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Somethings rotten....

2012-04-28T22:27:00Z

29th April 2012. A new NSW law now allows Local Government Councillors who have pecuniary interests in a matter to vote on the matter. Well I guess if your concerned about corruption it might as well be legal.

‘I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.’

No Surprise...

2012-04-20T23:32:00Z

21st April 2012. As muted by this author many years ago, the government is about to plunder the superannuation kitty by changing the rules. As if this is not bad enough they are also talking about increasing the mandatory contribution from 9 to 12 percent. So be very careful about super, as one accountant once told me ’ Its not your money , its the governments’ – you better believe it !!

‘The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off’

Jobs for the boys..

2012-04-20T21:58:00Z

21 April 2012. A recent report states that over 50% of job applications forwarded by job agencies in a government funded scheme appear to be fraudulent. This is a four billion dollar program. Once again an indication that although its OK for politicians to think up grandiose schemes they should realise that we don’t have either the will or the expertise in the bureaucracy to administer them, and to increase Department Heads salaries to $7-800,000 is an insult to us all.

‘In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as more time is spent reporting on less that is being done’

Educated guess...

2012-04-14T21:53:00Z

15th April 2012. Recent research by industry groups has revealed the alarming statistics that nearly 50% of job applicants have poor document reading skills. They also failed to meet required numeracy skills. Successive governments seem to believe that bigger more expensive air-conditioned buildings are the key to education success when in my opinion, better teachers, classroom discipline, and sensible curriculum are the key. Seemed to work in my day.

‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance’

Patently obvious...

2012-03-01T21:18:00Z

2nd March 2012. There is currently a war being waged across the globe to entrench vested interest business models in law. In particular onerous copyright and patent laws are being drafted to carve out copyright guilds and patent oligarchies in the mistaken belief that information belongs to people and organisations in perpetuity and that everybody else should be locked out.

‘I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly’

Fleeced...

2012-02-12T06:33:00Z

12th February 2012. Interesting article in the weekend papers about how certain government sponsored betting agencies have been giving hefty rebates to high throughput punters to the extent that they make a profit on a losing bet. Of course these rebates have the effect of reducing the dividend pool size. So the poor mug punter not only gets shafted by the odds he also gets fleeced by the system.

‘The house doesn’t beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.

Heading for a fall...

2012-01-24T13:42:00Z

20th January 2012. I see certain sections of the community are talking up the fact that unit owners will be collectively financially responsible if someone , particularly a child, falls from a unit block. Once again some sections of society abrogating their responsibility for care and using the legal system as a bludgeon for personal gain.

Eureka..

2012-01-08T16:08:00Z

10th January 2012. In 1852 in Australia a group of miners stood up against repressive government regulation at the Eureka Stockade, a defining moment in our history. Now Newspapers report that one of our elected ministers has engaged on behalf of the government a private organization to trawl the internet and record aand report green political activism. Australians spying on Australians who dont agree with current policies .

‘Silent Comment’

Who Cares...

2012-01-04T06:34:00Z

6th January 2012. Once again, unimaginative broadcasters around the world insist on inflicting upon us hours of the ridiculous and drawn out US presidential election process – who cares !!

‘If voting changed anything they would make it illegal’

Seeing not believing..

2011-12-19T11:40:00Z

19th December 2011. On a lighter note approaching Xmas. At last an admission from the participants of home renovation, improvement shows that the team of five that completely renovates a house in a weekend actually had behind the scenes, 20 or 30 extra tradesman all unseen on the camera.

‘Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home’

All the best for 2012

1984 A Good Year...

2011-12-10T19:15:00Z

11th December 2011. Read and weep for our democracies as we allow our governments to slide into ‘Stasi’ states

The slide into a surveillance state
So who’s buying all the spy gear
The Spy Files

And so one of our citizens sits under arrest for 380 days in a country, supposedly under the rule of law, without trial, for telling the truth ,and our Australian Government does SFA.

Phony...

2011-12-01T06:55:00Z

1st December 2011. Your smartphone could be watching just about everything you do, security researcher Trevor Eckhart argued in a video posted in the last few weeks. There is a hidden process on many smartphones, called ‘Carrier IQ’ which has the ability to record and transmit keystroke data and web searches to unannounced locations. This process is reportedly on 130 million mobile devices worldwide.

‘The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink’

Pill...ory

2011-11-13T19:46:00Z

14th November 2011. A trip to the local pharmacist to buy toothpaste is sure an education. The concession card brigade, overweight, diabetic and high blood pressure, lined up getting pills by the bucketload to counteract their self inflicted injuries. Compliant doctors and zealous pharmaceutical companies inventing new diseases every day only curable by the magic pill. If only someone would tell these victims their cure lies in their shopping cart.

‘Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died’

Nirvana...

2011-11-03T23:18:00Z

4th November 2011. Imagine a nation where the obesity rate is the same as the US in the 1970’s, free or very low healthcare,childcare and education for everyone, a tax system where there is little disparity in income between rich and poor. The preferred method of getting to work is the bicycle. Want people on public transport, give them free internet on the buses Nirvana ? – no – Denmark. If they can do it why cant everyone else.

‘Bicycles have no walls’

And they wonder why....

2011-10-28T00:46:00Z

28th October 2011. And they wonder why people are camping out in cities across the world.

its a matter of fundamental rights and principles. Its a backlash to the last 10 years of erosion of human rights in the name of the ‘war on terror’.... to the spending of kazillions on arms, while many starve to death or die of treatable disease….. to the corporatisation of sport and its sell out to big gambling, to the perversion and monopolisation of the traditional media….to the politicians with their self serving obscene pensions and benefits, to Big mining, the Big Pharmas, the corporate barons with their tame remuneration companies, arms traders and drug lords. Its a backlash to greed and corruption in all its forms and guises. Its disgust and disillusionment on a massive scale