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Antidote
by snow Friday, Nov 5 2010, 10:07pm
international / prose/poetry / literature

Clinton, CFR lackey

the star-spangled disease
intrudes under the Southern Cross,
in this timeless
Southern Land

-- perturbed by
our Freedoms --
they wish to poison
our egalitarian
nation
with fear, hate,
division
and utilise it
to extend the range of
their criminal military.

a Washington compliant
Oz government
(installed to be defeated)
accommodates
the militaristic spread,
the evil plague
but not for long,
someone has sorely
misinterpreted the Oz character.

it’s far too late for
exposed US cabals
down here
the sky-banner of the Southern Cross
was never designed for slavery,
fear or terror –
we have NEVER
deferred to oppression
by stealth or any other means.

no government that supports
an abhorrent, foreign regime
on our soil
endures for long,
we are not easily deceived
by facile American LIES.

we know too well,
we have your measure
our people have infiltrated
to the heart of your
military machine
and have reduced its effectiveness
with ‘fine military strategies,’
books and papers on modern warfare
we are ‘impressive planners’
we have led you to ruin
ever so subtly
you would think we were
allies,
the best of friends!

read our history
analyse our culture
if you would know the Truth,
you vacuum-headed brutes!

Love
conquers all,
destroying fear and engendering
mateship, harmony and cooperation
though we rarely articulate
what is widely known
and understood
down here.

pity our servile politicians,
their time
is limited
and their influence
has never been weaker

they attempt to reach
and manage the local population
reading from American scripts;
ask the people how effective
those methods have been.

Love flows like mountain
rivers down here
it sweeps away fabricated concerns,
in vain do they attempt
to import their
star-spangled hate,
fear and criminal warfare.

is it perhaps that our
wild Freedoms
and sense of fair play
(WikiLeaks)
and the Oz free press
outwit them at every turn --
violent, rustic, morons
have never posed
a real challenge
for our education system?

the wires are open
Love flows;
imported diseases rarely
take hold here,
our timeless land
is hostile to foreign
germs/invaders.

if you wish to survive
our harsh conditions
you are faced with
adopting our values
becoming Australian
or perishing.

but please
give it your best shot, Uncle Sam,
do your damndest best,
to import your hate and violence,
to spread your filthy LIES
in this region --
under Our Southern Cross.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-sets-eyes-on-southern-defence-outposts-20101105-17hhf.html

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Captain Starlight ACQUITTED -- Some Oz cultural history for the dumbarse Yanks
by John Deckert via dasha - Oz Sunday, Nov 7 2010, 8:11pm

Learn something of our values before you make any foolish moves to deceive and colonise with a permanent US military presence, this is not the Philippines! Our politicians have no spine, that is obvious since that unspeakable COWARD, Howard, but understand how WE the people feel and what you are really dealing with. You are hereby advised not to push what's left of your rapidly diminishing luck, 'Uncle:'

Little is known of the early life of Henry Arthur Readford, commonly known as Harry Redford, however by 1869 at the age of 27, he was squatting on a property named Wombundery, near present day Windorah. Redford was an expert bushman and drover who often worked as head teamster for William James Forrester, transporting stores to many outlying properties in western Queensland. He realised that many holdings were so extensive that stock from isolated portions would not be missed for some time, if ever. Bowen Downs was one such property of immense size (approx. 744,000 ha). Redford devised a plan to steal cattle from the owners. Cattle duffing was very common, in fact many small farmers made a regular living by rounding up stray cattle, changing brands, or branding cleanskins, and using them to stock their own properties. Many of these men later became respected members of the community, their cattle-duffing enterprises soon forgotten. Redford may have joined their ranks if he had not devised a plan requiring great skill and daring: a plan that was to go down in history as one of Australia's largest cattle duffing exploits.

In early 1870 Redford, after recruiting four men, started work on cattle yards in a secluded gully that led to the Thompson River. The mustering of many small mobs of cattle from remote parts of Bowen Downs started in earnest. When he had about 300 in the yards they were then driven 40 kilometres south to another property. It was while droving one of these mobs south that Redford included a white pedigree bull in the mob, a bull imported from England, with quite distinctive markings and brands. Redford did not want the bull but as is often the case, he found it very difficult to chase one lone animal away from the herd. This bull was to be a major problem to Redford.

