Home of the free and brave?

remember the song “i want to be in america; everything free in america.........”

For most people living in the USA, this is their life today:

American government bureaucrats now have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, shoot, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation.

Forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans are being forced to accept that they have no control over their bodies, their lives and property, especially when it comes to interactions with the government.

Worse, on a daily basis, Americans are being made to relinquish the most intimate details - biological makeup, genetic blueprints, and biometrics (facial characteristics and structure, fingerprints, iris scans, etc.)—in order to clear the nearly insurmountable hurdle that increasingly defines life in the united states: you are now guilty until proven innocent

Australia, as usual, is following these nazi-type trends with the latest abuse being government control of finances with the cashless welfare card.

Are we really free? Do we live in real democracies? What do you think about this?

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seems the ABC has been reading our forum.....

"studies are showing that Americans are fearful of so much.  And who is to blame them as the media, politicians, big pharmacy and insurance companies exasperate this fear to their advantage."

from today's radio program 'saturday extra'......

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/home-of-the-fearful/8946336

 

 

And it costs our taxpayers 1.5  billion a year for this crap whilst our pensioners live in poverty . 

The inner city elite that are the ABC know nothing of the real world ,

ABC is BIG in rural areas. Where do you get the idea "the inner city elite are the ABC" Brocky? Sounds like nonsense you have made up to suit yourself.

 

Robi,

Inclined to agree having lived country most of my life ABC is the go to place for radio and TV.

I keep telling Brocky that Centennial Park is not the bush and if you see more than six trees in a row you are not necessarily a pioneer.

SD

:). 

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Not true SD The ABC is the least popular Station  no matter if Bush or City .. The most popular ABC show in both city and Bush was the British serires Doc Martin . 

I would like to loose the brock head in the bush.

I beg your pardon Micha are you threatening me again ,.

ABS Warns Yes Votes Don’t Count Unless They’re Instagramed With Caption And Emojis

 

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Sending off your same-sex marriage survey response without instagraming yourself filling it in, or placing the envelope into the post box may render the vote ineligible, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has confirmed

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As Australia takes part in a voluntary postal survey on the issue of same-sex marriage. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) who are hosting the survey alongside the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), say they are concerned some Australians are not getting fully involved in the democratic process

 

While, the ABS says some people will be entitled to a paperless option in the survey. Particularly, people who are going overseas, people with disability and people who live in remote communities and Indigenous town camps.

 

However, for the inner-city post codes, the Bureau of Statistics say that postal survey responses will be accepted but must be accompanied with an Instagram post or story, just to identify the fact that they are being sent of by the most important demographic in the country and therefore twice as important as regular votes

“What we need our inner-city, university-educated youth to do is let us know they are voting via both the post and social media” says Minister for Small Business Michael McCormack.

 

“Preferably with the caption ‘yaasss’ or ‘so much yes!’ – that way it’s easier for us to know how important your vote is”

 

Inner-City Leftie Curls Up In Front Of ABC To Finally Find Out What This Whole Ice Thing Is

 

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Inner-city leftie, Francis Grace (51) has topped up his glass of Penfolds Barossa Shiraz and curled up on the couch just in time for his beloved ABC Monday night line-up. 4Corners, Q&A and Lateline.

“I used to watch Australian Story religiously as well, but I just can’t bare the amount of mouth-breathing sportsmen they feel the need to give oxygen to” he says.

“But tonight, I feel like I should tune in. Apparently its about this Ice thing I keep hearing about”

After a twenty-year career as a landscape architecture draftsman specialising in beachfront parklands, Francis says he has a keen interest in both local, federal and international politics.

He says it’s good for all self-identifying progressives to keep a close eye on the issues that affect both sides of politics – however, he admits he hasn’t been paying attention recently.

 

“I’ve just been so caught up in this whole post-Trump world, I feel as though I feel I haven’t been looking at my own backyard…”

 

While claiming that he is ‘quite well read’ on the complexities of this current Syrian Civil War, Standing Rock Pipeline fiasco, and Australian housing crisis… Francis admits that he has little to no understanding of the crystal meth plague currently taking over Australian regional areas.

 

After watching tonight’s Breaking Good episode on Australian Story, Francis says he can’t believe how badly the spread of this drug has been managed in ‘these flyover towns’.

 

“I thought Ice was initially one of those things that people in the bush wanted to complain about just to create a fuss. Like drought and farming tariffs. But apparently ice is quite popular”

 

“I wouldn’t say it’s as much of a ‘plague’ as cocaine was when I first moved to Paddington in the 80’s [laughter]”

 

“But yeah, apparently it’s really bad… It makes you wonder…”

 

“…I guess the National Party aren’t the great white hope for those rednecks after all. If they can’t even keep Ice out of a couple two horse brothel towns, what can 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Soph Tells Showboating Blake To Pull His Fucken Head In And Stop Being A Halfwit The blokes were in testosterone hyperdrive as they peacocked and weaseled themselves towards alpha status, by both undermining each other and also intimidating Sophie with their unwarranted egos and lack of interpersonal skills.

