Category Archives: Democracy

Documentary on Julian Assange Revealing War Crimes and Corruption

This is in the global interest.

It is the truth hat sets us free. Silence and secrets when concealing criminality are NOT in the public or global interest. It is a duty to reveal corruption, crimes and harm to innocent civilians.

3/4 of a million documents were released.

Patch Adams says Greed is a Dis-ease

This is a young Patch Adams on Oprah. I love his thinking. For so long he has talked about community, he refuses welfare and chooses a lighter footprint. He is an example. A light in our collective darkness.

Patch believes it is about giving not getting. I feel the same. Apparently that is revolutionary. Most women do this all the time. For men it is a threat for women it is normal.

When I think of those who work hard to control our lives but don’t give any thought to what inspires our lives, I just see dark/light dichotomies. We all get to choose. I have chosen clearly.

Video below is a young Patch and the second done is about making the movie of Patch Adams and the messages he seeks to share.

Edward Snowden on Mass Surveillance and Democracy

In the public interest.

We require a apolitical faction (independent) that can challenge the government, he states.

Edward Snowden: “If I end up in Guantánamo I can live with that” | Guardian Interviews

Edward Snowden Live from Russia

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’

Edward Snowden on ‘Snowden angels’ and his warning for Canada

The Gift of Compliance (security) or Democracy (freedom)?

This poem below is my gift to humanity. It was inspired Christmas morning.

I  just Googled this poem name and it didn’t come up in the search.

When I used duckduckgo.com (no tracking). It came up first.

My concern is how Google is listing information on the basis of algorithms.  Why would my poem not come up when it is clearly uniquely titled.  In duckduckgo there is a simple listing with no filter.  I note this.  This is what came up…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1cFn7qoxgU

The Gift of Compliance (security) or Democracy (freedom)?

Today is Christmas,

It is a celebration of family,

A celebration of peace,

A time of coming together,

It matters not the name,

Or the religion,

It is about the universal family coming home,

Together.

Jeshua Ben Joseph (Jesus) was from the Middle East,

He had no religion,

He preached love in dark times,

He answered the call for help,

As love was the answer.

Love is not about us or them,

It is not about hate,

It is not about power and control,

It is about allowance and being bold,

For to speak up in the global agora is the only platform that makes a difference,

And we are here to allow difference to be seen and heard,

For we cannot go against nature,

We cannot swim against the river,

We cannot turn any tide of truth,

We can only flow with what is natural,

What is easy?

What is true?

For I am you

And you are me,

And together we are free.

Same same but different the Thais say,

Mercy the Muslims preach,

Unconditional love is the Christian mantra,

Stillness and non attachment is the Buddhist way,

Staying below or crossing the great stream is the Chinese checkers of wisdom,

Deeply listening is indigenous knowing,

Belonging to the land is the right order of things,

The internet of things is man made order,

For it is not about information it is about wisdom,

Wisdom is knowledge applied,

It is to know you do not know as the starting point,

It is the zero point that is ‘still’ awaiting higher perspectives,

For in the times ahead we must become wise not smart,

For information without wisdom is manipulating,

Data gathering without love is controlling and profiling,

Profiting for the sake of personal wealth is a selfish motive without conscience.

In a global village when one takes too much others receive less,

Prices rise as wages fall,

Jobs disappear as automation rises,

For it takes a village to raise a child,

Not a child centre,

But to place the child at the centre,

For we are out of balance,

We are out of order,

With our true nature,

As to flow with what is natural,

Falls naturally into place,

And place is a sense of belonging,

For which all are longing for.

If you are not happy in what you do,

Fear has enslaved you,

If you are working long hours believing you have no choice,

You have forgotten the power of choice,

Life is a decision tree,

It is a multidimensional possibility,

For you cannot know what will happen when you say yes to you,

When you say yes to health as wealth,

When you say yes to democracy as empathy sharing power,

When you say yes to freedom as self-responsibility,

When you say yes to moving out of victim status to find the power of self-determination,

For you are powerful beyond what you believe or dream,

Your happy destiny is unavoidable,

When you give yourself the ultimate present,

Of freedom from fear.

