Audacity No 18 Spring 2015

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Reliable enough (sic) to have been
seconded to Iraq in 2004 and 2005,
where he assisted in training the
puppet police services of the Baghdad occupation-regime and was of
such significance to have played a
role in the show-trial of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, a process
that actually resulted in what many
jurists call his judicial-murder. Today, Kaldas serves in Lebanon, investigating the assassination of a
senior politician, such that Israeli and
American 'intelligence' may pin the
killing upon Syria, a function that
may prefigure war."
"In other words, in the very person
of Nick Kaldas there is a suggestion
that under his leadership of the New
South Wales political police, the logic
of counter-terrorism has imposed
itself upon political policing generally; further, it could be equally concluded that their fight in Iraq against
the national resistance is seen by
Kaldas's controllers as the same
thing as their struggle against patriotic dissident Australians. In one
sense that is correct: each targets
the New World Order system of economic and political and cultural globalisation, albeit on behalf of very different peoples and through rather
different means. Whatever some
Australians may think of this equation, the political police are in no
doubt of its validity and proceed accordingly."
I can only say that when Mr. Kaldas
speaks and acts, he speaks and acts
with the force of the state.
In the raging Muslim terrorism debate in Australia and given the
broad experience and knowledge of
Mr. Kaldas, it is unlikely that neither he – nor the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation – have
failed to miss the far broader issues
behind the comments made above
about the young killer in Sydney.
Indeed, many ordinary people
grumbled that Mr. Kaldas was being naïve and over-generous towards the killer; quite the contrary
as we said, he was concealing a
dark truth amidst a few facts about
the psychology of adolescents.
For our part, we have arrived at a
conclusion on the future nature of
terrorism in Australia. We have no
doubt that our counter terrorism
agencies understand this too. They
would be totally incompetent if
they did not.
We say:
Any discussion of Islamist terrorism
in Australia must begin with the
obvious social, cultural and economic marginalization of Muslims.
Back in 2005 after the Civil Uprising in Cronulla, which occasioned
the reactive politically and racially
motivated violence of Middle Eastern groups against white Australians, ASIO realized that its model of
Islamic radicalization - was wrong.
It would no longer be a matter of
certain persons attending prayer
halls and Mosques and learning of
the supposed visionary message of
Islam, 'radicalizing' in opposition to
the 'enemies' of Islam and eventually becoming terrorists. Rather, it
would be criminal, underemployed,
long-term unemployed, anti-social
and pure trash elements in the Middle Eastern communities
who would embrace Islamism as an
ideological explanation and ‘answer’
for their limited access to the goodies
and ‘respect’ of Australian society.
Their lack of social mobility and place
and their rejection of any rules of fair
conduct- would create the next generation of terrorists. And it did.
But from this moment in history on,
we have entered a whole new stage in
the social alienation of Muslims and
the growth-factors of terrorism. With
the passage of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the soon-to-be China Australia Free Trade Agreement
(ChAFTA), Australia will be uniformly
globalized economically and given a
new surface globo-culture demanding
of general loyalty. Australia can only
be increasingly Asianized in population terms. There is no real place in
globo-land and in a Chinese controlled
Northern Zone of Australia for the followers of Islam - except perhaps as
cheap (refugee) labour on the plantations, or as casual or sweated workers
in menial jobs in the big cities and
larger towns. Even then, they will be
heavily competed against by the armies of contract labour in the North
and the body-hire companies, foreign
students and so on - elsewhere. The
essential ideological (religious) and
social backwardness of the Muslim
groups would at that point tell against
them, creating new endemic resentments and hatreds. Why? Because the
principles of Islam and the cultural
backgrounds of these immigrant communities do not lend themselves to
this new free market of technowizardry and financial manipulation,
of specialized service industries and
tourism, of trade centres and university cities. The Muslims will be further
shut out of whatever wealth and
fame, or access to whatever gizmos
Graphite’s Book review : The Wake – by Paul Kingsnorth
"And so the English groaned aloud
for their lost liberty and plotted
ceaselessly to find some way of
shaking off a yoke that was so intolerable and unaccustomed”
- Orderic Vitalis (1075-c.1142) English chronicler and Benedictine
monk, describing the aftermath of
the invasion of England by the Norman French in 1066.
Introduction
IN September 1066, England was
invaded by William, the Duke of
Normandy. William defeated and
killed the English king Harold at the
Battle of Hastings on the 14th of October.
On Christmas Day 1066, William
was crowned King of England in
London, extinguishing the Saxon
royal line forever.
So
began
what
author
Paul
Kingsnorth describes as ‘probably
the most catastrophic single event’
in England’s history. Kingsnorth
points out that the Norman invasion
and occupation of England ‘brought
slaughter, famine, scorched-earth
warfare, slavery and land confiscation to the English population, along
with a new ruling class who had, in
many cases, little but contempt for
their new subjects. It wasn’t until
1399, over three centuries later,
that England again had a king who
spoke English as his first language.’
The Story
The Wake tells the story of a small
landholding
English
farmer
Buccmaster of Holland - in postinvasion
Lincolnshire.
‘Holland’
in .in this case refers to a region of
Lincolnshire, rather than the Netherlands. The story follows Buccmaster’s thoughts and actions in the
lead-up to the invasion, his response to it and his resistance to
the ‘ingenga’ (invaders) afterwards.
The historical fact of Saxon resistance to the Norman invasion is
not widely known, but it is well recorded. Several records exist, for
example, of the life of Hereward the
Wake – an 11th century leader of
local resistance to the Norman invasion. Hereward’s base was in the
Isle of Ely and according to legend
he roamed The Fens (including Lincolnshire) leading popular opposition to William the Conqueror. The
Wake and it’s characterisation of
Buccmaster of Holland provide
many parallels to the historical Hereward. The story also suggest a
possible origin for the folk concept
of ‘green men’ - with outlaws living
wild in the forests. This idea reappears perennially in tales such as
Robin Hood and perhaps explains
the enduring appeal of rural folkheroes, all the way through to Ned
Kelly.
The Language
Buccmaster’s tale is told in the first
person and is written in what
Kingsnorth describes as a ‘shadow
tongue’ of his own making – a language that’s meant to be understandable for contemporary readers
of English, but also close enough to
Old English to lend an atmosphere
of authenticity to the work that
wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. The effect is enhanced by the
plain and earthy language used by
Buccmaster; furious at being treated like ‘fuccan swine in our
own land’ and impatient with ‘dumb
folc’ who do not see the reality of
their situation, but would blithely
‘harro and plough and drink and fucc
like the blaec will nefer cum’
The effect of this use of language is
double-edged. On the one hand, the
story is certainly unique in its presentation of 11th century society - and
the use of a language that’s not-quite
-English emphasises how different life
was for the people of the time. Most
reviewers of The Wake celebrate this
enthusiastically on the grounds that it
represents a novel literary approach. And that’s true, although it’s
not one that goes without precedent. The Edinburgh grunge novels
of Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting and
others) use a similar technique – and
are equally difficult to understand for
the first time reader. Kingsnorth provides a useful glossary explaining the
meaning of many of the words he uses, but if you don’t realise it’s there
until you finish the book, it’s possible
to get over half way through before
you work out what a ‘fugol’ is (it’s a
bird).
