http://tiny.cc/bxo9001

Corruption all the way down.

"So long as that continues, our country will never have a serious manufacturing industry."

So lets say Australia created a 100% tariff on Chinese imports.
Australians would have to pay double for everything, so that overpriced Australian goods can hopefully become a cheaper and more competitive option.

Tell me do you think Aussies can make a better toaster for a $15 retail price than this $7.50 one from Kmart?

http://www.kmart.com.au/product/2-slice-toaster-white-42663881/

All you are doing is making Aussies pay more for everything (Robbing the wallets of consumers) so that a few workers on the dole get a job in a factory making an item that we can still barely compete with foreigners with.

There won't be any profits based on the higher cost of rent, wages and electricity but you may place a few people in jobs.

If there is no items that we can realistically compete with China with anyway, what's even the point?
The nation's consumers lose.

And who are we creating the jobs for anyway, Albo and his million immigrants to gain what - a little bit of income tax when the government wastes billions anyway.

The whole thing is a shiteshow.

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Dear mhaze,

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You wrote :

« I get that there is no level of evidence that will get you to admit that this was corruption … but in my world … that's the evidence … »
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There lies the problem, mhaze – your problem. You are too quick to condemn.

As you declare, “in [your] world … that’s the evidence”, but “[your] world” is the world as you perceive and interpret it through the lens of your personal preconceptions, beliefs and experiences.

[Your world] is precisely that. It is your world, mhaze, and it is unique.

Reality is different. Reality is “that which exists, independent of ideas concerning it”.

What seems evident to you is not proof, mhaze. Proof requires a far greater degree of certainty than the so-called evidence that you present. Proof sends people to the gallows – and even at that level of certainty, terrible mistakes sometimes later come to light.

I asked you to prove your claim that the subscriptions represented “corruption on a grand scale … including Treasury” and send us the details so that we could investigate.

In your last post, you indicate as evidence: “a government surreptitiously passing gigantic funds to friendly media in order to get favourable reportage from said media, is government corruption” – which you accuse me of considering to be : “evidence that [I am] averting [my] eyes from seeing”.

Please be assured, mhaze, that I examined your so-called evidence scrupulously. The “government” was USAID (an independent US government agency). The payments were not “surreptitious”. They were done normally. And as for the “gigantic funds”, it appears they were not quite so “gigantic” :

http://thedispatch.com/article/fact-check-politico-usaid-funding/

You also imply that dealing with “friendly media” rather than “hostile media” is an incriminating factor “in order to get favourable reportage”. That’s a grave accusation, mhaze, that necessitates irrefutable proof.

Instead of irrefutable proof, you simply insinuate that there has been foul play.

But I don’t expect you to take my word for it, mhaze. Perhaps you might like to obtain the professional opinion of a reputable independent lawyer.

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Banjo,

We both know that there is no level of evidence that you'd accept as proof. Struth, you can't even identify what level of proof you'd accept!!

Struth again, you can't even offer a definition of what you consider corruption to be which makes demonstrating it, let alone proving it, tad difficult, n'est pas?

The fact that no one can prove that the third planet in the Proxima Centauri system isn't made of strawberry yoghurt doesn't prove it is.

That the obvious corruption of the USAID funding of supposedly independent media around the world can't be shown to a level that satisfies your undefined standards, doesn't show there was no corruption.

There's all sorts of ways to view it. The fact that they tried, and are still trying, to hide it from the American public is proof enough to my mind that it was corrupt and they know it was corrupt.

Thankfully the corruption has now been bought to an end. Hopefully the corrupt organisations will follow suit.

Americans are getting madder by the day as all this info comes out.
(Warning - p's and q's)
http://x.com/ever_e_mann/status/1889870252982595839
http://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889842156627697897

Hi mhaze,

I know you don't like Berletic, but he's not that bad.

A Look at the USAID Limited Hangout: Sharpening, Not Dismantling US Regime Change Abroad
http://www.youtube.com/live/jefH3P79lwE