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News Report Issue
44
Index
1. Thought for the day - Neil
2. Opinion: Oil Boycotts - Antonia.
3. Opinion: Re-inventing the wheel - Antonia
4. Opinion: Indonesia's PS Pay rise - What would Reith
think - Antonia
5. Opinion: Condemned out of his own mouth - Antonia
6. Opinion: Demise of the Nation State - Antonia
7. Newswire: Europes' Outrage - A false piety
8. Life Sciences: Third world alarm over free trade -
Forwarded by Veronica
9. Open Letter: Letter to Qld Premier - Peter Beatty, Sent
by John
10. Open Letter: Letter to US Sec. State - Madeline Albright,
Sent by Maurice
11. Feedback: Guns and violence in Society - Peter
12. Feedback: Fuel Excise Tax - Bob
13. Feedback Contacts:
14. Editorial Policy:
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Thought for the day: Who are the real
enemies!
"Beijing's connection is not a matter of convenience, but the
expression of a quarter of a century long policy agreement between the
Beijing Government and the highest levels of the British Oligarchy. The
best known source for the unexpurgated views of China's elite is former Al Ahram
editor Mohammed Heikal. Heikal reported the following
conversation between Nasser and visiting Chinese Prime
Minister Zhou En-lai:
"One of the most remarkable statements Chou En-lai made on
that evening of June 23, 1965 during our discussion of the demoralisation of
American soldiers was that: 'Some of them are trying opium and we are helping
them. We are planting the best kinds of poppies especially for
the American soldiers in Vietnam.' Nasser appeared to be somewhat
disturbed, but Chou continued: " We want them to maintain a
large army in Vietnam that will serve us as a hostage, and we wish to
demoralise the troops. The effect of this demoralisation on the United
States will be much greater than anyone can imagine". Nasser thought
that Chou might be exaggerating somewhat, but Chou's concept was
clear. He left no doubt that this was his course of action"
(Quoted in Dope Inc. pp 226-227, 1992)
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Opinion:
Oil Boycotts
Wow! Even the Yanks are getting cranky - but only
when their cheap 'gas' is threatened. A friend in Florida sent me the
following message which had seen a lot of forwarding:
Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across Canada and the U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it worked. It's time to do something about it again. Only this time lets make it for three days instead of just one. The so-called oil cartel decided to slow production to drive up gasoline prices. Lets see how many Canadian / American people we can get to ban together for a three day period in April, NOT TO BUY ANY GASOLINE, during those three days. LETS HAVE A GAS OUT. Do not buy any gasoline from APRIL 7,2000, THROUGH APRIL 9, 2000. Buy what you need before the dates listed above, or after, but try not to buy any during the GAS OUT. If you want to help, just send this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. We brought the prices down once before, and we can do it again. Come on North America lets stand together. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Even if you receive this 100 times keep passing it around, this way you know everyone is being informed and no one will forget! Antonia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Opinion:
Re-inventing the wheel
Human beings spend a lot of time re-inventing the
wheel. For example in the US, recent research has 'discovered' that
getting children to learn to spell and do real maths miraculously boosts
their self confidence. They've 'discovered' that children LOVE to know
things. So the progressive schools are phasing out their daily "I love
me" sessions in favour of real work. Amazing stuff.
But surely the prize for re-inventing the wheel goes to a NSW piggery, which has 'discovered' a way to improve production and amazingly, avoid highly offensive smells. They put layers of straw in the sheds! (I'm not making this up, it was on the Country Hour). Everybody's astonished. The straw soaks up the pig's waste. Fancy that! Other wonderful benefits are: * the owners only have to clean out the pens every twelve weeks * mortality rate have halved * there's been a 25 per cent saving in running costs * best of all, the pong is greatly reduced for the neighbours They made no mention that the used straw will probably make magnificent muck. They'll soon enough make that happy discovery. Antonia
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Keating
You sold out too soon to the Indonesians. You could have made
your second fortune here, after making your first selling out your country. You
forgot the Old English saying, "Where there's muck, there's brass
(money)".
Neil
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think?
