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BECHTEL VS. BOLIVIA
COCHABAMBA’S WATER BILLS FROM BECHTELFor the poorest people in Cochabamba rates went up little, barely 10 percent.
- Gail Apps, spokeswoman for Riley Bechtel
January 3, 2002That’s Bechtel Enterprises big lie about their water price hikes in Cochabamba. Now the facts and the actual water bills to prove them.
First, a note of information about water rates. In Cochabamba, under both Bechtel’s subsidiary, Aguas del Tunari, and the public utility that ran the company before and after, SEMAPA, water rates depend on how a home is classified. Basically, these classifications have to do with how many water outlets a home has. According to the water company’s current chief of pricing, Rosario Ayoroa, the classification works like this: The poorest homes (R-2) usually have an indoor toilet, no indoor shower and maybe a water tap in the yard. Typically these families survive by selling vegetables or other items in the street and work well below the current minimum wage of $67 per month. The next group (R-3) are still poor by any standard. In addition to an indoor toilet they may have an indoor shower as well and perhaps a kitchen faucet. Typically these are households headed by workers who earn somewhere between $60 to $80 per month. Once a household has more than one bathroom it is considered in a higher category (R-4), not necessarily affluent, but not poor either.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BECHTEL’S INCREASE FOR THE POOREST OF THE POOR
Now look at Bechtel’s company’s (Aguas Del Tunari) actual bills and see how big a lie it is to claim that, “For the poorest people in Cochabamba rates went up little, barely 10 percent.”
Lucio Morales (click to see copy of water bill): In November 1999, before Bechtel’s rate hikes took effect, Morales had a monthly water bill of 25 Bolivianos (about $4.15). In February, after Bechtel’s price hikes took effect, his water bill jumped to 39.80 Bolivianos ($6.63), a jump of 60% not 10%. As the bill indicates, there is not meter reading, no increase in water use. This is one of many houses that have no water meter and is billed based on a basic rate. Classified “R-2” Morales’ household is among the very poorest of the poor. This bill would amount to more than 10% of the monthly minimum wage at the time.
Jose Aramayo (click to see copy of water bill): In November 1999, before Bechtel’s rate hikes took effect, Aramayo had a monthly water bill of 25 Bolivianos (about $4.15). In February, after Bechtel’s price hikes took effect, his water bill also jumped to 39.80 Bolivianos ($6.63), a jump of 60% not 10%. As the bill indicates, there is no meter reading, no increase in water use. Classified “R-2” Aramayo’s household is also among the very poorest of the poor. This bill would amount to more than 10% of the monthly minimum wage at the time.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BECHTEL’S BLAMING THE INCREASES ON INCREASED WATER USE
Acknowledging that they often hiked water rates by a great deal, Bechtel seeks to blame the Bolivians for using much more water. Again quoting Bechtel’s formal response:
Unfortunately, water bills sometimes went up a lot more than rates. That's because as Aguas del Tunari improved service, increasing the hours of water service and the pressure at which it was delivered, people used a lot more water.
Consider these two examples, both families classified as just a notch above the poorest, but still poor by any standard:
German Jaldin (click to see copy of water bill): In December 1999, before Bechtel’s rate hikes took effect, Aramayo had a monthly water bill of 82 Bolivianos (about $13.67) in which he used 35 cubic meters of water. In January, after Bechtel’s price hikes took effect, his water bill jumped to 157.60 Bolivianos ($26.27) for the use of 38 cubic meters of water. This means that while his water use increased by less than 10% his water bill from Bechtel jumped by more than 90%. Mr. Jaldin’s monthly increase was equal to more than 20% of a monthly minimum wage salary, a typical earning for households with his water rate classification.
Saturnino Marin (click to see copy of water bill): In December 1999, before Bechtel’s rate hikes took effect, Marin had a monthly water bill of 88.5 Bolivianos (about $14.75) in which he used 39 cubic meters of water. In January, after Bechtel’s price hikes took effect, his water bill jumped to 131.80 Bolivianos ($21.96) for the use of 32 cubic meters of water. This means that while his water use actually decreased by 18% his water bill from Bechtel still jumped by nearly 50%. This clearly contradicts Bechtel’s claim that big increases were the fault of water users using more water and not the company increasing water rates. Write To Riley Bechtel Today!
BECHTEL'S INCREASES OVERALL - DIRECTLY FROM THE WATER COMPANY'S OWN COMPUTERS
In addition to these specific examples of Bechtel's water price hikes, the current water company conducted a computer analysis of Bechtel's water rate hikes overall (click here to see the complete analysis). This analysis shows that Bechtel's company raised rates for the very poorest by an average of, not 10% (as Bechtel claims), but 43% and often much higher. The analysis also shows that, as a result of Bechtel's forced departure and the return of water prices to what they had been before, Cochabamba families and businesses saved more than $3.4 million in 2001, money that would otherwise have gone to Bechtel's company.
Bechtel Vs. Bolivia
Write To Riley Bechtel Today!
Riley Bechtel’s Response
The Democracy Center’s Response To Riley Bechtel
Cochabamba’s Water Bills From Bechtel
Bechtel’s Legal Action Against Bolivia
The Bolivian Water Revolt
BECHTEL VS. BOLIVIA
WATER BILLS FOR LUCIO MORALESBEFORE
In December 1999, before Bechtel’s rate hikes took effect, Morales had a monthly water bill of 25 Bolivianos (about $4.16). Classified “R-2” Morales’ household is among the very poorest of the poor.
AFTER
In February, after Bechtel’s price hikes took effect, Morales’ water bill jumped to 39.80 Bolivianos ($6.63), a jump of 60% not 10% as Bechtel claims. As the bill indicates, there is no meter reading, no increase in water use. This is one of many houses that have no water meter and billed based on a basic rate. This bill would amount to more than 10% of the monthly minimum wage at the time.
Write To Riley Bechtel Today!
Bechtel Vs. Bolivia
The Democracy Center’s Letter to Riley Bechtel
Riley Bechtel’s Response
The Democracy Center’s Response To Riley Bechtel
Cochabamba’s Water Bills From Bechtel
Bechtel’s Legal Action Against Bolivia
The Bolivian Water Revolt
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From: Pamela Valenti <gypsyfire@lasgamasmadrid.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:46:09 +1000
To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@warp.austmail.com>
Subject: Lawyer Ends Up Dead After Taking On Rove
Lawyer Ends Up Dead After Taking On Rove <http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=701>
Wednesday December 27th 2006, 10:26 pm
It's fishy as hell.
Paul Sanford <http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/16326502.htm> , a prominent Aptos, California, attorney, who accused Karl Rove of treason in the Plame outing case, took a leap from the Embassy Suites Hotel in Monterey Bay on Christmas Eve. Police describe it as "probable" suicide, even though it appears Sanford was not depressed.
"Friends and associates expressed disbelief at the news of Sanford's death and that it was ruled a suicide, saying Sanford seemed happy and had made many plans for this week and in coming months. [Business associate and friend Shawn Mills] said he and Sanford recently decided to open a shared law office to serve Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, something Sanford was looking forward to doing," reports the Monterey Herald. "Mills said he had spoken to Sanford's wife, Paula, and that she also was in shock. He said Sanford, a father of two, was a devoted family man." Sanford "would never have intentionally put his family through that trauma. Something's not right, it doesn't make sense."
On July 25, 2005, in the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House, Sanford asked then press secretary Scott McClellan <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050725-5.html> about Karl Rove, accused at the time by Joseph Wilson, the husband of Valerie Plame, of outing his wife as a CIA employee in retaliation for Wilson's op-ed published in the New York Times. Wilson criticized the citation of bogus yellowcake documents used as flimsy justification for invading Iraq and murdering more than 650,000 Iraqis.
McClellan was flummoxed by Sanford's question:
McClellan: Go ahead.
Sanford: Yes, thank you. There has been a lot of speculation concerning the meaning of the underlying statute and the grand jury investigation concerning Mr. Rove. The question is, have the legal counsel to the White House or White House staff reviewed the statute in sufficient specificity to determine whether a violation of that statute would, in effect, constitute treason?
McClellan: I think that in terms of decisions regarding the investigation, those are matters for those overseeing the investigation to decide.
Special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, decided not to charge Rove in the case, even though the former Donald Segretti dirty trickster understudy raised enough suspicion to warrant being called before a grand jury five times. Neocon Lewis "Scooter" Libby was charged with obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements to the FBI. A few weeks later, on July 13, 2006, Joseph and Valerie Wilson filed a civil suit against Cheney, Libby, Rove, and other unnamed senior White House officials, for their alleged roles in the public disclosure of her classified CIA employment.
In addition, Sanford was "a champion of the downtrodden, he represented homeless people in Santa Cruz, and fought for free speech," according to Mills. As well, he hosted a radio talk show at KOMY, an Air America affiliate, although he was not associated with the bankrupt network. Sanford and Mills also hosted the "Paul and Shawn Show" on Saturdays at the Seaside, California, radio station KRXA.
Of course, there is no evidence Paul Sanford was pushed from "at least nine floors" above the large ventilation grate where he met his fate. As well, there is no evidence he committed suicide, or did he fit the profile of a suicide. However, there is plenty of evidence Sanford was a thorn in the side of the neocons, committing the ultimate sin of accusing one particularly nasty top drawer neocon, Karl Rove, of treason.
Dear Friends and Fellow Australians,
My name is Peter Rutherford and I have a very grave and important story to relate to you. This story is not just about me and my family, but also about you and your families and friends.
My story began last Monday 24th July 06, in The Supreme Court of NSW, Sydney. Australia.
My self, and my 17yo daughter (and about 30 other supporters) came in peaceful support of two fellow Australians, asking for justice to be served (a trial by jury) in their matter.. We wore a T “shirt with words "Trial by Jury is Democracy". "Trial by jury is democracy".
For whatever reason the Judge (Michael Adams) took offence to that.
Adams ordered us all to remove the T-shirts or he would have us arrested.
I, in my sovereignty, felt it was unjust, unfair and unlawful to ask me to remove that “shirt under threat of arrest. We refused to remove our “shirts. John Bauskis was first and I was the second to be arrested. I resisted by grabbing a wooden hand railing which broke off . We were both handcuffed and dragged down to the cells
We were held in jail for one night We were then brought back before Judge Adams on Tuesday morning and asked if we would apologise. We said NO, we have done absolutely nothing wrong.
We have been charged with ‘Contempt of Court’ and have to appear back in the Supreme Court this Friday 4th Aug at 10am. It is very probable that Judge Adams will put us both in jail. He can hold us there indefinitely under this corrupt and unlawful charge, under the new Terrorist laws that have now been introduced in Australia.
This blatant abuse of power will pass on through all the courts if we allow Adams to get away with this. John & I are willing to stand up for our rights (and yours) even though it is extremely frightening.
I have a wife & family who are distraught at the thought of me going to Jail. It will destroy the life we have. I will lose my job, and will have a criminal record.
Pete Rutherford is a really decent bloke who has worked extremely hard in his fifty three years of life, about half of this time spent farming on a variety of farms and stations around Australia, and the other ‘half’ involved in ecological education and human rights.
Peter has been for the last seven years, and still is, running a hugely successful Environmental education center at ‘KIMBRIKI’ recycling and Waste Management Centre’ under contract to the four ‘north of the harbour’ councils, ie Mosman, Manly, Warringah, Pittwater.
His many references include such praises as: …a Gifted Educator, Honest, Reliable, ….undoubted integrity, ….a Passionate Human Being, … a loving Father of two girls 17 & 20 yo, innovative, conscientious, …straightforward approach to life, …etc…………….,
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
I have a wife & family who are distraught at the thought of me going to Jail. It will destroy the life we have. I will lose my job, and will have a criminal record.
Pete Rutherford is a really decent bloke who has worked extremely hard in his fifty three years of life, about half of this time spent farming on a variety of farms and stations around Australia, and the other ‘half’ involved in ecological education and human rights.
Peter has been for the last seven years, and still is, running a hugely successful Environmental education center at ‘KIMBRIKI’ recycling and Waste Management Centre’ under contract to the four ‘north of the harbour’ councils, ie Mosman, Manly, Warringah, Pittwater.
His many references include such praises as: …a Gifted Educator, Honest, Reliable, ….undoubted integrity, ….a Passionate Human Being, … a loving Father of two girls 17 & 20 yo, innovative, conscientious, …straightforward approach to life, …etc…………….,
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
For whatever reason the Judge (Michael Adams) took offence to that.
Adams ordered us all to remove the T-shirts or he would have us arrested.
I, in my sovereignty, felt it was unjust, unfair and unlawful to ask me to remove that shirt under threat of arrest. We refused to remove our shirts. John Bauskis was first and I was the second to be arrested. I resisted by grabbing a wooden hand railing which broke off . We were both handcuffed and dragged down to the cells
We were held in jail for one night We were then brought back before Judge Adams on Tuesday morning and asked if we would apologise. We said NO, we have done absolutely nothing wrong.
