Humble Hack. Great post.However! I am surprised that you have only just concluded that the press is intimidated by their failure to understand.

The New York Times Chief of Staff John Swinton's candid confession about the absence of a free press in 1953 at the New York Press Club said (and I will not qoute the whole piece)"There is no such thing,at this date in history,as an independent press.You know it and I know it.There is not one of you who dares write your honest opinions,and you know before hand that it would never appear in print.I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper, I am connected with.
The business of a journalist is to destroy the truth;to lie outright;to pervert;to vilify;to fawn at the feet of mammon,and to sell the country for his daily bread.We are the tools and vassels for the rich men behind the scenes.We are intellectual prostitutes.

Yes 1953 is a long time ago.1967 for those that remember, is the year they hung Ronald Ryan.Now whether you believe in capital punishment or not is immaterial.Sir Frank Packer at the time recalled and pulped the next issue of the Bulletin because of a cartoon by Les Tanner and a favourable editorial for Ryan (fact)He also intefered at GTV9 by a last minute withdrawal of a widely publicised B.B.C documentary on capital punishment.Packer was a mate of Bolte who was going to hang Ryan come what may.

During the Viet Nam conflict ( in a paper which I can't remember it is in Tom Urens Bio))ran a cartoon depicticting an Ozzy soldier pulling a rickshaw with a nice Anglo Saxon girl in it with an Asian soldier.

Jim K yes you are right,a red herring.The press in this country decides what is left and right, dreams?ha ha.

Humble Hack and Ludwig,

Yes one of the major problems is dissemination of information, the other is Unity of like minded beings.

The economic paradigm is completely unified in its single cause to make as much money as possible, and to hell with the consequences. They are the ones who control the flow of information and policy.

Progressive thinkers are often thinking alone or in small circles, there is not enough media coverage available to affect the main stream. Nor it seems, is there enough resources available to independently release information on a mass scale. And if one did have such resources there are also risks in doing so.

Ludwig “The question is, how do we get anything like a level playing field with these grossly irresponsible people?

Unfortunately I think they have got it pretty well sown up, and all our efforts to prevent the collapse of our society will be too little too late”

I am afraid I would have to agree with you. However I also believe that by unifying like minded beings there could be very solid strategies and alternatives on offer when it all goes to hell… maybe too little to late, but the human spirit has a will to survive and I for one want to be prepared.

Ludwig, why do you still say the "The compulsory preferential voting system"? Last month you wrote "For the high court to fail to uphold this challenge and not declare compulsory preferential voting antidemocratic and illegal, has got to be THE single most blatant failure of our legal system ever." Yes! it is ILLEGAL. As a matter of law we have an illegal system. This was PROVEN in the Court of Disputed Returns at the hearings of Darryl Wheeley's petition.

Did you read [& understand?] the submission 151: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/em/elect04/subs.htm, about illegal actions in and by the High Court to conceal the fact that Gary Hardgrave was illegally elected? The 'OUTLINE OF ARGUMENT' may sound legalistic, and you need to grasp that in Gary's case his 'election' was illegal in two ways. Both were proven!

Perhaps you & and other now understand why I opened my 1st post with "Is admitting failure to understand the first thing we all need to get positive politics?" It was certainly true for me [but I was able to admit it]!

Humble, I’m not sure what you are asking of me here. You may have misunderstood my last post. As previously indicated, I totally agree with you.

Sorry for any confusion Ludwig, I objected to your repetition of the term "compulsory preferential voting system", particularly as we know for a fact, & its been proven without dispute in the courts, that it is an ILLEGAL preferential MARKING system. What can a few of us do?