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25 May 2014
23 May 2014
THE GREATEST LIES ANY AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT HAS EVER TOLD!
If you think that Australians - most of us who are not in the "millionaire" class - are being lied to about the budget and what previous governments have done to ruin the income of the government to be able to fund everything that governments are usually responsible for - think again!
It is not so much that we are being lied to so much as we are not being told the truth about anything. This and previous governments since 1992 have always had enough money for all the organisations and everything else that governments are supposed to be responsible for to run the country.
However, everything is now being sold off and privatised so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the gap widens. Obviously we don't need local workers any more - everything can be outsourced to countries where wages are a fraction of Australia's, taxes are not levied in the same way, and/or corruption flourishes - and who says there is no corruption in Australia?
But think about two organisations which, on their own, would fill the government's coffers over and over and over again until they would be overflowing.
What are these two organisations?
Well the most obvious one is religion. Religions have tax exemption and are probably worth more than all government assets put together.
The other obvious one is the concentration camps in foreign countries, set up by the Australian government and run by private companies who run them for huge profits and the more people incarcerated, the richer these companies get.
But the government has to pay for these concentration camps in foreign countries by paying those governments money for occupying some of their territory and incarcerating our legitimate asylum seekers who should be inside Australia and being part of Australian life.
Closing the concentration camps and bringing all asylum seekers into Australia would save the government billions, if not trillions of dollars making Australia even richer than it already is.
Taxing religions as all other organisations are taxed - properties and other holdings - and Australia would become twice as rich as if it only closed the concentration camps.
Paul Keating started the rot in 1992 and every government since has compounded it.
Australia is rotten to the core and corrupt into the bargain - in fact it is no bargain!
And all the so-called justification for levying new taxes on those who can least afford it is corruption of the worst sort. Australia is not only emulating the Tea Party, it is becoming the Tea Party!
It is not so much that we are being lied to so much as we are not being told the truth about anything. This and previous governments since 1992 have always had enough money for all the organisations and everything else that governments are supposed to be responsible for to run the country.
However, everything is now being sold off and privatised so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the gap widens. Obviously we don't need local workers any more - everything can be outsourced to countries where wages are a fraction of Australia's, taxes are not levied in the same way, and/or corruption flourishes - and who says there is no corruption in Australia?
But think about two organisations which, on their own, would fill the government's coffers over and over and over again until they would be overflowing.
What are these two organisations?
Well the most obvious one is religion. Religions have tax exemption and are probably worth more than all government assets put together.
The other obvious one is the concentration camps in foreign countries, set up by the Australian government and run by private companies who run them for huge profits and the more people incarcerated, the richer these companies get.
But the government has to pay for these concentration camps in foreign countries by paying those governments money for occupying some of their territory and incarcerating our legitimate asylum seekers who should be inside Australia and being part of Australian life.
Closing the concentration camps and bringing all asylum seekers into Australia would save the government billions, if not trillions of dollars making Australia even richer than it already is.
Taxing religions as all other organisations are taxed - properties and other holdings - and Australia would become twice as rich as if it only closed the concentration camps.
Paul Keating started the rot in 1992 and every government since has compounded it.
Australia is rotten to the core and corrupt into the bargain - in fact it is no bargain!
And all the so-called justification for levying new taxes on those who can least afford it is corruption of the worst sort. Australia is not only emulating the Tea Party, it is becoming the Tea Party!
MARCH IN MAY VIDEO IN SYDNEY 18 MAY 2014
The following video is from Antony Loewenstein's blog on 22 MAY 2014.
It is a short extract from a day of demonstrations around Australia against the Abbott government's decimation of Australians who live below the "millionaire" level - such as about 22 million people would be aware of!
It is a short extract from a day of demonstrations around Australia against the Abbott government's decimation of Australians who live below the "millionaire" level - such as about 22 million people would be aware of!
MARCH IN MAY DEMONSTRATION IN SYDNEY 18 MAY 2014
18 May 2014
29 April 2014
TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP - IS THE AUSTRALIAN LEFT IGNORANT, OBLIVIOUS, NON-EXISTENT
Ever since Barack Obama became president of the United States of America he has set out to prove that Democrat presidents are as right-wing, reactionary, and determined to conquer those parts of the world not yet in the US sphere of influence as is possible. Where it doesn't seem possible, this president will utilise all the business power available to him to turn the world into United States satellite states as so many of them already are!