We have been charged with ‘Contempt of Court’ and have to appear back in the Supreme Court this Friday 4th Aug at 10am. It is very probable that Judge Adams will put us both in jail. He can hold us there indefinitely under this corrupt and unlawful charge, under the new Terrorist laws that have now been introduced in Australia.
This blatant abuse of power will pass on through all the courts if we allow Adams to get away with this. John & I are willing to stand up for our rights (and yours) even though it is extremely frightening.
I have a wife & family who are distraught at the thought of me going to Jail. It will destroy the life we have. I will lose my job, and will have a criminal record.
Pete Rutherford is a really decent bloke who has worked extremely hard in his fifty three years of life, about half of this time spent farming on a variety of farms and stations around Australia, and the other ‘half’ involved in ecological education and human rights.
Peter has been for the last seven years, and still is, running a hugely successful Environmental education center at ‘KIMBRIKI’ recycling and Waste Management Centre’ under contract to the four ‘north of the harbour’ councils, ie Mosman, Manly, Warringah, Pittwater.
His many references include such praises as: …a Gifted Educator, Honest, Reliable, ….undoubted integrity, ….a Passionate Human Being, … a loving Father of two girls 17 & 20 yo, innovative, conscientious, …straightforward approach to life, …etc…………….,
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
I have a wife & family who are distraught at the thought of me going to Jail. It will destroy the life we have. I will lose my job, and will have a criminal record.
Pete Rutherford is a really decent bloke who has worked extremely hard in his fifty three years of life, about half of this time spent farming on a variety of farms and stations around Australia, and the other ‘half’ involved in ecological education and human rights.
Peter has been for the last seven years, and still is, running a hugely successful Environmental education center at ‘KIMBRIKI’ recycling and Waste Management Centre’ under contract to the four ‘north of the harbour’ councils, ie Mosman, Manly, Warringah, Pittwater.
His many references include such praises as: …a Gifted Educator, Honest, Reliable, ….undoubted integrity, ….a Passionate Human Being, … a loving Father of two girls 17 & 20 yo, innovative, conscientious, …straightforward approach to life, …etc…………….,
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
Peter has lived his life in a peaceful and loving way since he had his first daughter 21 years ago, then his second daughter
If you have the time to join us and our friends at the Supreme Court (Old Court in King St, Sydney) this Friday 4th August, at 10am we would be blessed to have you there.
We feel that if we can get a show of a large number of concerned Australians then we may have a chance if not being thrown in Jail.
The media, so far, have kept totally away from this story. Why? We don’t know.
Go to John Wilson’s website to find out more. www.rightsandwrong.com.au
A game of Russian Roulette - Australia's blood supplyby Sue BatemanPeter Costello is not suffering from Alzheimers according to the latest opinion polls regarding his recollection of a deal with the Priminister to take the reigns of power 12 years ago.The poll indicated that the majority of Australians believed him.Whilst our two major political representatives iron out their own personal differences, researches are indicating that the safety of Australia's blood supply could be at risk with the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.The Australian National University research team says there would be no guarantees that the imported blood products are subject to the same strict levels of screening.Australia has an independent system whereby the essential maintenance of donor sources make it the safest possible method of ensuring a disease free supply.The Federal Government has signalled to States and Territories to make arrangements to open their blood supplies to overseas tenders.The compromising of safety and quality should serve to prove that our Government is not only selling Australians out of assets but also selling out the health of its citizens, opening a new wave of disease beyond our medical capacities to control them.The ideology of this Government to railroad and make radical changes to the detriment of its citizens and wait for its citizens to cry out in pain before it is realised by them, is conflicting to the very people they are meant to serve.A game of Russian Roulette - Australia's blood supplyby Sue BatemanPeter Costello is not suffering from Alzheimers according to the latest opinion polls regarding his recollection of a deal with the Priminister to take the reigns of power 12 years ago.The poll indicated that the majority of Australians believed him.Whilst our two major political representatives iron out their own personal differences, researches are indicating that the safety of Australia's blood supply could be at risk with the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.The Australian National University research team says there would be no guarantees that the imported blood products are subject to the same strict levels of screening.Australia has an independent system whereby the essential maintenance of donor sources make it the safest possible method of ensuring a disease free supply.The Federal Government has signalled to States and Territories to make arrangements to open their blood supplies to overseas tenders.The compromising of safety and quality should serve to prove that our Government is not only selling Australians out of assets but also selling out the health of its citizens, opening a new wave of disease beyond our medical capacities to control them.The ideology of this Government to railroad and make radical changes to the detriment of its citizens and wait for its citizens to cry out in pain before it is realised by them, is conflicting to the very people they are meant to serve.Dear Fellow Australians,Tonight, on the television news, the Mayor of Cooma and others were saying that the fight to save the Snowy Mountains Scheme is not over yet. They say that the NSW Parliament want the Commonwealth to pay the States of NSW and Victoria out and take over complete ownership, and then the Commonwealth would privatize it. Therefore, the need to have a Jury make a Common Law ruling, that the Snowy never be privatized, remains the only option.Yours sincerely,John WilsonNews from around the globe that the newspapers seldom print
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Wake up Australia
Last night on Channel 7 Current Affairs you may have seen the division of our cities by violent ethnic gangs which the authorities refuse to recognise due to political correctness. The areas of each divisional group were in colour which showed that much of Sydney’s south and west was divided between Lebanese and Vietnamese while other coloured areas showed other varying gangs, Chinese and others, some of which have crossed the harbour into the more affluent areas.
It was announced that political pressure had been put on police to turn a blind eye to these problems. What in the hell is going on? These people should be immediately rounded up and sent back to where they come from. This was a peaceful and cohesive country and we want to revert back to that position.
Politicians who refuse to listen to the pleas of their electorate and for the sake of power and profit have created this situation should also be rounded up, tried with an appropriate crime such as treason and then thrown into prison.
The message below was received from the USA which is undergoing similar problems.
Wake up Australia and the rest of the white world before it is too late.
Subject: This should merit some very serious thought.
America in trouble...!!! You bet your "sweet bippie" that we are.
You and I need to get involved and ensure that this issue handled unemotionally and without fear; ....good decisions are a must...!!! Otherwise congress will refuse to take responsibility, continue to grandstand, point fingers at each other, and glitch this up as they too often do.
Political party affiliation should not become and issue in discussions nor the decision process. Congress must come together and resolve this issue; resolve this issue now, and start America down the road to recovery.
Robert
"You old white people. It is your duty to die."
HISPANIC LEADERS SPEAK OUT!
Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over.
Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council. "They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay ."
Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico, "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."
Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population . . . I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it."
Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party, "Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California."
Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor, "We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back. "
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton, "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General , "We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California."
Professor Fernando Guerra, Lo yola Marymount University; "We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . "
Are these just the words of a few extremists? Consider that we could fill up many pages with such quotes. Also, consider that these are mainstream Mexican leaders.
THE U.S. VS MEXICO:
On February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the Los Angeles Coliseum. The crowd was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though most lived in this country. They booed during the National Anthem and U.S. flags were held up side down. As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S. team were insulted, pelted with projectiles, punched and spat upon. Beer and trash were thrown at the U.S. players before and after the match. The coach of the U.S. team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful experience I have ever had in this profession."
Did you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non-European countries can come to this country and get preferences in jobs, education, and government contracts? It's called affirmative action or racial privilege. The Emperor of Japan or the President of Mexico could migrate here and immediately be eligible for special rights unavailable for Americans of European descent. Recently, a vote was taken in the U.S. Congress to end this practice. It was defeated. E very single Democratic senator except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants. They were joined by thirteen Republicans. Bill Clinton and Al Gore have repeatedly stated that they believe that massive immigration from countries like Mexico is good. They have also backed special privileges for these immigrants.
Corporate America has signed on to the idea that minorities and third world immigrants should get special, privileged status. Some examples a re Exxon, Texaco, Merrill Lynch, Boeing, Paine Weber, Starbucks and many more.
DID YOU KNOW?:
Did you know that Mexico regularly intercedes on the side of the defense in criminal cases involving Mexican nationals? Did you know that Mexico has NEVER extradited a Mexican national accused of murder in the U.S.< /FONT> in spite of agreements to do so? According to the L.A. Times, Orange County, California is home to 275 gangs with 17,000 members; 98% of which are Mexican and Asian. How's your county doing?
According to a New York Times article dated May 19, 1994, 20 years after the great influx of legal immigrants from Southeast Asia, 30% are still on welfare compared to 8% of households nationwide. A Wall Street Journ al editorial dated December 5, 1994 quotes law enforcement officials as stating that Asian mobsters are the "greatest criminal challenge the country faces." Not bad for a group that is still under 5% of the population.
Is education important to you? Here are the words of a teacher who spent over 20 years in the Los Angeles School system. "Imagine teachers in classes containing 30-40 students of widely varying
attention spans and motivation, many of whom aren't fluent in English. Educators seek learning materials likely to reach the majority of students and that means fewer words and math problems and more pictures and multicultural references."
WHEN I WAS YOUNG:
When I was young, I remember hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island. They wanted to learn English. They wanted to breath free. They wanted to become Americans. Now too many immigrants come here with demands. They demand to be taught in their own language.&nb sp; They demand special privileges--affirmative action. They demand ethnic studies that glorify their culture.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?:
Send copies of this letter to at least two other people, 100 would be even better. Help us get the word out.
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Phone 714 921 7142Date: 4/5/2006
California Coalition for Immigration Reform
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VERY SUCCESSFUL AT PLAINLANDS MARKETS & NOT TOO BAD AT CABARLAH & TOOWOOMBA PYC MARKETS EITHER
The Information Booth at the Plainlands Markets (on the Warrego Highway) was very successful with the photo (below) being of our first visiting member of the public for the day standing between Dot Matton, Darling Downs/Lockyer Branch President & her husband, Bob. Before that, we were feeling just a little apprehensive after having been told by the organiser of the markets that she was parking us close to the road in case we needed a ‘quick getaway’ from the abusive crowd that may arrive. We were very glad to hear another lady say “You’ve got my favourite sign on your car”. After that, the apprehension disappeared and it was a very positive day.
The Cabarlah Markets (left) although not as busy as Plainlands, was still very positive. The 5 y/o sitting at the table with the Branch President, was a little young to vote but spent quite a lot of time with us. Well, hopefully he will remember us in years to come when he reaches voting age.
The Toowoomba P.Y.C. Markets, although again not as busy as Plainlands, was still very positive with one lady in particular approaching us for One Nation’s policy on water. She continued on to inform us of the Toowoomba City Council’s intention to use recycled sewerage in 25% of Toowoomba’s town water system. The Branch President & Secretary attended the public meeting held in Toowoomba on the issue of recycled water & we are happy to say that we are now working in with the organisation to protest this issue & spread their message further.
The photos on the right are of our Information Booth at the Toowoomba PYC Markets. The public who come to our Booths are definitely getting younger. These two gentlemen would have been in their late twenties & early thirties.
An Australian Soldier was attending some university courses between deployments. He had completed tours in Timor & just returned from Iraq. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist.
from
Sue Meredith
One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the ceiling & flatly stated, "God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes."
The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, "Here I am God. I'm still waiting."
It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Soldier got out of his chair, went up to the professor & punched him, knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The Soldier went back to his seat & sat there silently. The other students were shocked & sat there looking on in silence.
The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Soldier & asked, "What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that?"
The Soldier calmly replied, "God was too busy today protecting Australia's Soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid sh*t & act like an ar*ehole, so He sent me."
FUEL W@A@R THAT IS!!!!!
from
Sue
Meredith
Let me tell ya now bout a man named Jed, poor mountaineer but he kept his family fed, one day he was out, shootin’ for some food and up from the ground came OPEC’S STAPLE FOOD...........................What the !!!!
MAKE 'EM FIGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES
Join the resistance!!!! Do you want petrol prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Philip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy fuel on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy fuel. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.Please read on & join with us!
By now you're probably thinking fuel priced at about $1.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.55 litre for regular unleaded. Now that the oil companies & the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre of petrol is CHEAP at $1.00, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace, notsellers. With the price of petroleum products going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.
The only way we are going to see the price of fuel come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their fuel! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How?............. BLACK BAN A COMPANY.
Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying petrol. But we CAN have an impact on fuel prices if we all act together to force a price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petroleum products whatsoever TOTAL BLACK BAN from the biggest company MOBIL. If they are not selling any fuel or products, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally MILLIONS of Mobil product buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading & I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... & those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...& so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers.... Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all! (If you don't understand how we can reach 3 million & all you have to do is send this to 10 people....
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 3 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next few days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you & I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.
If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from MOBIL AT ALL, UNTIL THEY SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO below the $1.00 & FORCE THEM MONKEYS DOWN, stand with me please??THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
DARLING DOWNS/LOCKYER BRANCH IS PUTTING ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS
Trying to get a new idea accepted is like attempting to move a car that has been standing out in the paddock for a long time – the wheels have become fused to the ground. You rock it, you shake it, you jerk it, you push it & finally the ground releases its grip on it & you put a bit of grease on the axles, attach a tow rope to another vehicle & pull. It will groan & make all sorts of noises & fight the tow rope at first, but by the time you get it halfway across the paddock, the wheels will have started to turn & it will be running quite freely. Take it home & give it some TLC & who knows, you might even get another year or so of use out of it.
