My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin

Queen of Light took her bow
And then she turned to go,
The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom
And walked the night alone.


Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morn-ing light.
The dark Lord rides in force tonight
And time will tell us all.


Oh, throw down your plow and hoe,
Rest not to lock your homes.
Side by side we wait the might
Of the darkest of them all.


I hear the horses' thunder
Down in the valley below,
I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon,
Waiting for the eastern glow.


The apples of the valley hold
The seeds of happiness,
The ground is rich from tender care,
Repay, do not forget, no, no.
Oh, dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the morning light.


The apples turn to brown and black,
The tyrant's face is red.


Oh the war is common cry,
Pick up you swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.


Oh, well, the night is long
The beads of time pass slow,
Tired eyes on the sunrise,
Waiting for the eastern glow.


The pain of war cannot exceed
The woe of aftermath,
The drums will shake the castle wall,
The ringwraiths ride in black,
Ride on.


Sing as you raise your bow,
Shoot straighter than before.
No comfort has the fire at night
That lights the face so cold.


Oh dance in the dark of night,
Sing to the mornin' light.
The magic runes are writ in gold
To bring the balance back.
Bring it back.


At last the sun is shining,
The clouds of blue roll by,
With flames from the dragon of darkness
The sunlight blinds his eyes.

Daniel Quinn:

"..[People] often assume that I must be a great lover of nature. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm a great lover of the world, which is something quite different. Nature is a figment of the Romantic imagination, and a very insidious figment at that. There simply is no such thing as nature -- in the sense of a realm of being from which humans can distinguish themselves. It just doesn't exist."

Oxfam (http://www.oxfam.org.uk/) reports:

Two years after achieving independence, East Timor is at risk of becoming a failed state, with the Australian Government’s approach to negotiating a maritime boundary impeding the new nation’s capacity to finance its long term development.

A new report by Oxfam Community Aid Abroad released to coincide with the 2nd anniversary of East Timor’s independence highlights the mounting poverty of the East Timorese people, where less than half the adult population can read and write, 41% live below the poverty line and one in ten East Timorese children born today will die before the age of five.

Although Australia has been a generous donor to East Timor, the Australian Government is reaping over $1 million per day from oil and gas in a disputed area of the Timor Sea that is twice as close to East Timor as it is to Australia. Australia has received nearly ten times as much revenue from Timor Sea oil and gas than it has provided in aid to East Timor since 1999.

“The vast oil and gas reserves of the Timor Sea provide East Timor with a window of opportunity for providing for its people and future generations” says James Ensor, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad’s Director of Public Policy. “However Australia is not displaying good faith in its current negotiations with our neighbour”.

Under a temporary treaty signed with East Timor, Australia has access to two-thirds of the known oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea, even though a maritime boundary set according to international law could deliver most, if not all, these resources to East Timor.


You go for it Australia! Following in the footsteps of America, Australia, too, is changing governments so that they can instill sympathetic governments to rule over a country that they want to rape and pillage the natural resources of. To be honest, who can blame us, we're just doing what America would want us to do, we're following the great example set in the Gulf Wars. What gives us the right to take what is not ours? What gives us the audacity to think we can even try and get away with it?

There is always a catch - the trouble is - most people don't realise it until it's to late.

Ani DiFranco - Fuel

they were digging a new foudation in Manhattan
and they discovered a slave cemetary there
may their souls rest easy
now that lynching is frowned upon
and we've moved on to the electric chair
and i wonder who's gonna be president, tweedle dum or tweedle dummer?
and who's gonna have the big blockbuster box office this summer?
howabout we put up a wall between houses and the highway
and you can go your way, and i can go my may

except all the radios agree with all the tvs
and all the magazines agree with all the radios
and i keep hearing that same damn song everywhere i go
maybe i should put a bucket over my head
and a marshmallow in each ear
and stumble around for
another dumb- dumb waiting for another hit song to appear

people used to make records
as in a record of an event
the event of people playing music in a room
now everything is cross-marketing
its about sunglasses and shoes
or guns and drugs
you choose
we got it rehashed
we got it half-assed
we're digging up all the graves
and we're spitting on the past
and you can choose between the colors
of the lipstick on the whores
cause we know the difference between
the font of 20% more
and the font of teriakiyi
you tell me
how does it...make you feel?

