there is *no* Iranian nuclear bomb nor is there an Iranian A-bomb program is this man a con-man, a crook or outright crazy?

.. 7bio people ...

  .. 314mio in US = 4.5% ...

    .. 11mio US/Z Jews = 0.16%

-=*=-

The "Samson Option" involves Israel threatening the entire world with nuclear destruction:

  «Originally a strategy of last resort retaliation - even if it means Israel’s annihilation - it has developed into being a nuclear bullying strategy to further Israel’s territorial goals through threats and blackmail. Israel has bullied not only Arab and Muslim nations, but the United States and Russia with its Samson Option threats. Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Israel uses for purposes of blackmail its ability to "bombard any city all over the world, and not only those in Europe but also those in the United States."» 
[wikispooks/Samson_Option]

Comment:

There is *no* Iranian nuclear bomb,
nor is there an Iranian A-bomb program;
but there are more than enough Israeli bombs
to inflict a nuclear holocaust anywhere on the planet.

Israel is an illegitimate entity, squatting on stolen land.

It is a current, un-remedied crime scene.

From my "problem: Muslims" article:

Read all about it!
Zionists steal almost an entire country!
  «Following Herzl's Zionism (1897, coveting Palestine = motive), Jabotinsky's "Iron Wall" (1923, modus operandi, pre-meditation), Golda Meir's $50mio raised in the US for arms (means) and the Holocaust (= opportunity, but note that the Jewish population in pre-WW2 Germany was estimated between 3-500,000; getting to ~6mio would have taken serious, concerted effort - IF, indeed, that figure is anywhere near accurate). Mostly immigrant Zionists (= people *not* from there = aliens; Jews in Palestine = 0.47% in 1890, 1.05% in 1930, 2.79% in 1940, now ~75%) - Zionists viciously attacked the ELO/Os and ethnically-cleansed most of Palestine by genocidal methods (Plan Dalet, Deir Yassin massacre and all such before, during & since - all the way down to 'the current moment.') The Zionists are still there, illegally squatting on stolen land/property in the illegitimate-entity Israel. No effective attempt has ever been made to bring these aggressive Zionist invaders = vile criminals to justice.» 
[a story not found in the MSM+PFBCs]

Comment: Altogether, 'means, motive, and opportunity' + modus operandi and the oh, so obvious cui bono, add up to a vicious, mass-murdering-to-steal crime of the Nuremberg-class - and what's worse, a crime against humanity *still in progress*.

-=*=-

Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

the Enlightenment well summarised by liberté, égalité, fraternité

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

saving the planet is *much* easier than you think

.. dump all erring ideologies ...

  .. get totally sustainable ...

    .. put the crims into gaol

Thesis/Subtitle: a fair exchange is no robbery

Concomitant: life is about people, not $s

Corollary: the commons belong to all

-=*=-
 
 [update, 26Sep'12]

-=*=-

Preamble: That we are being lied to, should not be in dispute. That lies are deployed to deceive is the warning: Watch out! That wars are not just wickedly destructive is also not in doubt, but that the US/Z wars are murdering for spoil (soil, oil) = criminal - and are totally unnecessary, to boot (nett human happiness is *not* being improved = massive understatement) - so the US/Zs wars must be stopped. The 'new' economies (neoliberalism = erring ideology) are crashing and burning; complete roll-back of erring ideologies is *required*. Speaking of 'crashing and burning,' so is our climate. Remedial action required for all of above, soonest.

-=*=-

Trigger article 1:

RBA warns Australia exposed to Asia vulnerabilities
By business editor Peter Ryan
Updated September 25, 2012 13:20:10
  «The review also notes the pressures on wholesale fund markets have eased and that banks have restored good market access to international markets over the past six months.» 
[AusBC/RBA]

Comment: Banking on the wrong track (BND, Ellen Brown).

Added; Q: What's wrong with banking? A: See PS.

Trigger article 2:

IMF chief urges Europe, US to boost growth
Posted September 25, 2012 08:19:46
  «The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has called for urgent action from Europe and the United States to turn around a slowing global economy.
"My main message today is the urgent need to implement the policy actions required to secure the global recovery," Ms Lagarde said in a speech at a Washington think tank.» 
[AusBC/IMF]

Comment 1: The IMF is part of the problem ("Economic Hit Man").

Comment 2: Eternal growth on a finite planet is impossible.

Comment 3: Worse, the IMF itself is involved with the EU in forcing austerity and 'structural change' (code for neoliberalism, including privatisations = theft), exactly the opposite (according to Keynes) of what is needed to stimulate 'normal' economies = encourage employment.

Comment 4: Deliberately caused unemployment is 'exploding,' and see Fordism below. Also see the US; the 'economic policies' since Thatcher, Reagan et al. have finally 'hit the wall;' neoliberalist economies and their victims are going broke = proof of erring ideology.

Trigger article 3:

Senate to begin power price inquiry
Posted September 25, 2012 06:09:12
  «Consumer group Choice says recent electricity price rises have been to a significant extent avoidable and unjustified.
It says the Australian Energy Regulator should be given greater powers to scrutinise the amount of money electricity providers spend on infrastructure.
But the Energy Supply Association of Australia says providers need to replace old generators, poles and wires.» 
[AusBC/power]

Comment 1: Just the one word: Privatisation.

Comment 2: In two words: Market idiocy.

Comment 3: In three words: Natural, egalitarian monopolies.

Comment 4: The 'erring ideology' (neoliberalism, 'economic rationalism') has it that govt. can't deliver, so private enterprise is to be preferred (= forced), and competition is to be encouraged (or artificially conjured from a monopoly), gratuitously adding 'for profit,' since that's what drives (greedy) capitalists. But 'capitalist heaven' is a monopoly (duopoly, cartels). Privatised electricity is front-loaded with shareholders and/or debt, both to be paid from newly extracted 'cost-overhead' = profits; organise anything 'for profit' and that's exactly what will be preferentially extracted, even before acceptable service delivery (now, think medicine for profit, and for proof of failure, examine the US 'health' system and outcomes).

Comment 5: Note the article picture; another 'benefit' of privatisation is the change from 'preventative maintenance' to 'only fix what breaks,' *guaranteeing* power-outages, sometimes even in the feeblest of 'weather events.'

Trigger article 4:

5,000 police sent to quell mass Foxconn brawl
 Updated September 25, 2012 06:48:18
  «Drawing attention as a supplier and assembler for Apple products, the company has faced accusations of poor conditions and mistreatment of workers at its operations in China, where it employs about 1 million workers.» 
[AusBC/off-shoring]

Comment 1: Apple is the richest company in the world (About 22,600,000 results); IF it pays (as much as; grave doubts) $200 for 'imported components' (= off-shoring) AND sells the item (iPhone 5) for $US600 THEN Apple's US-markup = 200%. One may see how Apple 'works,' and just how happy its 'sub-contractors' may be.

Comment 2: Note that both *by definition and as designed*, out-sourcing/off-shoring/wage-arbitration reduces workers' incomes. Recall "Fordism." In a nutshell, IF the workers don't get adequately paid jobs THEN they can't partake in consumerism = buy the goods to keep the economy churning - not to mention starving, or dying early due to unaffordable health-care.

Trigger article 5:

Abbott unveils plan to boost defence spending
 By chief political correspondent Simon Cullen
 Updated September 25, 2012 12:33:37
  «"Any savings that the Coalition can find in the defence bureaucracy will be reinvested in greater military capacity," Mr Abbott said.
"Our aspiration, as the Commonwealth's budgetary position improves, would be to restore the 3 per cent real growth in defence spending that marked the final seven years of the Howard government."
A long-running concern among ex-servicemen and women is the use of inflation figures as the basis of indexation for military pensions.» 
[AusBC/non-representative]

Comment 1: Continuous "real growth" (here military spending) on a finite planet is impossible.

