By Tony Ryan

In the two previous articles we established that the Reserve Bank is subservient to the people of Australia and that a responsive and responsible Government must direct the Governor to significantly reduce interest rates.

We recognised the traditional role of government in breaking up monopolies and regulating profiteers; titles the Coles/Woolworths duopoly well deserves. We noted the long overdue termination of the Oil Price Parity Agreement, which forces Aussies to pay futures-driven international prices for Australian-produced oil.

Moreover, we concluded that economic stimulation and the massive savings generated by the above measures would significantly expand government revenue, sufficiently to justify an incremental reduction in fuel tax, eventually leading to a bowser price of 12 cents per litre; less for diesel.

Finally, we clarified and defined ultimate authority, noting that no international treaty, organisation or alliance has supremacy over the democratic wishes of any sovereign nation. Thus, signatories to economic arrangements that were not mandated by national referenda, as required by the Australian Constitution, must be regarded as invalid.

Our next step in this survey of Australia’s economic chaos must be a fresh look at trade per se. Australia is now the only country in the world that is potentially self-sufficient. The only items we are forced to import are lubricating greases and oils, and approximately one third of our petrol. Following a quick catch-up in electronics, all else can be produced in Australia. By establishing a workable public transport system and thereby reducing our traffic, we could easily eliminate the imported petrol factor. Likewise, reductions in diesel consumption can be achieved by converting road transport to an enhanced and integrated rail system; with the added benefits of reduced air pollution.

A fundamental question is never asked, why do we need to export? In terms of core economics, we must export only to cover costs of essential imports, which we have already demonstrated are miniscule. So why do we export? The reason, as in so much of politics, is surprisingly oblique.

Because we have no laws that regulate election campaign expenditure, these have become an industry in their own right; and an intensely profitable arrangement for Rupert Murdoch, who also happens to be one of the most powerful men in the world. Murdoch promotes the two party system because this optimises his editorial influence; being able to tip public opinion scales to either of the Tweedledum or Tweedledee major political parties, with minimal effort.

These campaigns are largely financed by international banking cartels and mega-corporations; in return for policies that are, for them, profitable. There is only one way these profits can occur and that is through trade; and the financial transactions and usury that lubricate trade.

The collaborating plutocratic elite of Australia are also beneficiaries; any rewards for Australian workers being incidental and inevitably diminishing. A glance at history will tell us why. In the 1950s and 1960s union influence and activity was at its zenith, and unions were the sole reason why workers received a fair share of the nation’s wealth. When London School of Economics graduate, Robert Hawke took over the ACTU, we saw a commencement of damaging union amalgamations; the intention being to transfer the power of union members to a central hierarchy. When Hawke became Prime Minister, the same thing happened to ALP branches, with all power transferred to an ambitious elite, few of whom had any affinity with Australian workers. Hawke personally vetted candidates for preselection.

How could this happen? The distinction between ALP and Liberal has been illusory since 1973. The Vietnam War protest movement created irresistible peer pressure amongst university students, which forced formerly conservative students of the professional class to socially identify with the ALP and unions; a political migration that, with their entry into the workforce, resulted in a rapid university graduate takeover of union and ALP hierarchy. An accommodation of employer and professional interests quickly developed as natural loyalties were re-established.

Within a decade, the United Nation’s banking and trade bodies; the WTO, WB and IMF, had managed a seamless conversion to privatisation, deregulation, economic rationalism in Australia; with incremental tariff reductions spearheading redistribution of wealth to the elites. Over a period of two and a half decades, two thirds of family farms folded and almost half of Australia’s manufacturing sector; both unable to sustain unfair competition from third world subsidised products. Contrary to globalist propaganda, these products were the result of corporatised near-slave labour.

Realists now recognise that when local business owners have been cleared from the market, subsidies will cease and the price of currently cheap imports will rise to a level regulated only by supply and demand. Meanwhile, as we noted previously, the human cost of this ideologically-driven destruction has been three million full time jobs, and the drift of one million workers and farmers from regional and rural Australia, into East Coast cities. Compounded by disastrous intakes of migrants and refugees, these population explosions created new but well anticipated crises.

Australia is a dry continent and, apart from the Murray/Darling system, has widely dispersed, shallow and localised water catchments. This means it is not suited to intensely populated European-style cities. A network of regional centres was always the only environmentally sustainable pattern of habitation; with food produced on family farms, slowly developing in the direction of permiculture. Broadacre monoculture agribusiness was never a viable option.

The manipulation of Australia’s population into coastal cities has created a water crisis in almost every centre; accommodation is in short supply and overpriced; infrastructure is overburdened; and urban sprawl is threatening local ecologies and agriculture. The collapse of the rural economy has impoverished local councils, providing centrist state governments with pretexts for forced amalgamations. To redirect culpability, Government has presented water shortages as the product of drought; a complete misrepresentation of circumstances; such as portraying Wivenhoe flood mitigation dam as a catchment failure. Without the urban population explosion, drought would not be an urban issue.