In a bid to stamp out corruption, the Indonesian parliament has approved a 30 per cent pay increase for public servants and the military. Many only earn $20 a month and have to try and eke out a living somehow with all the price rises imposed by the IMF. Doctors, teachers and nurses will also have various allowances doubled. (ABC Radio news, 1/3/00) The IMF will not be impressed. Perhaps if the IMF bureaucrats swapped jobs - and pay - with Indonesian public servants they might begin to re-think the austerity programmes they so brutally impose on other nations. It'll be interesting to see what the response will be. Antonia
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Opinion: Condemned out of his own mouth At that gabfest in Melbourne in May 1998 which was hosted by The International - oops The Australian, a former departmental head of the federal government spoke candidly about what globalisation really means for Australia. Along with the usual mantras about 'inevitability' of globalisation, Michael Costello said, "It is true that if we thought overseas competition in manufacturing was tough, we haven't seen anything yet. ...It is true that the very existence of the nation state will be challenged by globalisation as never before. After all, a global corporation's patriotism is for company, not country. ... It is true that globalisation reinforced the tendency of the free markets unfettered to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. We are only in the foothills of globalisation and already this is happening..." (Australian, 5/5/98) Only in the foothills, huh? That's very different from the lies told to us by politicians who inanely keep insulting our intelligence by telling us we've never been so prosperous. It looks like as far as job losses and the destruction of Australian industry go, we ain't seen nothing yet. None of the major parties are coming clean though they fully know what the effects of these policies will be. Antonia
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Opinion: Demise of the Nation State!
The alleged demise of the nation state is another
mantra the globalists keep chanting. The fact that the world is
dividing into an elite of global citizens of the world and a
majority of the people increasingly oppressed does not mean the nation state is
dead at all. On the contrary, as people become more oppressed they will
unite to fight the injustice.
It's a global fight, and the various nations of the world will be able to help one another. All over the world, people are fighting to retain their sovereignty. In the US, in Canada, in the countries of Europe and in Australia it's happening. The UN was established to provide a forum for the settlement of disputes. The people of the world will not let it, or the WTO become a de facto world government. The defeat of the MAI and the victory at Seattle were just the opening skirmishes in what will be a mighty battle. Antonia
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Antonia
Not much different to the mantra chanted for over 70 years as
to the inevitability of communism. In fact it is the
Free Trade communists who are now parroting the same words that
the Stalinist Communists used to chant. Different name tag,
same sorts of people. Dumb.
Neil +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Newswire:
Europe's outrage a false piety By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Tuesday 22
February 2000
JOERG HAIDER'S far-right Freedom Party has been part of the Austrian Government for a little over two weeks now. No sign yet of an invasion of Poland. From the outraged reaction of the European Union to Haider's inclusion in Austria's ruling coalition, you might have thought the old Third Reich appendage was stirring once again for the glory of the fatherland. The EU has ostracised Austria, cut off bilateral meetings and unleashed a barrage of threats and denunciations. Now, there is nothing wrong with the civilised world registering its protest at the inclusion of a suspect, indeed loathsome, political party in the coalition government of a democracy. But this is hardly the first suspect and loathsome party to join a European government. The French Communist Party, which for most of a century was handmaiden to Stalin and his successors, is a full member of the French Government. Moreover, protest and criticism are fine. But the vehemence of European reaction raises a question: exactly what threat does Haider pose? He has campaigned on an
anti-immigrant platform. And he has made the occasional soft remark
about the Nazi past, saying, for example, that Waffen SS soldiers deserve
respect for their wartime service. So Europe has risen as one to denounce this
crypto-fascism.
