaurants or bars including Bondi's, Ravisi's and Icebergs
The Autumn and Spring horse racing carnivals (in the members area only)
Double Bay, Vaucluse or Rose Bay cafes
Exclusive or newly opened King's Cross night clubs
Shopping in Paddington's Oxford Street or the Bondi Junction Westfield
Bronte Beach, Bondi Beach, Coogee Beach, Tamarama Beach
The preconceptions and stereotypes noted above are generally held by those of Sydney's western suburbs (Westies) who choose to deride them, a role Easties stereotypically revel in, who are of the belief that such behaviour is snobbish and/or elitist. See also: Tall Poppy Syndrome, Class conflict.

Sources of perceived differences and tension
These include:
Easties have access to superior social and cultural facilities
Easties have access to the bulk of political and economic power, leaving those in the Western Suburbs bereft either by ignorance or out of malice
Easties have better access to employment and higher education
Easties that participate in business have better access to the international investment that by default comes to the Eastern Suburbs, leaving those in the Western Suburbs with far less access to investment
Easties play up for and get better facilities and infrastructure due to their political and economic advantage
Easties get by virtual birthright access to land with water views and higher land prices as a result
Easties hoard their wealth to the detriment of the economy of Sydney, preventing those in the Western Suburbs from attaining wealth
The colloquial term Westie (also spelt Westy) is used in Australian and New Zealand English to describe residents of a city's western suburbs.

Origin of the term

The term originated, and is most often used, in relation to residents of the numerous western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and of Auckland, New Zealand. In other cities of Australia (such as Canberra and Brisbane). In New Zealand the term is largely confined to Auckland. Residents of suburbs such as Blacktown, and Mt Druitt in Sydney and Waitakere in Auckland are westies.

Sydney, Australia

In Sydney, westies have taken their name from Sydney's western suburbs, a region of suburbs in which the cost of living is generally considered to be less than that of Sydney's more easterly and inner-city suburbs. The former are also known to suffer from higher crime rates, and lower levels of professional employment, however they are home to increasing number of small businesses.

The westie stereotype is perceived by some as being in a state of transition, as Sydney is one of the most expensive places in the world to live. A lot of young families are moving out to the western suburbs due to cheap house prices and new towns that are being built on what was formerly farm land on the outskirts of Sydney.

However, tangible tensions and differences still thrive, which has lead to a backlash by some, especially by those who do not appreciate being called westies.

Terms pertaining to the westie stereotype

Westies are generally stereotyped as being a certain type of person. This type of person is characterised as being unintelligent, undereducated, unmotivated, unrefined, lacking in fashion sense, working-class or umemployed, etc.

The Bump n Grind

In todays day and age where sms' are responsible for a 4000% increase in relationships and first impressions can be a little innaccurate when your eyes are moving from side to side 6578 times a second people seem to be meeting in one of two ways....at least whilst out clubbing.

the bump n grind:
generally requires two equally munted individuals who spend a little while throwing shakey glances at each other on the dance floor whilst slowly making their way towards a designated spot on the ground they both keep looking at when they break eye contact...eventually they reduce the distance to a meter or two and linger within this area..


everynow and then moving closer together for a little brush until one decides they'd rather chew the face of their counterpart as opposed to their own, they clash pelvis' and the mauling begins


alternatively people may say hello first in which case the evening can head in several directions.
speaking to a few dudes recently i found out some lads go out with certain conversational plans, regardless of how little interest they may have in whatever they're talkin about the goal is to keep the girl talking..
they made it sound like they were clocking on for work or somethin...when the girl walks away they get pissed about wastin 40mins..
personally i dont really gain an interest in someone at a club unless they do or say something that really grabs my attention..

in any event the reason for all this dribble is that im slightly curious as to how much bearing the method of meeting has on any further activity..

if you met someone via the bump n grind would you be any more hesitant to pursue anything further?
do people still meet via the bump or has it been left behind in underage hunters?



who puts in the extra yards when the conversation starts to slow despite it being rather boring from the beginning?

Drug Demonization

In order to truly understand whats on one must first confront what is off.
But who is to define what is off?
What if the authority of offs is off in their defintion of off?
Christ it'd be anarchy.
Figured this out after mind-bending amounts of hodge podge therapy, buckets of money to pseudo psychoanalysts attempting quiet the voices in my head, be still my bleating brain or i'll increase the brain cell destruction rate to genocide.
I shed a ton of tears, had several cows, and then i caved
i called Dr Phil, so involved was I in that life-long quest for that psychological Holy Grail -- Sanity. Sanity will make everything okay, won't it?


Yes of course it will, tv said so, Dr Phil can help me.

Once I'm sane, the answers will be clear, I'll finally be happy, I'll finally get respect, right?
Better seats in restaurants, birds singing, banners flapping in the wind, champange will fall from the heavens and velvet ropes shall part...but alas a hump i have encountered.
We've come full circle only to return to our fundamental problem of subjectivity.
It's a farce!
An elaborate hoax i tell you
A burlesque pastiche as ludicrous as MKULTRA and Piers Ackerman.
Sanity is like the Greyface of the Psyche
life is serious and play is sin.
Anyone thinking differently to our definition of normal shall be deemed insane
Stop fighting the parts of your brain that make you think you're crazy -- embrace them! They don't hate you -- they just want a better rap and some attention. Take them out for a drive on Sundays..listen to your id, it knows you better than Tony Robbins.

Or don't, shit i don't care.
do whatever you want
remember, it's all relative
if you take the ``U'' out of ``Freud,'' you get ``Fred,'' that's gotta mean something right?


Stop being afraid of what you might find if you strip away your rationality. Boldly go etcetera etcetera and hence and so on and so forth! Rip the fabric of your own reality and make yourself a beanie
wetness is the essence of beauty
perspective is the essence of the humpty dump
for example:

1) Why is it STILL illegal?:

The official answer: Because you shouldn't use it. You can't use it because it is illegal, and it is illegal so you can't use it. You should not use it. It is illegal. It is illegal so you should not use it.
It's the law.

The manic-depressive answer: It'll never happen. People are too unorganized/stupid/disempowered. It's just futility. Try, but don't expect to get anywhere. I won't get my hopes up.

The paranoid-schizophrenic answer: Don't you SEE?!?!? The guys at the top have it SEWN!! They own everything. They'll never let it happen. I shouldn't even be talking to you, but let me give you some advice!! listen... you shouldn't mess with THEM, THEY know everything. THEY are practically psychic, see? And the only way to get it to happen is to become one of THEM. You'd better watch it, or THEY will come and take you away -- THEY do that, you know. It's all a CONSPIRACY!!!

The neurotic answer: Marijuana? Eeek! Don't you know that stuff is dangerous?
People don't make laws for no good reason, you know! Where did you hear about marijuana? Wait! Don't tell me, I don't want to know. If anybody even knew you thought it should be legal -- well -- they'd never talk to you again! Don't you know that marijuana makes you eat your unborn babies?!?!
One smoke can turn you into a vicious raping murdering stealing couch potato

THE REAL ANSWER: Marijuana is still illegal because enough people have not yet stood up together and said:

`` THIS IS STUPID!!

I WANT CANNABIS HEMP LEGAL!!!

FOR PRODUCTS;

FOR MEDICINE;

FOR FOOD;

FOR FUN;

FOR GOODNESS'S SAKE! ISN'T THAT WHAT LIFE'S ALL ABOUT ?!''

lets get stupid

If i Were A Dictator

Now i'm not talking about serious social and political issues, well all know governments have nothing to do with that sort of thing.
The government is actually implemented in order to further the personal prejudices of its highest members and most generous monetary contributors (lobbyists)

Anyway
Generally i'm not one who is irked by inane trends and the like...they generally don't impact my life in anyway and there are many more serious things worth whining about.
However there are those times when a less serious perspective be taken.
So in the spirit of making social decisions based on personal bias (i'm looking at you Johnny) here are some things i would change if it was my political party that had claimed complete control of the senate.



First: I would outlaw faux hawks. In recent years this idiotic carefully constructed bed head has taken over the majority of uber with it urban areas and various Westfield shopping centres.



faux means fake yo



Now what is really curious about this is that it's been a fad for going on 5 years now...
The hairstyle is popular among fashion-challenged people of any gender in the Western world, and is considered to be a fad.
It is found in all different styles and is common among female cocaine hoovers/runway models.
It began in Europe and was made popular by footballer David Beckham, Actions In Objects keyboardist, Jordan Stein and musician Matthew Thomas.


It has since been adopted by mindless drones everywhere and has formed the basis for the mold of the modern metrosexual.

