END FREE TRADE AND RESTORE PROSPERITY
By Tony Ryan
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The world is rejecting free trade and the new call is to restore tariffs

* WHAT TARIFFS ARE ALL ABOUT

* WHAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT

​THE TRUTH BEHIND THE 'TRADE WAR' PROPAGANDA



DETAILED VERSION:

PATRIOTIC AUSTRALIANS OF ALL POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSUASIONS COMING TOGETHER TO RESTORE NATIONAL PROSPERITY

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What are tariffs?

Tariffs are protective taxes and levies added to the value of foreign products and services, preventing these from unfairly competing with Australian products and subsequently causing unemployment, poverty and national dependence on foreign powers.

What is Australia’s current position?

Australia is the only country in the world to comply significantly with the World Trade Organisation’s demand that we reduce, and finally, remove all tariffs. Others, including the US, have actually increased their overall level of tariffs.

Why Australian Governments (both ALP and Coalition) should have surrendered our national sovereignty and independence is a question we would all like the answer to. According to our Australian Constitution this should not have been possible. This raises the issue of tariff removal being in breach of the Constitution...

Section 44 Disqualification (of a politician)

Any person who:

(i)                 Is under acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power…(is disqualified from being a member of the House of Representatives or Senate).

Only with the approval of the people of Australia, evidenced by successful referendum, could such a momentous decision be made without activating Section 44.

No such referendum took place and tariffs were reduced and removed illegally.

Because surveys reveal that tariff removal was not supported by a majority of Australians, and has clearly caused immense suffering and poverty throughout the nation, it can also be said that tariff removal did not constitute ‘good government’, which also puts the guilty politicians in breach of Section 51 of the Constitution.

A UN-compliant High Court has abrogated its Constitutional duty to prosecute these breaches, in spite of multiple requests by citizenry.

What happened when tariffs were reduced and removed?

In essence, tariff reduction and removal destroyed two thirds of our family farms and 90% of our manufacturing sector.

Aussie farmers and business people could not compete with cheap third world subsidised produce, fruit, manufactured items, clothing and footwear. They were rapidly driven into insolvency, and workers lost their jobs.

Altogether, the demise of tariffs; along with associated GATS, GATT and free trade agreements, cost Aussie workers about three million full time jobs (Creating 21.3% unemployment: Bulletin Morgan survey; published July 20,1999; p 44. Today, almost 20 years later, unemployment is 50% as defined universally since 1893).

Most of those affected were from rural and regional Australia (primary and support industries), and industrial cities; and approximately one million workers and their families were forced to move to coastal cities to find work; with disastrous results.

Many farmers committed suicide, as did family breadwinners exposed to John Howard’s 2006 fraudulent claims of an “Era of Prosperity”. Many of these workers slid into terminal depression believing their incapacity to feed and nurture their families was due to their own personal failures and inadequacies. In truth, it was due to factors entirely beyond their control. Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard have innocent blood on their hands. Governments under PMs Rudd, Gillard, and Abbott only compounded the destruction of domestic food production and manufacturing. Turnbull and Morrison focus more on pouring taxpayer funds into corporate profit.

More recent effects

Imported products have caused our balance of trade to become dangerously lopsided, with imports now approximately 30% higher in value than exports. This also means that when the US dollar eventually crashes, Australia will be extremely susceptible to the global depression that will most certainly follow. On top of the actual national unemployment level of 50%, and the fixed incomes sector, this will be calamitous.

Meanwhile, cheap Chinese products are believed to have been subsidised by foreign banks operating in China; the funds of which are owned by Rockefeller and Rothschild-led consortiums. As proof of the subsidies, the CEO of Australia’s BlueScope Steel referred to rolls of sheet steel that are selling in Australia for prices lower than the cost of milling the original ore in China.

In other words, this is an orchestrated strategy to undermine Australia’s manufacturing and food-producing capacity, making us dependent on foreign corporations and international bankers.

And the easily calculated reason for all this ruthless targeting is that Australia is the only country in the world that is not compelled to trade. We are self-sufficient in everything except some oil products. With such independence we could mount a successful resistance against the proposed New World Order, and international bankers fear this could become the thin edge of a possible international wedge of resistance, widening a gap already created by Venezuela; and conjoined by Bolivia, Japan, Russia, Iran, Brazil, Khazakstan, China, Malaysia, and Iran. Turkey is headed in the same direction. (Essentially, the BRICS members).

The real source of US Administration antipathy, has its genesis in the Rockefeller-owned and operated Trilateral Commission (TC). See various books by 1973 TC architect, Zbigniew Brzezinski).