Comment 2: Abbott implies some "real growth" in threat to be countered: Totally risible, since simply not credible. Abbott puts himself forward as a possible PM - be careful what you wish for.

Comment 3: The rest is 'neoliberal standard;' cost-cutting by reducing govt. function, penny-pinching on 'entitlements' = cynical-coding for *required* social services.

Comment 4: The absolute worst, is that peace is not even envisaged.

Trigger article 6:

Insider attacks at forefront of troop training
 Penny Timms
 Updated September 25, 2012 09:50:57
  «He says there has been a focus on cross-cultural learning to limit the threat of so-called green-on-blue attacks.
"We also need to make sure we have forced [sic - force?] protection measures in place at every interaction that we have just in case there is something in the situation that goes beyond the cultural clash," he said.» 
[AusBC/war-crimes]

Comment: Imagine; Aus-armed forces are sent to Afghanistan to kill natives and destroy their infrastructure (that's all bombs and bullets do); but as well as that, they have to be taught 'cultural sensitivity' then watch their native-companions like hawks in order that the Afghan-quislings they recruit as 'local help' don't turn on them. Recall Mme Clinton "How could this happen in a country we helped liberate?"

-=*=-

Summation: Things are crook, pretty-much everywhere - then there's the accelerating Arctic and glacier melting.

  Ooops! (Shit, fan.)

-=*=-

Argument; simple, but not simplistic suggestions:

1a. Stop all wars. Return all 'expeditionary' forces back to behind their own borders. Note that this would require the invading Zionists (and their heirs and successors) to vacate Palestine, and the hapless ELO/Os to get full reparations = improperly alienated land/property to revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not plus a *sincere* apology by the Nuremberg-class war-criming, illegal occupiers on their way out.

1b. Establish 'truth, justice and reconciliation' commissions to properly prosecute the real war criminals, starting with Zs, the US and their cowardly SQSHsO = regime-leaders.

2. Dump the erring ideologies. There is enough information, and presumably enough talent (proven Keynes theory, even some of Marx plus other people-friendly, proven-to-work methods; Hudson, Brown and lots more 'in hiding' or, more likely, deliberately side-lined). Just stop the wickedly corrupt purchasing of academia/sell-out of academics, and put them to honest and productive work.

3. De-privatise 'the commons' = all natural monopolies = required services like water, sewage, electricity, roads & railways.

4. Properly regulate banking = control the banksters (prosecuting any crooks), especially including de-privatising the entire money-creation part, and separating the gamblers from the trading banks.

5. Sufficient employment can be created by constructing infrastructure, primarily and as absolute 1st priority building a 100% sustainable power generation system (solar, wind etc.) = stop *all* burning of fossil carbon for power = get CO2 concentration falling.

6. Stop the MSM+PFBCs telling us lies. The lies create a cloud of deceit = pushed propaganda paradigm, enabling the baddies to disguise their crimes (they can only hide so much; one can see through the subterfuges with eyes properly open), and by the lies so dumbing-down the citizens, that the citizens either don't notice, or stop caring about the crimes being propagated in particular, and our precarious situation in general.

-=*=-

Fazit: It's really not too hard; either we curb all the rotten 'vested interests' (M/I/C/$4a†-plex + I/J/Z-plex), restore social-justice and reverse climate-change - or our once jewel-like, acceptable life-supporting biosphere/ecology goes over the XS-CO2-CCC cliff.

-=*end*=-

^ Update, 26Sep'12; PS - short note on banking.

It used to be that money (both as a store of value and medium of exchange) was 'real,' typically bits of metal = gold or silver or some-such = money had some *intrinsic* value of its own. Whatever. But then we 'moved on' to paper money, still 'backed' by some amount of bullion etc. After The Nixon Shock of 1971, unilaterally cancelling the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold, the $US (and effectively the world) moved to fiat = 'printed' currency. It means that the money itself is completely worthless, the only value deriving from trust in the system = what people agree that a mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound - is worth. Money is now conjured 'out of thin air' as bookkeeping entries, typically by a single computer-keystroke (after a few preliminary ones).

'Fractional reserve banking' is a leftover from the paper/bullion era, whereby fiat money is imagined to have two 'sorts' = 'special' and 'normal,' and trading banks (essentially private) are required to maintain a certain amount of special money on deposit in a central = reserve bank, and may lend out (at interest) some multiple (= inverse of the fraction, typically say 1/10) to people, businesses, whatever. It's a trick and always was, and it works like this:

A trading bank 'accumulates' a certain amount of 'special' money (formerly 'real' money = bullion, say, now possibly govt. bonds) - and deposits this in the reserve bank. The trading bank then *creates* 10 times this amount of money (via a single computer-keystroke, simultaneously creating an asset and a liability, so that the books balance.) The trading bank may then lend this money out - at interest. This means that effectively all the money 'out there' in circulation (excepting possibly actual cash as banknotes, literally printed at almost no cost by the govt.) - all the money 'out there' has been borrowed by somebody, and that somebody is paying interest on it.

This interest is a cost, usually to business, and a) will be passed on to the customer of such businesses, and b) the interest becomes income to the trading bank - *which did absolutely SFA* = zero effort to 'earn' it.

It means that this interest is a tax = continuous drain on society, extracted from customers = at the end of the line us, we the people, and 'given' to the trading banks, *for free*. Nice racket - supported by our govt.s.

An alternative system, referred to above as "BND, Ellen Brown" - as an example, is for the money-creation function to be moved entirely into the *state-owned* reserve bank, and the interest paid becomes income *to the people* - via the state.

A required accompanying 'reform' would be to mandate that the govt. then handle the income responsibly, *not* currently guaranteed under most so-called 'democratic' govt.s these days.

Another flaw in the current 'trading bank money creation swindle' is that no money is created to cover the interest = % - which may explain the impossible demand for permanent growth. BUT: Under the above 'all % to the people' plan, the state gets the % then spends it back into the economy, providing required public services - so everything balances, and as another 'bonus,' the amount of money created can be 'controlled' such that inflation can be set to zero.

So why don't all govt.s copy the outstanding BND example?

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PPS Since *all* money (a mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound) is now fiat, it makes *no* sense whatsoever, to borrow money from overseas = FDI (foreign direct investment) - so why allow it? Just like the 'trading bank money creation swindle,' one result of FDI is that profits flow back = overseas, and that money is permanently lost to the country = another continuous drain on society. Why do our so-called 'representatives' not only tolerate FDI but also actively encourage it? Sounds more like the acts of traitors.

PPPS Great minds think along similar lines!

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Ref(s):

[1] lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. -v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.  give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English] [POD]

[2] deceive  v. (-ving) 1 make (a person) believe what is false; purposely mislead. 2 be unfaithful to, esp. sexually. 3 use deceit.  deceive oneself persist in a mistaken belief.  deceiver n. [ibid.]

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Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

the Enlightenment well summarised by liberté, égalité, fraternité

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

errors nuclear @ AusBC

.. one lie ...

  .. zero credibility ...

    .. commission, omission or error

Thesis/Subtitle: the AusBC is *supposedly* professional

Concomitant: and is tax-payer publicly financed

Corollary: it has responsibilities to us

-=*=-
 
 [update, 19Sep'12]

Trigger article:

Iran claims sabotage at nuclear plants
 By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown, wires
Updated September 18, 2012 08:42:57
  «The plants use centrifuges to enrich uranium to a higher concentration that be used in nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons.
Fordo worries the West most as it produces uranium of 20 per cent fissile purity, more than needed for power plants and only a short technical step from the 90 per cent needed for a warhead.» 
[where/who]

Comment; Q: How many errors?

A1: "that be used" - is what 1st caught my eye.

