Wednesday 2 December 2015
100th BN Bravo & Charlie Company Marching Cadence in Samoan
100Bn 442nd US ARMY. Made of Samoan soldiers. Recent services Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. 21 KIA. In proportionate percentage terms, Samoans, as an ethnic group in the current global war on terror, have the highest casualty rate of any race during the current Global War on Terror.
Friday 13 November 2015
Black Friday Paris Attack the failure of the OSCE. By Tim Tufuga
Black Friday Paris Attack questions the functionality of Joint Security Coordination Critical Risk Assessment Systemic Failures: OSCE. By Tim Tufuga
AP Photo Michael Euler
The Black Friday coordinated violent attacks in Paris, France, is not an isolated terrorism incident. Terrorism attacks in Paris whilst not considered to be commonplace, it has been, an expected reality for European nations in this day and age. Global terrorism is considered an ever present danger for not just Europeans, or for Allied nations engaged in Middle Eastern conflicts, like NATO member nations, or Coalition of the Willing member nations, like France, Britain, and Germany, but, for almost any nation that is considered a likely soft target for asymmetrical military engagement by global terrorist organisations, whether homegrown or introduced activated sleeper cells.
What sets the Paris Black Friday attack is the scale and scope of the coordinated attack, which has brought an interesting perspective to the strategic and tactical sophistication of the Terrorists in executing the most brazen attack in the heart and soul of a very powerful military nation like France.
With such a sophistication of the urban operational (UO) strategy and tactical expertise by the Terrorists armed with miltary grade weapons and ordinances clearly reveals to the world the audacity and brazen lengths the terrorists were willing to go in ramming their purported Jihadist message home. What clearly seems to have been revealed is the Trojan Horse operation has excited many Jihadists copycats globally which has revealed the ultimate psychological failure by the security coordination networks within Europe and afar in preventing this brazen attack in the heart of Europe.
Accountability must surely be leveled at the domestic and regional security coordination network agencies taken to task to prevent such minor terrorist attacks and certainly the Black Friday Paris attacks has succeeded in humiliating the early warning and preventative measures with the critical risk assessment systems from both the French domestic intelligence gathering agencies, their human intelligence (Humint) capabilities, and their cyber security early warning systems, in preventing the brazen attacks.
Like many cases such as a brazen terrorist attack such as the Black Friday Paris attacks the accountability and answerability for the critical risk assessment failure must be leveled at the heads of the respective security the CNCIS: National Commission for the Control of Security Interceptions agencies; The DGSE: General Directorate for External Security; and, in particular; the ANSSI: French Network and Information Security Agency, must immediately, be held to account for this critical risk assessment failure. Moreover, due to the scope, scale, and the military sophistication, of the Black Friday operation, a regional-wide accountability level must squarely point the finger of systemic blame upon the Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE, and therefore, vicariously speaking, the head, Mr Lamerto Zannier, must be held to account for the regional-wide critical risk assessment failure of the OSCE in preventing such a large scale Black Friday Paris attack.
The Jihadist narrative, maybe whimsically dismissed by most qualified counter terrorism objectives and the current war in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East maybe qualifiable justifications for the Black Friday attack, however, what has been clearly been demonstrated is two salient achievements for the world to understand:
1. The Security measures to date has not increased security throughout the world, it has simply, increased the benchmark for likely terrorists in endeavouring to circumvent these security measures to achieve their violent ends;
2. The humiliation of the domestic and regional preventative security measures, which has only succeeded in increasing the gdp expenditures on national security for domestic and regional governments; and,
3. The war on terror has resulted in a mission creep outcome which seems to be a permanent reality rather than a temporary measure.
Tim Tufuga
References
1. Zannier, Lambert, Organisation for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), http://www.osce.org/sg
2. List of French intelligence agenices, 'wikipedia.com', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies_of_France
3. msn.com,http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/deadly-terrorist-attacks-rock-paris/ar-BBmYA5G?li=AAavLaF&ocid=TSHDHP
AP Photo Michael EulerThe Black Friday coordinated violent attacks in Paris, France, is not an isolated terrorism incident. Terrorism attacks in Paris whilst not considered to be commonplace, it has been, an expected reality for European nations in this day and age. Global terrorism is considered an ever present danger for not just Europeans, or for Allied nations engaged in Middle Eastern conflicts, like NATO member nations, or Coalition of the Willing member nations, like France, Britain, and Germany, but, for almost any nation that is considered a likely soft target for asymmetrical military engagement by global terrorist organisations, whether homegrown or introduced activated sleeper cells.
What sets the Paris Black Friday attack is the scale and scope of the coordinated attack, which has brought an interesting perspective to the strategic and tactical sophistication of the Terrorists in executing the most brazen attack in the heart and soul of a very powerful military nation like France.
With such a sophistication of the urban operational (UO) strategy and tactical expertise by the Terrorists armed with miltary grade weapons and ordinances clearly reveals to the world the audacity and brazen lengths the terrorists were willing to go in ramming their purported Jihadist message home. What clearly seems to have been revealed is the Trojan Horse operation has excited many Jihadists copycats globally which has revealed the ultimate psychological failure by the security coordination networks within Europe and afar in preventing this brazen attack in the heart of Europe.
Accountability must surely be leveled at the domestic and regional security coordination network agencies taken to task to prevent such minor terrorist attacks and certainly the Black Friday Paris attacks has succeeded in humiliating the early warning and preventative measures with the critical risk assessment systems from both the French domestic intelligence gathering agencies, their human intelligence (Humint) capabilities, and their cyber security early warning systems, in preventing the brazen attacks.
Like many cases such as a brazen terrorist attack such as the Black Friday Paris attacks the accountability and answerability for the critical risk assessment failure must be leveled at the heads of the respective security the CNCIS: National Commission for the Control of Security Interceptions agencies; The DGSE: General Directorate for External Security; and, in particular; the ANSSI: French Network and Information Security Agency, must immediately, be held to account for this critical risk assessment failure. Moreover, due to the scope, scale, and the military sophistication, of the Black Friday operation, a regional-wide accountability level must squarely point the finger of systemic blame upon the Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OSCE, and therefore, vicariously speaking, the head, Mr Lamerto Zannier, must be held to account for the regional-wide critical risk assessment failure of the OSCE in preventing such a large scale Black Friday Paris attack.
The Jihadist narrative, maybe whimsically dismissed by most qualified counter terrorism objectives and the current war in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East maybe qualifiable justifications for the Black Friday attack, however, what has been clearly been demonstrated is two salient achievements for the world to understand:
1. The Security measures to date has not increased security throughout the world, it has simply, increased the benchmark for likely terrorists in endeavouring to circumvent these security measures to achieve their violent ends;
2. The humiliation of the domestic and regional preventative security measures, which has only succeeded in increasing the gdp expenditures on national security for domestic and regional governments; and,
3. The war on terror has resulted in a mission creep outcome which seems to be a permanent reality rather than a temporary measure.
Tim Tufuga
References
1. Zannier, Lambert, Organisation for security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE), http://www.osce.org/sg
2. List of French intelligence agenices, 'wikipedia.com', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies_of_France
3. msn.com,http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/deadly-terrorist-attacks-rock-paris/ar-BBmYA5G?li=AAavLaF&ocid=TSHDHP
Tuesday 29 September 2015
Satellite Image Analysis of Russia's Military Buildup in Syria. A warning for the RAAF FA18.
Whilst the Australian RAAF FA18 Superhornets are preparing for military sorties within Assad targets, the Russian airforce are preparing for direct military engagements within Syria against ISIS military assets and in defence of Assad regime assets. Meanwhile, this will directly affect RAAF military operations within Syria in their dual bombing sorties against both the Assad and the ISIS elements within the region.
This brinkmanship between the Western Coalition forces will directly result in Russian forces engaging anti-Assad and Shia military assets, by Western Coalition forces, including the Royal Australian Air Force's FA18 Superhornets.
In short, Australia may yet engage Russian military aircrafts' in an unlikely confrontational engagement against RAAF FA18 Superhornets as the Superhornets may attempt to conduct engagement sorties to neutralise Assad regime military assets within Syria.
Saturday 25 July 2015
Multiculturalism, the real target for Reclaim Australia. By Tim Brian Tufuga 25th Juy, 2015.
Multiculturalism, the real target for Reclaim Australia. By Tim Tufuga 25th July, 2015.
It is not unusual to view Australia, from a socio-political and historical perspective, as a watershed for multicultural anxieties emanating from cultural experiences from afar. On face value, Reclaim Australia has staged rallies across Australia premised under an anti-Islamic Jihadist agenda. However, simmering beneath is another subliminal message which is less apparent and, is more pervasive, in its rippling effect upon other minority cultural groups collectively grouped into the same basket of Multiculturalism. As a bifurcated race relations political setting the them versus us becomes very simple which is not necessarily a Socialist Anarchist Anti-Race hate groups facing off with Neo-Nazis pretending to fly under the banner of the Australian Flag, and Reclaim Australia political narrative, the ripple effect is more sinister and touches upon all other pluralistic ethnic and cultural groups within the so called Multicultural banner. In short, Reclaim Australia, is really a rally cry for the mainstream White Australia to fight on all fronts, and by all means necessary, against any elements considered to be an antithetical force to the homogeneity of a Monocultural White Anglo-Celtic Australia and the perceived privileges associated with this threatened quality of life.
Out of a population of twenty three million Australians no less than seventeen million is ethnically Anglo-Celtic. No less than 45% of the Australian population are descendants of either English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh or Cornish, or a mix of these groups. More significantly, 74% of the Australian population have partial British and Irish ancestry. The anxieties felt by the nascent race hate group called Reclaim Australia are predominantly made up of this majority ethnic group of Australians.