 

Sophie also shared her first tongue kiss with a reasonably normal introvert named Jarrod who must be allergic to hystamine, judging by his Barnaby-Joyce-esque red tint throughout the drinking scenes.

 

Tassie Protestor Says Abbott Was Lucky He Didn’t Get Him With His Other Head As Well Clancy Overell

 

 

Melbourne had moved into the “infrastructure is evil” phase: freeways, dams, new power stations, all these things became things to be condemned and opposed. The evil of “urban sprawl” was to be fought by wise regulators while the semi-autonomous bodies which had operated on the basis of providing infrastructure to service expected needs were neutered or folded into departments much more subject to political pressures. Dusty paddocks on the outskirts of Sydney and Melbourne, which are every bit as much creations of human action as any suburb (and usually have less biodiversity) became romanticised as noble manifestations of nature to be preserved from “suburban blight”.

 

The new pattern of “progressive” politics was established. No dams, no freeways, no power stations, restriction of urban expansion, but any opposition to migration was “racist”. Clearly, this was a policy mix of massive incoherence. Insist on increasing the population by migration (the Commonwealth Treasury predicts that Sydney and Melbourne will each have 7 million residents by 2050)[i] but starve or block the provision of infrastructure or housing land to match the increase in population—Victoria’s population increased by 30 per cent in a period when no significant new dam was built.

 

 

When faced with such policy incoherence, Lenin’s question of “Who whom?” has to be asked: who benefited from this nonsense policy mix? 

 

The answer is the inner city. Under conditions of expanding population, blocking urban expansion drove up housing prices. Starving the suburbs of infrastructure made the inner city even more relatively desirable

. High migration increased the scarcity value of the human capital of the more highly educated: particularly those whose intellectual capital was largely “cultural capital” (the humanities, arts, literature, social sciences) which migrants would generally not be competitive in. (Especially if one opposed selecting migrants according to their cultural similarity.)

 

It is obvious from maps of Sydney and Melbourne graded by vulnerability to mortgage and fuel costs, that the inner city and outer suburbs have profoundly different interests and sensibilities.[

 

ii] The outer suburbs are very sensitive to increases in interest rates, transport or utility costs. The inner city has far more income, including far more discretionary income, and far less sensitivity to such costs. Indeed, a map of such sensitivities is also a map of propensity to vote Green: the less sensitivity to mortgage and transport costs, the higher the Green vote. So a “carbon price”, for example, looks very different to the two different social worlds. Planning processes dominated by the social and other networks, and framings, of the inner city are not going to reflect the interests of the outer suburbs: indeed, it is clear that planning processes have increasingly tended to work against the interests of the outer suburbs precisely because of such processes domination by inner-city interests and sensibilities.

 

There was little interest from the ABC in seeing the Cronulla riots as other than a shameful episode of white racism

. Just as there is little interest in probing problems within the Muslim community as other than manifestations of white racism. A discourse of superiority is also a discourse of (someone else’s) inferiority, and the “racist, homophobic, misogynist, xenophobic, Islamophobic” Anglo-Celtic masses of the southern and western suburbs of Sydney provide a lot of people to feel culturally, intellectually and morally superior to.

 

The Sydney Morning Herald has been, generally speaking, less humourlessly and rigidly progressivist than the Age (with the interesting exception of coverage of indigenous issues). 

But the SMH matters more in Sydney than the Age does in Melbourne, since the SMH has a larger proportion of the newspaper market.

 

Between the oh-so-superior progressivism of the ABC and the SMH, and the resentments of the Daily Telegraph and talkback “shock jocks”, Sydney’s media expresses and inflames its social divisions, rather than bridging them. 

By contrast Melbourne’s dominant media are radio 3AW and the Herald Sun (now more read by younger university graduates than theAge). They walk a more delicate line between genuinely balancing dissent and social cohesion. (ABC watchers and Age readers may be outraged at the suggestion, but the Herald Sun is a fairly moderate paper, expressing a considerable range of views.)

 

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2011/03/part-2-why-our-major-cities-are-in-decay/

 

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you've totally lost the topic of this thread brocky - as usual.

are you OK?

You introduced the ABC and its elists views ...

Hi Kika,

Charles Bradley, 'screaming eagle of soul', dies aged 68

Charles Bradley, known as the ‘screaming eagle of soul’ for a powerful, raspy style that evoked his musical hero James Brown, has died aged 68 from stomach cancer. Daptone record label co-founder Gabriel Roth, who discovered Bradley, said in a statement: “The world lost a ton of heart today. Charles was somehow one of the meekest and strongest people I've ever known. His pain was a cry for universal love and humanity.”

I had never heard of Charles Bradley, but after listening to this song, I was reminded of your header ‘Home of the free and brave’.

Why Is It So Hard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBdTVmSVq14&list=RDyBdTVmSVq14&t=118

RIP Charles Bradley.

Full ABC story.

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