I feel this to be a great threat to a national security and as such i think we need to increase defence spending via implementing a crack team of specialists armed with clippers and a a white glove.
Any person found sporting a faux hawk after Dec 25 2006 shall be shaved and slapped in the face for stupidity.

There have been some concerns expressed regarding the possibility of a merka esque faux wig black market currently being formed in the underground scene (See: minimal tech, krunk, eski beat and ironic nostalgic interests)
Wearing a merka as a faux hawke will be an offence punishable by death..anyone caught with a real faux hawk willl be sent to Mt Druitt for reboganation.

Those caught wearing stupidly large Chanel sunglasses will be subjected to the same treatment.







Second: 4wds on the road.
Seriously if you're so afraid of driving you have to put yourself in a urban tank just to go from tennis to pick up Billy from his private tutoring session you shouldn't be on the damn road to begin with...
What the hell do you need a four foot bull bar for in the city anyway?
Oh it makes you feel safer?

If i bought you a bomb shelter would you stay in that?


Thirdly: I'd ban all cooking/renovation/kickstartapawnscareer/fixsocialprblemsonefamilydogatatime reality shows...
They serve no constructive purpose and they intentionally seek out the most irritating hosts they can find, no doubt a dastardly ploy to keep the audience watching in hopes one of the contestants snaps and smacks the host with whatever implemenet they may be holding at the time.


Fourth: I'd ban organised religion, period.
Or at least the evocation of Gods for some political cause....like oil.
"With God on our side we will prevail" is no different to "praise Allah"

Fuck that
Even if one of those two were God i don't think He, or She, would want people running round blowing the shit out of each other in His or Her name.
There is only one true God and his name is Grimlock.
He supports my cause and approves of me destroying various sandy areas.



I'd implement the death penalty for people who posted lists of things they hate on the internet

lastly: i'd ban people from wearing massive headphones whilst listening to their ipod.


You look stupid.
Stop it.


Good day.45

Vote

drugs are bad but beer is good...right

*Beer is a legal beverage, which is consistent with a healthy lifestyle.
In fact, a number of scientific studies have associated moderate beer consumption with healthy benefits, including a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease - an issue that deserves further study.

*On the other hand, marijuana, crack, cocaine, and heroin are illegal substances that are destructive to the user's health regardless of the frequency of use. An issue that warrants minimal study and should not be breached by anyone anywhere ever.

*Beer is produced by a legal, strictly regulated industry that employs hundreds of thousands, provides billions of dollars annually in state and federal taxes and directly contributes around $44 billion to the economy each year.


*Crack, ice, cocaine and heroin are produced by a totally-unregulated industry that pays no taxes and makes no reported contribution to society or our economy

*Beer is almost always consumed as a refreshment and never with the intention of intoxication

*Marijuana, crack, cocaine and heroin are used to radically alter the normal physical and emotional state and never to relax.

*The vast majority of beer drinkers consume beer responsibly and moderately and behave sensibly post-consumption.

*There is no such thing as responsible or moderate use of marijuana, crack, cocaine amd heroin. One smoke can send an individual into a schizophrenic rage during which they will inevitably murder, maime, sodomise and urinate on everyone on the planet.

*Brewers spend literally millions of dollars annually sponsoring a variety of public education programs that promote responsible consumption of alcoholic beverages. These programs are working.


*On the other hand, the marijuana, crack, cocaine and heroin industry does everything in its power to promote illegal use, abuse, and addiction, particularly among our youth...Some drugs even come in packets that say KILL EVERYONE on them..

*The brewing industry continually funds educational programs designed to prevent underage persons from drinking and to teach them about the proper role of alcohol in our society, things like 2-4-1 offers, double strength premixed soft drinks and scantily clad women handing our free samples.

*The illegal drug industry recruits children from schoolyards to be users and sellers। High school-age children are a primary target of drug dealers, whose objective is addiction and world domination॥whilst alcohol companies target only those deemed sophisticated and intelligent enough to kill their brain cells with a liquid narcotic drug dealers know no bounds in the marketing techniques they employ when attempting to influnce the decision of the average individual looking for a reality break...

Left Wing & Right Wing

The Right-wing sect knows that everything it thinks is right


There is no dispute in this matter, and when there is, it generally involves a lot of slobbering and excessive phlegm.
Right-wingers always stay in packs, making them hard to take down. They tend to wear reinforced dress shirts and pants to support their wrinkled, red, overly pudgy and lard-filled physique. This is not a put down, however, as they use it to their advantage to scare away children on TV.

They support freedom of religion, as long as it happens to be the same religion they believe in.

They show strict adherence to the Ten Commandments:


-Thou shall stockpile firearms if at all possible. Be sure to mention your "cold dead hands."
-Babble for hours on an AM radio station. Occasionally throw in some words from a political thesaurus.
-Use democracy to destroy it. For instance take over the Senate only to abolish it so the country becomes ruled by a dictator.
-Criticise and try to impeach anyone who calls himself or herself a Democrat. Look the other way if they call themselves a Republican.
-Care more about politics to an unhealthy degree. If you're not in politics, criticize it on air, in your new book or your blog.
-Have a stake in oil, tree burning, seal clubbing, and whale nuking.
-Buy a mansion with your investments.
-Become fat. Really fat.
-Eat nothing but good 'ol KFC.
-Make sure you have the whole conservative thing down.
-Use speech to convince others, regardless of coherency. Use extra chins on your neck to your advantage.
-Become old and grey. Breed a lot. Make sure you have at least twelve kids.
-Drink straight Kentucky Bourbon every night and every morning until your liver walks into an AA meeting all by itself.


-forget how to count to ten

A popular right-wing game, called "beat the odds," involves reproducing so much that you become the majority in a two party system.
Then, at least eight identical brothers should enter politics to stay away from habit forming all night liquor/crack binges.
Afterwards, run for president.
Keep using crack.
As a political ideology, right-wing proponents believe that government is beneficial and needed to maintain social order, that security is, like, way better than freedom, that taxation and an ever-growing list of laws are the price we pay for civilization, and that facts should never get in the way of a good social program.
Even our good friends the French have got in on the act, and not just during the various German invasions.
The right-wing is believed to have been started on Wednesday, 1269 on IMUG
Not at all to be confused with left-wing.

The Left wing believes everything, including themselves, are wrong.


Also known, as "The Union" or "The Industrialized First World Civilization" it is an independent nation that promotes and adheres to the following guidelines, also known as human rights:
-All beings have the right to freedom of thought, expression, and opinion. Anyone who disagrees should simply cease to exist.
-Freedom of religion, as long as it doesn't involve some kind of God.
-Equal rights for all men and women to be hired as models, especially Playboy centrefolds of the month.
-The right to have pity on lesser civilizations.
-The right to get along with everyone in the world, thereby making weapons obsolete.
-The right to not be a redneck cousin-loving obese alcoholic wife beating white trailer trash gun-slinging southern drawl cowboy.
-The right to not generalize anyone in general.
-The Left wing prefers to drink espresso or machiato, stay vegetarian, and practice being a tree hugging hippy for a day.
-The right wing has been known to blame the left wing for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and top rocket scientists in the US Republican party are currently building a space shuttle with two right wings to prevent a recurrence of this event.

As a political ideology, left-wing proponents believe that government is beneficial and needed to maintain social order, that security is, like, way better than freedom, that taxation and an ever-growing list of laws are the price we pay for civilization and that facts should never get in the way of a good social program.

Due to their believe in their rightousness and civil behaviour, left-wingers may refrain from discussions and dirty tricks, therefore loosing elections. They defend this dumbness as an advantage of democracy, but insist it is still the best way of government (weren't it for the existince of the right wing).

The left-wing is currently being blamed on NOWMUG.



The body of these wings has been MIA since the late 1700s when these distinctions were actually relevant.

Nutty News

In World news today Iran has been ranked among the world’s most corrupt countries in an annual report issued by an international corruption watchdog.
The theocratic regime scored 2.7 on the zero-to-10 scale, with zero indicating the highest level of perceived corruption. Dick Cheney has since been seen in the area.
John Howards own coallition scored a 9 on the perceived honesty scale and a negative 3098468546 on his actual honesty bringing his average to a grand total of lying scum.

Over in the U.S today the issue of whether the Democrats take control of one or both chambers of Congress this November, or even if they don't, little will happen in Washington, D.C. to solve most of the nation's critical domestic problems.


No doubt the majority of the winners time will be taken up highlighting the areas in which they felt their predecessor failed.

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's Senate narrowly voted Tuesday to lift the country's ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research.

The bill, which was approved 34-32, would relax rules on stem cell research and allow therapeutic cloning of embryos for medical research. The House of Representatives still needs to pass the bill before it becomes law, but lawmakers had expected the Senate to pose the biggest hurdle.

