by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
Dear Readers, in reaction to yesterday’s Gumshoe article by Phil Hingston, I checked and found that there is only one day left – Monday, August 12, 2019, – for the public to make a submission on the Restricted-cash transaction legislation. It is easy to do. You must write an email to blackeconomy@treasury.gov.au
Your entry must be attached in Word format, with a duplicate PDF of it ( optional).
The drill is that your name and address details, as well as your text, may be published in future so you must specify – they say – your request that any part of it be confidential.
I have just sent the following submission and beg you to do likewise. (And you are welcome to “steal from mine – I stole from Dee.) There is no minimum or maximum length. Mine is about 850 words:
Dear Government of Australia, August 9, 2019
This is a submission on the “Black Economy bill.” I am a serious citizen and everything below is meant to be part of the debate.
My first reaction to the term “black economy” is that our government does nothing to inhibit the making of money in ways that escape tax and regulation. There are “tax havens” of every kind.
Also, ten years ago Australian Taxation Office found “Mr X” (I can provide the name) to have evaded millions in tax. His worth, according to Forbes in 2008, was $4.6 billion. So did that man go to prison? Or was he let off easy by having to pay the amount with penalties? No. Neither. The matter was “negotiated,” with him finally having to pay only half.
As for small businesses starting up under the radar, let’s face it, this is culturally a good thing. Young people have no sense of their coming to be someday the boss or owner of a company. They have a sense that they may be a cashier at Coles. When I immigrated here from the US in 1980, companies such as Telecom and Qantas were Australian and local talent could rise in them. Now there is a fiberglass ceiling and it is getting lower, and foreigner.
At GumshoeNews.com in Melbourne there are readers and writers who have a strong grasp of the folly of our economic slavery to the globalists. The editor, Dee McLachlan, wrote a piece on March 16, 2016 entitled “Getting Chipped for a New Caste System?” She envisioned many things for our near future; I will list some of them. Your debate should also include many of the stunning insights about Australia’s economy put forward at GumshoeNews.com by Greg Buck of Melbourne.
Herewith Dee McLachlan’s ideas – would that they were wrong! —
- By 2035 most of Australia will be privatized and life be run on an efficient user-pay basis. All utilities, roads, parking, ports, travel, recreational areas, rivers, rainwater, housing, and agricultural land will have been privatised, and in the hands of a few multinational giants.
- The population will be divided into classes. First class “global” citizens will operate outside the “corporation” rules. The 2nd class Australian citizens (members of the political departments and the security industries) will have certain exemptions not afforded to the majority of 3rd class citizens, who are strictly user-pay members of the corporation. A 4th tier of the population will be not visible as they will be institutionalized, e.g., prisoners, the mentally ill, dissidents. (These can be used for scientific experimentation.)
- Driving licenses will be obsolete, and so will car ownership. All road transport will be via driver-less cars and trucks and distance traveled will be on a user-pay basisin the new remote cars. As all country and suburban roads will be privatized, automated tolls will apply, to make up for the loss of revenue from fines. This will also mean all roads and access to anywhere will be centrally controlled via the car, and 2nd class and 3rd class citizens will be prevented from entering “restricted” areas.
- Australia will be a cashless society by 2022. The single bankcard will have been replaced by “internal body smart-chips” by 2032. This will have a GPS and this will store all medical, genetic, and financial data.
- Each person will be in jobs that pay-as-you-work. E.g., the time at one’s computer device will be monitored and one will be paid accordingly (at the end of the calendar month). But all expenses, fines, and user-pay utilities will be immediately deducted from one’s “cloud account.”
- Once a person is deemed unable to pay user-pay debt, the chip will be terminated — deemed as past their “use-by-date.”
- For most Australians, private home ownership will be inconceivable.
Ms McLachlan derived her prognosis from a 1969 speech given by Dr Richard Day, who was employed by Rockefeller. In fact, one of Day’s statements was “home ownership will be a thing of the past.” Day made more than a hundred predictions. When he spouted them, they sounded weird or impossible, yet most are now part of what we accept!
