Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Political arithmetics

According to Francis Fukuyama's inane "End of history" thesis, all societies "naturally" tend to democracy. He also claims that democracies don't fight each other.

According to the "liberators" of Iraq this country is now a "democracy". According to evil bureaucrats of the EU Turkey is a democracy as well, and suited to join the EU bureaucrat mafia.

After the US backed invasion of Turkish troops in Northern Iraq this leads to a variety of possibilities.

Option 1: Iraq is no democracy.
Option 2: Turkey is no democracy.
Option 3: Fukuyama and heaps of other neoconservative political analysts are a bunch of imbeciles.
Option 4: Fukuyama and heaps of other neoconservative political analysts are a bunch of blatant liars.

In my humble point of view all of the above hold true.

Conclusion: Representative governments are just tyrannies in disguise. Working actively against governments is no terrorism, but mere self defense. Governmental "anti terror activities" just abolish the few democratic achievements that made wage slavery acceptable. In a time, when it's possible to have millions voting for their American or Australian or whatever Idol, it's a piece of cake to have referendums for any crucial decision, instead of bipartisan collusion to privatize governmental duties.

Any politician who insists that direct democracy is impossible is an active enemy of democracy, and should be reeducated in facilities like Guantanamo Bay or Christmas Island. The global society can no longer afford to feed parasites called politicians. Governments are no necessity, but a disease of society.

Resources wasted for warfare could feed everyone on this planet, and even allow everyone a happy, healthy and wealthy life. The only obstacle to this are governments and psychopathic judicial persons (also known as corporations). Stop enjoying your chains.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Part of the problem or part of the solution

Reading the newspaper really early in the morning can spoil good mood quite immediately. News consists mainly of bad news, and due to modern communication this bad news comes from all over the world.

Let's start with terror, the evergreen for newsmakers since 2001, regurgitating 3000 deaths over and over, while ignoring 25000 people that starve daily. As there are hardly any terrorists on this planet (there are some, but they are even rarer than regular murderer, maybe as much as other serial killer, but that's just a guess), each suspicion is reported with vigor.

However, as terrorism is utterly useful to transform democracies into Orwellian nightmares, and to disguise the uselessness of most politicians, terrorists and secret services work in hand in hand. Maybe even to a degree that most terrorism simply wouldn't exist without the active help of those "intelligence services", whose mere existence is an insult for democracies. Even before 911, ASIO tried to hire people who are now terror suspects.

Luckily, the Stalinist Anti-Terror-Laws in Australia muzzle anyone ever suspected to be a terrorist, so it's hard to judge whether guys like Jack Thomas and David Hicks met more ASIO or more Al-Qaeda members (if there are huge differences). Working for the muscle part of government means you officially belong to a lower class, not only by breaking laws (as ASIO employee), but by being a guinea pig which is exposed long term to hazardous materials. The war on terror, fought in Afghanistan, has only increased the opium harvest, and created the next generation of people who know hardly anything but war, and is now officially "rethought".

Maybe the thinking should start before the killing, but that would be asked a lot from people enjoying their incompetence in spending other peoples money (politicians, in case you were wondering) to make their friends in the killing industry rich.

The failure of local governments like the Australian doesn't imply in any way that a global government would produce less harm. The UN, the closest thing to the nightmare of global governance, was caught again using children as their prostitutes, this time in Haiti. If indigeneous people in Australia are suspected to abuse their children, their land is taken away. When will the biggest and meanest child abuse organisation, the UN, be dissolved?

It's just bad apples, I hear you say, "they" (corporations, governments, UN, organised religions, fill in your favorite crime syndicate) do more good than bad. Well, do they? Privatising education, health care, pensions and other parts of public, common infrastructure is good for a chosen few, but not the general public. Since the demise of communism as threat to the Western World most civilised achievements of society have been reverted, and racketeering will soon extend from GST to Intellectual Property laws that penalize you for a humming a tune, license fees for the flowers that grow wild in your garden, and Global Warming tax for breathing.

I shouldn't read the news in the morning, it certainly upsets me. And I didn't even get to the opinion page yet.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Liberty City Seven

In June 2006 the media celebrated a victory in the fight against home-grown terrorism. Although nothing was found that provided evidence for any terrorist activities or plans, like nearly always when "terror suspects" get arrested, the FBI knew for sure that these guys were bad - because they set them up.

While the mainstream media used this case to increase terror paranoia, Paul Watson interpreted the case as a typical falseflag operation.

Now, 18 months later, the court case implodes. The print edition of The Age has a short notice about this in its "In Brief" section, yet no mentioning of this case can be found in the online edition.

