The truth about Syria.

Much has been written over the last three years about Syria and the Syrian Government and most of it has emanated from Washington. How much of it is honest reporting and how much is simply political propaganda on the part of the USA?

Well, from a distance it is often difficult to sift the wheat from the chaff so to speak. Not with-standing the difficulty however, the operation of true democracy can only be achieved by the public being able to access both sides to a story. Most governments are not comfortable with this scenario however because they prefer to disseminate only that version which suits their respective national and economic needs.

How does all of this, however, have anything to do with Syria.

Well, in the case of Syria, the relevance is simply this. It enables the USA and its European allies to conspire to aid Qatar and Saudi Arabia to break Germany’s and Poland’s reliance upon Russian Gas and Oil supplies to the West.

Qatar has an abundance of gas supplies but can only get its gas to Europe by the construction of a pipeline through southern Syria to the Mediterranean Sea. It cannot and will not go through Israel or Egypt. The Syrian Government will not permit this as it relies upon Russia and Syria opposes, no, vehemently opposes islamic fundamentalism. The USA has never forgiven the Russian government of Vladimir Putin from preventing the attempts of George Soros and his notorious Quantum Fund from attempting to take over the Russian Gas Fields which are the largest known gas reserves in the world.

AH you may exclaim, At Last! The real reason emerges behind the USA’s concerted efforts to bring down the Syrian Government. But isn’t that always the hidden reason in all US foreign policy? Well that is for you to decide. Our job is simply to provide you with the other side to the story

We will be writing a series of articles on Syria, the nature of its government and the politics of the B’aathist Party together with the historical background to Muslim Fundamentalism in Syria and additionally an explanation of the differences between the principal Islamic sects in Syria and the Christian communities both within Syria and in neighbouring Lebanon and Iraq.

It is becoming increasing obvious to today’s world, that unless our public understands this, they will never understand why Islamic Fundamentalism or orthodoxy poses such a great danger to our way of life and the very fabric of our society, both here in Australia and in the western world in general.

 

Where does this leave the youth of nations such as Australia, The USA and The United Kingdom?

Well, they invariably are the ones who must lay down their lives in the often-military campaigns that ensue but are almost always kept in the dark as to the real reasons for their government’s engaging in military intervention in the affairs of other sovereign nations but often, do not get access to the true facts of the matter which would enable them to reach a rational conclusion on whether intervention can be justified or not.

In fact, the under thirties, often, do not even vote in national elections in their respective countries. Perhaps the worst examples of this are the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. Strangely enough, New Zealand appears to be the odd man out in this equation but we are unable to determine exactly why this is so.

The United States regularly has approximately twenty-five per cent of eligible voters participate in Federal Elections whilst the United Kingdom enjoys in the region of forty per cent. Australia, with compulsory voting, enjoys in the region of ninety-seven per cent. The results of all three however are invariably the same. The under thirties simply turn off or do not vote at all. Even in Australia, when the Australian figures for voter participation are compared with birth records and the resultant figures of the over eighteens who are eligible to vote, the results are alarming. We will deal with this factor in a future series of articles.

As a result, New Zealand excepted, the usual reaction of today’s younger generation is to simply turn off and proceed to do their own thing.

Tragically, that is their big mistake because that is exactly what society’s current masters want them to do.

What can we do, is the oft heard cry? Government never listens in any case to what the younger generation must say. A few of the smarter well educated younger generation who know how to work the system to their own advantage, join one party or another and simply go with the flow, knowing that they will eventually be noticed and when it becomes time to replace the retiring candidates, they simply seek party support to be selected to replace those who are standing down.

Well sadly, this line of self-interested action on behalf of the select few do absolutely nothing to alleviate the increasingly dire straits of the overwhelming numbers of disadvantaged within our society.

What is clearly needed is action by the younger generation to rectify this disgrace, but again, we hear the voice of the younger generation crying out, but what can we do to change this? Nothing?

This is quite wrong. When you whisper, government cannot hear you and assumes that you are submissive. When you roar, government recoils….

But…when the younger generation roar with regularity and discipline, the ruling minority becomes concerned and when the younger generation takes to the streets and surrounds government buildings and Parliament, provided they do not allow disruptive elements from either within or without to incite violence, they invariably will win out.

What they never ever seem to do is organise themselves into an effective political lobby and this, if properly constituted, is the most effective weapon of all. However, the disadvantaged youth within society today do not have sufficient education to achieve this and this assists the major political parties to continually share government and so it goes on and on.