Upon hearing the news members of the Liberal party were spotted getting to work cloning themselves in hopes of drumming up more mindless support for economic growth and supposedly low interest rates.


Speaking of Australian interest rates after yet another rise today caused the Australian PM to inform us that we aren't worrying.
"Our economy is still very strong, we have a 30-year low in unemployment, we have very strong business investment and consumers are very confident," Mr Howard said.



There was a brief moment of confusion as some members of the public experienced de je vu upon hearing Mr Howard state this was the rate rise we had to have..

Mr Howard said his election slogan of keeping rates low would still apply. "Historically, even if interest rates go up tomorrow by a quarter of 1 per cent, they will still be low," he said despite repayments now taking a higher % of household income on average.

And If you're in Australia and your coffee tastes like … well … poo, don't complain. Just hand over your $50 and enjoy it, lest you be considered uncouth.

Herveys Range Heritage Tea Rooms in Queensland will soon become the latest to jump on the Kopi Luwak coffee bandwagon, and they seem to think this strange brew will be a hit with those seeking more than just your average cuppa joe.

You see, Kopi Luwak coffee beans are collected exclusively from the brown biscuits left behind by the luwak, a cat-like critter that lives in the Indonesian jungle, News.com.au reports.

Onto discrimination against minorities now as Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this week.

Leaders from both faiths have united to denounce the parade, which has prompted nights of street protest by ultra-orthodox Jews - who regard homosexuality as an "abomination" - and death threats against those taking part, thus exemplifying the all men are equal practise forgiveness foundations religion is built upon

Naturally you'd never witness such hypocrisy in a Western moral religion like Christianity..

Change is the only constant in this world

A paradigm shift has taken place and alas the cognizance has taken an alternate, if only ephemeral, form.
But enough abstruse dribble, i was never one for didactic tactics, such things merely diverge from the point...which is....
well let me think.
Based on the events and observations i have made over the past 30hours or so let's go with schizophrenia shall we?

Now anyone who has ever allowed themselves to fall victim to the plague of paranoia that encapsulates our planet (ensured by the never ending fear campaigns perpetuated by whichever puppets are leading us at the time) will naturally have wondered about the boundaries of supposed rational thought.








But what one finds upon spending inordinate amounts of time around individuals who have been prone to such behaviour for quite some time now is that what is considered rational by some may be quite irrational to others and vice versa.
At some point someone determined that there was a single intepretation of reality that should prevail, and that within these defined boundaries there were limits to what a person should and could think.
Beyond these boundaries a person is labeled a patient...committed and degraded from full existential and legal status as a human being.
His time is no longer his own and the space he occupies is no longer of his choosing.
After being subjected to a degradation ceremonial known as psychiatric examination he is bereft of his civil liberties and imprisoned in a hospital.
He is invalidated as a human being.

Context and experience dictate any one individuals intepretation of reality, whether it result in mintue subtlties barely noticable to the standard observer or whether it results in a completely different definition depends on the histories of the individuals in question.


“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”-Fredericke Nietzsche.

Ah, now here we have something of great interest..

An extract from The Tao of Physics by one Fritjof Capra.

I was sitting by the ocean one late summer afternoon, watching the waves rolling and and feeling the rhythm of my breathing, when i suddenly became aware of my whole environment being engaged in a gigantic cosmic dance.
Being a physicist, i knew that the sane, rocks, water and are around me were made of vibrating molecules and atoms, and that these consisted of particles which interacted with one another by creating and destroying other particles.
I knew the earth's atmosphere was continually bombarded by showers of 'cosmic rays', particles of high energy undergoing multiple collisions as the penetrated the air.
All this was familiar to me from my research in high-energy physics, but until that moment i had only experienced it through graphs, diagrams and mathematical theories. As i sat on the beach my former experiences came to life; i 'saw' the cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pules; i 'saw' the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; i felt its rhythm and i 'heard' its sound and at that moment i knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of the Dancers worshipped by the Hindus

Energy condensed to a slow vibration...that's it.
That's all there is.

The material universe is a dynamic web of interrelated events interpreted and experienced by the conciousness via the five senses...The extent of this experience is determined by the choice...once again
Fear and love...

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly-Einstein.

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.
Albert Einstein, 1954

Word Alby, word.

Are you a hippie?

So according to a recent National Survey conducted by Readers Digest in conjunction with The Leading Edge marketing company the hippie revoliution of the 60s coupled with the counter-culture revolution of the leaderless internet has left a suprising influence throughout mainstream society.

Based on a statistically representative sample the survey concluded 97% of Aussies agree with the peacenik rally cry of make love not war
50% of males say reckon bring on free love whilst only 20% of females are keen to get busy with strangers.
Just over 50% of the population likes stripping off, approximately the same percentage that has smoked weed and approximately the same percentage who feel there is NEVER any excuse for war..



60% think society is too materialistic and 41% believe there are too many rules although only 2% actually call themselves hippies..which seems to perpetuate the don't label me attitude common amongst hippies
Around half think there is something to meditation and the same percentage say they "have nothing against hippies but its not their bag"
54% believe we need to get closer to our natural environment and half of us like the idea of living soley with alternative energy..

And the absolute clincher...
90% of females like rainbows

So
Are you a hippie?
Do you inhale weed more than oxygen and shower less than Jesus?
What exactly is a hippie anyway?
Is it someone with a social conscience as the knee jerk judgemental media machine would indicate?


Has the traditional pejorative been identified as the foundationless distractionary insult that conservative individuals are so fond of?

I reckon

Do you get it?

There are few professions in this skeewiff world of ours that offer the opportunity to speak freely on any topic you choose.

Which is odd considering we've been proclaiming freedom as the goal of all humanity-onya Dubya.

In any event music and comedy are the two main contenders in my mind. Art has the same potential but requires more engagement on the receivers behalf. In fact now i think about it any kind of creative activity has the potential for such free discussion of ideas.

But today my thoughts are focused on but one for ""A habit cannot be thrown out the window, it must be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time." Quite right Mr Clemens so baby steps you cant control the birds, you will one day but not yet. I dont understand people man.



Or maybe it's that i just began to understand the meandering routines of the baby boomers and now there's a whole bunch of teched out kids coming up into the business world.. coming in on monday after a chemically induced bender to figure out how they're going to convince us we need orange flavour on our toothpaste. (Seriously what the fuck).

Shit's all wrong...500 or so years ago the Church was the authoritarian figure on reality...We weren't to question and those who did were burned at the stake or something.

Then we started gettin suss on all these shifty cardinals breaking Gods law...confusion! Anarchy! These divine contacts between us and God do not adhere to the laws which govern reality? Shockk horror what are we to do!

The security of 'knowing' we were the center of the universe fell away and once again we were left to ponder existance... now whilst the questioning minds of science went off in search of answers we busied ourselves by taking control of this planet on which we found ourselves.



As we went about pillaging resources to make ourselves feel safer the sillouetted reality became more dense and the mysterious aspects of life have been pushed away.

To maintain this illusion of a mechanical existance the stereotypes perpetuated by mainstream media deny any evidence to the contrary...we've adopted an attitude of absolute skepticism despite us having absolutley no understanding of the big picture what so ever.

This secular preoccupation is idiotic. So manufactured has reality become that we no longer even care about any kind of purpose. The short term satisfaction we gain from adhering to some level of social acceptance is enough to push us onto our next distraction and so it goes. Slaving away so we can afford the next purchase, maintaing some form of aesthetic aplomb.

Popularity and success warrant admiration from others and people feel empowered and energised by such short term jubilation. Soon what is defined as cool and successful by the dominating media will change....shit, now we gots ta change to...

But a few queries have been bouncing around my melon head as of late, not that that's anything new but it's been a fucking odd couple of days so it's time for some skewiff reflection.

Einsteins theory of relatvity basically tells us that the universe is subjective. each individuals interpretation of the world will differ based on their own experiences..all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration..science says so.

But i have a little problem with science, science addresses quantitative questions: "What does it do?", "By what means?", and "To what extent?", rather than the "For what purpose?".

What, how and how much...never why.

Is why not important? Surely purpose is something worth pondering.

And yet a brief look around society indicates we don't care, we're more than happy to busy ourselves working longer hours to buy more stuff we dont have time to make ourselves comfortable with

If you were an alien watching all this activity on this rock of ours would you not be amused at human behaviour?

you don't even have to be an alien, the fuck you think the monkeys are laughin at all the time?

In any event there is some next level shit goin on and i dont get wh big brother is more interesting...Einstein once said there are only two ways to live your life, as though nothing is a miracle or as if everything is.

