A worrying week. A young lady – the fact that she’s pregnant is beside the point – gets arrested and led away in cuffs. Her crime? Allowing the freedom of her thought to express itself through her FakeBook page. More worrying; that her State’s coppers turned up at her locked-down home and dragged her from it. How did the security bureau know her thoughts? Well, it appears, she did have the balls to say what she was thinking and perhaps…
After all, he said, being bored is better than being dead. Well, thought I, this chap has some information that I don’t have. This warrants some research. Of course, weren’t no use in questioning the fella further … I mean, who can truly read the wisdom in a set of raised eyes? Perhaps its the wave of the hand? He was very sure of himself. He repeated it twice, and both times to a different question. Is this electioneering on…
On the safe reopening of our Demockratic Parliament. Funny how when we age we wallow in the comforts of things we protested about when we were young. The rape and pillage of the Earth, the racism, the deflections, the corruption of democratic process, we were once so determined we would not allow to happen again – at least on our watch – become a fluffy blanket in which to insulate our final years. God damn the submarines! Plough on, plough…
A brief interview with Foul Tudge – Architect of the Robo-debt scheme and current holder of the musical chair for Immigration*, from his view of the world atop the king’s Parliament House. “7 million! You didn’t!”, said I. “We did. I mean, you did, you gave $7 million to the Red Cross.” “7 million! Well that makes me feel better. At least we, I mean you, can sleep easy knowing that all those humans stranded here in the Lucky Country…
“She tore their boats to splinters, but she gave them dreams to dream.” GetUp Team Democracy … Seriously. Well, we’ve talked before regarding democratic process, but, all this work, and the money that GetUp spends on advocacy, is wasted – just thrown away. I sign all the petitions and bombard all my friends and family with the campaign materiel – true, I’ve only donated once, an unfortunate factor of being a Newstarter (call it what you will) and this government’s…
The simple fact that neo-liberalism, corporatism (Fascism), the deceitful worship of false gods, is that the false god Profit requires less workers, paying them less, and more policemen to keep these hungry workers in their place. Slavery, whether one wants to call it wage slavery or just a necessity of corporate progress matters not. It is waste. And any assignment of morality to this system, whether by a king or by those endlessly inserted middlemen, is a corruption of morality,…
A week ago, in the middle of our constitution’s birthday – 120 years of bliss – which he of course didn’t see fit to celebrate* the king was rolling out the pork down at Eden. At a woodchip mill, in a land of apples. There’s a by-election coming up so he’s makin’ promises and manufacturing a miracle or two. Well, one young cub reporter dared to ask him if he was in fact ‘barreling the pork’ along with the apples….
Lets think about this for a second; the King says that we must build a bigger more aggressive defensive capability. He says we must prepare for war – as kings always do – and he intimates that the enemy we are building this bigger and more aggressive defence capability for, is China. Like i said, lets just think about this for a second – China. How much bigger, and O Sweet Lord, more aggressive must this defence capability be if…
“Preceptors of the nation. Do you really think you are fulfilling an educational task if you command history to stop in its course and return to its old condition.” – Walter Goetz, 1924. Of course, most of you couldn’t give a shit – except perhaps when you’re out at the school bbq or when you’re chucking a dinner party for enlightened souls, but, us out here in the margins care an awful lot. I hear that the Left has been…
“Tyranny usurps the place of equality, which is the soul of liberty, and destroys the public courage.” – Thomas Gordon. How is it that we’ve permitted such claptrap as this apparent ‘right not to be offended’ to become a virtue in our lucky country? Don’t tell me that this is one of the progressive ideas that make our country so lucky? Surely not. The right not to be offended by what, honesty, sincerity, truth? How is it that such a…