So The Wake is hard reading, at least
until one becomes accustomed to the
language.
Truth and Lies
Superficially, the story relates to
themes of truth and deception, reality
and self-delusion. Buccmaster is presented as a broken and flawed character who convinces himself of his
own greatness, despite the evidence
of his imperfection. He beats his wife
for arguing with him, but after her
death tells himself and others that he
always treated her like a queen. He
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and fancy lifestyles as may be available to others. And we might note
too that many of these ‘others’ will
be arrogant colonizers who could
just as easily regard the Muslims as
cultural and non adaptive primitives.
The perception by Muslims of this as
‘unfairness’ would then be coloured
by the presence of ‘superior’ Islamist
ideology. After all, Islamism
‘explains’ (sic) the corruption of the
social order, its satanic nature and
the need for redemptive revolution.
Jihadi activism would only expand
through the Muslim wasteland suburbs on that basis.
It would follow Islamist terrorism
could become a growth industry.
The hatreds that Islamist groups had
towards the 'former' AustralianEuropean society (that will remain)
would be generalized into an explosive desire to renew the Muslim
community and ethos in fulsome
terror.
In other words, we must suggest
that Islamist terrorism in Australia is
now permanent, that it cannot be
bought off by community-centred
games to advance ‘inclusion’ and
‘tolerance’ (although that will be
tried) or dealt with by 'police methods'. If Islamist terrorism is one essential product of the very logic of
Australia's new stage of globalist
capitalism, it has a social and economic and cultural context. The two
things are linked together in contradiction.
We may ultimately thank (sic) this
new breed of terrorist for one thing.
He will tear up the multiculturalist
system and render globo-land dysfunctional. We Australian nationalists practice our own identity politics
of ethnic defence and we are determined to prevail in the name of the
historical Australian Nation.
Will the chaos caused by the new
generation of Islamist terrorists and
the cost borne by the state render
the system susceptible, amidst its
innumerable other infirmities (many
unrecognized by both people and
state), to overturn (?) – will be the
real question for the next two decades.
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The Greek Tragedy And The Rest Of The World Helping To Save The
Private Banks
Allan R. Jones
THE Greek people have been experiencing first hand the result of government borrowing from private
investment banks. By cooking the
books to hide the real situation
from the taxpayer and worker, the
debt paralysis having originated
from dealings with Goldman Sachs
from 2001-5 which had helped cover up the extent of Greek debt due
to derivative trading not being included into the national debt accounts.
Then Greek Prime Minster Lukas
Papademos had negotiated currency swaps with Goldman Sachs,
whereby the Euro was exchanged
for US dollars by the Greek National
Bank. The Greek government then
sold bonds that paid high interest to
those private banks which were insolvent in Europe before doing the
Goldman Sachs currency swaps.
This saved them at the expense of
the Greek taxpayer and producer
who had to pay increased taxes to
pay the government bond coupon
(interest) on those bonds.
The Greek government had used a
type of derivative called currency
swaps. In the case of Greece, the
swaps were to earn interest on the
dollar until 2019; however as the
situation deteriorated Goldman
Sachs sold back the troubled bonds
to the Greek National bank, a bank
that supported only private banks
in Greece.
Derivatives Cooked Greece, and
Residential Mortgage Backed
Securities have the potential to
cook Our Economy
In Australia in 2007-9 the bankers,
local councils, and others, who collect money from the taxpayer to
carry out “services”, thought it
more profitable to squander the
public savings and invest in Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
(RMBS) - as flogged by greedy investors in America who told the
sellers to unload the junk bonds on
“dumb Aussies” and many other
countries including Greece, Spain,
Portugal, Italy, France, and UK.
What has followed is a cover up in
Australia as the story was told that
this country avoided the Great Financial Crisis, (GFC). In fact, much
of the debt that was incurred during
this time, lies buried in silence except for a few reports on the pages
of The Age and Sydney Morning
Herald. Other sources about the
actual debt are found in the records
of the Federal Reserve Bank of
America, and in the files of the Office of Financial Management in
Australia.
The debt that Australia incurred at
that time has also gone unreported.
We do not know how much of it has
been repaid and some of the US
bailout funds channelled to the Reserve Bank of Australia, were to be
on very short term. According to
records, the interest cost to taxpayers cannot be established. Surely
China did not lend to Australia $42
Billion dollars at rates that Australia
received from the Federal Reserve
Bank of America at the time either?
Some borrowing figures are to be
found after diligently searching for
them, while the national news media including the public national
broadcaster ABC ran documentaries
on “what makes Australia great”
and “The Killing Season” where
both of these pieces of hype claim
that Australia had avoided the GFC.
In fact people like Peter Costello
former treasurer claimed that Australian banks “didn’t lose a cent
during the GFC”.
This is very misleading from Peter
Costello. It may well be the private
banks in Australia did not lose a
cent, as this was the strategy, but
how about the taxpayers and workers in Australia, did they lose any
money? It would seem certain that
they did as the imposition of austerity in this country is starting to
resemble the Greek austerity, and
this is the point. Is there a cover
up in Australia of the cost of the
GFC? We know for certain that
there was a lot of bailout activity
put into place, and there is no such
thing as a free lunch from foreign
lenders.
If we avoided the GFC, why is it
that the Liberal Party is now blaming the Labor Party for the spending during the time of the GFC and
that this has added so many billions to the federal budget deficit?
Indeed it was this spending that
actually helped the country pull out
of what could have been quite a
problem, and a bigger problem
mainly for the private banks in
Australia.
Golden Dawn giving food to needy Greeks
loans, the State and Federal governments help out here by not
opening up more land and subdivisions. This tends to increase demand for existing homes and the
redevelopment of some that are
being purchased just for the land,
in many cases by foreigners.
The State governments love this
situation as they can collect much
more on land tax, stamp duty, all
the while capital gains flow back
into the tax collection of Federal
governments.
What is happening in this housing
boom, is the windfall from the extra
cash collected by governments.