What do we learn from this? Nothing really new - arrests of terror suspects are inflated, acquittals are not worth mentioning, even if governmental agencies like the FBI actively created these "terror cells". Informing the public about the nefarious activities of intelligence agencies certainly wouldn't help convincing the public that the torture victim David Hicks needs further mistreatment by his own government.

If governments can only protect us from the terror they create themselves, we would be much safer without them. 3000 people were killed on 911, the US government happily sacrificed more than 3000 soldiers, who died in their aggressive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it does not care about the health of the returning soldiers and couldn't prevent the torrent of suicides among Iraq veterans. Not to mention the thousands of people who died and suffered from lung diseases after 911 in NYC, because they were knowingly send back into a toxic hell. Trust the government, they know best how to kill people.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Suboptimal subprimes

Although our global news do their best to prevent people from thinking, by terrorizing them with their inflated fairy tales about the global threat of terrorism, another scare was invented to distract the world's population from the systematic abuse of entire populations: The US subprime crisis.

I worked for years in the financial industry, and used this time as good as I could to understand our global monetary and economic system. So much I would like to give you an easy, logical explanation for the current craze that haunts the globe, I cannot. What I learned about it was sufficient to draw personal consequences, but our economic system does not work along logical rules, it compares better to casino games.

The global monetary system as we use it at the beginning of the third millennium (according to the counting of the Christian world) maintains simply the support of a chosen few on the expense of the worlds population. Some breadcrumbs are spread towards the former middle-class of Western societies to create the illusion of "equal opportunities in the market", but like with a game of roulette, the banks always win.

Hold on, you might say, even banks can go bankrupt, and they did so in the past. Well, in comparison to any other businesses this rarely happens, and it never endangers the monetary system as such. Money, and having heaps of it, was only the first step to enslave the population. The next step in sucking the population dry was to convert money into property, which endures longer than currencies that came and went over the course of history.

Taking control over formerly common physical resources prevented communities from becoming independent and self-reliant. Although land-grabbing remains popular, stealing common knowledge with copyrights, patents and intellectual property created a society entirely dependent on the whims of those owning the Central Banks of this world.

Central Banks like the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England or the European Central Bank carefully maintain the idea that they are some sort of public institution, which never held true. No central bank is democratically controlled, nor do they protect any other interest than their very own.

The energy required for our economic system, money, is controlled by a minority that takes a share in any official transaction that happens (not to mention places like CitiBank, which profits a lot from laundering drug money). Taxes, leases, tenures, rent, Intellectual Property fees and interest put enormous wealth in the pockets of the maintainers of money.

Money, as we all know, does not grow on trees. It is produced by debts, and backed by nothing but our believe in the trustworthiness of their issuers. Economic crisis, like it happened in 1929, can endanger this trust, but it's just a special form of magic that keeps this funny system alive.

Our secret masters, central bankers of this planet, forced their string puppets, also known as politicians, to guarantee a monopoly for issuing the tools to exchange economic energy. This is the meaning of "legal tender", which is printed on the pieces of paper called banknote in the English speaking world. (The Euro banknotes do not even contain any hint on legal tender, they display a copyright notice instead).

Of course, using money for economic exchange has a lot of pragmatic advantages. The illogical nature of our current monetary system, however, means that we feed some parasites who were given the (absolutely undemocratic) privilege to control the currency. The basic flaw is its inherent insustainability, due to the fact that we feed some selfish 'queen bees' of our human hive, who, unlike the queens of a beehive, don't really care about the fate of their fellows.

Those in charge of the monetary system defend its current emanation with teeth and claws, or rather laws and wars. The value of money consists in an agreement, but doesn't exist inherently. Agreements can change, our fixation on debt-based money is a bit like claiming that cricket is the one and only permissive way to play a ball game.

Yet, instead of setting up a sustainable monetary system, the ruling parasites rather fix the system whenever it's on the verge of collapse (which happens quite often lately). Usually any fix involves a bit of collateral damage, but this affects mainly the users of the system (which haven't transform magic papers into property). Any instability offers a splendid opportunity to increase inflation, a typical disease of the current system.

The subprime crisis doesn't really harm the banks - it just transforms interest payments over the new decades into property. Surely, some players on the end of the hedging game will loose some money, but they are less hard hit than anyone that looses their house. There might even be a dent in the growth of profits for some banks. But as long as the bankers don't decide to burn those houses that they own know instead cashing in on them in long term, their game of dominating the monetary affairs of the rest of the world goes on. And on. And on.



