It seems that Australian government efforts to get technology companies to stop ripping off its citizens have gone no-where.
The Australians have been holding an inquiry into how technology companies were charging Aussies a huge surcharge for products. It seems that the IT industry gambled that the government has no heart to bring in regulations to curb its price gouging actions and it has paid off.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, submission to the parliamentary IT pricing inquiry by the federal Treasury warned any direct regulation of prices by government could do more harm than good.
The Treasury believes that competition laws are capable of addressing anti-competitive conduct without the need for a specific price discrimination prohibition.
Apparently not. Last week Lenovo launched a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook. It will go on sale for $1999 in Australia compared to $1299 in the United States.
Lenovo claimed it priced its products to ensure they were "competitive with local market offerings". In other words while all the others are ripping off consumers, they have to do the same thing.
But the Treasury submission claimed that improving local competition and increasing access to international markets were better than bringing in new consumer laws.
More interventionist measures could "stifle innovation and reduce competition further" as it was better that firms should generally be free to set the prices they want, the Treasury said.
But the language of the Treasury sounds like it was written by the technology industry itself. It is not clear how allowing companies to price gouge Australians helps innovation unless you claim that the extra money can be spent on R&D. It does seem unfair that Australians should pay so that prices can be kept low in the US.
Apple and Microsoft refused to appear at the public hearings for the inquiry late last month, which shows how seriously they are taking Australian concerns. But the treasury report shows that the Australian government is unlikely to do anything to stop their antics down under.
The reality is that since Day One, The Land of The Fair Dinkim [or Real Gold as per pidgin Engrish] was, like "Amerika", chosen by The Chosen Few for setting up their permanent bases to forward their agenda which, of course, is The Bookie's - to turn all that is immoral, firstly, to amorality and then to finally supplant morality. To change those who'd refused or who are unable to evolve into The Stupid-Dumb, those who are worse than/an insult to animal and/or vegetation. Those who have become The Tag Alongs. When that happens in a global and irreversible manner, The End Game as desired by The Bookie, will be triggered - Everything and Everyone Will Go as opposed to only The Bookie, His Tentacles and their Tag Alongs being removed. The 90% being touted around by Conspiracy whereas perhaps 15% is the utmost possible but the other way around. The real [10-15%] Chosen Few are not those who were self-annointed but those proven through their realisation of Self, which is then not a matter of being chosen but a matter of being realised. Those who lucidly and repeatedly know and yet lacking thoughts. Those whose 6th and higher senses [of absoluteness] are switched-on.
Australia now has a bare-faced and in-yer-face liar of a government - that of Immorality acting overtly - not so much to challenge but to assert. Like Canada, another tentacle of that stow away lurking within Anglo-Saxony, The Chosen Few, Australia is literally nothing but Chosen Fewism running amok and this is the sign that the long awaited fundamental shift is happening. Why is this so? Because the land of Australia, The Southern Cross fixed to its origins, The Aboriginals cast there 30 odd thousand years ago for his "sin", is symbolised by Urulu, oka Ayer's attempt at rocking, which is red in colour. Just like "Mars", red being the initial colour of The Colours within White, oka Gravity, Magnetism and for humans, Carbon. It is where the lower/"bottom" pyramid is situated but standing on its apex and is therefore inherently unstable. To stablise a human, his lower pyramid, oka The Sacrum, must first be stablised/activated, The Sacrum being the abode of Mother Kundalini, called as "Tao" by Lao Tze, the so-called Serpent Power. A seemingly difficult proposition when the pyramid is always teetering on one of its apex, especially by those full of the knowledge that is based upon Illusion-Delusion. To assist in our stability, which is that of building [up] from The Lower Pyramid of Instability, The Divine builds [down] from Stability, from The Upper Pyramid which is always resting on its based, something The Divine unconditionally and tirelessly does, 24/7, in case one awakens. Should and when the 2 pyramids [ever] meet, then all knowledge is realised but without thoughts. For the superficial Chosen Few, that meeting then is "The Star of David", the co-called secret staring in their face but which has and will continue to elude them. Even when informed, such is the real beauty of Reality.
To change, a self-determining/thinking human must first learn, those who have evolved into thinkers having deserted their ability to be taught and therefore need to learn. To learn, one must be able to witness and not to judge. For now, Judgement is at the Self phase, those who merely judge others being those who have failed to judge self. A moment will arrive when Judgement will be by Another but One who is Absolute is His Principles of which there are 11 to cater to all the permutations and combinations of Bookie-ism. Including bare-faced liars and cheats put there by those who lack self-judgement because these self-annointed voters think they are able to judge another/others - not when they have yet to be able judge themselves. Like "The French Government", nothing real will come out of The Australian Government/Parliamentary System. At least The British Government has "Royalty" to help masked its stench whenever its natives try to start judging themselves. Or in the case of 2012, the stench of The OhLimpics, Taxation & Credit being a crppling Tentacle of The Bookie.