Hi to all Gizas. I have been travelling the past month, with a holiday in Bali with my wife and my son and his fiancée, both residents of Australia, my ‘home’ country. I have spent the last three weeks in Oz (my wife didn’t join me here as the Oz visa requirements were just too much!). My experience in Oz has me scrambling to get back to Manila where I live, happily still (at 71) pursuing my musical activities…I may be doing a full theater show on my return, one more musical activity to add to my CV. To say that my time in Oz has been ‘ílluminating’ is an understatement. My purpose in going was to catch up with a life-long friend who nearly died last Nov, but I wanted to do a few things in relation to banking and updating my official Government records which are a bit out of date. I did manage for example to get my new driver’s license, updated and paid for online during the lockdown. But I found out, to my dismay and to my detriment, that I no longer not only have my free pensioner health card entitlement (that would have given me access to free dental stuff, which is not part of basic medical entitlements in Oz), I now have NO entitlement to the basic free medical system I helped create through 50 years of paying tax (such tax taken out of my salary of course, so not much evasion possible, nor desired on my part). A recent change in law that reflects the absolute meanness of the Government (no matter which rotten to the core political party is currently occupying Government benches in Parliament). The same Government that can find $380 billion to purchase armaments (think the AUKUS deals) to pursue war with China, which just happens to be the biggest trading partner Oz has…for me, this is the very definition of irrationality, but no surprise really as Oz is a mere satrapy of the US/UK global cabal now pushing for war as a way to further eugenics aims and to ‘solve’ the west’s failing financial dramas based on out of control debt. My bank likewise is no friend either…tried to get an new ATM card, only to be told that shortly after returning to Manila that card would be shuttered due to ‘ínactivity’ on my local account; supposedly for reasons to do with cybersecurity. Could they not put a note on my account to preserve a new card as I will be returning to Oz next year for my son’s wedding? Nope, not possible. How long does such inactivity have to be before cancelling the card I asked…no idea said the bank representative…at the discretion of the bank!
My experience here in Oz has been full of random conversations with both friends and strangers, all of them initiated not by me but by them, complaining of how the whole country has become one big police state, built around constant ads everywhere on radio and TV ensuring everyone has an adequate diet of fear porn…‘be afraid, be afraid’…break this petty law and ‘we’ (Government) will catch you and fine you or lock you up. As I exited the plane from Bali for example there was a long announcement re customs laws, suggesting that anyone not declaring the ‘çorrect’ details could be personally responsible for the total demise of Australia’s agricultural industry. There was a minor outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Bali apparently, but rather than simply asking people to declare any banned foodstuffs or plants etc, the announcement instantly made everyone feel like they were criminals for merely taking a holiday. I had done a white water rafting adventure on a minor river, and as visits to farms and rivers was one of the customs touchpoints, I declared my day on the water. I was herded into a separate line and the guy who interviewed me, having already reduced the woman in front of me to tears, got right in my face (he seemed to be auditioning for one of those Border Force TV shows!) asking me to account for my ticking off the visit to the river on my customs declaration. Once I told him it was a rafting trip for 3 hours he ‘relaxed’ and on I went. Welcome to Oz ladies and gentlemen! So many people I have met here feel the squeeze now…long time successful people in the music business here (past students, music retailers) decried how hard life now is, with no money to be made from gigs, together with business compliance rules that are extremely onerous etc. Many are giving up and looking elsewhere for ways to earn a decent living in a country where cost of living has spiraled upwards. Then there are the police on the streets carrying automatic rifles now…very confronting for me! Domestic violence issues - two State politicians sacked by their party for such actions against women in the time I have been here - dominate the news, as do various issues to do with racism. And of course the push for all the fake solutions to perceived climate change continues full pace. People feel the weight of all of this top down pressure, with mental health another huge issue, but none seem able to contemplate any reaction or organized action to curb the overreach by the ‘powers that be’. I attribute much of this to the typical western nanny state attitude of both rulers and ruled.
My memory takes me back to the late '60’s, 70’s, where hundreds of thousands marched in protest against the Vietnam war and in the end caused a huge turnaround with the election of the first Labour Government in 23 years, that of Gough Whitlam (removed from office in a mere 3 1/2 years with much CIA involvement in that one as Gough asked questions about Pine Gap military base and Australia’s lack of full understanding of what it was and what it was doing). There is a lot of agitation re the Palestinian cause here, as there is now in the US, but I don’t see hundreds of thousands taking to the streets over this issue. So, I return to Manila tomorrow, feeling unwelcome and unwanted as a citizen visiting my home country. I welcome my return to a third world country where the necessity for resilience, empathy and compassion is way more prevalent than what I see and experience in Oz. 
By way of my return, when I will renew my subscription and get back to the regular vidchats I enjoy so much, I leave everyone with this link from James Corbett on ways to assist serious researchers to avoid paywalls and other disappearing online evidence such as books and articles. 
How to Scale a Paywall (and other useful tips) - #SolutionsWatch
I can empathize… I too feel like a complete stranger in my own country, and shudder to think how bad it is going to get…
Australia is an utter TRAIN WRECK … the country I was born and raised in … has well and truly sailed over the edge … we just haven’t hit the bottom YET … Corruption has infiltrated absolutely EVERY BLOODY THING … My grand children will NEVER know the country that I remember … breaks my heart …
Thanks for the write up…very interesting, to say the least!! 
Yeah great report.
Looking at the current state in Australia, New Zealand and Canada the one thing they have in common is The Crown. Big clue there.
A few months ago I went to my local bank (Alpine) to deposit a check and found my savings account was declared dormant because I hadn’t used it for 6 months. It took 10 minutes playing on the computer and a supervisor to open my account again. I would have closed the account and found a different bank but my husband didn’t want to. We now know about the 6 months rule or they think it’s “their” money.
I have heard something similar recently…with support from my relatives and friends, I keep going without bank account so far. I have recognized it as highly immoral matter a years ago.
It seems to me, that since scamdemic we are being given more and more obvious choices, to go with the corrupted system and the (at least it seems) majority of people, or go with your heart and be a believer. What more has to be experienced till the spell is broken ?
It reminds me Blowing in the wind, Tears in the rain…
… might be of interest to some …
The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden (PDF) (1st ed.). New York: Books in Focus. 1981. ISBN 0-916728-50-1.
Thank you for this citizen’s view of “the new Oz”.