The original treaty which was supposed to be the be-all and end-all of all trade partnerships was the North America Free Trade Alliance (NAFTA)consisting of Mexico, the United States and Canada.
The results of NAFTA for these countries after about 20 years since inception has been loss of jobs, factory closures and organisations establishing themselves in countries outside the NAFTA areas.
Much more recently Obama and the US government tried to push through items such as SOPA, PIPA and others of their ilk in order to control what you can access on the web and to stop downloading of films and music clips around the world.
Organisations across the USA opposed to SOPA and PIPA collaborated in one of the most successful online actions yet seen around the world and organised a web blackout on 18 January 2013.
Because of its success the Obama administration and allies designed a new series of actions which they tried to fast-track through Congress - so far unsuccessfully - of a trade group called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is in addition to NAFTA and a trans-Atlantic free trade zone incorporating Europe.
Despite attempts in Australia to wake up activist and left organisations to demonstrate, write about, collaborate and influence the public as to the dangers of TPP, nothing has happened.
In the mean time, Congress in the USA is busy pushing through a bill which is about to remove net neutrality so that we will all be censored and pay more for internet service provisions if our service providers don't accept what the big multi-national organisations wish to control.
It really is time that the locals found out what is going on and understood what threats there are to what is left of our so-called democratic rights.
See these web pages:
and all related linked sites.
The original treaty which was supposed to be the be-all and end-all of all trade partnerships was the North America Free Trade Alliance (NAFTA)consisting of Mexico, the United States and Canada.
The results of NAFTA for these countries after about 20 years since inception has been loss of jobs, factory closures and organisations establishing themselves in countries outside the NAFTA areas.
Much more recently Obama and the US government tried to push through items such as SOPA, PIPA and others of their ilk in order to control what you can access on the web and to stop downloading of films and music clips around the world.
Organisations across the USA opposed to SOPA and PIPA collaborated in one of the most successful online actions yet seen around the world and organised a web blackout on 18 January 2013.
Because of its success the Obama administration and allies designed a new series of actions which they tried to fast-track through Congress - so far unsuccessfully - of a trade group called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is in addition to NAFTA and a trans-Atlantic free trade zone incorporating Europe.
Despite attempts in Australia to wake up activist and left organisations to demonstrate, write about, collaborate and influence the public as to the dangers of TPP, nothing has happened.
In the mean time, Congress in the USA is busy pushing through a bill which is about to remove net neutrality so that we will all be censored and pay more for internet service provisions if our service providers don't accept what the big multi-national organisations wish to control.
It really is time that the locals found out what is going on and understood what threats there are to what is left of our so-called democratic rights.
See these web pages:
Trans-Pacific Partnership
and all related linked sites.
IN SUPPORT OF DR RODNEY SYME AND DYING WITH DIGNITY VICTORIA
My partner is 91 and I am 87. We are very fortunate in many respects, mainly concerning our physical and mental health.
We do not own a car and are fortunate enough to own our own house which we maintain in reasonable order - it doesn't get cleaned and vacuumed as much or as often as it probably needs - but it is tidy and clean enough so that when people visit us the house does not resemble a pig sty!
We do our own cooking and don't get any help for anything around the house including the garden, which is small, and when the grass needs mowing - which with our drought conditions doesn't happen as often as it used to when we moved to Melbourne from New South Wales 13 years ago - friends had given us an electric mower as a house warming gift and it has been a fantastic help!
The tram to the city is two corners away, there are two buses down the road, and if we need to, a train to the city is within a 25-minute walk from the house.
We have a post box at a post office which is now about 30 minutes' walk away - it used to be about 20 minutes in the old days! - and Preston Market is about a 25 minute walk each way and we do most of our food and grocery shopping once a week there - with a shopping trolley!
So, why worry about euthanasia?
Well, because we are the ages we now are, we have seen many friends and relatives dying of diseases which have caused untold pain and suffering and they have often died agonising deaths in terrible situations.
In the 1990s, when the AIDS epidemic was still at its height, we were both carers for people living with, and dying from AIDS-related diseases which were horrifying and frightening to witness - and to be part of the caring process for.