you tell me
what's ...real?
and they say that alcoholics are always alcoholics
even when they're as dry as my lips for years
even when they're stranded on a small desert island
with no place within 2,000 miles to buy beer
and i wonder
is he different?
is he different?
has he changed? what's he about?...
or is he just a liar with nothing to lie about?

Am i headed for the same brick wall
is there anything i can do about
anything at all?
except go back to that corner in Manhattan
and dig deeper, dig deeper this time
down beneath the impossible pain of our history
beneath unknown bones
beneath the bedrock of the mystery
beneath the sewage systems and the path drain
beneath the cobblestones and the water mains
beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels
beneath everything i can think of to think about
beneath it all, beneath all get out
beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel

there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel
there's a fire just waiting for fuel

Reuters:

....Billed as the "ultimate reality TV show," British pay-channel UKTV Style promises a wall, some brushes and different types of paint in its program "Watching Paint Dry."


"Every other reality show is full of boring drips, so we thought that we would go one step further," said Nick Thorogood, UKTV head of lifestyle.....

It's got all the essential elements of a good show - suspense, bright flashy colours, and viewer interaction. If only someone had the foresight to look into something like this before - I've been doing it in Bourke with my project management job - fun-times! I for one can say with certainty that there is never a dull moment when you're watching paint dry!

Jay Leno:

John Kerry said today that a vote for Ralph Nader is a vote for George Bush, and today Bush said, "I'm voting for Ralph Nader."

This week has been hectic.

Wed: My PC at work is fucked up so I had to use the server which crashed and lost my file I had spent all day working on - it was due 11am today. So what did I do? spent the entire day re-doing what I had just done! I was ready to cry! or jump off a bridge! or just run randomly through the streets yelling obscenities at old retired people who have nothing to do all day but stare at those amongst us who are leading lives that they think are making a difference!

Thurs: I sat down and frantically worked my arse off to finish the job.

Fri: I will be there twiddling my thumbs not knowing what the fuck to do.

p.s I hope AA says JK he needs a standard cross-section.

I am repetitively morbid - or morbidly repetitive - either what it's damn morbid and damn repetitive...I really need to work on that whole "happy happy joy joy" thing.

I wake sometimes and I wonder when did the world go wrong? The more I think about it - the more I realise it went wrong from the beginning. Throughout recorded history there has been a war between the different species for world domination. It just so happens that homo sapiens sapiens has won the battle, albeit temporarily, for the world. Not content with battle lines drawn between homo sapiens sapiens and other species mankind is turning on itself. The battle between the stronger and weaker factions within the homo sapiens sapiens is still upon us today. We have the eastern countries verses the western countries - rich verses poor - white verses black - asian verses african - european verses american. All of these different factions are fighting for their survival in a world that they know cannot keep expanding. The richer countries are not content with keeping their standards of living the same way that they are now - they want to keep increasing them; this, inturn means that they must take resources from others to accommodate the increases in demands.

The rich get richer - the poor get poorer. The ultimate result ? War - hunger - famine - disease. Cultures will dissapear and become extinct. Chaos ensures. It is natural selection - the question is - how long can we sustain turning all the biomass into humanmass ? How far can we suppress the hoards of poorer countries before our conscious gets the better of us ? Who is willing to take responsibility for their actions ? Who will save us ? Who is willing to make the sacrifices needed ? What is the breaking point of the world ? And when we reach the breaking point and retrospectively look back on our histories, who will be able to hold their heads proudly up high ? Will there be anyone left ?

