politics

Be A Rebel And Attend Your Local Rally

JasonMR — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:04:51 -0600

Activists are organizing protests in all major cities for December the 13th, I encourage my readers to join their local rally. This is too important of a subject to take lightly. If we don't show up in numbers, the current administration will get away with setting up the Great Firewall of Australia, curtailing freedom as we know it. Even the Libs see the plan as misguided, and that says something.

And don't forget to sign the GetUp online petition.

Say No To Australian Firewall

JasonMR — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:39:57 -0600

Dear friend,

Imagine a government proposing an internet censorship system that went further than any other democracy - one that made the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally blocked up to one in 12 legitimate sites, and missed the vast majority of inappropriate content.

This is not China, Saudi Arabia or Iran - this is the vision of Senator Stephen Conroy for Australia. Testing has already begun. The community must now move to stop this plan. Click here to save the net:

www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet

The system that Senator Conroy wants is a mandatory filter of all internet traffic, with the government of the day able to add any unwanted site to a secret blacklist. Already, the wrangling has begun for the inclusion of material relating to anorexia, euthanasia and gambling. It isn't difficult to see the scheme is open to abuse.

Even when it comes to preventing child p-rnography, the filter will not prevent peer-to-peer sharing and is very simple to sidestep. The protection of our children is vitally important - that's why we can't afford to waste funds on this deeply flawed system. We should be concentrating on solutions that are more effective and won't undermine our digital economy or our democratic freedoms.

This must rank as one of the most ill-thought decisions of the Rudd Government's first year in power. We need to act now to tell big brother the mandatory internet filter is incompatible with the principles of a modern democracy and modern economy:

www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet

Our government should be doing all in its power to take Australia into the 21st century economy, and to protect our children. This proposed internet censorship does neither. Take action to save the net today.

Thanks for being a part of the solution,

The GetUp team

PS - The proposed scheme will pass all internet traffic through a government filter - it's like asking Australia Post to filter every letter sent in Australia. Click here to save the net.

Justifying Street Art

JasonMR — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:42:58 -0500

"The people who run our cities … think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit ... The people who truly deface our neighbourhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff … Well, they started the fight and the wall is the weapon of choice to hit them back."

— Banksy

One Nation, One Vote, One Future

JasonMR — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:04:24 -0500

Sound arguments are impossible to refute. You can debate them, but don't you have better things to do, then spend precious time pondering issues which are out of your hand? Democracy is a farce, time to vote for the only way a country can be governed efficiently - Vote For Fascism!

Allergic Religious Reaction

JasonMR — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:21:24 -0500

Church leaders in particular should be allergic to nonsense.

Archbishop George Pell - found on SMH.

If church leaders were actually "allergic to nonsense", they should have all dropped dead by now due to overexposure to allergens.

Australian Government Propaganda

JasonMR — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:55:44 -0500

As we all should know, the term propaganda has become a word only applied to totalitarian regimes, in democracies we call the same phenomenon communications. Hence in Australia the goebbelesce institution is called Government Communications Unit.

A Wikipedia article on propaganda gives us the following explanation:

"Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience."

All highlights added by the author of this article!

Currently Australians are being flooded with ads on TV, radio, and in print media, trying to convince everyone who doesn't run a business, that the latest attack by the Liberal government on the benefits of employees is a good thing for all involved. So while schools and hospitals are lacking funds, our current government always seems to have millions of dollars to spend on their propaganda. Sadly, pointing this out just leads to a finger-pointing game, with the Liberal government noting "Labor has also done it".

I'm just glad someone else had the same idea, to create a series of videos with sticky notes, based on the original financed by our government, that states the actual facts.

Effect Of AWA's on Young Workers

Effect On Foreign Workers

Please Watch Me

JasonMR — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:41:47 -0500

Supposedly over 75% of the population in the UK and USA feel that they are not being sufficiently watched, and I'm pretty sure one will find similar numbers for Australia. In other words, Big Brother isn't forced upon us, as suggested by Orwell, but rather is brought to us upon our own asking. After centuries of indoctrination, human beings are finally prepared to accept an all controlling government.

Great, because what we have discovered in the past couple of decades of increased application of surveillance technologies is not a reduction in criminal activities, but certainly beneficial effects to our economies. And if there is one objective we can all agree upon, it is having a growing economy. Who cares if greater wealth is not linked with greater happiness. Who cares about happiness, as long as we all feel a little bit less secure to keep it all going.

In Germany a bunch of hippies are demonstrating for less surveillance. Best we round them up and look them away for good, so that we all can feel safer from being asked to think for ourselves.

Just always keep in mind: if you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear! [... besides the authority deciding on right and wrong]

False Assumption

JasonMR — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:26:36 -0500

"Terrorism is not the enemy of the great systems; it is their natural counterweight, accepted, programmed."

— Umberto Eco - Source: "Striking at the Heart of the State"

People Don't Want War

JasonMR — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:58:24 -0500

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

— Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials [Source]

MI5 Release Mugshot Of Terror Suspects

JasonMR — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:07:53 -0500

UK Bombers Mugshot: Keep an eye out for these criminal minded dirt bags.

I'm sure you have all heard about the multiple, vicious, heartless, fear inducing, and devastatingly destructive and disuptive attacks, which had recently been launched against the UK, and therefore the rest of the world (not living under Sharia jurisdiction).

The UK's top secret secret service, MI5 have released a mugshot of the suspected suspects of the recent puff-blob-notsomuch-kawum.

If you spot one of these vicious thugs, don't play hero. Call a professional pest-control person. These dirt-bags are armed and dangerous, have a hunger for fear-biscuits, and like to ruin a free citizens beloved tea-time.

Don't allow them to steal your liberties and feeling of security, or they will render our current administrations completely and utterly useless.

In The News

An interesting video on topic.