ALL PEOPLE'S PRIME MINISTER

LET'S ALL NOT TAKE SIDES, BUT STAND UP TO THE PROBLEM.

ETHIOPIANS

As Dr. Berhanu Nega undeniably and bluntly put it, “He doesn’t think his sense of Ethioipiawinet is as strong as Dr. Abiy’s”. Thank you for your honesty, brother. Is there any other with a better alternative who can build a better bridge? We’ve not seen so far, except jingoistic and juxtaposition talking misfit doodlebugs mesmerizing our people for their notoriety.

TRULY: BERHANU NEGA

The biggest challenge facing the future of democracy in Ethiopia is indeed this notion of ethnic entitlement and the division of federalism.

We can respect and allow all equitable benefits without losing our identity and nationality as Ethiopian.

PRIME MINISTER FOR ALL: ABIY AHMED

“While alive we are Ethiopians and when we die we become Ethiopia!” –Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia

A very empowering and inspiring thought that will enlighten the down trodden.
His greatest achievements will also put him above any contender who can passionately care for his country.

STRONG UNITY: PM ABIY AHMED

The current ill-conceived ethnic federalism imposed by the TPLF is immoral and unacceptable. A federal system that takes into account the geography, history, and culture of all Ethiopians is more sustainable. As Ethiopians, we should all be proud and embrace diversity.

The need for unity and transformation is greater than ever and all efforts must be made to bring people together in the pursuit of freedom through democracy, rule of law, justice and equality to achieve a real change and a better outcome in election 2020.

ETHIOPIAWINET IS ADDICTION: LEMMA MEGERSA

With all our abundant scholars and skillful luminaries we have in recent years, we seem to lack the drive, personality and willpower apart from sticking our fingers up for hasty criticisms that have no value and bring solutions to the ongoing pandemonium.

When the power of love overcomes the love for power our people will know peace and a good leader.

We also need to be mindful that we don’t aggravate the already volatile situation by taking sides and allowing favouritism. We need to support whoever is making untenable mistakes as a human fallibility and should be corrected respectfully as part of the crusading operation for change.



NO ONE IS BETTER AND ABOVE THE LAW

The root cause of the problem must be unraveled and resolved first: a leader elected for the people, by the people and from any people–ethnic background. That’s the root of the problem and that’s what we fail to accept as one people and one country.

APPRECIATE OUR DIVERSITY

Prime Minister Abiy started his new deal of transformation with love and compassion without imprisonment and absence of freedom. Sadly, the habit of fixing everything with violence still unabated in our culture and understandably people demanded law and order to be imposed by the modern day pacifist Prime Minister. Then, when he acted to restore law and order punishing those who took advantage of his soft side, again, some people took offense and grilled his ethnicity as a reason to slander him.

                                  UNITY NOT ETHNOCRACY 

“ለምንሰራው ሥራ ሁሉ እየተወቃቀስንና እይተታቸን መሻሻል አንችልም።”

This is the man who really understands and able to put himself in others shoes with no hesitation, because he’s been, you name it, through it all and has the tenacity, resilience and determination to change any harsh conditions.

“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.” –John Templeton

Besides the Prime Minister, there are lots of people who have contributed to our social cohesion in their own way and need to be recognized open-mindedly. It’s not a conducive strategy to vent or throw tantrum on anyone because they didn’t not act or fulfil the way we’ve expected.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught, “Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”

WE ARE MANY BUT ONE

Unless the people of Ethiopia can agree on the principles, values and structures that are essential to implement the key ingredients of inclusive values and principles, there will never be peaceful efforts to reform our nation.

No matter what has happened in the past, good or bad, we can’t obliterate history, what we can do, nevertheless, is forgive and move on knowing that the benefits are much greater than playing politics in a continuous vicious cycle to fix the past hefty maltreatments and other misdemeanors with so much unsubstantiated mendacities.

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.”

Our old habits can get so deeply engrained in us that they affect our attitude and rational at a social or organizational level.

    To criticize is easy, to unite our culture is demanding: Prof Berhanu Nega

Our country desperately needs a renaissance, strong-willed leader, true development built on a firm foundation of human rights, inclusions and political pluralisms. Human development that caters to the needs of all our people, not only the economic growth based on a prescribed on the outdated, unjust economic model, which inevitably benefits a few, strengthens inequality, fosters corruptions and tribalism.

If we’ve learned to eat together, we can learn to work together.