For freedom is experienced when you face what you fear,

For overcoming fear is to realise there was nothing to fear,

It is to look in the mirror not seeking out defects but looking for truth

in your own eyes,

For we are living unconsciously on automatic pilot,

Responding to what we are taught without critical thought,

We are complaining but not living by example enlightening others,

We are not demanding different outcomes as continuous improvement,

We are not understanding our world can be different,

It can be shape changed into a sustainable image,

We can learn to live where need equals want,

We can live in balance as this is wholistic,

We can learn to live the yin and the yang as life is dynamic change,

But we must move fast,

As the ecological limits are dominos and tipping points are breached,

The ice caps are melting,

The bush fires are out of control,

We are witnessing the hottest and coldest days on record,

As nature is mirroring us out of balance,

The economic juggernaut of endless growth is an impossible staircase,

That no-one can climb,

It is to stop climbing and sit down to consider the view,

For rooms with a view can see the big picture,

Resources are finite,

The IoT may appear infinite but it is not a solid state in equilibrium,

You must educate yourself out of ignorance,

You must put in the hard work to understand the way of the world,

For our systems are driven by greed as motivation not natural selection,

Our assets are transferred into private hands without referendum or vote,

Our human rights are transferred to property rights as the rite of passage to power,

As human rights are decoupled from trade as Clinton did say,

For property is power paid for by rents and smart sales,

The money supply is owned by the King of coins,

And laws mean nothing to those who own the Queens Counsel in the court of the King,

For the world is man made in their image of control as power projected,

Not freedom from fear elected.

Indifference is the greatest disruption,

For it is pathological in cooperation,

It is a mental health issue that is the silent weapon that needs no war,

For people are useful only when productive,

Useless eaters have nothing of value to give,

As your value is an economic commodity not a God given natural birthright,

Your education serves a system not your natural talent given in abundance,

For we are locked into profit maximisation not gross national happiness,

This has been the national priority of the few,

And this puts the cart before the horse,

For happiness was the objective of economics

Fair resource allocation was to balance optimal price settings,

Preferences were choices,

Choices reflected demand (needs and wants),

Market signals determined consumer demand and business supply,

So that resources are allocated according to natural need not manipulated greed,

But market power took the bull by the horns to force economic growth,

Fixing markets,

Buyer power,

Privileged education,

Collegial relationships with power brokers,

Printing money or quantitative easing,

Indebting nations,

As debt is the power chip that leverages buy outs.

This became the freedom from want of the few over the many,

This was the game changer where the rules are changed to benefit the few,

Designing the game in their image,

The fairness doctrine was removed to weight the game so the house always wins,

Glass–Steagall was a stable market turned into a speculative casino,

The roulette wheel spins to settle on numbers where markets rise or fall,

Arbitrage speculates on currency fluctuations,

As currency is bought and sold changing the economic futures of millions,

As currencies appreciate (go up) exports become expensive,

As currencies depreciate (go down) then exports are cheaper,

The casino owner’s impact demand and supply,

Multinational power impacts demand and supply,

Controlling supply and cross subsidising marketing channels,

Acquiring channel supply chain businesses cheaper,

Those smaller have higher prices, lose market share and collapse,

As the small to medium business cannot compete with automation, online and market power,

They cannot compete with globalised buyer power,

So the playing field is not a fairness doctrine,

The chips are weighted in favour of the big end of town,

The weigh scales of justice tip towards the few over the many,

1% control 40% of the world’s wealth is not a Christmas present many want to open,

But this is happening in the present,

With impunity,

With immunity,

As judges can be handpicked,

Cherry picking ideologically speaking,

As money talks,

The Club of Rome is Empire State building,

Ethics walk,

As truth telling is a dangerous business,

People go missing in action,

In silent wars as cowards keep their hands and faces below the table,

Whistle-blowers are the heroes placing public interest before their own safety,

As totalitarianism is not peace for the many,

It offers piece meals as the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing,

It is a zero sum game where there are no winners in the end,

As we are one family,

And as the family falls apart so does the global networks,

For who can you trust if values fall to the weigh side?

