Mining Tax? Whose argument is Right?

15/06/10.

Australia's media is being swamped, as we draw closer to the 2010 federal election, with advertising and opinions about the goods and the bads of the government's proposed mining resources “super-profits” tax.

Being one with something of an impartial interest in such matters, matters which short-and-long term influence the well-being of the poorer people, I am fast tiring of the “blurb”.

Blurb which comes from utterly incredible sources, such as the billionaire mining magnate, Gina Reinhardt, and one of her uptop cronies in mining, Clive Palmer, neither of whom, in my opinion, have any right to make the slanderous and blatantly untrue comments against the current government's attempts to make Australia a better Economically, more Equitably-managed nation.

On 6th June, after Palmer had made untrue statements to media about what his company is doing in reaction to the proposed tax, he backed-down. This adds to his being a non-credible source in the debate, on top of his having clearly very self-interested motives, as does Georgina Rinehart, who rides the wave of ridiculously excessive wealth inherited from the deceased iron-ore magnate Lange Hancock.

What inspires a women of her calibre to get-on the tray of a truck and with a loud-hailer chant with self-interested employees, at least in the fields of mining, if not in her pay, and if not “rent-a-protest”, will not be fathomed, for clearly she and her fellow chanters are not in the least bit interested in the nation's overall capital interest, and therefore will never give a frank, honest admission.

But with her are the uptop, upclub, upemselves lobbyists, primarily of the totally corrupt, which translates as mentally ill, right wing of the Australian sycophants' clubs, most represented in the public eye by our utterly unqualified, obstructionist parliamentary Opposition, led by the lately unheard Tony Abbott.

The hubris of these mining magnates, Andrew Forrest another, is what we have come to expect from the super-wealthy, but nevertheless will never, in the light of Balance and Reason, give them any more credibility.

However this raw fact does not stop them from paying any media outlet, or advertising and consulting corporation to say the most outrageous things.

Outrageous because to even the dullest minds, they are talking out of turn, that-is they are saying things which could, could, have very negative ramifications on the future welfare of a large section of the Australian population.

It is unquestionably very irresponsible of them to so vociferously say what they do.

In this easy-access-to-media day-and-age, this is one of the negative results, where, if you have enough money, SOMEONE will take it to get your opinion “on-air”.

So...?

While being exiled from the post of leading a military take-over of the British royal throne, and thus of the world, I keep my sanity (UMMMM?) by watching these in-the-end, in the perfect world, unnecessary debates, arguments, media-blasts, and do this....

In regard to the title of this post, I personally have no doubts as to not who, but which debate is correct. That I am also somewhat poor in absorbing and understanding “details” of economic treaties and prognostications, means that I must admit to not fully in-taking the intricacies of such as the government's plans.

This therefore means I cannot stand to advocate the plan, but defer to the far more astute minds of, highly qualified economists, such as one Bryan Kavanagh, a quietly-spoken Champion, who was then, and perhaps still is, a Land Valuer, and whom I met years ago at the 31 Hardware Street Melbourne offices of the Henry George League.

Another is another quietly-spoken bloke, er-Champion, Phillip Anderson, who began “Economic Indicator Services” (EIS) while we were associating as drinking and Philosophising mates and who has since taken EIS to great and respected heights, with, it seems, it's head office in London England.

Bryan apparently regularly sits in with a Warrior of the airwaves on Melbourne's Community Radio 3CR, Karl Fitzgerald's “Renegade Economists”, and recently, on 05/05/10, spoke on the show of how happy he and his Economist fellows - REALEconomist Fellows, finance-people of the Highest Order, were with what Dr Ken Henry put out in his Henry Tax Review for the federal government.

Phil, I much later found out, via a random search of the web, was interviewed representing EIS on SkyBusiness channel
on 18th Aug 2009, where he gave a succinct explanation of “boom and bust” economic cycles, and their intimate relationship with “land values”.

So, having been “blessed” with these associations in the last century, and having myself attended some REALPolitik and REALEconomics tutorials at a very well-qualified school in Melbourne (The School of Philosophy), I find I'm short on tolerance of all our mainstream media when they make sensationalist airtime headlines about the clearly corruption-centred outbursts and what amount to “blackmail” by the upper-end of our national economy, and opinion-polls which cannot tell the real picture of how the majority of Australians feel about what is theft of our wealth and resources as stolen by the in-the-main offshore monetary interests.

So, having recently staggered onto the “Indymedia” website, and quickly took in it's perceived thrust ( I also met some of their watchers/contributors in Nimbin, and was not impressed), after leaving the “Green Left” mobs to their own cliques of radical private school “outlaws” if-not mere drop-outs, who generally will not go outside of the church's ideological boundaries, and increasingly concerned about the mileage the mainstream corruption is getting via the mainstream and thoroughly agenda-ridden - read-corrupt media, I get “agitated” and want SOMEONE to put it in plain English, or “Globe-ish” as I recently heard it called, and cut through the agendas and the slime and the spin and the blah and the politrix of the era, which if SOMEONE does not cut with Straight and True tongues soon, might be our last, for any upward opportunity.

