For unto us a child is born. What? Another one? #Jesus

Your music, Australian, NEW, alive, authentic: the Australian ABC’s @triplejunearthd – so good you could eat it. Please don’t take that amiss, reader. Well, OK. Meanwhile as a neurolinguistics Jonnie counsellor & sociologist I shall continue to work diligently & manfully on the hypothesis that all the grown-ups in Australia are now under 25. Hair-raising, that.

..a new twist on the retirement homes, high level aged-care facilities, lock-up boarding houses, guardianship ‘public trustee’ Australian Taxation Office virtual-imprisonment facilities, group homes, refugee containment projects, private-sector loony bins, NDIS milking projects investment bonanza for OLD rich people and Nth American pension funds and Chinese ‘business-persons’ ABC & SBS #Finance, AFR & Murdoch’s ‘Australian‘ Bernard Salt Ageing Population economic growth paradigm!!!

And some of you good folk thought Howardism, Reverse Class Warfare (Menzies ABC Boyer Lectures 1944), screwing low-income people, disaster entrepreneurialism, Resilience Training by people of say Year 10 level education who’ve done ‘a course’ on $85k were hard to get your heads around? Don’t give up your Wordle¹ ‘n Sudoku will you? Try jogging too – for all our sakes not just the abovementioned sagacious though catastrophically incoherent Under 25s oh Australia 😳

The DEDICATION of this document is to the memory of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed written in Portuguese in 1967 and ’68 as I myself exited an Adelaide Sth Austrln Church of England boys’ school and took off into the fanciful twentieth century stratosphere, that era of really bad deracinated metaphors with no foundation or basis in lived human experience (which latter micro domain is really the only mentally healthy, robust or even sane way to tackle the gig (trust me, I’m a real estate salesperson who began his rather sparkly career with the Queensland Police), that era of repeatedly copping head highs in Australian Rules football matches because you could play a bit; that magnificent though philosophically and neurocognitively unhinged Euro Romance Era the experts and historians – can somebody run this past @adam_tooze? – assure us began as Hernan Cortes^1A stood upon a peak in Darien (Darién, geographic region of the easternmost Isthmus of Panama that extends into northwestern Colombia, around the Gulf of Urabá and which is nowadays of course a complete barrel of laughs) and strode into the Southern Hemisphere version of Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit’s Paris 1968. – which was OK but to be brutally frank we did NOT get a helluva lot done and so disappeared into industry, the armed services, the public service, insurrection projects in South Asia/ Central Asia/ Mongolia/ eastern Russia/ the Pacific – or so these crazy-arsed people from government, security ‘n intelligence and the Mad Hatters Tea Party Australian Defence Force reckoned anyway..

I’ve not read the @Wikipedia entry. I just put it up and squeezed my eyes tight, clenched both fists/ anal sphincter and hoped for the best as I figuratively scampered away from the Google-Goodreads, Medium, Daily.jstor, Amazon, SanSerriffe, Zinnedproject, Nationalaffairs, and wait for it, well no, harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral entries, gender-inclusively clutching both my pearls/ hippie love-beads AND ngahmbu in fear of off-duty cops, bikie or blackfella friends of the Government with razor-sharp machetes or semi-automatic firearms..

GEA and Billionaire Monkeys with Olivettis proudly presents Robert Fisk writing for The Independent 25 May 2002

You are not welcome²

” President George W Bush adressed the German Bundestag on 23 May 2002.

” So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Husein is Hitler. And George bnush is fighting the Nazis. Not since Menachem Begin fantasised to President Reagan that he felt he was attacking Hitler in berlin – his Israeli army was actually besieging Beirut, killing thousands of civilians, ‘Hitler’ being the pathetic [Johnny Walker Black Label drinking – as later reported from Libya] Arafat – have we had to listen to claptrap like this. But thge fact that we Europeans had to do so in the Bundestag on tThursday – and, for the most part, in respectful silence – was extraordinary. Must we, forever, live under the shadow of a war that was fought and won before most of us were born? Do we have to live forever with living diminutive politicians playing Churchill (Thatcher and, of course, Blair) or Roosevelt? ’He’s a dictator who gassed his own people,’ Bush reminded us of saddam Hiussein for the two thousandth time, omitting as always to mention that the Kurds whom Saddam viciously gassed were fighting for Iran and that the United States, at the time was on Saddam’s side.