They have along with the private
banks devised another huge tax
collection without having to pass it
in the parliament or even reveal it
plainly to the public. The public in
Today the Liberal politicians and return are thinking that the housing
the media are engaged in trying to boom might line their pockets, and
tell the Australian people that the while this may happen in the interbudget deficit has produced a situ- im period it will not work out that
ation where it will have to suffer way in the long run.
austerity measures. They say it is
the public’s fault for claiming too Why this is self-negating in the long
many entitlements, which will have run for homebuyers and investors
to be stripped away bit by bit, and in real estate, is the looming and
as much as the public will tolerate, gradually increasing unemploywhile they also dig up muck on the ment, especially among the young
Labor Opposition by having com- who at present are finding it hard
missions of inquiry into union prac- to find a job. Finding a job that
tices - to lower wages.
pays well is also fast disappearing
over the horizon. Essentially, there
What is not understood here is the is a push for lower wages being
puppet pantomime that is taking gradually implemented as well and
place. The Labor Party is not going this will see a new generation of
to reveal the extent of the bailout poor, and underprivileged.
that happened during the GFC, and
neither is the Liberal Party, or the The Federal government is rearGreens, because if they did the ranging the status of the Australian
true amount of debt that govern- public. There are now new classifiments have incurred would be re- cations of what are “wealthy peovealed and the public would not be ple”; this is piggy backed on the
so docile about any application of present “housing boom” whereby a
austerity measures of which there pensioner who happens to live in
are more to come.
one of the big cities is experiencing
a house price rise interpreted as
We are still suffering the debts “wealth” that will attract more
of the 2007-9 GFC
council rates. Further, if they happened to buy an investment properThe saving of the banks is the main ty years ago for a retirement, it will
reason for our debt problems of now be assessed as assets that
today. The GFC has not gone away may well mean a reduction in the
as its debt remains and it has to be pension - which has already been
paid, so there are other measures tagged to be shrunk in the future.
to be implemented to attempt to
make sure the private banks in What good will it do a pensioner
Australia will not suffer. For the who doesn’t want to move, who has
government there is too much at no control over falsification of his
stake and other measures are the home value, and who earns a little
deliberate price hike of housing, from investments that may equal
where the private banks are able to the basic wage, to be told he is now
double the size of loans while hav- “wealthy” - when going out to a
ing to lower the interest rates. This restaurant once a year is considmeans that the profit margins are ered extravagant!? This is absurd
being kept above their average treatment of a onetime taxpayer
earnings.
the only source of wealth for the
nation now victimised as the excuse
As the private banks also sell these for a nation which has borrowed too
mortgages for ready cash instead much from private banks!
of waiting many years, they are
able to loan out to more in housing What you are also seeing in this
story is the gradualism of shrinking
incomes, the disappearance of good
paying long term jobs, while the cost
of almost everything is increasing.
The governments are raking in the
cash to reduce their borrowings
ahead of more trouble, while the
“reforms” they put in place will reduce the debt paying capacity of the
public. The public debt is the highest
in the “developed world” and all it
needs is a further reduction in unemployment or pay to begin a landslide.
Low wage capitalism and slavery
While we wait for this eventual outcome the governments are engaged
in inviting more immigration, with
more enticements and assistance for
resettlement of migrant workers who
are being ripped off by unscrupulous
employers. The attack on unions is
reducing their ability to bring these
happenings to the attention of the
public, while plans are being made to
invite more cheap labour into the
country especially in the northern
parts of the country.
Countries that will resist further immigration due to increasing austerity
will be forced to accept immigrants
from “regime change” war zones.
Governments play on the sympathy
of the general public, which has forgotten the huge disruption that
America and its allies have deliberately carried out in Iraq and other
countries, forcing people to flee from
once stable and relatively secure
countries that are now shattered into
pieces. This activity will see an extra
influx that their governments caused
by these initial counterproductive activities.
Again, if you research the countries
that have been attacked and brutalised, causing the spread of refugees
to end up on your shores, we find it
has all been done for resources and
the fact that these countries had
their own government-run public
banks, and that they were doing very
nicely. These were the real reasons,
and not the falsification of suspicions
of weapons of mass destruction; indeed, terrorism was born during invasions and murderous plunder.
When you add up all these inputshidden debts, austerity measures,
unemployment, housing booms and
busts, increased indirect taxes under
the guise of stamp duty, and capital
gains, the new “wealthy pensioner”,
the push for lower wages, the increase in immigration and the use of
them for slave labour, the erosion of
union power - you see the new poor.
There is the new poor generation of
younger people, the older generation
are undermined, the overloaded
charity outlets, increased violence in
the home or from invited terrorists in
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Corporate And Political Plans For Lowering Wages In The Western
World Allan R. Jones
RIGHT now, a distinct plan is in motion for the lowering of wages
across the board in Western countries. Corporations and bankers are
calculating the savings being made
by off-shoring, not only with tax
avoidance schemes - but for labour.
There is advanced planning to put
together a mosaic of suppliers in
low wage areas of the world that
can be economically drawn together
to produce all kinds of goods and
services to be sold in corporate
owned conglomerates - like
Walmart and Bunnings in the Western world.
Corporations have now increased
their eligible workforce worldwide.
Between the years of 1983 and
2015, the available workforce in the
Western global sphere of influence
has increased from 1.5 billion to
above 3 billion. This extra influx of
workers have come from places like
India, Vietnam, Mexico, Romania,
UAE, Thailand, China, even Russia
and many others. Politicians contribute by the signing of secret
trade deals, allowing the economic
circumstances such as the increase
of a pool of unemployment among
the young, or the lowering immigrant 457 visa supervision, as well
as extending the retirement age
without providing for more jobs.
These actions pit worker against
worker in a scramble for jobs.
The tremendous effect of this
worldwide plan, combined with the
technological means of greatly improved communications, payment
systems, and coordination of logistics involving shipping and other
transport, has brought about for
the first time in history the means
whereby up to thirty countries can
be involved in the production of one
product, all being controlled from
one building in one city whether
New York, London, Paris or Sydney
and all competing with each other
for wages.
Examples are corporations like
Toyota, Ford, Intel, Hewitt Packard,
IBM, Coca Cola, Proctor and Gamble, Telstra, and Australia’s four big
banks. Invariably most if not all of
the big corporations around the
world are farming out work to the
low-wage areas, then combining
the production of products to sell in
places like Walmart, Bunnings,
Coles, and Woolworths, High tech
IP shops, motor vehicle sales outlets, even direct mail order, or in
fact any sales outlet where you can
purchase low cost low wage products.
It is the very cheaply made products and services that are the problem, simply because it means very
cheap labour, and the fact that it is
Western corporations that are both
making and selling these products
anywhere - will impact on the wages in the West. This fast becomes a
brake on any remaining high paying
jobs left in the Western countries.
This situation cannot be good for
high wage demands in the countries
expected to become the consumers
of cheap labour products or services
they once produced themselves at
better wage levels.
There are three obvious actions
that are unfolding and will accelerate in pace as unpayable debt resulting from a lower standard of
living. The first will be the bank up
of over-produced goods in the Western countries as the wages cannot
extinguish available products at any
price. The second will be the economic conditions that have been introduced by budget changes that
have forced more and more people
into the workforce without there being enough well paid work. Thus politicians will point toward the low
wage work offered, but the amounts
being paid will not match living wage
expectations, consequently more
policy enforced austerity will result.
The third one is already with us in
Australia, ever since the privatisation of the Commonwealth Employment Service in 1998. There has
been a shift toward contractors to
tap inexperienced and young workers from overseas set up on 457 visas or seasonal backpackers for exploitation usually on farm work. This
move has created a underclass in
Australia of wage slaves that clearly
resembles the capitalist exploitation
of the 1890s. The setting up of labour hire companies that source and
supply labour to employers is permeating the landscape in many industries, a move which allows for an
extra layer of exploitation whereby
yet another corporate structure can
reduce the wage received for work
done by taking a cut out of the
workers entitlement for themselves.
