We've all heard about poverty in various parts of the world, seen the images of the starving kids and felt terrible about it. It usually comes to us in the ad-breaks and is soon forgotten when the mainshow comes back on. Just about anybody in possession of a soul feels terrible when confronted with it. Because it is fucking terrible. More than half of the population of our Earth is in real poverty. This number is on the increase, and steadily and still the rich get richer.
How did all this mess come about?
In short it is the long-lasting legacy of colonialism and the enforcement of the bogus worldwide monetary system which cripples the world. Governments around the world are kept in line through their ever-growing debts to the World Bank and the IMF. It may seem like Bank-Bashing is a recurring theme around here, and I'm on some sort of moral crusade to tear it all down. The fact that they can be held accountable for most of the worlds problems might have something to do with this. The System is the whole reason why the whole world's up to shit and I'm sure as buggery not just going to sit on my hands and shut up about it or ignore it because we're all suffering for it while they stuff their pockets and laugh as they treat the whole world as a giant concentration camp. Slavery still exists, it is worldwide and is going on under our very noses.
We are lucky here in Australia that we possess a wealth of resources and an exceptional infrastructure. Also we are lucky that we too are a colonial power. The Aborigines, not so lucky. Indeed, great numbers of them fall into the same position of those in the poorer, "less developed" countries in Asia, South America and especially Africa where poverty is rife and damn near inescapable. Places where governments are easily bought and sold and the people pay the price. They have lost their ancient far superior ways of life to work too hard for scarce peanuts and are forced to rape their lands (or have them stolen from them) of all available resources to meet the needs of the greedy consumers in the Capitalist West and line the pockets of corporations and bankers. It is a well oiled machine of debt, bribes, threats, starvation and death that will continue to worsen as long as the current system remains in place.
You may have noticed that it is getting tougher for a lot of people in your country also. Does it look like improving or worsening? But anyways. This here below is a really good documentary, and Martin Sheen tells the story much better than I do, so cook up some popcorn and take an hour and a half break from the TV and Facebook and check it out...
"And yes I'll recognise the irony,
the system I oppose
affords me the luxury
of biting the hand that feeds.
That's exactly why
privileged fucks like me
should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream,
'til everyone has everything they need".
-propagandhi.
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