” But there is a much more serious side to this. Mr Bush is hoping to corner the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, into a new policy of threatening Iran. He wants the Rusians to lean on the northern side of the ‘axis of evil,’ the infantile phrase which he still trots out to the masses. Morer and more, indeed, Bush’s rhetoric sounds like the crazed videotapes of bin Laden.And still he tries to lie about the motives for the crimes against humanity of 11 September. Yet agai, in the Bundestag, he insisted that the West’s enemies hated ‘justice and democracy, even though most of America’s Muslim enemies wouldn’t know what democracy was.’

” In the United states the Bush regime is busy terrorising Americans, Tnere will be nuclear attacks, bombs in high-rise apartment blocks, on the Brooklyn bridge, men with exploding belts – note how carefully the ruthless Palestinian war against Israeli colonisation of the West Bank is being strapped to America’s ever weirder ‘war on terror’ and yet more aircraft suiciders. If you read the words of President Bush. Vice President Dick Cheney and the ridiculous ‘national security adviser’ Condoleezza Rice, over the past three days, you’ll find they’ve issued more threats against Americans than bin Laden. But let’s get to the point. The growing evidence that Israel’s policies are America’s policies in the Middle East – or more accurately, vice versa – is now being played out for real in statements from Congress and on American television. First, we have the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Commitee announcing that Hizballah – the Lebanese guerrilla force that drove Israel’s demoralised army out of Lebanon in the year 2000 – is planning attacks on the US. After that, we had an American television network ‘revealing’ that Hizballah, Hamas and al-Quaeda have held a secret meeting in Lebanon to plot attacks on the US.

American journalists insist on quoting ‘sources’ but there was, of course, no sourcing for this balderdash, which is now repeated ad nauseam in the American [news]media. The take the ‘Syrian Accountability Act’ that was introduced into the US Senate by Israel’s friends on 18 April. This includes the falsity uttered earlier by Israel’s foreign minister, Shimon Peres, that Iranian Revolutionary Guards ‘operate freely’ on the southern Lebanese border. And I repeat, there haven’t bee Iranian Revolutionary guards in Lebanon – let alone the south of the country – for fifteen years. So why is this lie repeated yet again?

Iran is under threat. Lebanon is under threat. Syria is under threat – its ‘terrorism’ status has been heightened by the State Department – and so is Iraq. But Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister held personally responsible for the Sabra and Chatila massacre of 1,700 Palestinians in Beruit, is – according to Mr Bush – ‘a man of peace.’ How much further can this go? A long way, I fear. The anti-American feeling throughout the Middle East is palpable. Arab newspaper editorials don’t come near to expressing public opinion. In Damascus, Majida Tabbaa has become famous as the lady who threw the US consul Roberto Powers out of her husband’s downtown restaurant on 7 April. ‘ I went over to him,’ she said, ‘and told him, “Mr Roberto, tell your George Bush that all of you are not welcome – please get out.” ‘ Across the Arab world, boycotts of Amerrican goods have begun in earnest.

How much longer can this go on? America praises Pakistan president Musharraf for hos support in the ‘war on terror,’ but remains silent when he arranges a dictatorial ‘referendum’ to keep him in power. America’s enemies, remember, hate the US for its ‘democracy.’ So is General Musharraf going to feel the heat? Forget it. My guess is that Pakistan’s importance in the famous ‘war on terror’ – or ‘war for civilistaiom’ as, we should remember, it was originally called – is far more important. If Pakistan and india go to war, I’ll wager a lotb that Washington will come down for the undemocratic Pakistan against democratic India.

Now here’s pause for thought. Abdelrahman al-Rashed writes in the international Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat that if anyone had said prior to 11 September that Arabs were plotting a vast scheme to murder thousands of Americans in the US, no-one would have believed them. We would have charged that tis was an attempt to incite the American people against Arabs and Muslims,’ he wrote. And rightly so. But Arabs did commit the crimes against humanity of 11 September. And many Arabs fear that we have yet to see the encore from the same organisation. In the meantime, Mr Bush goes on to do exactly what his enemies want; to provoke Muslims and Arabs, to praise their enemies and demonise their countries, to bomb and starve Iraq and give uncritical support to Israel and maintain his support for the dictators of the Middle East.

Each morning now, I awake beside the Mediterranean in Beruit with a feeling of great foreboding. There is a firestorm coming. And we are blissfully ignoring its arrival, indeed, we are provoking it. “

John

Australia

ماشاء الله

¹ What is that?

^{1A Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (/kɔːrˈtɛs/; Spanish: [eɾˈnaŋ koɾˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro altamiˈɾano]; December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the king of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.}

² The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings Harper Collins 2008 pp 38-41 – Robert dec’d 2020, Dublin, the author of The Great War for Civilistion: the Conquest of the Middle East 2005 and recipient of six honorary doctorates for journalism