Deregulation of Banks and Industrial Relations in 1983
The overall postulated picture is that
Western countries will be employed
in “good paying white collar jobs”
aka Paul Keating’s statements in the
1983 deregulation era. This does not
stand up to resulting developments
either, as many of the jobs that are
being off-shored are in fact white
collar jobs, but those doing those
jobs now will be pitted against a
vast army of willing and waiting
cheap labour sources in the yet untapped markets being cultivated by
Western capitalists every day.
“Gradualism” is the catch phrase
from the “Global” plotters and planners. It is happening over time and
from say 1983 to 2015, we have all
heard of the call centres, the bank
customer service staff, and billing
inquiries being made from Mumbai
or Manila; but it goes much deeper.
Look at Toyota which has over thirty
thousand contractors and suppliers
worldwide; some are owned by
Toyota and others are subcontractors and all have to meet stringent
deadlines and quality standards.
There is a pool of trained and dedicated cheap labour and it is easy to
understand that Toyota can pick and
choose performance levels across
such a range of competition for
work.
From these few examples, given it is
easy to imagine the ease of which
labour and products will become
global, as will the wage structures,
the lower moving toward the higher
and higher trending down until there
is very little difference. Free trade
agreements will provide the setting
up of manufacturing or services in
any country and by any global employee from any country, meaning
that sources of labour will be global
and located in any suitable country.
At present it is not well known that
wages in some industries in America
or Japan already approach $7.00 -
A 7/11 store - at the centre of a cheap labour rort
using foreign students. This is the new capitalism
$9.00 per hour as an example,
while Walmart has its lowest paid
worker in Bangladesh at 20 cents
per hour x 14 hour day = around
$30.00 per month, with 10 days
holiday per year.
All the American auto manufacturers are now studying and implementing the Toyota model. This has
not gone unnoticed by other companies all over the Western capitalist
world. Specific training is now on
the spot and production of qualified
personnel is well under way globally, and while it is understood that
cheap labour countries will demand
increases in wages eventually, there
is a time lag to reach developed
country wage levels which are in
decline. Further, there is always a
pool of unemployed in all the countries concerned to slow any wage
increase activity; thus a low wage
level playing field will be created
worldwide, with a potential to go
lower not higher.
Pressure is being brought to bear on
the developed countries’ union organisations by politicians. The spectre of “we will go offshore” or “union
corruption” dampening demands, is
a reality being recognised by union
bosses. So corporate pressure can
be applied all the way up and down
the production chain; the pool of
workers elsewhere guarantees a
much more compliant workforce;
exchange student and corporate
training programs are being developed with assistance from various
governments in many countries including Australia so that their workforces can participate by entering
the low wage level of this global
“integration”. An example is TAFE
colleges in India.
Specialized contracting companies are already established
There are corporations that are
wholly set up for contracting the
hire of labour right through to the
organization of production, health
and safety, delivery times, packaging, transport and any other requirement that a major manufacturer may need to satisfy a market
worldwide. Companies like Flextronics Incorporated is a leader in the
worldwide engagement of low wage
workforces for transnational companies. It has a revenue of $15 billion
annually.
Such an integration of workers goes
beyond media references of any declared enemies, as there are now
scientists and engineers employed
in Russia for $40.00 an hour taking
the place of American scientists and
engineers that would cost $120.00 an
hour to work on American projects.
The new program of seeking low
wage employees knows no enemy,
unless it interferes with profit margins
or sources of resources.
Education standards in the Western
world are being lowered, and made
more expensive while Western labour
wage rates have not moved very
much at all since 1980. This was the
very same year that the transnational
export of jobs begun in earnest, there
is remaining in the West very few
good paying jobs in the global administration of low wage offshore production administration. There are some
jobs in the area of capital investment
based on profit outcomes from slave
labour, or local housing speculation in
derivatives and other debt instruments that tend to secure the private
banks temporarily, but this can easily
fail if job losses increase, or wages
are reduced.
As none of this activity is helpful for
the continuance of Western lifestyles
based on an adequate income to
meet rising cost of living, often there
is no prospect for high paid work in
the future. The predictions of economic collapse or failure can therefore
Paul Keating: paid well, worth
$60 million.
be more easily seen.
The massive escalation in house prices can only be kept up so long as
wages continue to keep up with these
rising costs; that means high wage
jobs. These high paying jobs are now
disappearing, and the collateral damage will be a collapse in house prices
- due to the relocation of the means
of production, sales, and even markets into low wage countries.
Wage reduction and unaffordable
housing in the West
A future collapse in housing prices
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existed; until he asked for it from
the bank, not a minute before did
the bank have that loan capacity!
is guaranteed by the drive for lower
wages, off-shoring over time being
the main instrument that will herd
the working classes toward accepting lower wages. The boom in
house prices suits only the banking
investment class for their short
term gains in selling inflated residential mortgage backed securities,
or other debt instruments, giving
them the capital to invest in shares
of the profits coming from the exploited low wage initiatives.
But this is a last ditch capitalist
move to save themselves. Round
one was the 2007-9 GFC taxpayer
bailouts which is also short circuiting itself; the selling of a mass of
products to the Western world is
solely dependent on high wage incomes. This is already being felt by
the lack of increases from 1980 in
wage levels, but the debt that will
also mount up due to any future fall
in wages. This is already being anticipated by governments and will
see an escalation in foreclosures of
homes, thus sounding the death
knell to the investors riding on the
back of homeowners at present
buying RMBs.
It is obvious that government and
the capitalists are working together
to reduce the costs of production.
This in turn will increase profits to
corporations as long as the consumer in the West can afford to
buy. The problem of overproduction
that will soon arise, usually translates into a war where the excess
productive capacity can be gobbled
up in bombs and bloodshed, while
corporate profits are increased. This
is reluctantly supported by the
working classes, due to unemployment resulting in volunteering or
conscription with an income from a
bankers’ battlefield.
However, the next war will see
global manufacturing bases widely
dispersed around the globe, with
only communication systems keeping them going. The collection of
parts and pieces may be a problem
due to interruptions of communications and transport. This is remedied by the military industrial complex locating in low wage production areas near the countries that
have initiated world wars - such as
for example the USA using Mexico,
a low wage production base already
a part of NAFTA.
Multinationals destroying Australian farmland by for export products:is
the monestising of Australian debt. There is mass resistance.
chemicals and pharmaceuticals are a
panacea for every illness, oil dominated industries restricting alternate
energies, the destruction of land and
water resources due to the frantic
fracking search for gas or coal, and
the insidious attempts to employ robots to displace workers. Nowadays,
Third World countries make robots
to do away with higher wage areas
of Western economies. Indeed,
these are already employed in Western supermarkets.
The governments that attempt to
pay global companies to stay in a
high wage environments will be
wasting their taxpayers’ money.
