Tuesday 29 November 2011

Facial Recognition System.. part 2

Going back over this so that people might be able to understand what the BIG DEAL is with it.

It's simple really.. do you remember the saying "Big Brother is watching You".

Well there you have it.... we all hated the concept of being observed every second of our lives and not having any freedom of movement because of it.

So why has no one bothered to stand up and fight against this being slipped in under our noses?

Because no one KNEW this was happening. We were not informed before they employed the system.

This is simpkly more of the same old thing I have been concerned with for most of this life.. our eroding Freedoms in the time of "Terrorist Threats to our way of life".

It's bullshit folks. We do not need this facial recognition system in Australia.

The reasons for it's use are pathetic.. to stop teens sending friends in to do their tests.. what a load of crap!!

There is only one reason for the system to be used without our express permission and agreement to lose valuable Freedoms and Rights.. so that those in control can have much more control.. much more ability to observe you every minute of your life.

You will not be able to walk down a street without someone behind a computer pin-pointing you on their screen and within split-seconds know who you are and have all your details at their fingertips.

My daughter does not understand my concern.. so I explained that she has grown up in a world of Technology and so does not know any different.. whereas I grew up in a world of freedom.. to move around and journey wherever you wanted to go without Big Brother watching over you all the time... without your movements being tracked every second of every day.

So I don't expect Generation Y to understand my concerns.

BIG BROTHER is Here Now.. and no one told you it was Here already.. except me.

So bend over folks and take that extra 6 inches the goverment is giving you.. do you feel like a pig on a spit yet??

You should! Because you are.

Good bye Freedom to move.. goodbye Human Rights.. let them go and be happy in the knowledge that Big Brother is watching over you.. protecting you from the bad Terrorists.. watching you every move.. knwing where you are and when.. knowing what you are doing at all times....

Yep... treating you like the Terrorists.

Do you like that?

You must like it otherwise you would get off your bum and do something about it... wouldn't you ?

Global Coffee Shortage... arrrrggghhh!!

That's right.. just read it this morning. Due to a global coffee bean shortage.. mostly with Arabica Beans.. coffee is about to skyrocket in price.

So now might be a good time to grab what you like.. by the Kilogram that is.

I can't imagine a world with no Coffee..... no electricity I can handle.. no fuel for cars I can handle.. no fresh fruit and veg at the grower's market... well, I could almost handle that.

But Coffee.. my favourite addiction.. my morning friend.. my go to when stressed drinky.. yeah yeah I know it doesn't relax anyone but it is Coffee.... and a world without Coffee is a place I do not want to be.. if I had the choice.

I'm going to miss Coffee, more than I ever missed the ex-wife all those years ago.. maybe even more than I will miss the girly-monster when she leaves home.. and definitely more than I miss Sex.

There.. I said it.

What is the world coming to when a 52 year old.. who does not feel that old.. prefers Coffee to Sex.

Seriously.. Coffee has no expectations of you.. Coffee won't roll over and say goodnight when you aren't ready to sleep yet.. Coffee won't leave a wet spot for you to sleep on.. who drinks coffee in bed anyway?

You get my drift.. Coffee.. the single most important thing in the History of the world.. lol... okay.. single most important thing in the world next to the invention of the Wheel.. and maybe Bread.. oh and comfy beds.....

And you know I forget what Sex is .... why we like it so much.. I even forgot the days when you could have some without all the baggage people want to hoist onto your shoulders these days just to get a bit .. sadly anough the drama you have to go through these days for a little bit is seriously not worth it.

Oh.. back to Coffee.. the more important issue here today... because it is a global shortage threatening to ruin the enjoyment and dare I say.. Total Happiness of Coffee lovers everywhere.

Now.. if we could just get the Americans to make GOOD Coffee, things in the world would be right.. they might not need to play Global Bully-Boy if they could make a decent cup of Coffee?

Am I right or am I a crazy old coot?

ps.. did I say how much I love Coffee?

Thursday 24 November 2011

Got a RANT for you today folks...

Yep.. I'm mad.

Why? Well two things that I cannot believe are happening..

1/. Centrelink's Negative Surprise for Today


My girly graduated and finished high school on Friday the 19th... interestingly, as we found out today in a letter.. that's 5 DAYS LATER.. "Your Youth Allowance was stopped on Friday the 19th, please contact us." Sure it said more than that, but this is the important bit.

Okay then.. I wonder why we never got anything about this from Centrelink in the weeks leading up to the end of Grade 12.. they obviously KNEW she would finish on the 19th.. so why didn't they let us know beforehand that important things were about to change.

Why wait for 5 days until she is one day away from putting in her income statements so that she gets paid again this coming Monday? Of course this all means we have to live off my Pension until something gets sorted out.