It is time to stand together with new reformers who honestly stand for all of us irrespective of one’s ethnic or racial backgrounds rather than throwing barrages of unwarranted criticisms, cynicisms, envies, nepotisms & preferences. Remember, this vicious cycle will happen again and again and again no matter who will be elected from any ethnic background unless we tackle problems civilly, accept and respect their democratic policies & their ethnicities.

ETHIOPIA BELONGS TO ALL OF US

We say to those at home and abroad who harbor hate and tribal divisions to give it up and join our journey of one thousand miles, TODAY.

Let’s all cherish and follow the “Medemer” phenomenon in the making and move forward peacefully.

Let’s also concentrate on the actions of Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, as action speaks far better than his very poignant and persuasive speeches to win all Ethiopian multi-ethnic nationals to work together in the spirit of Ethiopiawinet, wisely.

ONE ETHIOPIA FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE ETHIOPIA

WHO CAN WE TRUST SAGA

Men At The Right Time, The Right Place And For The Right Reasons

During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City on October 16, 1968, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a black-gloved fist salute during the playing of the US national anthem. The two athletes fell into the center of a churning controversy for their salute as a symbol of black power and the human rights movement in America at large.

Silver medalist Peter Norman, a white Australian runner, didn’t raise his fist that day, but he stood with Smith and Carlos.
Peter Norman is standing still. He has just run second in the 200 meters at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.

At the medal receiving podium, behind him are Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos. They bow their heads and raise their leather-gloved fists in a black power salute to protest racism and advocate for civil rights.

We must also not forget that this whole scenario was taking place at a time when his country was practicing white Australia policy.

As we can see, he didn’t raise his hands like his opponents did. What else did he do besides standing there starkly to deserve all the accolades?
History celebrates Peter Norman, not for his courage to support the two men, for his gallantly overcoming giants of the games, winning the silver medal and above all, being there standing alongside American heroic athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos who stood tall for humanity.

Norman was unmoving but he stood with Smith and Carlos by wearing an Olympic task for human rights badge alongside his silver medal. This was an attendance that changed his life.

A statue of the full podium, with Smith and Carlos without Norman, was erected at the runners' alma mater, San Jose State University in California, USA.

1968 Mexico Olympics, Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos raise gloved hands

In Australia, Norman’s recognition, statue in his Olympic honor and the rest of public reputation, is his presence at the right time, the right place and for the right reasons that remembers him as the other different mortal that stood alongside the great African-Americans who courageously represented their people for equal rights.

If you haven’t already read “WHO CAN WE TRUST”, read collections of commentaries here: https://timeforchangesociety.blogspot.com/2019/08/who-can-we-trust.html

Speaking and being truthful to evade immoral ambiences.

If you’ve been living under the impression that we live in a post-racial society, this post & the recommended reads might make you uncomfortable as I assume is made evident by the title, but I think it’s worth the discomfort, so I hope you stick with it. At the very least, I hope that it starts a conversation or more sustained thoughts on the topic of race and the ways in which we are all affected by racism.

Not just a matter of individuals’ racist beliefs and actions, there is racism on the individual level and racism on the systemic level. When we talk about white supremacists and the actions of racist individuals, which is on the individual level. But systemic racism doesn’t require that all white people are racist individuals.

Every time someone from the opposite racial background tells a true story about something, why can’t we see it as simple personal opinion even if we don’t like to accept the truth? Similarly, we should not cover up the truth in order to protect the ongoing inequalities that have happened for so long.

The dissemination of fake racial news & media that perpetuates negative stereotypes about black people while simultaneously spreading positive stereotypes about white people and how this works to uphold the status quo that is systemic racism is individual’s interpretation.

1968 Mexico Olympic Mural of Peter Norman, Tommie Smith and John Carlos

Mind you, this event was reported at the time when media reports were mainly from one racial group over the other as most reporters of the time were from white racial society. Please, think about the truth of the matter instead of the manner in which the truth is presented, nothing, but the truth where everyone is adamant to talk about racial differences, especially, the painful years. Certainly, don’t intend to dwell in the past implications that have been unsympathetically hard-pressed upon black people as a result of utter ignorance and personal gain and expansionism.  

It’s not hard to see even in our modern day racial equality is at its utmost weakening point, but hard to discern with the necked eye as its operational cycle has become elusive and tremendously implicit. We can see some visibility in the media outlets where most white retired sport’s personalities have the opportunity to become media commentators while those from Indigenous and the nation’s resident blacks don’t share that opportunity. This is just one small tip of the iceberg misfortune out of the many disproportions that you probably know. However, lest we forget, things are changing at the speed of a turtle.

