Chris

Which few thousand brown skin people did the Australian Immigration Department shrink from?

Was there a citizens referendum on it?

Well,we've been Globalised.We lost our autonomy decades ago.With such a small population it was probably a lost cause anyway.

Every worker on average has a gross production of $100,000.00 pa.Our GDP is now almost one thousand billion dollars with 9 million people in the workforce.Why are so many earning less than $30,000 pa and paying tax?The natural resources in this country are not being shared equitably and we are losing industry as big business finds the lowest common denominator of wages and tax regiemes.

Since we have to put in a set of international rules to save our environment,why not have a set of rules whereby multi-nationals have to pay the host country's workers enough to save and tax for infrastructure and education?Now with education and infrastructure improvements,economies become wealthier,thus businesses have more market potential.

We don't play Soccer/football without a set of international rules,why do we try to play the game of ecconomics/business without rules that will create this ficticious level playing field the economic rationalists rave about?Global business does not want competition.It aims to defeat all competitors so margins can be increased.The way we are playing the game at the moment,only the super rich will be able to afford to live well as diminishing energy and resources are spread amongst our planet's burgeoniing population.

Global business may have defeated Union power to large extent,however poverty does not make for harmony and sustainable economics.Just a few simple International rules on how the cake will be divided,will make the world a fairer and happier place.

Arjay.... your assessement is correct.

My gut feeling said as much in 1995. I bought 5 acres on which I believe I can be self sustaining. At that time my business was going gangbusters.. around $20,000/month.

One decision by some moron in Scotland, pruned that down to $200 and then nothing, but fortunately I had other strings in my bow by that time.

Our nobility is betraying the common man AGAIN.... just like my forebears in the Scottish Highlands were by the Scottish nobility who sold their land to absentee English nobility landlords for 'sheep grazing pasture' and chased my people away like feral dogs.

I see it over and over again... the Nobility looks after THEMSELVES.

Its interesting now, to see the climatic conditions... and the rise of the Persians (Iran)
just like Daniels 'writing on the wall'

Mene mene Tekel Upharsin

"Measured, found wanting, I am raising up the Persians."

Hmmmmm *wanders off to ponder*

I guess full stomachs and iPods really are the price of our conscience.

This is all it takes to look the other way.

The question could be - would you send your son to die in some god-forsaken quarry on the other side of the world, just so that one day some Iraqi can upsize his McHappy Meal for a dollar?

The question should be - are you happy enough to remain in blissful ignorance and unwittingly have every aspect of your life determined by others?

BD,
I don’t think it matters WHO owns the US Federal Reserve Bank, the problem is that it’s privately owned.

Would you like the Murdoch or Packer dynasties for example, to set our interest rates?

This situation has been a problem for US Presidents for a very long time.

Lincoln was the first, and bypassed the foreign banks to issue “greenbacks” to fund the Civil War.
With help from Russia he broke the British naval blockade (implemented on behalf of foreign banks) and the North eventually won, saving a lot of money in interest payments.

After Lincoln’s assassination, the banks were privatised and eventually the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913.

The only other President to take on the Banking system was JFK.

Some interesting background on the US experience can be seen here -

http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm

Now expand this situation onto a global scale and you begin to see who calls all the shots.

Hatred and greed only fuel wars, they aren't enough to start wars all by themselves, at least not without some sort of external catalyst at work.

"The nobility look after themselves" indeed.

Wobbles...

Does it matter that there are European Carp in trout streams or that there are Minnows ? :)

No amount of minnows are going to consume the baby trout...its not their 'culture'.
Culture.. outlook... connections....all matter.
cheers