There is an old saying in western politics. The demonstrators may be out there in large numbers today but they will quickly tire of this in a day or two and they are usually right but when organised discipline and leadership replaces undisciplined rabble, government becomes quickly rattled and begins to make tactical errors. In some cases, they even resort to police action to disperse crowds but this invariably only offers two outcomes, temporary dispersal or public reaction at the ballot box. There is however another, sparsely utilised strategy but we will discuss this in a later edition of the Chronical.

Stay tuned in…

 

 

Pigs in the trough…

Australia is a nation of vast and abundant wealth and resources but the gap between rich and poor has never been so glaring since the nineteenth century and those who are elected to the nation’s parliament to protect all its citizens are clearly failing in their duty to do so, whilst apparently aiding the rich to become richer.

What may not be so apparent to the public however, is how these elected representatives are enriching themselves.

Well if it takes peanuts to get little monkeys, let us assure you that Canberra’s Gorillas cost a hell of a lot more!

Parliamentary remuneration is listed on the Commonwealth web site but we are convinced that most Aussies are unaware of this because if they were, surely there would be an uproar, but the main press and the TV and radio outlets would have to publish these details and they simply do not do this. That is however another question which the Appaloosa Chronicle will deal with extensively in the immediate future.

We ask our readers to compare the parliamentarian’s earnings with that of the nation’s million plus disadvantaged youth and the under twenty-fives, wallowing down at the bottom of Australia’s socio-economic level.

An ordinary member of the House of Representatives or a Senator receives a base salary of $199,047.00 per year whilst an Old Aged Pensioner receives pittance!

But it doesn’t stop there. Well not for the Australian Politician but invariably does for the Australian Pensioner.

Then the politician, depending upon where he lives, receives an electoral allowance as follows;

As of 1 May 2009

Senators All States and Territories $32,000.00
Members of Electorate of less than 2,000 sq. kms $32,000.00
Members of Electorate of 2,000 to 4,999 sq. kms $38,000.00
Members of Electorate of 5,000 sq. kms or more $46,000.00

Staggering isn’t it, simply staggering…. But that’s not all dear readers,

Each parliamentarian receives an additional electorate allowance of $19,500 per annum in lieu of private-plated vehicle to be used for “parliamentary, electorate or official business.

But that’s not all ….

From March 20th, 2006, Senators and Members who choose not to be provided with a vehicle will be entitled to an additional $19,500.00 per annum of electorate allowance in lieu of the private plated vehicle.

Compare all the above with the less that meagre pittance received by those 1 million plus citizens trapped at the bottom of society either unable to find a job or working on, or we have been advised by informed sources, being paid below the minimum wage, which itself is highly illegal but continues to operate within the cash only echelons of small business.

Now readers, it is important for you to realise that the above parliamentary payments are for all Gorillas depending upon whether they are small Gorillas or Big Gorillas.

If they are Big Gorillas then they clearly must need more as is evidence in the following payments scale;

Selected Ministers of State percentage rates of base salary

Prime Minister Additional 160%
Deputy Prime Minister “ 105%
Treasurer “ 87.5%
Leader of Govt in Senate “ 87.5%
Leader of House “ 75 %
Other Minister in Cabinet who
is also Manager of Govt Business
in the Senate “ 75%
Other Ministers in Cabinet “ 72.5%
Other Minister who is also Manager
of Govt Business in Senate “ 67.5%
Other Ministers “ 57.5%
Parliamentary Secretary who is also
Manager of Govt Business in Senate “ 35%
Parliamentary Secretaries “ 25%

We have all heard of having the proverbial “Nose in the Trough” but we are compelled to ask just how deep is this trough?

Well sadly, we must inform you that is still deeper

Just when you are starting to curse the Turnbull Government and reach out for a saviour in the image of perhaps Bill Shorten and the Opposition ranks, we need in the cause of balanced reporting, as is faithfully promised by the Appaloosa Chronicle, the following;

Leader of the Opposition “ 85%
President of the Senate “ 75%
Speaker of House of Representatives “ 75%
Deputy Leader of the Opposition “ 57.5%
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate “ 57.5%
Leader of a recognised party of more
than 10 members of parliament who is
not the leader of the Opposition “ 45%
Shadow Minister “ 25%

Now we think that the above is it so to speak but frankly we are not able to assure you of this. There could be more of this regrettable gouging.

Perhaps, government would be far better if members of parliament were paid upon their individual performance. Let’s face it. That’s just what the Coalition Parties have been imposing upon the workers of this country for the past thirty years or more.