A2: "higher concentration ... nuclear power plants or nuclear weapons" - is an outright error (or lie, depending on skill-level of reporting - but see "supposedly professional"), referred to again below.

A3: "Fordo" - is an alternative spelling for "Fordow" - not necessarily an error, but a valuable clue, referred to again below.

A4: "Fordo worries the West most" - is 'questionable' on at least two grounds; a) just who exactly is 'the West,' and b) what business is it of theirs, or anyone else? Iran is an NPT-signatory, and has the IAEA permanently, intrusively and possibly illegally on its back. Iran can't even "Ahem" lest the IAEA says "G*d-bless!"

A5: "20 per cent ... more than needed for power plants" - is simply an outright lie, since we all know why 20% - because it's *needed* for an existing Iranian reactor, used to produce medicinal isotopes, and its fuel is running low. Iran requested outside refuelling assistance - but was blocked by the US - Iran was *forced* to 20%.

A6: "a short technical step from the 90 per cent needed for a warhead" - is perhaps technically correct - but a) that's what the intrusive IAEA has fully in its inspection remit, and b) the entire US-intelligence structure assures us that Iran is *not* known (by their own 'best' covert/intrusive 'investigations') to be proceeding in any way towards an A-bomb. Recall again "supposedly professional" reporting, paid for by our, we the people's $s - and our democratic *right* to have honest information delivered.

A7: Finally, the change from "plans" to "plants" (more below) is *proof* that AusBC fingers were busy = proof-reading at least; *all* content is presumed to be 'AusBC-approved' and so they can be held responsible for each keystroke = all content. This is, of course, the 'normal case,' but busy fingers removes any possible "Der, I didn't think" excuse.

-=*=-

I went searching for a possible original-article, 1st I found only 9 candidates including the AusBC one, but then found a 2nd 'error' ("plans" instead of "plants") which extended the candidate-field to ~70. I ended up reading 9 articles altogether; some from both 'batches.' Using the 'time-stamps' at time of my searches, two stood out as being the 'oldest:'

1. 15 hours ago:

First Published: 09.17.12, 17:23
Iran atomic chief says 'explosives' cut power at Fordo
Dudi Cohen, Reuters Latest Update: 09.18.12, 00:23 / Israel News
  «The plants use centrifuges to "enrich" uranium to a higher concentration of the fissile material that be used in nuclear power plans or nuclear weapons.
Fordo worries the West most as it produces uranium of 20% fissile purity, more than needed for power plants and only a short technical step from the 90% needed for a warhead.» 
[ynetnews/Israel]

Comment 1; note: "Fordo."

Comment 2; note: "nuclear power plans." The AusBC editing spotted this (the above 2nd error) and (correctly) changed it to "nuclear power plants" - although the construct, as I pointed out above, is *factually* in error.

2. 18 hours ago:

Iran says saboteurs cut power to nuclear plant
September 17, 2012 10:21 PM
By Fredrik Dahl
  «The plants use centrifuges to "enrich" uranium to a higher concentration of the fissile material that be used in nuclear power plans or nuclear weapons.
Fordow worries the West most as it produces uranium of 20 percent fissile purity, more than needed for power plants and only a short technical step from the 90 percent needed for a warhead.» 
[dailystar/Lebanon]

Comment 1; note: "Fordow."

Comment 2: The AusBC uses the Ynet spelling; I'd say 'Long odds-on' that that's where Matt Brown got his copy, *especially* since his predecessor in the job = Anne Barker used to live in Israel, so I suppose Brown now does too. (Oh, *great*; AusBC gets their ME-news from the illegitimate Zionist-nest.)

Comment 3: A bit circumstantial perhaps, but AusBC prefers "per cent" (About 1,030,000 results) to "percent" (About 57,800 results) but clearly does not forbid the latter.

Comment 4: I did more work which produced more results, but the above should suffice (and IF not THEN perhaps you could try doing some research on your own?)

Added: Both 'copy candidates' originated in the ME = same time-zone; it is not clear which came 1st. Since we don't 'do' coincidences, AND preferring the publication timestamps, PLUS the fact that the article is full of (filthily lying) hasbarah, THEN I could guess that the Z-article is the source. If the shoe fits... On the other hand, preferring google's timestamps AND knowing that Israel (~75% Jews) is in the lying & theft (by murdering) business, perhaps Cohen 'lifted' Dahl's work? It's a real problem; once one perceives that the MSM+PFBCs lie to us, *we* have to do more work, calculating who we may *trust*. Trying a google-survey, I get 6 results for Cohen and 140 for Dahl (searching for the "that be used" error); both amazing and conclusive.
End added (but also see PPS).

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Argument: Why does any of this matter?

A1: The illegitimate Zionist-entity Israel, more correctly the rogue-regime thereof, is driving this *persecution of Iran*. Israel squats on land/property stolen from hapless, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os; as often illegal immigrants, the Zionist, mainly people-not-from-there = by definition alien invaders, took control by murdering theft = ethnically-cleansed the area by genocidal methods (Plan Dalet, Deir Yassin massacre, all similar before, during and since, right down to the 'current moment.') They followed Jabotinsky; "the Palestinians would not agree to a Jewish majority in Israel" and "only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state."

A2: Just in case you hadn't noticed, (A1) implies *permanent* war, at least as long as any Palestinians exist, wanting their land/property back. (Apparent Z-solution = kill 'em all; better would be: Revest &/ acceptable reparations + in all cases a sincere 'Sorry!')

A3: To the the point of 'permanent war,' Israel threatens their neighbours with 'assault with deadly weapons' = ~2-300 A&/H-bombs (but not 'merely' their neighbours; see the Samson Option).

A4: IF Iran got the bomb THEN the Z-threat would be 'balanced,' and after the MAD principle, ME-peace would break out. Of course, the Zs don't want that.

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Fazit: Whatever the source, AusBC transmits, often *actively assists* pro-US, and here particularly, pro-Z propaganda. This is *not* the function of any PFBC, and since I'm an Aussie-taxpayer, not what the AusBC has *my* permission to do. In addition, also here particularly, since the illegitimate Zionist-regime is not 'merely' illegitimate but has carried out Nuremberg-class crimes against humanity (still not prosecuted = crime-scene unremedied), the AusBC makes itself accessory to *grave* crimes.

-=*end*=-

PS It should be pointed out (for any slow ones), that Iran is *fully* within its rights to enrich uranium. No ifs, ands or buts. Further, just like the laws for the rest of us, it is an offence to *threaten* assault, but the US ("All options!") and Israel threaten Iran continually. Sanctions and stuxnet etc. are also *actual* assaults, ditto illegal. The US&Z-regimes get away with it for at least two reasons (neither 'valid'), namely the SQSHsO are too cowardly to stand up for justice, and b) the people are ppp-dd'd - by the corrupt&venal MSM+PFBCs = this blog-item topic. Grrr!

-=*=-

^ Update, 19Sep'12; PPS

AusBC (as one media-rogue among many) pushes the crooked 'West fears Iran nuclear weapon' meme unmercifully (About 6,740,000 results; scarcely credible - but who can you trust?) Current 1st result = "Iran, Israel and the west: some home truths" by Michael Brull. In addition, you could try this:

U.S. Would Join Israeli Strike On Iran: American Officials
August 14, 2012
richard rozoff
Xinhua News Agency
August 14, 2012
  «JERUSALEM: The United States would support Israel in the event that the latter decides to independently attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Ma’ariv daily reported Monday, citing messages recently conveyed from top American officials.
A series of clandestine messages relayed by both Republican and Democratic officials suggest ... » 
[Xinhua News Agency/rickrozoff]

Comment 1: What is being so coolly discussed here, is aggressive, Nuremberg-class attack = "the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." The UN, as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria, lifts no effective finger to restrain the war-criming aggressors.

