Antidote - International Poetry

the star-spangled disease
intrudes under the Southern Cross,
in this timeless
Southern Land

-- perturbed by
our Freedoms --
they wish to poison
our egalitarian
nation
with fear, hate,
division
and utilise it
to extend the range of
their criminal military.

a Washington compliant
Oz government
(installed to be defeated)
accommodates
the militaristic spread,
the evil plague
but not for long,
someone has sorely
misinterpreted the Oz character.

it’s far too late for
exposed US cabals
down here
the sky-banner of the Southern Cross
was never designed for slavery,
fear or terror –
we have NEVER
deferred to oppression
by stealth or any other means.

no government that supports
an abhorrent, foreign regime
on our soil
endures for long,
we are not easily deceived
by facile American LIES.

we know too well,
we have your measure
our people have infiltrated
to the heart of your
military machine
and have reduced its effectiveness
with ‘fine military strategies,’
books and papers on modern warfare
we are ‘impressive planners’
we have led you to ruin
ever so subtly
you would think we were
allies,
the best of friends!

read our history
analyse our culture
if you would know the Truth,
you vacuum-headed brutes!

Love
conquers all,
destroying fear and engendering
mateship, harmony and cooperation
though we rarely articulate
what is widely known
and understood
down here.

pity our servile politicians,
their time
is limited
and their influence
has never been weaker

they attempt to reach
and manage the local population
reading from American scripts;
ask the people how effective
those methods have been.

Love flows like mountain
rivers down here
it sweeps away fabricated concerns,
in vain do they attempt
to import their
star-spangled hate,
fear and criminal warfare.

is it perhaps that our
wild Freedoms
and sense of fair play
(WikiLeaks)
and the Oz free press
outwit them at every turn --
violent, rustic, morons
have never posed
a real challenge
for our education system?

the wires are open
Love flows;
imported diseases rarely
take hold here,
our timeless land
is hostile to foreign
germs/invaders.

if you wish to survive
our harsh conditions
you are faced with
adopting our values
becoming Australian
or perishing.

but please
give it your best shot, Uncle Sam,
do your damndest best,
to import your hate and violence,
to spread your filthy LIES
in this region --
under Our Southern Cross.

Yo bro!

don't be perturbed,
it's tough enough being a nerd
leave behind your fangles
& grab your bangles

fuck the cabal,
it's soul destroying
& way too banal
fuck the aggression,
fuck the oppression,
it's spiritual regression

fuck uncle Sam
& fuck all the bankers
enough of those bloody wankers

MELBOURNE: The US military plans to bolster its presence across Asia and is looking at an expansion of ties with Australia's armed forces, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said.

Building up military cooperation with Australia would reinforce a broader effort to extend the US military's role across the Asia-Pacific region, Gates told reporters aboard his plane Saturday, before landing in Melbourne.

"We're looking at ways to strengthen and perhaps make more robust our presence in Asia," Gates said, referring to a Pentagon review of how American forces are deployed around the world.

"We're looking at a number of different options, one of those includes talking with the Australians about... areas where we can work together in a mutually beneficial way," he said.

At an annual Australia-US meeting being held in Melbourne, Gates said the two governments would discuss deepening military ties including cooperation on cyber security, missile defence and "space surveillance."

But he said there were no plans for new US bases in Australia or elsewhere in the region.

The discussions in Australia come amid concern over China's increasingly assertive stance in the Pacific and its growing naval power, with some Asian states turning to Washington for support.

Gates, however, insisted that US plans were not designed as a counter-weight to China.

"This isn't about China at all," he said.

The United States had an interest in building military ties with Asian countries to combat piracy at sea, bolster counter-terrorism efforts and provide humanitarian relief for natural disasters, he said.

The Pentagon chief added that cooperation on humanitarian operations has come up in talks with China's military as well.

His comments came as US military leaders consider moving more forces to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, beyond the longstanding American presence in South Korea and Japan.

A senior defence official said the Pentagon is "looking at how we can make sure our forces are not just oriented in Northeast Asia, but are looking through down to Southeast Asia and then into the Indian Ocean as this part of the security environment becomes more important."

Boosting US access to Australian bases, if agreed, would likely mean a larger American presence but precise numbers remained unclear, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A final decision was still months away, he added.

During the summit, defence chiefs are due to sign an agreement to bolster joint efforts to track objects in space over the southern hemisphere, including satellites, space junk and potential ballistic missiles fired from North Korea, officials said.

The "space situational awareness partnership agreement" could allow for an expanded American presence at the Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station in Western Australia, which the US military already uses.

