COMMONWEALTH BANK IMPRESSED BY HACKERS’ ABILITY TO RUIN PEOPLE’S FINANCES MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN FINANCE SECTOR CAN



In the wake of several massive data breaches that exposed the sensitive personal information of 143 million customers, executives from Atlanta credit agency Equifax said Friday that they were impressed by the hackers’ ability to ruin people’s finances much more efficiently than their company can. “We’re truly amazed by the effectiveness and sheer speed with which the hackers wrecked so many Americans’ financial prospects—it usually takes us years to devastate someone with a bad credit score,” said awestruck Equifax CEO Richard Smith, noting that Equifax’s traditional process of slowly chipping away at a customer’s credit rating due to late payments on credit cards with arbitrarily raised interest rates or an inability to pay off subprime loans made them “practically a dinosaur” in comparison to cybercriminals who could wipe out someone’s financial standing in mere minutes. “It’s taken us a long time to get to the point where we can ensure that someone won’t ever get approved for a loan, can’t apply for a mortgage, or might not even qualify for basic car insurance, so it’s honestly humbling to see these hackers do it in just a few keystrokes. But we’re going to learn from this and use it to motivate us to sabotage people’s finances much more efficiently in the future.” At press time, Equifax announced it had laid off 80 percent of its workforce in favor of one Latvian hacker who could destroy millions of customers’ credit ratings overnight. 

Executives of Australia’s Commonwealth Bank, themselves embroiled in a series of hacks, money-laundering and customer-based stealing activities, recently sent three of its top executives on an all expenses trip to Atlanta via Hawaii, Los Angeles, Houston, Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C (see also Madame Lash) and New York (see also Trump Tower).

Equifax which has no relationship to Equinox were unable to hack into their own system to demonstrate how hard it was for anyone else to get past their firewalls.

Expect more from the Commonwealth Bank in the ways that your money can be made to fall into a black hole. 

JUST A MINUTE

THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS ………….

Once upon a time our children could walk to school on their own from as young as 8 or 9 years of age. My sister and I walked to school together from the age of seven and never feared anything except stepping on a crack or anyone bar the old lady on a patio in her rocking chair who yelled at us every time we passed. Only when we were older did we understand about the combination of Stroke and Alzheimers, or the real ‘Crack’.
It is apparent that no longer do parents dare let their kids walk to Primary School. Oh! Lordy lordy it’s all about ‘Stranger Danger’.
It is we adults who will tell them not to talk to strangers and then shove them onto the lap of some old bearded guy in a red suit. Now that’s what you call a mixed message. We, as a society, have taught them to fear everyone and everything from red-headed people to peanuts.
All of the information available to us would suggest that ‘Strangers’ are the last thing we should fear. Statistically children are just as safe today as they were a century ago. Even though the relatives of Fagin still exist we need not fear them. These days they are in charge of our Juvenile Institutions and no longer steal hankerchiefs.
No. The real fears we should have for our children today are the adults who responsibility is to protect them.
At home or at school, at a friends house or even at Sunday School children are more likely to be assaulted than travelling between these different places.
As a person who for many years worked in the same environs as kids who not only walked the streets but lived on the streets and traded themselves on the streets I feel I am well versed in saying that except in a few exceptional cases some children who have chosen to leave home are sometimes many times more safe on the street than in the care of any so-called responsible adult.
Children on the streets have in the main been abused at home, or at school, or in the hands of carers, under the control of government agencies or even under lock and key.
It is an ignored fact that a vast majority of people in jail today have at some stage in their life been cared for by the professionals of the State.
Every time someone says that children are not safe on the streets of our villages, towns or cities I am staggered by how naïve they are. Naïvity might be a bit harsh, maybe it’s the fact that we couldn’t give a stuff about it and just believe whatever diatribe the shock-jocks want to feed us. We should teach our kids to fear politicians and commercial television before we fear strangers.
We should really fear the tendency for society to fix everything with medication or allow our children to ever be ‘helped’ by a ‘professional’.
Many Teachers are professionals but do we really respect them as we used to? Fifty years ago we were complaining about the poor standards in schools and the quality of their education – have you read the papers lately?
Teachers have one of the strongest Unions in the country and they know it. Our education system has been hijacked by the Teachers for the Teachers and I don’t think we realize it. Why would Teachers fear being ‘tested’.
There are many Doctors who profess to be professionals but rely more on the pitch of medication salesmen than on their own moral values. I don’t know the exact data but I believe that up to a quarter of children in Primary School are on some form of medication anywhere between Ritalin and  and Remeron. The only stool softener I used as a kid was a cushion.
Some people even fear the Police. The law can be harsh, unkind and uncaring. The law is blind so they say. So is commonsense I say.
Worry about the fears imposed by society before you worry about the fears posed by people.

FAMILY COUNSELLOR IMPRESSED

As he looked around the room and saw about thirty odd adolescents playing, arguing and fighting the Family Counsellor told us that we seem to have some really well-balanced young people using our youth centre. Here we were standing in the middle of a melle in an Inner-Sydney Youth Centre, where the Police often asked to take the kids away on a camp somewhere so that for at least one week-end there would be a pause in the Redfern crime rate.