The 1% E-Tax, to fund One Nation, is like that car. Nobody’s ever tried it before so “what if it doesn’t work?” Well, we’re never gonna’ know if we don’t give it a go, are we?
So, Darling Downs/Lockyer Branch has taken the bull by the horns & has implemented a variation of the concept into our branch i.e. members contribute 1% of the debit column total shown on their monthly bank statement. Results – not all members have made the commitment yet but because of those who have, our branch is now able to count on a regular income in excess of $50 per month & the amount is growing as more members join us in this experiment.
That is a regular minimum branch income of $50 per month over & above that raised in usual fundraising activities the branch engages in - activities which take up a lot of time & energy usually from those same few individuals who are already flat out trying to get other important things done for One Nation.
As in any household, a steady, reliable income means the Darling Downs/Lockyer Branch of PHON NSW Division can afford to host events such as public forums with invited guest speakers, knowing that we can now help with necessities like accommodation costs. We can cater for refreshments. We can buy necessary tools & equipment such as a photocopier which was the first item the branch purchased, pay for public liability insurance, magnetic car signs & other items.
A regular income means we do not only wish we had such things. It means that we can afford to get them & it amounts to about the cost of a Quick Pick or a couple of Scratchies for the average member each fortnight.
Darling Downs/Lockyer Branch can actually make plans, save up & acquire the tools that we need to further develop this Branch of One Nation.
While we may think we can’t help in any other way because we lack the confidence or are too far away from the Branch centre, or are not well enough health-wise or whatever, we can ALL do this small thing if we believe One Nation & Australia are worth the effort.
This is the only question that concerned Australians, whether One Nation members or supporters, need to ask ourselves & nobody else can answer that question for us.
As One Nation supports & promotes the 1% Debit Tax as part of its policy, let us demonstrate our faith in it by putting our money where our collective mouth is, so if any other branches would like to join us in this commitment, please let us know & keep us abreast of your experiences.
Bette Noud,
Darling Downs/Lockyer Branch,
PHON NSW Division
If you are ready for the adventure of a lifetime, TRY THIS:
from
Charleville
Enter Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.
Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.
Demand bilingual nurses and doctors. Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc. Procreate abundantly.
Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behaviour with, "It is a cultural thing; you wouldn't understand mate."
Keep your Australian identity strong.
Fly your national flag from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window or on your car bumper.
Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.
Demand classes on English and Australian culture in the Muslim school system.
Demand a local country driver’s license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimise your unauthorised, illegal, presence in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq.
Drive around with no liability insurance and ignore local traffic laws.
Insist that local country law enforcement teach English to all its officers.
Good luck! You'll soon be dead.
Because it will never happen. It will not happen in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq or any other country in the world except right here in Australia. For we are run by soft, politically correct politicians, that are too scared to "offend" anyone.
If you agree, pass it on.
If you don't, go ahead and try the above in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq.
Singleton
Branch
IF HOWARD SAYS THAT ALL EMPLOYERS HAVE EMBRACED HIS DIABOLICAL IR LAWS THEN WHY HAVE NINE LISMORE NSW BUSINESSES REJECTED HIS SO-CALLED WORKCHOICES!, PREFERRING TO SIGN-UP AS WORKER & UNION FRIENDLY WORKPLACES! ONE NATION NSW COMMENDS THEM!
When NSW State President Jim Cassidy asked me to prepare our May Issue as a shame file with a focus predominantly on Howard’s workplace relations attack upon all Australian workers rights, I must confess I never thought it would be possible to find a positive story, let alone one of hope! Thus I feel I must first congratulate the true Australian companies in this article before going on with our shame file issue. Howard’s claims that no Australian will be worse off after his shameful work-choices (choices that have just the opposite effect on all our Aussie workers!) there is no doubt we are certainly given at least two choices! The first choice is of signing his un-Australian WPA!! There is a bonus. . . . If you sign on the dotted line without any objection you get your bowl of rice & free set of chopsticks! Thus, we then come to your second & last choice which, put simply, is to sign it & accept a new slave wage!! Or not to & be shown the door . . . . . . While some foreign & anti-Australian businesses have embraced his attempt to turn our battling Australian workers into no more than Asian peasants, these Lismore local & privately-run businesses, plus local authorities, have embraced a five piece core standard program developed by a Northern Rivers Unionist Network. A standard that I hope will catch on nationally!
One by one they have all agreed to pay their workers the current award wage, or even better in some cases, to recognise the right to collective bargaining; to allow Union access & not to use Howard’s AWAs!! Also to not cut any of their existing entitlements!! It was reported that it’s working so well, that they are already having talks with a growing number of interested employers & more are making
daily enquiries that are received by the Network Convener Punita Boardman, who it was reported to have said quote: “We’ve decided to take a positive approach because Work Choices won’t work if employers don’t use it to attack family living standards!”
“Thus we are trying to reward good employers by encouraging friends & supporters to support their businesses!” The Network will also be looking to expose those unscrupulous businesses that use Howard’s legislation to attack working conditions. It seems an investigation is already underway about the activities of some macadamia farmers in the region! One Nation now applauds these Lismore businesses that are: Dymocks, Southside Pharmacy, Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre, Bolt & Findlay Solicitors, Red Inc, Southern Cross Uni. Student Rep. Council, the Byron Bay, Clarence & Kyogle Councils.
WITH JUST 3% OF OUR MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES LEFT TO TRAIN OUR YOUNG SKILLED FUTURE TRADESMEN UNDER HOWARD OR BEAZLEY, WHAT HOPE DO OUR KIDS HAVE FOR THEIR FUTURE? Kevin Mitchell
After Howard’s almost complete destruction of our once vibrant manufacturing industries, I now give you this as reported by John Sutton, National Secretary of the CMFEU, where our PM & self proclaimed, honest as the day is long, never ever a GST. Howard has opened the floodgates that raised the temporary workplace visas from 100,000 to 700,000!! Again the very thing Pauline warned of more than ten years ago when she said quote. . . “I believe our Aussie jobs will be swamped with Asians!!”
The following story was written by John Sutton.
Opening the Floodgates
John Howard is deciding more & more foreign workers should come into this country - without the rights of citizenship! The story of labour market deregulation in Australia has centered on the Howard Government's new Work Choices industrial laws. But another factor has been at play for nearly ten years now & it represents every bit as detrimental an effect on our labour market standards - the deregulation of temporary work visa requirements. In 1995, the Keating Labor Government appointed the CEO of Fujitsu Australia, Neville Roach, to conduct an enquiry into the rules surrounding the issuing of temporary work visas for foreign workers to access our labour market. It was no surprise that Roach, an advocate of the key tenets of globalisation - the free movement of capital & labour across borders - came back with recommendations that 100 years of regulations should be swept away.
Before the ALP could determine an attitude to Roach's fast ball, the Liberals were elected &, within months, the new Minister for Immigration, Philip Ruddock, adopted the Roach recommendations in full. In the decade that followed, Australian workplaces moved from utilising less than 100,000 temporary work visas issued each year to nearly 700,000 in the financial year 2004 -2005. Has the economy or the workforce grown by 600%? Of course not - but guest labour on a major scale is finally with us in our cities, towns & regions as Australian employers are thirsty for the cheap labour that temporary work visa workers very often represent.
Where are the 700,000 visas recently issued going? Nearly 400,000 are workers on business short stay & long stay visas who possess skills ranging from the semi-skilled (meat workers, cooks etc) through to the highly skilled (scientists, doctors etc). But it's not simply workers with skills - it's also the unskilled. More than 120,000 Working Holiday Maker visas were issued in 2004/2005; together with around 200,000 student visas (students can work up to 20 hours per week, more during vacations). The day-to-day reality of this labour market surge is cafés, restaurants, hotels, major events etc employing youngsters from overseas on casualised rates. Fruit is being picked & labour performed from similar sources in rural & regional areas. And mostly its non-union workers who have little understanding or care for the impact they are having on local working conditions. In the case of backpackers: 10 years ago about 25,000 came to Australia - today it's 120,000 & the impact on our labour market is more pronounced. But it's in the area of the temporary skilled visas where the impact on our labour market has been the greatest. And the reasons why need to be understood. The Howard Government has abandoned labour market testing, i.e. the principle that local employers must seek to source labour locally before seeking to sponsor overseas workers. While employers in regional areas are still nominally required to show that the position cannot be filled locally, local chambers of commerce oversee this process & it is a requirement on paper only. To add to the problem, the Government has stopped any serious enforcement of the legislative requirement that would-be sponsors have a good record of training Australians.
These changes, combined with a weak monitoring regime only introduced five years after the doors were thrown open by the introduction of Roach's new 'flexible' entry arrangements have resulted in the daily flow of media horror stories of the exploitation of temporary migrant workers now turning into a flood. The sum total of the various changes equals the deregulation of entry of temporary foreign labour rules & unquestionably this development is now having a serious downward pressure effect on local wages & conditions in various parts of the country. And isn't the hypocrisy of John Howard at its height around this issue?
Howard has sold himself to the Australian public as the man who has protected our borders - he told us he was not going to let a few thousand asylum seekers breach the integrity of our borders. What a load of bunkum - from the politician who has been quietly colluding with big business to allow a major surge of temporary migrant labour into the country. And when you add into the mix that Howard has deliberately sat on a 1999 DIMIA enquiry recommending strong sanctions against Australian employers who mistreat guest labour & employ illegal migrant workers, it's clear the Howard Government has no qualms about serving only the profit motive of its constituency. And all this from the Government that has presided over a training crisis in Australia. The skills shortage is biting in various occupations precisely because the Howard Government will neither commit the resources nor hold their business friends to account in training young Australians. Under-funding of TAFE alone has cost 300,000 young Australians the chance to become skilled workers. And as this mess unfolds, youth unemployment is still twice the national average. Young Australians desperate for apprenticeships miss out because of Government indifference & employer short-sightedness. And, in the latest bizarre chapter to this story, we now have the Overseas Apprentices program where youngsters from distant lands are going to be brought to work as apprentices in regional & remote locations with up-front costs met by the family of the young worker. So Australian employers will have yet another source of cheap, vulnerable overseas labour - the alternative to offering above-award attractive rates of pay to entice young Australians from the cities to the regions doesn't enter employer thinking. Why go down this more expensive route when there are cheaper sources of labour from overseas? The bottom line is John Howard's Government stands naked on his policy failures in the area of training Australians &, conversely, his quick fix of importing ever greater numbers of vulnerable overseas workers.*John Sutton National Secretary CFMEU Building and Construction Division.*
WITH OUR INDUSTRIES GONE. . . OUR JOBS OUTSOURCED TO ASIA, OUR CONSTITUTION IS NOW SECRETLY & ILLEGALLY BEING RE-WRITTEN TO CREATE A DICTATORSHIP BY STEALTH! YET OUR COURTS DENY OUR CRIES OF TREASON BY REFUSING TRUE DEMOCRACY, A TRIAL BY JURY! SO ARE OUR COURTS CONTROLLED BY FOREIGN INTERESTS, OUR JUDGES CORRUPTED? I NOW ASK YOU TO BE A JUDGE WITHOUT PREJUDICE!
This just came to hand from One Nation W.A. after I have been seeking the outcome of the ongoing litigation brought about by the W.A. Attorney General’s blatant act of treason & litigant Brian Shaw’s subsequent appeal against former ludicrous charges against him for doing so & for being a vexatious litigant. This is but further proof that we as Australians have no longer any COMMON LAW RIGHTS!! Firstly I received this from One Nation W.A State Secretary, Marye Louise Daniels:
The Supreme court of WA / Brian Shaw:
Mr. Brian Shaw applied the laws of a citizens / subject arrest. - because of the fact that the Constitution of WA was altered by stealth by the attorney general Jim McGinty by removing the *Crown* and *Monarchy* from the constitution and substituting the *State* and the *Governor* respectively.
Marye Louise Daniels, WA State Secretary
Upon my further enquiries I then received this from Sue Bateman, One Nation WA,. & one needs no more evidence than this that our common law rights are being perverted & that acts of high treason are being perpetrated against us by our State Governments in NSW & WA!!
Evidence of Global Warming
from Lynn Stanfield
(1) Brian Shaw had to give up his recording on the Free Masons to get a bigger court for the amount of people who wanted to attend. (2) Since the fact that McGinty had taken away the Queen etc., the judges presiding over this case were not in fact recognised because of this. (3) Brian Shaw stated this in his address to them and basically got up & walked out. (4) Basically what McGinty has done has set a precedence that births, marriages and judges are not recognised or lawful. On the record of the stenographer, the judges turned to each other and said Brian Shaw had a point and it was only a matter of time before this fact was brought up that their powers and the laws they represent are no longer recognised because of these changes.