Australia's military alliance with the United States has deep roots and the country remains a top buyer of American weaponry, with US military sales to Australia reaching 1.45 billion dollars in 2010.

© 2010 Times Internet Limited

For people that continue to disbelieve in the existence of ruling cabals dig the following piece from Bloomberg. I would add that Stewart's (real name, Leibowitz) brother is Chief Operations Officer of the New York Stock exchange and we all know Geithner's creds -- but dig the other personages in this short but revealing article.

This is relevant due to the fact that ruling elites outlined some time back that they would take over the left and right -- surprised? What has Obama really done except break all his promises and accelerate the Status Quo implemented by Bush and Cheney?

In Australia the US compliant government has just accepted -- on their traitorous knees -- a permanent foreign military presence, which amounts to a soft colonial occupation by the US.

It will be a pleasure hanging these traitorous Australian politicians in the very near future. FM Rudd's diversionary line that 'the US has stuck by Australia for 70 years' was clearly designed to shift attention away from the soft occupation and the very clear status of America as a criminal Imperialist invader and a terrorist state that TORTURES, knowingly murders civilians (drone warfare) and violates numerous other universal human rights -- nice suck Kevin, you custard-faced piece of treasonous shit.

Bloomberg article follows:

I realize this is going to put me in some pretty unsavory company, but here goes: I didn't like Jon Stewart's rousing speech at the end of his Rally to Restore Sanity. I found it cowardly and even a little heartbreaking.

I'll get to why in a minute, but let me say first that I have been, for many years, a big fan of Stewart and his evil twin, Stephen Colbert. They're both brilliant comedians and, when they choose to be, powerful advocates of reason.

Stewart's systematic dismantling of insurance company shill Betsy McCaughey, for instance, was a crucial bit of public theater that helped put to rest the myth of Death Panels. Colbert's upbraiding of both George W. Bush and the lapdog media that enabled him at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association dinner was a genuine act of heroism. So when Stewart and Colbert announced their joint rally, I was as excited as the next disaffected progressive. The more cultural bandwidth these guys get, I figured, the more sensible our discourse will become.

I was especially glad Stewart chose to drop his wisecracking and deliver an earnest closing speech. His diagnosis of the modern media's "perpetual panic conflictinator" was spot on, as was his eloquent call for Americans to treat one another with civility. But his final declaration was equally jarring.

"If you want to know why I'm here," he concluded, "and what I want from you, I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. Your presence was what I wanted."

Rather than a call to action, the crowd received a moment of transcendent self-congratulation. We'd all restored Jon Stewart's faith in us ... by gathering en masse and not calling anyone Hitler.

It turns out that Stewart and Colbert don't really want citizens to do anything about the corruption of our media and political classes. They just want us to sit back and laugh at them as they mock this corruption - then high-five ourselves for being so awesome.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that Stewart should have said anything overtly "political." His obvious and understandable intention was to avoid being sucked into the conflictinator. The fact that he and Colbert have become our voices of conscience, of course, speaks to the larger moral vacuum in this country.

But whether he likes it or not - and his speech was clear evidence that he likes it a good bit - Stewart is now a moral authority in this country, especially to young people.

Without getting the least bit partisan, he might have reminded the millions of people watching him that we are all shareholders in our democracy, not passive observers, that politics isn't just some big, ugly game played on cable TV. It's a set of agreements about how our country is going to function, one in which moral progress is made against considerable - and generally well-funded - resistance.

In this sense, Stewart and Colbert have become the designated opiate of the left in this country. Every night, they allow us to laugh at how bad things have gotten without actually doing anything about it. Their effect is ultimately ameliorative.

The plutocrats and paid demagogues of the Right learned long ago that their best chance at power resided not in crafting sensible, humane policy, but inciting the primal negative emotions of a troubled electorate. On Tuesday, that strategy paid off. Despite Stewart's feel-good benediction, they have now promised to fight Obama tooth and nail.

In the coming weeks and months, the poor and the sick will probably become more so, as will the aggrieved and the cynical and the violent. Fear not, fellow citizens. Stewart and Colbert will be there to preside over the ruin with rapier wit. Sure, the country went down in flames. But it went down laughing.

© 2010 San Francisco Chronicle

Learn something of our values before you make any foolish moves to deceive and colonise with a permanent US military presence, this is not the Philippines! Our politicians have no spine, that is obvious since that unspeakable COWARD, Howard, but understand how WE the people feel and what you are really dealing with. You are hereby advised not to push what's left of your rapidly diminishing luck, 'Uncle:'

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