When about 1,000 cattle were assembled, plans were made to drive them overland to South Australia. Two of Redford's men refused to accompany him on a trek through largely unexplored country so Redford and two other men set out from a point reputed to be about 35 kilometres west of Isisford. They split the cattle into three mobs to avoid a suspiciously large dust cloud and followed the Barcoo River down to its junction with the Cooper, staying on the north side and crossing at a point close to the depot of the ill fated Burke and Wills expedition of 10 years earlier.

The opening months of 1870 were very wet. Redford knew feed would be plentiful. Flooding of the Strzelecki Creek had left it knee deep with lush pasture and the waterholes alive with game. By June 1870 the group had come to Artracoona native well, some 1,200 kilometres from their starting point, and close to Wallelderdine station (called Hill Hill Station in most publications). Redford, running short of supplies, introduced himself to Alan Walke, a store keeper near the station, as Henry Collins whose brother owned a property in outback Queensland. Redford sold the white bull and two branded cattle to Walke in exchange for supplies then moved the mob on between Lake Blanche and Lake Callabonna, arriving first at Mt Hopeless and then Blanchewater. The station manager, a man named Mules, purchased the entire mob for $10,000. It is not known if Redford ever received any money for this transaction as all he took to Adelaide was a note promising payment in six months.

By this time the stock had been missed and three Bowen Downs Stockmen were already well down the Cooper on the trail of the mob. They arrived at Artracoona Native Well to find Walke who showed them the white bull and presented receipts from Henry Collins. By the time they reached Blanchewater most of the cattle had already been sold through the Adelaide saleyards. However, enough evidence was discovered and warrants for the arrest of those involved issued. The men who helped Redford were soon arrested and brought to trial at Roma. The locals had sympathy for the cattle duffers because of their great droving feat, and verdicts of 'not guilty' were recorded in all cases.

Redford was arrested in January 1872 and taken to Blackall to await trial. After a lengthy remand and bail period the trial finally started on the February 11,1873 at Roma Court House. Although evidence was quite conclusive and the Judge directed strongly for a conviction, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. A stunned and angry Judge said, "I thank God that verdict is yours, gentlemen, and not mine."

In the ensuing furore within the community, letters were written, petitions signed, and newspapers featured editorials, all protesting at the blatant miscarriage of justice. Public opinion was so intense that the Executive Council of the Queensland Government cancelled the criminal jurisdiction of the Roma court for two years. [Emphasis added.]

Although it was Redford's dubious criminal activity that made him famous, one can admire some of his achievements. Redford was one of the first pioneers of the lower Cooper and the first to overland a large mob of cattle down the Strzelecki Creek. He was chosen, because of his reputation as a great bushman, to overland 3000 head of cattle from the Barcoo River area to the newly discovered Barkly Tableland, where he founded and managed Brunette Downs Station, Many properties throughout the Top End owe their existence to his ability as a great drover, and his droves of the 1880s from the Atherton Tableland to Dubbo are only rivalled by two other great drovers of the north, Patrick Durack and Nat Buchanan. Harry Redford drowned in Corella Creek in the Northern Territory on March 12, 1901. His grave is on Brunette Downs Station.

http://www.westprint.com.au/Articles%20&%20Stories/Captian%20Starlight.htm

Jon Stewart, Opiate of the Masses
by Steve Almond via fleet - San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, Nov 7 2010, 5:48pm

I realize this is going to put me in some pretty unsavory company, but here goes: I didn't like Jon Stewart's rousing speech at the end of his Rally to Restore Sanity. I found it cowardly and even a little heartbreaking.

I'll get to why in a minute, but let me say first that I have been, for many years, a big fan of Stewart and his evil twin, Stephen Colbert. They're both brilliant comedians and, when they choose to be, powerful advocates of reason.