What they should be doing is investing in providing alternative industries that are not integrated into the
global monopolies. This could be for
example organic foods, and alternate medicines, these two especially
suited to Australia with improved
water distribution systems that have
been on the drawing board since the
1930s; but to do this you need a
public banking system, that can fund
national initiatives and not the globalist dictatorship.
Austerity will eventuate - due to
no interest in high wage job creation
‘Austerity’ is a plan taking place every day in Australia. We see the lowering of wage levels, the removal of
entitlements and penalty rates, and
adjustments to the pensions. There
is ‘same payment’ for working day
or night. All women and the 70 year
olds must work, with refugees of
capitalist imperial wars competing
with the locals for wages. There is
the weakening of union powers, the
Innovation and invention be- ramping up of the debt on housing,
comes corporate technological the collapse of certain parts of the
determinism
economy - and on top, the competition of foreign workers in low wage
The main emphases of this discus- countries.
sion is the plan for lower wages,
the way this will be implemented, The invasion of our economy by
and the end results. The very coun- countries like China with new found
tries that led innovation and inven- wealth based on low wages profits
tion of most of the world’s ad- can use this leverage to foreclose on
vanced products and are deserving parts of Western countries. All of
of appropriate incomes, will be de- this is an attempt to salvage the
moted to the ranks of low wage capitalist system which must always
coolie lands. Other countries will require competition and the reduccompete to make the products that tion of costs in order to raise profits.
the corporations have acquired by Capitalism is being undermined due
means of being part of the family of to mounting debts, competition for
corporate dictators, where capital resources and markets, a burden of
can always be derived from the non-performing speculative investworking classes by way of private ments and industrial upheaval. The
banking debt, tax burdens, preven- cost of proxy wars is driving this intion or acquisition of technology sane system to full scale war as it
and unfair competition.
has always done in the past. The
impossibility of continuous profit
Thus the direction of technical ad- based on fictitious debt gets out of
vancement will be determined only hand due to collapsing leverage, ulby corporations for profit. The ef- timately resulting in a worldwide
fect of this is already being felt worker uprising against the capitalist
where genetically modified foods system.
are destroying the organic natural
and safe food production, where
This Revolution is biggest since
the Industrial Revolution
The move to the process of
“integration” as economists will refer
to this phenomenon is unprecedented in capitalist history; it can be likened to the industrial revolution for
the disruption it will cause. Labour
unions and workers will have to
unite to protect their interests, but
they will have to define their interests more clearly. Even excessive
immigration of people’s fleeing imperial wars are to be used to lower
wages and add confusion to those
who see only empathy rather than
deliberate intensions to culturally
distort and spread low wage slavery
around the globe.
Research from the United States
Business Council has pointed out
that as far back as 2002, the numbers involved are staggering; it said
that there are at least seven countries that have populations well over
100 million and these are rapidly
entering the world markets.
We
may speak of China, Russia, Brazil,
India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mexico, the former communist countries
of eastern Europe, the former Soviet
republics, plus there is the rapidly
growing countries of Vietnam, Philippines, and Turkey where each of
these have over 50 million each.
This researcher also commented
that the flow of workers up until
1980 was gradual, and at that time
the wage and industrialisation was
mainly national, not global.
Once the penny drops and the reader sees the capitalist plot of a move
to shift offshore all high wage production, it will be plain for all to see
that there would be no interest in
any job creation that results in a
permanent good paying manufacturing or industrial jobs in Australia.
Instead, politicians will blunder
along deliberately allowing countries
like China to take advantage of the
wage competition that will develop
among high wage countries and low
wage countries. Cash strapped politicians will welcome China here for
resources, food supply, or other
global free trade interests, creating
booms and busts by rise and falls of
demand, all of which will impact on
the lowering of entitlements and
wages for workers in our country.
Austerity therefore is a plan not an
accident. The whiteanting of workers within Australia has already
been allowed to get a foothold, with
the labour hire contactors who exploit the migrant workers on farms
which supply the big supermarkets.
All the while unions are collectively
smeared, big corporations will claim
immunity, but the contagion will
spread. Eventually it will be aligned
with the off-shoring of the higher
wage earners and thus there will be
a meeting of the exploited layers.
This may result in a shadow boxing
political debate about “budget repair” measures, but the end result
will be crushing of the bottom layer
of workers by the top-heavy layers
to produce lower wages across the
board.
The global workforce has drastically changed
The total of available, willing, excess
workers is in the billions; they are all
eager to get onto the imagined gravy train, and the capitalist corporations are equally eager to exploit
them. They will be used to lower the
wages of the Western world employees who still have a job and because
of the increasing supply from each
contributing country they can all be
pitted against each other if they demand too much in wages. Thus union power is being eroded
Alarming as comments here are, it
must be stressed that the capitalist
and private banker elite have always
exploited the working classes. The
institution of private banking with its
ability to create credit out of nothing
was the foundation stone for the rise
of the multinational corporation. As
part of the elite structure of capital
domination by the integration of
banks and corporations, loans for
them was no problem. Any cost in
this lending between friends was
treated as a tax deduction and one
way or another the worker as borrower paved the way for these conglomerates with sweat, labour,
blood, and taxes all to pay an illusionary but legalised debt that never
Malcolm Turnbull: an ex
banker for Prime Minister
The vastness of the conglomerates and low wage combinations
Even local large companies and entrepreneurs in each Western country are not going to withstand the
conglomerates that can tap the connections they have in low wage offshore production. Combined with a
web of fellow megalithic corporations which supply the very equipment and knowhow sourced from
the low wage countries and which
can be brought to bear; the multinational capital connections are all
linked together to form one power.
This is global power which makes a
select club of exploiters. They are
the sharks in the same pond with
the sardines. This is especially so of
the stock exchanges parasites, international banks and the labour
racketeers.
Australia in particular is confronted
with this multi-pronged attack on its
living standards. The scramble for
money to pay debt will accelerate, while its ability to pay is undermined forcing the governments to
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borrow more from private bankers.
This reduces living standards and
wages again and the nation is deliberately hamstrung to increase national wealth by its own means of
investment and so it turns to foreign
investment. Thus it increases its
debt burden again, and while this is
going on the country will accept
trade deals, tariff removal, that will
contain the requirements to lower
the pay-rates of labour. In this way,
Australia will join those nations comVast reserves of Chinese capital, the product of exports to
peting in a race to the bottom
America, now get value—Aussie homes, lands, resources.
among billions of eager workers who
annual defence debt to the Australi- hands of the government) “can make
will never find enough work.
an people of $70 billion dollars for money available to governments or
One must bear in mind that this la- equipment suiting the defence of to others on such terms as it choosbour game is stacked against the American interests.
es, even by way of a loan without
worker anywhere in the world. In
interest, or even without requiring
reality it was the worker who in the Colonisation has cost us our nation’s either interest or repayment of prinbeginning that enabled the growth future so far, and politicians are ciple”.
of the transnational conglomerates again sucking up to a third contendand in the first stages of growth the er - China.