Comment 2: "Clandestine" = secret; secrecy is more often than not a mortal enemy of the democracy-process.

Or this:

September 16, 2012
3 Reasons the US and Israel are Lying About Iran
Repeated Lies Call for Repeated Truth Regarding Iran.
by Tony Cartalucci
  «As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls "for the US to establish a firm "red line" that Iran's nuclear program can't cross without risking a military response," and the West is marched ever closer to war with the Islamic Republic based on tired and repeated lies, three important points must be kept in mind.
...
1. The US and Israel admit in their own policy papers that Iran threatens Western hegemony, not Western security (let alone survival):
The very engineers of US-Israeli policy to subvert and destroy Iran, detailed in the 156 page "Which Path to Persia?" report out of the corporate-financier funded Brookings Institution, admit that Iran threatens not the security of Israel or the United States, but the hegemonic geopolitical order the West maintains over the Middle East.
...
2. The US and Israel already struck first:
By using US State Department-listed foreign terror organization (#30) Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), the US and Israel have been waging years of covert war against the Iranian people.
...
3. Israel's current leaders have Wall Street-London hegemony, not Israel's self-preservation, at heart ...» 
[landdestroyer/Cartalucci]

Comment: As usual, one should read the entire article.

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Summary: Unlike nuclear-rogue Israel, Iran is in the NPT and respects that treaty. Even with an A-bomb (which US/CIA says Iran is *not* working on), Iran would endanger no-one, since an A-bomb would only be useful in *deterring* an attack - Iran really needs some sort of a deterrent, given a) UN corruption = no protection from there, and b) the open threats made repeatedly by the US/Z rogue-regimes.

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Ref(s):Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

the Enlightenment well summarised by liberté, égalité, fraternité

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

problem: Muslims seen as superstition-crazed berserkers projected solution: US/Zs will try to kill them all

.. muslim = judaic = x-tian ...

  .. *all* are rabid 'believers' ...

    .. in some *undetectable* 'g*d'

Thesis/Subtitle: massive troubles, due to some mini-minority

Concomitant: US = 300mio from ~7bio is a minority

Corollary: Zs = ~6mio is a mini-minority

-=*=-
 
 [update, 16Sep'12]

Lemma 1: us congress is Israeli OR Zionist occupied territory
About 1,240,000 results

Motto: In g*d we trust (all others pay, pay, & pay ... in cash, or at least get a mortgage-backed security from Goldman Sachs, say. "Another day older, and deeper in debt.")

-=*=-

Lemma 2: By definition, any 'g*d' is utterly undetectable;

1. The religious claim is that some 'g*d' created 'the world below, and the heavens above' ("creator and ruler of the universe").

2. IF so THEN this putative 'g*d' is separate = apart from the entire observable universe = all there is. (Proof: IF some agency created the universe (creation implies 'from nothing') THEN that agent pre-existed (that something from nothing.))

3. By the conservation laws (short summary: matter/energy may neither be created nor destroyed), *no* communication may ever reach us from 'outside' the observable universe.

4. Belief is mostly done in the absence of evidence; vis-à-vis any putative 'g*d,' the absence of evidence here is *total* = zero; *no* evidence at all.

Addition: I propose that in the total absence of evidence - and that 'on principle' = inviolable natural laws (conservation; so far never observed to have been broken - and never expected to be), that a) the world/universe was never created - i.e. it always existed; the 'big bang' was 'only' a spontaneous phase-change from static-super-dense to dynamic-super-hot & expanding à la radioactive-decay (= no g*d needed), and that b) by Occam's razor, as no g*d is needed, none need be invented - and as utterly undetectable and could not influence our universe anyway, none exists - except as a mental-crutch phantasm.

The Abrahamic religions' 'g*d-construct' was invented only as a chimera to putatively 'save' miserable, fearful believers' necks, as in the cruel & risible 'life after death' myth = idiot-swindle.

Lemma 3: People who believe, in the total absence of evidence, may be termed 'irrational.' IF same go berserk THEN they can be termed 'rabid.' IF any murder for spoil THEN they may be termed 'criminal.'

-=*=-

Trigger article 1:

US ambassador among Libyan rocket attack dead
By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown, wires
Posted September 12, 2012 19:38:44 | Updated September 13, 2012 05:45:08
  «The US condemns the death of its ambassador to Libya and three other officials, who were killed in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: The 'best' story so far, is that the US ambassador died of suffocation = smoke-inhalation, the 'worst' is that he was captured, tortured and then lynched. Latter sounds a bit similar to Gaddafi's brutal end. Note that had F+UK/NATO not intervened (and the US had not subverted in the 1st place), Libya might have survived, keeping its highest African HDI (#1, Libya, 0.755). Now, any surviving Libyans do so in the face of predatory, rip-off US neoliberal capitalism (here murder for water (gmmr), as well as oil), and also falling victims to debt-pushing banksters. One of the very 1st things the so-called 'rebels' in Libya did was to establish a new central bank (??!)

Trigger article 2:

Yemeni protesters storm US embassy
Posted September 13, 2012 19:10:09 | Updated September 13, 2012 20:30:28
  «Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators have stormed the complex of the US embassy in Sana'a in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: "Hundreds" is not too many, especially these turbulent days.

Trigger article 3:

Western embassies targeted as violent protests spread
Middle East correspondent Matt Brown, wires
Posted September 15, 2012 00:43:33 | Updated September 15, 2012 06:38:35
  «At least six people are dead and dozens others wounded as protests against an anti-Islamic film spread across the Muslim world.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: "At least six" is trivial, compared to the 1.4mio+ who died as a direct consequence of the US "Shock'n whoring" of Iraq.

Trigger article 4:

At least six dead as anti-US rage spreads
By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown, wires
Posted September 15, 2012 08:02:23 | Updated September 15, 2012 14:02:37
  «The bodies of four Americans killed in anti-US protests have returned to US soil as violent demonstrations continue across the Muslim world.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: The AusBC reporting is getting frenetic & repetitive - or the other way 'round.

Trigger article 5:

Fears of 'carnage' as anti-US protests hit UK
AM
 By Europe correspondent Rachael Brown, staff
Posted September 15, 2012 10:51:08 | Updated September 15, 2012 14:05:01
  «The wave of anti-US protests rocking the Middle East has spread to the United Kingdom, and one Muslim leader fears deadly violence will erupt in London.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment: Where are the reports from France? (It was F+UK/NATO what did Libya in. F+UK/NATO (as the US; CIA, NED etc.), are currently active, attempting to subvert the legitimate authorities in Syria. The 'new' Egyptian tyrant appears to be firmly, corruptly, in the US' pocket.)

Trigger article 6:

Read all about it!
Zionists steal almost an entire country!
  «Following Herzl's Zionism (1897, coveting Palestine = motive), Jabotinsky's "Iron Wall" (1923, modus operandi, pre-meditation), Golda Meir's $50mio raised in the US for arms (means) and the Holocaust (= opportunity, but note that the Jewish population in pre-WW2 Germany was estimated between 3-500,000; getting to ~6mio would have taken serious, concerted effort - IF, indeed, that figure is anywhere near accurate). Mostly immigrant Zionists (= people *not* from there = aliens; Jews in Palestine = 0.47% in 1890, 1.05% in 1930, 2.79% in 1940, now ~75%) - Zionists viciously attacked the ELO/Os and ethnically-cleansed most of Palestine by genocidal methods (Plan Dalet, Deir Yassin massacre and all such before, during & since - all the way down to 'the current moment.') The Zionists are still there, illegally squatting on stolen land/property in the illegitimate-entity Israel. No effective attempt has ever been made to bring these aggressive Zionist invaders = vile criminals to justice.» 
[a story not found in the MSM+PFBCs]

Comment 1: Altogether, 'means, motive, and opportunity' + modus operandi and the oh, so obvious cui bono, add up to vicious, mass-murdering-to-steal crime - and what's worse, *still in progress*.

