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Post by mr potatohead on Jan 20, 2023 14:30:13 GMT
“Far from living hand-to-mouth, the Indians produced a surplus — had they not, the settlers would have starved at Jamestown and Plymout. Far from exhausting themselves scrounging for survival, the impression the Indians left on early English observers like Captain John Smith was that their life was a paradise of all but workless plenty. He thought the settlers might enjoy a three-day workweek featuring the “pretty sport” of fishing. In 1643, the magistrates of Massachusetts Bay received the submission of two Rhode Island sachems. "Giving them to understand upon what terms they must be received under us,"
as (pompous, arrogant, political, elitist) Governor John Winthrop put it, the Indians were told “Not to do any unnecessary workd on the Lord’s day within the gates of proper towns.” Not to worry, replied the sachems: “It is a small thing for us to rest on that day, for we have not much to do any day, and therefore we will forbear on that day.” According to one of the Roanoke colonists, to feed one Virginia Indian enough corn for a year required annually 24 hours of work. (Morgan 1975) (Of course the Indians ate more than corn; New England Indians enjoyed an abundant, varied “diet for superb health,” more nutritious and less monotonous than what became standard fare in, say, the back country of the South; or in later industrial tenements” That, if not their first mistake, it was a big one. The Indians should have put an arrow between his eyes on the spot. What an arrogant attitude, what an insult in the face of the people who graciously allowed them to settle there!
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Post by mr potatohead on Jan 20, 2023 15:41:52 GMT
In fact, please be aware that this is an excellent simplistic example of the basic attitude of corporate law today.
As they ask, needing your permission to oppress and extort you, "Do you UNDER stand (me, my authority - implied)?", i.e. legalese for "Do you stand under my authority over you".
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Jun 1, 2023 9:20:17 GMT
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Post by brothersteve on Jun 1, 2023 16:26:31 GMT
Glad to say I'm 'garlic boosted' too!
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Post by denis on Jun 19, 2023 20:31:15 GMT
While the Mates have dominated political and business circles, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has dominated the Mates and many of their predecessors, according to Pilger. Several CIA surveillance/military bases are located in Australia, making it a prime nuclear-war target. The country's own CIA-inspired agencies often work against government policy. One group helped overthrow Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk and Chile's Salvador Allende, says Pilger. www.csmonitor.com/1992/0416/16111.html
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Post by moxohol on Jun 27, 2023 17:41:46 GMT
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Post by denis on Jul 3, 2023 5:20:02 GMT
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Post by denis on Jul 18, 2023 12:14:38 GMT
Anyone wanting to experience Mullumbimby is 40 years too late
“We’re all familiar with the Hippie dress code. Long hair, beards, psychedelic colours, sandals, lots of beads, and the women could often be seen wearing long, flowery granny dresses. So much so in fact that it became a uniform. Hippies rebelled so much against inflexible dress codes that eventually they created their own rigid styles.
Hippies mutinied so much against conformity that over the course of time they were forced to play the game and comply with what everyone else was wearing. The counter-culture became a counter-counter-culture.
Everyone was the same
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Jul 27, 2023 19:47:16 GMT
Thankfully these were rubber or whatever bullets and not regular bullets but these were unprovoked attacks by the police with the full backing of the state government and msm.
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Post by denis on Jul 29, 2023 9:47:59 GMT
“Australia is now known around the world as the most inhumane, the most uncaring and the most selfish of all the wealthy countries” — former prime minister Malcolm Fraser
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Post by mr potatohead on Jul 29, 2023 14:36:40 GMT
“Australia is now known around the world as the most inhumane, the most uncaring and the most selfish of all the wealthy countries” — former prime minister Malcolm Fraser All government is inherently evil, according to a guy I met once. That's why the Constitution for limiting the U.S. government was conceived by the founders. The problem I have with statements like MF's is that he doesn't say, "The GOVERNMENT of Australia" or "The Justice Administration of Australia". From my experience, I think that the common people, of any nation, all want the same things in life and don't want to be oppressed by a corrupt government, which seems reasonable.
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Post by denis on Jul 29, 2023 15:13:34 GMT
“Australia is now known around the world as the most inhumane, the most uncaring and the most selfish of all the wealthy countries” — former prime minister Malcolm Fraser All government is inherently evil, according to a guy I met once. That's why the Constitution for limiting the U.S. government was conceived by the founders. The problem I have with statements like MF's is that he doesn't say, "The GOVERNMENT of Australia" or "The Justice Administration of Australia". From my experience, I think that the common people, of any nation, all want the same things in life and don't want to be oppressed by a corrupt government, which seems reasonable. Actually, that post was inspired by the behaviour of a family member
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Post by denis on Jul 29, 2023 15:29:44 GMT
“Australia is now known around the world as the most inhumane, the most uncaring and the most selfish of all the wealthy countries” — former prime minister Malcolm Fraser All government is inherently evil, according to a guy I met once. That's why the Constitution for limiting the U.S. government was conceived by the founders. The problem I have with statements like MF's is that he doesn't say, "The GOVERNMENT of Australia" or "The Justice Administration of Australia". From my experience, I think that the common people, of any nation, all want the same things in life and don't want to be oppressed by a corrupt government, which seems reasonable. More of the quote in context On Australian refugee policy "If they are genuine refugees, there is no deterrent that we can create which is going to be severe enough, cruel enough, nasty enough to stop them fleeing the terror in their own lands." "Australia is now known around the world as the most inhumane, the most uncaring and the most selfish of all the wealthy countries. "If you embrace a positive view and embrace the courage of the people who are prepared to try and get a better life for themselves and their families, I think the political pressure starts to diminish." www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/261513/australia-most-inhumane-fraser
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Post by denis on Jul 29, 2023 16:08:21 GMT
‘A century-old problem In the 1870s, a scathing assessment of the Australian care system by British child welfare reformers the Hill Sisters led to a royal commission into charities. On average, there has been a major inquiry into aspects of the child welfare system every three years since then. The abuse suffered by children in care is exposed regularly. Every time, it's met with the same excuses and promises. The children are presented as damaged, rather than the systems that are failing them. Agencies hide behind their professed best intentions and talk about "difficult" children. Governments spruik their support for "salt of the earth carers" and the "saints" of child welfare. These governments are afraid that if they probe too deeply into the failings of the system and agencies, they will be left holding the baby. The focus shifts from the care agencies' failure to protect vulnerable children, to airing agencies' calls for additional funding and even earlier intervention.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-15/abuse-and-neglect-of-children-in-care-is-a-century-old-story/8026408In Australian mental health units, women are drugged up, dehydrated and retraumatised. Now they're speaking out amp.abc.net.au/article/102415280
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Post by denis on Aug 7, 2023 0:44:58 GMT
The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has. no matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. —George Carlin, Brain Droppings
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