Sincerely, Sue Batemen One Nation WA
I NOW INCLUDE A LETTER SENT TO NSW SUPREME COURT JUDGE MICHAEL GROVE, A LETTER THAT WAS SIMPLY TREATED WITH CONTEMPT, WRITTEN BY OUR
TASMANIA O.N. PRESIDENT, RAY ESCOBAR.
IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF NEW SOUTH WALES
COMMON LAW DIVISION
MICHAEL GROVE J
Monday 18 February 2002
10088/02 - JOHN WILSON v THE HONOURABLE ROBERT JOHN CARR MP
JUDGMENT
You’re Honour,
With reference to the above, I have concluded reading the application to the court, the court transcript and your judgment. It is quite obvious that when one reads the actual historical relationship between our inherited Old English Law and the Australian Constitution the plaintiff was correct in his seeking your support for a trial by jury to deal with these matters. The Constitution of Australia cannot be amended except by a referendum and the law is the law until such time as this process takes place. The Australian Constitution is a document enshrined as law and as such cannot be morphed to suit those that are determined to do so.
Your Honour, I take it as part of your appointment that you swore an Oath of Allegiance and that it was a promise made by you to Queen Elizabeth 2 to uphold the Common Law rights, Duties and Obligations of Australian citizens. Politicians also make this same oath before taking their seat in parliament. This means that laws cannot be made that infringe the Common Law Rights, Duties and Obligations of the Australian people. Any parliamentary law that subtracts from the Australian Constitution and our inherited Laws of England are not Laws at all and are Ultra Vires. Ultra Vires in this context means totally without power and must not be obeyed.
Further any person who tries to enforce Ultra Vires Laws is breaking their Oath of Allegiance and have no other honourable action than to resign. To continue to give credit to Ultra Vires Laws is to act in a state of Treason.
Mr. Wilson provided accurate References to the law to your court and your response to these references provided a glimpse into the misinformed education of the finer points of law as presented by you.
In contrast, from the beginning of proceedings, it seemed that you had already made up your mind to protect the views of the defendants counsel.
I am also of the opinion that you have not given an impartial and sound judgment in accordance with our system of Australian law in this matter and as such do not have the jurisdiction to make judgments against the motions that the plaintiff has placed before you. The plaintiff did not consent for you to waive his rights by jury. He is absolutely correct, that this matter should be addressed by a jury sitting in judgment to determine the validity or otherwise of the accusations made in his application against the former Premier of N.S.W. Bob Carr. The matters placed before you, your Honour, were very serious indeed and should have warranted a more impartial approach by you. I believe that you treated the law with a measure of contempt and in a flippant manner making a judgment, which was against the right of every Australian citizen to be heard by a jury of his peers.
I write this letter with no intent of malevolence or prejudice and hope that you will take the time to read the signage, which hangs on the entrance to your building, Supreme Court of NSW, Common Law Court. Please remember the words Common Law Courts.
Kindest Regards, Ray Escobar
Bsc., Msc. NASC Retired Platoon Commander Royal Australian Infantry Queens Commission.
Excerpt:-
Now I am just a simple man Mr. Howard with only a primary school education, but even I can see that the reason we are paying outrageous fuel prices is simply, on top of your illegal tax on a tax, just profiteering by the two major Woolworths & Coles-owned oil companies Caltex & Shell, to drive up the price of our food & all our other daily needs they sell us as well!! Your pathetic plea to them on National TV to have some restraint will be ignored. OH! But you say you sold some gas!!! Yes we all remember! It was to China for $Aus.0.3 cents litre CIF, which means out of that three cents we must pay all Costs, Freight & Insurance!! If that’s not bad enough you then sell the wells themselves!! But that’s OK, for just like your oil deal, we can buy our own gas back from them at a loss!! To be truthful I really don’t know why you bother to go to work for it seems that if you simply stayed at home you would be saving the Australian people $trillions a year! Kevin Mitchell
Poll result to shift electoral boundaries
By JEMMA CHAPMAN
22apr06
THOUSANDS of voters will find themselves in new seats at the next state election because of boundary changes to give major parties a more equitable chance of winning government.
The State Electoral Commission is preparing for the redistribution, which occurs after every election.New Electoral Commission figures show some of the state's most marginal electorates have become safe Labor seats following the 18th March election.
Some safe Liberal seats now are marginal.
Adelaide, previously the state's second most marginal seat, has gone from having a swing-to-lose margin of 1.1 per cent to 10.3 per cent.
Former Liberal leader Rob Kerin's country seat of Frome has gone from having a swing-to-lose margin of 11.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent.
Senior lecturer in politics at the University of Adelaide, Dr Clem Macintyre, predicted a "more substantial" redistribution this time than after the 2002 election. "Only four of the 47 seats last time changed by more than one per cent," he said. "I would expect we will see more significant changes than that this time round." Dr Macintyre speculated boundary changes initially would focus on Newland, Morialta, Bright and Adelaide "and the changes there might have consequences for surrounding seats".
State Electoral Commissioner Kay Mousley said public hearings would begin in June, with the redistribution process likely to take about 12 months.
Stan Batten,
State President, One Nation SA Division
15 Lorikeet Ave., Modbury Heights, SA 5092
(08) 8263 3504 or 0427 605 118
http://www.onenation.com.au/sa/
http://www.picknowl.com.au/homepages/stanbatten/default.html
Greetings,
from
Lynn
Stanfield
LAND OF MILK & HONEY.
Pre-dawn this morning, first signs of Autumn, needed to wear a shirt; Georgie, the pup, and I went for a walk down the back of the property, surrounded by the multitudes of twittering parrots and Kookaburras and ‘butchies’ and all of the other little critters which share our trees and flowers.
A most absorbing pleasure at this location, is the continuous natural production of vegetable fruits and ‘things to nibble’. One of my favourites is the Monsterio-Delicio which grows quite unattended behind the shed, producing fruit which has a magnificent flavour. Some weeks ago, when we first arrived, I made my usual rounds of such haunts and had picked a couple of big fruit which Joanie wrapped into some paper and stored for its ripening process. Today, I tentatively opened the wrapping to find both fruits bursting with edible flesh --- m-m-m-m-m-mm!
On another day of reconnoitre, I found a Passionfruit vine climbing through a tall tree out from the house, quite disguised by the tree’s foliage. My discovery of the vine and the fruit hanging from it as it zig-zagged up through the host trellis, was quite accidental; really, I was checking the undergrowth around the tree patch for the dreaded weed “Grounsel”, when I happened upon three or four of the fallen fruit upon the ground. One had been nibbled by our feathered friends (little darlings), but high up were the maturing fruit. The challenge to obtain the delicious fruit before they succumbed to the critters beak, caused me to go to some lengths to retrieve the plump berries. These joined the wrapped Monsterios in the fruit bowl; I have been enjoying one each day.
Now, it just so happened, our special milk (from a local dairy / processor family -- it is pasteurised but not homogenised), had turned a little ‘off’, and Joanie, who is absolutely addicted to coffee every quarter hour or so, was fairly tonguing for her ‘hit’ -- but the milk was yuk!
So, being a bush kid of old, I made up a batch of powdered milk, using the magic formula learned from those times after the war, when we lived in the bush, relying on our own produce for most things, including the old Jersey house-cow supply. When Betsy calved, there was a period when the teats were in demand for another mouth and we humans needed to resort to the pantry stash of good old ‘Norco, full cream powdered milk’. Mum would always hand the mixing job to Lynn, just as I also, always got to sit for hours and turn the butter churn; one of the penalties of being an only child I guess -- got all the boring chores. But it was good training, never ‘done any harm’ and after all these years, the trick came back to me: one pint of tank water (one litre, today – eh!), twelve heaped desert spoons of milk powder (fifteen or twenty if mum wasn’t watching, gee I loved its flavour), to which one added three desert spoons of good fresh-from-the-hive honey, all vigorously mixed until a beautiful creamy milk substance. With the advantage of the blender, I was able to make a hugely successful milk, Joanie couldn’t distinguish between my formula and dairy milk, commenting on the lovely smooth texture of the coffee I made for her.
Anyway, as I was waiting for the blender to do its task, I spotted the bowl of remaining passionfruit, and the two Monsterio fruit. Now, one of my favourite beverages in the old days (and still), was a passionfruit milkshake, made especially good by the use of the old powdered milk and honey mix . Why not, I thought, why not. So I did: half a litre of tank water, twelve heaped spoons of milk powder (maybe a shade more), three spoons of honey, blended. A tall glass of the milk mix, with half of the pulp of one of the fat, juicy passionfruit. Oh!---oh!--------oh! The memories floated back. What a great time in life it was when we all fended for ourselves a little more than we do now. Damn the‘consumer society’. Damn the ‘supermarket economy’! Damn ‘globalism’! Damn money!
Never-the-less, after the nectar and a few scoops of the Monsterio, I’m thinking; this is still the ‘land of milk and honey’, why don’t we try harder to protect it from predators?
But then again, I guess we are overwhelmed by city born and bred folk, who have never known any other existence than the supermarket economy and these are the bulk of our population -- eh!
Lynn Stanfield.
Noosa
From
Lynn
Stanfield
THE CORPORATE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
I would like to bring to your attention, in which you may find of interest, is that the Australian Government is registered with the US Securities & Exchange Commission.
If you type in the COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA in the below link, it shows you company information: COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (0000805157)
http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompong&CK=
Locked your Keys in your Car?
This is very interesting? If you lock your keys in the car and the spare key is at home. Call someone there on your (mobile) phone, hold your phone about a foot from your car door and have the other person at home press the unlock button on the keys, holding it near the phone on their end.
Your car door will unlock. This saves having someone drive to you or calling the roadside service, and of course, saves you time.
(from S.A. Division newsletter)
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C.A.S.T.
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For those who weren't there, Peter was able to tell Kay Mouseley in front of witnesses how wrong her conduct of the polls has been. Apparently the media had more important things to record and report, but maybe its members are also unduly influenced.
Thanks to you who have already joined in disputing such illegal elections and have already given good advice. I had proposed that it should be sufficient to dispute only one such election & asked which should it be?Well we've had other proposals and now we need to consider whether we file other claims or try to merge all into a single petition.
In this draft of the petition we've stuck with Hammond but for no compelling reasons. It incorporates a few of the ideas already offered. Please reply or call to comment, & particularly if you see any errors in the legal forms & technicalities for dishonest lawyers to exploit.
Jim StewartConvener
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Response from Joe Bryant
DISPUTED RETURNS - COURT OF and Get-Out-Of-Goal-Free CARD.
NSWelshmen may recall the Labor Party machine anointing Barry Unsworth an Upper House member at the time as the next Premier of NSW following Wran. This move required a by-election to get Unsworth a seat in the lower House, The safe Labor seat of Rockdale was chosen, the sitting member resigned and Unsworth stood as the Labor candidate.
At the time I was on the executive of a small business group called SBP. SBP decided to find and back an independent, which we did, a small business man from Rockdale.
Behind our efforts was greater government recognition of small business and its needs, which were mainly to get government off the back of small business. Our efforts became successful, when we later moved the independent vote to 33% in two by-elections, if one can call the establishment of a NSW Minster for Small Business a success. But as our efforts expanded we forced into existence a Federal Minister for Small Business also.
I, being aware of electoral fraud established a team of helpers to scrutineer and then to follow the voting papers from the polling booths to their final destination on the night. My people found anomalies such a carriers stoping off along the way taking the transport vehicle into closed building and later reappearing and continuing to the final destination for the ballot papers.
My self an another SBP member came up with $500 each and lodged two Court of Disputed Returns
Petitions in the Supreme Court of NSW, one Petition against the election of Unsworth, and one against the last elected upper House, Richard Jones. .
The Petitions were completed by a Newcastle solicitor also a member of SBP on forms supplied by the Supreme Court.
The day in court arrived, the hearing lasted about 30 minutes. Senior Barrister Whitlam Later Justice Whitlam of the Federal Court represented Barry Unsworth, by now Premier, and Richard Jones by then a Member of the Legislative Council (upper house).
Barrister Whitlam drew the Courts attention to the fact that the Legislation covering a Disputed Returns Petition required that the occupation of the petitioner was required to be shown on the Petition and that the two Petitions before the Court were not in compliance with the law.
To cut a long story short, the Judge, Justice Needham dismissed both Petitions on the basis of not complying with the law governing Petitions to the Court of Disputed Returns.
It is my view: the omission, of the requirement to supply an occupation on the forms supplied by the Supreme Court represented a get-out-of-jail-free card that could be used when required.
Joe Bryant. National Coordinator, United People Power. Email: succeed@alt3.net PH: 02-9826-1337
PO Box 1010 St Marys NSW 2760 FX: 02-0826-1670
ONE NATION – PRESENT AND FUTURE
The One Nation Special Meeting in April endorsed a new State Constitution which allows our membership and State Executive more autonomy in the administration of South Australian operations.
Our membership will also benefit from new guidelines which restrict the executive from entering into debt and which protects them from liabilities incurred by other States.