Comment 2: Apart from the obvious, ghastly criminality of the primary perpetrators = invading Zionists, one doesn't see this type of story in the MSM+PFBCs, proving same to be corrupt & venal.

Trigger article 7:

Read all about it!
US smashes country after country in ME!
  «Using the black-flag/psyop 'inside-job' 9/11 controlled-demolition event as 'excuse,' US attacks Afghanistan, "Shock'n whores" Iraq, sends SQSHsO F+UK to smash Libya, now imports, trains and equips extremist Al-Qaeda mercenaries, then sends them in to attack Syria, all the while planning to smash Iran, then perhaps attempting to smash Russia and China too.» 
[another story not found in the MSM+PFBCs]

Comment: Again the obvious, ghastly criminality, and ditto more proof that the MSM+PFBCs are corrupt & venal.

-=*=-

Argument: Palestine has been under Jewish threat since latest 1897, under active invasion since the '30s, under aggressive invasion since the 'mandate power' (UK) outlawed immigration in the interregnum, under armed attack since latest November 29, 1947 (a day of extreme infamy), when the UN passed UNGA181 = Partition of Palestine, which the UN had *no* right whatsoever to do (only just law may earn respect).

Iraq came under marauding threat when the English navy converted from coal to oil, pre-WW1. ANZAC/Gallipoli occurred partly because of this, and Iran ditto; US/UK effected a coup against the democratically elected Mosaddeq in '53, and Iran has been under direct and continuous US aggression since the mullahs dared to take their country back from the US-supported tyrant Shah Pahlavi in '79. As yet another illustration of UN-corruption, see Iran nuclear: UN watchdog IAEA rebukes Tehran (the BBC sets the corrupt example for the AusBC; lying bastards, all.) Iran is not known (entire US 'intelligence') to be working towards a bomb. IF Iran actually had one, THEN it would only contribute to peace, by restraining the mad Zionists. IF anyone in the ME needs IAEA attention THEN it is the proven, long-term fanatically aggressive, nuclear-armed, illegitimate-entity Israel. But nothing is done.

-=*=-

Musing: Muslims (Arabs) have been under attack from two directions, by 'the West' = 1st UK, then the US (+ SQSHsO) since early in the 20th C. & one particularly hapless country = Palestine, latest since Herzl in the late 19th C.

All any (Muslim/Arabs) victims ever did, was to be born over some of the most important oil-sands of the planet, or in the so-called 'holy-land' of Palestine (which, of course, is right next-door to all that oil. Coincidence?) Such bad luck; multi-millions murdered, the survivors only doing so in a state of continuous, absolute sheer terror. And then there's the destruction wrought; bullets/bombs can only kill/destroy. US taxes at 'work' via the rapine-palace = Pentagon.

Perhaps this 'unrest' is a bit more than it looks. The low numbers could quite easily mean 'rent-a-mobs,' fomented by you-know-whos. (If you need a tip: US/Zs.)

Not just BTW; Russia: "Zehntausende demonstrieren gegen Putin" = "Tens of thousands protest against Putin" - danke, die Zeit.

Comment: Russia is 'lousy' with (mainly US-financed, *subverting*) NGOs, see "Pussy Riot:"

August 31, 2012
Global Blitzkrieg: West's Terror Battalions Eye Russia Next
  «The US State Department has been recently exposed interfering heavily in Russian politics. From funding so-called "independent" election monitor GOLOS, who sought to write off recent elections as "stolen," to street protests led by US-funded opposition members who have been caught literally filing into the US embassy in Moscow, the US is clearly attempting to undermine and overrun the current political order in Russia. The recent "Pussy Riot" publicity stunt has also been arranged by US-funded opposition as well as fully leveraged by these organizations, their foreign sponsors, and the Western media.» 
[landdestroyer/Cartalucci]

Comment; (detested US-speak): If it walks like, talks like ...

Either something like that, or it's prelude to an aggressive US attack on Syria. "See? The Muslims are mad terr-ists; we have to 'send a strong message' - by murdering a few 100s, 1000s, even x-mio+ *more* Muslims; then maybe they'll listen!"

Finally, muslim = judaic = x-tian are the 'Abrahamic religions' - related, all similar in structure and content, all based on *no* evidence, all seemingly aggressive towards one another - more or less; currently with judaic + x-tian ganging-up against Muslims. All pointless (except for the very real, very great damage - to each other as people, to property, but mostly to their own intellects) - but worse - they act directly *against* their own central tenets: i.e. love thy neighbour - not to mention thou shalt not covert thy neighbour's (ox, wife, land/property), thou shalt not bear false witness - attention all US/Zs, all MSM+PFBCs and especially, all (filthily-lying) hasbarah-ists and above all else, thou shalt not kill.

 - Perhaps, the Muslims/Arabs are waking out of their mentally-crippling, divided-they-fall religious-haze: US/Zs are wicked, murdering-for-spoil criminals, enemies of the entire non-US/Z world, and if they can just get it all together, the Muslims/Arabs can finally resist the ugly, criminal US/Z-depredations.

Comment: About bloody time; what took you so long?

-=*=-

Fazit:

1. At least the 'ME' part of 1.5bio Muslims are in *reactive* mode to actual, murdering US/Z attack. The non-ME parts may act in sympathy. In addition, Muslims/Arabs are subject to massive covert subversion. It would hardly be surprising that this US/Z 'attention' is driving the Muslims/Arabs crazy.

But notice what comes 1st: US/Z aggression.

2. I'm sick of it; US/Zs murdering for spoil, Zs for soil, US for oil.

When will the (decent, law-abiding) people wake up?

We need effective, countervailing action.

Else (sadly) all else is lost.

Wo/man the barricades!

-=*end*=-

^ Update, 16Sep'12; PS

Perhaps coincidences happen, but odds are IF so THEN not too often.

Trigger article:

Libya says US consulate attackers planned assault
 Updated September 16, 2012 05:20:40
  «US defence secretary Leon Panetta said it was still too early to say exactly what happened in Benghazi where there have been suggestions that Al Qaeda sympathisers, rather than angry Muslim protesters, may have been responsible.
However, Libya's General National Congress president Mohammed al-Megaryef said the assault was well planned.
...
Meanwhile, Washington said it was deploying forces to cope with violence in as many as 18 different locations as deadly Muslim anger spreads over the anti-Islamic film.
It has already deployed marine counter-terrorism units to Libya and Yemen and it is stationing two destroyers off the North African coast.
"We have to be prepared in the event that these demonstrations get out of control," Leon Panetta told Foreign Policy magazine.
He did not offer any specifics. But the magazine said that the Pentagon was discussing, but had not yet decided, whether to send a third platoon of 50 specially trained marines to protect the US embassy in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.
Guards on the roof of the embassy fired warning shots on Friday as the compound was breached by protesters waving Islamic banners, after earlier ransacking parts of the British and German missions there.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: Pretext to 'surge' illegal occupation forces into "as many as 18 different locations."

Comment 2: US-snipers deployed (obvious implication: US-snipers good; Libyan, Syrian etc. bad.)

Comment 3: If the demos *really* get out of hand, they've 'sent a gumboot' = "two destroyers off the North African coast." Haw.

Comment 4: The way is now free for the rapine-palace = Pentagon to send troop-units pretty-well wherever they want, since their presence is now 'explained.' This in turn means scaring the s**t out of local populations by 'force-projection' by armed to the teeth US 'grunts' = murdering psychopaths, "Shock'n whore" now threatened all over the ME.

Comment 5: Thus the US uses a 'pre-planned event,' blamed on non-Libyan 'actors' (specifically named as Al Qaeda or some-such, but Al Qaeda also operates as a covert US-ally, from Afghanistan through Iraq, Libya and Syria), to import multiple platoons of "50 specially trained marines" into the 'crescent of instability,' just coincidence - again that word - next to or even over "the greatest strategic prize in history" = ME-oil.

