Interesting stuff

The Washington Post has an article today with the headline : “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the President “

Yes , it really it does

As a fella in a happy long term relationship, one of the best / worst parts of Indo these days is the amount of fine hardbody lures I see on my way to and from the surf. Some are white , some are a delicious golden brown. Big , small ...they’re all alluring in their own right.
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And the worst bit is that the subsidies will be funded by taxpayers through our direct contributions to the University and the fact that the subsidies will be tax deductible. You will be paying for a greedy University to circumvent an enforced emergency health measure designed to protect the Australian population by the Chief Medical Officer of Australia.

Traitorous scum.

“Western Sydney University is offering $1,500 payments to Chinese students to help fund travel packages to third-country transit destinations to get around the federal government's coronavirus ban”

Alternative opinion

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/global-centralization-cause-crisi...

Freeride.....you’ve got to realise that it’s still a hard right wing site based in the US . They think that Medicare is hectic socialism.

But the rest is quite appropriate I thought.

The globalists will do anything to break down the omnipotence of the $US so that the US loses its main weapon in ensuring its dominance. They want a global currency and they want it digital.

I immediately thought the same as yourself when I read it , but remove the socialist welfare state from the equation and it’s accurate.

“The financial fascist system of central banking and corporate oligarchy leads to the socialist welfare state, and the socialist welfare state leads to the surveillance state, “

But if you consider the direction that the LNP is taking the social welfare state ie Robo debt , mutual obligation , cash free payments using a card at only registered service providers and drug testing then it’s not entirely inaccurate in the Australian context either.

Yep , here it comes....Scotty from marketing about to wantonly encourage an epidemic in Australia to appease his Chinese masters / Australian donors South Korea just locked down a city of 3 million people but Scotty says that Australian Exceptionalism which has resulted from the winning combination of hopes , prayers , unfettered corruption and the power of wealth over humanity will protect us despite the obvious catastrophe already unfolding in nations closer to the epicentre.

“A small cohort of Chinese students could soon be allowed into Australia on a test basis, as the Morrison government seeks to protect the domestic population from the coronavirus while trying to limit the damage to the education sector.

… the National Security Committee of Cabinet, acting on medical advice, agreed on Thursday to extend the ban for at least another week…But it also discussed allowing in a small number of students from China who are not from Hubei province, which is the epicentre of the outbreak.

This was alluded to in a statement released by Prime Minister Scott Morrison after Thursday’s meeting.

…Sources said the Chinese government, which is increasingly unhappy at the travel ban, has been lobbying for the option of allowing in a small number of students.“

PS Ask yourself this ....what does the CCP gain from allowing a small sample of potentially infected students into Australia ? Do they think that the handful of students inching closer to their degrees will lift the cumulative intelligence of China enough to justify the potential destruction wrought upon the Australian people ?

You know the reality ....the CCP wants Australia infected. It wants nothing more than to see the rest of the world placed in the same disastrous position it is now facing. The CCP is spiteful enough to want the world weakened as it is weakened. There is no other explanation. The CCP needs this problem to be global so that the spotlight is removed from the party. The Chinese government would rather see the whole world in turmoil than to go down alone.

Russia banning all Chinese.

Kazakhstan actively deporting Chinese immigrant workers .

South Korea locking down over 3 million citizens.

China quarantines 780 million people ( 1 in every ten people on Earth )

And

Scotty from marketing considering letting students come back !

Actually, it’s just a Scotty from Marketing ruse anyway. Sydney arrivals terminal this morning was dominated by literally hundreds of a Chinese students flooding into the country. After their “ two weeks in an intermediary nation “ which they either falsify or spend with fellow Chinese who come and go at will and thus compromise the quarantine period. Oh yeah ....they two week period which is also shown to be inadequate for incubation in many cases. Some cases have taken 6 weeks to display symptoms.

I flew into Indo a month ago and had never heard of the Coronavirus.

In the last few days I’ve met three seperate cases of fit young surfers who reckon they’ve had it. Chatting to them in the surf - from well upwind- each had done a run to either Malaysia or Singapore for reasons ( visa run / transit between other places ) and they reckon it’s the sickest they’ve ever been. One fella thought he was going to die. They each suffered for 3-4 days before turning the corner. Luckily they all had someone to care for them whilst they were fucked up.

Doesn’t sound fun. I was meant to be in Indo for another month at least . Soloing around the Island chain chasing swells and retreating to Bali between missions. I had a dodgy knee so my missus came over and hung out for a couple of weeks. We chilled and my knee got much better but I decided to come home with her. You don’t want to be getting this virus and having no one to give you a hand. You don’t want to catch it and find yourself in an Indo hospital.

Fuck that. I’d rather take my chances in poo brown flood waters and sloppy beach break reek-surf.