We defined what a miracle was and then decided complete and utter bewilderment regarding our own existance ain't evidence of magic

Within the reality i know something doesn't exist until i interact with it in some way..the tree falls and if im not there i dont hear it.

Money takes on similar qualities, as does anything that is assigned any form of 'value', the subjectivity of which is inherent in its very meaning.

And yet money governs existance...it determines who we admire, whose opinions we should respect and who is a successful human being...at some point we concluded that personal qualaties could be summarised by a single electronic number representing money which will never physically exist and we've been working on our own numbers ever since

Any and all physical and mental feelngs we experience are the result of chemical reactions in the brain, thoughts can affect the physical state...we produce numerous neurotransmitters that are illegal in certain forms..opiods that occur naturally in our heads are against the law to synthesize.

Dopamine, seretonin, dimethyltryptamine, oxidised adrenaline, cannabinoids and probably countless other monoamines all exist within us..how strange....i had a point once..

News lite & infotainment

So journos have been running shifty techniques for years

no one doubts that


But with the ever advancing techniques of market research and what not the line between fact and specific emotional appeals to targeted demographics has all but dissapeared.

Product placement warrants as much if not more air time than news stories and factual information is rarely put forward objectively


SMS polls ask you to vote on your opinion of symptoms surrounding current hot issues and the news is spun to appeal to the populist opinion.

Tell them what they want to hear in the way they want to hear it


Perceptions trump facts when it comes to sales and ratings
Sensationalism dominates, playing to the fears and anxieties of what is already an incredibly neurotic society
sure facts suggest on average crime rates have remained steady if they haven't dropped over the past few decades
the average sentance across all crimes is six months longer than it was 10 years ago

What does that matter when you've got a ten year old photo of a youth with a gun next to a story about video games inciting violence?


Reporting obligations to truth and balance have been completely forgone in favour of the standard business imperatives

why not right?
Society runs on fear, so why wouldn't politicians stage PR political promises that play to the anxietey created by the media.
People want to hear their own vices and bias justified back to them

Makes us nice and comfortable and stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality
Though that's only motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat of a lack of social acceptance.


Wake up to a nice news lite show in the morning, homely living room soon with some Kochie clone who acts like an old friend, discussing techniques for raising drug proof children and so forth
Slide a few news bulletins in bewteen budgeting tips that suggest you go to the bank that owns the show and a clearly objective demonstration of the capabilities of this weeks cook-o-matic.
human interest pieces directed by marketing departments based on a demographic appeal and audience share


By the time the evening news rolls around moral panic has arisen due to the emerging 'wet willy' phenomonen kids seem to be engaging in everywhere despite there only being one 7 second clip being replayed on all the stations.



Philosophers worked out how to be happy a long time ago (alot of other people did too but for arguments sake; shutup)
Marketers worked out how to appeal to the things that make us happy without actually providing them
Now journalists manipulate the anxieties we have about not having the things we think will make us happy



Personally i think this kind of neuroticism is bordering on schizophrenic...so detached is the ego from the self.

The potential for growth is more present now than ever before, but when you look at the bigger picture rationality has been thrown to the dogs.

cartel esque cronyism of the corporate political alliances, ridiculous incompetence on behalf of our leaders is accepted practice, Orwellian propaganda campaigns and none of this warrants the batting of an eyelid amongst the cynical mildly satisfied

The education system is deisgned to breed apathy
remember the dates of wars without asking why we have perpetual war

The media is beyond embarrassing
the fact they can get away with the kind of chequebook premeditated journalism they do is testament to the lack of concern on behalf of the public

no doubt ignorance is bliss and so forth but why does that mean raising these topics in the discussion forum is a no no?

Couldn't be the same interrelated objectives of the state and corporate capitalist 'ideaological network' programming that caused Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model to be hastily dismissed as a conspiracy theory and stricken from scholary debates on media behaviour for it's overly deterministic view when in reality it's a logical free market analysis.

The term itself, ‘conspiracy theory’, is precisely that, a label, one that has been used as a means of dismissing the PM without granting a minimal presentation of the model or a consideration of evidence.

My work (and Ed Herman’s, and others’) is about as much of a
‘conspiracy theory’ as a study of GM that suggests that its management
seeks to maximize profit and market share. But to the intellectual classes,
to suggest that institutional factors enter into policy is like waving a red
flag in front of a bull– for very good reasons.




specifically i'm talking about increases in things fear appeals, emotional selling propositions, sacrifice of objective factual journalism in favour of skewed stories emotionally geared towards the results of the sms poll they conducted the week before, global reach of misinformation and more importantly less and less time for people to reflect on what they take in, forming opinions based on the clips which are more and more focused on emotinal sensibilities.
News segments and entire shows that are nothing but extended advertisments clothed as entertainment.
trial by media and the ability of various institutions to shift public opinion for and against causes as they say fit


A little more than a century ago, as political unrest brewed between America and Spain over Spain’s brutally repressive actions to suppress the Cuban fight for independence, two American media giants seized the opportunity to stoke the fires of public sentiment in effort to be the first to boost circulation of their newspaper over one million readers (“Spanish-American”).
During the 1890’s, these two newspaper moguls, Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New York World, and William Randolph Hearst, the infamous owner of the New York Journal, in their efforts to outdo each other created what historians now point to as the first “media war.”
The competition was fierce and neither man was beneath coloring, or even fabricating, news to increase profits. It has been written that Hearst became so anxious for a Spanish-American war to break out to boost circulation (Schiffman) that when Frederick Remington, one of his illustrators, cabled him from Cuba that there was little to report on, Hearst allegedly cabled back, “Please
remain.
You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war” (“Spanish-American”). The sensationalistic
journalism of the time, designed to propel America toward a news-making war with Spain, came to be
known as yellow journalism.
Although PR-conscious news media corporations no longer so blatantly seek to boost profits by such dubious means, there does seem to remain a more discreet self-serving undercurrent visible in modern media coverage.
Of course in a perfect world, news media outlets would exist to selflessly serve the public, delivering important, unbiased news to the public. But that is not reality.
News media corporations are in reality profit seeking companies, concerned with maintaining a
healthy bottom line.
And to maintain a healthy bottom line, corporations must create a market, figure out what the public wants to consume, and maintain good relations with their sources to ensure a constant supply to meet public demand

The more hegemonic and homogeneous the media institutions become the less critical reflection of the opinion pushed, because it is supported from other angles.

There is a ridiculous amount of literature on this

http://books.google.com/books?id=XGQ...AgE5jlOWPOl7Xw


http://books.google.com/books?id=7iv...fpqQVyoR4EY5H4

http://books.google.com/books?id=4a9...CC gpKfjNdgkU

http://books.google.com/books?id=ksL...7 YuAF11VmS2Q




The ultimate example of all this is the selling of Iraq War:

-Hussein demonized
-spurious rhetorical link asserted between him and al-Qaeda
-Innuendo links Hussein to war on terror despite al-Qaeda/bin Laden maintaining intense hostility to Hussein's secular regime
-spin doctors persude population of Saddams implication
-attempts made to mobilize refugees/exiles as alternative government
-creat victims (Iraqi citizens) to be rescued from villian(Saddam). Recylce decontextualized format of Kurds story to build memory association in mind of public
-Psy-ops techniques extensively deplopyed to maintain associations

In addition to all this the PR games of identity politics, rapid increases in social construction of hyperrealities and spectacle culture all contribute to the psychological burden pushed on anyone who sets foot in society; virtually or otherwise.

IMO all this has a massive impact on the collective unconscious

U.S passes of flying nukes as process breakdown

- $4.5 billion put option was placed, that the stock market would crash before 21st september

- A B-52 bomber flew over America armed with 5 or 6 warheads.

- Parts of the airforce will be grounded on the 14th September.

- A major seach operation (lead by NORAD) is taking place for a missing millionaire, which happens to be in the same area that the B-52 holding the nukes flew over.

- A senator who wanted to investigate the put options was mysteriously found dead.

RAF Tornados have intercepted eight Russian bombers as they approached UK airspace.
The Bear Tupolev-95 planes - which can carry nuclear and Cruise missiles - were detected by Nato early this morning.
Typhoon intercepts Bear last month

Ministry of Defence officials said four F3 fighters were scrambled from RAF Leeming in Yorkshire and RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.

The Russian planes diverted before entering British territory.

They headed back to their base in north Russia without incident and are still thought to be in the air, with Nato tracking their progress.

Sky's Defence correspondent Geoff Meade said: "Diplomatic relations between Moscow and London haven't been great for some time and I think this is maybe a bit of sabre-rattling on behalf of the Russians.
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"This is the biggest formation of Russian aircraft to be challenged in this way since the Cold War and marks a stepping up of Moscow's challenge to British defences."

