I have been using the Internet since January 1996 but I'll never forget the first time I logged on with a modest 14.4k modem. I was amazed by the text and pictures which flowed onto my screen. Germany, Sweden, France and many other countries visited in one sitting! I became a virtual tourist. I constructed the first edition of the web site over a few months using a raw code text editor and a basic shareware web page construction program. I revise & update it every few months.
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>Apart from interests listed on my home page, I am also interested in philosophy, religion and politics. Noam Chomsky first caught my attention and 'opened my eyes' with Manufacturing Consent. His books on USA imperialism and the compliant USA media are very thought provoking. (What a sad world we live in when the current superpower can kill over 4000 innocent Afgans and over 90,000 innocent Iraqis with most of the world's media and many of the the so called civilized countries of the world turning a blind eye or cheering from the sidelines).
>John Pilger is Australia's Chomsky. In his books and documentaries he presents a clear, non compliant mass-media view of local and world concerns. Every 'press-release' or 'press conference' journalist who has a conscience should follow his lead. (Why is it that so called journalists never challenge the ludicrous misleading statements and lies politicians make in their staged interviews?)
>Other authors I read regularly are Michael Moore and Naomi Klein.
While most theologians give Barbara Thiering short shrift I found the documentary 'The Dead Sea Scrolls' and her book Jesus of the Apocalypse : The Life Of Jesus after the Crucifixion quite fascinating.
I have a Degree in Applied Chemistry, and Diplomas in Education and School Librarianship. I completed a Master of Applied Science (Library and Information Management) in 1998. I am currently the teacher-librarian in a secondary school but in the long term I am looking forward to moving further into the library and information management fields, perhaps in a science library serving an organisation like the CSIRO.
I value honesty, truth, integrity, love, peace, loyalty and other qualities not often demonstrated, valued or highlighted in the public arena or in the popular press. I detest deceit, hypocrisy, arrogance, obscene greed and wealth, media manipulation of the public, exploitation of children by multi-national (predominantly U.S. & European) corporations, power-hunger and abuse of power, use of religion to justify crimes against humanity, violence, gun-loving culture, and other uncivilised or anti-human attributes, individual or national, which feature strongly in the popular media.
It is tragic irony that the values adults inculcate and teach their children, such as honesty and truthfulness, responsibility, respect for living things, respect for others' rights, sharing and distain of greed, settling disputes non-violently, and that bullying is bad, are the very values most politicians (particularly leaders of certain 'democratic' countries) reject and abuse.
Send me a message if you like my web site or if you have any questions. Reach me at chomberg'at'internode.on.net (replace the 'at' with @).
I strongly believe that former prime minister Howard's support of the USA's murderous and deceitful invasion of Iraq has made Australia more of a potential terrorist target than ever before. Before Howard came to power terrorism in Australia was not even considered a possibility by sensible people; it is now though. Australia's continuing shift to the 'Right' over the past 20 years is very disturbing. No wonder the Greens are knocking on the door as a major political party as traditional 'true Labor' voters refuse to be dragged to the 'Right' by the market-research power broker heavies who have no Labor ethics in their soul.
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