Committing Heresy: Get Bush Out In 2004

I'm going to commit heresy, as far as some (many?) of my readers are concerned. Initially, you are going to think I've joined the dark side. Lost my marbles and done a Kerry flip-flop. But read me out before deciding on your final judgment.

Bold statement: George W Bush must lose the election this year for all our sake.

Okay. First the bad stuff. And number one on that list is The Patriot Act. What would have to be the worst piece of legislation to come out of any democratic government that I can remember.

With that, and the Department of Homeland Security, I am now forced to have a biometric passport (and I live in Australia!). Upon entering the U.S. I get my photo taken - and maybe even my fingerprint scanned - and pretty well treated like a felon. Nice way to treat someone coming to your country to spend money - NOT!

Granted, this might appear as the government doing its job - protecting the personal and property rights of its citizens. But that is all it is doing, only appearing to do its job, not actually doing its job. You cannot claim to be protecting someone's personal and property rights while simultaneously taking those rights away, can you?

But still. At least it is kinda in the right direction.

Dubya is for tax cuts. Good plus here. And for this reason alone he could be worthy of getting re-elected. And I'll elaborate more in a minute.

So on the one side you've got tax cuts and on the other side there is the Patriot Act.

From a financial point of view, the tax cuts are tempting. But to have all banking transactions monitored under the guise of protecting the country in case terrorists want to transfer money around, kind of defeats the point of tax cuts. It's giving me a little bit more money while monitoring my transactions and taking away my freedoms. And I'm supposed to be thankful for this?

Anyway. Some time in the next year or so, the Clinton/Greenspan Stockmarket/Real-Estate Bubble is going to finally burst for good. Stocks already tanked and now it is just a matter of time before real estate goes the same way. And judging by conditions in Australia and their mirror image in the U.S., that crash is not too far away. The only thing preventing it being Greenspan's interest rate manipulations. But they only delay it, not stop it from happening all together. So some time at the end of this year (maybe even before the election) and certainly in 2005, the real estate market will tumble and bring everything else down too.

If Bush wins in 2004, then the crash will happen on his watch. He will try to fix it. To turn the economy around. This will first be done as it is always done - by printing money. The economy will be in such a state that this will have zero effect. The ONLY thing which will help the economy will be to ABOLISH INCOME TAX and instigate a FLAT CONSUMPTION TAX. To make tax a true "user pays" system.

This will immediately put money (a lot of money) into the hands of the citizens. And this action will also turn the economy around. And could, in all reality, see a continuously booming economy.

HOWEVER, this will take time to get in. And if the economy tanks as much as I think it will, then come 2006, Bush will lose control of the senate and congress and won't be able to get his tax reforms pushed through. And he will lose control because the left will blame him for the crash - even though the events for the crash were set in motion by Clinton/Greenspan back on Clinton's watch.

So come 2008, the GOP will lose and Hillary (who will be Kerry's VP running mate in 2004), will win in a landslide. We will then be with 8 years of Hillary at the helm. And as she is a self-confessed socialist, then the economic future looks very bleak indeed.

BUT, if we let Kerry win in 2004, then the crash will happen on his watch. In 2006 he will lose control of the senate and congress. And in 2008, the GOP will get back in a landslide and can then implement the much needed income tax abolishment.

With no income taxes (private and company) individuals will be more financially able to pursue their goals. Companies will have more money to reinvest to create further values - which will mean more jobs and a flourishing economy.

Because there will be so little tax being collected, compared to today, there will be no need for the behemoth IRS. Just the savings on IRS running costs alone could run a small country.

Other government departments would also fall by the wayside as people didn't need them any more. The welfare state would diminish of its own accord with the booming economy.

The economy is at a stage now where nothing will stop the crash. Bush won't try for abolishing tax at this stage of the election campaign. In fact, not too much of anything will get done between now and election time. Which means, the crash is inevitable. It is going to happen. No-one can stop it at this point in time.

Now. If Bush wins in November, there is little hope he will be able to get tax cuts put into effect then. Just consider how much trouble he has had with the minor tax cuts he's trying to get made permanent at this point in time. When the economy dives and the GOP loses the senate and congress, Bush will be a powerless leader doomed to wait out his term and the GOP will be defeated mightily by Hillary.

