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Deliberate dismantling of Australia’s Communications systems is a transparent campaign to deliver Rupert Murdoch a monopoly. Not a National Broad Band

Malcolm Turnbull’s NNBN (NOT National Broadband Network)

I THOUGHT I DID THE RESEARCH before making the “tree change” decision to move to North Eastern Tassie. The perky Telstra salesperson, desperate to sell me an internet package. “NBN isn’t coming to your area.”

“Uh, no. There are areas where the NBN isn’t yet but will be, but your area isn’t one of them.”

“So, you’re telling me that we can’t ever be connected to the NBN?”

“Yes.” A moment’s pause, then the salesperson perked up. “I can sell you a mobile wireless package though.”

“You mean the wireless card? There’s no mobile phone coverage in this town, won’t I need that for a wireless card thingy?”

“Oh, um….let me just check with my supervisor.”

There was now music in my ear.

After a lengthy pause, she returned. Her voice was distinctly less hopeful. “No, wireless isn’t appropriate. We can offer you dial-up.”

Prime Minister Abbott may think the internet is just a fad and, indeed, he is on record as saying the NBN is “essentially a video entertainment system” and that “25 megs is going to be enough, more than enough, for the average household”. However, whatever his idiosyncratic personal views, the reality is that Australians increasingly rely on high speed access to the internet — not only for leisure, but also for work.

Emails, job search websites like SEEK, distance learning, Centrelink and so on are all online necessities, not luxuries.

To add insult to injury, last week it was revealed that ABC2 may be taken off free-to-air on our National Broadcaster and put on iView. I’m sure my three year old daughter will as delighted to hear that Peppa Pig will now only be available to her by piracy or DVD in the future as I am that I won’t be able to watch excellent satirical programme The Roast anymore.

The Coalition government has consistently and deliberately misled Australian voters and taxpayers in the area of Communications since September 2013, slashing services they vowed personally to preserve.

I will be officially complaining to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman about the false advertising by satellite providers who cannot provide the service promised.

I fervently hope there will be a Federal ICAC into the deliberate dismantling of Australia’s Communications systems in a transparent campaign to deliver Rupert Murdoch a monopoly.

Australian Economy

That’s not a debt disaster — THIS is a debt disaster: Joe and Tony’s big con

We can take that as the level for which Labor must accept responsibility. It sounds pretty high, but is only a small percentage of the nation’s gross income – just 11.3% of GDP – and extremely low when compared with other developed countries.

Two weeks ago the Final Budget Outcome revealed the actual debt level reached by 30 June 2014. This was $202.46 billion, more than $24 billion – or 13.7% – higher than forecast had the previous Government continued in power.

The data released yesterday shows that in July, debt increased from $202.46 billion to $208.15 billion. It jumped again in August to $217.55 billion. So the total increase above the level Labor left last year is now $39.45 billion ($217.55 less $178.10) — up an extraordinary 22.1%.

Now, 13 months after Abbott gained office, the interest bill is $283 million a week.

Are there any signs this situation is likely to turn around in the near future?

No. None whatsoever.

Revenue from wages is below expectations and commodity prices are falling — both of which will reduce tax revenue.

The Government has failed to get its budget through the Senate and remains unable – fortunately for the nation’s disadvantaged – to cut the outlays on pensions and benefits it wants to slash.

All pre-election commitments to ‘balance the books, live within our means and return the budget to surplus as quickly as possible’ are now clearly evident for what they were all along — tawdry lies. Lies, regrettably, that Australia’s craven, captured mass media could be relied upon to amplify.

They were baseless slanders against the previous administration made merely to discredit, destroy and replace it.

If there is no debt or deficit crisis now – and there isn’t – then there was certainly no calamity a year ago when Labor’s projected debt was $39 billion below the level today.

The facts are clear and ‒ unlike the Government and our mainstream media ‒ the figures don’t lie. Furthermore Hockey accuses the opposition for not helping to pay for the war by blocking his budget. Abbott says the war is affordable not to worry.

