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,…
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…
He talks about freedoms but not rights and he says that we deserve an early mark (which of course is his to give) … Though, we don’t actually get the early mark we deserve unless, unless we download his tracking app! His National Board says we must do this. His National Board, my lord. Have we corporatized our demockracy already? And, he talks of a magical thing called a commonwealth which it is unlikely that a man such as our…
“Public opinion can never exist as a power in the state, unless there exist also persons who expose to hatred and contempt those ministers and those laws which they conceive to be detrimental to the interests of the community.” – ‘Yellow Dwarf, 1818.’ Not so easy in the Lucky Country at present is it? Everyone locked down debating the merits of fascism (or as the King prefers, demockracy), afraid to go out to see their friends, their cohorts. Your ABC…
Governments don’t give ultimatums to the people, its the other way around. “In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better that a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides.” – Heinrich Heine. No matter how powerful a government believes itself to be, if we say we are a Democracy…
Well here we are. All the good souls, us beautiful people, awaking on another sunny day on the east coast of the land of Nod. The news today – so my wet dog says – is, Special powers. Ha! Special powers from whom? Where? We have a suspended parliament where do ‘special powers’ come from? Show us the docs, the minutes .. who ran this through who? Was there any dissent? By whom? Was it allowed? I don’t believe it…