Stewart's systematic dismantling of insurance company shill Betsy McCaughey, for instance, was a crucial bit of public theater that helped put to rest the myth of Death Panels. Colbert's upbraiding of both George W. Bush and the lapdog media that enabled him at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner was a genuine act of heroism. So when Stewart and Colbert announced their joint rally, I was as excited as the next disaffected progressive. The more cultural bandwidth these guys get, I figured, the more sensible our discourse will become.

I was especially glad Stewart chose to drop his wisecracking and deliver an earnest closing speech. His diagnosis of the modern media's "perpetual panic conflictinator" was spot on, as was his eloquent call for Americans to treat one another with civility. But his final declaration was equally jarring.

"If you want to know why I'm here," he concluded, "and what I want from you, I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. Your presence was what I wanted."

Rather than a call to action, the crowd received a moment of transcendent self-congratulation. We'd all restored Jon Stewart's faith in us ... by gathering en masse and not calling anyone Hitler.

It turns out that Stewart and Colbert don't really want citizens to do anything about the corruption of our media and political classes. They just want us to sit back and laugh at them as they mock this corruption - then high-five ourselves for being so awesome.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that Stewart should have said anything overtly "political." His obvious and understandable intention was to avoid being sucked into the conflictinator. The fact that he and Colbert have become our voices of conscience, of course, speaks to the larger moral vacuum in this country.

But whether he likes it or not - and his speech was clear evidence that he likes it a good bit - Stewart is now a moral authority in this country, especially to young people.

Without getting the least bit partisan, he might have reminded the millions of people watching him that we are all shareholders in our democracy, not passive observers, that politics isn't just some big, ugly game played on cable TV. It's a set of agreements about how our country is going to function, one in which moral progress is made against considerable - and generally well-funded - resistance.

In this sense, Stewart and Colbert have become the designated opiate of the left in this country. Every night, they allow us to laugh at how bad things have gotten without actually doing anything about it. Their effect is ultimately ameliorative.

The plutocrats and paid demagogues of the Right learned long ago that their best chance at power resided not in crafting sensible, humane policy, but inciting the primal negative emotions of a troubled electorate. On Tuesday, that strategy paid off. Despite Stewart's feel-good benediction, they have now promised to fight Obama tooth and nail.

In the coming weeks and months, the poor and the sick will probably become more so, as will the aggrieved and the cynical and the violent. Fear not, fellow citizens. Stewart and Colbert will be there to preside over the ruin with rapier wit. Sure, the country went down in flames. But it went down laughing.

© 2010 San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/05/EDI61G6OHH.DTL

Tim Geithner meets with Jon Stewart -- no laughing matter
by canary Sunday, Nov 7 2010, 7:51am

For people that continue to disbelieve in the existence of ruling cabals dig the following piece from Bloomberg. I would add that Stewart's (real name, Leibowitz) brother is Chief Operations Officer of the New York Stock exchange and we all know Geithner's creds -- but dig the other personages in this short but revealing article.

This is relevant due to the fact that ruling elites outlined some time back that they would take over the left and right -- surprised? What has Obama really done except break all his promises and accelerate the Status Quo implemented by Bush and Cheney?

In Australia the US compliant government has just accepted -- on their traitorous knees -- a permanent foreign military presence, which amounts to a soft colonial occupation by the US.

It will be a pleasure hanging these traitorous Australian politicians in the very near future. FM Rudd's diversionary line that 'the US has stuck by Australia for 70 years' was clearly designed to shift attention away from the soft occupation and the very clear status of America as a criminal Imperialist invader and a terrorist state that TORTURES, knowingly murders civilians (drone warfare) and violates numerous other universal human rights -- nice suck Kevin, you custard-faced piece of treasonous shit.

Bloomberg article follows:

In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China’s currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy -- with comedian Jon Stewart.

Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” held an off-the-record meeting at Stewart’s office in New York on April 2, according to Geithner’s appointments calendar, updated through August on Treasury’s website.

Geithner didn’t stay for a television interview with Stewart although other administration officials -- most notably President Barack Obama last week -- have turned up for on-camera chats.

