BRING BACK COLONIALISM

The Congo (Belgium), Somalia (Italy), Sudan (Egypt auspiced by Britain), Egypt (France and Britain) Libya (Italy), Iraq and Burma (Great Britain), Syria (France), Yemen (Great Britain), Burundi and Rwanda (Germany) and Columbia (Spain) just to name a few, and with the exception of Afghanistan (The Graveyard of Empires), formerly successfully occupied by the great colonial powers as shown in brackets. During those occupations the colonial powers managed to manipulate certain tribes, social groups or religions to become the dominant culture and the controlling interest of the nations.

Now look at each of these countries today. Maybe there is an argument for the re-colonization of some of these countries to bring back peace and stability. The problem is the United States being so totally opposed to Imperialism (despite American Samoa, Guam, Haiti, The Mariana’s, Puerto Rico, The Marshall and Virgin Islands and at least half a dozen other countries all being Protectorates (nee Colony) of America, the Occupations of Japan, Germany and the Philippines, Greenland and Iceland, South Korea and Grenada, the genocide of Diego Garcia and of course after losing to Fidel the anomaly of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

America, the great Satan which we call The United States of Hypocrisy, has never been in favour of colonialism, it’s main strategy has not been peace, trade and plunder as with France, Spain, Germany and many other European powers who are more used to rape and pillage but the occupation of territory by force. If you don’t do as we say we’ll just bomb the shit out of you.

Maybe, the dead body count is important, we might need to bring back colonialism in its original form and just occupy as the British did with Australia. With the exception of Belgium, who just went in to rape and pillage, the British, French, Germans and Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese actually establish a formal pillage of the country (rape was a no-no except for the Belgians) and as they ripped it off gave them a civil service in return.

Peace reigned in all the colonies while they were occupied, the natives could do little else but bow down and cower to their white masters and it is this reason why we suggest the a Recolonization Doctrine.

If some nations cannot look after themselves, make laws, prevent killing and terrorism, give equality to all their citizens including women and other genders then maybe those with more guns, bombs and financial clout should invade and occupy.

Just think of the wonderful advantages in a society where tribalism, nationalism, patriotism, racism, Christianity, discrimination, protectionism, poverty, stupidity, crime, drugs and private equity all flourish as they do in the United States of America. Save lives by killing off all those who disagree.

AUSTRALIA TO BE TAKE OVER BY THE TWO PERCENT

Extreme politicians scream it, those who have no interests other than the Voice or X Factor believe it and uneducated morons spread the word. Is there anybody alive who could possibly believe that 2% of people could take control of the other 98%, except for politicians this cannot happen, ever, in Australia.

The figures show it, even non-believers outnumber either Aboriginals who people say want all of their land back or Muslims who all want Sharia Law. It’s the greatest load of bullshit ever showered over Australians and/or its Citizens-to-be.

BUDDHISM 2.46, CHRISTIANITY 61.14, HINDUISM 1.28, ISLAM 2.21, NO RELIGION 22.3
OTHERS AND NOT STATED 10.61% (HILLSIDE CHURCH, MORMONS, GLORIA JEANS, CYTOLOGISTS, UNDERCOVER PSALMISTS) and ABORIGINALS 2.4

And what about our homes and businesses and our food? That, apparently is under threat from Chinese ownership. What you don’t here mentioned is that the UK owns 7.2% of all Australian land, the biggest foreign ownership. Then in descending order:-
USA 2%, Netherlands 0.8%, Singapore 0.5%, China 0.4% (supposedly taking us over) Philippines and Switzerland 0.3% each, for heavens sake even the Island Of Jersey holds 0.25%, and remember this is ALL Australia's land mass including its dependencies, Indonesia 0.2% and that arch enemy, the yellow peril only owns 0.18% and that’s mostly tourist stuff in Queensland.
Yes, we agree China is taking up too much over too much of our resources under the spurious government policy of ‘investment’ but as the late, great, truly demented Christian Blake-Peterson put it “It’s not like they can tow it all back to Japan”.

These figures may also be inaccurate to the point that some Australian companies, traitors to their country, headquarter themselves overseas for the purposes of avoiding tax. Not that we say he does but an example of this might be Singapore-based Brett Blundy Retail Capital (BBRC) so you can’t accurately trust this data in that sense. What we need is the Register of Ownership which our government seems strangely reluctant to bring into existence.