He described the incident - the second of its kind in a month - as a "probing mission".

Norway twice scrambled F-16 fighters to monitor the Russian planes as they neared - but did not breach - its airspace.

As well as carrying missiles, the long-range Bear planes are used for surveillance.

Last month, two of the RAF's new Typhoon Eurofighter jets were used to intercept and turn back a single Bear over the north Atlantic.

And in July, two Russian aircraft were warned off by RAF jets as they headed towards UK airspace.

In May, two Tornado F3s were scrambled from RAF Leuchars in Scotland to intercept a Tu-95 observing the Royal Navy exercise Neptune Warrior.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...283041,00.html

Russian Leader Calls For Urgent Delivery Of Anti-aircraft Missile Systems To Iran


(RTTNews) - Vice Chairman of Russia's Parliament Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has urged the fast delivery of the sophisticated S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran to enable the Middle Eastern country to defend its air space, the Press TV reported. Zhirinovsky was addressing the open session of Duma on Wednesday.

The new generation anti-aircraft / anti-missile weapon system developed by the Russian Almaz Central Design Bureau is capable of detecting and destroying targets up to a range of 250 miles. Experts say the S-400 can tackle cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and aircraft made with low observable materials such as the American 'stealth' bomber.

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/Ne...UITY_1087.htm&

Why this broke through the financial news first is a bit curious...


Fosset missing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6978818.stm

6 nukes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070905...9SMuIQy1Ws0NUE

5 nukes?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6980204.stm

in control of the search for Fosset
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9055

14. is a no fly day
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bb...9/6/07&mpage=1
http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=172922
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20628998/

suspicius trading
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Options082907

dead congressman wanted to investigate the trading
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/...ead/index.html


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...xt=va&aid=6776

'Solid Curtain' And 'Citadel Shield 2007' Military Drills Raise Spectre Of Imminent False Flag Provocation And Attack On Iran By WASHINGTON, DC -- US military bases in the continental United States (CONUS) will go on special lockdown between September 17 and September 21 under the auspices of Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield '07, a reliable source reported today. Under these exercises, US installations will institute enhanced anti-terror force protection measures, with increased security at all gates. The increased security was so elaborate that base personnel were being warned to expect significant delays at all base entrances.


The stand-down of all 100,000 active-duty airmen of the Air Combat Command was completed yesterday in the aftermath of the unauthorized transfer of nuclear weapons from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

The command-wide review of operations, safety procedures and checklists was ordered after the Aug. 30 incident in which six cruise missiles with nuclear warheads were loaded into a B-52H and flown from Minot to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana – without the bomber crew or ground command realizing nuclear weapons were on the aircraft.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=57652


i don't even know how that could happen
funny

this is funnier

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,050,000 for missing nukes. (0.20 seconds).



Candian perspective:
“Six nuclear weapons disappeared from Minot AFB in North Dakota. Five nuclear weapons were discovered at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. Which leads to my chilling conclusion: Someone, operating under a special chain of command within the United States Air Force, just stole a nuclear weapon. What next? The answer has been provided several times, most recently by CIA Director and General Michael Hayden,” documents Chuck Simpson in an Abovetopsecret.com commentary.

“On September 7, dressed in full military uniform, Hayden told assembled members of the Council of Foreign Relations: "Our analysts assess with high confidence that al-Qaida's central leadership is planning high-impact plots against the U. S. homeland." "We assess with high confidence that al-Qaida is focusing on targets that would produce mass casualties, dramatic destruction and significant aftershocks." An eye for an eye. Use of nukes will justify use of nukes. A perfect excuse to wage nuclear war against Iran.”

“I suspect Hayden is absolutely correct, except for his mistaken identification of the "central leadership" that is planning detonation of a nuclear weapon on American soil,” further indicates Mr. Simpson. Elites driven by what critically acclaimed 9/11author David Ray Griffin referred to as an apparent Demonic Consciousness against America's founding ideals, may be seeking to drive America and the rest of the world into a step-by-step contrived pretext for nuclear war. In such a pre-emptive escalated nuclear war, it appears that Big Business owned mass-media are trying to prepare the American public, and other peoples internationally, for the use of "those bad and primitive Muslims in Iran" as the scapegoat.

The technique of using a scapegoat like the Jews in World War II, was used an effective mechanism to whip the German public into general support for Adolf Hitler's war, and oppressive Global conquest agenda. It is vital to critically appreciate the mistake and lesson of the past, in order to avoid history repeating itself in an extremely destructive way.

“Indeed, Barksdale Missile Number Six deserves far more public attention than it's received to date. Missile Number Six is potentially a various serious issue,” indicates Mr. Simpson.

Apparent elite-driven efforts to confuse the public have been successful. Attention has shifted from the crucial issue. This news has already become non-news. Having momentarily become news, elites have sought to follow the incident with announcements of more stringent restrictions, improved safeguards and additional training. Accordingly, the public relations that elites have circulated is that the public always has been and always will be safe, except for the possibility of those Muslim terrorists.

One of the major issues still continues to evade "mainstream: journalistic scrutiny: “Someone in an irregular chain of Air Force command authorized loading and transport of nuclear weapons. And that would never have been done without a reason. Given the magnitude of regulatory violations involved, the reason must be extremely important,“ further indicates Chuck Simpson

“At Barksdale, the missiles were considered to be unarmed items headed for modernization or the scrap heap, and of no particular importance. The missiles were left unguarded for almost ten hours. According to one report, almost ten hours were required for airmen at Minot AFB to convince superiors that the nuclear weapons had disappeared” documents Mr. Simpson.

According to information provided to U.S. Congress, this time lapsed before airmen at Barksdale "noticed" the weapons were present. News reports will continue to overlook this fact also. Even here the focus is on time. The number of missiles and warheads issue was overlooked.

“Early news reports spoke of five nuclear warheads loaded onto the bomber. Apparently, this information was provided from Barksdale. That number was later updated to six weapons missing from Minot, apparently based on anonymous tips provided to Military Times by people at Minot. This information has also been forgotten,” further elaborates Mr. Simpson, who is a retired licensed civil/structural engineer, reformed attorney, fierce Libertarian, policy junkie, vociferous reader, lifelong learner and aspiring writer. He is also a law-abiding but avid proponent of progressing America back to its earlier ideals of freedom, fairness, justice and opportunity for all.


U.S. President Bush dramatically stepped up his war of words with the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom the U.S. government falsely accuses of overseeing a covert programme to develop nuclear weapons. This is the same kind of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” related mischievous propaganda which the U.S. Bush administration used to launch an illegal pre-emptive war against Iraq.

In a speech to war veterans, Mr Bush had said: "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust." It is the U.S. Bush administration which appears to present the worst threat of global nuclear holocaust, as a result of its intentionally provocative agenda, that is being used to justify further jingoism and fascism.


http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/hom.../14/01795.html


BoF

Hey citizens, look over there, it's another disctraction

A survey conducted by survey conductors, Hun and Backdoor, has found eighty percent of Australians are in full support of global free trade and advocate a transition to a single global currency by the year 2020.

It was also found most people approve of World Bank and International Monetary Bank efforts to develop remote regions of the world as yet untouched by the West for the benefit of indigenous populations, and advocate the immediate vigorous military suppression of opposition anywhere to peace, freedom, and/or democracy.

However, the survey, with a sample of four besuited CEOs and a guy in a koala costume, also revealed twenty percent of Australian citizens believe that there's hot summers ahead and a big war a-coming, and hold grave concerns for the imminent future of Australia, human civilisation, and all living things whilst the aforementioned 80% maintained their concern for inflation and interest rates though simultaneously expressed significant interest in maintaining ridgid defence policies regardless of costs, which was odd considering their lack of worry for civilisation itself.




Recently the Government was busy playing down reports the United States military intends to test new 'smart' bomb technology in Australia's Northern Territory, as part of the development of three new joint US-Australian military bases there. The mere mention of the prospect of tests in Australia by a US official is enough for the press to assume the Australian Government has automatically acceded to the 'request'.

It is an unenviable position. In the recent Australian election, the Opposition were wary of employing Australian independence from the United States as a significant point of difference from the Government. A plausible argument could be mounted the issue is important enough to many Australians to have substantially influenced the poll in the ALP's favour.



It's likely to become a more influential issue before the next election, following today's announcement. But during the election campaign last month the simple utterance of the word 'anti-American' from the Government, a simplistic and refutable accusation, was enough to see the Opposition cut and run. Now just what are our representatives doing to prepare us for such threats to our independence?

Let us generously assume for the moment they're actually gravely concerned with the nation's long-term strategic interests.