Please, don’t get angry. This reality existed and still remains to exist, unless we share the dilemma and do our part to live together in harmony. Why is it so hard to talk to white people about racism? If talking about racism bothers you, and you often find yourself feeling angry and defensive, this might be the read for you.

The half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race are represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after some nations were founded on genocide, settler colonialism, and slavery, many of these people maybe waking up to the reality that the racial politics are still proliferating implicitly. But in the midst of this reckoning, widespread denial and misunderstandings about race persist, even as white supremacy and racial injustice are more visible than ever before.

The truth is urgently needed for our racist relatives, friends or bosses and a call to action for everyone who wants to challenge white supremacy and intersectional oppression in our society.

Racism should have no place in our lives, and should never be condoned. Education is our best means of combating ignorance and prejudice. It is so important to teach our children the value of cultural harmony, and if we infuse their learning process with these lessons, we will only be stronger in our campaign to eradicate racism from society.

Racism and any immoral ambience are disgusting and many people are completely aware of this and yet it remains to occur in society. Racism is ugly and it is something that will not go away until action is taken by everyone who is aware of how bad it has gotten. Don’t judge, this is the truth and exact observations of what has occurred and remains till this day, do something about it.

All schools should be prepared to accept and respect multicultural ideals and maintain its outlined principles as an ongoing harmonious contribution and agreement for students from different racial and religious backgrounds in order to lessen the torments and damages racism causes.

Prejudice is destructive in all its forms, especially racism. We all have the responsibility to break down the ignorant prejudices that dominate the beliefs of so many Australians. We must initiate to speak out whenever we witness racism and to educate those around us. Speak up, the truth!

If you act properly, your actions allow you to be psychologically integrated now and tomorrow and into the future while you benefit yourself, your family, your environment and that reverberating to the whole world. If you decide that you are not justified in your resentment of Racism, despite its inequity and pain, you may come to notice things you could do to reduce by a bit some unnecessary pain and suffering.

Ask yourself, “What should I do today, to make it better?” Guided by love and speaking truth and if you attend to some moral obligations, you will experience and find an ever deepening meaning. It’s not bliss. It’s not happiness. It’s something more like atonement for the criminal fact of your fractured and damaged Being. It’s payment of the debt you owe for the insane and horrible miracle of your existence. It’s how you make amends for the pathology of history.

We cannot get sick enough to help sick people get better. We cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive. We can’t be bigoted to feel the empathy. It is only in our thriving that we have anything to offer anyone. If we want to be of an advantage to others, be as tapped in, tuned in and turned on as we can possibly be.

LET’S ALL NOT TAKE SIDES OR CONDONE IT

WELL, WELL, WELL…May I say
Like my generations, I grew up in a multi-ethnic culture and loved it deeply to this day. Unlike some of my generations, I said some because of our old-school generational tolerance to changes, learning a positive attitude and honestly and decently expressing the truth goes a long way in achieving knowledge and mental peace in my over 40 years mindfulness practice and thereby keeping grounded by managing my own stress, free of any restraints. I promptly transformed myself to be able to adapt with the rapidly changing social orders of the Western World and beliefs without stubbornly staying with my old safe haven traditional social creeds. I stand back but not remain silent and don’t let the daily hassles grind me down. It’s too easy to become angry and cynical. There are millions of reasons and excuses not to do things without hating anybody out of the ordinary.

You don’t have to hate someone or be abusive to speak up and tell the truth about your opinions that are nothing to do with being negative or even swearing without finger pointing at anybody.

I say to those people who are suffering from society’s positive syndrome, don’t give a f#%k, it’s time to open up your mouth and tell the truth without fear of recrimination. I certainly don’t. Don’t what? Don’t give a f#%k for telling the truth without losing my humility because I honestly started swearing off my frustrations and disappointments without directing at anybody. Do you know what I mean? I don’t give a f#%k.

Please, don’t get me wrong that I’m angry or there’s something wrong with me. You don’t know me, so, don’t judge and disappoint me more. Even if you do, I’m not the same anymore, I got older and…; you know what I mean. I don’t give a f#%k. I’m just opening up an honest reflection of communications without withholding spirited opinions for fear of being judged or hated by others.

So, don’t point your finger at me, you don’t know me. Either empathise with me or follow your parental or environmental upbringing to continue doing with no remorse. Kids follow their parents’ practices and people in general learn from other people how strangers treat strangers/others. It’s a vicious cycle to follow. Hate, love and racism are all learned behaviours.

Have you ever noticed that hate and racism are learned behaviours? I agree that hate and racism are learned behaviours and unfortunately they start at a very young age.