It seems to me, that our media is out of control, and has possibly always been thus, because it is mainly about keeping us stupid so that the British and Eurapean elites can keep ripping the resources and wealth from under Australians feet.

That they keep doing this to us surely opens the door of the courts for charges of treason, by, that-is against our media for lying to us, and for NOT going to THE FACTS, which are so eloquently and calmly spoken about by such as the Champions of the Henry George League and it's many, many affiliate organisations, here and in nearly every major city in the world.

Indymedia and Green Left are vulnerable of being also implicated in these types of charges, for the same offences, as well of course with about every other media outlet in Australia.

It was a surprise that Sky Business, a Fox-Murdoch channel did the interview with Phil Anderson, and must be commended for it. But they surely remain on the uptop, upemselves, upclub side of the HONEST ECONOMICS divide.

How many of Australia's Community Radio stations go to these issues without fear or favour I don't know. Nimbin's NIM-FM was all about “other issues” let's say, mainly of keeping the drop-out upclubsters in the pulse of modern and mostly very high quality music, some Marijuana related hours were put in, but also many a code was sent out as warnings of police raids, immigration parties and “doofs”, rather than ANY REALPolitik or REALEconomic airtime.

Years ago, when the subversives started infiltrating the left-wing youth political orgs in Melbourne, I watched Community Radio take a dive and turn trivial.

But as attested to by Renegade Economists on 3CR, it may be that the Righteous, with or without daddy's inheritance and a few upper-suburban houses to loiter in, have taken back the territory in our more local, Community media.

As to whether the same is even possible in the probably-dwindling “local” or suburban print media market and editors' rooms, I doubt it?

As for TV.....? Somehow, I suspect that the few who have managed to get broadcast licences for local, Community television, would go with REALEconomics televisings, but thus far, as-in of the last 2-or-20-thousand years, the thugs in the pay of the bighouse and real estate mobsters have kept them off air.

And besides, what percentage of the viewers do the small stations, radio, internet and TV, get? Not a majority, that's-a-for-a-sure?

So, how do we convince the mainstream media to GET REAL!?

I used to attend the School of Philosophy, who have “students” of all ages, right across the nation and across the world.

Most of them, then, were from the upper echelons of society.

Pretty, in the end, self-absorbed, so were not the kind one would expect to get out on the streets and march in a protest or demonstration.

This is a tragic shame really, because they were then, quite ahead of the rest of Australian society in terms of doing the Work any Genuine Philosopher would know they must, hour-by-hour, do.

Stay “in the present moment” Etcetera.

Meditation was an integral part of their daily events, regime, morning and night, as well as much given time to assist at the School, one because iot was essentially run by volunteers, but also because it was the place to be for that irreplaceable “Good Company”, where humour was enjoyed with the Highest Integrity, and the deepest issues were the main reason for attendance.

There too, were the courses on this Land Economics. An Economic Philosophy unsurpassed and of which the current debate about resources tax and the theft by offshore and self-interested mining magnates is, in fact, centred.

So it strikes me that these schools, and the several thousand who attend, while recommended to not jump-up-and-down in public about the True Taxation Science of Land Rent, would be highly effective were they to ORGANISE themselves out of their usually “cushy” positions of employment, and arrange a NON-POLITICAL, for that is rightly, what they and the School are, public protest against all the misinformation being thrown around by the, treasonous media, and political opposition.

NON-POLITICAL, because the core of their Economic Philosophy, goes way above all our in reality fabricated political divisions.

Political divisions which, as likely, ALL our mainstream media, do not want commonly known, because it would kill-off most of their moneymaking schemes.

Schemes, agendas, which ARE NOT, for the Good of All!

Having been exiled from that School in 1995, by subversives-anonymous, I do not know where they in general stand today.

Then the advice, and Good Advice, was to keep our head low, for it is a major thing, and has always attracted much antipathy, again, from the utterly corrupt bighouse mobs.

Today, things ARE different, and a hefty proportion of the power has shifted to the Common People. People who have always been Outlawed for refusing to bow to the dominant paradigm. So I put it that those in such as the School can now safely speak out or march out in support of the most Important and Vital Economic Issue of our time.

Land and Tax Reform.

Therefore, surely as this farcical debate rages nationwide, without waiting in futility for a messiah to lead them, there must be significant enough Right-minded People from all classes with enough mettle, and with the right contacts, to organise the polity to call for an end to the stupidity of false assertions by such as the mining lobby, et al, by standing in force FOR the Proper, as in Property, systems of Taxation and Economic Reform.

Whether the offshore interests can muster enough corrupt ferment to incite a war or not, there are few options available to Humanity today, but to Stand, Shoulder-to-Shoulder and to give our government the confidence to get through the reforms we all need.

Unions, Outlaws, Radicals, Gangsters, Clubsters, Environmentalists, Business-owners and Employees, Aborigines, and generally concerned and enwisened People, can Rule the Streets, once, and For All.

Fear nothing, I say, for you all, have "The Angels" on your side!

So Mote It Be!

Omaxa bin Eartha.
Outlaw, for
GLOBAL Land, Tax, Cult, Drug and Work
LAW REFORM.