I read in the latest edition of Village Voice an article by Donna Ladd on 'The Right to Bear Arms' lobby and how they see Gore as attempting a 'non-violent coup'. I think that there must be some concern among ruling elites that the most powerful state on earth is having a constitutional crises that could escalate into a civil crisis. Given that both Gore and Bush are essentially creatures of big money, you would have thought one of them would have been ordered to pull his head in a bit sooner than this. As for Australia, surely the great change will be when the National Party, Australia's largest political organisation, will see the stupidity of continuing their Coalition with the Liberals. Why they continue to stay in a government that is screwing their constituencies to the wall is probably a testament to the excessive qualities of loyalty that exist among farmers.
Rural people have much more in common with labour than the liberals.
I don't have much confidence in the ALP, but at least one could do deals to stop the wholesale retreat from non-urban regions. I say 'the people' because in my opinion a large part of news room journalism policy is that because of dominance of profit driven publications and market-forces strategies, interest in informing 'the people' has become secondary, and instead skewed and emasculated into interest only in 'our readership', a clearly defined demographic which in itself marginalises potential readers not interested in the genre of the publications 'spin' and becomes just another form of exclusionist censorship. My letter about the social conscience of Australian Telstra Share Holders follows. A lot has been debated about a philosophy of economic rationalism and questions raised about the growing distance between the 'haves' and 'have nots' and the social conscience of the human beings who run multi-national organisations, which also depend on profits from the ebb and flow of the stock market. World wide globalisation, downsizing and the mind boggling mega-mergers of late that have created the largest companies ever seen on our planet, at the cost of enormous job losses, ought be of real concern to us all.