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Australia – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (the name of a famous Italian Spaghetti Western movie) is a succinct summation of Australia, a beautiful country with remarkable achievements but with a bloody history that still continues.  Australia is under international scrutiny at the moment because its newly-elected Prime Minster Kevin Rudd is on a 17-day tour of the world. So far PM Rudd  has suggested destruction of the US-restored, Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry (a GOOD idea – but promptly rejected  by Australia’s racist, war criminal and genocidal US and NATO allies in war-ravaged, Occupied Afghanistan); he has fawned disgustingly over the world’s #1 terrorist and war criminal George Bush (BAD); and he has enthusiastically and dishonestly committed Australia to continued involvement in the racist and war criminal US Alliance War in Afghanistan that has so far been associated with 3.3-6.6 million post-invasion excess deaths, 2.3 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths and 4 million refugees (UGLY) (see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/20907/42/ ).

PM Kevin Rudd, elected in a major victory several months ago, simply reflects the political realities of contemporary Australia in which the American Alliance has been the sine qua non for the 7 decades since Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941).  Australians overwhelmingly back the US Alliance to “protect us” from what they unashamedly still, albeit now jocularly, refer to as the Asian “yellow hordes”   or the Asian “yellow peril”.  Indeed a huge yellow-painted metal sculpture in the heart of Melbourne was instantly dubbed “The Yellow Peril” and is still known as such.

To that end, to meet our “insurance premium” down-payments to the Americans, Australia has been involved in all post-1950 US Asian Wars, wars that have been associated with a total of about 24 million excess Indigenous Asian deaths in the various devastated Asian counties, the excess mortality breakdown being roughly 1 million (the Korean war), 13 million (the Indo-China War), 2 million (the Iraq Sanctions and Gulf War), 2 million (the 2003 onwards Iraq War) and 6 million (the 2001 onwards Afghan War).  Any departure from the violent, racist and genocidal US Alliance is political death in Australia – in vain do unheard, decent Australians suggest that the best security is being nice to your neighbours and trading with them.

Of course this racism, xenophobia and cowardice of White Australia is reinforced by the lying, racist, holocaust-ignoring, quasi-monopoly Mainstream media. Australia is a Murdochracy in which former Australian and now American citizen Rupert Murdoch owns 70% of the daily newspapers – these extreme right-wing and racist newspapers have a disproportionate influence over Australian voting. Thus one supposes that decent Australians would be totally opposed to the mass murder of Muslim infants in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan but they simply don’t know what is happening because it is simply not reported by the Mainstream media, including the taxpayer-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the very best of a very bad lot. 

Yet a quick check with the UNICEF website informs us that about 1,000 under-5 year old infants die each day in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories, 90% avoidably and due to horrendous, war criminal  Occupier non-provision of the life–sustaining food and medical requisites unequivocally demanded of Occupiers by the Geneva Convention.  Australians pride themselves on their “innate decency” and would claim – like the post-1945 Germans but with much less  justification – that they just did not know  of these awful crimes because Mainstream media simply do not report them.

PM Kevin Rudd’s performance so far is an extraordinary mixture of humanity or good (saying the historic “Sorry” to the Indigenous Australians after over 2 centuries of Aboriginal Genocide; trying to get his war criminal US-NATO allies to destroy the US-fostered Afghan opium industry that kills about 300 Australians annually and about 0.1 million people world wide each year); distasteful active and passive pragmatism  (continued suspension of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act in relation to Northern Territory Indigenous Australians; failure to act with requisite urgency to arrest the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide in which 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year out of an Aboriginal population of 0.5 million - BAD); and cowardly complicity in the remorseless, UGLY evil of the Bush-ite- and Zionist-promoted, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, war criminal,   US Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide and terracidal, climate criminal  failure to act to diminish Australia’s world-leading per capita greenhouse gas pollution that helps to threaten Climate Genocide and the deaths of over 6 billion this century (see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/21277/42/ ) .

This Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde dichotomy of PM Kevin Rudd (earnest, self-assertedly evidence-persuaded,  Religious Right Rudd, R3, who nevertheless actively collaborates with the world’s #1 terrorist, war criminal, mass paedocide and mass murderer, George W. Bush) ) is reflected in Australia’s history.

Thus Australia was one of the first countries in the world to have trade unions, free and compulsory education, public hospitals, public universities and women’s suffrage (GOOD). However Australia has an awful, BAD and UGLY history of over 2 centuries of active Aboriginal Genocide (the last massacres occurring in the 1920s); the Stolen Generations in which 0.1 million Aboriginal Children were forcibly removed from their mothers (this continuing up to the1970s); effective slavery that continued in the Pacific islands up to the 1920s (and on Australian Mainland pastoral properties up to the 1970s); loyal support for the horrors of British  imperialism that caused 1.5 billion excess deaths in British-ruled India alone; continuing  involvement in post-1950 US Asian Wars (with Indigenous excess deaths totalling 24 million); and continued involvement in the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide, the Iraqi Genocide, the Afghan Genocide and the horrendously threatening Climate Genocide.

What has permitted this dichotomy of Good and Evil in Australia has been a combination of innate humane decency coupled with self-interest, cowardice, Silence and Lying – Australia is indeed still the Land of Flies, Lies and Slies (spin-based untruths). Thus recently there was salivating, bi-partisan outrage and calls for removal of citizenship and expulsion from Australia  of a “controversial” Muslim cleric who merely used “unfortunate” language to comment on the desirability of  modest women’s dress (language aside, very sensible); recognition of pre-European Islamic contact with Australia (extensive trade with Indigenous Australia by Muslim Macassans operated  for 5 centuries before abrupt, racist  termination of this exchange by White Australia in 1906 ); and  comments about the “convict origins” of many Australians (true).

As a citizen of Australia and of the World I have done my duty by making a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court over Australia's continuing involvement in the war criminal, anti-Arab culture anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Afghan Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 3.3-6.6 million, 4 million refugees); the continuing Aboriginal Genocide (90,000 avoidable Indigenous deaths in the last 11 years; present Indigenous population 0.5 million); the Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 1.7-2.2 million, 4.5 million refugees); and Climate Genocide (16 million avoidable deaths annually, this being increasingly biofuel- and climate change-impacted with climate criminal White Australia the Developed World’s worst annual per capita CO2 polluter).