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.