And what of Australia during this same time?

This year will see an election as well. As our housing market has already peaked (stopped), it is poised to come tumbling down. Only low rates and the media hype of "there is still some growth there" is keeping it hovering up there. But, seeing as our market has peaked before the U.S. market, we will see a downturn before the U.S. - possibly this year. If Howard leaves the election too late, the economy will already be going down when the election is called. He will be blamed and Latham the socialist will get in. And seeing as Latham wants banks to stop making money and will re-introduce government control of banks, Latham is a poor choice to be elected.

This means, Howard needs to get in BEFORE the economy takes a dive. For he won't get in once it starts to dive.

But consider this: The economy will plunge during his term. And the Liberal party will lose the 2007 election to Labor in a landslide (after being hobbled by the left who control the senate). As Latham wasn't able to defeat Howard, he will also be discarded and a new, as yet unknown, opposition leader picked for the 2007 election.

If Howard loses this year, the economy will hit bottom on Labor's term in office. Labor and its banking policies will be blamed and we will see a Liberal win again in 2007. So like the U.S., it might be best to let the left win this year. Otherwise we all face a lo-o-o-o-ong time with leftists in government come the elections after this year's.

Something else to consider. If Howard wins this year, then come 2007 Labor will get in. If we let Kerry win this year and the GOP wins in 2008, we in Australia will be controlled by a leftist government while the U.S. is controlled by a right-wing government who should be implementing widespread tax cuts to get the economy going. They will flourish while we won't.

It would be better to let Latham win this year so the Liberals can gain control again in 2007, in readiness for the GOP winning back the Whitehouse after Kerry's 2004 win and subsequent collapse.

Yes, this goes against the grain of almost all freedom loving people. But this is a long-term view I am taking. The crash in both Australia and the U.S. is unavoidable. It will happen as sure as the Sun will set today and rise tomorrow. So you need to ask yourself, "who do you want in power a couple of years after the crash?"

I know this "deciding who to put in power" thing also goes against my grain as a lover of freedom who has previously written about a "no government" option on the ballot paper. But this could be the chance we have to get truly aware governments in power who will get rid of income tax and release their citizens from bondage.

The Socialist Magician

When Merlin was evicted out of the Big Brother house and did his protest, I wrote about it here and here. In the first entry I prophesiesed that he would have a full page article in Green Left Weekly.

I was right!

He is the second story on their website this week! With a nice big "Socialist Alliance" banner under his fullpage story.

And what a story. It's like reading a fairy tale. And the colorful language used to try to get you thinking to how they want you to think...

"It was just another mundane eviction show."

"On prime time, a young Australian was making a political statement" (They fail to mention that he is NOT an Australian at all, but a visitor who over stayed his welcome and has since been granted residency, but NOT citizenship.)

"A piece of black gaffer tape was produced and rudely slapped across the mouth." (Notice how it does not say he put the tape on his own mouth. By using the word "rudely" it is implied someone else put the tape on his mouth.)

"...to the horror of sardonic host Gretel" (whatever they can do to bring someone down)

"a silent show of support for the hundreds of asylum seekers still held against their will in Australian-run detention centres." (Note the clever non-use of the term "refugee" as there are NO refugees in any detention center within Australia. And note the clever avoidance of claiming these "asylum seekers" are in Australia. But the wording makes it look as if they are in Australia. And tries to illicit sympathy by saying how they are held against their will.)

"...boos and jeers as those who paid for overpriced tickets..." (What's with the adjectives all over the place. Why can't it be just "tickets"? Why does it have to be "overpriced" tickets? These guys are good at the spin.)

"Despite Killeen’s ongoing urging, Luck refused to break his silence and soon he was escorted off the stage by two burly bouncers..." (Gretel did NO URGING at all. All she did was ASK him if he was going to speak. I don't see that as urging. And again with the adjective. Not bouncers. Burley bouncers. As if to intimate the great threat that Merlin had placed himself in while making his political statement. Further more, how do they know how he left the stage? They weren't there.)

"...controversy raged around him..." (I don't think anything raged around him. All evictees do the radio talk show rounds. He did likewise. All evictees usually have one thing they are repeatedly asked. His thing was his banner. But there was no "raging" of controversy.)