So I loudly say, I do not accept the proposed legislation. Much less do I accept the “nice” reason given for it. The true reason is, as shown above, to leave the individual ever-more helpless, ever more degraded, ever more unable to make a contribution to the nation.
Last week I visited an imprisoned dissident in New York’s huge Dannemora prison. He told me – I’m sure truthfully as you wouldn’t make this stuff up — that of all the pain or frustration he has felt behind bars (for 28 years so far), the main one, other than causing his family to suffer, is that he can’t devote his time or talent to helping his country.
Be strong, you who are still free. Just throw the proposed bill in the wastebasket and have a smidgeon of pride in Australia.
Yours sincerely,
Mary Maxwell, PhD (Politics), LLB (Adel).
To Gumshoe readers,
The website Treasury.gov.au offers hints:
Writing a submission
The best submissions:
- are relevant and highlight your own perspective
- are concise, generally no longer than four to five pages
- begin with a short introduction about yourself or the organisation you represent
- emphasise the key points so that they are clear
- outline not only what the issues are but how problems can be addressed, as the Treasury looks to submissions for ideas to make recommendations
- only include information you would be happy to see published on the internet.
What happens to my submission?
Your submission will be read by Treasury staff working on the project to which you are contributing. These staff will decide whether to accept your submission and whether to publish it.
In the interests of informed public debate, Treasury is committed to transparency in its processes and open access to information. For this reason, Treasury aims to publish submissions on its website where it is appropriate to do so. However, Treasury reserves the right to edit (for example, remove defamatory material or, where appropriate, de-identify personal or sensitive information), publish or not publish submissions on its website at its own discretion.
Well Done Mary
It is not a legitimate government nonetheless.
Democracy in danger: the rise of illegitimate authority
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-28/george-democracy-in-danger-the-rise-of-illegitimate-authority/4917518
Democracy in danger: The rise of illegitimate authority
About the speaker
Susan George is the author of sixteen books and a variety of articles, including Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn published July 2013, written in both French and English and widely translated. Her latest book, How to Win the Class War: The Lugano Report II, has been published this year by Transnational Institute (TNI) and is the sequel to On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century: The Lugano I, released in 1999.
She is President of the Board for TNI in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice. She is Honorary President of ATTAC-France [Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens] where she also served as vice-president between 1999 and mid-2006 and remains a member of the scientific council.
From 1990-95 she served on the Board of Greenpeace International as well as that of Greenpeace France. Her current work concerns various aspects of neoliberal globalisation and ideology as well as the multiple, on-going crises that began in 2007-2008, particularly their impact in Europe. Born in the United States, Dr George lives in Paris and is a French citizen. A widow since 2002, she has three children and four grand-children.
And on the topic of money laundering and tax evasion, Fiona Barnett has a bit to say about Australian banks and their abject criminality (in her free e-book Pg 34-35)
Here’s the link -https://pedophilesdownunder.com/2019/08/07/read-fiona-barnetts-new-book-eyes-wide-open/eyes-wide-open-_fiona-barnett_first-edition_august-2019/
On 5 April 2018, Nicole Rose,the newly appointed head of AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre) addressed the Australian media:
“I thought coming from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission that I had a pretty good handle on serious and organised crime side. I didn’t appreciate the depth and breadth of involvement with private entities and banks. I didn’t appreciate how many industries it does actually touch. There’s a misperception that money laundering is a victimless white-collar crime that’s probably just looking at tax avoidance -and it’s not. It is criminal entities using financial institutions here and nationally to move criminal funds around our country and our financial system overseas. And it has a massive impact on everyday life. Whether that’s child exploitation, serious and organised crime, drug importation it all involves money laundering.”