Bush's re-election as controller of the global empire suggests we must move swiftly, if for nothing else than to rid ourselves of the vapid stench encompassing our current position wedged up his ass..

After extensive research it has been suggested that the bastard love child of Mr Sheen and Mr Garrison and his Machiavellian footsoldiers are already stockpiling farming equipment in preperation for a pre emptive attack on the US, despite the fact we purchased the 'farming equipment' from them originally and continue our public praise of their global initiatives, whatever they may be.

Speculation on when the Government plans to begin actual military action against the US is rife in Canberra in the wake of the American Presidential election, which many believe has ushered in a dangerous new period of global religious and ideological conflict.

But analysts suggest prudent members of Cabinet will prevail in delaying substantial action until a significant stockpile of weapons can be developed enabling the Australian Defence Force to take on the far larger United States military in what is likely to become open combat in the streets of Washington.

It's posited by experts this period of accumulation and stockpiling could last somewhere between 3 and 800 years, meaning we could see an attack as early as 2009..however as part of our covert strategy the Australian Government appears intent on continuing to publicly encourage the imperial exploits of the US in distant lands across the world, in a clever strategy aimed at spreading the mighty American armies thinly, rendering them vulnerable to attack.

But alas, the survey has spoken, everything is fine, people are happy..we go on wilfully participating in the democratic facade that, along with material trinkets, alleviates in many hearts and minds the growing suspicion they're being farmed. Election time rolls around every now and then and up come the puppets.. The election itself is a frivolous ordeal, with internal bickering continuing within the massive hegemonic LibLab party. Two virtually indistinguishable executive teams from different wings of LibLab have paraded for six weeks around the country, delivering ad nauseum the messages prepared for them by equally indistinguishable teams of party PR merchants.

The message of these besuited political executives, Latham, Howard, Beazley, Costello, Abbott, is crafted as instruction for the Australian people, on the crumbs and new privations looming in the future. The promise inherent in the rhetoric is directed elsewhere - to the multinationals, the corporate masters. The line is familiar.

Belts will be titled, profit margins maintained.

Taxes will remain low and workers easily obtained.

We will be competitive, economical, effective.

Growth will continue to improve.

The people farm will prosper.

And we reach the irony: after a regular milking, through taxes, labour, superannuation, the starvation of education and health funding, and the denudation of infrastructure, the systematic erosion of the generous and careless local culture, once every three years the cattle are herded past scrutineers and into cardboard booths, called upon to endorse the graziers and dairymen in a triannual, ceremonial gesture of submission.

What an odd distraction all that talk of war was..

Creative Evolution: The single most important decision anyone will ever make

is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly..

The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." ---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

"People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true." -- Leonardo da Vinci

So people have known for a really long time..

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." And we... kill those people. "We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.

ust a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that?

And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one..-Bill Hicks


An alternate theory of evolution is that the primate tendency to form dominance heirarchies was temporarily interrupted for about 100,000 years by the psilocybin in the paleolithic diet.


This behavioral style of male dominance was chemically interrupted by psilocybin, so it allowed the style of social organization called partnership to emerge, and that that occured during the period when language, altruism, planning, moral values, esthetics, music and so forth -- everything associated with humanness -- emerged during that period.

About 12,000 years ago, the mushrooms left the human diet because they were no longer available, due to climatological change and the previous tendency to form dominance heirarchies re-emerged.
So, this is what the historic dilemma is: we have all these qualities that were evolved during the suppression of male dominance that are now somewhat at loggerheads with the tendency of society in a situation of re-established male dominance.

The paleolithic situation was orgiastic and this made it impossible for men to trace lines of male paternity, consequently there was no concept of 'my children' for men. It was 'our children' meaning 'we, the group.' This orgiastic style worked into the effects of higher doses of psilocybin to create a situation of frequent boundary dissolution. That's what sexuality is, on one level, about and it's what psychedelics, on another level, are about. With the termination of this orgiastic, mushroom using style of existence, a very neurotic and repressive social style emerged which is now worldwide and typical of western civilization.

And this is what we got...

"The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received."


And so it has gone on...we stopped evolving under love, instead chasing progression through fear...fear of failing to reach a respectable rung on the status ladder..fear of not being accepted...fear of not being loved, not just by a significant other but by the world..
We ran around making ourselves comfortable, deluding ourselves with some falisfied consumeristic purpose accepting the abuses of power such a lifestyle inevitably brings as part of everyday life

[i]A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive[/i]. Albert Einstein, 195430



 

The Australian Indegenous issue

This has been a growing problem for decades...what then has suddenly caused Howard to jump into 'National emergency' without consulting the indigenous community leaders first?

Could his arrogant distractionary techniques be anymore insulting?

Hey

look over there

it's the Tampa emergency
no wait it's eleven years of neglect and inattention resulting in a national emergency

Naturally the situation needs attention, planning with community leaders in order to better manage the welfare funds so a strong foundation of education and healthcare can be formed.



Sending in the troops without even talking to these leaders is not going to solve anything, it's merely going to aggravate the tension.

Previously the Government has said that if people want to live on remote communities it will not provide services

That is pathetic

We are the only Western democracy with a significant indigenous minority that has no elected presentation of any kind. We are the only such country where trachoma remains a significant debilitating problem.
And we are the only developed country to receive such harsh criticism from the UN about our self contained third world


from crikey:

1977: Final report on alcohol problems of Aboriginals, an Australian parliamentary report, is released.

1979: Aboriginal Health, a report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs (HRSCAA), is released. It notes that the "standard of health of Aborigines was still far lower than the majority of Australians" and that "little progress had been made in raising it". And its chairman Philip Ruddock notes: "When innumerable reports on the poor state of Aboriginal health are released there are expressions of shock or surprise and outraged cries for immediate action. However ... the appalling state of Aboriginal health is soon forgotten until another report is released."



1980: The Program Effectiveness Report, an internal Commonwealth Government report (never publicly released) considers indigenous involvement in Aboriginal health policy development, the introduction of specific indigenous health initiatives and the existing arrangements for funding and administration of indigenous health.

1981: The Commonwealth Government initiates a $50 million five-year Aboriginal Public Health Improvement Program focusing on unsatisfactory environmental conditions associated with inadequate water, sewerage and power systems.

Royal Commission Report of Inquiry into the death of Bruce Thomas Leslie, the Aboriginal man who was wrongly diagnosed as being drunk by ambulance officers and was taken to Tamworth police station. An X-ray later showed he in fact had a fractured skull. Leslie died of a brain haemorrhage.

1982: Strategies to help overcome the problems of Aboriginal town camps, an HRSCAA report, is released.

A report looking at the disproportionate number of Aboriginal people charged with minor offences is released by the SA Office of Crime Statistics releases. Findings include the fact that more than 58% of all defendants appearing on drunkenness, vagrancy, offensive behaviour and liquor-related charges in courts outside the Adelaide metropolitan area are Aborigines, even though this racial group constitutes less than 2% of the rural population.

1988: Australia has violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to a United Nations official sent to Australia to investigate the conditions of Aborigines.

1989: A National Aboriginal Health Strategy, the landmark final report of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party (NAHSWP), is presented to the Joint Ministerial Forum. It determines primary health care is one of the key strategies for addressing Aboriginal health disadvantage and identifies the need to develop more collaborative health service planning processes. It also devotes a chapter to the impact of substance abuse.

1991: The final report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCADC), which investigated 99 deaths of Aborigines in custody over a nine-year period, is released. It finds that the disproportionate rate at which Aboriginal people are arrested was the major and most immediate cause of these deaths, and also reveals a history of racism and state control of indigenous communities. It makes 339 recommendations.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) launches the National Inquiry into Racist Violence, which concludes that racist violence against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders is endemic, nationwide and very severe.

1992: The Commonwealth Government announces a $150 million five-year funding package, principally for the establishment of Aboriginal-controlled drug and alcohol services.

1993: Health facilities available for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should be completely revamped, according to a report tabled in Parliament. The report, by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Policy Unit and the Health Department, finds that Aboriginal mortality is 3-4 times than the rest of the community, that mortality rates from pneumonia are ten times higher than of the population as a whole and that mortality rates from diabetes are nine times that of the population as a whole.

1994 : A National Aboriginal Health Strategy: An Evaluation finds that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders face the health hazards of a hostile and inadequate physical environment (contaminated water, poor sanitation, and unsafe housing, transport and work conditions) and argues that "setting up committees will resolve nothing" – what is needed is a bold and clear national initiative that will "step over the shambles" of previous efforts.

The Report to the National Committee to Defend Black Rights: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Custodial Deaths Between May 1989 and January 1994 is released, finding that the the national rate of Aboriginal custodial deaths has not decreased and that many of those who have died have done so because key areas of reform highlighted by the RCIADIC have not taken place.