It is strange the thoughts that go through your head in the middle of the night. I often wake and write out long mathematical formulas with fantastic ways of solving problems only to find by morning that they are jibberish and make no sense. Sometimes I just sit there and stare at the ceiling wondering if the ceiling is as interestingly lost in me as I am in it. It has been a long long time since I've dreamt - I long to dream. I long to dream a thousand dreams. I long to hope again. I long to have something to aim for. I long to have a goal.

Mad World - Tears For Fears


All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tommorow, no tommorow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Israel has "accidently" killed civilians engaged in a peaceful process. America has bombed an Iraqi wedding (again) because apparently terrorists like to hide in wedding gowns and eat lots of cake.

Ah fun times we're having. Is the world anymore or less volatile than it was before? Perhaps neither - but with constant bombardment the more ignorant amongst us cannot help but be more aware - which is a good thing.

Jesus give me the strength to save me from Your followers.

We had a barbeque on the weekend for my father's birthday - it was fanastic - it wasn't one of those hippy "gas" bbq's but the real deal...wood..flame...things inadvertingly catching alight...things being put out with beer...it was great! the food stank like smoke...we stank like smoke...my father's hands were black with soot...it was grand!

We had enough food to feed an army...so all week I've been eating left over bbq food - meat to be exact - smoked meat....the only trouble is I've been having nothing but meat...so i'm somehow on the Atkins diet...so just to smooth it all out and even it up i've been having smoked meat sandwiches - the bread should give me all the carbohydrats to balance out the protein of the meat...hopefully it will result in a nill affect on my body...and with a few vitamins to beef up my intake I should be able to make it to pay day full, and almost nourished...

The Atkins diet has been shown to double the amount of weight-loss for the first six (6) months when compared to conventional dieting methods - however - after twelve (12) months both conventional diet methods and the Atkins diet are even. I guess in the end it all depends whether you want to survive on meat or vary it up a bit and be, what seems, healthier. (seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/173727_atkins18.html)

Diabetics have a higher chance of getting Alzheimers disease (www.sptimes.com/) - god help half of the sports people out there who are always so quick to advertise the fact that diabetics are normal people who can lead active lives as well - sure they can live active lives, but only until their late forties, after that their stories of their youth get more and more outlandish - I guess that's typical of most sports people though - is there a link between Alzheimers and being a sports person? I think someone needs to look into this!

Lees admitted that her and Falconio were stoned while driving along the road in the outback when they were waved down by their alleged killer (www.abc.net.au/news/) - finally it makes sense why the last photo we have of Peter Falconion he looks like he's stoned out of his mind and why Lees took three (3) days to even give a statement to the police about what the fuck happened to her and her boyfriend - she was probably to busy trying to find some sherbert sticks and chips because she had the munchies and with her poor short-term memory forgot all about the fact her boyfriend had been killed in the mean-time. Maybe there's a link between being british stoner and having Alzheimers?

Happy thirty (30) years in parliment Mr Johnny Howard - *cough - says underbreath* retire you old bastard who lost touch with the common person thirty years ago *cough* congratulations Mr Howard.

I've started a new trend - I mention ug-boots and suddenly everyone is wearing them! in the streets! in the clubs! in their houses! Ahhh - I'm such a trend setter!

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au:

Mr Howard told ABC radio tonight the assassination showed that some Iraqis wanted to prevent the country becoming a democracy.

"I am so horrified at that," Mr Howard said

Mr Howard showing his ignorance and lack of understanding of what the words democracy mean.

Ah - there's all of this hoo-haa about the marriage of the Tasmanian girl to the Danish prince. Tasmania is in party mode, the televisions are all a buzz with snippets and footage of the wedding.

It disgusts me that all of the country is trying to take part of this poor woman and claim it as theirs. Tasmania shouldn't be celebrating her marriage - Tasmania had nothing to do with her: becoming the person she is; or marrying the person she is.