Contrary to the disclaimer made by the group, members marching during the numerous rallies up and down the country have contradicted the About Reclaim Australia movement statement, which states that :-
“Reclaim Australia Rallies are the result of a “grassroots movement” that has been organised into nationwide rallies that will be held in capital cities, major cities and townships and rural areas.
The rallies are being independently organized by blue collar workers, white collar workers, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers— people from all walks of life concerned with a certain issue that they want heard and addressed by government.
We are not a racist hate group affiliated with any other group, nor neo-Nazi or white supremacist. In fact it is the opposite. We are simply patriotic and love our country, our nation and the law that supports our values and our lifestyle. We just want our successful Australian way of life retained—that is not “racist”, that is just plain sensible!
For the first time in our recent history Australians have now been exposed to hostage sieges, attacks on our police and service people, foiled beheading and bombing attempts, here on our soil. As a result Military and service uniforms may no longer be worn off duty in public because of security issues linked to only ONE group—the so called “radicals of Islam”.
The rallies are a public response to the shock of recent atrocities of “Islam’s radicals” both inside and outside of Australia, echoed by our media.
“Our values are better than those of Islam’s extremist madmen and it’s time we said so”— Janet Albrechtsen, The Australian”
Multiculturalism the real target.
The overall narrative of targeting Islamic terrorism has been a precursor for another wider rippling sociological narrative which is to target Multiculturalism along an Enoch Powell prophetic warning, when he cites Sibyl’s quote, in Aeneid’s poem, “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood”, When this speech was delivered in 1968 post Colonial Great Britain was reaising the reversal of the Blackman’s burden with the nascent rise of the White man’s burden with the influx of peripheral colonial migration from the periphery to the Imperial ‘core’, the motherland, England. Great Britain was suffering the anxieties of self government and Independence of Commonwealth nations with the dwindling of Commonwealth wealth generation and instead a steady influx flow of former Imperial servants were to realise their quid pro quo service for Queen and Empire would choose to migrate to England. Subsequently, multicultural ethnic ghettos sprung up throughout England, in North America and, Europe.
In the meantime, after World War Two, in 1945, under a policy of Populate or Perish predominantly White colonies throughout Commonwealth nations. Australia, New Zealand, as well as, Canada, were considered the Jewels within the British crown. After world war two the Populate or Perish policy reinforced the White Australia policy objective. The now celebrated Ten Pound Poms were lured into migrating to Australia and as late as 1973 this assisted passage to Australia cost was lifted to $75.
The Populate or Perish shortfalls, begrudgingly, gave rise to a Multicultural Australia and the demise of the White Australia policy.
Post 1945 and the rise of Multiculturalism.
Australian multiculturalism has been accepted in mainstream Australian society. However, in certain politically convenient moments, scapegoatism, through visualised racism, becomes a convenient socio-economic and political distraction for other socio-economic crisis. For Political agenda settings, racism is always an election winner, for the silent majority, who will deflect their scapegoat usual suspects memes and propaganda on mainstream media and social media networks.
Modern day political trend setting would seek the pet aversion of the month, year, or decade, throughout most modern societies, in which Australian is no exception. Australian political history, like any other society, is imperfect, which would include ethnic-religious cultural bashing throughout modern political history. For all intents and purposes, for now, the favourite pet aversion for most Western Societies is the Islamic ethnic cultures anywhere. The main threat variable, understandable, is the physical fear mongering with the perpetual threat of violent terrorism. The fear factor has been the mainstay for ultra conservative, ultra nationalist political groups fearful of the threat to their cherished privileges being taken away violently it seems, with the nascent rise of Islamic terrorism throughout predominantly Judeo-Christian societies. A fear that is factually supported in many instances but exaggerated and sensationalised by those who choose to dwell on the fear factor in the everyday existence of their lives.
Needless to say, the adjunct political focal points in present day Australian politics would include,
1. The perpetual war on terrorism Global War on Terror (GWOT);
2. Revocation of Citizenship for known terrorist Organisation/s sympathisers and fighters;
3. Turning back of the boats narrative; and,
4. The war against Multiculturalism.
The perpetual war on terrorism, The Global War On Terror (GWOT).
The perceived, and actual, spread of Islamic Jihadism has served as a convenient narrative for the extreme right wing xenophobic narrative throughout many Western Societies and Australia is no exception. The ultra-nationalist political agenda has found Islamic Jihadism as the most convenient scapegoat and is, generally speaking, accepted by a predominantly Eurocentric and Judeo-Christian mainstream Australian community.
The September 11, 2001, event would serve as the Mea Culpa for the present perpetual Global War on Terror, (GWOT). For the warmonger 911 would serve as the finest hour for both the ultra-Nationalist and the Islamic Jihadist alike. Paradoxically, each side would seek a raison d'etre for committing to a reciprocated perpetual war which would last for over a decade and it seems to be self perpetuating fueling itself from each other with an intergenerational hunger for hate begetting hate.
The regressive nature of the present global war on terror has retarded the economic and socio-political development of most Middle Eastern cultures. Whilst, at the same time, fueling a war machine, within most paranoid and perhaps guilt ridden advanced societies some just cause to want to supplant and to prevent further erosions of their privileged status from any nascent emerging economies who aim to aggrandise through qualitative development of their own macroeconomic and microeconomic infrastructural and superstructural development. Moreover, the privileged would choose to preserve their privileged status from externalised threats. Such threats of erosion of their quality of life are sourced at the perceived, rather than actual, emerging economies improved quality of life through acquiring or using natural power resources, such as oil and mineral energy resources, which would result in a diffusion of power resources away from the present advanced developed societies. When the core, more developed societies feel that their quality of life is ebbing through this power resource diffusion, then a retardant force must halt this advance.
Conflicts, civil disequilibria, and entropy, will prevent emerging societies from progressing. Underdeveloped societies like most religiously oppressed Middle Eastern societies are more conducive to volatile social disruptions. Anarchic forces such as political coup d etat and social conflict occur in vulnerable societies ripe for social upheaval. Rigid and draconian religions would set a regressive agenda which would serve the purpose for the core, and more developed nations, to maintain a suppressive stifling lid on development and emerging economies from progress.
Therefore, to reiterate the present day crisis, for the present moment, advanced societies would want to maintain their privileged status by undermining and supplanting emerging economies’ progressive development. Why? because, of the perceived ebbing of the privileged status of the core developed society status. Energy power resources, sourced at oil resources from Middle Eastern locales, would fuel the economic developmental growth of most Westernised societies. To undermine their own self development you use religion and an under educated religiously draconian society eager to commit to violence in order to fuel this regressive agenda which would effectively supplant their on socio-economic and political progress to best effect.
Black Man’s burden, becomes the White Man’s burden.
Post colonialism has meant the removal of most of the physical evidences of the Eurocentric cultural Colonialism from the former colonies. Upon their return to Europe the Imperial legacies of Colonialism would include laws and cultural evidences including laws and language of conquest for the former colonies. Conversely, on the flipside, was the influx of coloured people, with their elements of culture, including their Cosmopolitanism, their religion, music, dress, art forms, culinary skills and food, back to the Imperial Motherland.
Culturally, the expectant anxieties of immigration would attract the White Man’s Burden. In the twentieth century, the Enoch Powell narrative fear bodes well in this instance of the White Man’s Burden. In Britain, politically, the British National Party BNP, and United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), today, has chimed in with this xenophobic and anti-Multiculturalist narrative.
In Australia, the portability of the Enoch Powell narrative, may be manifestly inherited, with the literature of Professor Geoffrey Blainey, and the politics of Pauline Hanson.
Now, updated, the present day political landscape of Reclaim Australia has revised and reinvented the xenophobic narrative with finding a tangible evidence of a real terror threat to mainstream White Australia. The National Security threat is perceived as a white man’s burden with a manifested threat from Islamic Jihadism which is often source from coloured people from South East Asia and the Middle East.
Stained by the same tar brush.
Whilst it may be salient to point out that the Islamic Jihadist is soured from the South east Asian and Middle Eastern region the bifurcated perception by mainstream societal perception would simplify the them versus us as coloured ethnic cultures versus White European Australian society.
Samoans, whilst considered minor and insignificant to the Australian bifurcated race relations dividing line, as Samoans are considered as being lumped into the Multicultural basket, and therefore, considered as part of the them group. Samoans have been smeared with the them category and have been included within the cross-hairs for the Reclaim Australia hitlist.
Samoans represent some 40,000 of the Australian population. Even though this is a statistical fact, racism smears across all ethnic groups. Samoans, particularly menfolk, are disproportionately targeted by hoi polloi and unwanted law enforcement attention more so than comparable white people within the communities either in Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne where there is some ethnic enclaves of Samoans.
In Logan City, south of Brisbane, within South East Queensland, there is 8,800 known Samoans residing within this region. Logan City, has the largest concentration of Samoans in all of Australia. Again, the unwanted attention by the police and law enforcement is disproportionately over represented as well.
Revocation of the Australian Citizenship.
The recent announcement of the revocation of citizenship under section 35 (1) of the 2007 Citizenship Act, has given too much political power to a humanitarian and legally unqualified Politician to revoke the citizenship status of a perceived Australian citizen suspected of joining a military organisation considered an enemy and at war with Australia. This may be considered a justifiable reason for the protection of local Australians from potential terrorist elements as potential cell or a lone wolf actuals within Australia under the present GWOT conditions, however, it may set a precedent for potential abuse of power for the removal of citizenship status for a targeted ethnic and cultural group under the most flimsy of reasons as perceived by the purveyors of power at a particular time.
