Findlay Engineering, Snowy Hydro, Bilderberg

Findlay Engineering, the arseholes, couldn't wait for the ink to dry on the paper when the new Industrial Relations legislation was passed. They sacked two unionists who "smirked" at the boss at a meeting! They were pressured by an embarrassed Government into reinstating the men.

Now the company is in the hands of liquidators...... AGAIN!
Couldn't happen to anyone more deserving. Although, as usual, the workers will lose their jobs and the owners will pay a fraction of their debts. I hope they are forced to pay their employees entitlements first!

John Howard has supposedly done a backflip over the proposed sale of Snowy Hydro. My tip is the sale will be back on the agenda by year's end, possibly after the State elections in Victoria and NSW. Big business has pressured the World Bank who willingly force struggling third world nations to sell their public assetts, including water into private hands.

Some nations are so far successfully resisting, (see my previous post on Water as a Right and Bolivia) and fending big business off. But they also had a very motivated constituency and a government more in tune with their peoples' welfare.

Howard has given in too easily and too quickly on this one. Which is why I believe he and his masters are taking a breather before looking at a modified option and propaganda exercise before the fair dinkum push to sell the Snowy.
After all, water is an increasingly scarce and valuable commodity. It will never be allowed to stay in public hands.

Many of John Howard's masters attend the highly secretive (do a google! - and even their spouses can't accompany them to the meetings) Bilderberg conference each year. Here the ultra rich and ultra powerful meet to discuss their world view and how best to steer the world in their preferred direction.
This year the agenda is tipped to include Iran. The main headache is a split between the American and European Bilderbergers on the Iran beat-up. This has delayed the attack and caused no end of frustration to the U.S. faction. And also a response to how Chavez in Venezuela has scuttled their Free Trade Agreement for the Americas.

This year's meeting is tipped to be near Ottawa in Canada from the 8th June to 11th June 2006.