1995: The Alcohol Report: Race Discrimination, Human Rights and the Distribution of Alcohol exposes alcohol misuse and its impact on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and highlights the lack of consultation between the NT Liquor Commission and indigenous communities, recommending amendments to the Liquor Act (197 to allow Aboriginal communities more control over the provision of alcohol to their communities.

1996: The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Welfare Information Unit (ATSIHWIU) undertakes a review to develop a National Plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Information.

1997: The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – a joint publication of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare – reveals that "almost four in ten indigenous households were estimated to have either insufficient income to meet basic needs (even before taking housing into account), or not enough income to afford adequate housing."

1998: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, a National Audit Office performance audit of the Department of Health and Aged Care, reports that the life expectancy at birth of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders is 15-20 years lower than all Australians, that for all causes of death combined there were 3.5-4 times more deaths than expected among Indigenous people, and that indigenous people are 2-3 times more likely to be hospitalised.

1999: National Aboriginal Health Strategy – delivery of housing and infrastructure to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, a National Audit Office performance audit of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, reports that a lack of basic facilities, such as access to adequate housing, water and waste removal, is contributing to the high morbidity rate of indigenous Australians and that ATSIC was not administering the housing program in a timely, costly or efficient manner.

2000: Health is life, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs final report on indigenous health issues, finds a "lack of clear delineation of responsibility for indigenous health," and that the parties, particularly the states, indulge "wherever possible" in shifting the onus for payment to another sector and that "the lack of any real efforts to integrate community involvement into the planning and delivery of health and related services" has been been one of the biggest barriers to progress.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in a report on Australia's treatment of its indigenous population, notes that "mandatory sentencing schemes appear to target offences that are committed disproportionately by indigenous Australians" in Western Australia and the Northern Territory and remains concerned by "the extent of the continuing discrimination faced by indigenous Australians in the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights". Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's responds: "We won't cop it any longer. We are a democratically elected government in one of the most liberal and democratic countries you will find on Earth. And if a United Nations committee wants to play domestic politics here in Australia, then it will end up with a bloody nose."

2001: The draft National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy is released by the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council, recommending greater resources be deployed on the issues of Aboriginal substance misuse, community violence and suicide. It notes that many of these issues were raised in the National Aboriginal Health Strategy (1989) but "there was insufficient commitment to action following the 1989 strategy".

2002: The NHMRC Road Map: a strategic framework for improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health through research is released, recommending that research needs to be targeted towards the major causes and risks of poor health for Indigenous Australians – specifically chronic diseases, injury (including assault and suicide), mental health, drug and alcohol abuse, communicable diseases and maternal and child health.

2003: The 4th edition of the biennial report The health and welfare of Australia's Indigenous Peoples 2003, is published by the ABS and the AIHW.

2004: A Canadian study reports that the quality of life of Australian Aborigines is the second-worst in the world, while the general Australian population ranks fourth-best in the world.

2005: The Australian Government appears again before the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which expresses serious concern about the abolition of ATSIC, the lack of genuine progress in native title, the continuing over-representation of indigenous peoples in prisons and the extreme inequities between indigenous peoples and others in the areas of employment, housing, health, education and income.

The biennial report from the ABS and AIHW shows that "overall, estimated expenditure on health services provided to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples during 2001-02 was $3,901 per person –18% higher than the estimated expenditure on services delivered to non-indigenous Australians – which was due to high rates of care for Aboriginal people "involving dialysis and hospitalisations for other potentially preventable chronic conditions".

2006: Release of Ending family violence and abuse in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – Key issues, An overview paper of research and findings by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2001 – 2006

Release of Breaking the Silence: Creating the Future. Addressing child s-xual assault in Aboriginal communities in NSW. Report put together by the Aboriginal Child S-xual Assault Taskforce, a group set up by the NSW government following recommendations made in 2001.

2007: Little Children are Sacred, co-authored by Pat Anderson and Rex Wild QC, is handed down. The Board of Inquiry headed up by the pair was created by the Northern Territory Government in August 2006 in order to investigate allegations of s-xual abuse of Aboriginal children. The report identifies the keys to solving the problem: education and reducing alcohol consumption.

there are numerous factors that need to be considered when approaching this, numerous things the government is ignoring.

since 1788 the gender relationships within Western culture have been quick to infiltrate the thinking of some Aboriginal men. It is true to say that many of anthropologists were men and they did not look at the culture of Aboriginal women when they recorded Aboriginal stories and sacred places. Instead, they assumed that the patriarchy of their society would be present in the societies that they studied. They often described women as being debased in their own community.

Stereotypes began to emerge from colonial times of Aboriginal women as drudges, slaves and sexually promiscuous within their own community. In fact, the experience of Aboriginal women on the frontier was one in which they were in great danger of sexual exploitation by white men on the frontier and used as a source of free labour to sustain the pastoral and pearling industries and to keep the homesteads. Stereotypes of Aboriginal women as bad mothers would follow in the eras when the removal of Aboriginal children from their families was a key government policy.

The result of this clash of Aboriginal and dominant culture was that the place of Aboriginal women within their community was forgotten and in the broader community they found themselves on the lowest rung, disadvantaged both by their race and their gender.

These negative stereotypes were not just part of the popular culture but would often find their way into the important and influential institutions of the community. For example, some white male judges have been, on occasion, quick to accept claims that Aboriginal women were not valued within their own community and have lowered the standards applied when determining whether consent has been given by Aboriginal women in sexual assault cases.
In one case the defendants were accused of sexual assault. The defense obtained evidence from non-Aboriginal males to show that rape was not a very serious crime in Aboriginal society and that, by approaching the men and asking for a cigarette, an Aboriginal woman may have been seen as inviting a sexual relationship. The dissenting evidence of a female anthropologist was presented to the court to show that an assault on a woman’s sexual character was treated seriously and that, traditionally, women punished men severely for it. Despite this evidence, the judge found that there was evidence before him that he accepted that rape was not considered as seriously in Aboriginal communities as it is in the white community … and indeed the chastity of women is not as importantly regarded as in white communities.
In another case Police Aides and a police warden, while drunk on duty, sexually assaulted a woman they held in custody. Sergeant Berry, giving evidence on their behalf said there was no crime of rape known to the offenders’ community. The judge concluded that “forcing women to have sexual intercourse is not socially acceptable, but it is not regarded with the seriousness that it is by the white people.”


These cultural stereotypes need to change as much as anything else


Throwing money at them is the most pointless thing we can do, and probably one of the most arrogantly ethnocentric things we could do IMO...

Since 1996, numbers of Indigenous Australians at universities have dropped dramatically.
Special fee programs to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students would receive a living allowance to complete a course of study were abolished in the first years of the Howard government. The mechanism for enabling Aboriginal people to vote for representatives of their community and so have a direct voice to government (through ATSIC) was removed.
A National Indigenous Council, all members vetted and chosen by the government and hence fully dependent upon government support, is the government's answer to Indigenous consultation.

Yet even this Council was not consulted prior to Howard's announcement of his 'plan' to intervene in the Northern Territory. Sue Gordon, head of the Council, is to be involved. Yet how, and how it will sit with her role as Children's Court Magistrate in Western Australia, is not clear. The Australian Medical Association (AMA) was not consulted, although medical practitioners are central to the 'plan'. State governments and Police Commissioners were not consulted, despite Howard's saying that state police will be employed to support federal police in community intervention.

In 1998 the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) was incorporated. A national body, it represents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors and medical students, and holds a significant place in the medical and health education sector, working with members of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and education workforce and other stakeholders. In May 2007, looking toward the fortieth anniversary of the 1967 Referendum on Indigenous Australian rights and recognition, it issued a plea for cooperation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous medical practitioners in working to ensure the good health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children. The Howard government did not consult it.

Since 1988, the United Nations has been working on a Draft Declaration on Indigenous Rights for eventual adoption and proclamation by the UN General Assembly. The Draft Declaration affirms, amongst other rights, that of participating fully in all levels of decision-making and implementation in matters affecting their rights, lives and destinies. It says that Indigenous people have a right to participate fully in devising legislative or administrative measures that may affect them. It enunciates a requirement on states to obtain the consent of Indigenous people before adopting and implementing such measures. None of this was done before Howard's announcement.

The Howard government has indicated its lack of will to endorse or support the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights.
The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has followed Howard in this policy failure. John Howard cannot, on the one hand, profess care about the plight of Indigenous Australian children if, on the other, he sets his government against United Nations' efforts to enhance their status and living conditions. He cannot assume a pose of compassion, when he lobbies other heads of government to oppose the promotion of Indigenous autonomy for themselves and their children. He cannot assert concern about Indigenous Australians, their families, their children and their communities, while ignoring their right to consultation and having the message delivered directly from him to them.