Is reconstruction of Australia’s economy too massively complex to be attempted? Thankfully, as we will see, the primary solution is breathtakingly simple; tariff restoration.

Tariff restoration will enable farmers to return to rural lands and regenerate the rural and regional economy. Surveys indicate that, not only will former regional populations return, many young urban families and retirees will join them, seeking more nurturing living environments and considerably lower residential costs. Concomitantly, urban rents will fall and suburban homes will once again become affordable. With city populations returned to sustainable levels, the water crisis will be over.

Tariff restoration will spark the overnight re-creation of our manufacturing sector; much of which has been in mothballs for a decade. Within five years, the three million full time jobs lost to tariff removal will have been replaced; and if tariff protection is extended to IT and service industries, a further one million jobs will emerge.

Obviously, tariff restoration pre-empts a dramatic reduction in imports. This will significantly reduce importation of worrying US recession; with optimum import termination creating an impervious firewall against global recession. Politicians argue that recession is not a real threat, and that our China trade will support our economy. This is a lie and they know it. The US has reduced imports from China and will continue to do so as recession bites deeper; which means our exports to China will fall in tandem, inexorably tilting our balance of trade towards the abyss in which all defaulting nations languish.

By now it must be occurring to readers that, although we have so far adopted a posture of presenting options for Australia’s future, in fact we no longer have the luxury of options. The value of our imports is now approximately 30% higher than that of exports. Due to oil price rises, this percentage may now be higher. If Australia was a business, our accountant would be telling us we are bankrupt. Economists might concede that we are only bankrupt in a technical sense; however Australia’s multi-entity Tariff Restoration Bloc members bluntly state that ‘technical’ is a euphemism for in the real world. Now is the time to call a spade a spade.

What is absolutely inevitable is that the World Bank is going to cover our debts only if we surrender National Sovereignty. Even if such a concept were to be entertained by our politicians; and we should not for one second imagine there are any patriots in Parliament, this would have to be an issue resolved by referendum. Only the most remote and insular academic could imagine the Australian electorate would agree to such a proposal. We can safely presume the electorate will choose the retained independence and reclaimed prosperity of tariff restoration.

Foreign affairs academics; not renowned for grasping real world issues, argue that the ‘international community’, will not tolerate Australia’s refusal to become enmeshed in the new global colonialism, in which we are to become absorbed in the China-led, Asia-Pacific Union. In case New World Order euphemisms mislead readers, in plain language this means that Australia is to become a colony of China. It is no coincidence we have a new Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister.

Are the academics right? Recalcitrant nations usually become the subject of trade sanctions and boycotts or, failing this, military intervention. However, if we become a self-sufficient non-trading nation, these measures cannot be applied; and military intervention is the only big stick at hand. And of course, by military intervention we all know this means US-led UN military intervention on one pretext or another. The incredulous need to understand that the US has flown this flag on some seventy occasions since 1946; always with success. And as always, to the world this would be presented as rescuing freedom and democracy from a terrorist threat; no doubt Muslim. With the world’s largest Muslim population on our doorstep, this will seem plausible; especially to Americans and Europeans.

Here, already holding all the aces, Australia can play its trump card. The easiest military target is an urbanised nation. The more we disperse our population the more expensive and problematic invasion and occupation becomes for the invader. Secondly, the six US military bases in Australia, effectively the Pentagon’s eyes and ears on the Asia-Pacific theatre, are widely dispersed and America does not currently have the logistic capacity to invade, occupy and hold these bases, in addition to the entire continent.

Without these bases firmly in US military hands, the Australian epicentred hemisphere could, almost at the flick of a switch, become unnavigable to aircraft carriers, submarines, aircraft and ICBMs. What this means is that any overt threat levelled at Australia will have unthinkable and mortifying consequences for American global supremacy.

Citing their satellite bases in Australia, yet arrogantly failing to nurture us as hosts, has been America’s greatest strategic error. The price the White House will have to pay will be an unspoken treaty guaranteeing Australia’s sovereign independence. Thus we can restore tariffs with impunity, and revoke nonsense treaties and agreements such as FTAs, GATS and GATT.

Further undermining White House resolve, a great many American citizens are making similar demands; that the US once again adopt a nationally-focussed economic philosophy. In France, Netherlands, UK and most of Europe, there are identical movements. It’s a small world.

In summation, Australia’s prosperity and independence can be re-established by:

restoring tariffs, lowering interest rates, regulating Coles/Woolworths prices and ending the duopoly; and terminating the Oil Price Parity Agreement.

Let’s hear Rudd explain why he continues to obstruct cohesive national policies.