Think about it; if you’re raised and have seen everyone being treated in the same way and looked at other person’s skin and started to view, interpret and define your world, you have learned a bad habit. The trends of educations and all good or bad intentions that we have learned as a child will stay with us for life.

I have been looking for something that proves that one is born racist and it has proved nothing. In order to determine if someone is born racist, they must be put in neutral environment and then see how they react to another race. All they have shown is that people can be influenced by their relatives and environments at an early age to be racist, good or bad, haters or lovers, alcoholic, become addicts and all the other behavioural tendencies.

I defiantly come to an agreement with those evaluations because children’s thoughts are based on the thoughts of their parents, family members, peers, media, environments, and among others.

Like every migrants, I respected the law of this land, appreciated this country for allowing me to sworn into be part of its society and pay my allegiance during citizenship ceremony to obey and honour all the regulations befitting my rights. However, like the majority of migrants, I was pressured by society in my day-to-day dealings to renounce my parental given name to a more simplistic, fitting & familiar Anglo-Saxon name in order to earn a decent assimilation. Like all migrants who came to this country, of course, with the exclusion of the first arrivals, I didn’t change the nation’s culture, names of places & decimate existing ones except enhancing a rainbow of multinational and multicultural aspirations trying to fit in in order to live in harmony.

The pressure of changing the birthright name, no matter what, is an unacceptable deal in any society. Remember, we needed to change the thoughts NOT the names. That should be the Holy Grail rule.

To put the story in perspective, this dilemma of the Western world unable to or don’t want to say other names other than the familiar Anglo-Saxon labels started in my first destination in Europe and my friends seemed happy and even related my new name with stars of the times. Please, continue reading the full story: https://timeforchangesociety.blogspot.com.au/2008/04/self-revelation.html

Absolutely, avoid judging anybody you don’t know. As for me, you have no idea what a f#%k has been happening in my life since my birth.

In life, like everything else, change is a vital course of existence. If changing everyone’s given name is an acceptable way of life, why can’t we change history of the old badges of honours & make a reputable transformation for our country? We all change as time goes on, so is the rebuilding of the nation after natural devastation, invasion and unification with another nation. Whatever happened eons ago are history whether migration or invasion; it can’t be redeemed. However, one thing is certain that we all can change.

Please, contain yourselves from being hatemongering and antagonist for having or showing my different views than yours and making any assumptions to judge me and for what I stand for because whatever you say wouldn’t be a characterization of my persona. We all can have different opinion without contentions. It’s just my genuine worthwhile insights, observations, thought provoking submissions and propositions for change and I don’t mean to offend anyone for no apparent reasons. I hope you think and focus on the subject matter not the messenger. I treat and respect all people with my solid course of action of mind over matter. If they’re not likewise, I don’t mind & they don’t matter.

We must live an authentic life in an authentic fashion. It’s a sensible thing to do in the digital age technology where everybody is wirelessly connected, somehow, NOT connecting.

We must be brave and prepared to be hated for being authentic than loved for being dishonest. Being honest may not also get us many friends but it will always get us the right ones. As it’s the case in the social media likes and shares outlets/posts/events.

Positivity is an endearing passion and humility without the pressure of political correctness that takes all the realities and jokes out of life and life out of everything.

This leads me to talk the truth about the AFLW player, young Tayla Harris who was being immortalised on statue in Melbourne’s CBD recently. If this doesn’t show the reflection side of racism, what will?

My intent is to provide analytical opinions for the society, who believes in one common cause, communal transformations, one country and a unified multicultural population whose hopes and aspirations for justice, freedom and opportunity are similar and equally distributed regardless of ethnicity, race where they came from and religious practices.

As Derryn Hinch used to say “Shame, shame, shame”, on his National Current Affairs TV debuts, I also say, shame on the instigators, for putting the young Harris through this nightmare at a time of her emerging livelihood.

The Carlton player’s famous airborne kick, which triggered a social media storm and trolls in March, is getting a statue for facing famous trolls and sexists online. What seemed funny at the time gone spiral as a media stunt making her candidate for the unearned/undeserved fame?

The question is the 22 years old’s statue isn't justified, for a footballer who has played just very few AFLW games and kicked fewer than her time, ahead of other Australian greatest athletes such as Cathy Freeman, Jeff Fenech, Anthony Mundine  and Adam Goodes among others with no reputable statue or status. Sorry, if I make your eyebrows raise and jaws drop. Sorry is also an ostentatious and contentious gesture they’ve been offered, to hush-up more complaint from happening, but didn’t translate into practice. Hey, I don’t give a f#%k! That’s the truth!