Tariff restoration: anticipated outcomes

By restoring tariffs, the following will occur:

Australia will have created an impervious firewall against imported international recession. With only limited imports, Australia can weather the coming global depression unscathed. Temporarily, we need petrol imports until our eight refineries are redeveloped. In the interim, Venezuela has already announced it would trade on very favourable terms with any other nation resisting the global banker elite .
(Venezuela has publicly and famously ejected the Rockefeller/Rothschild-financed WTO, the World Bank and the IMF, as unwanted “creators of poverty”).

With tariffs restored, Australian family farmers can return to the land.
This will regenerate the rural and regional economy, providing a financial climate favourable for primary industry support businesses and former bank branches. Within three years this will generate (conservatively) one million full time jobs (3000 in bank branches alone).
The subsequently restored regional economy and its returned population will create demand for the recommissioning of hospitals and schools. This, in turn, will inspire a secondary population movement from coastal cities.

It has been estimated that approximately one in five³ urban families will move back to rural and regional Australia for the healthier family environment and access to home ownership; and close to 40%³ of retirees will follow, especially to escape rate rises that are undermining fixed incomes; but also for reasons of personal safety and lifestyle. The critical elements of jobs, schools and hospitals will facilitate this profound and diverse population movement.

The enhanced regional economy will meant that local councils will once again be solvent, causing the abandonment of the much hated Queensland Council Amalgamations, which dangerously centralise development decision-making and alienate community ownership of local resources.

The dramatic and proportionate reduction in city populations will cause a rapid decline in demand for urban water. Governments have lied to us about water shortages, not admitting that the dry Australian continent could never support large European-style city populations, with our comparatively tiny regional water catchments. In truth, Government wanted a water crisis to facilitate privatisation of water; which is what Malcolm Turnbull has been up to all along; manoeuvring our water resources towards predatory Bechtel and Goldman-Sachs. Tariff restoration will initiate a chain of events that will end the urban water crisis. 

Another impact will be a reduction in expensive projected highway extensions and similar urban developments. This in turn will mean the saving of outer urban land, enabling this to be preserved for food production instead of tar and cement. Wildlife regions, too, will retain their eco-integrity.

Meanwhile, manufacturing will flourish and, combining this with the factors of rural redevelopment and stimulation of the farm economy, a total of two million permanent full time jobs will be created. This will eliminate urban poverty and homelessness, which was a direct result of tariff removal in the first place. What has long been known is that poverty is the prime determinant of crime, family break-up, and alcohol and drug abuse. With protective tariffs restored, families will prosper and we will see a significant fall in the divorce rate, a drop in crime, and a reduction in substance abuse.

All of these tremendous advances in the Australian way of life will be brought about simply by restoring tariffs that protect our safe food supplies, our family farming communities, our manufacturers, and our IT service providers.


We are not talking one magic silver bullet here. Other reforms must include:


# Removal of the fuel tax, and rescinding of the Oil Price Parity Agreement in which PM Menzies inexplicably tied Australian oil to international prices set by NYMEX and its London counterpart; will result in Australian bowser prices for petrol falling to between 12 cents and 25 cents per litre. This will massively accelerate growth in all industries, especially transport. All engines will benefit from the use of Australian high graded fuel rather than the ungraded rubbish currently imported from Singapore.


# Ending of live export, which will prompt construction of 150 abattoirs and create 240,000 jobs in regional Australia.


# Breaking up of the media monopoly and removing all elements of foreign control.


# Dissolving foreign ownership of Australian land and resources.


# Returning the Commonwealth Bank to public ownership.


# Renationalisation of former public assets.


# Making all national interest government decisions mandated by referendum.


# Ending broadacre monocultures and NPK chemicals in agriculture, the current practice of which is destroying soil structure. With only 4% of Australian land arable, and degradation already 90% inflicted, this wil be a priority.


# Terminating CSG and shale drilling in order to protect our fragile water supplies.


# Converting all ore to ingots, for use by Australia manufacturing.


# Restoring landowners rights over mining.


# Overturning Howard's Double Taxation Act, in which corporations paying tax in other countries are excused from paying tax in Australia.


# Adopting a flat income tax system, which electronically debits all bank transactions. Currently, the main tax burden falls on wage and salary earners and the wealthy and corporate pay very little tax at all. A debit tax would likely be no higher than 5% to 10% depending upon what budget allocations the electorates approve viz a viz an annual government budget referendum.

Nothing new in this

Many readers have phoned or e-mailed us to point out that you have been saying this for years, and we happily acknowledge this. We ordinary Aussies are not stupid. We have just been denied a political voice for some four decades.

Our time to be heard has arrived and we are repossessing our country.

If any readers have ideas or insights to contribute, that might expand the scope of what history might call the Great Australia Rescue, or help us spread the call to defend our nation’s economy and our families, please contact us.