Weighted in favour of money not love,

For love was always the answer to humanty’s dilemmas,

But who can love the unloveable?

Who can love the poorest of the poor?

Who will be the first to open the door to desperation?

Who will cast the first stone in judgement?

For what you do to another returns to the self as a universal law,

And this is the highest law where there is no judge,

No court in the land has any power without allegiance to the highest law,

For this is not a court but a natural response to imbalance

That does not listen to reasoned arguments, debate or sleight of hand,

There is no punishment or hell only what humans do to each other and blame god,

There is only a recalibration and redistribution,

A rebalancing point,

Sensitive to change,

As nature rules OK!

And no matter the UN or consultant reports,

No matter the climate conferences seeking to reach the summit,

No matter the rhetoric or government planning,

No one can control the climate

Of great change.

For we are at a tipping point,

As we tip into 2020 we need a new vision,

Crystal clear clarity,

Which will makes visible the disruption,

For it is not about Silicon Valley,

But the real disruption as totalitarianism becomes visible in the spectrum,

The laws are changed,

The smart technologies roll out as labour saving,

Yet they are labour replacing,

As they are about saying ‘yes’ as there is no ‘no’,

Tick the terms and conditions whether you understand or not,

Access is denied when you say no,

As the world divides into compliance and non compliance,

The velvet gloves of democracy come off to reveal the iron fist,

A police state of play asserts compliance as homeland security,

Yet democracy asserts choice,

Asserts the will of ‘We The People’,

As without consent there is no power,

And this is the clash that is occurring outlining a renewable world map,

Hong Kong is the front line confronting lines of control,

It is not reported in the media as a system syntax error,

As information is managed not delivered to inform and empower the public,

Digital TV is modelled as a viewers digest of distraction not empowered to enlighten real change,

For control is not love,

War is not peace,

And to love means you cannot control what is uncontrollable,

For the two are mutually exclusive,

As if two worlds colliding,

A loveless reality is to learn compliance is to do as your told

not democracy where you get to choose again,

To be bold is to say it like it is,

A democratic environment is to learn to speak up and not become enslaved by fear.

Beyond this conflicted duality is the new reality of realisation,

That we are ONE,

That what I see in my world is a reflection of myself,

How is this possible?

We are the ONE love,

The ONE family,

The ONE intelligence,

Re-membering Home is where the heart is,

For you were never alone on this journey,

Re-member All for ONE and ONE for all,

As the future is waiting on your welcome.

ONE brought this message 2,000 years ago,

He was crucified for challenging religious power,

He turned over the tables to reveal the money changers,

Not as a violent act but to awaken them to usury as greed,

For debt is the seed planted for enslavement,

They would not listen to conscience or reason,

Disruption was the awakening bell,

For as the bell tolls many will awaken,

To truth as visibility,

Corruption as deception,

Power as control not leadership,

Love as the answer and who we really are,

When we stop thinking and worrying,

For to become still is to deeply listen,

As silence speaks,

The moment is NOW,

To resolve conflict is to realise mercy is forgiveness,

To learn non attachment to material things is to realise freedom from want,

For this is the gap unfulfilled that keeps on wanting,

Believing in not enough or scarcity,

The internet of things is to learn objectivisation not warm relationship in the real world,

For the cyber world is a fake world constructed to profit the few,

Gathering data from the many as the new gold standard,

Where regulation and privacy STEMs the flow of trillion dollar profits.

The real world is to realise the truth that you are love,

You are loved,

You are loveable,

Love is the real world calling you silently home to the heart of happiness,

Happiness is to know who you are and live your dreams,

For we live in infinite possibilities in every moment,

Did you know we can attract what we desire as abundance?

We are the hero we are waiting for,

We can be the change we wish to see,

For it is to BE WHO YOU REALLY ARE which matters,

As nature must live in accordance with its own nature patterns,

And nature is calling all back into balance by disrupting business as usual,

Homeostasis is the real sustainability returning to zero point.

