From the ABC

Govt claims credit for low unemployment rate
The Federal Government is claiming credit for keeping the unemployment rate at a 30-year low.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says more than 31,000 extra jobs were created in September, pushing the unemployment rate down to 4.8 per cent.

Most of the extra jobs were full-time positions.
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Gus: although employment figures appear to be marvellous, the reality is that at least 4 per cent of workers now are so desperate they'll work anywhere any time for peanuts and be counted as employed rather than starve to death. The book that should have been written by our spruiker in chief is " Alice in porkieland" and all would slave away into the sunset...

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Now, now...

Of Fascism and Humanism

Now, I am taken aback by the ruthless, rapid, nearly desperate, momentum that our present governments — the right wing fascist-bushit-Johnneeist (Blair is nearly out of the picture... but Golden Brown is near) — are taking at the moment... From all directions — when the only way to construct a viable renewable future is to down-size somewhat humanity's consumerism and pull back from crumpling the fragile flower-beds — these unenlightened pseudo-leaders go full steam ahead in their desire of expansionism, concretinism (and I mean pouring tons of cement, not discuss concrete versus abstract concepts) and bulldozism — steamrolling anything of intellectual and natural substance in the process.

We even see this sneaky assault, creeping slowly at first, but now in full swing, in the newspapers — many broadsheets that used to pride in intellectual rigour, now publishing most far right wing dogma-drivel with an unequalled enthusiasm. These rags plant and cultivate this amazing expansionist concept inside the grab-all mentality of the thinknot-wantalot pea-brain of the masses that for quite a few years now have been prepared like garden-beds with manure and bullshit from an ever effluent-pumped up governmental propaganda. Just add fake water...

This ugly process is promoted with a well-managed illusion called a "booming" economy towards a massive growth in which most people are desperately enticed to buy a home while committing to the god of massive debt, till they push daisies from six feet under or until they resell their prized abode with a small profit to get into more debt by eyeing a castle-sized mansion with umpteen swimming pools and still push daisies before dreaming of paying it up. This fabulous process of debt-value management reduces people's ability to awaken from a treadmill of unbridled consumerism and stupid work ethics doused with draconian industrial laws, or even protest at war, unfair laws and other stuff of the same ilk... protest and you loose "your" dream... in fact it is the dream the banks, in bed with your Government, want you to have... It is lobotomy surgery performed under "control" of course — designed to provide those at the top of the pyramid of greed with a massive wealth never dreamed of, while the biosphere deteriorates at a much greater rate that can be imagined, even by the most avant-garde left-wing of scientists...

Who cares one can say...

I suppose, the sooner the maximum damage is done for good-and-everafter, the sooner we won't have to live in this limbo-land of increasing global warming. We will be living in fully warmed-up desiccated places or on floating pontoons. The morons in charge of taking us there, will never take the blame for this appalling state of affairs since "it is part of human nature" to live in that bulldozing exciting manner.., But worse still, they'll blab that they did as much as could be done under the circumstances... Ugly crap... Create bigger problems by adopting solutions that demand more solutions to solve the problems they create, and since our ingenuity in solving anything has no bound, we find the silver lining at the end of it: sea water rising? Move up and live in the hills that are now water frontage... It's wonderful for construction companies and the toll-road making industry since we need new abodes and new infrastructures...

Change keeps us busy... Thus the economy in a glowing gut-bursting hot climate can only go gang-buster and sell more beer... Yes, greed and thirst can only help us along...

Have a look at the irresistible fantastic offers by many big stores... Buy now, pay later... interest free for 36 months or more! Whoa... at the official interest rate of 6 per cent this means that, counting the compounded decrease of interest rates, the stores are charging you more than 12 per cent the value of the goods at the time you are buying (NOW)! Thus the true inflation is more than 12 per cent... In fact it's deceptive because most of the products are not valued in relation to our cost of making things, including these goods, but pegged to slavery overseas in a subsidised economy that kills our own manufacturing ability, putrid death under the spell of so-called free trade fiddles (agreements?)... All this on top of a nice mark up and advertising budget to make you spend-spend-spend until your credit card is melted by the strain and the hot climate combined...