Turning back the boats.
The White Man’s Burden narrative may be translated as the plight of the Core-Periphery dialectalism with the peripherally war ravaged refugees and dysfunctional externalised stateless persons have been disgorged within the Core Developed Sovereign Societies within Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The present bipartisan response has been uniformly anti-refugee and asylum seekers. Perhaps, the justification may be considered politically pertinent after noticing the consistency of the Suspected Irregular Entry Vehicles (SIEVs) having been sourced from regions which are consistently are war torn, destabilised, and, often, have over population issues, which must be considered as going beyond the pale for Australia’s Border Security and National Security resources. In this regard, the testing of the Australian level of tolerance has become a more uniform bipartisan political approach with a collective consideration of the perpetual influx of SIEVs as an adjunct to the present Global War On Terror (GWOT). More particularly, Nations, who may consider Australia, and other Coalition of the Willing, ‘Core’ Nations, as likely targets as a post facto GWOT reciprocated war.
Ultimately, the Turning back of the Boats policy has in another, neo-Marxist perspective, could be considered as perpetuating the stress upon the White Man’s Burden. Therefore, the White Man’s Burden, for the ‘Core’ Nations, as considered synonymous with the present Global War On Terror narrative, may be comprehensively conceivable.
Tim Tufuga
[1] Anglo-Celtic Australian population, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Celtic_Australian
[2] Reclaim Australia, http://www.reclaim-australia.com/about-reclaim.html
[3] Rivers of Blood, Powell, Enoch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech
[4] Ten Pound Poms, Victoria Immigration Museum, http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/discoverycentre/your-questions/ten-pound-poms/
[5] Samoan Australians, Wikipedia.com, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoan_Australian
Wednesday 22 July 2015
Wednesday 8 July 2015
Sunday 17 May 2015
Cybercrime and identity theft. The role of ACORN By Tim Tufuga 18th May 2015
It has been apparent to me that the internet is thwart with personal security dangers. Information sharing and disclosures of personal particulars are often at risk over the internet. With the advance in the digital age the ability for people to gain access to digital age technology is forever evolving and with this innovative age comes with it ad hoc measures in security settings and upgrades which often is vulnerable to all sorts of dangers.
Phishing scams has been a favourite clincher for many internet users unwary of the traps involved such as divulging personal email and contact details which would inadvertently include providing personal banking details, home, and phone numbers, for potential abusers to commit identity theft.
On a personal favourite of mine is the phishing scams for internet purchases like ebay or paypal. Or for direct purchases using credit card and accessing internet banking services. What seems very real is with the advent of the digital age and the convenience associated with easy access to goods and services there are the pitfalls associated with such modern forms of e-commerce transactions. At the most vulnerable level is the individual consumer whom is considered as the easiest target for the cyber criminal to target.
When an individual becomes a victim of cybercrimes particularly identity theft the costs to the victim are pervasive and are not visibly apparent. The victim is not subjected to violence with an armed hold up whilst being fleeced of everything within their bank account. The cyber criminal is much more subtle and more pervasively sinister in their malicious crime.
Being a victim of a hidden crime does not attract public attention since there are no physical scars and trauma by the victim. If anything the trauma is felt psychologically and emotionally. Like a policeman bashing a suspect without leaving any physical contusion scars on the suspects body within his cell. The cyber criminal leaves no physical traces of their crime except for the loss for the victim's accounts.
As a victim of cyber crime the recourse of action to combat cyber criminals is through government intervention. Law enforcement inter-agencies within Australia work in conjunction in combating cyber crime. With the ever expanding digital age the task of combating cyber criminals is an ever increasing snowball task.
Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN)
The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network has introduced a digital age form of reporting cybercrime. This has allowed a user friendly access for victims and law enforcement agencies to coordinate cybercrime activities and reporting of such incidents in order to efficaciously combat the escalating criminal spree which has enveloped the digital age world. When law enforcement agencies increase their dragnet capabilities so too do the cyber criminals seek to evolve further in order to get ahead of the game.
On a personal note, as a long time internet blogger and being regularly connected on the social media I have been vulnerable to cyber crime and in particular with identity fraud. The number of Tim Brian Tufuga, or Tufuga Tim Brian accounts exemplifies the cyber bullying which is very salient indeed. In actuality there is only one legitimate individual known as Tim Brian Tufuga in the digital world. The rest are cyber bullies having a jeer at my expense.
Regards.
Tim Brian Tufuga
18th May 2015
Cyber bullied and identity theft victim.
Sources:
1. Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network, 2015. http://www.acorn.gov.au/
Phishing scams has been a favourite clincher for many internet users unwary of the traps involved such as divulging personal email and contact details which would inadvertently include providing personal banking details, home, and phone numbers, for potential abusers to commit identity theft.
On a personal favourite of mine is the phishing scams for internet purchases like ebay or paypal. Or for direct purchases using credit card and accessing internet banking services. What seems very real is with the advent of the digital age and the convenience associated with easy access to goods and services there are the pitfalls associated with such modern forms of e-commerce transactions. At the most vulnerable level is the individual consumer whom is considered as the easiest target for the cyber criminal to target.
When an individual becomes a victim of cybercrimes particularly identity theft the costs to the victim are pervasive and are not visibly apparent. The victim is not subjected to violence with an armed hold up whilst being fleeced of everything within their bank account. The cyber criminal is much more subtle and more pervasively sinister in their malicious crime.
Being a victim of a hidden crime does not attract public attention since there are no physical scars and trauma by the victim. If anything the trauma is felt psychologically and emotionally. Like a policeman bashing a suspect without leaving any physical contusion scars on the suspects body within his cell. The cyber criminal leaves no physical traces of their crime except for the loss for the victim's accounts.
As a victim of cyber crime the recourse of action to combat cyber criminals is through government intervention. Law enforcement inter-agencies within Australia work in conjunction in combating cyber crime. With the ever expanding digital age the task of combating cyber criminals is an ever increasing snowball task.
Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN)
The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network has introduced a digital age form of reporting cybercrime. This has allowed a user friendly access for victims and law enforcement agencies to coordinate cybercrime activities and reporting of such incidents in order to efficaciously combat the escalating criminal spree which has enveloped the digital age world. When law enforcement agencies increase their dragnet capabilities so too do the cyber criminals seek to evolve further in order to get ahead of the game.
On a personal note, as a long time internet blogger and being regularly connected on the social media I have been vulnerable to cyber crime and in particular with identity fraud. The number of Tim Brian Tufuga, or Tufuga Tim Brian accounts exemplifies the cyber bullying which is very salient indeed. In actuality there is only one legitimate individual known as Tim Brian Tufuga in the digital world. The rest are cyber bullies having a jeer at my expense.
Regards.
Tim Brian Tufuga
18th May 2015
Cyber bullied and identity theft victim. Sources:
1. Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network, 2015. http://www.acorn.gov.au/
Wednesday 1 April 2015
Operation Decisive Storm (The military engagement of Yemen) March 2015. By Tim Tufuga
A reply to a discussion of the present military operation coalition forces, led by Saudi Arabia, against the Zaidi (Shia) dominated Houthis forces within Yemen. Operation Decisive Storm.
(Wikipedia.com)
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/yemen-is-alqaeda-spring-saudi-arabia-decisive-storm.html#comment-1939623520
(Wikipedia,com)
What seems to be a paradox with the drawdown of the Operations within Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan with (Operation Enduring Freedom) with the purported transitional operations like Operation New Dawn would result in the inadvertent re-emergence of inimical forces which would manifest into respective Islamic sectarian movements. The Sunni Awakening, back in 2010, which was in effect, and affect, was a Sunni contrived 'Neighbourhood Watch' localised militia group and network with Sunni dominated areas within Iraq, were subsequently armed ,and were logistically supplied, with NATO Humvees, NATO small arms. The Sunni Awakening paradoxically would, in turn, become a rebellious militia group engaging the Shia dominated Iraqi Army, and by natural progression would finally manifest themselves into the Islamic State fighters then known as ISIL. The Snowball effect would include the influx of Fedayeen fighters from throughout the Islamic Sunni world who would come willingly to the call to Jihad into the IS and Iraq and Syrian Levant region in shoring up the military strength of IS. Conversely, the Hezbollah and Shia led sides would find their global Jihadist Fedayeen just as willing and able to join in the fistfight as well. The Arab Springs regions would become fertile grounds for Islamic sectarian conflict that will invariably lead to the present Yemeni crisis. Paradoxically, due to the nature of the sectarianism conflict between Shia and Sunni the Operation Decisive Storm may in fact lend an ideological and material support for the Sunni narrative within the Al Qaeda and IS military machine against the Yemeni Houthis which invariably are Shia (Zaidi version) and Hezbollah (Iranian/Syrian Shia) supported forces. Herein lies the rub of Sunni/Shia sectarianism and with the Sunni Clerics influencing the military agendas to play against both sides of the polemic divide within the confusion that is the Middle East conflict zone.
Sources: Al-Monitor.com,http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/yemen-is-alqaeda-spring-saudi-arabia-decisive-storm.html#comment-1939623520, 31st March, 2015.