By Tony Ryan

With sustained unemployment 6% higher than during the Great Depression, Australia is experiencing more domestic hardship than at any time in our nation’s history.

In the first in this series, we looked at the fraudulent presentation of the Reserve Bank as being independent of Government and of the people of Australia. We now understand that the Reserve Bank has no godlike status and it is entirely subservient to the people of Australia; through our Government. Consequently, Government, representing the needs of the people, must direct the Bank to lower interest rates.

The second string to our bow is the centuries old recognition that governments have a responsibility to prevent exploitation of industry, commerce and consumers. Although exploitation is now widespread in Australia, nowhere is this more critical than in the provision of motor vehicle fuels and groceries. We will examine our options regarding groceries first.

Government has the power to impose price controls on Supermarkets, and then to break up the monopolies. This has been standard behaviour of responsible governments since the 19th century, with America’s pioneering Sherman and anti-trust laws being prominent examples; and, as we speak, this same measure is being implemented in the UK where the grocery monopoly is only 50%. This necessary action will dramatically reduce grocery prices and is, of course, a standard and genuine anti-inflationary device.

However, we should be warned; the ACCC was designed to lubricate exploitation, not prevent it, and this organisation, along with its current examination of supermarket profiteering, should be terminated. Sceptics of this assertion (are there any?) should access the paper The Banks and Small Business Borrowers: case studies of adversity (ISBN 1 86487 629 8) by Evan Jones, School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney, for revealing insights into A triple C behaviour.

Now to oil; Australia produces arguably the best diesel in the world; Bass Strait supplies only require particle filtering before immediate use. We also produce two thirds of our own oil. There is no compelling reason why Australia cannot organise to eliminate usage of the one third of petrol it imports, and adopt alternative measures; including use of rail freight instead of the more polluting and horrifically more expensive use of road haulage. A coordinated, subsidised, national public transport system has long been called for; and our fuel distilleries must be recommissioned. These fuel consumption and cost reductions would enable Australia to revoke the outrageous Oil Price Parity Agreement (OPPA), under which we pay international prices for Australian oil. Politicians had no mandate to sign this agreement in the first place, no prerequisite referendum having been undertaken.

Having eliminated the iniquitous OPPA, Government can then erase fuel tax. These measures will reduce the bowser price of Australian fuel to around 12 cents per litre; albeit, double what Venezuelans pay. The loss in Government revenue can be made up in company tax as Australian businesses and industries proliferate and prosper without the restrictions of high fuel overheads. And, of course, Government’s own fuel bill would be reduced. If corporate welfare was also ended (always around 30% higher than the social security budget), national account parity would be easily achieved. Any deficit can be made up by cancelling politicians outrageous pensions.

Moreover, with grocery and fuel costs dramatically reduced, creating close to zero inflation, there would be no demand for wage increases; rather, a vastly enhanced consumer capacity. This is the road Swan’s Razor Gang should have walked, rather than viciously slashing the slowest-moving Australians.

Another myth perpetrated by collaborating media and politicians is that there is some international compulsion on Australia to adhere to treaties and agreements; illegal or otherwise. There is none.

Two of the most important words in the history of civilisation have not been heard in quite a while, National Sovereignty; and what these words mean is that no international organisation or alliance has supremacy over the democratic wishes of any sovereign nation. This is what we mean when we say that All Authority Resides in The People; a phrase that has had global currency since the aristocracy, and their claimed supreme right to rule, were rejected forever at the time of the French, American and European revolutions.

Those poseurs who love to express their imagined worldliness by making references to ‘the international community’ and how it will not tolerate Australian unilateralism, merely expose their own infantile naiveté. There is no such entity as the ‘international community’. The closest we come to this is the United Nations and with this organisation’s litany of abject failures, its credibility is non-existent and it is held together only by World Bank-generated debt and the threat of violence by the permanent members of the Security Council; a euphemism for global bullying.

Nevertheless, these pompous frauds will wail that ‘the international community’ will launch trade sanctions and embargoes and cripple Australian trade and, therefore, our economy. As there is no economic imperative for Australia to trade with anyone; manifestly this is not so. Australia is the only country in the world today that is self-sufficient. Essentially, we do not need to import; which means we do not have to balance trade with exports. We do so only to make our own elites rich.

Another slogan that must crash is the cry that Australia must become internationally competitive. What gibberish. We always were. With our resources, we hold all the aces. We always negotiate from a position of strength. Strictly speaking, Australia must export only to pay for lubricating oils and greases, which Venezuela can provide bilaterally without any strings attached. All else we can produce for ourselves.

What is said here is not an argument for isolationism, but to clarify our enviable bargaining position; and the acute absurdity of the claim that we must eliminate our prosperity and democracy to “be internationally competitive”. We already were; prosperous and competitive. All we need do now is eliminate the treasonous elements within Government.