It is now time to lay the foundations for the growth of One Nation in South Australia. One Nation believes in policies which will help re establish our manufacturing industries, encourage our Primary producers and create job opportunities for our young people. Unlike the major parties which support policies which erode national independence and place our future in the hands of Globalist bureacrats in the UN and the boards of Multi National Companies.
With a possible change in Liberal Party leadership on the near horizon and the appointment of Peter Costello as Prime Minister we believe the political tide can turn in our favour. Mr Costello will bring his own brand of political arrogance and smugness more clearly into focus. This will upset the more conservative elements within his own Party and the wider electorate.
On the Labor side Kim Beasley will continue to struggle while the economy remains reasonable. A sign of desperation within Labor ranks is the proposal to rush AWU organiser Bill Shorten into Parliament as a future replacement for Kim Beasley.
These and other factors including the proposed introduction of an all intrusive National ID card (to be sold as “Smart Card”) are opportunities to recruit new members for One Nation. We need to invite friends and contacts to meetings. By education and perseverance we can rebuild our organisation into an effective political force.
FOCUSING ON THE 2007 ELECTION
One Nation has been virtually hibernating for some years and it was wise to do so, but it is now the time to start preparing for the 2007 Federal Election and with good preparation we can accomplish something worthwhile.
The Liberal industrial relation laws will undoubtedly be the focus of the Labor party and will receive the support of many workers, this reducing the strength of Liberal support but the Labor party has not endeared itself to the electorate over the past ten years and pushing a patriotic policy could well receive a reasonable level of support.
There are many sound arguments for the policies we support and it should be possible to convince a large part of the electorate that these policies are in the nation’s best interest. Remember that One Nation came third in the 1998 election and it is only through the combined and dishonest policies of the other parties that we fared so badly since then.
WE MUST FOCUS ON GETTING THE SUPPORT OF THE YOUNG.
Not an easy matter because they tend to think that a high standard of living is their birth right. It is not, and if we continue on the present track they will wake up to find that it has evaporated and that they are sharing the standards of the third world. For the older generation, living standards have improved over our lifetime and most of us are very appreciative of the change. But it will be very hard for those brought up in luxury to have to cope with the level of poverty that we knew.
From the State Director
DAM BUSTERS
May 16th 2006 the Bulletin, ran an article that if read closely exposed the reasons for the proposed sale of the Snowy Hydro.
Basically it comes back to the greenhouse scam & the profits to be made from fictitious carbon credits.
It is well known that of all gases harmful to man, carbon dioxide (CO2) is not one of them, in fact, it is essential for plant life, our forests & rainfall.
One must wonder why there is never any mention of deadly sulphur dioxide, which comes mainly from burning coal & unleaded petrol. A visit to Queenstown in Tasmania provides proof of this & the devastation to the Black Forest in Germany upon the introduction of unleaded petrol.
It may be a coincidence, but since the inception of this scam to reduce carbon dioxide, our rainfall has decreased which has led to the implementation of the other great scam, the sale & pricing of water.
So we now have the Energy & Water scams the two commodities so essential for modern day existence.
According to the UN’s Kyoto accords, it is the greatest money spinning scam yet to be discovered. They have drawn up a list on all possible sources of it & now Australian carbon credits are trading on the futures market at between $10-200 per tonne. This, if fully implemented, is due to cost the Australian industry & consumer $billions & the world $trillions.
Of course Beattie’s smart state is involved in the scam. For evidence, just look at your Energex account which points out how many tonnes of carbon you can save if you switch to so-called green energy at double the price. Fortunately most Queenslanders are not as green behind the ears as the Premier, so the huge loss to the state on these green energy projects. The scam continues with the proposed sale of ERGON & Energex.
The Snowy belongs to the people, (NSW, VIC & Federal government). From its sale they hope to raise $3 billion, however the foreign investors will be demanding a return on this investment & what will that eventually do to electricity prices & supply?
What makes the Snowy so attractive is being hydro it qualifies for carbon credits worth many $millions. Snowy hydro was set up us a public utility with public funds to capture the snowfall of the area, diverting water inland for irrigation & on the way using it to generate hydropower. Any profits after maintenance cost should go back to the people in the form of reduced electricity charges.
Since globalism, many public assets are falling into the hands of global investors, with disastrous results, as they are only interested in profits, for example the ENRON scam.
Globalism has resulted in governments not investing in any new infrastructure in recent years, resulting in the state running out of water as no new dams have been built to cover the increase in population.
In panic, a number of proposed new dams have been announced, the damming of the Mary River is a knee-jerk reaction as it would be a repeat of the same environmental mess that stemmed from the damming of the Burrum River.
There is no need for these dams as nearby Fraser Island has huge supplies of potable water that would have no problem in supplying the whole of the South East.
Then why can’t this water be used?
Well we no longer own it, World Heritage does & its been sold to expunge the governments debt, UN the debt for equity scheme.
(This article has been taken from the Beenleigh Branch ‘Update’ ‘Newsletter’)
from
Terry
Worthing
The prosperity of a nation is in the circulation of money among its people. Income is transferred from another's pocket & is similarly passed on. The central aspect of an economy is the flow of incomes from hand to hand. With an adequate supply of money & goods, there will be prosperity.
Both an over & an under supply only needs management for equilibrium. Japan has experienced over supplies of both with resultant stagflation & zero interest rates. South Africa has massive gold reserves & widespread poverty. Honiara had rows of Chinese trade stores full of goods, but the people have no money.
Australia has massive reserves of everything, the usual elite at the top with high incomes at the expense of the people, then average people living on massive debt growth who are destined to join the 33%. sub class of poverty who are unable to obtain credit.
The United States has been predicted to become a third world country in thirty years. Average income earners in Australia can only exist well on debt.
The R B A states that bank loans outstanding grow at around 13%. Various banks mention credit card debt growth of around 25%.
Assets, property & commodities, can bring small prices in a depression, even less when accompanied with credit restriction. The banks can seize all the wealth of a nation by credit restriction & sell all by credit availability. An excess of credit availability is similar to excess money in circulation & causes inflation of price of desirable product.
Money supply can be controlled by management. i.e. first home buyers bonus & other rebates, taxes & interest rates & other restrictions. i.e. money rationing by government. I.R. regulations are a form of money control. Realise that without money there can be no goods & without goods, money is useless. Money has no intrinsic cost & is therefore limitless, & is merely a ticketing system that rightfully belongs to the people that own the country.
Realise that management of the economy is not accidental & is the key to a nation’s prosperity, or at least to which sections of a nation are allowed to prosper. Realise that you as a voter hold the key to the economic policies of management. If you are not satisfied with the dividend paid you by your management team for your shareholding in the richest asset in the world, we are told that you have the power to change the team.
That is a logical statement that because of results, is apparently beyond the understanding of the average Aussie voter. Consider the continuous history of deterioration of prosperity, particularly theobvious ramping up of the last 30 years, while different halves of the same team continue to seize power & manage the country away to the bank. This begs the question, can Aussie voters really be that stupid, & I believe them to be so be because of an inability to recognise propaganda, or alternatively, are the facts that apply to overseas vote countings applicable here?
One would have to be a fool to not consider that possibility.
Did you hear the one about the commercial traveller who went to call on his clients in a country town? He booked a room at the pub & paid $100 in advance & went to do his sales calls. Meanwhile the publican decided to take the opportunity to pay his butcher's bill of $100, & the butcher paid the fuel bill of $100 & the servo paid the baker & the baker paid his grog account at the pub which happened to be with that same $100 note. Meanwhile the commercial traveller found that all of his clients were out of town at a commercial travellers client’s convention at the Gold Coast & he therefore couldn't do any business. He went back to the pub & explained to the publican, got his $100 note back & left the country town where all the outstanding debts had been settled.
The circulation of money in an economy. Imagine what would happen if taxes & other rationing devices were applied to each transaction.Consider this circulation effect if you were to directly pay the school teacher, the garbo, the doctor, the policeman & for all services that you presently pay for by taxes.
Terry Worthing.
Do you think that information designed to make unaware people think, should be circulated on?
from
Elsie Roberts
TASMANIAN DIVISION
"Another example is the charges for irrigation water, being landed on the farmers. This is absolutely outrageous. Meters are being compulsorily installed on pumps on the farmer’s own properties, on their dams, and even on their own bores!"
AUSTRALIA OUT OF DEBT???
From: Brian McDermott
Peter Costello is back to his swaggering, supercilious, smirking best, claiming that now Australia is debt-free. “We have no debt” he stated on TV the other night.
Oh really? Why didn’t someone tell me?
Howard, Costello, and their cabal, have, under instructions from the Bankster-gangster masters, sold off all the public utilities to corporations, both national and international, to clear only the “government’s” balance sheet. It may have no “debt” under their own concocted rules, but they have sold off all of these utilities which belonged to us, the people, and therefore they were not the “government’s” to sell in the first place. They – and we – don’t now own any of them!
No debt, but no assets either, (as far as public utilities are concerned) and therefore no cash flow from them either!
Moreover, the government debt has simply been transferred from the “government” on to the backs of these corporations, who now own and operate these public utilities - airports, road tolls, communications, electricity, water, transport, et al, - and soon, the very air we breathe, as soon as they can figure out how to control and monitor it. (How about so much per breath?)
Now every one of these corporations has massive debts. They have simply taken over the debts of the “government,” in return for taking over the assets, each of which is potentially a very profitable cash cow. We can look forward now to the cost of each of these “cash-cows,” which used to belong to us, the people, being gradually wound up, until the average household is groaning under the cost. Moreover, they are determined to everything they can to maximise their profits.
Just one example of this is landing fees, even for light aircraft, at airports, both primary and secondary (light aircraft,) especially at capital cities. I do not use even secondary airports myself any more unless I have to, and of course no longer go anywhere near the primary airports, which landing fees are off the planet.
In addition, the parking fees for cars at such airports are over the top, while “parking attendants” (read revenue-raisers) are prowling around with book and pen at the ready, booking people for parking even for a few micro-seconds, in bays where they shouldn’t.
Another example is the charges for irrigation water, being landed on the farmers. This is absolutely outrageous. Meters are being compulsorily installed on pumps on the farmer’s own properties, on their dams, and even on their own bores!
Now, if anyone raises any concerns over these exorbitant charges, they are simply told, “oh, we have to look after our shareholders!”
What a cop-out! Not to mention the fact that up until recently, we, the people, were the shareholders – the owners – of these utilities!
No longer. It’s called “Corporate Socialism.” Otherwise now known as “Globalisation.” Thank you Mr. Howard, for selling us out, without our permission, and in many cases, without many of the sheeple even realising that it has happened!
As I've Matured...
I've learned that one good turn gets most of the blankets.
I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people are just jackasses.
I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
I've learned age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
16th July, 2003
The Editor
ADVOCATE NEWSPAPER
BURNIE
RE:
NEW WORLD ORDER
The proposed 'New World Order' is best explained in the words of Sir Winston Churchill. "This worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation has been steadily growing." For that is what it is, a conspiracy of intent to destroy the natural order of the social structure of nations based on their sovereignty, race, culture and heritage.
The way to destroy a homogenous race of people is to make them forget who they are. This is brought about by politically enforced, unassimilable alien races of people being brought into the country, thereby destroying the natural racial character of the people of the host nation; multiculturalism.
Ceding of the Nations sovereignty and independence via treaties, covenants etc. to the UN is also part of the New World Order agenda. The proposals for a New World Order are contained in the UN Charter, adopted in London in 1954. For such a scenario to materialise, the Old World Order must first be destroyed.
That is precisely what is happening. Conspiracy theories are being shown to be factual, as events unfold.
What nation of peoples would knowingly, deliberately destroy themselves, their culture and heritage?
In my opinion, the concept of a New World Order can only be based on treason.
ON GUARD (Wesley Vale)
J. JOHN (TASMANIA)
26/05/06
CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL MENTAL
HEALTH UNIT INQUIRY CALL
A petition calling for an independent inquiry into Cairns Base Hospital’s Mental Health Unit has gone before State Parliament.
Member for Tablelands Rosa Lee Long MP tabled the petition, with 488 signatures, during the most recent sittings of Parliament.
The petition calls attention to the failure of Cairns base Hospital’s Mental Health Unit to “provide adequate service or treatment to those in need”.
It asks for an independent inquiry probing resourcing, funding and staffing at the unit, and the policies under which the unit operates and calls on the government to take all necessary steps to ensure adequate service is provided.
Speaking outside Parliament, Ms Lee Long said the petition followed the tragic suicide of a Mareeba woman who had made seven previous attempts and who had only recently attended the Cairns Base Hospital.
“These sorts of situations should not occur, and I fully support the calls made in this petition,” Ms Lee Long said.
“I can only imagine how difficult it must be to cope with a mental illness either as a sufferer, or as a friend or relative of a sufferer.
“Help should be readily available, and not limited by funding or staffing shortfalls so that when those in need reach out, they find all the assistance they require.”
Ms Lee Long said she believed the professionalism and dedication of health professionals was being stretched to the limit in an under-funded Health Department.