We don’t need foreign investment, that’s just money being thrown out the door, we need our own companies to step up to the plate, especially our financial institutions and start investing in our own country. If these other countries can see a profit investing in us then maybe we should be keeping more of that profit for ourselves.
We don’t need foreign investment, they can all piss off, and Australians who do not show allegiance to this country can piss off too.

BEATING THE FUNK OF REGIONAL AUSTRALIA

In the next era of innovation companies seeking to disrupt entrenched industries like agriculture, energy, transportation or health care will head to those places where those sectors and industries exist in a grab it and run economy like Australia.

In reality we need to encourage and create national innovation and to keep it here.

One way to do this is to throw out the baby and the bathwater and rebuild a more vibrant, creative , innovative education system and not the learn by rote method we have utilized for the last 100 years. Teachers need not do any more than encourage experimentation, the skepticism to query all that we see for ourselves and turn a blind eye to some risks, let loose the power of the child’s brain and supervise the learning chaos that will erupt.

If you look at many of the successful and innovative people around the world you will find an incredible number who never finished school. They had the energy and creativity to leave formal education and use the skills that they already had.

Linton needs desperately to embrace the new world and encourage to our hamlet those families who make their living through the Internet or skillful artisans. Employment will never grow very much here unless we have a vibrant community that invites innovation.

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A CLASS FIVER

For me, as a Baby Boomer, the answer is No. The reason I say that is down to the fact that appear anywhere on a street in Ballarat or even in sleepy Linton you will see young people, nay children, heads down like a Bingo participant with their iThis and iThat, their Android or their Hemorrhoid. 
The wireless electronic world is sailing ahead full speed leaving us old folk floundering in their wake.
In the 70s it always pleased me to have to constantly alert my parents to the use of video recorders and cameras and even though the size of a bessa-brick they could not match todays stuff smaller than a matchbox. Now the foot is in the other shoe and I'm the one patiently being tutored in the latest mobile phone/camera/message system and/or pub quiz spoiler.

In the 70's it was 'see this lever here that says record and leave it alone until the end of the show'. Now you don't need to press a button you just tell it to and it does. Todays voice activation systems are different to mine – my old voice activation system consisted of my crying out 'Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam' very loudly.

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION ALIVE AND WELL IN AUSTRALIA

It is most unusual for the Astonisher to take up the gloves to protect religion. As Lenin would have it ‘religion is the opiot of the people’ but just as the drug laws are relaxing opiots in the form of prescribed medicines so they are tightening up rules that discriminate against particular religions. One is the wearing of Hijabs (Burqa’s are a man-made torture for women) which is just as important as the Homburg for Hasidic Jews or the Dastar for Sikh’s but you here little condemnation of these latter forms of silly headress.
The religious followers of Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Yes those bloody Witnesses who turn up at your front door like Mormon pairs and try to get you to buy the Watchtower preferably from a kneeling in prayer position. That particularly annoying sect do not belief in man-made medical intervention when someone falls ill, they believe that only God heals. all. So too with the Christian Scientists who include even blood transfusions as intervention into the designation of God.
I’ll be the first to say that these beliefs are not only deluded but potentially fatal, weird and non-sensical but in a society where we believe that everyone has the right to think for themselves, although that is a decreasing reality with an increasing Nanny State, that God himself gave every one of his children Free Will and that for us even translates into “You have the right to be non-criminally insane”.

What has got me pissed off? What has got me defending God?

The Liberal-National Government, in cahoots with Labour but not the Greens, brought in a regulation that Centrelink is not permitted to pay many of the Family Allowances, granted to all citizens, if they do not have their child immunised against common childhood diseases. Naturally you are going to agree with that policy, I agree with it too, but does it not also introduce the discrimination of some parents to believe in their religion of choice?
Immunisation in itself is a life-saver although many readers of this rag will have been raised without benefit of protection against these ills. Chicken Pox, German Measles and Diptheria are amongst these needle pricks demanded by the can’ts who govern us, those who believe they are above the law because they make them up.

Regardless of what your thoughts are, we are convinced even more strongly that Australia is still a White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant nation, intolerant of all others and one only has to visit parliament and listen to the Opening Prayers of both houses to be convinced of that. It is a pit that the Pox has been eradicated as we would wish that upon both their houses.

God Bless God or Donald Trump whichever comes first.

ABC MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS

The constant threats to shut up our National Broadcaster on political grounds by cutting funding has to stop. The visual downgrade of a wonderful organisation under successive Liberal governments does them no service. Littke wonder you imagine left-wing bias in the ABC when governments try to manipulate opinions.