Homeostasis or harmony…

is to balance want with real needs,

is to balance greed with natural desire,

is to balance family peace with work life balance,

is to balance health with wellbeing,

is to balance unlimited resources with natural limits,

is to understand the real wealth is the gold in freedom from fear,

For nature was always free for all,

And freedom provides choice,

As this is the gift that was given humanity at one minute to midnight,

Have you received the gift in humility?

For what you give away returns in unity,

As you live abundance you will never be left wanting,

And this is the secret garden that has been revealed your flower,

It is the sacred seal that is opened now,

For Christ was given to the masses,

It is the consciousness of love that has been given as an example of how you can flower,

It has no religion, shape, form or creed,

There is no us and them,

It is formless and shapes changes into whatever you desire,

As love has no limits or constraints,

Love is always free for all,

Love empowers great change without preference,

As nature merely responds to signals as desires,

What signals are you sending nature?

For this will be the future blueprint beyond 2020,

Be wise as serpents they say,

It is wisdom that will pay as you sit on the Mountain View,

To re-view how far we have come,

For over the horizon is a new beginning,

It is a global reset or disruption of profound proportions,

Recalibrating the Promise which is not about land,

It is about forgiveness of debt burdens,

It is to turn the tables on the money changers,

It is to wipe the accounting slate clean,

To remove the log out of your own eye to clearly see,

For as you judge you are judged,

As you divide you are divided,

As you love you are loved,

As you give you are abundant,

For you are the creator of your reality,

Empowered to choose not lose,

So what reality do you choose?

What do you envisage for your children?

Compliance (security) or democracy as freedom?

Free dominion is that you are free,

We all get to choose,

Again.

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Former Victorian Premier Brumby Quits Huawei Board and Joins La Trobe University

My first feeling in this is of the IT trade war between China and the United States.  My next feeling is those in prominent positions joining industry and the revolving door that exists between government and industry.  The original intent of government was that these entities were separate as government ensured neutrality so that it could represent the people.  Unfortunately in the ruling class they all know each other, they discuss the Boards the are on and they have their own agendas.   Business is business.

The video I produced today is on greed.  I see the blindness of economic objectives outside of human wellbeing.  The disconnect is furthered as industry profits become the goal and the impact on civil society a minor issue.  This becomes increasingly evident when one investigates the range of views about 5G and the race between the US and China with IT industry lobbyists taking up positions in Communications as the regulator of the industry.  Clearly it is not possible to regulate an industry in the public interest if a person has come from the very industry that is to be regulated. That means they know the people, and often, if not always, have an agenda to promote that industry. This is where the public interest is neglected.  We have seen this in the United States and the health implications for civil society are sending out alarm around the world.

The article below informs that the former Victorian Premier John Brumby was on the board of Huawei.  There is discussion about Chinese criminality and the potential for the Communist party to spy and gather data.  I would assert all the IT companies are spying and data gathering and are contracted to share data with intelligence agencies, notably the 5 Eyes spy network.  When you investigate the Boards of IT companies you see the vested interests sitting there which include multinational companies, big data, IT companies, military, intelligence, Accounting firms, universities, former government ministers or public servants and the list goes on.  In the country they operate in, the people believe the company is owned by the nation or they have no idea that their data is traded without real consent and used to sell products and services.  The greed is what moves this disregard for privacy.

Clearly Huawei would be influenced, if not directed, by the Chinese Communist Party, they are the largest telecommunications company in China note $8.7 billion in profits.  Refer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei

The issues for Australia are to what extent can the Chinese government penetrate Australia through high level appointments and economic power?  Refer foreign ownership of homes (real estate):  https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/buying/fears-one-million-aussie-homes-could-soon-be-owned-by-foreign-buyers/news-story/c50a4112bab4f3ed8fae27277f313f54

Australian land sales https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/china-increases-its-stake-in-australian-land-20181220-p50ng0.html

I recall Alexander Downer some years ago attempting to ban protests of Falun Gong outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. The government went to court with Falun Gong and the latter won.   Refer http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1389732.htm

I interviewed on radio a Chinese woman whose husband had been murdered in China as they practiced Falun Gong.  Just last week I noticed they were protesting in Melbourne about organ harvesting of practitioners.  This is the very core of the argument about recoupling human rights to trade.  Clinton was the one who decoupled human rights.   This link refers to Hiliary Clinton favouring economics over human rights when it serves US interests refer https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4735087/Hillary-Clinton-Chinese-human-rights-secondary-to-economic-survival.html

The issue of Guantanamo Bay, 911, the Middle East wars, rendition and its own human rights violations inclusive of leaving the UN Human Rights Council are largely ignored internationally.  One rule for one another rule for others. It is all about the money but the argument will frame it as benefiting the people.