In the third and final article in this series, we will examine Australia’s true trading position; our immediate capacity to create an impervious firewall against imported recession; our ability to restore balance of trade and eliminate national debt; stabilise currency; and how we can create three million full time jobs in less than five years.

Considering that those three million jobs were the collateral damage of purely ideologically-driven tariff removals… the destruction of two thirds of our family farms and associated rural and regional economy, and almost half of our manufacturing… no spectacular miracles need be wrought. Restoration of tariffs alone will deliver the jobs and prosperity, but this time extended to cover IT and service industries.

In the next article, we will also consider Australia’s strategic position vis a vis conceivable military imposition of ‘American rules’. Once again, contrary to propagated belief, with the Australian-epicentred hemisphere of US satellite navigation, spy ware, and communications sited on our continent, Australia actually quite literally holds the world’s strategic military balance of power in its hands. The Pentagon must ask itself the question, how do you attack a nation who can casually immobilise your entire utilisable military? What price must be paid to ensure this can never happen? As Americans might say, it’s time to talk turkey.

Tony Ryan is a gardener, an expert taxidermist, and knows the man "Crocodile" Dundee was based on. Write to him at tonyryan43@gmail.com

Interview: President of the United States, George W Bush / Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Anthony Ryan,

Recording commences: 1101 hours WHSD. 2008-06-01 (FPASecretariat) <1448hshdk.838383.dhjbn>

President: It’s so great to have a visit from our good friends and allies in Australia. Welcome to the White House, Mister Ryan.

Ryan: Thank you, Mr President. And, may I say, that as we regard the American people as our closest cousins, during this visit I want to ensure that our relations become even more cordial and mutually beneficial.

President: This is excellent. This means you are keeping your troops in Iraq after all?

Ryan: Not quite, Mr President. We won our recent elections largely on the basis of removing our troops from Iraq; meanwhile expanding our commitment in Afghanistan. What we would like to discuss with you is our new programme of tariff restoration.

President: But you can’t do that. We have a free trade agreement. It took years of negotiation with the pharmaceutical industry.

Ryan: The Prime Minister has asked me to convey our apologies, Mr President. This was not our original plan, but the electorate now demands it. All polls demonstrate at least 80% support for full tariff restoration. As a democracy, we have no option but to comply.

President: But why? How did this happen?

Ryan: What no one realised before was that removing protective tariffs would bankrupt most of our family farms and our manufacturing sector, making one in five Australians unemployed; and the subsequent rural migration to cities has created a water and housing crisis. The people demand we reverse the process.

President: Godammit, man, the corporate and banking lobbies will go bananas. All those billions in lost profits. The World Trade Organisation will go ballistic. I won’t be able to prevent global trade sanctions against Australia.

Ryan: We’re not too worried about trade boycotts, Mr President. Once full tariffs are installed, there will be no trade to blockade.

President: But how will you pay for imports?

Ryan: Australia only needs to import mineral lubricants, Mr President; and we have alternative energies to cover the small quantity of fuel we used to import. That nice Mr Chavez has promised to send us these in return for steel; and there will be no trouble with the World Trade Organisation because Chavez has already removed the WTO from Venezuela; along with the IMF and the World Bank.

President: This is unacceptable! The great American people will not tolerate this attack against freedom and democracy. You realise this means war.

Ryan: With respect, Mr President, surveys show the American people want to restore tariffs too. Polls say most Americans are suffering, and want a return to decent jobs, liveable wages; and the famous American dream of having a home in which to raise their children. Our circumstances are the same. Mr President.

President: Mr Ryan. Are you telling me my Vice-President and Secretary of State have lied to me? Both assure me that all decent, loyal and patriotic Americans are 100% in support of my policies. Any that do not must be traitors and terrorists, and will attract extreme measures. You can tell your Prime Minister that Australia will be attacked and annihilated.

Ryan: Actually, Mr President, you can’t do that.

President: What? What’s to stop the might of Imperial America from crushing this stupid downunder rebellion?

Ryan: Because, Mr President, the Pentagon’s entire Asian-Pacific spy satellite infrastructure; plus the satellite navigation systems for aircraft carriers, ICBMs, shipping, nuclear submarines and aircraft are situated on six bases in Australia. Any unfriendly act on your part would force us to switch them off.

President: Are you threatening me?

Ryan: This is not a counter-military threat, Mr President. We already know the Pentagon would refuse to attack in such a futile gesture. This is a negotiation. We will not tell the American people about this defence blunder, if you agree to comply with policies the majority of Americans want. In other words, reinstate democracy in America, and Constitutional rule.

Recording ends: 1117 hours. WHSD. 2008-06-01 (FPASecretariat)<1448hshdk.838383.dhjbn/>

Tony Ryan is a crack shot, an agent provocatuer, and a born rebel. Write to him at tonyryan43@gmail.com