So.. the girly got on the phone and talked to someone after a half hour wait on HOLD.. apparently they are putting her on NewStart.. the same amount of money.. half the unemployment payment. And they have made an appointment for her already at one of the "two government subsidised employment agencies".

Seems you don't even get a choice of which one you would prefer now days.

Oh.. and no word of when the next bit of money will arrive... so that will depend on her attending this appointment, and having all the documentation needed now to have the system do something for you.. so that she can wait another fortnight or so for the NewStart payments to being.

Dang! Looks like my pension is going to be hit hard for us to survive until she gets paid.... unless I do the OGRE routine and say she has to pay half rent, half the food costs and bills from her little after-school job wage.

What peeves me about this is something very simple.... why did they wait to tell us?

Why do they not seem to give a rats about the effect of their Surprise on our ability to survive indefinitely on my little Single Pension ?

Yep.. it's the lack of showing any degree of concern for people by their actions.. and this is a Government Department we are talking about here!!

I've always said the government do not really care about the peole that much.. seems I was correct doesn't it?

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2/. Facial Recognition System and Smart Cards Use

This one gets right under my skin and annoys the living hell out of me.

When they try to bring Facial Recognition Systems into America, various Human Rights and Freedom Lobbyists oppose it on the grounds of the loss of Rights and Personal Freedoms that are a part of using this technology.

So what happens in Australia when the Government tries to bring this system into our Country?

Well, glad you asked me today.....

NOTHING HAPPENS !!

Sorry for yelling at you... but Geez Folks wake the hell up for once in your life!!

Our Government decided to use these systems.. they did not ask us if we agreed to it.. or even IF WE wanted to give up some more Rights and Freedoms for the "alleged" benefits of the system.

Proof once again that Our Government does not give a SHIT about YOU or what YOU think.

.. if they did they would have asked for OUR PERMISSION FIRST.. since we are the ones who are supposed to have the say.

And what are the Benefits of using this cancerous system?

Here' what I was told at the Transport Department in Little Gumbieville when I asked about the NEW System already in use there......

"It's so teenagers can't send their friends in to do their test for them."

I even asked her what other Departments will this information be shared with.. she said, "All the files stay in our system.. we delete each photo after they have done their test, unless they passed."

So I asked, "Won't it be shared with the Police?"

"No", she replied, "The licence has a smart chip in it so the Police get information from that."

I smiled.. knowing the Facial Recognition information will be recorded to this smart chip... then I said, "Do you remember back in the early 90's when the Government polled the people about having smart cards in Australia.. and the people soundly voted NO ?"

Didn't get an answer for that... I only got THE LOOK .. you know it.. the one that says... Crazy man.. Trouble.

I knew this desk jockey had no idea about the system and why it is now in place. I also knew she had no idea that Australia is used for such experiments on the Plebs to see if it works and is "gotten away with".

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And once again I find myself asking.. What are YOU going to do about it?

Do you like the idea that everywhere you go you are tracked not only by your Smart Phone.. but also the Facial Recognition System via every single CCTV Camera you can and can't see in Queensland.. and other States.

You won't be able to go anywhere without the "Authorities" knowing exactly where you are, where you've been, and at what time you were and are there.

Some people will argue.. "If you have nothing to hide it's not an issue."

Such small-minded thinking on their behalf!

It's an issue because you have no Right to Free Movement without being Watched by Big Brother.

You have no Right or Freedom to PRIVACY

You are essentially.. just one of the Cattle being tracked through it's life to it's death.

So.. how do you feel Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms COW ??

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Every day I see more and more of the things that many years ago I foresaw would happen .. and that kind of saddens me a little... knowing what is still to come.

I do not Lie or Joke about this stuff for a very good reason.

Friday 18 November 2011

Graduation Night not so painful after all..

Yep.. you read the heading correctly.

My concerns over parents having to dress formal in hot weather was alleviated around midday when clouds passed in front of the sun for the afternoon and a breeze made its presence known.. what a relief !

So by the 6pm start time I was hardly breaking a sweat while standing in the crowded outdoors area set aside for everyone's nibbly-dinner.. which cost us all $10 per head and consisted of Sausage Rolls, mini-mini pizzas and quiches, and standard sandwiches with Cordial. Haven't wondered about the value obtained.. so won't bother to.

It was weird for me.. my girly had been at this school for almost all of the 5 years in high school, and yet I only knew a few of the kids and a couple of parents. I noted many of the locals knew each other and all the kids, plus grandkids, etc. Made me feel like an outsider for sure, lol.

Funny how you can live in an area for 8 or so years and still not be a local.