We honestly though that this North Shore professional Counsellor was well and truly off his rocker, these kids, our kids, ‘normal and well balanced?’

We looked at the kid that stole cars and then posted a notice that if he found it them would happily accept a reward of $50, then at a girl whose mouth when she was in a good mood was just foul-mouthed but if she was in a bad mood would tell a dozen things that your brother or sister could do with a broomstick besides sweep the floor.

The girl who was pregnant with her fourth child at seventeen because as she put it herself “its the only thing I’m fucking good at”

These ‘things’ we worked with were being described as well-balanced?

We let the matter drop until the centre was closed for the night and then asked for a clear explanation for such an astonishing statement. We knew the guy had extraordinary success rates with troubled young people still with their families, as were most of ours, so we were keen to learn how he arrived at such a position.

Once must mention at this stage that this occurred prior to Smartphones, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and all that other technical shit but the situation has changed little for the child even now. The situation might have changed but the facts remain the same. Unless kids face conflict directly in the eye, face-to-face nothing will improve for them.

“Up on the North Shore” he said, “ we have middle to upper class families, living in detached houses, with all the toys a kid would need to amuse themselves and supportive parents. So we have a situation where a child feeling threatened can just go tell Mum and Dad to do something about the bullying or simply retreat to their backyard until the storm blows over and then return to the street and rejoin their previously estranged friends. All is well until conflict arises again and the process starts again.

Here in Redfern and Waterloo you have young people who live in high-rise government housing, a high adolescent crime rate, all of the main phobia's, the majority coming from poor and socially isolated single parents who don’t have a backyard, or even a front yard for that matter, to where a kid can retreat for safety.

The result is that when conflict arises the child has no fallback position, they either face up to the challenge diplomatically or get a fistful of fives to the face.

So, your kids have to learn tact, diplomacy, co-operation and teamwork the hard way. When confronted with a problem they can either talk their way out of it or fight their way out its up to each individual. Rich kids don’t face this same problem and so conflict is something they never learn to handle. What results is an eruption of violence when faced with conflict.

Oddly enough its conflict with helicopter parents and other children, even in the kindergarten sandpit that allows them to develop into balanced young people able to handle the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”

He was of course, in my opinion quite right. It is for this reason that I believe today's young people who don’t communicate directly with each other, who can friend and unfriend each other electronically, the toys in the backyard, that has created the perceived increases in violence among young people. It’s always been there, disrespectful teenagers, wild parties and pub brawls (been there, done that) right back to the middle-ages. However, until now children growing up have not had to come face-on with conflict as often in the past and so, when confronted in the street do not have the skills to negotiate their way out of trouble and violence arises from frustration.

I'm going to go out on a limb here by suggesting that maybe 'some' bullying is a good thing it is part of out development as humans.

CRIME DOES NOT PRAY

When one openly professes to be a Christian they are expected to live a full Christian life, much the same as Jews and Muslims. I’m none of these but like nearly all athiests have a spiritual side too but one that doesn’t include a Diety. We celebrate Christmas, Easter (including a meatless Good Friday) and even Hanukkah. If it’s a celebration for good then we’ll be in it.

What gets me is fake Christians who act insincerely, even the most powerful will do un-Christian things, and other real believers let them get away with it just because they worship hold the same belief.

They worship money not God
They make themselves into idols
Take the Lords name in vain
Don’t observe the Sabbath let alone attend religious services
Certainly have no honour for their Father or Mother or they might not have dragged the family name through the mud
Aid and abet the act of murder or even commit it themselves.
Commit adultery including those divorced three times.
Steal not just money but dignity, respect and honours

Christians are not what they say they are, Christians do not act the way their God intended.
Is there a message here for Evangelicals (those who believe they are the actual children of God) that support an increasing erratic Trump?

If there is a God he is crying.

FAVOURING THE UNDESERVING

There are at least two hundred ex-servicemen wondering the street homeless while charities try to pick up the tab for what Veterans Affairs are failing to provide. At the same time 2,000 asylum seekers are filling hotel and motel rooms around the country at taxpayers expense. Fight for your country and get fuck all, flee your country and we’ll look after you. Little wonder we are seeing more and more advertisements failing to con young people into joining the military, uniforms are about as popular as a busted fly.

Universities are failing to attract the best and brightest except for those who have the money to bribe their way through the course. Our higher education system at every level is becoming totally dependent on foreign students with plenty of cash to the detriment of our intelligent young people who end up selling technology rather than researching it.

On the matter of homelessness, what about the 15,000 kids sleeping on our streets every night, or the abused women escaping domestic violence hunkering down in over-crowded refuges except those with boys over the age of twelve who are excluded from womens refuges.

Why are we not spending money on housing our own citizens so that they can contribute positively to the economy instead of being a drain on our resources through charities and social security.

If you are a young, educated, crime-free, drug-free but underpaid worker you cannot get assistance to be housed but be an ice-addled mother with seven kids by five fathers we bend over backwards to give them all the basic necessities of life. Is there not something wrong with this scenario?

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.