By Tim Tufuga
(Wikipedia.com)http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/yemen-is-alqaeda-spring-saudi-arabia-decisive-storm.html#comment-1939623520
(Wikipedia,com)What seems to be a paradox with the drawdown of the Operations within Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and Afghanistan with (Operation Enduring Freedom) with the purported transitional operations like Operation New Dawn would result in the inadvertent re-emergence of inimical forces which would manifest into respective Islamic sectarian movements. The Sunni Awakening, back in 2010, which was in effect, and affect, was a Sunni contrived 'Neighbourhood Watch' localised militia group and network with Sunni dominated areas within Iraq, were subsequently armed ,and were logistically supplied, with NATO Humvees, NATO small arms. The Sunni Awakening paradoxically would, in turn, become a rebellious militia group engaging the Shia dominated Iraqi Army, and by natural progression would finally manifest themselves into the Islamic State fighters then known as ISIL. The Snowball effect would include the influx of Fedayeen fighters from throughout the Islamic Sunni world who would come willingly to the call to Jihad into the IS and Iraq and Syrian Levant region in shoring up the military strength of IS. Conversely, the Hezbollah and Shia led sides would find their global Jihadist Fedayeen just as willing and able to join in the fistfight as well. The Arab Springs regions would become fertile grounds for Islamic sectarian conflict that will invariably lead to the present Yemeni crisis. Paradoxically, due to the nature of the sectarianism conflict between Shia and Sunni the Operation Decisive Storm may in fact lend an ideological and material support for the Sunni narrative within the Al Qaeda and IS military machine against the Yemeni Houthis which invariably are Shia (Zaidi version) and Hezbollah (Iranian/Syrian Shia) supported forces. Herein lies the rub of Sunni/Shia sectarianism and with the Sunni Clerics influencing the military agendas to play against both sides of the polemic divide within the confusion that is the Middle East conflict zone.
Sources: Al-Monitor.com,http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2015/03/yemen-is-alqaeda-spring-saudi-arabia-decisive-storm.html#comment-1939623520, 31st March, 2015.
By Tim Tufuga
Friday 13 March 2015
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Friday 27 February 2015
Friday 20 February 2015
The Australian Labor Government: A Very Brief Australian Political history. By Tim Brian Tufuga.
There are two Australian political and cultural histories, one is a Conservative and politically stagnant and uneventful political history; and, the other, a pragmatic, vibrant, dynamic, and progressive political history, spearheaded by The Australian Labor Party.
In moments of crisis:
I could glance through the history of Australia and realise that the most momentous achievements of Australian government leaders from the very beginning of the modern Australian political history for over a century, were significantly impacted most by an Australian Labor Government. During the lull times, however, a Conservative right-wing government, would assume the helm, only until a time of crisis would arise, then a pragmatic, roll-up-your sleeves Labor Government would stand up, front and centre, and to rescue Australia from the brink of collapse and anarchy. In the past century, only thirty three years the Australian political history was considered as Labor government incumbencies. Without sounding off the obvious, the ALP had made greater domestic and global impact than the dormancy steady-as-she-goes political incumbencies of their Conservative counterparts.
World War One
During the start of the Great War, an ALP PM Joseph Cook, stood at the helm, followed by another, and yet more colourful ALP, convert, PM Billy Hughes, whose demagogue charismatic political speeches encouraged a nation into resolute stoicism in the face of wartime chaos and uncertainty.
The Great Depression
During the Great Depression, in 1929, it was James Scullin’s Australian Labor Government, once again, that had befallen the momentous political and social economic catastrophic event of the century, and, although he had promised to steer the nation out of the Great Depression, with an Australian adaptation of John Maynard Keynes’, The New Deal, due to the overwhelming Conservative scepticism by the States, would have Keynesianism rejected, resulting in the annihilation of the federal Scullion ALP government at the Ballot and the rise of Robert Menzies Conservative government, but, what was more significant was the selling off of minerals such as Iron Ore, (Pig Iron), to Japan, earning the unenviable slur for Robert Menzies of ‘Pig Iron Bob’. From a Keynesian perspective, however, it would stagnate the recovery of the nation with a comparative result within the United States Government’s The New Deal policy for infrastructure development with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). However, the vision for the Snowy Mountain Scheme was not conceived by the Menzies government, even though, during the Great Depression, Scullion government had this vision in mind. Needless to say, with the benefit of hindsight the failed Scullion administration were precocious beyond their years. Finally, in 1949, during yet another Australian Labor Government of Ben Chiefly, The Snowy Mountain Scheme, would finally begin, and would finally be completed by the end of 1972, some fifty years after it was initially entertained in the minds by the Scullion administration, and was then quickly ignored, and forgotten by the Robert Menzies Government and the State Governments of the time.
World War Two
Once again, a left-wing Labor government, would answer the call to rescue a nation during a time of crisis particularly during the paroxysms of world war two when the Australian Labor Government PM John Curtin, would stand up, front and centre, and lead the nation during a time of imminent danger. Australia was saved from the brink of catastrophic chaos, once again, a Labor government would see Australia through the war period, save only the 1942 Darwin Bombing, through to the post war period somewhat unscathed.
United Nations and the End of the White Australia policy.
Domestically, would see the emergent population growth through a great influx of primarily European migrants, vis-Ã -vis, the One Million Briton policy, and, the Ten Pound Poms, would flood Australian immigration turnstiles; and, coupled with this dramatic increase of the Australian population was the dramatic rise of the natural domestic population through the Natural Increase levels, which would generate a new generation known collectively as the Baby boomers. The Baby boomers as a significant population group, from 1945-1950s, would dramatically have an impact upon the Australia socio-political landscape which would include universal citizenry rights entitlements to the universal welfare state system, was then considered a right and an entitlement and not a privilege. Also, with the hasten demands for economic and socio-political progressiveness, the White Australia policy was eventually thrown out by the Australian Labor government policy manifesto, in part, due to the demands for the domestic economic development and the labour market needs, and more symbolically moral, ethical and political correct was the need for the Australian Labor Government’s international obligations be considered reputably sound and correct. Hence, the winds of change included a need for the gradual decolonisation objectives, and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, which was part of the foundation cornerstones of the newly formed United Nations Organisation. Australian domestic race relations had to revert to important reconciliation as consistent with the international obligations of Australia to the United Nations and other international bilateral and multilateral organisational affiliations and commitments.
Moreover, the international reputation of Australia after world war two revealed many contradictions which needed to be addressed by the Australian Labor Government. Since the Australian Labor Government had played a crucially important role within the recently formed United Nations Organisation, a former Australian Party Leader, Dr Evatt, would stand as the inaugural President (Secretary-General) of the United Nations General Assembly. Incidentally, the Australian Labor Party think tank, which would include Dr Evatt and Fred Whitlam, et al, who were instrumental in the penmanship of parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Charter.
Fred Whitlam (Wikipedia)
It seems obvious that in times of Australia’s political turmoils the people of Australia would always rely upon a centralist left-wing government to steer the nation away from the brink of nihilism and anarchy. In times of international and domestic political significant events throughout Australia’s young political history the Australian Labor Government have played a significant role which would be considered more significantly important than the achievements of their political opposition.
From the paroxysms of significant political events of the past century the Australia Labor Party would be the bastion of strength, integrity, and practical functionality in preventing our nation falling into the abyss of absolute anarchic chaos and uncertainty. During moments when pragmatic government intervention were required such as during the Great Depression a conservative government would undermine the Keynesian practicality for stimulating full economic recovery through full employment stimulation through a much more rigorous think big undertakings which were then strongly discouraged by the conservative regimes. He Snowy Mountain Scheme was delayed until after world war two, when the scheme should have been introduced back in the 1930s when full employment was then required.
Rt. Hon. Sir James Scullion (Wikipedia)
After the war years, the white Australia was erased once and for all when the need to populate or perish would demand the expansion of the immigration quotas outside of the British white immigration quotas to meet the domestic employment and development targets. The Baby boomers would demand an increase of Macroeconomic stress in certain sectors of the economy whilst encouraging the perpetual suburban sprawl into the hinterland of Australian coastlines.
Finally, the United Nations, in its present form, would, undoubtedly, owe a great deal of its foundation to the leaders of the Australian Labor government. Dr. HV Evatt as the inaugural President of the United Nations would be bestowed this highest accolade and would symbolically crown the feats and unprecedented achievements of a powerful and courageous political party not only within Australia, but, throughout present and future international relations.
Dr. HV Evatt (Wikipedia)
The Overview of the Labour tradition: An ideological perspective: Realpolitik:
Nowadays, the Australian Labor Government is finding new unprecedented socio-political grounds to explore beyond the confines of conservativism. The dynamic forces of the social democratic mind is vibrant and progressive and will not become narrowly focused to the avarice market forces of profit making capitalism, it is viewed simply as a means to an ends, capitalism is not an end in itself. Social Democrats world over have realised the value of collective consciousness and the collective responsibility so as to ensure that our international obligations will not render us domestically as hypocrites. The Australian Labor Government had always aspired to pursue socio-economic autarky for their working Australians. The aim for the protection of the high quality of life and standards of living for all Australians is considered not a privilege for a few but is an entitlement for all citizens. Citizenry Democratic rights is enshrined into the fabric of any civilised society, notwithstanding, the citizen’s particular race, colour, creed, age, and gender, the Australian Labor Government in the past and present has traditionally always stood firmly to these universal values and would endeavour to remain consistently firm to these collective responsibilities. The antithesis to the Labour cause is the avarice individualism and the desire to undermine your fellow man and woman, in some dog eat dog contest, so as to undermine communities into chaotic competition for scarce power resources, and to plunge nations into conflict over limited power resources.