“We have had lots of promises since the Dr Death crises blew the lid of Queensland Health, but we still have not yet seen any significant improvements at the grass roots level.”
“This government needs to stop talking and start delivering on the massive shortfalls in all areas of the State health system,” she said.
26/05/06CYCLONE MONICA’S IMPACT HIGHLIGHTED
THE worst flooding in Cape York in living memory has been highlighted in State Parliament in an effort to draw attention to the plight of Cape businesses and residents.
Member for Tablelands Rosa Lee Long has told Parliament graziers have faced huge difficulties, including roaming crocodiles attacking their herds.
Other damage included hundreds of kilometres of destroyed fence-lines, devastated cattle populations and massive damage to road networks.
She also called for special bridging finance to be made available to Cook Shire Council, to help avoid cash-flow problems as it struggled with massive repair bills.
“The Cape is the size of Victoria, one can only imagine the huge problem the Cook Shire Council has on its hands,” she said.
Along with the grazing industry, tourism had also been badly affected, but the impact was not limited to the Cape alone.
“A transport company based in Mareeba which conducts 100 per cent of its business in the Cape has had its business affected due to the road conditions. It employs 12 people but has not been able to move a single truck for over a month. It is unlikely to be able to conduct normal business for some months to come.”
Ms Lee Long used one Cape grazier’s own words to describe the difficulties facing the Peninsula cattle industry, quoting from a letter which said: “Fence lines have been destroyed by the fast moving flood waters. This involves many kilometres of fencing, used to control stock and protect ecologically sensitive areas. A huge physical effort and cost will be involved in rebuilding these fences. It will take a long time to complete and rebuild and I doubt that many people will be able to meet this unexpected huge cost for fencing materials and labour.
“Cattle herd have been thrown into chaos, the cattle were either swept away and drowned in the floodwaters or swam to the available high ground. The flood waters enabled crocodiles to move away from their normal habitats and attack cattle, particularly calves and smaller or weakened stock. It will take many months to find the remainder of these herds, sort out branded cattle and get back to a breeding cycle.
“Without government assistance, recovery will be impossible.”
Ms Lee Long said that available help was not matching that made available to victims of Cyclone Larry.
Under earlier pressure from Ms Lee Long on the issue of assistance for the Cape, the Premier told Parliament funding of $750 was available to families, normal disaster relief funding was available, and that the government had set up a multi-agency task force.
“It is important that the hardship now facing those in the Cape is not forgotten or brushed aside as being a normal event,” she said.
“The packages available to Cyclone Larry’s victims would go a long way to helping those affected by Cyclone Monica.
“I call on the Beattie Government to help all those in the Cape affected by the devastation.”
CAPE GAINS INCREASED AID TO OVERCOME CYCLONE MONICA’S IMPACT 29/05/06
CAPE YORK victims of the worst flooding in living memory should never have been forced to wait so long for improved funding and grants packages, Member for Tablelands Rosa Lee Long said.
While the improved packages, which finally put the Cape on similar footing to Cyclone Larry victims, were welcome Ms Lee Long said there was no excuse for the State and Federal Governments waiting a month before putting them in place.
“I highlighted the devastation of the Peninsula in State Parliament last week in an effort to draw attention to the plight of Cape businesses and residents,” Ms Lee Long said.
Graziers have faced huge difficulties, including roaming crocodiles attacking their herds, she said.
Other damage included hundreds of kilometres of destroyed fence-lines, devastated cattle populations and massive damage to road networks.
Ms Lee Long renewed a call for special bridging finance for Cook Shire Council, to help avoid cash-flow problems as it struggled with massive repair bills.
“The Cape is the size of Victoria, one can only imagine the huge problem the Cook Shire Council has on its hands,” she said.
Along with the grazing industry, tourism had also been badly affected, but the impact was not limited to the Cape alone.
“A transport company based in Mareeba which conducts 100 per cent of its business in the Cape has had its business affected due to the road conditions. It employs 12 people but has not been able to move a single truck for over a month. It is unlikely to be able to conduct
normal business for some months to come.”
Ms Lee Long used one Cape grazier’s own words to describe the difficulties facing the Peninsula cattle industry, quoting from a letter which said: “Fence lines have been destroyed by the fast moving flood waters. This involves many kilometres of fencing, used to control stock and protect ecologically sensitive areas. A huge physical effort and cost will be involved in rebuilding these fences. It will take a long time to complete and rebuild and I doubt that many people will be able to meet this unexpected huge cost for fencing materials and labour.
“Cattle herd have been thrown into chaos, the cattle were either swept away and drowned in the floodwaters or swam to the available high ground. The flood waters enabled crocodiles to move away from their normal habitats and attack cattle, particularly calves and smaller or weakened stock. It will take many months to find the remainder of these herds, sort out branded cattle and get back to a breeding cycle.
“Without government assistance, recovery will be impossible.”
Ms Lee Long said that until last Friday, the Cape had been denied the special help available for victims of Cyclone Larry, even though the devastation, while different, had been as bad.
Under earlier pressure from Ms Lee Long on the issue the Premier told Parliament funding of $750 was available to families, normal disaster relief funding was available, and that the government had set up a multi-agency task force.
“It is a pleasure to finally see the people of the Cape being extended this extra helping hand,” Ms Lee Long said.
The Hypothetical Proposition - Nuclear Waste
W.A. DIVISION
It appears that Prime Minister Howard has a story for his international colleagues and one for his domestic ones, in Australia.
Mark Vaile’s suggestion that it is inevitable that we store the spent nuclear fuel as part of the agreement for selling it.
Is Mark Vaile so gullible as to present this proposition to the Australian nation as an acceptable agreement?
He moved on to say that Australia just can't expect to sell it and then wash their hands because of the dangerous consequences to transport and store it.
A proposal will be put forward by the United States this week with John Howard for this exchange to occur upon the sale of uranium to the United States.
This equates to the United States getting cleaner energy supplies for their nation and for Australia's return on profit, the spent nuclear waste, making our country a wasteland for their improved quality of life.
And at what cost is America willing to pay us for the uranium. Add the cost to store it for generations of futures of Australians?
Australian companies do not own any uranium deposits pegged, nor those currently in operation, they are all foreign owned.
Are Australians then to accept that the few jobs that may come out of this industry, with competition from the influx of foreign workers, will be of any benefit to Australians to sell the uranium product to international markets?
I maintain, Australia is digging its mineral deposits and mining our earth, so that it will provide the pits that the nuclear waste will be stored in.
Australia's next wave of success. The "world’s" greatest nuclear waste dump.
Sue Bateman
read more: http://switch.2.o.n.tripod.com
U RAN I AM - Downer
Fresh from the AWB scandal, fresh from the fallout from Jakarta, Indonesia, to the fresh debate regarding nuclear energy and waste, Downer tossed another poison-laced bone to add to some morose agenda our leadership has for the Australian citizen.
According to his coalition partner and deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Vaile told media that it was inevitable that Australia should take responsibility of the spent nuclear fuel that Australian uranium was made from to supply countries with cleaner ozone emissions.
The media attention was continued by Mundine from the Labor Party, running with the foxes, to say that their policy is, "No new mines", to their Federal counterparts, chasing with the hounds, considering this could be the future of our technological efforts to create a cheaper source of energy.
This debate will now be discussed by Labor in the forthcoming, Labor National Conference.
I guess they need a few freebies to get the motor running on ideas regarding the nuclear debate. We have obviously not paid them enough as opposition to have policy on the subject of nuclear energy?
The Labor Party should already have solid policy on nuclear energy and up-to-date statistics and information for the people of Australia to make an informed opinion on the opposition of the nuclear energy debate.
The right reasons are that Australia cannot sustain the impact nor the environmental factors on an industry where there has not been enough information gathered about the long term effects.
We have certainly seen the disaster and the controversy over those who wish to use this method to supply energy.
Mr Downer suggested that it was up for debate whether we just dug it up and processed it as well.
Where is the Greens Party and their ability to get their point of policy through relating to the mining and processing of uranium? Slurp.
The World needs some better ideas than nuclear material that can be used to make weapons against us.
Sue Bateman
read more: http://switch.2.o.n.tripod.com
According to a news report, a certain school in Bankstown, NSW was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the washroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Darryl
Wheeley
ECQ
Branch
Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. He called all the girls to the washroom and met them there with the maintenance man. He explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, he asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet bowl, and cleaned the mirror with it.
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.
~~~~~ THE MORAL OF THIS STORY ~~~~~~~~
There are teachers, and then there are Educators
HOORAY FOR THE SENIOR GENERATION
A very self-important college freshman at a recent football game took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his own.
"You grew up in a different, actually almost primitive, world," the student said loud enough for the whole crowd to hear. "We young people today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars...We even have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and uh ….."
Taking advantage of a pause for breath in the student's litany, the "wizened" one said, "You're right, Son. We didn't have those things when we were young........so we invented them...... you arrogant little sh*thead!! Now......what are you doing for the next generation??"
Gorrolliaphobia
from
Bill Ryan
The American media call it the 800- pound gorilla, meaning it’s too big and powerful to tangle with. And of course it’s the New World Order, (which would prefer the euphemism Globalisation) and then, as Oscar Wild observed, when he referred to homosexuality, it dares not speak its true name.
So what’s The New World Order so afraid of? Well for one thing its afraid of the truth.
That’s why the constant muddying of the waters, clearly when a matter needs to be confused, call in the weaselworders; they will make peoples head spin. Then an academic can step forward and offer an explanation.
Our most recent example is the Queensland government’s removal of Christian Bibles from all State Hospitals. The first call by the weaselworders was that Christian Bibles “might” offend patients of other faiths, when these others faiths flooded talkback radio and expressed alarm at being so wrongly blamed; the spin shifted to bibles “might” contain viruses. Well then let’s get rid of all books out of hospitals. And magazines. And let’s put all visitors in plastic bubble wrap.
The move comes hard on the heels of the Da Vinci Code book and movie and the education department move to have girls at a Christian High School write a critic of Shakespeare from a Marxist Leninist perspective.
Have you asked your local federal member for a copy of The Declaration for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Exclusion Based on Religion and Belief? The declaration was the first of many treaties that “socially engineered” the Australian community to accept certain “New realities” that were to be imposed on them. This is where you will find the purpose behind these treaties.
The best defence is to pretend a total lack of knowledge of the reasons why. “It’s political correctness gone mad!!” This is the safe method employed by most politicians? And they are trained to use these responses.
So call them on their arrant nonsense. Even if this means you doing a bit of research and digging. Finding out the truth can be rewarding.
You have no need to fear the 800-pound Gorilla, it is afraid of you. It is afraid that someone will shine the clear light of truth on it. And call it for what it is.
Bill Ryan.
NSW DIVISION
ONE NATION (NSW DIVISION) MEDIA RELEASE
RUDDOCK MUST GO
Attorney General Philip Ruddock was mealy-mouthed as usual when interviewed recently on the subject of seditious material being sold in Islamic bookshops.
Can we get an Attorney General who knows what he's doing?
One Nation says any shopowners distributing material supporting terrorism, advocating sharia law, promoting the overthrow of parliament, undermining our society or vilifying Christianity should be charged and the material destroyed.
What's the point of sending our soldiers across the other side of the world to fight the "war on terror" when people are allowed to promote terrorism in our midst?
The Liberals have got a sorry record in acting against sedition and treason - during the Vietnam war, while our soldiers being killed in the field, demonstrators marched our streets waving NLF flags, and a group at Sydney University (including members of the Sydney University Labor Club) even attempted to set up a fund to send money to the Vietcong. In typical fashion the Liberal Government of the day took no action.
We all know who ended up winning that war.
You don't just make something illegal to stop someone doing it, you also make something illegal to impress on peoples' minds that we won't tolerate it and it's WRONG.
The controversy over material sold in Islamic bookshops is a big chance for the Howard Government to prove it is sincere in its new found mission to protect "Australian values" and maintain Australia's identity as a Christian country against the challenge of multiculturalism and Islam.
Statement issued 29th May 2006 on behalf of One Nation (NSW Division) by Publicity Officer Bob Vinnicombe
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PRIME MINISTER ‘JOHN’ GETS MARCHING ORDERS
Strange things happen in the world of international politics where the global elite call the shots.
It appears that Prime Minister John Howard has been given notice of his ‘marching orders’ by none other than Rupert Murdoch News Corp. media mogul.
On his recent visit to the United States, where he was given the red carpet treatment by President Bush, Rupert Murdoch told our Prime Minister it was time to go. However, power can be a consuming passion and John Howard will find it difficult to let go. In the end he will have to be ‘shoved’ rather than gently ‘pushed’. Rupert Murdoch, of
course, is in a position to make or break John Howard and unfavourable publicity generated at strategic times can spell political death to any politician.
Just ask Gough Whitlam or Pauline Hanson if you have any doubts about that!