“We” by the way, is a vast coming together of Aussies of entirely disparate beliefs and political persuasions. We are unified in the single cause of restoring Australian prosperity and national independence… by restoring tariffs. 


We do address other issue (listed above) but with the proviso that these have already been identified in surveys as reflecting the existing will of the electorate. Future referenda may record more or lesser consensus.

Spreading the word

Every reader can join the effort by photocopying the tariff restoration message and handing it personally to family members, neighbours and people in shopping centres.

Alternatively, e-mail this to everyone you know. It is surprising how quickly messages can flood the nation, and time is of the essence. As global recession bears down on Australia at absolutely frightening speed, the sooner we stop imports the sooner our nation’s firewall is erected. It is that simple. Every day we delay can probably be measured in hundreds of family incomes lost.


Finally, many of you may wonder why there is such certainty in some quarters that global financial systems will inevitably collapse. This is because, when the US Glass Stegal Act was reversed, investment banks could once again gamble with real property debt, which resulted in the GFC. The Glass Stegal Act was first set up in the aftermath of the 1929 crash, specifically to prevent such a crash happening again.


With China creating its own bubble, and commercial and residential bubble existing in all western nation property markets, it is only a matter of time before the finance system implodes. Moreover, the US petro-dollar is effectively a world tax that benefits America and it is being increasingly challenged by oil producers. When other currencies replace the US petro-dollar this alone will spell sufficient financial crisis to trigger a wider US-led collapse.


It is important that Australia insulates itself, just as Malaysia did when the south Asian crisis occurred.

Every Aussie can help win this campaign

At the TRB we have designed a dozen strategies, any one of which may precipitate the changes needed in Australia.


One of these will be the creation of a mainstream political party in the NT, which has the most fluid political dynamic in this nation. A third political entity will have wide appeal and can easily use balance-of-power to force through much-needed reforms and policy adoptions, which may well trigger similar movements in other states.


Our main problem is Rupert Murdoch's NT News, which is dedicated to maximum titilation and shallow sensationalism, and the concomitant suppression of all information that the electorate needs in order to evolve effective policy demands. We need to raise $2000 per week to float a competing newspaper in which we can expose local corruption and the role played by the NT News in this regard. We will promote a weekly boycott and drive Murdoch's rag bankrupt.

Please send any amount you can, a five dollar postal order or even a $5 note. 

But our labour is free. Thousands of Aussies patriots have offered their time and energy to hand out our message in their own home districts. This is altruism the enemy cannot hope to match. We will prevail.

For those who want to help at an organisational level, the rules are simple:

As with the Occupy Movement, we have no leaders. All decisions are made by fully informed consensus.

All requests for information can be directed to [email protected], including access to a mailing address for donations. It will be appreciated that this discretion is necessary considering the immense power of the forces ranged against us.


Currently, we are seen as nuisance value only because the enemy does not believe people power is possible but this will change immediately we challenge the corrupt establishment.










Source information: (as on home page)

*From well before the Australian Recession of the 1890s, through the Great Depression, and up until the late 1970s, employment was defined as having a job that paid a liveable wage. To have valid historical and therefore statistical significance, any time-weighted measure must have definitive consistency. Commensurate with this principle, unemployment was defined as not having a job that paid a liveable wage.

During the Keating/Howard era, employment (and therefore unemployment) was redefined as having experienced one hour’s work, training or study during the past week. This effectively removed about 70% of unemployed from official statistics; more in some states. eg In the NT, where CDEP removed about 95% of Aborigines from statistics, wherein 37% unemployed was neatly reduced to 7%. We regard the historical definition of unemployment as the only valid measure, and this is how we defined unemployment in our contemporary surveys. This is the only approach that can be regarded as scientific.

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¹, ², & ³ These figures were derived from the October 2006 interactive questionnaire surveys of a pre-measured and proven (2001) archetypal Australian demographic corridor in South East Queensland (SEQ) (Buderim/ Kuluin/ Maroochydore outer CBD/ Maroochy Waters); a purportedly tourism-wealthy region, in which any conceivable bias should lean heavily towards prosperity and low unemployment, relative to mainstream Australia.

The survey was undertaken by the Australian Independent’s Alliance, adapting techniques successfully developed by the Commonwealth and NT Governments to finally accurately measure urban drift, camp populations and transgeographic motivation of traditional Northern Territory Aborigines.  Prior to this, standard social science research models produced up to five hundred percent margins of error (Dept Aboriginal Affairs and ABCTV).

The results of the SEQ sample demographic survey were published in the micro tabloid Australian Independent. Unfortunately, only a single hard copy survives and, anyway, the articles are now a decade old.

 © Copyright Tony Ryan, Tariff Restoration Bloc 2008
© Copyright Tony Ryan 2018
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