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The Wake, Con’t from page 7
porations which help entrench its haircuts, and bail ins. It passes the
power. The ability of the Money costs to the taxpayer and borrower
Power to then make the fiat (created of the bailouts, thus saving those of national sovereignty associated
on the ledger) money appear by law capitalists who are in league with with the invasion more keenly, beto be real (because all that is bought the banks. The plan is to reduce the cause he had a stake in the old Saxand sold is real), is clear, but when cost of production by the use of on system and has lost that. Today,
the peoples of the world find they cheap labour and between the two we commonly find Australians apaare slaves this also will be real, but of these solutions the bankers and thetic about the loss of our jobs and
it will be the result of that which was capitalists intend to survive, but at industry to internationalist free trade
tremendous cost to everybody else.
not real.
initiatives. This is, at least partly, because employees mostly have no maMay this document be a warning to This author has many times put for- terial stake in the organisations that
all that the time is approaching that ward the response to this Money they work for. Publicly listed compawill test our sanity. Will we all be Power with its creation of money nies are ‘owned’ by shareholders
fools without a paradise, men and from nothing. Money is ‘lent’ to the who, usually, have contributed nothwomen seemingly without a brain, people at debt incurring interest, ing directly to the company but exslaves who supply our own chains? thus giving the private bankers a pect to financially benefit from it. If
Will we accept all we are told, and huge leverage over all others in- the board decides to ‘offshore’ prowill we say “what can I do” while cluding the stupefied governments. duction to lower costs, the employees
doing nothing? Surely we have sacri- The answer is so simple it is beyond will find another company to work for
ficed enough in the fights for belief that is has not been intro- and feel no sense of loss. Under
“freedoms” that end only in econom- duced long ago. The answer is for such circumstances, feelings of colic bondage? We can all learn today the government to take back the lective belonging and loyalty seem
from many sources that it is the pri- power to issue money, but also at very misplaced.
vate debt-creating banks which are the same time this money issue
the main problem behind all our oth- must not charge a profit of any The Norman Yoke
er problems and by removing this kind, or if there is a small profit
burden can rebuild our world of pro- from the operation of such a bank, Importantly, The Wake reintroduces
the profit should be paid to the gov- the concept of The Norman Yoke to
ductive effort.
ernment for public works.
modern readers.
Kingsnorth inAustralia need not support any
cludesan endnote to the book entitled
As most of my readers know the ‘A Note on History’ in which he
of this global capitalist plot
government already has the power makes clear the profound effect that
Australia has always been under to issue its own money. This comes the Norman invasion had on English
some colonial regime. In the past from the Australian Constitution, history. While it is true that the dethe ”mother country” has extracted Part V section 51 subsections 4, 12, mographic profile of England was lit600 railway wagon loads of gold to 13 ,20, 31. As for the application of tle changed after the events of 1066,
pay The Bank of England; we were interest or excessive charges this many other aspects of English life did
involved in imperial wars aimed at also has been established as a falla- change significantly. The trajectory
reduction of competitors of British cy in Australian law, as established of England’s social evolution was also
global trade. America also has come by the Royal Commission into Bank- changed forever – and generally in
to our rescue with embargoes and ing and Monetary Policy of 1937. ways that did not benefit the average
sanctions against Japan resulting in The findings of this Commission had English citizen. Kingsnorth points
another war. America remains in our to refer to the presiding Justice Na- out:
country to control our top 20 per- pier who had to interpret what was
forming companies plus most of our revealed: “This statement means In 21st century England, 70% of the
private banks by means of proxy that the Commonwealth Bank (at land is still owned by less than 1% of
directorships of at least 30% on that time this bank was the central the population; the second most unebank of Australia in the
each board, while extracting an
qual rate of land ownership on the
planet, after Brazil. It is questionable
whether this would be the case had
the Normans not concentrated all of
it in the hands of the king and his
cronies 1000 years ago’.
And; “Other Norman legacies remain
with us too, or have only recently
been purged from our society. Automatic hereditary monarchy, the
‘ownership’ of a wife by her husband,
the inheritance of land and titles by
the first-born son, the legal ownership of all land by the monarch; all
are Norman introductions’.
In contrast to the grim reality of post
-Norman England, mediaeval Iceland
developed along lines that might
have paralleled a Saxon or Saxon /
Danish England if William had been
defeated at Hastings. In the three
centuries from Viking settlement to
1260 when the king of Norway took
control, the Icelanders created a remarkably modern free state, governed by laws and notions of honour
instead of warlords and kings. Iceland had no king, no lords, no peasants, a relatively flat economic structure - and the world’s oldest extant
parliament, the Althing, which was
established in 930AD.
As it was, England was fated for a
very different future. Six hundred
years later, following the First English
Civil War, a group of Protestant radicals called The Diggers (or The True
Levellers) were still claiming that the
common people of England had been
robbed of their birthright and exploited by a foreign ruling class. Gerrard
Winstanley wrote for The Diggers;
“O what mighty Delusion, do you,
who are the powers of England live
in! That while you pretend to throw
down that Norman yoke, and Babylonish power, and have promised to
make the groaning people of England
a Free People; yet you still lift up that
Norman yoke, and slavish Tyranny,
and holds the People as much in
bondage, as the Bastard Conquerour
himself, and his Councel of War.”
- Gerrard Winstanley (1609-1676)
from ‘The True Levellers Standard
Advanced’.
For expressing such views, The Diggers leadership were beaten, arrested and killed.
State power in England – and by extension, later in Australia – remained fearful of challenges to its authority and loyal to ideas
that are foreign to – and rejected by
- the nation’s people. The Norman
Yoke is still with us today.
Hereward The Wake —
Resistance leader
Conclusion
The Wake won the inaugural book of
the year prize at the Bookseller industry awards. It was longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize and the Folio
Prize, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths
Prize and won the Gordon Burn Prize
in 2014.
It is highly recommended.
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Editor’s Note: Regarding wars for oil
and resources. See: Ted Wheelwright
Oil And World Politics: From Rockefeller To The Gulf War (1991)
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trying to impose their laws and way
of life on a native population is one
which obviously has parallels today.
Another subterranean theme running
through the story, but relevant to today, is that of place and territory.
the streets, the setting up of trade
zones in the country by foreign
countries like China - where again
the push will be for lower wages
and colonial leverage attempts all
aimed at lowering debt.
Does this activity cause you to mistrust the political parties within our
parliament? Why is it that there is
no goal for the country? The
planned infrastructure will not
eventuate due to hidden debt, given to private contractors who will
be foreigners charging tolls. The
housing bubble will deflate, and
with it further debt and disruption.
The lack of jobs will cause further
social upheaval, resulting in the imposition of harsher laws. An attempt to stifle social media from
subjective criticism is under way. A
suspicion must form even in the
most distracted mind that something is wrong?