"...he had been able to air his views on asylum seekers..." (This is an out and out lie. He didn't air a single view on asylum seekers. His entire point was about refugees NOT asylum seekers. There is a difference. And the socialist piece is trying to subvert his message to their own agenda.)

"...revealed to GLW that, while in the BB house, he had spoken often about the need for more humane treatment for refugees, but the producers had simply chosen to edit his comments out..." (Another out and out lie. Merlin spent MOST of his time sleeping while the other housemates were awake. This is the reason he was nominated by the majority of housemates. He also REFUSED to talk to anyone about such issues after he walked away discussing his own situation and REFUSAL to become an Australian citizen, with one housemate. Merlin, as one housemate put it, is socially inept.)

"...I will continue to talk about this issue in all my interviews, with Gretel on my next interview..." (Watching that interview was painful. Merlin was intellectually outgunned by a mile. He could not string more than two sentences together in a coherent fashion. This topic the Green Left Weekly claim he is so passionate about, had him tongue-tied as he tried to answer Gretel's most basic questions and couldn't. Looking on, you could almost sense he was about to either clam up tight and stop talking, or walk away as he did repeatedly in the Big Brother House.)

All in all, we learn nothing new from the GLW piece. And it actually reads as a bit of a hodge-podge compiled from bits and pieces from elsewhere. And draws into question the claim at the start that he "spoke to Green Left Weekly on the phone from a Brisbane radio studio as he waited for his umpteenth interview of the day."

The people in the Big Brother house are contracted to Big Brother and ONLY do interviews with authorized interviewers. Some schleb from Green Left Weekly - who HATES big business and everything business stands for - is going to be way down the list of people who will be granted precious interview time with a contracted individual. But, alas, the dopes who read that rag will only see what they want to see and will believe whatever they are told by their controllers.

Proof Australians Are Morons

Moron: Someone who should know something without having to be told it, but who does need to be told it because they don't know it. Usually in reference to something normal people would consider to be common sense - such as 'don't stick your hand in boiling water; don't place your hand on a BBQ hotplate while food is being cooked; and so on.

Of the wide ranging list of things I consider to be common sense NOT to do I'd like to mention the following:

Child Abuse - physical, sexual and mental
Rape - of any person of any age or gender
Drinking and driving - the only safe limit is ZERO alcohol
Violence - of any kind against any person, unless for self-defense

I take these things to be self evident.

However, it seems that Australians are so dopey they need to be told - with a nationwide campaign to the tune of $73.2 million. They need to be told that "Violence Against Women is Wrong"

Yep. Radio. TV. Booklets in the mail. The govt is letting us all know that

(1) Violence against women (and that can be mental violence not just physical) is wrong and

(2) There is a Help Line if you feel you are the subject of violence, know someone who is experiencing violence and you want to help, or you are a violence offender and want to stop.

This help line is staffed by "Professional Counselors" and is run under the Australian Government's Office of the Status of Women - but not staffed by government staff.

The booklet informs us that

(1) It is NOT ok to be pushed around - shoved, hit, slapped, kicked or punched. And that

(2) It is NOT ok for someone to say they did it because they were tired, stressed, over worked or under financial pressure.

So far, the booklet is, to me, a complete and utter waste of the citizen's money. If anyone needs a booklet to tell them this violence against anyone unless for self-defense is wrong, then they have bigger problems than a booklet will solve.

The booklet is also a waste of resources because it ain't gonna change a god damn thing.

Those who are victims will continue to be victims. It's all fine and well to tell them it is NOT their fault they are being mentally/physically abused. But if you have ever spoken with such a person you will know they have an excuse for everything. It's as if a part of them WANTS to be treated this way.

Those same people often have several relationships which always happen to be with the same kinds of abusive partners. There are deeper set issues than what a booklet will solve.

Nor will those people call a help line for the same reason. They might not like what is happening. But they twist it and justify it for themselves.

Those who commit the acts of violence will toss the booklet away without going over it. Considering it a bunch of lefty feel good nonsense making an issue where there is no real issue. Actively looking for things to call "violence".