The core issue is the economic war that seeks to use issues to weaken the competitor. This is where the nation state serves economic interests and is not representing the people. Refer https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/sanctions-over-china-human-rights-may-strengthen-us-position-in-trade-talks.html

Therefore, where do executives and high profiled people draw the line or is there no line?  If the focus is strongly on career, profits, political and business interests at the expense of the public interest then where do we end up?  We are walking in the shadow of the United States and the ideological economic rationalism of privatisation of public assets. This utilises government taxation to take on the risk in projects to enable the private sector to lower risk and project high profits and in some cases the public asset is transferred to them.  This dominates the discussion as equity financing replaces government taxation attracting high interest rates (exponential) and demands profits through users pay e.g. toll ways. The original purpose of government provision of public services quietly transforms into private provision of government services in million and billion dollar public/private partnership deals.

The contraction of global markets with a mentality of cut and move on (acquisitions, arbitrage, futures markets, speculation in profit maximisation) diminishes the public purse which typically had longer horizons with cross subsidisation built into government funding planning to ensure egalitarianism as advancing Australia Fair and public order.

Ultimately under the new rules of private engagement the public pay more (in taxation, GST, direct fees, fines, taxes) out of ever more diminishing incomes.  The multiple propensity to consume (MPC) shrinks which impacts economic growth but is hidden by activity from both foreign and domestic companies.  The chairs rearrange.

This most favoured status given to the megolithic multi-nationals (changing names, subsidiaries, rebranding) gives the impression of wealth but the reality is equity finance is expensive, the risk is carried by the firm and attracts high costs and interest rates. It deepens indebtedness which is the lever that can be used to influence domestic policy that would have funded social programs. This is the opportunity cost in favour of business. Thus the left/right propaganda is used to weaken calls for public expenditure as unrealistic and economically unviable. This is how the middle class becomes pauparised as the extremes start to polarise between those with extreme wealth and those living in extreme poverty.  This is how policy creates social unrest and blames the public through repressive techniques.  The shape changer of democracy takes on a totalitarian profile with increasing calls for surveillance, funding a security apparatus with intrusive technologies (purchased from these IT companies) removing human rights and privacy to ensure control rather than squarely facing the reality of an economic mismanagement and greed as the driver of market concentration and serving of specific foreign interests.  Egalitarianism and social democracy transforms into a compliance framework that favours the few over the rights of the many and is ultimately de-stabilising globally as we are all connected.  The public believes the propaganda that budgets are balanced when the debt is off the balance sheet as the risk was transferred.

So powerful companies like Huawei and Google for example, both titans in the IT industry have disproportionate concentration of power and hence, political influence and penetration into markets to serve interests and agendas that may provide token jobs (benefits) but ultimately are the old paradigm of profit maximisation. The profits move off shore and we see the economic cake unravel to be replaced by AI and automation.  At the same time ‘greed’ as dis-ease is not in balance with ecological limits (silent spring) takes more than it needs and is non responsive to natural rhythms that rebalance planetary systems. This is why the titanic is sinking and the planet is groaning under the strain of humans who have no real connection to themselves, each other or the natural sytems.  The nature of ‘greed’ is to follow selfish interests not respond to expanded best interest that includes resources (natural bounty).  This disconnect renders many of the capitalist/communist (whatever) business interests blind to the dangerous situation they have set up.  Some may smile and decide to fly to the moon or mars, but ultimately karma follows as the real problem was never solved at its inception. The real insecurity, fear and greed fuelling imbalance. When this is investigated inequality disappears, natural imbalances recalibrate and we begin to see ourselves in each other. This is the shift in consciousness I refer to in my video.  I felt the video permeate this blog as I feel inspired to integrate it into an example given by the article.