The prime minister is there on "meet the press" saying how great it is that we have our first royal Australian - does it really matter? This poor girl has lost her entire identity as a person to become the princess of another country. She has gone through deportmant lessons, she has gone through beauty lessons, she has been made to lose weight, been given language lessons, been given grooming lessons - is there anything left of the girl who grew up in this country? if anything we should be ashamed that the Danish think so lowly of one of our citizens that they will not let a Dane marry one of them without her going through extensive polishing.

The prince may well have married a "cardboard cut-out - because this is all she has become"(RIH).

Watch out ladies - I'm in my flannelette pajamas (odd top and bottoms) with my black ugg-boots (complete with large hole near the toe) - you know you want me now! ;)

An extract from World 'has historic chance to halt Aids epidemic'
By Frances Williams in Geneva
Published: May 12 2004 5:00 | Last Updated: May 12 2004 5:00 cited @ http://news.ft.com/:

"The world has an unprec-edented opportunity to reverse the course of the Aids epidemic and change history, Lee Jong-wook, director-general of the World Health Organisation, said yesterday".

Call me cynical, negative, and rather cruel (perhaps even inhumane) but if infected people are kept alive, they will keep infecting healthy people, hence, the disease will spread. By pro-longing the life of people with a disease we will merely increase the chances of spreading the infection to healthy people. If, on the otherhand, we use the same methodology to combat aids as we do with other diseases that we can acquire without dying, then, we will simply need to infect the entire world population with aids. Those who survive will be those immune to it - they will reproduce and form a new human race who is not susceptible to the illness. This simple method has us getting: chicken pox; colds; rubella; and so on - and not surprisingly for the most part with these illnesses we're not dying.

Even humans are not immune to natural selection.

Testing 1-2-3 --> apparently I have comments turned on. Apparently I always have had them turned on. I figured I had better tell you just so you know that, because I for one can't damn well see the little blighters anywhere, although blogger added them into the code a while back, however, no matter what I do with them they don't seem to want to work. (or work in such a way that it looks out of place - ah well - who needs comments anyways?)

Those Bourke people are big fans of baseball - everyone carries a bat around with them at night - however baseball diamonds were conspicuously absent.

Some extracts from "Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy" from the washingtonpost.com cited at http://story.news.yahoo.com/:

Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, wrote in the New York Review of Books that "patience with foreign occupation is running out, and violent opposition is spreading. Civil war and the breakup of Iraq are more likely outcomes than a successful transition to a pluralistic Western-style democracy."

Army Col. Paul Hughes, a veteran Army strategist who is involved in formulating Iraq policy. "I promised myself, when I came on active duty, that I would do everything in my power to prevent that [sort of strategic loss] from happening again. Here I am, 30 years later, thinking we will win every fight and lose the war, because we don't understand the war we're in."

"The idea that Iraq can be miraculously and quickly turned into a shining example of democracy that will 'transform' the Middle East requires way too much fairy dust and cultural arrogance to believe" (says an un-named "senior" military person - sure it all sounds good, and makes entire sense, but these writers and their "sources" - who knows whether someone of note really said it or not!)

My point, if I actually have one, is that if you don't understand the war you will lose. The people of America are over in Iraq fighting an enemy they do not understand in a country they do not understand with an objective they do not understand. The Iraqi's are fighting an enemy they understand in a country they understand with an objective they understand.

Regardless of the outcome it will not be a good one for the people of Iraq nor will it be a good outcome for American foreign relations.

Waging war to make peace is contradictory by definition.

Fun times.

I'm back in Port Macquarie. Today I have been rang up by four (4) different clients for work. And those Apex bastards were onto me wanting me to turn up to lug second hand junk around for their junk auction.

We ended up getting:
1. some musty smelling carpet which got rained on as we drove it back to the shed;
2. an old bike that the "owner" said he picked up in the bush one-day --> so basically he's taken some poor guys bike who went for a hike one day in hte middle of no where and left him stranded; and
3. we were lucky enough to get some old chairs.