Like an alcoholic, overcoming the habit first needs you to admit you have one. And that is something those offenders will never do. And they won't because they don't think they do anything wrong. They think whatever they do was deserved, or they were made to do it (pushed over the edge) by the other person.

Now that this book has come out, I wonder when a "Violence Against Men" booklet is going to hit the streets? It can tell us all about the mental games women play - flirting, jealousy, fake pregnancies, "if you love me" manipulations, custody inequality, and so on.

Then we can have a a booklet called "Violence Against Parents" which can talk about how children manipulate their parents.

Then we can have a book called "Violence Against Citizens" and it can expose the government's Slave Tax (income tax) and how the government falsely TAKES money from its citizens under the THREAT of punishment - which is exactly like any "protection racket" runs but, of course, we all know those are illegal.

Then we can have a campaign about Violence Against Heterosexuals all about how the Gay Lobbyists are foisting their pervertedness onto our society under the guise of free speech.

Then next we can have a campaign about Violence Against Whites, which reveals the crimes committed against the white people in the name of equality.

And finally, maybe they can produce a campaign called "Violence Against Intelligence". And it would detail how the common sense of the people is being assaulted by the lefties.

Look. I'm not saying violence against women should be condoned. Good heavens, no. I've already said, all violence unless for self-defense is wrong - no matter who does it to who. I'm merely pointing out that this is such an obvious thing the government hardly needs spend $73.2 million on it.

There are tons of better ways the govt could spend that money. Such as making 73 lucky Australian millionaires. But we know that wouldn't happen. Not during an election year. Which, for my cynical readers, is the SOLE reason the booklet has come out now.

Think about it. The govt has had YEARS to let us know violence against women is wrong. But they are only doing it now. They have had years to "fix" public health but are only making a big deal about it now.

Oh yes, my fellow cynic, there is no genuine concern for anyone's wellbeing by the government's actions, except their own during this election year.

I wonder if this year there will be a "No Government" option on my ballot paper?

I wonder if the government would consider offering me $1,000,000 to buy my lifetime right to vote. I'd sell it.

Inventing The SARS Virus

In a small corner of my local major daily newspaper is the following headline: "SARS vaccine under trial." Which is followed by a couple of paragraphs about a Chinese lab who has begun testing a vaccine for SARS.

The piece also mentioned that SARS killed about 800 people in 32 different countries last year.

When SARS was first being reported on, I sensed something wrong, did some research and wrote a "report" on it. That report was posted on another website and not this one. Now with a supposed SARS vaccine in the works, I feel it is appropriate to republish that report...

Inventing The SARS Virus

Before we begin you need to know: I am not a certified medical practitioner and nor do I play one on TV. The following is MY opinion about SARS and is for entertainment and discussion only. And BTW, I have NOT visited a Doctor for any illness since 1992 - thirteen years.

Also, before getting to the good stuff (inventing the SARS virus) we've got a do some "Immune System 101 - how your body deals with invaders and why you get sick." I promise to make it... "entertaining" :o)

Anyway. Lets begin.

For the sake of example, assume a virus has landed in your throat lining and now resides inside a cell in your throat. Inside that cell, it is "multiplying."

Your body knows there is something there. But not precisely where. So it sends in a B52 with some daisy cutters on board. The daisy cutters are dropped in the area the suspected virus is. This kills a lot of your own cells - and hopefully gets the virus.

A lot of the virus was destroyed but some got away and are now hiding in other cells. So your body drops more daisy cutters on the area. Killing yet more healthy cells.

The battle continues and more and more healthy throat cells are being killed. You begin to feel a sore throat!!

As this battle rages on, a cleaning crew comes in. It is their job to remove the dead cells and look for any virus parts. If they find any virus parts they send them to the lab. This cleaning crew quickly discovers there is a LOT of debris and needs help. So it signals for help the best way it can... by releasing a chemical in the area, which is picked up by the blood stream. This re-enforcement calling chemical is hideous stuff and makes us feel sick - nauseated, achey! (This sick feeling is your body's way of also telling you to stop eating and rest - why will be revealed a little later.)

Finally, someone at the lab has identified the invader. And have found the twin bothers (Bill and Bob) who have "special kills" at dealing with that particular invader. But the invader is many while Bill and Bob are only one each. So your body sends Bill and Bob to the cloning room (glands). And Bill and Bob begin to multiply and multiply and multiply (your glands begin to swell).