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) was subsequently fined $700 million for almost 54,000 breaches of anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws, including the laundering of proceeds from child sex trafficking, and the channeling of these funds into overseas terrorist organisations. This massive criminal operation involved 27 different groups or cells, each of which accessed a CBA account. Each of the 27 accounts was used for money laundering by multiple, possibly hundreds, of criminals,with each individual depositing amounts of over $10,000 into the automatic tellers per sitting. Police obtained footage of people sitting at tellers at night with large bags of cash, patiently feeding notes into the IDMs (Intelligent Deposit Machines). About 80 percent of CBA-laundered money was obtained via drug trafficking, while the remaining 20 percent came from child sex trafficking (namely by Fijian nationals operating in far north Queensland). The CBA sting operation incorporated the biggest illicit drug bust in Australian history. This massive Perth, WA drug bust went unreported in the Australian media. And that is not all the government covered up. AUSTRAC cut short their investigation and action against the CBA because if they continued, the laundering operation was so massive the CBA would have run out of money paying the appropriate fines. The most telling cover-up regarding the CBA case is that, while the CBA as an organisation was fined, law enforcement authorities never prosecuted the individual CBA employees identified as responsible for masterminding the laundering operation. Those offenders simply left the CBA to assume senior executive positions within other organisations. Police prosecutors claimed they had insufficient evidence to prosecute the executives, when they in fact possessed ample evidence. I suggest the true reason the DPP did not pursue the individuals responsible for these crimes is because the perpetrators were CIA agents, and the CBA money laundering operation was part of the CIA-coordinated global child and drug trafficking operation. As I write, Westpac and the NAB (National Australia Bank) are under AUSTRAC investigation
for the very same crimes.”
It is not the first time that the criminal organisation called the CIA has been involved in money laundering and drugs as that is what they do amongst other nefarious operations worldwide. The Australian government continues to do business with this sinister organisation and meetings in Canberra
Nugan Hand Bank (Another Australia_US coverup)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nugan_Hand_Bank
Nugan Hand Bank was an Australian merchant bank that collapsed in 1980 after the suicide of one of its founders, Australian lawyer Francis John Nugan, resulting in a major scandal.[1] News stories suggested that the bank had been involved in illegal activities, including drug smuggling, arranging weapons deals, and providing a front for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Speculation grew when it became known that the bank had employed a number of retired United States military and intelligence officers, including former CIA director William Colby.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nugan-hand-bank-mystery-michael-hand-found-living-in-the-united-states-20151108-gkthas.html
Spooks, banks and drug money laundering
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/spooks-banks-and-drug-money-laundering
New York-born Hand served in the US Army in Vietnam where he worked for the CIA contract airline, Air America, known locally as Air Opium from its role in transporting opium grown by the Hmong tribe in northern Laos.
The Royal Commission of inquiry set up to investigate the murky affairs of Nugan Hand noted allegations made in the Wall Street Journal and various Australian newspapers, that Hand was involved in drug trafficking.
CIA Plane in Big Aussie-American Heroin Bust: FNQ connection
https://cairnsnews.org/2014/09/25/cia-plane-in-big-aussie-american-heroin-bust-fnq-connection/ I used to live in Albion Park for nearly 7 years when this happened.
The far North Quensland town of Mareeba has been connected to CIA owned international drug cartels. Mareeba airport, just a stones throw from Cairns International airport, was built by the United States military during World War 2.
Over the past five years strange aircraft, often landing in the middle of the night, some of which, according to airline experts, belong to Air America, a CIA-owned airline, are used expressly for ferrying drugs and guns around the world.
Last year an unidentified aircraft, the American-registered ‘mystery plane’ seen at Mareeba airport was a Merlin III twin–engine turbo-prop ( tail number N224HR).
Locals who saw the landing were advised to “…forget it landed…”
Then what do you know? This aircraft is busted at the small airport at Illawarra, 60 klm south of Sydney.
The discovery of an American-registered plane delivering drugs at an Australian airport heralded, according to Australian law enforcement, a “sophisticated drug network” that had begun using the tiny Illawarra Regional Airport, 60 miles south of Sydney, to import guns and drugs.