Pops , it goes like this : These three guys were seperate individuals who were not connected. There stories are seperate.

All these guys started mild and assumed it was just some regular flu / bug/ whatever. Then they started getting really fucked. But they didn’t contemplate going to the hospital until they were getting really serious and by then they were too fucked to do much about it.

None called ambulances or anything like that. None of them even thought it could have possibly been Coronavirus until after the event. They’d all gotten sick only a couple of days after returning to Bali. Just sweating it out in their hotel rooms thinking it wouldn’t get much worse till it did , and did ....and then they beat it.

They were very hesitant about going to hospitals because they were concerned that people would think they had the Coronavirus and quarantine them ! This is ironic as in retrospect they all believe that is what they had. Hectic fever , sleeplessness, hugely elevated heart rates and hard core cough / fucked up chest.

Sure , they might not have had it , but they were adamant they had and they reckon it was fucked up. These are fit surfers getting lung problems...

How many people in this situation out there ? Not really considering they’ve actually got it because it seems so imperious that people overlook that it’s a disease that comes in varying degrees of severity. And not wanting to report it because they were just as scared of being quarantined in a shitty hospital with people who really do have it. And even if you don’t get totally screwed by the disease you’re all of a sudden a pawn at the mercy of 2nd world bureaucrats and you could possibly be held hostage for weeks.

As for your family not mentioning it .....I’d get out of the water after talking with these fellas and hearing their stories of struggle and there’s the sun shining, the water sparkling and according to anyone who wasn’t in earshot of the conversation the entire episode never existed.

The virus doesn’t spread as a thick fog across the ground. It’s invisible. Some crew get sick and if others get too close they might get sick too. The very unlucky ones die.

Freeride ....I hardly ever get Bali Belly since I’ve quit mammal and bird flesh , but I got a nice little dose just recently. I don’t know if you’ve ever been sick whilst totally alone in an undeveloped foreign country but it’s not a good time. Can’t even leave the room to feed yourself or get water due to fatigue/ squirts / spewing / cramps .

It was a little taste of something that I’d prefer not to make a meal of. Anything more serious would be absolutely fucked at best and potentially dangerous at worst. At the very least it’s some horrible, lonely shit.

Maybe we assess risk differently ? Indo isn’t going anywhere. I’ll chill here and get those karma points up doing the righty , get my knee one hundred percent and get back there when the time feels right.

Absolutely pumping over there though. Some good reports flowing in from the various points of the compass .

If the timing is right don’t give up the fight . When in doubt ....get the fuck out.

Apparently a beach around here had mullet skittering everywhere last night as large somethings were boofing them like barra.

Flying up the coast this morning and the ocean looked like something Augustus Gloop would greedily fall into whilst the littoral lagoons look like the Top End during the wet.

Crazy to think that when I left the grass was brown and crunchy underfoot . Now it’s got that North Coast magic back. A hundred different shades of lush green

Was told that widely Mushrooms are available in the nearest town if you’re in need and too lazy to go picking yourself. The mosquitoes are a plague.

There was a young dog in Sumatra who got dog locked and his cock looked just like that afterwards. For the rest of our time there he’d sit in the restaurant and lick it with a forlorn look on his face as we ate our meals.

I’d rather be that dog than eat one of those chillies.

Ross Gittins.....give yourself an uppercut.

Mr Gittins isn’t stupid enough to have not mentioned the actual cause of zero wage due to ignorance. No , he failed to mention it because he knows that his employer will sack him if he dares even hint at the truth that mass immigration/ millions of temporary workers are destroying the living standards of Australians.

He’s allowed self interest to corrupt his voice to the Australian people.

Mr Gittins , you have a responsibility to tell the truth when allowed such an effective platform as a column in the MSM. You declined to tell the truth....please just fuck off.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/no-progress-on-wages-but-we-...

No Stu. He doesn’t even mention the real cause. He manages to describe the effect but not the cause.

It’s like proposing an article on “ Why did my house burn down ? “ and suggesting heat as the cause but without once mentioning fire. In fact he studiously avoided any mention of the “ fire “ in the whole article.

An entire article about uncovering the true cause of zero wage growth and not one mention of the excessive importation of labour behind it.

I’m not going to google Ross Gittin’s position on self interest when there’s an entire article as edifice to his corruption of thought on an MSM site which I’ve already paid for as a subscriber.

If Ross wants to avoid the allegations of corruption then he should stop withholding the truth to appease the person handing out the money.

As for there being more than one factor behind flatlining wages growth, this too is disingenuous as virtually every factor hinges on an oversupply of labour .

Our public institutions are colluding on the run down of Australian standards of living in order to accomodate the enforced neoliberal maxim. National tariff s and protectionism- like those employed so effectively by China - are now decried as racist ( !!!! ) like everything else which might jeopardise the globalisation ideology.