But fear not, in this fascist-capitalist system where the wheels are spinning faster to position our societies as the most consuming on earth, young men are encouraged to bonk early so their oats do not suffer attrition when they decide to have kids at an older age... Have one for the country said our Mr Costello... Thus, there is a good chance that most young family with exaggerated baby bonuses will have two or three more kids than the previous generation, kids that, once grown up, will pay for the crumbing-boomers, who'd embraced fertility restraint... to minimise their impact on the bio-surface while maintaining a reasonable standard of living...

Thus today or tomorrow lunchtime marks the birth or the immigration (whichever comes first) of the 300th million American. Now this nation stands as the third most populous country on Earth, after China and India... Beaut. This of course goes against the trend in Yourop, where economies do not need increase in population to thrive... Only in the US where archaic conservative religious mind set prevail, is this an imperative — especially since more than 30,000 people get murdered every year and need to be replaced...

Here in Aussielandya, our Mr Strugglenoff, the constructor extraordinaire by excellence of rabbit-hole-sized-habitation-on-top-of-each-other-with-a-lift-in-the-middle WANTS 20 million people living in Sydney by 2050... And you know what? With the various Fed and State Aussie governments poised the way they are, his nightmare is not unthinkable... Yes a population of 55 million Australians would be lovely considering the ecological sustainability of the continent was measured at a maximum population of 12 millions... Bye bye whatever you were little fury beast... or flying thingy... We need your space... But then since a lot of thing will be under water pretty soon, we won't have to worry too much about yar...

Now humanism, a word that our fascist friends will soon put in their hypocritical lexicon to frame the propaganda, might save us from a total wipe out... But I have this feeling that our fascist friends, obliging as much as they can, are hell-bent on building a large castle (contributing to the major problem of course) to protect us from an inevitable onslaught rather than share the pain with all the riff raff...

Yes, I see a US president, smug in the thought that his foray in Iraq managed to kill at least 500,000 Arabs — un-American people who would have been more mouths to feed in a more difficult world while his fabulous country reached that 300 smackaroo milestone with not too much pain (apart from the torturees) and a lot of wealth.

And then there is the news — a feast of crap managed and equalised by a need of advertiser's breakfast, where the major problems facing humanity have the same bill space as the ingrown toenail of a footballer sidelined because of his sister's broken arm... But more after the break: do table top dancers... — do they get enough cash up in their pants? Should they declare it to the IRS or the ATO?

One can only see rules and regulations pushed to the absurd when the oldest FM radio station in Australya (which shall remain nameless here) is seemingly forced to have a news bulletin that makes no sense whatever — a news bulletin as informative as a pair of old socks gleaned from a hospice run by blind fredies — no sense whatever not even to the conservative folks who listen to the stuff... It's blancmange gone crazy but then we live in a crazy mixed-up world, don't we? And soon to cook beyond our corrupt dreams...

May I tempt you with a [http://dieoff.org/|comprehensive website] where the economic story of the world is somewhat different to that of our expansionists — the "moral" looters of Iraq by excellence, "our" Blair, Bush and Johnnee warriors...
But I sense these greedy grand master of con and spruik are aware of what's really coming... Thus they have a sense of urgency in fiddling the books, cooking the goose and grabbing as much of the loot before the inevitable massive crash... in thirty to forty years max... may be sooner...

I have recalculated the official numbers of Americans which statistics obviously wrongly place their numbers at 300 millions... In fact per weight, one US citizen is about 1.4 Aussie and 1.6 European, on average per volume, one Yankee equals 1.6 Aussie and 1.8 European. Each of these American consume on average about twice as much food as the Aussie and about 2.2 times the portions eaten by the average Europeans, considering the Germans eat about 1.3 times the average of the French and the Poms eat about 0.95 times as much as the French. The Spanish eat 0.8 as much as the French.

Thus one can estimate that in fact there are 450 million Americans — considering those thin men and women that are hidden inside each of them. Just imagine the extra sewage problem...

The "voluntary" relabelling of food In this fabulous Howardianporkie country-going-down-the-gurgler or going-to-the-rich-dogs is designed to confuse the average Aussie as magic calorie figures are produced next to beautiful symbols that mean bugger all since there is no common purposeful reference point... This of course is properly designed so we can catch up with our fat cousins in the US... by secretly championing our rights to be fat, overweight and to have heart attacks...