The Collective responsible way of the Social Democrat would view public policy and government responsibility in the Public interest and the public interest is considered as paramount, over and above the individual wants. Moreover, the individual is not diminished in its collective value but rather the individual augments the sum total of the family unit, and, outwardly, to the community, and society, at large. The ideological compromise as one Labor leader had once chimed, is the consideration for Mutualism of the Third Way, In such an ideological compromise the acceptance of,
“In terms of organisational theory, it might be thought of this way. The first way lies in the individualism of the market. The second way lies in the hierarchies of the state. A Third Way can be found in the mutualism of network organisations. It is the coming way. “
In such a structural perspective of the Latham organizational systems theory we would realise that in the Digital Age we are overlapping Sovereign National borders, with our influences and multinational organization which will play a significant role within the localized socio-political Sovereign order. The interoperability of industrial relations interactions between domestic workers, their respective union sections, and their adaptability in a free market system which has effectively undermined the domestic industries and subsequently the detrimental effects upon local employment conditions.
Geospatial Revolution: Climate Change
New global questions has arisen which has included the political contentious Climate Change. The global impact of an Agenda 21 geo-spatial influence on respective domestic public policy, has ushered in the dawn of a new age of the Geo-spatial revolution. The impact of environmentalists has set a new age precedent away from the industrial democratic platforms of the traditional neo-Marxist class conflict. The influence of energy security and the impact of the global war on terror has dramatic impact in the geo-spatial influence in global politics. The rise of Shale Oil and the fracking of shale oil has impacted upon the levels of protest and environmental outrage whilst at the same time influencing the price of oil from traditional suppliers from the Middle East. OPEC member nations have viewed the power of the Shale Oil market as being real and have responded with competitive oil prices cutting the price of the barrel of oil WTI by over 50% since 2014-15.
The neo-Marxists have viewed the impact of the Shale oil in the Oil wars as diffusing the impact of the core-periphery exploitation of the Middle Eastern emergent economies whilst the West extract their own oil from within their sovereign borders.
The Digital Age: The cyber-threats and the impact of the Social Media as a Political weapon of choice.
The impact of the Australian Labor Party members within international organisations such as the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) has constantly reminded individual members of their universal commitments to their kindred collective spirits who share these common values of fraternity and collective responsibility to their community. The Social democratic view of the transition of liberal democracy to Social democracy is a revisionist ideal although a gradualist view which in Realpolitik’s terms may seem impractical. However, since Perestroika and Glasnost, the Neo Marxist traditional mindset had made a default reset and would revise the ineluctable path for a Liberal democratic regime becoming Social Democracies.
Instead, the impact of the ever shrinking world through the Digital Age has emboldened the power and reach of the atomised individual, sitting inside his or her bedroom, being able to articulate information, and even to conduct individual commerce, and social networking, with extra spatial and extra dimension impact, other than the physical and audio-visual confines with their immediate physical proximity. The impact of the individual has become further more paramount with aid of the social media platform.
Conversely, the collective impact of flash crowd gatherings has also been significant with the power of the digital age, the Arab Spring revolutions were sparked and encouraged through social media particularly through Twitter and Facebook users. The social media weapon of choice has made the individual more powerful than the totalitarian powers that be may like, although, the collection of Meta Data, via social media accounts, has also added to the greater social profiling of individuals by the State as well. The great Firewall of China and Cyber conflict measures such as the Stuxnet cyber warfare virus, which has been downloaded into military and government servers in target nations, causing malfunctions to installations and institutions.
The comprehension of the full impact of the digital age upon the information technology is ubiquitous significant. In appreciating the full propaganda meme influence of the social media platform the political propaganda machine on both sides of the political spectrum have faced off in both positive and negative measures. The political psychological war is perpetual ground war from behind the keyboard. Internet trolling and scandalous memes would aim to incite a political and even physical reaction and whomever is able to influence the most and to persuade the most undoubtedly has gained the upper hand in the propaganda warfare.
The modern Labor government is facing the new challenges of a dynamic digital age in which the individual looms larger than the collective. The transference of information is no longer limited by conventional means, such as a phone call or a snail mail letter. People are fully informed instantaneously in an age of convenience. A consumer led economy has diminished the desire to protect passionately traditional jobs because most are no longer in existence. The changes of the working environment has had a dramatic impact on the intergenerational occupational location traditions of the Australian society. The Digital age is primarily responsible for most of this change. Traditional jobs like the Typing pools within government departments are no more, the entire automobile manufacturing industry in Australia has moved offshore, many clothing factories have gone offshore, also due to favourable production costs, i.e., lower labour costs, etc.
Labour politics and the ideological relevance within a Bear/Bull Market system. The Greek, case study.
The free market system has led to our interdependence upon many goods and services from afar, it has rendered localised autarky near impossible. The domestic labour market has not shrunk it has simply changed and the aim to stimulate full employment with the Australian Labor traditions are still ideologically relevant still. The change of perspective requires a refocus and adaptation to a dynamic environment. Old things decay, and become outdated, upgrades and innovative thinking opens up more opportunities than viewing merely from within the square box. The limitations of austerity measures are blamed on the avarice of those who actually benefit disproportionately from this unbalanced global economic arrangement. There is a need for homeostasis within the macroeconomic system which would render the limited avarice designs of the world market system directly responsible for the market failures of some nation’s economies.
Greece, as a case in point, has demonstrably revealed an over commitment to maintaining a very inefficient macroeconomic arrangement which in time had succeeded only in increasing their foreign debt. Debt, in essence, as we all know, increases only from the interest calculated, over a time period, upon the principle amount that was borrowed. Therefore, the profit margin factor as sought after by the creditors needs to be reconciled with interest. Only when there is a cut in the interest, which is the business incentive, will the principle debt be finally reconciled. Of course, capitalism will not function properly without the adequate systemic organisational procedural structures and the transaction costs have been factored will the conduct of international commerce and transaction cost arrangements be fully accounted.
The Bear Market system is demonstrably of the lack of speculative confidence by the investment sectors of the Greek domestic economic performance. The problem seems to have focused on the legitimacy of the purported failures of the Keynesian macroeconomic helium balloon in raising the Greek economy from the outset, then the bailout from the Monetarists from the Hedge fund investors and European Central Banks and other international financial institutions which were operating on the Milton Friedman “Austerity” Monetarist laissez faire formulae. What seems to have become the paradox with the post Global Financial Crisis (GFC) with the Greek economic formulae has been the seemingly failure by the initial Keynesian macroeconomic standard which led into the Greek GFC in 2008 resulting with international intervention by Monetarists who subsequently introduced harsh austerity measures in order to rectify and ameliorate the Greek economic woes. The austerity measures have hurt the local economy and the people so much that a socialist government was voted back into office. The relevance of the Keynesian approach to the Greek Global Financial Crisis (GFC) economic recovery will revert Greece to a period just prior to the 2008 GFC. The amount of scepticism understandably is very salient. The Syriza government of Greece has endeavoured to re-introduce government intervention measures in order to stimulate their economy rather than relying upon Hedge Fund investors, international banks, and other international organisations, in seeking to lend more money, and to dictate terms in this Principal-Agent reciprocal arrangement, based primarily on austerity measures of reconciliation, in redressing the economic paroxysms of the Greek economy.
It will be a matter of months if not a year or so will the economic fortunes reveal the full extent of full government intervention in stimulating the Greek economy. Keynesianism will favour the present Syriza approach to full government intervention with an increase of domestic consumerism in order to stimulate the local economy to a quasi-autarky. Such a closed shop perspective may consider overlooking the omniscient oversight by the European Union, the European Central Bank; and, more significantly, to the chagrin of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well.
The Greek example will illustratively reveal a modern day application of post-GFC economic recovery package, not unlike, the American Congress printing a trillion dollars in a desperate attempt at bailing out the floundering Blue Chip industries within the capitalist heartland of American society. General Motors Holden during the GFC had received a total of $13.5 billion USD in Congress funded bailouts until GMH finally came out of bankruptcy. Such an example will augur well for the Greek GFC case. The Keynesian formulae has saved the American bacon so why shouldn’t this formulae work for cash strapped Greece? The Syriza government will reveal, in time, what Keynesianism macroeconomic government intervention can do for their economic recovery.
Australian Labor History legacy
The international ideological relevance of Keynesianism has had its left wing influences which has been relevantly ignored during the early 1930s by a Conservative Australian government. The Australian Labor Government of the Rt. Hon. Sir James Scullion had tried in vain to entreat the respective Australian States to reason to the wonders of the New Deal. It never sank in until 1949 when the Snowy Mountain scheme commenced and even then after employing over 100,000 jobs and creating new townships within the Snowy Mountains, and providing invaluable electricity power to Victoria and New South Wales, it too a quarter of a century to complete. There were inter-generations of Snowy Mountain workers who were fully employed throughout these decades. The Keynesian formulae has been the bedrock of the economic ideological foundations of the Social democratic political parties for most left wing and Labour government world over. The Australia Labor Government has carried this Macroeconomic mantra until the 1973 OPEC crisis and then the demise of the Keynesianism from the lips of Labour politicians. During the 1980s the nascent new right echoed the magic elixir of Microeconomic reforms in injecting the business best practise in public sector industries which would lead to leasing and eventually privatisation. Public asset sales was synonymous with austerity measures and the Laissez faire mantra for the Liberal Conservative governments. Conversely, the Keynesianism would become synonymous with inefficient big government and national debt. Stagflation would exacerbate the problem for the Left wing ideologues who shuddered at the thought that national debt was going hand and hand with rising unemployment levels. Stagflation effectively nailed the coffin for Keynesianism once and for all.
That was until a Bear Market and a recession event would occur, throughout these periods from the mid-1990s, and especially during the 2008 GFC, Keynesianism would suddenly find some pragmatic and realpolitical relevance. Now, all eyes are gazing once again at Greece and the American economic recovery miracle which has also been helped with the Shale Oil economic impact as well, and, suddenly, the Bear market has sought John Maynard Keynes as the relevant macroeconomic saviour of the free world. An ideological paradox it seems.