The girly had dressed up nicley, as had her friends.. there were some lovely, expensive, new short dresses in the crowd. I still don't understand the need for such over-the-top requirements just for finishing High School.. I mean most of us did it and it was no Big Deal like it has been made to be today.

I guess that's more about the invasion of American Culture into our's than anything else.

Anyway.. off the soapbox Oldie..

Once we all trailed into the main hall... where it wasn't too hot desite no A/c in the building.. the parents all sat and the night began.. I was dreading all the speeches, dreading having to suffer through another two or three tunes played by the school band.. just like every other thing I've attended at the school so far.

But.. there were speeches.. lots and lots of them, and they were kept to minimum length.... No school band music.. Yay!! So two girls got up on stage and sang a beautiful rendition of some top 40 song.. their voices were at opposite ends of the scale and yet both lovely voices together became SPECIAL.

Seriously SPECIAL. The vibration created by both voices caused tears of Joy to flow down my cheeks. Had to keep wiping them away and yawning to relieve the pressure.. it worked.

Man.. that was an experience I can tell you.

The kids then put on some small excerpts from their talent quest, and followed that up by playing a series of Multi-media presentations put together from the year's activities.. all very well done too I might add. That section finished with a video presentation of the Teacher's live recorded messages to the leaving students.. one in particular I liked.. every time she was approached she waved her hand at the camera-toting teens and said, "Go.. Away!!"

Cracked me up each time.

The kids then fanned out into the audience to give their Mum's a Carnation and a letter they wrote for their parents. From what I could see, I was the only Dad to get a Carnation.. and that garnered some "Ooohs and Ahhs" from the older ladies watching on nearby.

And before I knew it, the night was almost over. Time then to give the kids their Graduation Folios as we all applauded them. Then it was cake and coffee time.. which is when we said our goodbyes and gave thanks to certain very helpful staff before leaving for home.

Nice night out in the end. The girly then went out with friends and I stayed home thinking about life as an empty nester in a couple of years time.

Done for today

Wednesday 9 November 2011

More LIES to make War.... seriously, read this.

So we have the Not the News media saying this...

Iran not truthful about nukes: Sen. Kerry

Senior US Senator John Kerry has urged sustained pressure on Iran after the UN nuclear watchdog agency released a report seen as backing Western charges that Tehran seeks atomic weapons.

"The facts of the IAEA report make it clear that Iran has not been truthful about its nuclear program," Kerry, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement on Tuesday.

And yet yesterday I read this report about the same IAEA recommendations....

Bloody typical.. I go to find the source only to find it is no longer available.. how typical is that for keeping us Mushrooms in the dark?

So, the gyst of it went something like this...

The official IAEA report did not find evidence for any Nuclear fuel manufacturing..

...but it did find a major project underway for Nano-Diamonds. And we wonder why the U.S. wants this project to stop, don't we ?

Nano-Diamonds have many important appllications in space, and on earth.. and if I could find the damn source I could tell you a lot more about why this project is so important to the U.S. that it's pushing the LIE of Uranium enrichment leading to Nuclear weapons in Iran.. which is simply not the case at all.

But.. we should be very used to our Politician's LYING to us by now.....

They LIED about Iraq having Nuclear capability.. and when they got there of course not a thing was found.. no evidence at all. And so they stayed and got drawn into their second Vietnam style war.

They LIED about bring the boys home from Afghanistan.. instead they brought home a couple of thousand and re-assigned the remainder under a new name that in legal terms makes them non-combatants.. despite the fact that they are still sending more troops over to fight on the ground.

Here, they LIED about Children Overboard to garner votes, then later when asked Mr Howard did admit to the information being incorrect at the time.. and he knew that at the time.

Here, they LIED about Smart Cards.. remember we all voted against ever having them in Australia??? Well what happened then? Yep.. Mr Howard's Government snuck them around to the back door so that we would have to accept them anyway.

See.. they do not listen to you... even when they ask you a question.

So stop listening to them.. make up your own minds people!!!

The TV, Radio and newsapers do not report TRUTH.. in fact all news items you see and hear come from one place in Sydney.. the one place that "suitable" news items are vetted and sold to the TV and Radio Stations, etc. So all you get is what you are allowed to get.

Man.. I wish more people would wake the hell up soon, before we let it get so bad you will have no Freedoms, No Rights at all.. and we are not far away from that scenario NOW.

WAKE UP!!!

Stand Up!!!

Be Heard!!

Be Counted!!

Or sit on your arse and wait for them to knock on your door without a warrant, wait for the food in stores to be gone and the supply line broken, wait for your Bank accounts and Home/car/boat/whatever to be value-less.

Then it wil be too late for you to do anything won't it? So you will have to bend over and take whatever they give you and like it.

Stuff that!