Q: Do such 'coincidences' happen 'on purpose' perhaps (just like 9/11?)

[«back»]

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] rabid  adj. 1 affected with rabies, mad. 2 violent, fanatical.  rabidity n. [Latin rabio rave] [POD]

[2] believe  v. (-ving) 1 accept as true or as conveying the truth (I believe it; don't believe him). 2 think, suppose. 3 (foll. by in) a have faith in the existence of (believes in God). b have confidence in (believes in homoeopathy). c have trust in as a policy (believes in telling the truth). 4 have (esp. religious) faith.  believable adj. believer n. [Old English] [ibid.]

[3] god  n. 1 a (in many religions) superhuman being or spirit worshipped as having power over nature, human fortunes, etc. b image, idol, etc., symbolizing a god. 2 (God) (in Christian and other monotheistic religions) creator and ruler of the universe. 3 adored or greatly admired person. 4 (in pl.) Theatr. gallery.  God forbid may it not happen! God knows 1 it is beyond all knowledge. 2 I call God to witness that. God willing if Providence allows. [Old English] [ibid.]

[4] creation  n. 1 creating or being created. 2 a (usu. the Creation) God's creating of the universe. b (usu. Creation) all created things, the universe. 3 product of the imagination, art, fashion, etc. [ibid.]

Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

the Enlightenment well summarised by liberté, égalité, fraternité

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

all care but no responsibility the Enlightenment is out

.. maximising ...

  .. shareholder value ...

    .. = reducing our quality of life

Thesis/Subtitle: neoliberalism and economic rationalism

Concomitant: transfers wealth from the 99%+ to <1%

Corollary: rationalism being deployed *against* us

-=*=-
 
 [update, 13Sep'12]

-=*=-

Musing:

Either they know what they are doing,

which means they are deliberately criminal

 - or they don't,

which means that they are criminally negligent.

When so-called 'representatives' implement policies inimical/inequitable to us, we the people, they offend against the democratic covenant. Law-breakers are by definition criminals.

To the foreman of the jury:

"How do you find?"

Response:

"Guilty, m'lud!"

-=*=-

Leitmotiv:

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell published in England on 17 August 1945.
  «"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
...
The novel addresses not only the corruption of the revolution by its leaders but also how wickedness, indifference, ignorance, greed and myopia corrupt the revolution. It portrays corrupt leadership as the flaw in revolution, rather than the act of revolution itself. It also shows how potential ignorance and indifference to problems within a revolution could allow horrors to happen if a smooth transition to a people's government is not achieved.» 
[wiki/Animal_Farm]

Comment: How close, Orwell's allegory?

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Labor decries 'curtain raiser' to Abbott cuts
By chief political correspondent Simon Cullen
Posted September 11, 2012 15:53:28 | Updated September 11, 2012 18:05:01
  «Federal Labor has seized on the tough budget cuts announced by conservative state governments, declaring they are just a "curtain raiser" to what Tony Abbott has in store.
The Queensland Government has announced that 14,000 public service jobs will be cut as part of a plan to return the budget to surplus.
The state's Health Department will be the hardest hit, losing 4,140 staff.
...
Mr Abbott has promised to appoint an audit commission to slash duplication and waste in the federal bureaucracy if the Coalition wins the next election.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: How close, Labor's prognostication?

Comment 2: Although a theme in the article is typical Lab vs. Lib, and Libs certainly implement neoliberalism in savage ways, Lab is not far behind (on the economy, but especially on (illegal!) wars-for-spoil.) Recall bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic.

Comment 3: On a different track, some mining-magnates are 'misbehaving,' claiming royalties, taxes and high costs (mainly wages) are crippling their livelihoods. Haw. Disproving this is risibly simple; in two words: "Gina Rinehart." In four words: 'The world's richest woman.'

-=*=-

Argument (brief; time-stress (may be revised)):

(Thatcher's) TINA.

"According to TINA, economic liberalism is the only valid remaining ideology."

Me; bullshit: Yes, neoliberalism is an ideology - but an erring one.

“There is no such thing as society” (only individuals.)

Hints at Social Darwinism + every wo/man for her/himself.

Note: "Conflict between groups in society leads to social progress as superior groups outcompete inferior ones" specifically refers to groups = *cooperation* = possibly socialism but *not* necessarily communism.

The unbridled (= un- or de-regulated) exploitation, ignoring or off-loading any/all 'externalities' wherever possible.

The 'harvesting' of natural resources (animal, vegetable or mineral) at minimum cost, maximum profit = often beyond sustainability + super-profit = economic rent = ripping-off the sovereign owners = usually us, we the people.

End result = resource depletion + horrendous pollution -> XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe (cf. Arctic ice-melt).

Also applies to labour; down-sizing, lean&mean-ing, out-sourcing, sub-contracting and off-shoring.

Increasing productivity = race to the bottom.

Idiotic pursuit of govt. surplus.

Done mainly by employment and/or service cuts + reductions in wages and conditions.

Tax cuts (mainly off the rich).

Privatisation of public services (originally govt., since private enterprise originally eschewed the 'opportunity,' i.e. water, elec., sewage systems etc.). Public services were often *egalitarian* in both deployment and costing; very much *not* so after being privatised. See elec., exploding prices and reduced to no possibility of govt. control, due to "shareholder value" demands.

Since service cuts are much harder than tax cuts, govt. budgets go quickly into deficit = borrowing; when from private sources = leaky-bucket, govt. income then lost paying % to creditors.

That's where we are = idiotic so-called 'leadership' = traitors.

Worse (see EU debt crisis, say), the attempted cure (austerity = even more of the same spiral-down) may well be worse that the disease.

Two items of proof:

1. US economy; *true* unemployment possibly ~25%; even for those with jobs (especially low-skilled, now many more than before), miserable wages and conditions.

2. Medicine for profit. Aus is relatively lucky; Whitlam's Medibank has endured even if somewhat reduced (for the latter, thanks, but "No, thanks!" mainly to Liberals). Anywhere unbridled medicine for profit exists, one will tend to get profit before good health 'outcomes.' Check it yourself; Drs who do 'fee for service' tend to over-service - for the fun & profit of it; it illustrates their 'need for greed' and off-loading responsibility: "Honestly, I did all that I could (= prescribed many expensive tests and drugs) - but sadly, the patient passed away." But how could we possibly know if sincere, since they jealously guard their diagnostic methods? See exploding health-costs, especially in US plus sycophant-regimes.

-=*=-

Fazit: Neoliberalism = an erring ideology was 'smuggled' in under false pretences. The MSM+PFBCs helped - by telling us - politely - fibs (omission/commission). That politicians, press and academia cooperate against us, we the people convicts them all, see the M/I/C/$4a†-plex. Especially the academics, supposed intellectuals, who really should know - and do - better, are an enormous disappointment - filthy sell-outs, the lot. Only those in *active* opposition to criminality may hold any high moral ground, and ditto only just law may earn respect.

Since it appears that representatives are corruptible - and indeed many actually are corrupt, IF we can't remove the corruption THEN we have to dump the representative-concept. Direct democracy - CIRs = citizen initiated referendums are now (internet) more than possible; "It's time!" - for true democracy (of, by, for the people etc.).

From my title: All care? (Our so-called 'representatives' seem not to care for us) - but no responsibility (our ditto-representatives seem totally *irresponsible* towards us); the Enlightenment certainly is out = been abandoned by those representatives, along with their humanity. Did anyone say "Tumbrels?"

