On Saturday we got to vote again and then we went home to watch the tally reveal itself in real time. It was full of drama and controversy. It is the spectacle we get only once every 3 years. In a way, it was no different than watching the NRL grandfinal. The two big teams get out on the field and do battle to decide a victor. Bread & circuses. However, this time, we have a hung parliament, with the balance of power being held by 5 independents.
The traditional choice between Labor and Liberal is not much different than choosing between Holden & Ford, or Coke & Pepsi. And this is the point. The Australian public has finally rejected the false left/right paradigm because it represents a “Claytons” choice, the choice you have when you're not having a choice. The swing to the Greens was simply the protest of an electorate with nowhere else to go.
Australians can see that there are some serious long term global problems brewing but we just keep getting the same old short term election rhetoric. Gillard & Abbott don't offer real leadership, just blustering political speak, say anything to get elected. Yet, everyday, Australia sees itself becoming a life-raft on the sinking Titanic. Everywhere we look, things are going to Hell in a hand basket. America as a nation is collapsing, the world economy is on life support, Pakistan is under water, our Diggers (servicemen and women) keep coming home in caskets from Afghanistan and Iraq, the reality of peak oil is starting to grip the world and big brother is tracking and profiling us from cradle to grave. Yes, economically we have weathered the storm fairly well, but the storm is not over. Will Australia manage to stay afloat as the world goes under?
Monday night the ABC presents Four Corners “Overdose”:
“The story of the greatest financial crisis you will ever see...the one that is on the way”
The trailers have featured Gerald Celente, trends forecaster and founder of www.trendsresearch.com . Celente is a regular guest of Alex Jones on www.infowars.com. His main audience has traditionally been the doom & gloomers, but now our mainstream ABC is listening. Catch it Monday night 23.08.10 at 8:30pm EST and on the net at www.abc.net.au/iview/#/news for 2 weeks following airing.
Celente has been saying consistently that the US won't last till the end of this year and there will be no recovery. Let's see what he says on “Overdose”. Gillard & Abbott would do well to watch themselves.
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