To help Bill and Bob be cloned faster your body raises its temperature. This also has the added effect of creating an inhospitable environment for the invader - who would like nothing more than to be left alone to "multiply." You know this as a rise in temperature or a fever.

At a point determined by the body, there are enough clones of Bill and Bob to deal with the threat. So the cloning room doors are swung open and millions of Bill and Bob killing teams swarm throughout the body. Bill can pinpoint the cells in which the invaders are hiding and blow them apart and Bob can snipe the individual escaping invaders. It's a beautiful pincer movement and very quickly the invader is destroyed.

The interesting thing about all this is that your sore throat, sick feeling, and temperature are all deliberately caused by your body and NOT the invader!

And the reason your body wants you to rest and not eat while this is going on is so it can devote all of its resources to destroying the invader. If you eat, vast resources are diverted to the digestion of the food. If you go about your daily routine you body has to deal with that too.

What is in your daily routine that the body has to deal with? Gas fumes - once breathed in the body has to get rid of them; other "germs" which you may already be immune to; chemicals - in the water and air (fumes given off by office furniture, carpet, etc.); and so on. Being out and about is filled with immune inhibiting encounters.

Runny nose? Coughing up phlem? Indication your mucus linings have been agitated. Fumes can agitate your mucus lining. And fumes can come from: gas, carpet, linoleum, the foam in furniture and mattresses, laminate glue, fiber board (like MDF and other "craft" wood), car dashboard (fumes is what makes your windshield "foggy"), plastics (such as what your TV is made from), detergents and other cleaners, aerosol cans (hair spray, air fresheners, deodorant, etc.), plug in oil air fresheners, incense burning, mosquito coils and plug in oil products, pest repellents, etc. Airborne particles can also agitate your linings and those particles could come from: pet fur, carpet, furniture, clothes, pollen, etc.

Certain food stuff also can cause a reaction in some people: lactose, gluten, MSG, sugar, mold (cheese), fungus (mushrooms), dairy, and so on. (I know someone who gets a migraine headache whenever they eat a stone fruit!)

So apart from whatever invader your body might have to deal with, it has to deal with a LOT of other things as well. Each thing takes its toll on your immune system.

Now onto SARS...

SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

A Syndrome is a number of symptoms occurring together.

See that? A syndrome is a collection of symptoms. That is all.

Do you understand the importance of that? It means ANYTHING can cause that collection of symptoms to appear. It could be any one thing or a combination of things.

Already we've heard... the time has most likely passed to control and defeat SARS and we may be stuck with it for a long time now. And... and this is the big one... the SARS virus has begun to mutate and change.

HOLD IT!!!

Mutate and change? This is following the SAME pattern as the so-called AIDS virus (AIDS is also a syndrome and Peter Duesberg - Ph.D. and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley - has many interesting things to say about it. I suggest you read his take on it here: http://www.duesberg.com/).

Doesn't it makes more sense to say... there are some people who, for reasons unknown at this stage, have contracted a severe form of the flu? Other people, in not such high states of health, would exhibit the IDENTICAL SYMPTOMS as someone being "diagnosed" with SARS, from just a moderate flu, wouldn't they?

After all, SARS is just a collection of symptoms. And those symptoms could be caused by any number of elements. To then just up and say someone has SARS (and THE SARS virus) based on a collection of symptoms which are the same as those of a bad case of flu, is medical incompetence - or - it's a wonderful stroke of genius by the drug companies!

(Side note: Most people only go to a Doctor when they are feeling sick and their glands are up. When your glands are up you can rest assured your body has identified the invader and will soon destroy it making you feel well. Why is it then, that the Doctor will prescribe anti-biotics? He knows your body has the invader licked. And he knows this the moment he feels your glands are up. He is knowingly prescribing an un-necessary treatment!)

Repeat after me: SARS is a collection of symptoms, SARS is a collection of symptoms, SARS is a collection of symptoms, SARS is a collection of symptoms, SARS is a collection of symptoms, SARS is a collection of symptoms, SARS is a collection of symptoms.