-=*end*=--=*end*=-

^ Update, 13Sep'12; PS

Super-profit = economic-rent exists; two examples:

1. iPhone 5 Could Benefit The United States’ GDP, Says JPM Analyst
12 September 2012
  «This total does not include sales of previous-generation iPhones, such as last year’s iPhone 4S. Feroli’s calculations redound to a $400 trade margin per iPhone unit sold applied to the U.S. GDP – in simple math, this would be a retail price of $600 per unsubsidized handset minus the cost of $200 per phone for parts manufactured outside of the United States.
Feroli stated that the GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012 could increase by $3.2 billion, which could translate to $12.8 billion pro-rated on a yearly basis – this would translate to an increase of about 0.33 percent.» 
[easternmorningherald.com/]

Comment 1: So even if the $200 figure is correct, the projected sale price includes a $400 mark-up = 200%. That's super-profit = economic-rent.

Comment 2: Due to off-shoring, the 'competitivity' target for 'Western' wages and conditions is the lowest off-shoring, out-sourcing companies can find; this could mean as low as $2 per day, presumably with no medical, leave or pension. Just saying (makes so-called 'economic-rational' sense), but it should give any thoughtful the shudders.

2. Then, it's estimated that 'digging' oil up in Iraq costs ~$1 per barrel.

At a 'market' price of ~$100 per barrel, that's a mark-up of 9900%.

It is estimated that Iraq has in (wild?) excess of some 143 billion barrels. Royalties paid by producers on free-for-all PSAs (suggested by Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority) may be ~5% = reducing the possible mark-up to 'just' 9400% - poor, mainly US oil companies (in their (oily = wet) dreams). Not so much BTW, it is considered to be a war crime, for victors (here illegal invaders = Nuremberg-class war criminals) to force things (i.e. laws) onto defeated countries, and anyway, only just law may earn respect.

Now you might see why some people 'suspect' the US of "Shock'n whoring" Iraq to force 'free' US access to Iraqi oil.

[«back»]

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] inequitable  adj. unfair, unjust. [POD]

[2] crime  n. 1 a offence punishable by law. b illegal acts (resorted to crime). 2 evil act (crime against humanity). 3 colloq. shameful act. [Latin crimen] [ibid.]

Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

the Enlightenment well summarised by liberté, égalité, fraternité

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

one lie zero credibility 9/11 is the litmus test

.. belief is mostly done ...

  .. in the absence of evidence ...

    .. engineering relies on *proven* physics

Thesis/Subtitle: IF this really is *not* the best of all worlds

Concomitant: THEN doing nothing can not be an option

Corollary: dear reader, where do *you* stand?

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Trigger article:

9/11 Is the LitmusTest
By: judeye
  «There is one thing that defines everyone over the course of these early years of this new century. That thing is the 9/11 attack. Everyone in government and every field of endeavor the world over is defined by their position on this event. It is not necessary to know the truth. It is only necessary to know the extent of the lies in order to define any leader in any position anywhere in the world. By what they have said and by what they have not said, one can accurately judge who is an enemy of the peoples of the world. One can accurately determine who is a tool of the psychopaths or one of them.» 
[whatreallyhappened/judeye]

Comment 1: See the youtube video here.

Comment 2: Just because I cite something, doesn't mean I *fully* endorse it; I expect readers to make their own minds up anyway.

Comment 3; BUT: At least two points are valid, and exist independent of the video:

Comment 3a: One (non-trivial) lie destroys *all* credibility. (All lies[1] are harmful.)

Comment 3b: All who do not *actively* oppose an evil bear some *responsibility* for that evil[2].

Lemma: Any choice between evils is itself evil (by definition), even if thought to be somewhat 'lesser.'

Comment 3c: As a non-trivial aside, given that in Aus, Lib = Lab, in US, Rep = Dem (and other 'Western' countries similar) - on far too many things (worst = war = murdering for spoil, next worst = erring-ideology neoliberal economics) = bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic = evil, choosing between two evils still results in some evil (and the policies implemented will be roughly comparable anyway); how can one ever justify actually voting for any of these evils, especially when merely doing so is taken as validation of that evil system? (Options = voting for some truly independent-from-evil party, or just not voting = all care, no responsibility.)

Comment 3d: As a least-trivial aside, the world's worst exemplars of both 3(a) and (b) are the whole I/J/Z-plex. Liars (hasbarah), thieves (of most of Palestine) and murderers (Deir Yassin massacre, all similar before, during and since, down to the current moment = ethnic-cleansing by genocidal methods = vicious crimes against humanity.) Each and every non-active opponent of the I/J/Z-plex evil bears some responsibility for that extreme evil of evils.

Comment 4: The US (accessoried by numerous SQSHsO, either coerced or worse, voluntarily) used 9/11 to embark on a berserk imperialist killing-to-steal bout of rapine, still on-going (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, currently Syria plus sundry other targets in both ME and Africa with Iran next in the queue; ultimate targets = Russia and China), altogether = evil, attempted world domination. The situation in US itself is extremely fraught (falling incomes, exploding medical costs, ditto exploding unemployment, etc.) - and the EU (plus other 'West,' Aus & Cdn etc.) look like following the US spiral-down. Sooo, is US world-domination something we should tolerate, let alone encourage?

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Fazit: That steel-framed high-rise buildings, such as WTC 1, 2 and 7 may be demolished by jet- or diesel-fuelled fire is one stupendous (= overwhelmingly non-trivial) lie, repeated three times, then echoed by all apologists, amongst whom are the true, and truly evil, perpetrators.

One cannot deny the evidence of one's eyes; too many videos exist showing planes hitting the towers. But simultaneously, one cannot deny the evidence of science; no fire could cause not one, not two but three towers to collapse sooo suddenly, sooo neatly, all into their own 'footprints.' No scientist worthy of the title could claim so; any who claim (either by omission or commission) that physical-law was somehow bypassed at WTC 1, 2 and 7 on 9/11 is a liar = evil.

The so-called 'official' explanation is totally inadequate (massive understatement - you could try researching it yourself). All known evidence was destroyed, exported as scrap or simply discarded = lost.

As in 3b above, all who do not *actively* oppose an evil bear *some responsibility* for that evil; how do you, dear reader, fit in?

-=*end*=-

PS I don't usually 'do' video, but you might wish to review these two:

911 Truth ~ The North Tower Explodes.

Comment: Quite serious.

World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes.

Comment: Less so.

I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I do have questions - lots. And those (i.e. US regime, lackeys and factotums) who could attempt proper answers, have not - will not.

  «I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?"
You see things; and you say "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"» 
~George Bernard Shaw

Q: Why do they not give us straight answers?

A: The guilty must lie (commission/omission) - if only to avoid self-incrimination.

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Ref(s):

[1] lie2  -n. 1 intentionally false statement (tell a lie). 2 something that deceives. —v. (lies, lied, lying) 1 tell a lie or lies. 2 (of a thing) be deceptive.  give the lie to show the falsity of (a supposition etc.). [Old English][POD]

[2] evil  -adj. 1 morally bad; wicked. 2 harmful. 3 disagreeable (evil temper). -n. 1 evil thing. 2 wickedness.  evilly adv. [Old English][ibid.]

Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

foreign investment cui bono? not us

.. our world ...

  .. is being ruled ...

    .. by thieving tyrants

Thesis/Subtitle: by their works shall ye know them

Concomitant: only just law may earn respect

Corollary: do unto others; do no harm

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'Guest' quote:

  «If one were asked to prescribe the fundamental condition for a good world, it would be: peace and freedom for all, where "freedom" means personal autonomy and mental liberation from prejudice, superstition, ignorance and fear. Cynics will no doubt think this a saccharine sentiment merely, if only on the grounds that it is unattainable and that one had better stick to the realities of a world in which the majority of people are trapped in economic and intellectual prisons made by history, perpetuated and promoted by demagogues and the greedy and powerful.» 
[guardian/AC Grayling]

Comment: We must all do something new, different and effective, because accepting the current world 'as is' is not a viable option, since 'more of the same' is leading towards catastrophe, both for us as individuals and our once jewel-like planet's relatively comfortable life-supporting biosphere.