Ongoing consultation that lasts forever without productive outcomes is unwanted and time wasting. Indigenous people don't want it, in any event. Their time is as equally precious as anyone's. Yet it is evident to those apprehending the meaning and effect of intimidation, that John Howard is a master at his own game. Ending child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities will not happen without the cooperation and involvement of Indigenous elders and families where this crime does not occur. It will not happen without the cooperation and involvement of parents who have sought to protect their children against sexual exploitation, denial of bodily integrity, and invasion of childhood. Cutting them out, as if all families are dysfunctional, all parents (both mothers and fathers) involved or complicit, and with no right to consultation and participation in what is proposed for their children, is a recipe for failure.

Sending in the troops might sound decisive and leader-like when houses are destroyed and townships flooded. But when children's wellbeing is at risk, this will serve only to pile harm upon harm.

Women around Australia have complained about the need for trained police officers to deal with sexual offences. Women around Australia have fought for training of medical practitioners to ensure their sensitivity to the consequences of sexual abuse and the needs of women raped, exploited and abused. When minority age and race are added into the mix, the need for training and sensitivity is multiplied.

If the government were to embark on a non-consultative program of forced flu injections imposed on all children living in Waroongah, Toorak or Dalkieth, protests and law suits would be flowing. Yet Howard would never impose measures he sees as 'right' for Indigenous Australians upon the 'white' community. Even in circumstances of national emergency - say bird flu were to have reached Australia's shores - Howard's whole approach would be different. He would appeal to 'white' parents as his constituency, explaining to them the need and the reasoning behind any action plan. With this current sexual abuse emergency, however, he has not delivered the message to the Indigenous children's parents. He's delivered it to us - his 'white' constituency, telling us that this is an emergency and that police and medical practitioners are going in.


word will have got around in the Northern Territory, but no thanks to the Prime Minister. It is the word of mouth communication, Indigenous person to Indigenous person, and Indigenous community to Indigenous community, which will have delivered the news. In his every approach to this circumstance of heartbreak and denial of childhood, Howard distances himself from the group to whom his immediate responsibility lies. His message was not to 'them'. It was to us. Why?


Howard would never impose measures he sees as 'right' for Indigenous Australians upon the 'white' community, and to suggest sexual molestation is confined only to indigenous communities goes far beyond ignorance


Police on the ground is a good start, one that could've happened along time ago, but removing childeren from their culture/people can be incredibly psychologically damaging

This sudden need to charge in (then what by the way?) only demonstrates contempt for the Australian public on Howards behalf, for both community leaders whom he has ignored, and for the general public whose apathetic support he has taken for granted


Throwing money at them doesn't work because their culture was never built on money

Howard has not consulted any of the few organisational bodies he hasn't destroyed in previous years before forming this plan.
The community leaders need to be involved in the entire process for any level of integration to occur

handing them money and saying clean yourself up is a massive insult and a pathetically transperent election ploy

There needs to be extensive planning with the community leaders and a long term strategy for increasing the health and education levels amongst a people who live in the third world that exists in our own backyard

rom crikey:

Mutitjulu community leaders Dorothea and Bob Randall write:


We welcome any real support for indigenous health and welfare and even two police will assist, but the Howard Government declared an emergency at our community over two years ago -- when they appointed an administrator to our health clinic -- and since then we have been without a doctor, we have fewer health workers, our council has been sacked, and all our youth and health programmes have been cut.

We have no CEO and limited social and health services. The Government has known about our overcrowding problem for at least 10 years and they’ve done nothing about it.

How do they propose keeping alcohol out of our community when we are 20 minutes away from a five-star hotel?
Will they ban blacks from Yulara?
We have been begging for an alcohol counsellor and a rehabilitation worker so that we can help alcoholics and substance abusers but those pleas have been ignored. What will happen to alcoholics when this ban is introduced?
How will the Government keep the grog runners out of our community without a permit system?

We have tried to put forward projects to make our community economically sustainable -- like a simple coffee cart at the sunrise locations -- but the Government refuses to even consider them.


There is money set aside from the Jimmy Little foundation for a kidney dialysis machine at Mutitjulu, but National Parks won’t let us have it. That would create jobs and improve indigenous health but they just keep stonewalling us. If there is an emergency, why won’t Mal Brough fast-track our kidney dialysis machine?

Some commentators have made much of the cluster of s-xually transmitted diseases identified at our health clinic. People need to understand that the Mutitjulu health clinic (now effectively closed) is a regional clinic and patients come from as far away as WA and SA; so, to identify a cluster here is meaningless without seeing the confidential patient data.

The fact that we hold this community together with no money, no help, no doctor and no government support is a miracle. Any community, black or white would struggle if they were denied the most basic resources. Police and the military are fine for logistics and coordination, but health care, youth services, education and basic housing are more essential. Any program must involve the people on the ground or it won’t work. For example, who will interpret for the military?

Our women and children are scared about being forcibly examined; surely there is a need to build trust. Even the doctors say they are reluctant to examine a young child without a parent’s permission. Of course, any child that is vulnerable or at risk should be immediately protected, but a wholesale intrusion into our women's and children’s privacy is a violation of our human and sacred rights.

Where is the money for all the essential services? We need long-term financial and political commitment to provide the infrastructure and planning for our community. There is an urgent need for tens of millions of dollars to do what needs to be done. Will Mr Brough give us a commitment beyond the police and military?

The Commonwealth needs to work with us to put health and social services, housing and education in place rather than treating Mutitjulu as a political football.

But we need to set the record straight:

There is no evidence of any fraud or mismanagement at Mutitjulu – we have had an administration for 12 months that found nothing.
Mal Brough and his predecessor have been in control of our community for at least 12 months and we have gone backwards in services.
We have successfully eradicated petrol sniffing from our community in conjunction with government authorities and oil companies.
We have thrown suspected p-dophiles out of our community using the permit system which the Government now seeks take away from us.
We will work constructively with any government, state, territory or federal, that wants to help Aboriginal people.




This is a link to the final report released by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 regarding, among other things, the level of police presence in these communities:

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It noted that "historically, police have acted as the most consistent point of Aboriginal contact with the colonising power. Police were responsible for implementing successive colonial, then state and Territory Government policies of protection and control.
Police surveillance of Aboriginal communities has in turn shaped their own perceptions of Aboriginal people as 'recalcitrant' or 'degenerate'."
The report linked Aboriginal incarceration with an absence of self-determination. "The heart of self-determination is Aboriginal people, groups and community-controlled organizations being encouraged, supported and empowered to design programs, deliver services and control resources themselves."

And yet here we are, some 16 years later claiming more police is the solution?
Doubtful...

Politically Howard’s plan is brilliant: anointing the old racist stereotypes about Aborigines ("half-devil and half-child") with an oily self-righteousness.
What’s more, his announcement took the Palm Island manslaughter case entirely out of the news. Less than a week ago, a Queensland jury acquitted policeman Chris Hurley of manslaughter, even though he admitted splitting Cameron Mulrunji Doomadgee’s liver in two.
And why was Doomadgee in custody in the first place?
He was drunk and he was singing a rude song and for those heinous crimes Hurley arrested him.
Police in, booze out, as Tony Abbott would say.
The day after Hurley walked free, John Howard declared that Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory need … more police.
Get ready, then, for more Palm Island-style riots upon the abolishment of "constitutional niceties"

The Prime Minister described the issue as a "national emergency".
He also said that "constitutional niceties" should not obstruct his planned course of action for dealing with the matter. It’s not clear which "constitutional niceties" the Prime Minister has in mind or if, in fact, there is a constitutional impediment to any of the raft of actions he has promised.
And it's not clear what criteria he uses to define a "national emergency".
But it is clear he is playing with the concept of linking a "national emergency" to executive government action that contravenes the constitution....

why does Commonwealth assistance funding cease to many communities in the states on 30 June?

THE nightmare of violence, abuse and neglect engulfing remote indigenous settlements is Australia's own hurricane Katrina — an emergency that demands urgent action, not more consultation, Prime Minister John Howard has declared.




As stated by community leaders police and military intervention was fine for logistics and coordination but healthcare, youth services, education and basic housing were more essential.

"Where is the money for all the essential services?" they asked.

"We need long term financial and political commitment to provide the infrastructure and planning for our community.

"There is an urgent need for tens of millions of dollars to do what needs to be done.

"Will (Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal) Mr Brough give us a commitment beyond the police and military?

"The commonwealth needs to work with us to put health and social services, housing and education in place rather than treating Mutitjulu as a political football."