Needless to say, an Australian Labor Government will always be needed in times of an economic emergency, especially in times of warfare. When times are buoyant like during a Bull Market, economic rationalist would always contumely chastise the left as being inefficient and irrelevant until another Bear comes stalking by.
By Tim Tufuga 20th February, 2015
Tim Tufuga
In moments of crisis:
I could glance through the history of Australia and realise that the most momentous achievements of Australian government leaders from the very beginning of the modern Australian political history for over a century, were significantly impacted most by an Australian Labor Government. During the lull times, however, a Conservative right-wing government, would assume the helm, only until a time of crisis would arise, then a pragmatic, roll-up-your sleeves Labor Government would stand up, front and centre, and to rescue Australia from the brink of collapse and anarchy. In the past century, only thirty three years the Australian political history was considered as Labor government incumbencies. Without sounding off the obvious, the ALP had made greater domestic and global impact than the dormancy steady-as-she-goes political incumbencies of their Conservative counterparts.
World War One
During the start of the Great War, an ALP PM Joseph Cook, stood at the helm, followed by another, and yet more colourful ALP, convert, PM Billy Hughes, whose demagogue charismatic political speeches encouraged a nation into resolute stoicism in the face of wartime chaos and uncertainty.
The Great Depression
During the Great Depression, in 1929, it was James Scullin’s Australian Labor Government, once again, that had befallen the momentous political and social economic catastrophic event of the century, and, although he had promised to steer the nation out of the Great Depression, with an Australian adaptation of John Maynard Keynes’, The New Deal, due to the overwhelming Conservative scepticism by the States, would have Keynesianism rejected, resulting in the annihilation of the federal Scullion ALP government at the Ballot and the rise of Robert Menzies Conservative government, but, what was more significant was the selling off of minerals such as Iron Ore, (Pig Iron), to Japan, earning the unenviable slur for Robert Menzies of ‘Pig Iron Bob’. From a Keynesian perspective, however, it would stagnate the recovery of the nation with a comparative result within the United States Government’s The New Deal policy for infrastructure development with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). However, the vision for the Snowy Mountain Scheme was not conceived by the Menzies government, even though, during the Great Depression, Scullion government had this vision in mind. Needless to say, with the benefit of hindsight the failed Scullion administration were precocious beyond their years. Finally, in 1949, during yet another Australian Labor Government of Ben Chiefly, The Snowy Mountain Scheme, would finally begin, and would finally be completed by the end of 1972, some fifty years after it was initially entertained in the minds by the Scullion administration, and was then quickly ignored, and forgotten by the Robert Menzies Government and the State Governments of the time.
World War Two
Once again, a left-wing Labor government, would answer the call to rescue a nation during a time of crisis particularly during the paroxysms of world war two when the Australian Labor Government PM John Curtin, would stand up, front and centre, and lead the nation during a time of imminent danger. Australia was saved from the brink of catastrophic chaos, once again, a Labor government would see Australia through the war period, save only the 1942 Darwin Bombing, through to the post war period somewhat unscathed.
United Nations and the End of the White Australia policy.
Domestically, would see the emergent population growth through a great influx of primarily European migrants, vis-Ã -vis, the One Million Briton policy, and, the Ten Pound Poms, would flood Australian immigration turnstiles; and, coupled with this dramatic increase of the Australian population was the dramatic rise of the natural domestic population through the Natural Increase levels, which would generate a new generation known collectively as the Baby boomers. The Baby boomers as a significant population group, from 1945-1950s, would dramatically have an impact upon the Australia socio-political landscape which would include universal citizenry rights entitlements to the universal welfare state system, was then considered a right and an entitlement and not a privilege. Also, with the hasten demands for economic and socio-political progressiveness, the White Australia policy was eventually thrown out by the Australian Labor government policy manifesto, in part, due to the demands for the domestic economic development and the labour market needs, and more symbolically moral, ethical and political correct was the need for the Australian Labor Government’s international obligations be considered reputably sound and correct. Hence, the winds of change included a need for the gradual decolonisation objectives, and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, which was part of the foundation cornerstones of the newly formed United Nations Organisation. Australian domestic race relations had to revert to important reconciliation as consistent with the international obligations of Australia to the United Nations and other international bilateral and multilateral organisational affiliations and commitments.
Moreover, the international reputation of Australia after world war two revealed many contradictions which needed to be addressed by the Australian Labor Government. Since the Australian Labor Government had played a crucially important role within the recently formed United Nations Organisation, a former Australian Party Leader, Dr Evatt, would stand as the inaugural President (Secretary-General) of the United Nations General Assembly. Incidentally, the Australian Labor Party think tank, which would include Dr Evatt and Fred Whitlam, et al, who were instrumental in the penmanship of parts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Charter.
Fred Whitlam (Wikipedia)It seems obvious that in times of Australia’s political turmoils the people of Australia would always rely upon a centralist left-wing government to steer the nation away from the brink of nihilism and anarchy. In times of international and domestic political significant events throughout Australia’s young political history the Australian Labor Government have played a significant role which would be considered more significantly important than the achievements of their political opposition.
From the paroxysms of significant political events of the past century the Australia Labor Party would be the bastion of strength, integrity, and practical functionality in preventing our nation falling into the abyss of absolute anarchic chaos and uncertainty. During moments when pragmatic government intervention were required such as during the Great Depression a conservative government would undermine the Keynesian practicality for stimulating full economic recovery through full employment stimulation through a much more rigorous think big undertakings which were then strongly discouraged by the conservative regimes. He Snowy Mountain Scheme was delayed until after world war two, when the scheme should have been introduced back in the 1930s when full employment was then required.
Rt. Hon. Sir James Scullion (Wikipedia)After the war years, the white Australia was erased once and for all when the need to populate or perish would demand the expansion of the immigration quotas outside of the British white immigration quotas to meet the domestic employment and development targets. The Baby boomers would demand an increase of Macroeconomic stress in certain sectors of the economy whilst encouraging the perpetual suburban sprawl into the hinterland of Australian coastlines.
Finally, the United Nations, in its present form, would, undoubtedly, owe a great deal of its foundation to the leaders of the Australian Labor government. Dr. HV Evatt as the inaugural President of the United Nations would be bestowed this highest accolade and would symbolically crown the feats and unprecedented achievements of a powerful and courageous political party not only within Australia, but, throughout present and future international relations.
Dr. HV Evatt (Wikipedia)The Overview of the Labour tradition: An ideological perspective: Realpolitik:
Nowadays, the Australian Labor Government is finding new unprecedented socio-political grounds to explore beyond the confines of conservativism. The dynamic forces of the social democratic mind is vibrant and progressive and will not become narrowly focused to the avarice market forces of profit making capitalism, it is viewed simply as a means to an ends, capitalism is not an end in itself. Social Democrats world over have realised the value of collective consciousness and the collective responsibility so as to ensure that our international obligations will not render us domestically as hypocrites. The Australian Labor Government had always aspired to pursue socio-economic autarky for their working Australians. The aim for the protection of the high quality of life and standards of living for all Australians is considered not a privilege for a few but is an entitlement for all citizens. Citizenry Democratic rights is enshrined into the fabric of any civilised society, notwithstanding, the citizen’s particular race, colour, creed, age, and gender, the Australian Labor Government in the past and present has traditionally always stood firmly to these universal values and would endeavour to remain consistently firm to these collective responsibilities. The antithesis to the Labour cause is the avarice individualism and the desire to undermine your fellow man and woman, in some dog eat dog contest, so as to undermine communities into chaotic competition for scarce power resources, and to plunge nations into conflict over limited power resources.
The Collective responsible way of the Social Democrat would view public policy and government responsibility in the Public interest and the public interest is considered as paramount, over and above the individual wants. Moreover, the individual is not diminished in its collective value but rather the individual augments the sum total of the family unit, and, outwardly, to the community, and society, at large. The ideological compromise as one Labor leader had once chimed, is the consideration for Mutualism of the Third Way, In such an ideological compromise the acceptance of,
“In terms of organisational theory, it might be thought of this way. The first way lies in the individualism of the market. The second way lies in the hierarchies of the state. A Third Way can be found in the mutualism of network organisations. It is the coming way. “
In such a structural perspective of the Latham organizational systems theory we would realise that in the Digital Age we are overlapping Sovereign National borders, with our influences and multinational organization which will play a significant role within the localized socio-political Sovereign order. The interoperability of industrial relations interactions between domestic workers, their respective union sections, and their adaptability in a free market system which has effectively undermined the domestic industries and subsequently the detrimental effects upon local employment conditions.
Geospatial Revolution: Climate Change
New global questions has arisen which has included the political contentious Climate Change. The global impact of an Agenda 21 geo-spatial influence on respective domestic public policy, has ushered in the dawn of a new age of the Geo-spatial revolution. The impact of environmentalists has set a new age precedent away from the industrial democratic platforms of the traditional neo-Marxist class conflict. The influence of energy security and the impact of the global war on terror has dramatic impact in the geo-spatial influence in global politics. The rise of Shale Oil and the fracking of shale oil has impacted upon the levels of protest and environmental outrage whilst at the same time influencing the price of oil from traditional suppliers from the Middle East. OPEC member nations have viewed the power of the Shale Oil market as being real and have responded with competitive oil prices cutting the price of the barrel of oil WTI by over 50% since 2014-15.
The neo-Marxists have viewed the impact of the Shale oil in the Oil wars as diffusing the impact of the core-periphery exploitation of the Middle Eastern emergent economies whilst the West extract their own oil from within their sovereign borders.