So a few questions for society to consider:

  • Is it in the national interest for political or influential figures to join with foreign multinational companies and share their knowledge, resources and networks?
  • Given the US trade war any persons or entities involved in Huawei becomes a ‘threat’ as US penetration in Australia evokes its influence in networks, government, policy, security and regulatory environments.  Is this in the Australian public interest?

Thus the wicked webs we weave that continues on a trajectory spiralling to the bottom until we awaken.  Only the truth sets us free.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/brumby-quits-huawei-board-days-after-us-criminal-charges-outlined-20190201-p50v10.html

Brumby quits Huawei board days after US criminal charges outlined

Former Victorian premier John Brumby has resigned from the board of Huawei’s Australian operations in a damaging blow to the Chinese technology giant just days after the US government outlined a criminal case against it.

Mr Brumby’s decision to quit comes two days after The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald revealed that Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive at the centre of the alleged global criminal conspiracy, established and oversaw the company’s activities in Australia between 2005 and 2011.

Former Victorian premier John Brumby.
Former Victorian premier John Brumby.CREDIT:PAUL JEFFERS

The former Labor politician’s future at Huawei Technologies (Australia) has been under a cloud since June, after he announced he was reviewing all his directorships upon assuming the role of Chancellor of Melbourne’s La Trobe University.

This week’s release of an indictment against Huawei and key executives by the US Justice Department has increased interest in Mr Brumby’s position on the company’s board.

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Mr Brumby said on Friday that the timing of his resignation, which will be effective from next month, was unrelated to the scandal enveloping the company.

He said he had informed the board a year ago of his intention to resign and was proud of the firm’s local growth.

‘‘We have had some challenging times … Huawei Australia has continued to go from strength to strength.’’

Ms Wanzhou is alleged by the US to have been a key player in a conspiracy to defraud international banks and US officials about the company’s Iran operations. The criminal case against Huawei also involves allegations it stole trade secrets from rival T-Mobile.

Though there is no suggestion that Ms Wanzhou was engaged in any criminal activity in Australia, the US Department of Justice case against her and the company includes the period of time she was overseeing Huawei’s corporate governance and strategy in Australia.

The December arrest of Ms Wanzhou in Canada at the request of the US government triggered a strong response from Beijing, with two Canadian citizens and Chinese-born Australian writer Yang Hengjun detained in China.

Mr Brumby will become Chancellor of La Trobe University in March.
Mr Brumby will become Chancellor of La Trobe University in March.

Ms Wanzhou is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer in the Chinese military.

Mr Brumby joined the Huawei board in Australia in 2011 shortly before the departure of Ms Wanzhou. Former foreign minister Alexander Downer and former Navy rear-admiral John Lord were also appointed to the Huawei board in an effort by the company to build political and defence credibility.

The high-profile Australian trio have been outspoken in defending Huawei against criticism from Australia and the US, whose respective intelligence agencies fear the company could be vulnerable to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party to spy on or sabotage data and phone networks.

Mr Brumby, Mr Lord and, until his 2014 appointment as Australia’s high commissioner to the UK, Mr Downer, have all previously pointed out that there has been no hard evidence produced anywhere to show Huawei was involved in espionage activities on behalf of the Chinese government.

The company has made a priority of ensuring its Australian directors have been looked after well at home and abroad. It is understood some Australian-based directors have been paid as much as $250,000 a year, though Huawei has declined to confirm this.

Despite its high-powered Australian board, Huawei has been prevented by successive Australian governments from participating in the NBN rollout and the 5G mobile network, with security agencies warning against the involvement of the Chinese firm.

Australia’s hard line position on Huawei has emboldened other western allies to restrict the Chinese company’s involvement in sensitive infrastructure.

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In a statement released in the wake of the US charges, Huawei said it was disappointed to learn of the charges and believed the US courts would find no evidence Ms Meng or the company breached US laws.