Syria/iraq

Assad and the Coalition working together to ensure the safety of the Totalitarian State

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Coalition air strikes against Isis aid Bashar al-Assad, Syrian rebels claim

Shelling and bombing by the Syrian government intensifies in the two weeks since coalition air strikes against Isis began

Politically, it is a different story. “It is undeniable that Assad benefits in many ways from the anti-Isis campaign,” said Hokayem. “His own attacks and atrocities have received less attention. He cultivates ambiguity about coordination with the international coalition and benefits from the disarray and frustration among rebel forces and their sympathisers; the defection of some rebel units to Isis helps him portray all rebels as extremists.

“Obama said a few weeks ago that the US had no strategy yet to fight Isis. It seems there is still no strategy because the Syria component is missing. The US has adopted a narrow, counter-terrorism approach that is flawed and counter-productive, and has time after time ignored and denigrated its potential Syrian allies.”

Islamophobia, Syria/iraq, Tony Abbott

The Viet Cong fought against poverty and repression we weren’t told that. Like mushrooms we were kept in the dark and fed bullshit. As we are now

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“ISIL will claim that our involvement in this international effort is the reason they are targeting us, but these people do not attack us for what we do, but for who we are and how we live.”

Despite this narrative’s denial of the truth, the harsh reality is Australia has caused the threat to itself by striding clumsily with guns blazing and meddling in Middle Eastern affairs — something that began with military action in Afghanistan in 2001.

Last Monday, in a call for action against it enemies, ISIS urged its members to kill civilians and soldiers of the nations aligned against it, naming Australia.

They did this not because Australia is a liberal democratic country, but rather because Australia has allowed itself to become embroiled in Middle East politics and line up as an ally and soldier on the battlefield with the United States.

Why then would the PM come out and claim differently?

The prime minister is playing a political game, attempting to frame the threat to Australia in a way that absolves Australia as the cause of the threats itself.

Government needed to own the intervention and breakage it made, respectively, in 2001 and 2003  to show good faith with voters and to reduce the vicious Islamophobia we are now, unfortunately, seeing spread like wildfire through the community.

ABC, China, Julie Bishop, Media

Julie Bishop fails to mention that the $40mill Trade for Aid delivered to Cambodia has come from the pockets of the ABC abandoning our Pacific neighbours

Australia Network

Australia Network set to go off the air in the Asia and Pacific region after 40 years

All yours China

 

Posted 41 minutes agoSun 28 Sep 2014, 7:12pm

  Photo: Australia Network had a potential audience of 144 million people, the ABC said. (ABC News)
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Map: Asia

The Australia Network goes off the air from today after the Federal Government withdrew funding for the broadcaster earlier this year.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade cut Australia’s international television service, which had broadcast content to 46 countries in the Asia and Pacific region including Solomon Islands, India, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, in the May budget.

The ABC was one year in to a ten-year contract to provide the service, which had a potential audience of 144 million people.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop told ABC’s Insiders this morning that the Government cut funding to the broadcaster because it did not believe it was meeting its contractual obligations.

However, an ABC spokesman said the number of viewers in the region had grown over the past 12 months.

“Australia Network met all of its contractual obligations and key performance indicators as set out in its contract with DFAT,” he said in a statement.

“During the first twelve months of the contract the network grew to with a potential an audience of 144 million in the Asia and Pacific region.

Australia Plus will also ensure big events from Australia including the Melbourne Cup, Sydney’s New Year’s Eve Fireworks and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race air in the region.

ABC could continue to deliver Australia Network: Bishop

Ms Bishop said the ABC’s failure to meet its obligations and the “corrupted tender process” which delivered the national broadcaster the contract had convinced the Government there were “much more creative” ways to promote Australia abroad.

$40 million to Cambodia on the condition they take our unwanted refugees is Bishop’s sub text for “much more creative” ways.

