Open your eyes Belly.We don't have true freedom and democracy here.We have countyry run by corporate interests.Are you saying the Egyptians
are not worthy of freedom and democracy ,or are you saying 58% of oil exists in Muslim lands and that is not in our interests?

StG:>> We're all puppets, <<

StG, Corporations and the handful that direct them control all, except the weather. This is the line of events that lead me to believe all has been fully orchestrated.

Technology explodes in the 1960's and skilled labour for the first time becomes expendable. Factory floors that employed hundreds now employees a hundred.

The unions seeing their power base eroding begin to submit exorbitant claims for the remaining work force. Justifying their claims against the expanding productivity that technology has brought.

From the late 60's onward the union movement in all first world nations were involved in disputes with management, and the only thing stopping management from closing down and moving to cheaper climes was the Import duty that ALL nations had in place to protect their domestic economy.

During this global worker unrest in 1973 the UN the World Bank and the IMF proposed the Lima Declaration, the first legally binding agreement that took away the sovereignty of a nation to tax incoming goods.

Corporation gain our loss and subjugation.

StG the results of manufacturing going overseas are now fully evident. They did not do it in a hurry, the plan was a 50 year projection that would see the First World having to support itself with service industries and tourism if you don't have anything to dig up and send to the East.

Perhaps one in a hundred Aussies knows that our government signed away our sovereignty with the full approval of the opposition. But they all feel the outcome. Australians have fewer saving and owe more in credit than any time in our history. In real terms of ownership and debt we are the poorest Aussies in modern history.

Late last year free trade and the dropping of tariffs hit a new low in Australia. Regardless of our unique isolation the quarantine restrictions were lifted for apples from China, the bastards. One thing that we did have left was our lack of northern hemisphere plant diseases, I don't want Chinese apples, but I got em and any disease that comes with them.

Spot on Sonofgloin.Most of the theft happens through the fractional reserve banking system.They own our increases in GDP + inflation and loan it back to us as debt.Ordinary Australians are losing $16000 pa + interest per working person,to the banking system.30% of our mortage money is borrowed from OS banks.We are borrowing from OS to buy our own land.The debt can never be repaid.This is why everything is being privatised ie to pay for debt.