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Trigger article 1:

Abbott moves to end internal rift over Cubbie sell-off
 By chief political correspondent Simon Cullen
 Updated September 05, 2012 13:56:12
  «"We support foreign investment, we support foreign investment in agriculture, it's important that we continue to support foreign investment but it does have to be in Australia's national interest."» 
[AusBC/Abbott]

Comment 1: By his "We" he means the Aus-Liberal party in particular but the L-NP coalition in general (the current opposition); since the Aus-Labor party has the identical policy then it's bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic.

Trigger article 2:

Aussies must compete with $2 a day workers: Rinehart
 By business editor Peter Ryan and staff
 Updated September 05, 2012 14:56:43
  «Gina Rinehart has used a rare video appearance to repeat her warning that Australians need to work harder to compete with Africans who will labour for less than $2 a day.» 
[AusBC/Rinehart]

Comment 1: She refers to 'standard' neoliberal (erring) ideology, here the 'race to the bottom' plank of 'competitivity' whereby local wages and conditions must be reduced to compete with the world's lowest pay and conditions. Makes some sense - to the greediest at least.

Comment 2: She has been called 'the world's richest woman' - a result more due to simply being born (= heiress of Hancock Prospecting), as opposed to actually having 'earned' anything. Her threat: Work = exist on $2/day or starve.

Comment 3; Summary: $2/day is not far off the neoliberals' wet-dream wishes for us all. Consider yourself well-warned.

Trigger article 3:

Ex-Treasury boss defends foreign investment
 By chief political correspondent Simon Cullen
 Updated September 05, 2012 16:33:38
  «Former Treasury boss Ken Henry has delivered a strong defence of foreign investment in Australia, arguing the current public debate has been "frequently misinformed" and skewed by "populist instincts".
...
"Without confidence in the regime and common sense in the formulation of foreign investment policy, there is the risk of Australia damaging its ability to attract foreign capital and limiting its economic potential in the longer term."» 
[AusBC/Henry]

Comment 1: In the 1st part above, he *must* defend what he did/allowed in practice, but as a 'must,' this 'defence' is more than a bit devalued = circular reasoning = the 'begging the question' fallacy, also known as Petitio Principii (in clear text: Assuming what one wants to prove.)

Comment 2: In the 2nd part above, he outlines the general blackmail policy = today's 2nd threat: Do this (foreign direct investment = FDI) or else. But this is also fallacial, namely 'non sequitur,' since there are other *and better* ways of financing development.

Lemma: To see an alternative to FDI, see Ellen Brown on the BND (and not coincidentally, Ellen Brown on the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.)

Comment 3: Henry gives his own game away: "populist instincts".

Comment 4: In a nutshell, allowing foreign investment means that profits will flow *out* of Aus, leading us towards impoverishment. According to reliable estimates, 83% of mining profits already do so. Since mining is by definition non-sustainable, IF we don't get a fair share THEN we suffer being ripped-off. Contrary to Thatcher/Reagan et al., there *are* alternatives = proper (central) banking (see lemma), allied with proper taxation. I have no basic objection to people getting obscenely rich - to some it's a sport, but when they get rich *by rip-offs*, adequate taxation should be applied to right such wrongs.

I don't consider demanding a just result = ending rip-offs "populist instincts".

Here, consider: No taxation without (adequate, effective, in the people's interest) representation.

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Discussion; consider the M/I/C/$4a†-plex:

I = industrial; Rinehart: Primarily as an inheritor (heiress), she is not really an industrialist in her own right - but she does illustrate the greed of her group, and more importantly, she *proves* the wicked rip-off that mining (aka 'resource-harvesting') really is. She got filthy-rich by (mainly her father) grabbing a huge part of the return from *our, we the people's* resources. Labor's MRRT attempts to ameliorate this rip-off by returning a greater share to the sovereign owners = *us, we the people*.

C = Congress (US-speak for parliament); Abbott: As leader of the opposition, Abbott *proves* that our 'democracy' can be and as here often is - a tyranny. When so-called 'representatives' implement policies inequitable to *us, we the people* then that's tyranny.

$ = banksters; Henry: He's an ex-public servant, now shilling[2] for banksters (see lemma).

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Fazit: A fair exchange is no robbery; theft is taking something without paying a fair, or sometimes any, price. Those who steal are by definition thieves; those who murder to do so (i.e. US, Zs) are murdering thieves. Those who enable theft (here politicians, bipartisan = un- & anti-democratic, people-antagonistic policies) - are accessories, and make themselves into tyrants. Those who shill for thieves are apologists. All are criminal.

-=*end*=-

Ref(s):

[1] tyrant  n. 1 oppressive or cruel ruler. 2 person exercising power arbitrarily or cruelly. [Greek turannos] [POD]

[2] shill N. Amer. informal
noun an accomplice of a hawker, gambler, or swindler who acts as an enthusiastic customer to entice or encourage others.
verb [no OBJ.] act or work as such a person.
[The NEW OXFORD Dictionary OF ENGLISH]

Abbreviations:

ELO/Os = hapless erstwhile legal owner/occupiers

I/J/Z-plex; illegitimate IL squats on genocidally ethnically-cleansed = improperly alienated, mainly Palestinian ELO/Os' land/property = IL is an un-remedied crime-scene and *all* I/J/Z-plex (except any actively opposing) are guilty; sole remedy = reparations = revest where possible, adequate = acceptable recompense where not + *sincere* apology

M/I/C/$4a†-plex = military, industrial, Congress (US-speak for parliament); $ = banksters, 4 = 4th estate = MSM+PFBCs, 'a' = academia incl. think-tanks, † = the churches.

MSM = mainstream media (print and broadcast), aka 'corrupt&venal'

neoliberalism = 'economic rationalism,' 'supply-side,' (wicked) privatisations, 'small govt.' = minimised to no égalité etc. + globalisation = wage arbitration etc. = <1% rips off 99%+

PFBCs = publicly-financed broadcasters, like the AusBC

ppp-dd'd = pushed propaganda paradigm dumbed-down

PRopaganda = PR + propaganda, usual qualifier: 'lying'

SQSHsO = snivelling quisling sycophantic hangers-on

US-MMH = Media (aka press, radio + TV), Madison Ave., Hollywood

US&/Zs = the US of A and/or Zionists; sometimes indistinguishable

XS-CO2-CCC = excess CO2 climate-change catastrophe

shameless propaganda from GG-Bryce via AusBC

.. one lie ...

  .. zero credibility ...

    .. not one but squillions

Thesis/Subtitle: don't lie to your friends

-=*=-

Trigger article:

Emotional Bryce visits Syrian refugees in Jordan
AM
By Middle East correspondent Matt Brown in Amman, staff
Updated September 03, 2012 10:49:23
  «Governor-General Quentin Bryce has been reduced to tears while visiting a refugee camp in Jordan to meet with some of the thousands who have fled unrest in Syria.
...
One man approached the ABC in a row between the tents with his son, who he said was walking on the street of their home town last month when he was stopped by the local secret policeman.
The little boy was asked to declare his allegiance - to the president, Bashar al-Assad, or to the rebels.
He chose the president and the secret policeman drew his handgun, held it to the boy's head and said he would be dead if he ever chose otherwise.» 
[AusBC/'news']

Comment 1: Makes as much sense as Libyan Viagra-assisted mass-rapes, or Iraqis emptying incubators onto stone-floors.

Comment 2: Simply not credible.

Comment 3: Utterly disgusting.

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Fazit: Shame on you, Bryce & AusBC both.

True friends don't lie at all, ever.