Here’s a quote from CommSec’s chief economist on why wages are falling :
‘So why is wage inflation contained, despite strong job creation? The simple answer is that Australia has an excess supply of workers,’ he said.”

Never before has Australia flooded our labour market into an increasingly stagnant economy. And never before has those at the helm been divorced of any consequences for their utter failure to secure our nation’s economy.

This graph shows the RBA’s predictions for wage growth over the last decade and the reality...Notice anything ? Can you even imagine being this bad at your job for a decade without facing consequences ? Why is that .....because they’ve been politically charged with sending the economy down a certain path.

And this graph displays just how divorced labour supply has become from productivity. This is because an oversupply of cheap and exploitable labour stymies innovation, competition, national skills enhancement programs. It just allows for lazy GDP and corporate growth whilst the nation gets poorer , stupider , more dependent on foreign supply and our workers get screwed.

And the irony being that it’s this very lack of drive towards productivity which is causing our economy to stagnate. It’s a reinforced loop under the guiding hand of a collusive political/ managerial class and corporations.

Our economy is now houses and holes. The construction/ expansion/ renovation of residential housing ( aka shelter ) is now presented as an economy of itself. Previously it was provision of necessity but now it is the major focus of our nation. Selling each other house has replaced nation building. All of our focus is on non productive endeavour.

And when we run out of people to buy our houses and grow the housing / debt Ponzi what do we do ?

We import millions of people to shore up demand. And then we waste any remaining productivity and money expanding unproductive infrastructure in the farcical hope of keeping place with human import numbers.

Every time Australia spends ( borrowed ) money on another road in Sydney is an chance lost to build a publicly funded solar farm to ease our reliance on fossil fuel etc etc

It’s called opportunity cost.

Australia is no longer nation building, we are actively being told that being a nation is racist FFS. Now we are just farming humans .

Stu....does he mention immigration/ temporary workers a single time in his entire article on why wages are not growing ? That’s pure censorship through omission.

I took the CommSec quote out of an article who’s entire context was regarding the effect of endlessly importing humans into our economy .

Over a hundred billion dollars has been spent by government on infrastructure projects in NSW . Virtually every single cent of that is spent on accomodating the human expansion which the vested invests behind the big Australia Ponzi scheme demands.

New underground tunnels for Sydney instead of innovative , productive assets which would ensure Australians remained at the top of Global living standards.

And then you get fucking ridiculous situations like our universities becoming beholden to Chinese students due to defunding by the government. And all those students really want permanent residency which means more money needed to build more roads in Sydney, which means less public money to spend on our universities, which means more foreign students.....and on and on it goes.

Even better is that now our universities are treated as businesses instead of foremost centres for supplying intellectual and skilled talent to build our nation , their very usefulness is compromised because they now churn out degrees of a diminished standard due to demands from fee paying students for value .

So Australian innovation and productivity is even more destroyed because the standards of our tertiary education is lessened.

Neoliberalism is destroying our nation. The entire ideology is that of the strip miner or the clear felling logger. It’s the systematic destruction wrought by corporate raiders on vulnerable companies applied to entire nations and their societies .

And the ALP/ LNP are the tip of the spear for its implementation.

Freeride they get away with it because it’s the neoliberal system.

And the system has been successful because it’s managed to change our society on a cellular level. If you stood up in the midst of that restaurant and said “ Why aren’t you employing young Australians ? “ it’d go viral as Xtreme racism.

But how else do young Australians get skills or opportunity ? Previously they’d have started as a waiter and a portion of those people would have learnt the industry from the ground up . Become chefs or owned restaurants of their own.

Now our children are shoehorned into a useless degree and it’s accompanying debt instead of accumulating knowledge as their career progressed.

Our youth are denied opportunities to learn insitu and to say otherwise and you’re accused of racism or perpetuating white privilege. Where people aren’t actively denied employment because they’re not exploitable foreigners they’re excluded because the wage scales have been pushed so low by the exploitable foreigners that the job isn’t viable unless your real value is enduring underpayment of wages to ensure you achieve permanent residency. It’s fucking perverse and people need to stand up to it.

It’s the astroturfing of neoliberalism. Getting the useful idiot in the street to call any defence of the Australian society as racist or xenophobic.

You know what’s even better Freeride ?

It’s that most of the wages of the employees in that restaurant would get sent to their homelands as remittances. So Byron is seeing its income sent overseas not just the employment and training opportunities for its citizens.

About the only good thing is that the foreign workers are probably being underpaid so that if the owner is Australian that means a higher percentage of the money might even stay in our country.

Fliplid ....that’s our Skilled visa system which tries to fill any local shortfall in highly talented employees with candidates from overseas.

The same one that the UK is now going to copy because their wages have started to recover now that the EU “ highly skilled talent “ is returning to Poland/ Romania post Brexit.