An Absurd Example

If I developed a series of small lumps on my skin which were itchy. I have a collection of symptoms - itch, lump. If I had those lumps on my feet (or lower leg area) that would also be a symptom.

The medical industry would thus say that when I have itchy lumps on my lower legs (a collection of symptoms) I have LILLS (Lumpy Itchy Lower Leg Syndrome). And yet, what I have just described is nothing more than flea bites!!!

Could something else cause a skin reaction like this? Sure... walking with exposed skin through a stinging nettle might do it, brushing up against a cactus, clawed by a playful kitten, allergic reaction to carpet maybe, splashed chemical, "hives," socks, and so on. There are LOTS of reasons why I could have itchy lumps on my legs.

It is the same with SARS. SARS is only a collection of symptoms.

There might be a "very bad" flu going around. But that does not make it THE SARS virus. People may be dieing from this flu - BUT - that does not mean they have THE SARS virus (there is no one SARS virus... SARS is a collection of symptoms) or they were in great health before getting sick (they very well may have already been sick, or in a bad state of health).

Every year, it seems, a "killer flu" comes out of Hong Kong. But previously, the medical professional has called it what it is... a flu... and they have even named it. But not this time... this time they are calling it a syndrome - knowing full well a syndrome is a collection of symptoms which can be caused by many different things.

Think about the importance of this for a minute...

IF they had called it Hong Kong Flu Z, then they could work on treating it (notice I said treating and not curing as medicine seems all about treating things until the symptoms go away and not curing them). And once Hong Kong Flu Z had naturally run its course - everyone who was going to get it en mass had gotten it and either died or developed an immunity to it - then the Docs who were working on it would be out of a job and would need to wait for the next strain of bad-ass flu to come out of Hong Kong.

But now they have called it SARS. They know any and all flus will cause the same set of symptoms - a person in poor health will exhibit the SARS collection of symptoms with only a moderate or minor case of the flu. And they now have a boogie man they can never catch because of that. So they can now start asking for research grants to study it. And the drug companies can work on an ANTI-SARS treatment and make loads more money.

Think about it from the drug company's point of view... they are going to develop a drug whose only purpose is to get rid of a collection of symptoms - remember, SARS is a collection of symptoms.

Fact is... only your body's immune system can destroy a virus. Penicillin can work on bacteria because bacteria are living. A virus is not a living thing... it exhibits zero signs of life.

For a drug to be able to destroy a virus is must be able to find the virus in and out of our cells... kill cells which contain the virus and no other cells... and also destroy free floating virus. And THAT is a BIG ASK from a chemical.

As already described at the beginning... your body's immune system creates a pincer movement which wipes out virus very quickly once they have been identified and the appropriate virus destroying team has been assembled.

The stage has been set. We have been warned we may now never get rid of SARS - and - the SARS virus is mutating (presumably making it harder for the Docs to deal with it).

My interpretation of what they are saying is... we may never be able to get rid of this collection of symptoms because the things which cause this collection are many and varied and always changing. (Of course, if they said it this way they would look like idiots and no one would take their scare mongering seriously.)

Case in point of setting the stage: On "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News, a MD was interviewed who supposedly had SARS and was now recovered. Before he was diagnosed with SARS he thought he had pneumonia! Even a trained medical practitioner thought he had pneumonia and NOT SARS. And on top of this, he says he had a "mild" case of SARS. So he had a mild case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. How can you have a mild case of something which has the word severe in its name? The answer is, you can't. By calling this bad-ass flu a syndrome... a collection of symptoms... they have cast a wide net which catches a lot of things and enables the SARS label to be attached to lots of different ailments which previously would have been called something else... such as pneumonia.

The best defense against disease is your immune system. And the best way to help your immune system is to stop doing things that overload it or reduce its capacity to function fully.

For those who would get a tad pedantic over my liberal use of the word "flu" throughout the above, SARS is a form of pneumonia.

Pneumonia is "inflammation of the lungs caused by infection or irritants."

Makes the SARS scare mongering seem even more silly now, doesn't it? And notice how wide their SARS net is? A collection of symptoms which are caused by infection or irritants.

Something for you to ponder: How many people in the world die from pneumonia on a daily basis? Think it might be more than 800 SARS supposedly claimed? In the whole world?