Aha, the swearing (f#%k) I’m making is also a natural course of life until someone changed it into an abusive and aggressive behavior/manner and it became unacceptable. How about if it was accepted traditionally as a way of life not to be bothered or understanding it not as an abuse but considering it as something we all use to go on living. The damage is already done, but we can unlearn it. More on that on another day!

 As for the above mentioned indigenous stars, they are the people who made a difference not only in their field of endeavours but also speaking up as strong advocates in the community in which their people live as a second class citizen.

How about all the other AFL players, the VWFL, players, the SANFL players and the WAFL players who have been playing long before her?

Harris herself commented on Triple M radio, “I haven't done anything to warrant a statue as a footballer in my footballing achievements, but I have been involved in something that was a movement”.

That’s probably a different development of actions against women’s sexual harassment; she’s talking about, collaborating two entirely different causes. Honestly, definitely, her little experience and fewer goals kicking persona can’t be an amassed justification to present her with a statue only to encourage more abuses for using her to promote the highly regarded and praiseworthy cause.

We all have been following traditional & cultural lines of misguided or the not so favourable practices of beliefs or many sorts that our fore parents did for the same motives. That’s the very reason I don’t feel any animosity against our fellow human beings for tragic errors of the past. However, it’s absolutely disheartening not to do anything but we’ve an abundant and wasted opportunity to destroy our world.

A better and more peaceful world can only be attained by societies developing basic principles of altruism, supporting others thru individual empowerment, practicing non-violence and self-development thru inner transformation.

There will be times when we shouldn’t compromise our core values, our integrity, and we should have the moral responsibility to speak up in the face of injustice.

It’s not rational anymore to accept that the “Western” world is democratic and the rest is “Undemocratic”. This is a misconception that merely rests on vindictive thinking of dichotomy and things don’t have to be accepted just the way it is anymore. 

The rule of law or democracy is not an advantage that we can automatically get because we are in a certain environmental location or upbringing. It is rather an innate virtue we all humans are entitled to enjoy. If we accept anything that’s just the way it is, nothing will change and neither can we.

Let’s all not take sides or condone it, but stand up to the problem.

Let’s do our part!

Say no to racism!

Stop the violence!

All lives do matter!

 

WHO CAN WE TRUST?

ELECTION TIME BONANZA

Who can it be now? Who can it be...

I would like to start with the most pressing issues in election times locally & globally before listing a whole lots of other disappointing businesses around where we live. Election time is Prezzies time! Politicians are promising to spend so much money to compensate and buy voters for their shortcomings and obligations they’ve never bothered to do before the election. Where will that money come from? Impose more taxes and cut all the existing social service benefits time and again, year after year once they got elected to the office?

Like all world leader candidates, in the recent Australian election, the incumbent Prime Minister, Mr. Morrison, was telling voters, “If you vote for me, you get me. If you vote for Bill Shorten, opposition candidate, you get Bill Shorten.” I wrote the following remarks before the election: Really? How can the voters be sure, instead of you, they won’t get Barnaby Joyce or Clive Palmer, ha, ha, ha, and instead of Mr. Shorten, they won’t get Anthony Albanese? Anything can happen, mate and it did. Surprisingly, he got elected and in his adulation speech he said, “I believe in miracle”, whether his supporters voted for him or miracle happened, he has won the race and got elected to the highest office in the land. It’s a pity that another parliamentarian, Christopher Pyne, who resigned early on, won’t be there to sing one of his fav, ABBA’s classic song, Fernando, at his confirmation speech.

UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATIONS

Apart from election time choices, shenanigans and talking about trust, universally things have turned incredibly bittersweet in a global scale. I don’t want to sound pessimistic & whiner, make no mistake that this is not what I believe or think, but I’m only reflecting on the reality that the world we live in has changed powerfully.

Individuals, friends & families are becoming self-centered, hostile; concerned only for oneself, abusive, manipulating others and ignoring all the values which make relationships meaningful, since the advent of online social media emergence.

There was time where mobiles, emails and internet were not around, we were all connected and enjoyed each other’s company and yearning to have our first mobile of the time such as big Motorola’s and others so we can keep in touch even more whenever and wherever. Even with mobile phones, modern catchups have changed. 