But who is Rupert Murdoch and what does he really believe? Among other things Rupert
is a Globalist who believes in getting his own way. He is an active member of the American based semi-secret organisation The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which was established in the early 1920’s to promote World Government. Rupert is on record as fully supporting American Foreign policy and he will make life difficult for any Australian Prime Minister (Liberal or Labor) who deviates from that line. No wonder our Prime Minister, John Howard is so popular with the Global elite, he has served them well!
Not all Australian politicians can claim the approval of the Globalists in Washington. One recalls how Gough Whitlam came to power and was immediately called upon by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands. Apart from his acquired wealth through Royal Dutch Shell, Prince Bernard is convenor of the secret Bilderberg Meetings where the world’s super rich International Bankers & Business tycoons gather to discuss the game plan for their part in the New World Order. Gough Whitlam was told what he had to do by the good Prince but Whitlam who had a massive ego was blinded by his own visions of personal grandeur and soon made it obvious that he was not about to accept orders from anyone. He therefore had to be removed and make way for the more subservient Fraser.
We are not privy to all the behind ‘the scenes’ moves in the International arena of politics but it is now widely believed that at the hight of the Cold War when Russia was touted as America’s No1 enemy USSR President N Khrushchev visited the USA. Shortly after this visit David Rockefeller Chairman of the CFR travelled to Russia and gave Krushchev his marching orders. His time was up, he had to go. And he went.
But will our Prime Minister, John Howard go!
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28/4/06
from Peter Keogh
John Howard's proposed new smart card is an attack on the privacy of all Australians and the people must ensure that it never eventuates whatever they have to do to prevent it. He will doubtless use the fight against terrorism as one of the reasons for the card. The introduction of such a card is in itself is an act of terrorism that usurps our basic freedoms.
The claim that it is not compulsory to have the card is a complete fallacy. Anyone who needs to access the health care system or a dozen other government funded services will require it. Pensioners and war veterans will of course be forced to have the card if they want to keep their pension. The veterans gold health card will be lost to veterans who do not have the new card.
These veterans went to war to save Australia from losing its freedoms and now those freedoms will be taken from those very people by a government that apparently wants to be rid of them. Many of the old age pensioners of today and the war veterans were people who ,through their lifetime worked to make this country great and this is how the Howard government rewards them.
Every member of the government or the opposition who does not oppose this card must be targeted at the next election and every election in the future.
We do not want such people in government ever. The ordinary people now have a big role to play in the defeat of this travesty. They must inform their local member that the card goes or he or she goes, no exceptions.
Peter Keogh
27/5/06The Editor
Sir,
On Friday May 26th Paul Kelly was interviewed by the ABC on the "Conversation Hour". Mr Kelly was generous in his assessment of Prime Minister John Howard's leadership. He pointed out that he had in fact achieved most of his objectives, like improving the economy and making Australia a better place to live.Apparently he failed to notice a number of things that happened over the last ten years that were anything but beneficial to most Australians. Let's start with gun control, introduced after the massacre at Port Arthur for which a person with the intellect of a child was blamed. This resulted in guns being removed from honest citizens and allowed criminals to remain armed.
He also gave us the GST which transferred much of the burden of tax to the less wealthy. Now even pensioners pay tax and the gap between rich and poor has widened significantly.
We more recently had our involvement in the war in Iraq, based entirely on a false premise. This of course destroyed Iraq's cities and its economy and made all Australians more likely to be the subject of terrorist attacks by people sympathetic to their cause.
There was no mention of our foreign debt that has ballooned to half a trillion dollars from less than $200 billion and is rising exponentially. So called free trade with America and proposed free trade with China can only compound this trend. What is his solution to this?
The boast that his government has paid of government debt is meaningless when we realise that they sold infrastructure and income producing assets to do so. Items such as the Army and Air Force bases, Telstra and our gold reserves to name but a few. Much of it sold to foreigners who pay no tax in Australia.
We must not forget the new I.R laws that have effectively taken working conditions for employees back about a hundred years.
The Queensland Investment Corporation chief executive Dr Doug Mc Taggart claims that if our terms of trade continue to deteriorate the Australian dollar will drop to around 50 c US and this against a weaker U.S dollar. This of course will see prices rise by about 30 percent and we have to ask what that will do for inflation.
The new I.D card that invades the privacy of everyone is just a sample of what is ahead as we approach the communist style of dictatorship that existed in soviet Russia. The Howard government was a disaster waiting to happen slowed by the resource boom.Peter Keogh
from Ray Smyth
Dear All,
This may be of interest to those who wish to retain Christianity as the prevailing philosophy of Queensland.
Regards Ray
The new Queensland Education Bill which will profoundly downgrade access to traditional Christian religious education while opening the doors to humanism and even witchcraft in State schools has now been tabled in the Queensland Parliament (21/4/06).
This legislation could be debated as early as early May and thus requires urgent action from Christians. The changes may look simple and insignificant on the surface but their impact will be profound, particularly if they go unchallenged by Christian faith communities.
I do hope and pray that we can let people know what is happening and encourage churches to rise up and write to the State Government to ask that these changes not be brought in. Fortunately, the State Coalition Leader Lawrence Springborg has already stated that the Coalition will not support these changes.
However the bill will pass unless Labour MPs who hold 60 of the 89 State seats can be persuaded to change their minds and keep the status quo on religious education. Thus it is recommended that Christians who have local Labor MPs ask to see them and write to them urgently about this issue.
Currently, the consent process means that all children take religious education unless their parents expressly opt them out of classes. The new system will require parents to expressly opt them in to classes when they are enrolled. Thus religious education will be given a different status to other subjects which are part of the weekly core curriculum for primary school. This is despite Religious Education being enshrined as part of Queensland State school programs back in the 1910 referendum, one of only two referendums in Queensland which have ever been passed (the other one was to bring Queensland
into the federation). The Beattie Government's new changes mean that traditional Religious Education will become a marginalised and optional extra rather than part of the holistic teaching of the child about Christian faith and values in their community.
Another significant change is that this bill expands the types of beliefs which can be taught to other philosophies, such as humanism and even witchcraft if parents want it. I don't see any legal mechanism in the new bill to stop the latter happening under the State's Anti Discrimination Laws despite the Government's reaction to the witchcraft statement as being "extremist". My concerns were confirmed when this week the Pagan Awareness Network came out publicly confirming that it wants access to schools to teach Wicca (Courier Mail 21/4/06 regional edition).
In regard to humanism, the Qld Teacher's Union rep on the State Beattie Government's Religious Advisory Taskforce is the President of the Humanist Society. Thus it's interesting that the explanatory notes to this new bill expressly mention the possibility of humanism being taught in schools under the guise of "religious education and beliefs".
Anything you can do to urgently spread the word to encourage people to protect access for traditional Religious Education as part of the weekly school curriculum is so vital. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely
Fiona Simpson MP, Member for Maroochydore, www.fionasimpson.com.au , Maroochydore@parliament.qld.gov.au
MPs cleared to lie in parliament
May 26, 2006 - 12:36PM
The Queensland Opposition today declared the "lying season" open after a controversial bill passed through the house, allowing MPs to lie in parliament without fear of prosecution.
The Criminal Code Amendment Bill was controversially passed by the government today following heated debate by MPs in recent weeks.
Introduced by Attorney-General Linda Lavarch, it decriminalises lying to a parliamentary committee, allowing the parliament instead to deal with contempt issues.
The change was made following the case of former minister Gordon Nuttall who was relegated to the backbenches last year after accusations he lied to a parliamentary estimates committee regarding overseas-trained doctors as then health minister.
Under the previous criminal code, lying to parliament could result in criminal charges being laid.
But the government decided, during an extraordinary sitting of parliament last December, not to take any further action against Mr Nuttall.
The new legislation was rushed into parliament ahead of the next Budget estimates sittings, due to begin in July.
Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg said the new law signalled the end of parliamentary accountability in Queensland.
"The lying season is about to start in Queensland," Mr Springborg told journalists.
"The government will effectively legislate so ministers can lie today."
Mr Springborg said the legislation was "very timely" as it would allow ministers to face the upcoming estimates hearings without any fear.
"They want to give themselves the protection of being able to lie with impunity this year with no criminal sanction, so the opposition cannot get the truth," he said.
"From now on it will just be more spin and more lies from the Beattie Labor government."
But Premier Peter Beattie, during debate on the issue in the parliament late yesterday, said the laws would merely bring Queensland into line with all other states and territories and with Westminster.
"This provision was never meant to apply to members of parliament, and that is a fact," Mr Beattie said.
"At the end of the day, we will support this legislation because it is right.
"It is about time that we got rid of some of these anachronistic provisions that have been around since Adam and Eve were in shorts."
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from
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- Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
I have recently viewed a most disturbing documentary about the USA using depleted uranium in their weapons, which appears to have caused major problems in the health of soldiers and could be responsible for deformities in babies. Every Australian needs to view this documentary called "Blowin’ in the Wind" by David Bradbury. We have a nightmare descending upon us.
Last year Australia signed a 20 year agreement (the terms of which most Australians are yet to see or even hear) which allows the U.S. .to test its new weaponry and to use our military bases, our airfields and our naval ports.
The U.S. has been forced to withdraw its bases from Puerto Rico, Japan and the Philippines, where they have created a toxic nightmare that will cost billions to clean up and take a conservative 300 years to complete.
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But the Americans have skipped town and there is no legal obligation on them to repair the areas they have destroyed.
The facts on high rates of cancer and serious illness wherever the American bases have been set up has made a number of Australians ask how this deal will ultimately benefit their country. Read more on www.bsharp.net.au
How long do our politicians and bureaucrats think they can get away with this stupidity, or is it tyranny?
Get mad and do something.
Bev Pattenden.
Two More Free Nations Fall To Biometric Prison
from
Elsie
Roberts
Aussies must all have biometric "access cards" by 2010, Scots to be forced on database with Citizens' National Entitlement Card
Steve Watson / Infowars | April 27 2006
When is a national ID card not a national ID card? That's correct my Orwellian students, its when your leader says its a "biometric access card".
Australia is set to revert back to being a prison state as all citizens are to be forced to carry the "access card" by 2010. The card would include a computer chip with biometric information & photograph, & is 'designed to reduce welfare & identity fraud, & protect against terrorists."
In the mid 80s the Hawke Labor Government attempted to introduce a national ID card in Australia which was fiercely opposed by the Liberal Party, including the now Prime Minister, John Howard, on the grounds of infringement of liberty. Of course now Howard is firmly entrenched within the globalist power structure he has completely changed his stance on ID cards & the accompanying biometric database recording control system. "You have to put that against the right all of us have to expect of our Government that it takes all reasonable measures to protect us against the behaviour of terrorists," Mr Howard said. "I think when people talk about civil liberties they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical attack is a blow in favour & not a blow against civil liberties."
According to a Sydney Morning Herald article, the country's attitude to the cards has also changed. An ACNielsen poll for the Herald last August found that two-thirds of Australians were willing to sacrifice privacy & civil liberties for protection against terrorists. Sixty-one per cent were also in favour of a national identity card.
The Australian ID card agenda is the identical twin of the British ID card agenda. The overall movement is global & it is one being implemented right under people's noses, piece by piece in a stealth, stepping stone like fashion. In addition to changing the rhetoric surrounding the card, the compulsory nature of it is also being coated in Orwellian doublespeak. "It will not be compulsory to have the card," the Australian newspapers quoted Howard saying today. But, "It will be necessary for everybody who needs a card to apply for one." Like The British ID card, which is "optional" for anyone who doesn't carry a passport, the Aussie card is optional for anyone who doesn't get ill or pay lower taxes, with the card initially providing access to Medicare, welfare & tax benefits. Any number of upgrades could see the card used in all aspects of life in the two countries. The ID systems in Britain & Australia equate to lifelong surveillance & an end to life as a private citizen.
Meanwhile in Scotland, plans are being considered by the Scottish Executive to issue ID cards storing details of every aspect of citizens’ lives.
Hundreds of thousands of Scots have already been issued with the Citizens' National Entitlement Card - a microchipped card that carries the holder's name& photo. The cards are used to access free bus or coach travel, but there are plans to link them to a central database. This would give the Executive access to such details as people's travel movements, gym visits & reading habits. There are fears that the system could be expanded to include other information such as NHS records & benefits payments.
Scotland, a nation that fought for centuries for freedom and independence. Scotland, birthplace of William Wallace & Robert the Bruce, two huge & heroic icons of Freedom, may now have every one of its citizens registered, monitored & controlled like prisoners.
Last week we covered in depth how the ID card is a Trojan Horse for the wider reaching database state. Just as in England & Wales, Scottish citizens already have every aspect of their lives recorded onto several different databases. The components have already been introduced by stealth, now all that remains is to link them together into one massive central database hub. Once again we can see how the ID card & the accompanying database can record, track & control our lives, but how can it prevent terrorism? No explanation has been given as to what it will do to achieve this. In fact, the British government has even admitted that the card will not prevent terrorism. Nor will it keep us safe from fraud & identity theft. These things do not add up, the system is sold on security but it is really all about controlling the masses.
