I've been expecting spate of Belt Boris sentiment to add to Trumpophobia.

God...if ever a man needed the application of Ockham razor to a conspiracy theory, Peter Bowden does.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=skcCu4RUkAg

Dan

One notes, Boris is characterised in the article as an individual with an extreme ability to create fictional history. When I was a boy we had a different name for it and the pathological pork pie tellers, who couldn't lie straight in bed?

Yess there are divisions and created by deliberate design by power junkies among us!

And these folk rely on cultural and inculcated difference as they seek division and chaos among formerly cohesive societies, as divide and rule strategies.

The referred to Romans were particularly good at this and using their conquered nations as armies against their former enemies, and it was former foes who then occupied and policed conquered territory!

Even when we know there are only 6 degrees of difference between all of humanity! Those who seek to divide and rule, seek out and use any and all difference and greed, to accomplish their often devious ends?

Boris is now PM, Putin remains ensconced, wants the constitution changed so like his Chinese counterpart can remain ruler for life!

It has always been thus and accompanied by eventual disastrous consequences for the poor deluded fools who believe all this, shovelled by the shipload BS?

Thus we see the division between the haves and the have nots grow ever larger and accompanied by outcomes where the top 1% of the population own 50% of our combined wealth, even as our iconic industries and enterprises are sold down the river/ deliberately dismantled!

Islands of shrinking prosperity are surrounded by exponentially expanding deserts of unmet need, want and poverty!

And it's these poor deluded impoverished fools who decide who rules them! How much they will pay for formerly state-owned energy. and one of two pillars that support every western-style economy!
Go figure?
Alan B.

Dearest Al

Good morning.

That was a pretty good post, and no mention of thorium, which made it less difficult to read to the end.
But how could one disagree with it. Although your personal frustration of the ever losing game we are involved in, is evident in its lines, there is hope I believe.

But as you so point out from history, must we the crushed and trampled, ever fight back up from skid row, the most powerless position of combat?

We need a winning strategy. There is one I believe, and it assembles itself under the heading of "fight fire with fire".

I've previously proposed a solution on these pages, to the powerless nature of the voter in democracies (sic).
We need to establish the real commercial, or economic value of our vote, to establish the answer to its true value, and thus its degree of importance to the politician.

To do this, a complete change to the voting system as exists, re arriving at a booth to cast a vote, is scrapped.
Every vote must be auctioned on the open market, through existing public auction platforms, with proceeds of the sale (if any), to be returned to the vote owner.

There is much more argument to this proposal, but for the moment, the above will do.

Dan

Well, Dan, Yes I didn't mention thorium nor nuclear energy. Because even though it has been proven in operation to have the lowest death toll per gigawatt, and the examples I've researched, i.e., MSR thorium, has the lowest cost, is safer, more reliable than coal, is cheaper than coal.

And is the lowest-cost source of miracle cancer cure, bismuth 213. Or that future energy policy ought to be decided by the market, it cannot decide for the aforementioned, because of asinine, official prohibition.

Fighting back can only happen at the ballot box and by like-minded folk who finally say, thus far and no further

And need to organise and convince voters via social media to chuck every incumbent and selected from those who are willing to finally, finally, put Australia and we Australians first!

As opposed to creating divide and rule division! As long as around 0% just don't vote and another 10% vote informal? Nothing changes except the same old, same old BS and shovelled by the shipload by folk who pretend to care!?
Alan B.

Correction, 0% should read 40%.
Alan.

Without changing the present mentality, we have no hope of changing anything !
Number 1 strategy to change to a healthier mentality is a National Service. It worked in Australia all the way up until the Whitlam Govt , the major projects of then are the proof.
Once we have no longer crowds of unemployed young people milling in the streets at night, the economy will pick up because more people will become employable.
Less costs & effort due to reduction in crime related damages, win all round.
Stop worrying about Boris & the Roman Empire, start worrying about our own backyard !

"The legions abandoned Britannia in 410 BC. Britain's "dark ages began..""

I've often wondered if, when Rome pulled back its legions in a futile attempt to help defend their home base against the barbarians, it instead forsook Italy and moved its population to the much easier defend-able Britannia. The Huns, Goths and Vandals, et al were hardly the hi- tech types to build an armada of ships to take on the Roman galleys.