Modern day catchups, no comment



Now we’ve them all in more convenient ways than one, but our contacts, activities and interactions are barely viewed, scrutinized, arbitrated, invalidated, disregarded and never appreciated. 
WEAPONRIES



Weapons of mass destruction

Developed countries who manufacture military arms and machineguns selling their firearms to the undeveloped and poor countries for profiteering, exploiting those unfortunate countries who end up killing each other and they continue to buy more weapons for self-destructions. Do we really need an arms race to spend so much money to kill each other when that money can be used to help livelihood of the impoverished?

ROYALTIES

The worth of splendid/ marvelous Royals

Do we really need the archaic Royal Monarchs and their remnants, from West to East and to the most economically impoverished isle nations, destined for expensive coronations, accessions, majestic & impressive protocols of the medieval periods to extravagantly showcasing their crown jewels that still exist and remain in confines?

I believe somebody needs to get a real job. I’m talking about all the royals who are living extraordinarily on poor people’s money. We must put the past behind us and abolish all the vintages/systems of monarchy absolutely/unconditionally, like few other countries did. Take a look at Ethiopia, where it got rid of the primogenital monarch in the world in 1974. Why do we want someone as a representative as they seem, just visiting all over the place as a diplomatic venture and having a good time, costing huge expenses while the real job is done by Prime Ministers and his elected officials? One good thing, at least, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia wasn’t just a symbolic figure; he was doing his real duties day-to-day and looked every bit a real transformer of that generation.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved our colourful, charismatic and engaging Royalty. But that’s thing of the past and like everything else, all things good or bad must come to an end. That’s our history but can’t be our destiny. Think about it! In this day and age, do we really need a namesake just because it is deeply rooted in our psych just like our old vintage hording stuffs that we can’t dispose or give away?

We need to move forward with a renewed sense of urgency building institutions of all-inclusive education system which can rationalize the minds of the people and the political elites that are suitable for creative and innovative changes to bring transparency and accountability into operational and the awareness to decimate the inkling of Royalty, protocols, nepotism, inequality and subjugation.
The incomparable English essayist, George Orwell, knew this sort of think well, making a scathing attack on upper-class British Royalists and socialists.
In societies that are well functioning, not in comparison to a hypothetical utopia, but contrasted with other existing or historical cultures, competence, not power, is a prime determiner of status for all leadership potentials. Competences, abilities & skills are the defining virtues both anecdotally and factually not a pedigree of ongoing aristocracies.
Don’t you agree that Global society need a profound transformation from within now not five or ten years from now?

JOBNETWORKS

Job Networks or Agencies, promising to give assistance to job seekers that are on New Start Allowances from Centrelink schemes are a waste of tax payer’s money as those income recipient individuals desperate for looking to work, they get nothing but become cash cows surrendering to the process of signing in and out every fortnight faced with disappointments and confusions doing the same process again and again with no promises fulfilled facing a bleak future and, unfortunately, some are inclined to commit all sorts of crimes.

MASS MEDIA



The world according to superpowers





Mass media, entertainment and acting industry that are accountable for the news, entertainment and acting don’t include diverse and multiracial population. We see no reports from Asia, Africa, Middle East, South America, Islanders and reports are very diminutive and similarly people from those countries no matter how talented and skilled, they are excluded from advancing their ambitions and benefitting from the mainstream media lifestyles with emphasis based on race, colour, sex, age, religion, political opinion, national or ethnic origin, language and so forth.

These actions are prohibited universally as it equates to racism–the belief in the superiority of one race over another, limiting opportunities which often results in discrimination, domination and prejudice towards people based on the above descriptions/emphasis.

INADEQUATE JUSTICE SYSTEMS
How many times we’ve heard our justice systems failing us in convicting people, who have committed crimes, neglected their family law probation periods and ignored restraining orders in our society creating horrendous anguishes and griefs for families and friends who have lost loved ones. Police forces whose job is to protect public safety, infested with corruptions, choose to indiscriminately harassing and racial profiling people living in “Struggle St Taboo” and from different ethnic backgrounds just because they’re different.

LIFE INSURANCES

Private Health (Life) insurance companies are dissecting our bodies in different parts to insure us, such as legs, teeth (dentistry), liver, heart, fingers, and so forth to rip-off patrons. Those parts are insured under basic product categories and cover policies ranked under Gold, Silver, Bronze, iron, plate, dish, cup, glass…classifications. Outside these agreements, we’re not entitled to be covered for our severed toes, lungs or any body parts. It’s been confirmed by law that health insurance is open to Australian residents from ages 18–64, depending, conditions apply, on the policies stated they are considering.