The funding for the ID agenda will be provided by selling our biometric & personal information to big business market research & promotions companies. Furthermore, we will not have access to our information, but the intelligence services & governments that are hell bent on waging illegal wars in our names will.
About 100 nations now have identity cards of some kind. The agenda to record & trace everyone is truly global & more nations are falling into the system. We don't need cards to be "entitled" to the freedoms we have earned as citizens.
I intend to leave my own country as soon as I am told I must register on the database & carry a card, but how long before there is nowhere free left to go? How long will it be before every US citizen is registered on an ID database? How long will it be before we truly are a prison planet?
from
John
Wilson
Dear Fellow Australians,
Yesterday I went to the Kogarah Local Court regarding "drive on road while licence suspended"(ie: suspended by the State Debt Recovery Office because I refused to pay Court Courts when a Magistrate in the Parramatta Local Court ignored my Challenge to the Jurisdiction of that Court, last October). I went with my "Notice of Special Appearance" and "Affidavit in Support of Special Appearance" to Challenge the Jurisdiction of the Court. I was No. 127 on a list of 201 various cases. Magistrate Kennedy was a bald fellow of about fifty with a grey moustache and glasses. I said I wanted to file those 2 documents in Court but he refused to allow it. He asked if the Police Prosecutor had a copy of the docs and I had to reminder him that I hadn't yet filed them and, therefore, I could not serve them on her. She told me to give him copies and also to give her copies "..to see if she has any objection to them...". I said, "Pardon? She's got no say in whether I can file documents or not." And, after a typical session of trying to explain the law to Mr Kennedy, he adjourned the matter to Thursday the 8th of June at 2:00PM. I suggested he contact the Chief Justice of NSW, the NSW Attorney-General and the NSW Sheriff to find out what Challenging the Jurisdiction of the Court entails and to look at my website. He said he wouldn't. Anyway, that's how the matter stands and it's back to Kogarah Local Court next Thursday week.
Just before I left, I asked Mr Kennedy, "Do you inform everyone who comes to this Court that they have the Right to Trial by Jury?" and he said that I was "talking about something which is totally unrelated to the submissions you wish to make"...to which I said, "No, it's not.".
Shouldn't the Local Courts simply be abolished?. There is no provision in them for Trial by Jury...therefore, unless every party to any action who goes to the Local Court gives their clear and unequivocal consent to be without a Jury, no Judge or Magistrate has any Jurisdiction to proceed summarily, anyway. The law provides for our Right to Trial by Jury to be protected and imposes a 5 year term of imprisonment for anyone who denies us that Right.....which, when there is 201 cases dealt with per day per Local Court, that amounts 1,000 years imprisonment per Magistrate for each day they offend. Best to abolish the Local Court and have all those cases go straight to the District Court where Trial by Jury is available.
Yours sincerely,
John Wilson
NEW MEDICAL COMPLAINTS BODY LIKE FAWLTY TOWERS
29/5/06
A NEW State Government Health Quality and Complaints Commission was nothing more than an existing failed organisation with “a bit of a tune up for appearance’s sake,” Member for Tablelands Rosa Lee Long said.
Speaking during debate in the most recent sittings of Parliament, Ms Lee Long said the earlier Health Rights Commission was one of a range of checks and balances and professional and review organisations that completely failed to work.
“Yet here it is being taken holus-bolus, staff and powers both, and being used as the basis for this new Health Quality and Complaints Commission,” she said.
“On what basis are we supposed to think it will be any more effective now”?
The new organisation would have a Commissioner and up to seven assistant commissioners with extensive power over public health but the only thing all of those people were required to have was experience at “governance” she said.
“Not medicine, not allied health, not hospital management but governance.
“So much for putting doctors back in the loop. In fact all that is required medically is that at least one assistant has expertise in medicine, one in nursing and one in allied health. Three out of a possible eight. Amazing,” she said.
“My clear recollection is that one of the clearest messages from both the Bundaberg and the Forster reviews was the need for bureaucracy and administration to get out of the way of doctors when it came to clinical matters. However we have yet another commission or authority or quango being empowered to stick its oar right back into that issue.”
Ms Lee Long said it was to the eternal shame of the Beattie Government that it’s repeated failures to fix the public health system had led to the current crisis.
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CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF MILITARY OR ANY OTHER HOSTILE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES
Signed in Geneva May 18, 1977
Entered into force October 5, 1978
Ratification by U.S. President December 13, 1979
U.S. ratification deposited at New York January 17, 1980 The States Parties to this Convention,Guided by the interest of consolidating peace, and wishing to contribute to the cause of halting the arms race, and of bringing about general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, and of saving mankind from the danger of using new means of warfare,
Guided by the interest of consolidating peace, and wishing to contribute to the cause of halting the arms race, and of bringing about general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, and of saving mankind from the danger of using new means of warfare,
The States Parties to this Convention,
Guided by the interest of consolidating peace, and wishing to contribute to the cause of halting the arms race, and of bringing about general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, and of saving mankind from the danger of using new means of warfare,
Guided by the interest of consolidating peace, and wishing to contribute to the cause of halting the arms race, and of bringing about general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, and of saving mankind from the danger of using new means of warfare,
Determined to continue negotiations with a view to achieving effective progress towards further measures in the field of disarmament,
Recognizing that scientific and technical advances may open new possibilities with respect to modification of the environment,
Recalling the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972,
Realizing that the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes could improve the interrelationship of man and nature and contribute to the preservation and improvement of the environment for the benefit of present and future generations,
Recognizing, however, that military or any other hostile use of such techniques could have effects extremely harmful to human welfare,
Desiring to prohibit effectively military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques in order to eliminate the dangers to mankind from such use, and affirming their willingness to work towards the achievement of this objective,
Desiring also to contribute to the strengthening of trust among nations and to the further improvement of the international situation in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Have agreed as follows:
Article I
1. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party.
2. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to assist, encourage or induce any State, group of States or international organiza-tion to engage in activities contrary to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article.
Article II
As used in Article I, the term "environmental modification techniques" refers to any technique for changing -- through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes -- the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.
Article III
1. The provisions of this Convention shall not hinder the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes and shall be without prejudice to the generally recognized principles and applicable rules of international law concerning such use.
2. The States Parties to this Convention undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of scientific and technological information on the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes. States Parties in a position to do so shall contribute, alone or together with other States or international organizations, to international economic and scientific co-operation in the preservation, improvement, and peaceful utilization of the environment, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world.
Article IV
Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to take any measures it considers necessary in accordance with its constitutional processes to prohibit and prevent any activity in violation of the provisions of the Convention anywhere under its jurisdiction or control.
Article V
1. The States Parties to this Convention undertake to consult one another and to cooperate in solving any problems which may arise in relation to the objectives of, or in the application of the provisions of, the Convention. Consultation and cooperation pursuant to this article may also be undertaken through appropriate international procedures within the framework of the United Nations and in accordance with its Charter. These international procedures may include the services of appropriate international organizations, as well as of a Consultative Committee of Experts as provided for in paragraph 2 of this article.
2. For the purposes set forth in paragraph 1 of this article, the Depositary shall, within one month of the receipt of a request from any State Party to this Convention, convene a Consultative Committee of Experts. Any State Party may appoint an expert to the Committee whose functions and rules of procedure are set out in the annex, which constitutes an integral part of this Convention. The Committee shall transmit to the Depositary a summary of its findings of fact, incorporating all views and information presented to the Committee during its proceedings. The Depositary shall distribute the summary to all States Parties.
3. Any State Party to this Convention which has reason to believe that any other State Party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of the Convention may lodge a complaint with the Security Council of the United Nations. Such a complaint should include all relevant information as well as all possible evidence supporting its validity.
4. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to cooperate in carrying out any investigation which the Security Council may initiate, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, on the basis of the complaint received by the Council. The Security Council shall inform the States Parties of the results of the investigation.
5. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to provide or support assistance, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, to any State Party which so requests, if the Security Council decides that such Party has been harmed or is likely to be harmed as a result of violation of the Convention.
Article VI
1. Any State Party to this Convention may propose amendments to the Convention. The text of any proposed amendment shall be submitted to the Depositary who shall promptly circulate it to all States Parties.
2. An amendment shall enter into force for all States Parties to this Convention which have accepted it, upon the deposit with the Depositary of instruments of acceptance by a majority of States Parties. Thereafter it shall enter into force for any remaining State Party on the date of deposit of its instrument of acceptance.
Article VII
This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.
Article VIII
1. Five years after the entry into force of this Convention, a conference of the States Parties to the Convention shall be convened by the Depositary at Geneva, Switzerland. The conference shall review the operation of the Convention with a view to ensuring that its purposes and provisions are being realized, and shall in particular examine the effectiveness of the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article I in eliminating the dangers of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques.
2. At intervals of not less than five years thereafter, a majority of the States Parties to the Convention may obtain, by submitting a proposal to this effect to the Depositary, the convening of a conference with the same objectives.
3. If no conference has been convened pursuant to paragraph 2 of this article within ten years following the conclusion of a previous conference, the Depositary shall solicit the views of all States Parties to the Convention, concerning the convening of such a conference. If one third or ten of the States Parties, whichever number is less, respond affirmatively, the Depositary shall take immediate steps to convene the conference.
Article IX
1. This Convention shall be open to all States for signature. Any State which does not sign the Convention before its entry into force in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article may accede to it at any time.
2. This Convention shall be subject to ratification by signatory States. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. This Convention shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by twenty Governments in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article.
4. For those States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited after the entry into force of this Convention, it shall enter into force on the date of the deposit of their instruments of ratification or accession.
5. The Depositary shall promptly inform all signatory and acceding States of the date of each signature, the date of deposit of each instrument of ratification or accession and the date of the entry into force of this Convention and of any amendments thereto, as well as of the receipt of other notices.
6. This Convention shall be registered by the Depositary in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Article X
This Convention, of which the English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send certified copies thereof to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto by their respective governments, have signed this Convention, opened for signature at Geneva on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven.
DONE at Geneva on May 18, 1977.
ANNEX TO THE CONVENTION
CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS1. The Consultative Committee of Experts shall undertake to make appropriate findings of fact and provide expert views relevant to any problem raised pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article V of this Convention by the State Party requesting the convening of the Committee.
2. The work of the Consultative Committee of Experts shall be organized in such a way as to permit it to perform the functions set forth in paragraph 1 of this annex. The Committee shall decide procedural questions relative to the organization of its work, where possible by consensus, but otherwise by a majority of those present and voting. There shall be no voting on matters of substance.
3. The Depositary or his representative shall serve as the Chairman of the Committee.
4. Each expert may be assisted at meetings by one or more advisers.
5. Each expert shall have the right, through the Chairman, to request from States, and from international organizations, such information and assistance as the expert considers desirable for the accomplishment of the Committees work.
UNDERSTANDINGS REGARDING THE CONVENTION
UNDERSTANDINGS REGARDING THE CONVENTIONUnderstanding Relating to Article I
Understanding Relating to Article IIt is the understanding of the Committee that, for the purposes of this Convention, the terms, "widespread", "long-lasting" and "severe" shall be interpreted as follows:
(a) "widespread": encompassing an area on the scale of several hundred square kilometres;
(b) "long-lasting": lasting for a period of months, or approximately a season;
(c) "severe": involving serious or significant disruption or harm to human life, natural and economic resources or other assets.
It is further understood that the interpretation set forth above is intended exclusively for this Convention and is not intended to prejudice the interpretation of the same or similar terms if used in connexion with any other international agreement.
Understanding Relating to Article II
It is the understanding of the Committee that the following examples are illustrative of phenomena that could be caused by the use of environmental modification techniques as defined in Article II of the Convention: earthquakes, tsunamis; an upset in the ecological balance of a region; changes in weather patterns (clouds, precipitation, cyclones of various types and tornadic storms); changes in climate patterns; changes in ocean currents; changes in the state of the ozone layer; and changes in the state of the ionosphere.
It is further understood that all the phenomena listed above, when produced by military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques, would result, or could reasonably be expected to result, in widespread, long-lasting or severe destruction, damage or injury. Thus, military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques as defined in Article II, so as to cause those phenomena as a means of destruction, damage or injury to another State Party, would be prohibited.
It is recognized, moreover, that the list of examples set out above is not exhaustive. Other phenomena which could result from the use of environmental modification techniques as defined in Article II could also be appropriately included. The absence of such phenomena from the list does not in any way imply that the undertaking contained in Article I would not be applicable to those phenomena, provided the criteria set out in that article were met.
Understanding Relating to Article III
It is the understanding of the Committee that this Convention does not deal with the question whether or not a given use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes is in accordance with generally recognized principles and applicable rules of international law.
Understanding Relating to Article VIII
It is the understanding of the Committee that a proposal to amend the Convention may also be considered at any conference of Parties held pursuant to Article VIII. It is further understood that any proposed amendment that is intended for such consideration should, if possible, be submitted to the Depositary no less than 90 days before the commencement of the conference.
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1 These are not incorporated into the Convention but are part of the negotiating record and were included in the report transmitted by the CCD to the U.N. General Assembly in September 1976.