No matter what your politics or your opinion of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, its cost, its inefficiencies and its perceived left-wing bias, it is a bastion of balance in the Australian media scene.
Without the ABC we would be opinion the the whine, whinge and scream of the like of Alan Jones or Sam Zamanic or any of those other radical bigots who, despite their supposed popularity have less of the audience share than SBS. Yet, like a minority of villagers in Linton, they have a voice much bigger than their balls.

Without the ABC we would be inundated with nothing but Foxtel sensationalism and the perverted logic of Rupert Murdock which has me quivering in my rolls of fat. The Young Liberals who are pushing for the ABC to be privatised, led by Cory Bernardi (No longer a member of the Liberals) wanst to kill off diversity and encourage our penchant for hate.

A privatised ABC would be captive to the needs and prioritise of advertisers and open to payment for comment which would totally skew news and information to avoid upsetting their source of revenue. If the government threatens the ABC with financial sanctions imagine what Coles and Woolworths could do to it.

What chance for both sides of the story being told. Even though it may have what people believe to be a left wing bias it is the only national broadcaster to give both sides of every story whether you fucking like it or not.

Sometimes it is good not to like something you hear, that's what it means by hearing different arguments, and it is hearing both sides that gives us the choice to divide for ourselves and not be dictated to by one side or the other.
Should we not be free to make our own decisions?
With a privatised ABC we may never get to hear the other side because it may not be a pleasing sound to the ears of the advertiser.

A commercially driven ABC would be at the mercy of 'corporate imperatives' and 'shareholder greed'. A commercial ABC with such a huge broadcasting range both in Australia and Overseas would see an exodus away from local and state-wide radio services to the national network. We might see a more efficient ABC but we would also see a centralising of opinion at a national level at the expense of local and community broadcasters.
The slow dissolution of the newspaper empires is a prime example. News Limited and Gina Reinhart would have the ability to massively sway general opinion and that is something very few of us would want.

When I was involved in establishing Community Radio back in the mid-70's one of the prime directions we were to go was away from traditional radio and toward the promotion of local community services and local news to which small communities like Linton could tune for information directly relative to them.

Diversity in radio and television whether it be vision like Channel 31 or the sound of Voice FM is a priority for any democracy..

A CHEAP HUMPY IS OUR COUNTRIES FUTURE

Everyone knows that the more money being thrown around the more expensive things become. It’s called the law of supply and demand.

Houses built by the government are always at least 50% dearer than those build for the private sector. The moment a contractor realises it’s a government tender he adds on at leat 25% and in some cases is then told he’s come in too low. Try that in the private sector.

Lets say a house and land package in Melbourne is around $750,000 and out our way, with land cheaper we might get away with house and land packages half that. These prices are not going to stay at that, they’ll go up around 10% a year, far higher thasn the C.P.I or the rate of inflation caused by overseas buyers wanting to park there cash in a safe haven, where money is portable and taxes are rortable. In around eight years my land has increased in value by nearly 400%, that’s bloody 25% a year in rough arithmatic, my grass is turning to gold why mine for it.

In the failing War On Terror, mainly because what we are doing to fight it is actually making it worse, like pouring battery acid on your cut finger, and turning back refugees from safety creates even more conflict when we are the ones that made them refugees in the first place.

All that aside we may have spent in and out of country 50 Billion Dollars that we need not have spent if George Junior and Halliburton Industries had not designed and planned the regime change of Saddam Hussein.

What would that money have bought us back home?

200,000 houses complete with essential services?

500 medium sized hospitals or the treatment of maybe 5 million patients?

1000 really pretty Schools?

There may have been no deficit, despite the fact we might not have sold as much steel to make tanks, bullets and bombs but then that would have all gone into high-rise apartment blocks.

With the average wage now nearing $1000 a week it means that an average family living off one income and paying off the house with the other would still have to suck up 30 years of pain and poverty and just have the house paid off in time to move yourself into a retirement village.

But like a bad gambler we have lost the lot - transferred it all into the pockets of overseas arms manufacturers and the makers of tents for at least 30 million displaced families. We have lost out too in employment and the flow-on benefits from the fact we no longer even make bullets or uniforms in Australia. This government was forced into even building our submarines. Now we don’t make cars, we won’t even refine our own petrol, we’ve sold off our gas and want to sell off even more at the expense of our environment. I’m sorry but I don’t believe our countries security should all be down to market forces.

There might be no real war at least into the foreseable future but that does not mean that we should sell our countries security to the stock exchange.