It is time for Nationalism to put forward a vision for how the country
should be governed. It must not be
for foreign entities, nor for any other colonial master or masters. Nor
should it be for private banks that
need constant bottle-feeding with
debt and neither for protracted
warfare in parts of the world that
mean nothing to Australia except
the invited terrorism. We need no
secret deals that could enslave and
restrict freedoms and prosperity.
We denounce the brainless zombies
in the parliaments, who can only
see gay marriage, “death cults” and
union bashing as relevant issues
while the Nation implodes.
Leveraging the past present and
future
Government open ignorance of economic welfare is apparent when
they allow the control of our largest
banks to be in the hands of foreigners, as well as that of our retail
food suppliers.
Other ineptness is in the suggestion
that we need foreign investment.
This is another word for corporate
takeover and privatisation, as it is
the foreign corporations and not
other countries that have anything
to invest in Australia, and that will
be only in their interest.
We Australians are also encouraged
to join in wars on once peaceful
countries that have their own government banks and oil and other
resources, and we join this warmongering because of the ability of
the United States to create as much
debt as it needs to buy influence
and vast amounts of war equipment, when we could have lent to
ourselves the same amount without
interest, without having to crawl to
other nations and suffer debts and
violence because of it.
All this poor governance has been
repeated in Australia in the past, in
the 1890’s, and in the 1930’s and it
was caused by the same old activity, the private bankers had overleveraged their investments and
increased the debt upon the public.
Then came the collapse resulting in
the governments of the day having
to load up the taxpayers with debt
to save those private bankers. The
only reprieve from this iniquity for
small Australian business and our
farmers and workers, was during
the time of the Commonwealth
Government Bank which only existed for eleven years of prosperity
1911 to 1924.
People and Place
So-called ‘leftist’ Greek PM Tsipras - selling
Greece’s assets to the bankers
The solution
This is why the Australia First Party
has adopted the policy of introducing back into Australian life and
prosperity a
government public
bank, a bank that does not have to
make a profit, and therefore does
not need to have a huge national
debt to use as its deposits, a bank
that ensures the country is never in
debt. Instead it will use the National Credit which is the wealth of all
national assets, in conjunction with
the public credit of the people and
it will operate on the principle of
whatever is physically possible can
be made financially possible, at the
lowest cost to the people, a nonprofit bank a people’s bank.
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Book review: The Wake from
page 2
The Greek People should celebrate the occasion to default
and invite the world to have a
holiday there as it is indeed an
occasion for freedom.
The Greek people should celebrate
that a default may occur and work
to get out of the European Union
and go their own way. They will not
take long to become peaceful and
prosperous, no matter what they
call their currency, or whether they
join another organisation such as
the BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and
China - they should celebrate and
invite the world to have their holidays in Greece, this will quickly
build up foreign reserves of cash to
combat the unforgiving treacherous
banksters of the world who hate
opposition
If Greece ultimately ‘defaults’, so
should we. It is the beginning of
freedom.
objects to his sons going off to join
the ‘fyrd’ (local army) because he
needs them on the farm, but when _____________________________________________
it becomes apparent that they have
been killed, he implies – and possibly believes - that they went to
fight with his blessing. He is shown
as being arrogant, driven and unforgiving; qualities which initially
appeal to those who join his motley
band of rebels, but which ultimately
repel them.
These themes are easy to discern
and provide a good foundation for
the story of a complex man. There
are other, less obvious, themes woven into the story too, and from the
nationalist perspective these are
very interesting.
Identity
On one level, the whole story could
be easily viewed as a tale of identity and of mediaeval identity politics. Buccmaster and his followers
regard the Norman French as foreign and unspeakably alien to their
culture and way of life. And so they
are.
Their language is different. Their clothing and customs are
strange. They have very different
views about who gets to own property and the rights of those who
don’t. And they have come to rule,
to assume the sovereignty of the
land and to impose their beliefs.
By contrast, Buccmaster’s most loyal follower – the boy called Tofe - is
a descendant of earlier Danish invaders. He is not of ‘Anglisch’
blood, but Buccmaster reconciles
this by observing that the Danes
were culturally closer to the Saxon
English than the ‘ingenga Frenc’
and that Tofe himself was a ‘denisc
boy, becum anglisch’. Historically
this rings true. The Danes had already imposed their own laws over
the northern part of England wellprior to the arrival of Canute –
which led to this part of the countrybeing called the Danelaw. But
their culture, laws and customs
were closer to the established Saxon ways than those of the Normans. Later kings officially converted to Christianity. The Normans
were altogether alien and were
Pagan, Indo-European deity, the
Green Man. Commonly found
throughout Europe and who inspired
Robin Hood style myths.
widely despised as a result.
In Buccmaster’s case, this resentment is exaggerated because he
identifies the invaders with the
coming of Christianity to England. The story makes it clear that
by 1066, Christianity was already
well established in England but
Buccmaster rejects it completely. He is a worshipper of the old
pagan gods who talks to trees and
hates the priests and their hypocrisy. Throughout the story he is
haunted and driven by visions of
Saxon gods and the voice of Wayland the Smith, who – family legend
holds – gave a rune-inscribed
sword to Buccmaster’s grandfather. In one chapter, Buccmaster
also seeks relief from the heat by
immersing himself in a stream in
the dead of night. While in the
stream, he experiences a transcendent experience where he sees
the ‘eald god’ Odin and understands
that this is a sovereign blessing of
him and his mission. Again, there
is a historical basis for the scene in
that all of the Saxon kings of England, from Hengest and Horsa
through to Edmund Ironside all
claimed descent from Odin. This
was true even after
the later kings officially converted
to Christianity.
Buccmaster hates the invaders and
can inspire others like him to kill
them because they have intruded on
his lands and his space. There is no
suggestion that he has a pathological
hatred of them simply because they
are different. It’s the fact that they
are different and in his space that’s
relevant. This becomes clear when
the reader compares Buccmaster’s
response to the Normans (homicidal
loathing) to his opinion of the
Welsh. The Welsh get a couple of
passing references throughout the
story and are clearly regarded as foreign, uncivilized and immensely different. But they are in their own
place and Buccmaster is comfortable
with that – even considering the possibility of an alliance with them at one
stage, but dismissing it due to their
apparent unreliability. Buccmaster is
also clearly attached to his own lands,
exhibiting a spiritual attachment to
The Fens that springs from his heritage there. While on the run, he and
his band spend some time deep in the
forests, hiding out and preparing for
their next (undefined) fight. But
some time later they return to the
Fenlands and Buccmaster is inspired
and motivated by being back in his
own territory.
The theme is one that will resonate
with Australian nationalists. Our opponents routinely portray us as slackjawed haters; xenophobes afraid of
anyone ‘different to us’. This is nonsense, of course. Our love of our
country and people is a positive thing
and we ask nothing more than to be
allowed to evolve as a people, free
from the imposition of foreign masses, laws and cultures. We may be
descended from people in Europe or
elsewhere but our spiritual inspiration
lies here, on the old continent. Many
recent reviewers of The Wake find
nothing to like or admire in Buccmaster of Holland and - by any estimation
- he is far from perfect. But despite
his obvious character flaws, I found
myself cheering him on at every turn,
hoping that in the end he’d overcome
his egotism and throw in his lot with
Hereward – whose deeds haunt a
jealous Buccmaster throughout the
later part of the story and provide
stark contrast to Buccmaster’s own
lack of effective strategy or action. A
big part of his appeal, then, is in the
essentially human love for his own
people and place that he shows consistently throughout the story.