PS.. I found some quotes of interest only.. but the report I reaad is now gone from the Internet completely.
So here's the couple of quotes about the report from those in the real know...

From RT.com..

The IAEA report is unlikely to reveal any firm proof of Iran weaponizing its nuclear program, and circumstantial evidence is unreliable, says foreign affairs analyst Richard Heydarian. “The problem with the IAEA report is that it relies heavily on satellite images and data provided by Western intelligence agencies… The case of the Syrian Al-Hasakah Spinning Factory has proved that actually you cannot really rely on satellite images. There is huge room for error,” he told RT.
Former CIA officerPhilip Giraldi, told RT it is the US and Israel that are trying to turn up the heat upon Iran.
“I would be very skeptical about this report that’s coming out from the IAEA, because they don’t really have any intelligence capabilities of their own, so they are relying on reports that are coming from other people,” he said. “I would rather suspect those reports are coming from the US and Israel. It is an endless cycle of trying to prove the unprovable,” he added.
Speculation over a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities came ahead of the key UN atomic watchdog report, which was released late on Tuesday. Information leaked to the media indicated the IAEA report would provide circumstantial evidence that Tehran has built a testing facility and computer models of warheads

 As you may be able to see... the 1% in control of everything.. wants to get WW3 happening soon.. to start it in the Middle East and try to insure "they" own it all at the end no matter how many normal people have to die for them to have what they want.

Stand Up.. Say NO to more War!!

Don't let "them" get away with their long term plans.. and stop thinking anyone who talks like this is an idiot, fearmonger, druggy or just anti-establishment.. we talk to you about these things so that you can be more informed on what is really going on in the world around you.. that will effect you negatively, soon.

I found it.. took a while.

Remember the missing soapbox ? I found it today under the doona. Don't know how it got there.

So.. climbing on the soapbox now.. having a little wobble until I get my balance.. and here we go...

Do you have tooth fillings?

Are they Amalgum fillings?

Ok, so you answered Yes to both questions and are probably wondering what I'm up to. Well, I found a short video a couple of years ago about Amalgum Fillings and the Mercury in them releasing vapour that leaches into your bloodstream where it easily crosses the barrier into the Brain. As it does so it takes Aluminium with it.

So.. not a good scenario then?

And that would be an excellent summation for sure. To help understand what happens and why, it's best explained by downloading this short movie from my own Mediafire account. I swear it's virus free.

"How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Damage" .. from the University of Calgary. 15.56 MB Download link: Movie

Another interesting thing to read up on if you can get it is a book called, "Toxic Metals" which has a section devoted to this issue with Amalgum Fillings including information about the protocols for having them removed or replaced with porcelain fillings.

Symptoms:

Stage 1: Metallic taste in the mouth. That's the Mercury leaching.

Stage 2: Symptoms of poisoning from Mercury vapour and Aluminium in the Brain are very much like Alzheimer's.. seriously!

From what I've read, even older people displaying full blown Alhzeimer's symptoms who have undergone the process of removal and refilling have shown remarkable recoveries so that most or all symptoms disappear.

Well worth thinking about isn't it?

And.. this was a nice rant today.. I didn't feel angry or upset about anything.. just offered the information, chatted a bit about it and signing off now...

Oldie

Tuesday 8 November 2011

Where's my soapbox today???

I knew I left it here after writing about Qantas the other day. So it has to be here somewhere... please amuse yourselve's while I look around.

Meanwhile... I did find something interesting.. still no soapbox yet. Maybe you might like to read this excerpt from NineMSN Finance today.......


Iceland's lesson: Let the Banks go bust
 "Three years after Iceland's banks collapsed and the country teetered on the brink, its economy is recovering, proof that governments should let failing lenders go bust and protect taxpayers, analysts say."

"The lesson that could be learned from Iceland's way of handling its crisis is that it is important to shield taxpayers and government finances from bearing the cost of a financial crisis to the extent possible," Islandsbanki analyst Jon Bjarki Bentsson told AFP.

"Even if our way of dealing with the crisis was not by choice, but due to the inability of the government to support the banks back in 2008 due to their size relative to the economy, this has turned out relatively well for us," Bentsson said.

Iceland's banking sector had assets worth 11 times the country's total gross domestic product (GDP) at their peak.

Nobel Prize-winning US economist Paul Krugman echoed Bentsson.

"Where everyone else bailed out the bankers and made the public pay the price, Iceland let the banks go bust and actually expanded its social safety net," he wrote in a recent commentary in the New York Times.

"Where everyone else was fixated on trying to placate international investors, Iceland imposed temporary controls on the movement of capital to give itself room to manoeuvre," he said.


And here is a link to that article.. NineMSN Finance

So there ya go.. make up your own minds folks.. I still haven't found that bloody soapbox yet.