The Digital Age: The cyber-threats and the impact of the Social Media as a Political weapon of choice.
The impact of the Australian Labor Party members within international organisations such as the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) has constantly reminded individual members of their universal commitments to their kindred collective spirits who share these common values of fraternity and collective responsibility to their community. The Social democratic view of the transition of liberal democracy to Social democracy is a revisionist ideal although a gradualist view which in Realpolitik’s terms may seem impractical. However, since Perestroika and Glasnost, the Neo Marxist traditional mindset had made a default reset and would revise the ineluctable path for a Liberal democratic regime becoming Social Democracies.
Instead, the impact of the ever shrinking world through the Digital Age has emboldened the power and reach of the atomised individual, sitting inside his or her bedroom, being able to articulate information, and even to conduct individual commerce, and social networking, with extra spatial and extra dimension impact, other than the physical and audio-visual confines with their immediate physical proximity. The impact of the individual has become further more paramount with aid of the social media platform.
Conversely, the collective impact of flash crowd gatherings has also been significant with the power of the digital age, the Arab Spring revolutions were sparked and encouraged through social media particularly through Twitter and Facebook users. The social media weapon of choice has made the individual more powerful than the totalitarian powers that be may like, although, the collection of Meta Data, via social media accounts, has also added to the greater social profiling of individuals by the State as well. The great Firewall of China and Cyber conflict measures such as the Stuxnet cyber warfare virus, which has been downloaded into military and government servers in target nations, causing malfunctions to installations and institutions.
The comprehension of the full impact of the digital age upon the information technology is ubiquitous significant. In appreciating the full propaganda meme influence of the social media platform the political propaganda machine on both sides of the political spectrum have faced off in both positive and negative measures. The political psychological war is perpetual ground war from behind the keyboard. Internet trolling and scandalous memes would aim to incite a political and even physical reaction and whomever is able to influence the most and to persuade the most undoubtedly has gained the upper hand in the propaganda warfare.
The modern Labor government is facing the new challenges of a dynamic digital age in which the individual looms larger than the collective. The transference of information is no longer limited by conventional means, such as a phone call or a snail mail letter. People are fully informed instantaneously in an age of convenience. A consumer led economy has diminished the desire to protect passionately traditional jobs because most are no longer in existence. The changes of the working environment has had a dramatic impact on the intergenerational occupational location traditions of the Australian society. The Digital age is primarily responsible for most of this change. Traditional jobs like the Typing pools within government departments are no more, the entire automobile manufacturing industry in Australia has moved offshore, many clothing factories have gone offshore, also due to favourable production costs, i.e., lower labour costs, etc.
Labour politics and the ideological relevance within a Bear/Bull Market system. The Greek, case study.
The free market system has led to our interdependence upon many goods and services from afar, it has rendered localised autarky near impossible. The domestic labour market has not shrunk it has simply changed and the aim to stimulate full employment with the Australian Labor traditions are still ideologically relevant still. The change of perspective requires a refocus and adaptation to a dynamic environment. Old things decay, and become outdated, upgrades and innovative thinking opens up more opportunities than viewing merely from within the square box. The limitations of austerity measures are blamed on the avarice of those who actually benefit disproportionately from this unbalanced global economic arrangement. There is a need for homeostasis within the macroeconomic system which would render the limited avarice designs of the world market system directly responsible for the market failures of some nation’s economies.
Greece, as a case in point, has demonstrably revealed an over commitment to maintaining a very inefficient macroeconomic arrangement which in time had succeeded only in increasing their foreign debt. Debt, in essence, as we all know, increases only from the interest calculated, over a time period, upon the principle amount that was borrowed. Therefore, the profit margin factor as sought after by the creditors needs to be reconciled with interest. Only when there is a cut in the interest, which is the business incentive, will the principle debt be finally reconciled. Of course, capitalism will not function properly without the adequate systemic organisational procedural structures and the transaction costs have been factored will the conduct of international commerce and transaction cost arrangements be fully accounted.
The Bear Market system is demonstrably of the lack of speculative confidence by the investment sectors of the Greek domestic economic performance. The problem seems to have focused on the legitimacy of the purported failures of the Keynesian macroeconomic helium balloon in raising the Greek economy from the outset, then the bailout from the Monetarists from the Hedge fund investors and European Central Banks and other international financial institutions which were operating on the Milton Friedman “Austerity” Monetarist laissez faire formulae. What seems to have become the paradox with the post Global Financial Crisis (GFC) with the Greek economic formulae has been the seemingly failure by the initial Keynesian macroeconomic standard which led into the Greek GFC in 2008 resulting with international intervention by Monetarists who subsequently introduced harsh austerity measures in order to rectify and ameliorate the Greek economic woes. The austerity measures have hurt the local economy and the people so much that a socialist government was voted back into office. The relevance of the Keynesian approach to the Greek Global Financial Crisis (GFC) economic recovery will revert Greece to a period just prior to the 2008 GFC. The amount of scepticism understandably is very salient. The Syriza government of Greece has endeavoured to re-introduce government intervention measures in order to stimulate their economy rather than relying upon Hedge Fund investors, international banks, and other international organisations, in seeking to lend more money, and to dictate terms in this Principal-Agent reciprocal arrangement, based primarily on austerity measures of reconciliation, in redressing the economic paroxysms of the Greek economy.
It will be a matter of months if not a year or so will the economic fortunes reveal the full extent of full government intervention in stimulating the Greek economy. Keynesianism will favour the present Syriza approach to full government intervention with an increase of domestic consumerism in order to stimulate the local economy to a quasi-autarky. Such a closed shop perspective may consider overlooking the omniscient oversight by the European Union, the European Central Bank; and, more significantly, to the chagrin of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well.
The Greek example will illustratively reveal a modern day application of post-GFC economic recovery package, not unlike, the American Congress printing a trillion dollars in a desperate attempt at bailing out the floundering Blue Chip industries within the capitalist heartland of American society. General Motors Holden during the GFC had received a total of $13.5 billion USD in Congress funded bailouts until GMH finally came out of bankruptcy. Such an example will augur well for the Greek GFC case. The Keynesian formulae has saved the American bacon so why shouldn’t this formulae work for cash strapped Greece? The Syriza government will reveal, in time, what Keynesianism macroeconomic government intervention can do for their economic recovery.
Australian Labor History legacy
The international ideological relevance of Keynesianism has had its left wing influences which has been relevantly ignored during the early 1930s by a Conservative Australian government. The Australian Labor Government of the Rt. Hon. Sir James Scullion had tried in vain to entreat the respective Australian States to reason to the wonders of the New Deal. It never sank in until 1949 when the Snowy Mountain scheme commenced and even then after employing over 100,000 jobs and creating new townships within the Snowy Mountains, and providing invaluable electricity power to Victoria and New South Wales, it too a quarter of a century to complete. There were inter-generations of Snowy Mountain workers who were fully employed throughout these decades. The Keynesian formulae has been the bedrock of the economic ideological foundations of the Social democratic political parties for most left wing and Labour government world over. The Australia Labor Government has carried this Macroeconomic mantra until the 1973 OPEC crisis and then the demise of the Keynesianism from the lips of Labour politicians. During the 1980s the nascent new right echoed the magic elixir of Microeconomic reforms in injecting the business best practise in public sector industries which would lead to leasing and eventually privatisation. Public asset sales was synonymous with austerity measures and the Laissez faire mantra for the Liberal Conservative governments. Conversely, the Keynesianism would become synonymous with inefficient big government and national debt. Stagflation would exacerbate the problem for the Left wing ideologues who shuddered at the thought that national debt was going hand and hand with rising unemployment levels. Stagflation effectively nailed the coffin for Keynesianism once and for all.
That was until a Bear Market and a recession event would occur, throughout these periods from the mid-1990s, and especially during the 2008 GFC, Keynesianism would suddenly find some pragmatic and realpolitical relevance. Now, all eyes are gazing once again at Greece and the American economic recovery miracle which has also been helped with the Shale Oil economic impact as well, and, suddenly, the Bear market has sought John Maynard Keynes as the relevant macroeconomic saviour of the free world. An ideological paradox it seems.
Needless to say, an Australian Labor Government will always be needed in times of an economic emergency, especially in times of warfare. When times are buoyant like during a Bull Market, economic rationalist would always contumely chastise the left as being inefficient and irrelevant until another Bear comes stalking by.
By Tim Tufuga 20th February, 2015
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Friday 6 February 2015
The Russian Syrian Conspiracy theory: The oil conspiracy. By Tim Tufuga 6th Feb. 2015
The Russian Syrian Conspiracy theory: The oil conspiracy. By Tim Tufuga 6th Feb. 2015.
Recently, I had read an article regarding the Syrian civil war [1]and a conspiracy theory had formulated on the Russian and Syrian connection, or rather the purported Shia and Russian connection on the war against the Sunni led Al Qaeda network. Moe specifically was the conspiracy of the West endeavouring to undermine this connection through the overthrow of the Syrian regime and paving a clear route for a Qatar-European oil route, however, what these theorists had neglected to notice, or at least they have belittled the significance of the nascent rise of the production of shale oil globally and in particular within America which has dramatically influenced the price of oil today. Moreover, whilst the Syrian conspiracy theorists have noticed the red herring with Qatar, the world has noticed however, the impact of tight oil or shale oil which has dramatically affected OPEC nations and in particular it has affected Saudi Arabia directly, subsequently, in 2014-15, the price of oil and petrol at the bowsers have dramatically reduced.