The purchase in the U.S. of the Merlin III, and the plane’s subsequent two-month long saga on its journey “home” to Australia, an Australian law enforcement official told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, were actions undertaken at the behest of a “major international crime syndicate.”
Newly-obtained FAA registration records reveal that the American “mystery plane” busted in July with 35 kilos of heroin at an airport outside Sydney, Australia was a CIA plane. At least, it had been when it rolled off the assembly line 40 years earlier, courtesy of a CIA deal with the U.S. Forest Service. And the CIA never sells off its planes.
And who can forget Jardine-Matheson?
They’re a big bank now. Changed their name to HBSC. The guys who last year admitted to laundering some $700 billion of dirty money for drug cartels, then paid the biggest fine in the history of fine-paying, in order to stay out of prison.
Much more information about the Australian pilots and their connections can be found at:
http://www.madcowprod.com/2014/09/12/mystery-aircraft-busted-in-australia-was-cia-plane/
Spy catcher: Part one
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2015/clip-cil0cxfwk0042s3nnzllfd7gv
Spy catcher: Part two
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2015/clip-cijt9tdzz002nb5p50s28i2iu
It wouldn’t be the first time HSBC has been busted.
Of course not yet the Australian authorities always let them off with impunity
This has been going on for decades that is why there have been calls for a Corporate Corruption Commission for several years and Parliament won’t do it.
Morrison government announces new federal anti-corruption commission (Abstract click on link)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/dec/13/morrison-government-announces-new-federal-anti-corruption-commission
Scott Morrison will move to establish a federal anti-corruption commission, less than a month after dismissing the proposal as a “fringe issue”.
But the Coalition’s proposed integrity commission will operate outside of public view, with the investigative body to make no public findings, hold no public hearings, and refer any recommendations directly to prosecutors, who will make the ultimate decision on whether or not to go forward with a case.
A former commissioner of the New South Wales independent commission against corruption described the omission of public hearings as “very weak”.
One just has to to to the website Corporate Australia to see the crime and corruption and perversity of courts. The legal fraternity don’t take a stand either so what does that reveal?
Corporate Australia
http://corpau.blogspot.com/
Recalcitrance, an Ode
As a Union representative for many years, and a rate payer for many more, I can attest to the futility of writing/filling out such documentation. I attended many ALLEGED “CONSULTITIVE meetings on hundreds of occassions, we were always told, “our views were important”, L.O.L. Yeah, right, they went straight into the bin, as the plans were already made and NOTHING was going to interfere or change that. Anyone who thinks otherwise, is very much, sadly deluded.
Definition of poor sad loser: Someone who does or doesn’t do something according to what he/she can or cannot get in his/her hand
‘The Parliament of Australia(n Lawyers)’ I won’t be holding my breath.
They are Dishonourable inside the Parliament and they are the same with their legal fraternity outside of Parliament. They are half the problem.
If you don’t cry, there is sumpin’ wrong with you…
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‘Sound of Silence Disturbed’ Official Video
COMMENT FROM G5
Cashless Australia was a Liberal Dark Agenda Project from before The 1995 Financial Transaction Reports Act and the beginnings of the US intel controlled rogue ASC (ASIC etc. etc.) The Australian Senate Report of June (?) 1995, exposing the script, disappeared from the printers before distribution.
Howard’s Australia Card was part of the package (Real UN ID, The US Oct. 2020). In the end, the 100 point identification bullshit that followed, has been amply served by the mobile device. To which those who think they have and do win the privacy fight, are totally enslaved.
In Australia, the buffoons of The Labor Party were mostly a better choice.
Apart from Whitlam; who was a stand alone best PM Australia had in the contemporary. But he didn’t read the script and would not obey. So it was necessary for Marshall Green (CIA Regional Station Chief) to somehow remove him after winning two elections.
The Australian Hordes are the biggest political morons on earth.