“Jon Stewart is influential in America, so we took the opportunity for the two to meet and to discuss the economy,” Treasury spokesman Steve Adamske said in an e-mail yesterday. Stewart’s program has poked fun at Geithner, including a segment last year about the Treasury secretary’s trouble selling his New York home.

On the same day he met with Stewart, Geithner spoke on the phone with Democratic lawmakers including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, according to the appointments calendar.

Geithner also spoke with House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank of Massachusetts and Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Max Baucus of Montana, all Democrats.

The Geithner-Stewart summit-of-sorts was held on a day of some good news for the administration: Labor Department figures for March showed employment figures had improved the most in three years.

China’s Currency

Geithner the next day announced that Treasury was delaying a report to Congress on whether to accuse China of manipulating its currency. At the time, he was also trying to push the Obama administration’s financial-regulation overhaul through Congress.

On April 2, Geithner also visited the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he was president for more than five years, and had an on-camera interview in New York with Bloomberg News.

Spokesman Steve Albani of the Comedy Central network declined immediate comment on the meeting between Geithner, 49, and the 47-year-old Stewart.

To contact the reporter on this story: Ian Katz in Washington at ikatz2@bloomberg.net

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http://tinyurl.com/2dygoys

Bob Gates: US military seeks to Expand presence in Asia
by staff report via reed - AFP - The Economic Times Saturday, Nov 6 2010, 10:04pm

MELBOURNE: The US military plans to bolster its presence across Asia and is looking at an expansion of ties with Australia's armed forces, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said.

Building up military cooperation with Australia would reinforce a broader effort to extend the US military's role across the Asia-Pacific region, Gates told reporters aboard his plane Saturday, before landing in Melbourne.

"We're looking at ways to strengthen and perhaps make more robust our presence in Asia," Gates said, referring to a Pentagon review of how American forces are deployed around the world.

"We're looking at a number of different options, one of those includes talking with the Australians about... areas where we can work together in a mutually beneficial way," he said.

At an annual Australia-US meeting being held in Melbourne, Gates said the two governments would discuss deepening military ties including cooperation on cyber security, missile defence and "space surveillance."

But he said there were no plans for new US bases in Australia or elsewhere in the region.

The discussions in Australia come amid concern over China's increasingly assertive stance in the Pacific and its growing naval power, with some Asian states turning to Washington for support.

Gates, however, insisted that US plans were not designed as a counter-weight to China.

"This isn't about China at all," he said.

The United States had an interest in building military ties with Asian countries to combat piracy at sea, bolster counter-terrorism efforts and provide humanitarian relief for natural disasters, he said.

The Pentagon chief added that cooperation on humanitarian operations has come up in talks with China's military as well.

His comments came as US military leaders consider moving more forces to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, beyond the longstanding American presence in South Korea and Japan.

A senior defence official said the Pentagon is "looking at how we can make sure our forces are not just oriented in Northeast Asia, but are looking through down to Southeast Asia and then into the Indian Ocean as this part of the security environment becomes more important."

Boosting US access to Australian bases, if agreed, would likely mean a larger American presence but precise numbers remained unclear, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A final decision was still months away, he added.

During the summit, defence chiefs are due to sign an agreement to bolster joint efforts to track objects in space over the southern hemisphere, including satellites, space junk and potential ballistic missiles fired from North Korea, officials said.

The "space situational awareness partnership agreement" could allow for an expanded American presence at the Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station in Western Australia, which the US military already uses.

Australia's military alliance with the United States has deep roots and the country remains a top buyer of American weaponry, with US military sales to Australia reaching 1.45 billion dollars in 2010.

© 2010 Times Internet Limited

http://tinyurl.com/2f743bb

jangles
by dan Saturday, Nov 6 2010, 6:42pm

Yo bro!

don't be perturbed,
it's tough enough being a nerd
leave behind your fangles
& grab your bangles

fuck the cabal,
it's soul destroying
& way too banal
fuck the aggression,
fuck the oppression,
it's spiritual regression

fuck uncle Sam
& fuck all the bankers
enough of those bloody wankers