Nothing to lose
Another theme relevant to contemporary Australia is the apathy of those
who have no material stake in their
society. In one short episode,
Buccmaster and his gang arrive at a
village of English peasants who are
enjoying themselves in a simple harvest festival.
They are ‘steppan and smercan’ (or
dancing and smiling) and seem unconcerned about the arrival of the
Normans. When Buccmaster appeals
to them for help in fighting the invaders, the villagers refuse – saying
that none of them owned any land
anyway and were formerly forced to
support their Saxon lords, so they are
no worse off under the new regime.
This reaction enrages
Buccmaster with predictable results. He feels the loss
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THE Australia First Party has participated in the various Reclaim Australia
and similar rallies in recent months.
The party has kept its independence
and initiative in dealing with the audiences and the leaders.
The party’s aim has been to intersect
with a large number of people who
have seen an immigration problem in
Islamic migration but all the while
seeking to lead them into a general
opposition to the immigration process.
This has brought us into conflict with
the leaders who basically and generally stand for ‘Diversity Minus Islam’. Of
course, taking Islam out of the pot —
still leaves the diverse (sic) society to
the detriment of Australianity.
THE unity of the nationalist forces
remains a crucial goal of the party.
The party has operated its united
front tactic in dealing with all sorts of
patriotic people, but it pursues the
goal of unification with the vanguard
nationalists.
The unity of genuine people can be
achieved if there is the will to do it.
Australia First Party is the core of this
unity. However, the party remains
completely open to genuine people
from smaller groups to take roles and
contribute to overall development.
The party sees itself as a vehicle for
the service of the Australianist ideal
which wages political struggle.
EUREKA YOUTH LEAGUE
A new nationalist youth movement, led by Australian youth, has
formed. The Eureka Youth League
(EYL) operates a website and a
blogsite. See:
http://
eurekayouthleague.angelfire.com/
http://eylaust.blogspot.com
The EYL is the future of the Australian people’s movement. It publishes an array of leaflets and adhesive stickers ($5 per 100). The
EYL sells a T-Shirt at $12 posted
(all sizes). Write to P.O. Box N291
Grosvenor Place 1220 for materials
CLASSIC AUSSIE TEXTS
BY FRANK ANSTEY, MP
The Kingdom Of Shylock and The
Money Power explained the rise of
finance capital in the early 20th
Century. What is money? How is it
created by private banks? What
was the nationalist alternative?
www.alphalink.com.au~radnat
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REGISTER THE PARTY!
The party is on a membership
drive to ensure it has a strong
base to win back its Federal registration. Why not join up?
The Eight Core Policies Of Australia First: A Programme
And A Method For National Rebirth!
Whatever will benefit Australia, that we are for; whatever will harm Australia, that we are against. William Lane
2 THE Eight Core Policies of Australia First are
the basis of association for the party. They
are (with explanations and the implied ninth
point) as follows:
1 Ensure Australia Retains Full Independence
Protect our sovereignty (national, constitutional and personal) and maintain an adequate defence, whilst being reasonable and
fair in our nation's international dealings.
2 Rebuild Australian Manufacturing Industries
This is the only way we can be self_ sufficient. It will provide jobs for our children, and
help buy back the farm and allow Australia to
be free of foreign debts. Our infrastructure
has been run down over many years - it must
be rebuilt. We must improve the practicality
and relevance of our educational systems,
and target government support for industry
to diversify, innovate, perform and expand.
We recognise that small business is fundamental to this policy. A satisfactory financial
environment is also urgent and essential.
3 Control Foreign Ownership
Bring foreign ownership and investment back
under control.
4
Reduce
and
Limit
Immigration
Immigration mistakes can be big long-term 9 Democratise Other Policy Issues
mistakes. Immigration policy must take into
account social cohesion, employment opportu- All other policies (non-core policies) are matters of free conscience and are not binding
nities, urbanisation and environmental issues
upon Australia First’s future parliamentarians
or councillors who are to represent their elec5 Abolish Multiculturalism
torates.
End the divisive, government -funded and inIssues of public interest on which Australia
stitutionalised policy of multiculturalism.
First needs to formulate policy will be canvassed with the party membership, and plebi6 Introduce Citizen-Initiated Referenda
scites conducted where deemed appropriate
Amend the Australian Constitution such that by the party’s National Council. The party also
the people can initiate a constitutional referen- permits branches to formulate specific elecdum which, if approved by the Australian peo- toral policies or community policies not inconple, will amend the Australian Constitution. sistent with the Eight Core Policies.
This simple step will confirm the political authority of voters and make legislators aware From time to time, the party will issue materithat they are the servants of the Australian al that provides interpretation of the core poliPeople, not their masters. The people directly cies. This interpretative material would reflect
should also possess the sovereign right and the spirit of the party.
the power to initiate other legislation
The organizational purpose for this statement
of policy and system for policy creation is sim7. Strengthen the family
ple: Australia First does not require weighty
tomes which change from month to month, as
Promote policies that strengthen and protect
do the programmes of the Establishment parthe traditional family.
ties and those who ape them. It requires a
focus for action and for unity within the party.
8 Strive to Rebuild A United Australia
Promote policies that recognise the interdependence of city and country.
Where To Find Australia First
National Contact Line:
02 8587 0014
National Council e-mail:
[email protected]
New South Wales:
Australia First (NSW) office: P.O.
Box 593 Rockdale 2216
Blue Mountains: P.O. Box 202
Katoomba 2780
Coffs Harbour: 0419 492 917
Sutherland Shire: P.O. Box 2499
Taren Point 2228
Australia Wide:
Qld. State committee:
[email protected]
Australia First (Qld. Secretary):
P.O Box 107 Springwood 4700
Australia First (Adelaide)
[email protected]
P.O. Box 101 Holden Hill 5088
Australia First (Western Australia): P.O. Box 129 Collie 6225
Australia First (Victoria): P.O.
Box 223 Croydon 3136
Australia First is to build a new national movement. Practicality is method.
‘Australia First’ Web Sites
www.australiafirstparty.net
New South Wales:
http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au
Queensland:
http://afqld.blogspot.com
Victoria:
www.australiafirst.net
Blue Mountains:
http://
afbluemountains.blogspot.com
South Australia:http://
australiafirstsouthaustralia.
blogspot.com/
Truth Television:
www.truthtelevision.net
Other Australia First Contacts
Western Australia:
Facebook
Riverina:
http://
australianidentity.blogspot.com
Australia First also operates in
other locales such as Newcastle,
NSW Central Coast, Riverina and
other towns and cities. Contact
the National Contact line.