Therefore, it is not the Kremlin leverage on Europe energy reserves which America and NATO were noticing it was the behaviour of the OPEC members in response to Shale oil production particularly from the Americans themselves.
Needless to say, the reduction of the price of oil is a direct confrontational strategy against the expensive to produce tight oil (Shale Oil), from all over the globe, especially within America, in which, although expensive to produce, but, has ameliorated the American energy crisis situation to a point that their surplus supplies are considered for export abroad. The cost effective and easy supply of Middle Eastern and Venezuelan oil for the West has been the only leverage for the OPEC members.
Therefore, in a futile attempt to counter the Shale oil production and in order for OPEC to undermine the nascent rise of the American Shale oil industry, Saudi Arabia has led the way in reducing the price of oil in a two prong attack against Russia-Shia backed Syria and American Shale oil, in a strategy of reducing the price of oil in order to undermine American shale oil production. In the meantime, raising oil prices to counteract the Russian monopoly of European energy supplies is counterproductive for the Saudi and OPEC nations for the obvious reason of American and other nations producing shale oil which invariably includes Australia which has shale oil in abundance enough to easily meet Australian energy needs and enough for Australia to export abroad just like America and even China and Brazil whose shale oil reserves are surprisingly abundant. Saudi Arabia and most Middle Eastern nations have realised this new threat to their livelihoods and it is worse that Christianity and the demise of their Caliphate spheres throughout the world. In short, the war on terror has been won through shale oil and the Middle Eastern world are afraid of this reality. Hence, perpetual war will continue to undermine the Middle East and anarchy and nihilism will further destabilise the region.
In the meantime, the global war on terror has found a very indirect weapon, through the domestic production of fracking of shale oil from American, Australian, Chinese, Mongolian, Brazilian and the myriad of global localities where there are black gold within the rock formation seams beneath the soil much to the chagrin of Saudi Princes and Middle Eastern and South East Asian oil producing nations. The price of oil will remain in the double figures perhaps for very long time in order to suppress the eager production of Shale oil supplies flooding the Western world. Oil autarky seems imminent and for the foreseeable future an oil crisis throughout the Western World seems very unlikely with the nascent era of self sufficient supplies of domestic shale oil.
Australia has realised the benefits of the Shale oil phenomena even in the very short term, with the reduction of petrol at the bowsers by as much as 30%. What seems to be obvious to the laity is the horse trading amongst the global leaders with regards to whom is supporting whom in order to achieve the bigger picture objective in this obvious fog of war within the respective skirmishes throughout the Middle East and how this has undoubtedly impacted upon the lives of daily commuters within American or Australian suburban streets and in particular when heading down to the gas station to fill up the car. The war in the Middle East comes home to the garage as well as within the social media and our television screens.
Tim Tufuga
6th February 2015.
[1] http://friendsofsyria.co/2015/02/06/another-conspiracy-theory-becomes-fact-the-entire-oil-collapse-is-all-about-crushing-russian-control-over-syria/
Recently, I had read an article regarding the Syrian civil war [1]and a conspiracy theory had formulated on the Russian and Syrian connection, or rather the purported Shia and Russian connection on the war against the Sunni led Al Qaeda network. Moe specifically was the conspiracy of the West endeavouring to undermine this connection through the overthrow of the Syrian regime and paving a clear route for a Qatar-European oil route, however, what these theorists had neglected to notice, or at least they have belittled the significance of the nascent rise of the production of shale oil globally and in particular within America which has dramatically influenced the price of oil today. Moreover, whilst the Syrian conspiracy theorists have noticed the red herring with Qatar, the world has noticed however, the impact of tight oil or shale oil which has dramatically affected OPEC nations and in particular it has affected Saudi Arabia directly, subsequently, in 2014-15, the price of oil and petrol at the bowsers have dramatically reduced.
Therefore, it is not the Kremlin leverage on Europe energy reserves which America and NATO were noticing it was the behaviour of the OPEC members in response to Shale oil production particularly from the Americans themselves.
Needless to say, the reduction of the price of oil is a direct confrontational strategy against the expensive to produce tight oil (Shale Oil), from all over the globe, especially within America, in which, although expensive to produce, but, has ameliorated the American energy crisis situation to a point that their surplus supplies are considered for export abroad. The cost effective and easy supply of Middle Eastern and Venezuelan oil for the West has been the only leverage for the OPEC members.
Therefore, in a futile attempt to counter the Shale oil production and in order for OPEC to undermine the nascent rise of the American Shale oil industry, Saudi Arabia has led the way in reducing the price of oil in a two prong attack against Russia-Shia backed Syria and American Shale oil, in a strategy of reducing the price of oil in order to undermine American shale oil production. In the meantime, raising oil prices to counteract the Russian monopoly of European energy supplies is counterproductive for the Saudi and OPEC nations for the obvious reason of American and other nations producing shale oil which invariably includes Australia which has shale oil in abundance enough to easily meet Australian energy needs and enough for Australia to export abroad just like America and even China and Brazil whose shale oil reserves are surprisingly abundant. Saudi Arabia and most Middle Eastern nations have realised this new threat to their livelihoods and it is worse that Christianity and the demise of their Caliphate spheres throughout the world. In short, the war on terror has been won through shale oil and the Middle Eastern world are afraid of this reality. Hence, perpetual war will continue to undermine the Middle East and anarchy and nihilism will further destabilise the region.
In the meantime, the global war on terror has found a very indirect weapon, through the domestic production of fracking of shale oil from American, Australian, Chinese, Mongolian, Brazilian and the myriad of global localities where there are black gold within the rock formation seams beneath the soil much to the chagrin of Saudi Princes and Middle Eastern and South East Asian oil producing nations. The price of oil will remain in the double figures perhaps for very long time in order to suppress the eager production of Shale oil supplies flooding the Western world. Oil autarky seems imminent and for the foreseeable future an oil crisis throughout the Western World seems very unlikely with the nascent era of self sufficient supplies of domestic shale oil.
Australia has realised the benefits of the Shale oil phenomena even in the very short term, with the reduction of petrol at the bowsers by as much as 30%. What seems to be obvious to the laity is the horse trading amongst the global leaders with regards to whom is supporting whom in order to achieve the bigger picture objective in this obvious fog of war within the respective skirmishes throughout the Middle East and how this has undoubtedly impacted upon the lives of daily commuters within American or Australian suburban streets and in particular when heading down to the gas station to fill up the car. The war in the Middle East comes home to the garage as well as within the social media and our television screens.
Tim Tufuga
6th February 2015.
[1] http://friendsofsyria.co/2015/02/06/another-conspiracy-theory-becomes-fact-the-entire-oil-collapse-is-all-about-crushing-russian-control-over-syria/
Friday 30 January 2015
Saturday 24 January 2015
Letterboxing for Cameron Dick's election campaign, in the Woodridge electorate, for the Australian Labor Party (Queensland) in the 2015 Queensland State Election. By Tim Brian Tufuga
Letterboxing for the Australian Labor Party for Cameron Dick in Woodridge electorate. 2,200 flyers delivered. 2015 Qld election.
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25 January 2015 at 00:57
I have covered most of Crestmead and Marsden and I have spoken to some locals and there are many Pacific Islanders and multiracial families in every street I have delivered ALP flyers. Of the Pacific Islanders I had spoken to they all said it is JOBS which they are concerned about and that Steve Viliamu will not win on the racial card in Woodridge. People are wanting to work and are not concerned about racial or cultural issues per se. So the ALP have won the Pacific Islanders, Africans and most ethnic groups of which Marsden and Crestmead is truly multiracial. Some White Australians, particularly very working class in appearance, disdainfully openly stating their disgust at Labor and some even said they want to vote for a Liberal government, until I explained to them that the L in LNP stood for Liberal, then they shrunk back aghast at the prospect of voting for Campbell Newman and the LNP. So for redneck locals they are caught in a rock and a hard place since they don't seem to like the ALP nor the LNP. Ironic. So will some of the white Australian vote go to a third party? They will only fall back onto the ALP by default anyways through preferences. Overall, most locals regardless of race seem to dislike the LNP and so it seems almost certain that Cameron Dick has Woodridge in the bag.
Issues:
1. Monday: A white woman drove a car towards me as I was crossing at a t junction at Bumstead Rd. When I arrived home my sister said a woman drove and screeched her car in front of my house yelling in Samoan, then one of Cameron Dick's sign was taken. Very bizarre. The woman who drove at me reminded me of the British soldier who was run over by a car and a couple of Black men killed a British soldier. This incident enraged me because of the memory of that incident. I study counter terrorism for my postgraduate studies and I see these people as terrorists and I would want to deal with them as terrorists.
2. Tuesday: A white car with white teenagers, with one passenger threw a water balloon bomb directly at me and missed me.
3. Saturday: A white woman at Marsden yells at me for placing an ALP flyer in her letter box ordering me to remove it. I said that it is already inside she can do it herself.
At Trulson street a white woman leers at me and says 'Labor Sucks', hoping to stir a response, I ignore her and walk on, earlier in the day, a white man in a green car threw a full can of v at me and missed me. Strangely, most harrassments against me during my work was instigated by white women.
Four households refused ALP flyers from me and were very hostile towards me, including the woman at Marsden, surprisingly, most of them were white women. Very few refused and were hostile towards me compared to people who were very happy to receive ALP flyers.
Young people and children were friendly towards me and were eager to accept flyers from me. I realised that innocent children are not tainted by racism or politics.
Tim Tufuga letterboxing for Cameron Dick's election campaign.Tim Tufuga letterboxing for Cameron Dick's election campaign
Thursday 22 January 2015
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