“So I’m looking at other alternatives where I think we can do it in a much more creative and positive way.”

“My question is whether under a soft power diplomacy contract… is that the best use of taxpayers money to project a positive image into the region?” she said.

What she failed to disclose that that the ABC delivered local news for the past 40 years to the small Pacific Nations it’s withdrawl due to the cuts has handed broadcasting to the Chinese. So much for the pivot of Asia and the delivery of “soft power diplomacy”

The Government will also save $43.5 million over four years from cuts to the base funding of the ABC and SBS.

 

Tony Abbott

The man says we don’t give him enough credit.

 

The first. ‘’Why Does Abbott Lie’’

‘’Everyone knows that our Prime Minister is a liar. He might even be the worst amongst the world leaders. He is certainly the worst this nation has ever seen. Many of our most respected journalists and media commentators have said so. He has even admitted he is a liar himself. The evidence is so abundant, so overwhelmingly copious that it is beyond contradiction. It is fair to say that in general the populace accepts his lying as a fact. I and many others have listed them, quoted them, itemised, analysed them and exposed them in crystal clarity. Even members of his own party have accepted that he is a liar of nefarious intent. And his sheer indifference to the fact that he lies together with his lack of conscience about it I find sickening. The list is as long as a toilet roll. Only people like Jones and Bolt seek to convince people otherwise.’’

“When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts”.
― Michael Ende. The Never-ending Story
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed”.
Joseph Goebbels said it. Adolf Hitler re phrased it.
“When you tell a lie you deny the other person’s right to the truth”.

Truth in politics matters. It is not a trivial matter in a democracy. Our whole system is based on the assumption that truth prevails over all else and that it is the people who judge its veracity. Without truth the people cannot give informed accent to office and democracy fails. There are ethical obligations of integrity and coherence upon which society depends. Our Prime Minister has failed the highest standards of political morality.
At this time in our history we are experiencing a toxic tide of political mistrust. No other politician has contributed to it more than Tony Abbott. Is he the most dishonest, the most cynical and pathologically perverted liar to ever lead our nation? I will leave you to ponder the question:
John Lord

Photo: thehoopla.com.au

 

Australia, Australia's Shame, Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Tony Abbott Tony eff’n Abbott

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Displaying the oft-used ‘ready for a punch-up’ position, hands already outstretched, and fingers pointing in all the wrong directions (someone is really going to punch him in the beak one day for giving them the victory sign backwards) he is ready. The first word is sometimes OK – followed by the inevitable ahs and ums, which is maybe a nervous trait, or else he’s waiting for his next cue. Give us the fingers Tony

A few days later (July 24th) he announces to the Australian public that the ‘bodies must be retrieved very quickly, as they are now at the mercy of the heat, the weather and animals’ (not verbatim. but very very close). MH17  Compassionate public announcement  for the families

Apparently, the reference to ‘white’ settlement was mentioned by Warren Truss, Deputy Prime Minister; someone who perhaps has been listening too long to the way Tony Abbott uses the English language. The word ‘white’ need never have been uttered . . . not because of political correctness or lack thereof, but simply because it’s wrong on most accounts. The land was simply land – new land – on which there were a number of odd, never before seen animals.Australia’s Defining Moment Prime Minister for the indigenous pisses everybody off

I hope that the defining moments of 1964, for instance, might include the launch of the Australian newspaper as well as the publication of The Lucky Country.” Rupert Murdoch’s Paper Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share its luck. Donald Horne full quote Why is Abbott referring to this? Horne’s statement was an indictment of 1960s Australia. His intent was to comment that, while other industrialized nations created wealth using “clever” means such as technology and other innovations, Australia did not. Rather, Australia’s economic prosperity was largely derived from its rich natural resources. Horne observed that Australia “showed less enterprise than almost any other prosperous industrial society.” Sir Abbott the Fwit

http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/lucky-country

We need to rid ourselves of this man and quickly