Fun times.

Canada have won another world cup. I'm back in my winter pj's. Iraq is in turmoil or "democratic rule" whichsoever you choose to believe. And the Vietnamese have decided that they have not gotten tall enough since WWII because their average height is 5cm less than mine - how bad do I feel?

It has been a while since I've posted anything, due to no fault of my own, I have had no net access, infact, for the most part I've had no electricity or food.

It has been an interesting past few weeks - Marky Mark Latham (Labor leader) - decided he would give a speech which drew heavily from Bill Clinton's state of the union address a few years back and Marky Mark Latham has been accused of plagiarism by Jacko "Honest John" Johnny Howard (current Prime Minister). After a bit of investigative journalism the press came up with the fact that Bill Clinton actually plagiarism or "borrowed" ideas from Nixon and Nixon "borrowed" these ideas from Winston Churchill - so when all is said and done the aftermath from all of this has shown that no one in politics has come up with any new ideas for an entire fucking century - this isn't exactly news to my ears - it's actually quite obvious.

The only thing I can't understand is how Churchill had a dream that every 12 year old would have access to the internet - that Churchill must've been eons ahead of his time, and for that, he gets my nod of approval. Churchill gets my vote for President, Prime Minister, and as the patron saint of original thought for his trail blazing ideas that no politician has managed to better.

The bulldogs managed to get off the hook for the rape allegations - the police gave them a pretty damning report which basically said they were guilty as sin, but proving they were guilty as sin would never hold-up in court - this sends a few strong messages out their to all of the women of the world: 1. sports teams like to pack rape women (as most people know they always have); 2. If you get pack raped and you want to report it make sure that it's a lesser team than a national one, so that way they won't have the money to pay for good legal advice and smear your previous good name; and 3. If you do happen to get pack raped by a national sporting team make damn sure that there are video cameras taping it because that is about the only hope in hell you have of having your case make it to court to get any type of justice.

There's good news in Iraq finally - the leaders of the Iraqi prisons have been reprimanded for treating their prisoners like animals. Ok - so it was a long shot, but hell, it's as close to good news as is going to come out of Iraq for a very long time. It is about time George Bush appoligised - it is something he should have done a long time ago - hopefully they carry through with some actions.


As you may well have guessed, I'm back in CIVILISATION! CIVILISATION I TELLS YA! (albeit temporarily) What a traumatic experience I've been through the past few weeks. It went pear-shaped from the beginning:

1. The security people decided to pick on me so I had to take off my shoes (the lining of them was checked for plastic explosives), my belt (apparently it is considered a WMD), open all of my hand luggage, surrender an old car key I had on my key-ring (apparently car-keys are considered a WMD these days), I had to surrender an ornamental bullet I have had on my key-ring half of my life because of it's sentimental value (again, apparently ornaments on key-rings are considered WMD these days).

2. The entire time I was in Bourke I couldn't breathe - so much for fresh country air - it was so dust laden I choked the entire time. I have actually come to the pristine area of SYDNEY to get fresh air.

3. It is impossible to clean ones self in Bourke - you shower in water that smells like something someone has brought up after a night out on the town - then get out of the shower and put your foot down on a pile of dust, which as you guessed, turns to mud, then you dry off and walk away knowing that you're as dirty as you were before you had a shower.

4. I have been surviving in $30 per day - this doesn't sound so bad under normal circumstances - but it was terrible. Food there is very expensive, let's face it, it's the middle of no where! so they can charge whatsoever they want to charge and get away with it. With my meager amount of money I was getting by on two (2) meals of takeaway shite. So I've been mal-nourished, and actually putting on weight because of it. With little exercise, a poor diet, and working 10 hr days 7 days per week I was quickly becoming very ill. I don't think I could have handled much more of it.

5. Apparently I'm meant to legally get $85 per day - something my boss does not seem to comprehend - now all I need to work out is who I can annonysmouly dob him into :)