Is it really any wonder that the youth and under twenty-fives of this nation simply do not bother to enrol to vote. We can only assume that today’s disadvantaged simply believe that to be vote in elections is to accept responsibility for electing those who subsequently exploit them.

The Chronicle will be publishing the next article on this subject in the December issue and urge you all to not miss it.

C.C. McCrann

 

Land down-under…

All around the world today, we are provided with various media be it radio, television, newspapers or the like. Oh and we now have a fourth outlet, the Internet which is, one would suppose, composed of a little of all of the above. You may be tempted to say that such variety gives us a wide range of opportunity to avail ourselves of un-precented access to knowledge of local and international events, free from bias or distortion, such as Foreign Investment.

Well, unfortunately, almost all established news outlets have one thing in common. They are almost exclusively financed by either private enterprise or big government and the first thing that goes right to the scrap bin is any news story which has any content deemed by the provider of funding, to be against their best interests. Criticism of Australian Foreign Investment, youth un-employment just as examples.
Any readers who think that such assertion is too cynical or perhaps simply untrue should think again.
For example, just look at the USA. Every one of its Federal Administrations, both Democrat and Republican, over the last one hundred or so years, have continued to tell its citizens and anyone else who will listen, for that matter, that it is the greatest nation on earth. The richest nation on earth and possessed of the most democratically structured economy on earth.
Well, what confounds us here at the Chronicle is that if this is so, why then are 76 million of its citizens living in abject poverty. Why then, in such an egalitarian society, does no less than eighty-nine point three per cent of this nation’s total wealth rest in the hands of just six per cent of its citizenry. There is a real answer to this and it deserves explanation. The Chronicle intends to write a series of articles about this dismal state of affairs, together with the way in which it is inextricably linked with the USA’s foreign policy and international military agenda in future articles.
But it must be recognised that the USA is not alone in this approach as all of its allies are also tarred with the same brush, so to speak.
We are also planning a series of articles on Australia or “Down Under” as it is euphemistically referred to from time to time. We are told that this vast and lowly populated land, itself a continent, has vast and untold wealth and yet it is today suffering from a most serious crisis.
Whilst foreign investors are reaping great wealth from its mineral resources and food produce, virtually all of Australia’s next generation, the under twenty-fives as they are now, have been completely set aside by its politicians and big business to such a staggering degree, that no less than one million of its younger citizens are neglected to such an extent, that they have turned their backs on established politics and politicians. The attack on issues that affect them such as youth allowance and drug testing. Here is an article on this
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/heres-how-you-could-be-hit-by-centrelinks-new-random-drug-test-program/
The Chronicle intends to do an in-depth analysis of this situation over the coming months which will comprise of a series of deep probing articles. The Federal Government in Canberra has, we are told, been utilising its state of the art integrated computer based records from its various departments to cross reference and we are advised that the Australian Electoral Commission’s Voter Rolls together

What are today’s Federal Politicians doing for the over seventies?

Much is said at almost every sitting of both houses of parliament about how legislation effects the various socio- economic groupings within Australia but we here at the Appaloosa Chronicle ask this question;

What is being done to protect our old aged pensioners down on the lowest socio-economic rungs of Australian Society?

Those famous words of Liberal Federal Treasurer, Joseph Hockey, a few years ago that the “Age of Entitlement was over” still echo in our ears.

Treasurer Hockey obviously wasn’t talking about his age of entitlement because the Liberal Government duly appointed Brother Joe to the plum job of Australian High Commissioner to London on a huge fat salary on top of his huge Parliamentary Retirement Package,

By any accounting methods, that must amount to one Big Snout in the Trough!

Oh, Lucky Joe but alas Very Unlucky Old Age Pensioners.

We ask one most poignant question;

Why are those that govern treated so generously, whilst those that they govern are treated so incredibly badly?

We are currently preparing a series of articles on this very topic and urge all Australians in the under twenty-five and over seventy categories to be certain to read them. If, however, you are in the middle and upper income groups of Australian Society, don’t bother even thinking about reading them. They won’t interest you one little bit. In fact, they will probably cause you discomfort and concern that those on the bottom rung of Australian Society are able to discover just what is going on with our Federal and State politicians and just how much they are being paid by the Australian Taxpayer.

Also, we need to determine if these politicians must wait until they reach the ever-expanding age for access to a commonwealth paid pension, or self-contributed Superannuation or can they access such Super immediately after retirement from Parliament.

We hope to publish the first of these articles in the next publication of the Appaloosa Chronicle so be sure to read it and as should be the case, you form your own view on this subject!