 FUNERAL INSURANCES

The cost of human lives

Similarly, funeral insurances and mortuaries are also charging astronomical costs to prepare the dead for burial or cremation that’s if one can afford to pay goodbye to loved ones with that kind of inescapable payout. How much does a funeral typically cost?

The study found that the average funeral cost in Melbourne, Australia to be nearly $20k for burial and over $7,449 for cremation. Can you imagine dead body costing that much. The actual cost of a funeral will also depend on lots of conditions like: If you are being buried or having cremated, if there are religious sacramental requirements which also increases the cost, if special public ceremonial is required extra costs apply and so forth, if special casket and flowers are preferred, more costs also incurred. The cost is also different from state to state.

Rest assured that you don’t have to worry about preparing yourselves for my burial as I’m an organ donor if any of my fibers can save someone and the rest to be supplanted back to mother earth where we all belong. How this is done is entirely my choice and unfortunately, I chose to be cremated, bottled and thrown in to the ocean to be found again when I reincarnate. I said unfortunately, because my families can’t burn me in their back yard rather than pay for the cremating people who are making money burning dead people.

You must see just few of the deplorable price lists that the Australian funeral companies charge: https://www.kingstonfunerals.com.au/arranging-a-funeral/  
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS

We also hear and see professional misconduct complaints about health professionals (personal GP’s) overcharging, false Medicare claims, misdiagnosis, unnecessary operations, unneeded prescriptions, making needless ongoing appointments as their main basis of earning, treating clients inefficiently with more waiting times and spending less time during consultations. How long did you have to wait to see your doctor, only to spend less than five minutes?

Is it a myth, reality, gobbledygook or misconduct of the wrong supply, why do people still die after they have been given the flu vaccinations? 
CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS

It's an ongoing business

How about the philanthropies and charity organizations collecting benefits to help the impoverished around the world only to donate 5 to 10 cents in a dollar? Also their work is appreciated; this is becoming an ongoing business by never trying to eliminate poverty off the face of the earth. If they do, they wouldn’t be able to sustain their businesses for long and likewise, imagine, if every cent donated goes to the needy, there wouldn’t be poor and inequality in the world we live in.

RETIREMENT INSTITUTIONS

The retirement organizations charging our aging loved ones who don’t have the choices but get decent accommodations, not having to eat despicable meals forcefully and respectable services for the last part of their lives and treated humanely. The weakening laws need to be reinforced and suitable care must be introduced by all aged care service providers institutions in order to put to rest the ongoing aged care debacle.

ENERGY SUPPLIERS

Utility supply companies such as gas, electric and water are growing in numbers like café venues and they pester consumers offering timely discounts at a low usage rate coaxing to join them only to increase the monthly charges after the 24 to six months cajoling deal term expires. Where is the integrity and honesty to treat those loyal long-term clienteles fairly?

Recently, the public has been persuaded by solar panel installations companies as a more affordable opportunities and they failed to do some research and determine whether this program lives up to its reputations. The solar credits subsidy is primarily based on renewable energy certificates, also known as small-scale technology certificates. Despite often being referred to as a “solar rebate”, the solar credits subsidy is structured differently than other financial incentives in the solar industry. This is the one simple truth the power company doesn’t want anyone to know. The subsidy may not also cover a lot of costs associated with installations and the monthly bills continue to soar.

THE BANK'S IMPASSE

Banks who are using our money to make billions and build their institutions by overcharging us for using ATM’s and tellers to withdraw our own money also dispossess our properties and our pride when we miss the home loan repayments incapable of withstanding their untimely hicks of interest rates.

HOME AND PROPERTY INSURANCES
Home and property insurances won’t cover the cost of some repairs. If our house is naturally losing its foundations or if fences or security doors are not properly fitted or dilapidated, they will come up with untenable reasons not to cover the expenses. How else can they insure/cover the house/property?
 
FLIGHT RESERVATIONS
Flight booking centres and passenger terminal counters at airports are charging extra costs for flight reservations if booked online and if passengers are late to board the flight even for five minutes and they are asked to fork out up to $50 or more extra for the next available flight. 
INTERNET BROADBAND BUNGLES

Free wireless home or mobile bundles providers load extra data usages intentionally in order to charge more than the monthly internet usage agreements and also either limit or cutoff all provided free calls, unnecessarily,  when we make calls, to save their agreed free usages during contracts.  
SUPERMARKETS, RESTAURANTS AND CAFÉS

As a result of my complaint to the company, the Lentil Salad product has been removed. No longer in Safeway! 