We are also aware that many doctors treating these patients were often in despair over how to alleviate the suffering of so many - mostly young - people at the time - mostly in their twenties and thirties - and when matters became desperate for the doctors and the patients, the patients often requested - and were helped with - euthanasia in one form or another.
At that time, from the mid 1980s to about 1997 when multiple therapies became available and converted inevitable death into a chronic but liveable condition, dozens of people with AIDS asked for and were given medications to hasten death.
If the people involved in these situations at the time had been prosecuted on the grounds of euthanasia - doctors, nurses, friends, relatives - the courts would have been over-crowded and the legal bills would have been inordinately large.
Authorities knew what was happening and chose to turn a blind eye to the events occurring virtually on a daily basis at the time.
We don't know what will happen to us in the time left to us, but we have done our best, under existing laws, to cover our requirements at the end of life period with such items as legal and medical powers of attorney and our requirements when life quality becomes unbearable and we feel we have had enough and don't want to suffer any longer.
We want euthanasia to be an option available to people in our circumstances and we support Dr Rodney Syme and Dying With Dignity Victoria and similar organisations and practitioners throughout the country.
Our politicians are cowards, and none have the guts to treat this matter as urgent and immediate.
SEE ALSO:
and links to the following parts: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8
We do not own a car and are fortunate enough to own our own house which we maintain in reasonable order - it doesn't get cleaned and vacuumed as much or as often as it probably needs - but it is tidy and clean enough so that when people visit us the house does not resemble a pig sty!
We do our own cooking and don't get any help for anything around the house including the garden, which is small, and when the grass needs mowing - which with our drought conditions doesn't happen as often as it used to when we moved to Melbourne from New South Wales 13 years ago - friends had given us an electric mower as a house warming gift and it has been a fantastic help!
The tram to the city is two corners away, there are two buses down the road, and if we need to, a train to the city is within a 25-minute walk from the house.
We have a post box at a post office which is now about 30 minutes' walk away - it used to be about 20 minutes in the old days! - and Preston Market is about a 25 minute walk each way and we do most of our food and grocery shopping once a week there - with a shopping trolley!
So, why worry about euthanasia?
Well, because we are the ages we now are, we have seen many friends and relatives dying of diseases which have caused untold pain and suffering and they have often died agonising deaths in terrible situations.
In the 1990s, when the AIDS epidemic was still at its height, we were both carers for people living with, and dying from AIDS-related diseases which were horrifying and frightening to witness - and to be part of the caring process for.
We are also aware that many doctors treating these patients were often in despair over how to alleviate the suffering of so many - mostly young - people at the time - mostly in their twenties and thirties - and when matters became desperate for the doctors and the patients, the patients often requested - and were helped with - euthanasia in one form or another.
At that time, from the mid 1980s to about 1997 when multiple therapies became available and converted inevitable death into a chronic but liveable condition, dozens of people with AIDS asked for and were given medications to hasten death.
If the people involved in these situations at the time had been prosecuted on the grounds of euthanasia - doctors, nurses, friends, relatives - the courts would have been over-crowded and the legal bills would have been inordinately large.
Authorities knew what was happening and chose to turn a blind eye to the events occurring virtually on a daily basis at the time.
We don't know what will happen to us in the time left to us, but we have done our best, under existing laws, to cover our requirements at the end of life period with such items as legal and medical powers of attorney and our requirements when life quality becomes unbearable and we feel we have had enough and don't want to suffer any longer.
We want euthanasia to be an option available to people in our circumstances and we support Dr Rodney Syme and Dying With Dignity Victoria and similar organisations and practitioners throughout the country.
Our politicians are cowards, and none have the guts to treat this matter as urgent and immediate.
SEE ALSO:
Euthanasia Part 1
and links to the following parts: 2,3,4,5,6,7,8
23 April 2014
OBAMA IS TRYING TO CENSOR THE INTERNET WITH TPP - HE MUST BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY!
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About Me
- Mannie De Saxe
- Preston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 90 years old, political gay activist, hosting two web sites, one personal: http://www.red-jos.net
one shared with my partner, 94-year-old Ken Lovett: http://www.josken.net
and also this blog. The blog now has an alphabetical index: http://www.red-jos.net/alpha3.htm