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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

A christmas fantasy

Just imagine a gang of white Australians, aged from 14 to 24, decide to gang rape District Court judge Sarah Bradley. "she looked like she wanted it", claims one of the rapists, "and she didn't bite the cocks we put in her mouth". The judge, from non-european descendance (if there is one in this racist country), tells her that she obviously was consenting - wearing a skirt, showing off her cleavage.

"She looked over to us, and the expression in her eyes was not to be mistaken. The screams of joy, while she was sandwiched, made it obvious that she wanted all of us." To violence against women, Australia says no on the telly, but gang raping children yields no prison. A female judge that is racist enough to hint that a ten year old indigeneous girl would consent to be gang raped makes me sick.

Ex PM Howard demanded a version of history, that glorifies the genocide of the native people in Australia, was not re-elected, but the spirit of being "Australian", eradicating those animals with a dark skin, lives on. Howard send the army to indigeneous communities to "end to child abuse", but Australian judges simply don't care about child abuse. Have the organisers of a child pornography ring in Queensland been disowned, like entire communities in the Northern Territory?

Not at all. Land robbery just works to prevent child abuse in ostensibly genetically different people, and laws to protect children are only designed to protect white children. Pedophiles around the world love to hear this message. Visit the indigeneous communities up north in Australia, the black kids are gagging for it, and the judges are lenient when the victim is not white.

Tax payers pay for judges like Sarah Bradley, who made it obvious that the native population in Australia is not protected by law. It's not called Apartheid here, but as long as this racist judge doesn't end up in jail herself, it's not really different. The is no bill of rights in Australia, and it seems like there won't be any until the genocide is finished.
Unspoken fascism

Governments systematically get rid of their core business, providing services for their citizens. They follow the trend of Big Business to outsource tasks, ostensibly to reduce costs. The promise of reducing costs, however, is hardly ever fulfilled, expenses just get shifted to different accounts with the same company, and the total cost, especially on a long term basis, increases.

Yet without believing in this myth, which is quite eloquently perpetuated by smart dressed consultants from companies such as KPMG, PWC and the like, and instead assessing the whole picture, outsourcing helps just those companies that make money in suggesting other companies to do so.

Logic and efficiency are not the primary strategies used in business, but networking is. As long as deciders can gain unencumbered profits from outsourcing, they have no reason to think about the damage they produce to their company. After all, once you spend some time in middle und upper management, you made enough friends to fall softly into a similar position in another company, often as payback for favors you provided earlier. Mutual back-rubbing, also called networking, protects well from individual responsibility.

Private companies don't necessarily profit from outsourcing, customers don't like it too much when they have to deal with call centers in foreign countries, but group think still advocates this detrimental idea.

Governments, traditionally slow in adapting trends, now happily joined the idea of outsourcing to get rid of the few things they deserve getting tax money for. As the term "outsourcing" might easily disclose that the government no longer cares about their business, they call it PPP, Public-Private-Partnership.

So what's this PPP thingie? The public part is the administrative part of government, ie civil servants who have an incredibly safe job no matter how badly they perform. The "public" itself has no influence on choosing those positions of power, they just can elect some representative that try to place their friends in manager roles within the governments administration. Although the public is part of the term PPP, it has no say in it.

Another P in PPP is "private", finally something good, as private enterprise is the cornerstone of our glorious capitalist system, isn't it? Any citizen is a private person, so it's good for those entrepreneurs in a country. Well, at least those who have the resources to take over something like the public transport system, which are "private" entities such as big companies. A group of bus drivers and mechanics, who might be able to organise transport and maintenance of a bus fleet wouldn't even be considered to run public transport - what do they know about it?

The final P is partnership, not only a nice sounding word, but the only part of the term describing the reality of PPP. The networking between governmental admins and high level company management finally yields results. Sometimes the need to privatise away governmental responsibilities is so urgent, that tendering would just obstruct the boost in efficiency expected from redirecting tax payers money.

Whereas most Western governments had massive debts, they prevented bankruptcy so far, unlike millions of private enterprises. Even massive companies like Enron went down the drain, ruining the lives of thousands who trusted in them. Yet, according to governments officials, private companies work more efficiently, a claim that hardly can be proven at all.

So basically PPP describes nothing but a collusion between corporations and governments, and the results are mostly a reduction in service for higher charges. Privatisation of telecommunication and public transport in Europe, US and Australia followed along this pattern, but the success of those strategies (less work and profitable follow-up positions for the government part, competition free and highly subsidized business areas for the corporation part) cry for an extension of this idea.

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini



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