Supermarkets, restaurants and café businesses are altering the sizes of their products and facilities by swelling their prices whenever they want to. The sizes of supermarket prepackaged foods, soft drinks, juices and all consumable products alike infested with sugars, additives, preservatives and also containers are bigger while the contents appear smaller and ingredients look deceptively lesser for the same prices that we used to buying full ranges of big packets.

Restaurants & cafés are not serving what we always read on their menus and when serving, they present small bites of meals on big plates to fill our eyes. No wonder why there are more cafés than retail shops, unlike the past. Those café places are serving coffees in tiny egg holder like cups that never equal to normal full cups just to be trendy and different, appallingly charging more than $4 and the cost increases if you prefer beetroot, turmeric, avocado, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach…latte with usual or regular or cow’s milk or other milks, skinny, almond, soy, rice, coconut, goat, breast…or any other milks you can think of with tiny drops of coffee. It’s funny that there is no mother’s milk! Ha, ha…Don’t be surprised, coming soon! If it does, “I’ll have what she’s having!”

No wonder the café business is taking off like today’s technology so fast. Is it worth drinking it though? It’s just the habit we’ve incessantly accustomed to going out to catching up with friends, family or someone new and obliviously becoming like cigarette, drugs and alcohol addictions that we can’t stop without divine intervention. Can you really STOP, change the HABIT, going to those places and not drink their cuppa? “YES YOU CAN”, unless you want to go to that place and be seen and have coffee with mother’s milk!

TRADIES TRAGEDIES

Tradies from car mechanics, panel bitters, painters, builders, plumbers, and electricians to a whole lot of service workers are being deceitful and overly charging vulnerable customers to fix the deal bogusly quoting their labor incomprehensibly.

Here is another dodgy dealing with our senior citizens that we’ve tried to expose in our commentaries about the tradies that make us angry. Current Affairs seem to listen to “our opinions do matter” concerns.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/a-current-affair-tradies-pay-up-front-warning-householders-latest-news-australia/d5580c8d-f996-4f48-a83f-bf16fae086d7 

CAR DEALERS

Car dealers are ripping off the honest and innocent customers such as the elderly, mothers, young people and the underprivileged individuals who are unable to slip into long term financial liability by borrowing money.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/a-current-affair-great-wall-ute-sold-to-great-grandmother-with-walking-frame-memory-issues-latest-news-australia/693a116c-df57-45e2-9f41-73a756c377bd

CAR INSURANCES

Car insurance companies won’t cover us if our cars are, they assert negligently, parked in an insecure areas or being driven improperly and if damaged outside originally arranged or covered areas on an agreement.

CONFRONTING PARKING FINES

How can we justify the alarming actions of council parking penalties issued illegally and pursuing payments vehemently by not accepting any reasons for the confusing & incorrect sign posts everywhere? They are using the law as a cover up for their heartless actions and decisions to collect fines.

All legal societies continue to invent terminologies that are very hard to interpret for trusting everyday people who are getting ripped millions of our earnings.

Knowledge isn’t generally the driver of their behavior. They often don’t do what they should do because of inattention, apathy, avoidance, fear, being too busy, confronting an unsupportive environment, a negative attitude or habit or heartless routine to collect revenues.  

FUEL STATIONS

Petrol stations are playing cat and mouse games changing cheapest petrol days in order to charge more daily and making it very hard for drivers to determine what days the prices will drop again. This is just like living in the Game of Thrones and Hide-and-seek Game period.

These are just tip of the iceberg; there are more to the baffling and mind mystifying excuses various insurance companies and service industries come up with their own rules from time to time with “Conditions Apply” thorny warning signs not to pay our own forked up monthly payments and avoid covering any damages even if proved and considered.

It’s time that governments at local and federal level reinforce or reinstate current laws for better transparency and integrity on every business that deals with general public in exchanging goods and services.

We plead our grievances to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) whose role is to enforce fair trading and regulating national infrastructure for the benefit of all Australians to stop all sorts of consumer rip-offs. I know it’s a very hard act to enforce and administer every single regulation and codes of practices alone, society must also play their part not to buy or accept anything out of the conventional way of life.

These observations may seem superficial, but don’t be alarmed or never underestimate these comments as overstated assumptions or negative reflections, rather take notice and be mindful that these are the real descriptions of our changing modern day lifestyles that we’ve to face without being alarmed but alerted. If we don’t change our thinking to deal with them now, what, how, when, where we buy and deal with every situation mindfully, we’ll continue to be disheartened and face the cat and mouse games forever.

LET'S DO OUR PART, SAY NO TO RIP-OFFS!