I have news for the EU: Nazism has been dead for 50 years; Hitler is not coming back, and there are people diligently working to finish Hitler's work. They are not Austrian. Who is manufacturing - today - poison gas for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Jewish innocents? Who is building missiles to deliver these agents of extermination and aiming at the largest Jewish cities on the planet? Libya, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Yet even as Europe piously
flagellates Austria, it openly consorts with these malevolent
dictatorships:
13 September 1999: The EU lifts most of its remaining sanctions on Libya. The Italian Prime Minister recently visited Tripoli. Today there is talk of a Gaddafi visit to Brussels. 22 January 2000: An EU economic delegation goes to Syria to establish "a strong partnership". Indeed, the EU has, since May 1998, been in talks on a Europe-Syria free-trade zone. 28 January 2000: British Foreign Minister Robin Cook defends renewed British dialogue with Iran and Libya. This while Iran is acquiring nuclear weapons and missiles that can reach Israel. This while Iran arrests 13 Jews on manufactured charges of espionage. (In 1997 Iran hanged two Jews on the same charge.) 10 February 2000: Italy's Fiat and Germany's Volkswagen go to Teheran to negotiate deals with Iran's state-owned automobile company. In October 1997 the largest French oil company joined a $ 2 billion project to develop the huge South Pars oil fields in Iran. For months, France has been trying to get sanctions on Iraq lifted. Haider's crime is expressing passing sympathy for those who fought in Hitler's army. Yet in the Middle East, the government-controlled press routinely publishes Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic vitriol. Indeed, the very week that Haider came to power, the official Syrian daily Tichrin denounced and ridiculed as a "myth" the Nazi murder of millions of Jews during World War II. Anti-Semitism in the official Palestinian press is so ingrained that you find it in the newspaper crossword puzzle. Clue: "Jewish centre for eternalising the Holocaust and the lies." Answer: "Yad Vashem" (Israel's Holocaust memorial). Haider is reviled. Yet Arafat, who controls this propaganda, is regularly bear-hugged by Western leaders, beginning with best pal Bill Clinton. There is no cheaper way to burnish phoney human rights credentials than to come out resolutely against Nazism. Oh, the courage. Anti-Nazism was a speciality of Soviet propaganda for 50 years. All while the Soviet regime was running a gulag empire and doing its best to eradicate what little Jewish life Hitler had left behind in Eastern Europe. Austria is a threat neither to democracy nor to Jews. There are, on the other hand, a string of countries whose expressed intention - the expressions are neither subtle nor veiled - is the eradication of the Middle East's single democracy and the expulsion or extermination of the Jews who live in it. If Europe showed the least bit of outrage at
that threat, real and present, one might take a bit more seriously its
pious puffing about Austria's toy Hitlerism.
WASHINGTON POST
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The above article is an impressive
attempt at damage control by the Liberal establishment. Note
the terms used. "... suspect, indeed loathsome.... it pious puffing about
Austria's toy Hitlerism".
They have suddenly woken up to the
fact that people around the world are not impressed that the
politicians can decide when and under what circumstances the peoples vote
is a vote for democracy or not. The Liberal
establishments (Upper level Communist) credentials are showing. They
are disdainful of democracy unless they get the result they want.
Neil l+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Life Sciences:
Third world alarm over Free Trade http://cnniw.newsreal.com/cgi-bin/NewsService?osform_template=pages/cnniwStory&I
Gene altering alarms the Third World Treaty fails to assuage fears about food Source: The Washington Times BANGKOK - Despite a recent international agreement on the
trade of genetically modified products, derisively named "Frankenfoods,"
the concept of tampering with genes continues to frighten poorer
nations.
Leaders at a recent U.N. trade conference said they feared Frankenfoods - a play on the name Dr. Frankenstein, who unwittingly created one of literature's most terrifying monsters - threaten the health and prosperity of Third World nations. "The free trade and patenting of modified plants and foods trespasses on poor states' sovereignty, puts developing world consumers' lives in danger and destroys farmers' rights," said Prasitporn Kanonsir, a leader of non-governmental organisation Assembly of the Poor. Mr. Kanonsir and others expressed their concerns at last week's U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held in Bangkok. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000225/wl/britain_greenpeace_1.html Friday February 25 4:04 PM ET Greenpeace Vows to Cling on to U.S. Ship By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Five activists from the environmental group Greenpeace who stormed a ship carrying genetically modified soya off the coast of Wales on Friday vowed to cling on until the cargo is returned to the United States. "They're still there-two on the anchor chain and three on board-and they'll stay there for as long as it takes," a spokesman for the group told Reuters. He said two activists were positioned on the anchor chain to make it too dangerous for the ship's crew to draw up and move on from Anglesey to unload its cargo. Articles Forwarded by Veronica Griffin Ph.D..
Kerawa Qld.
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Update:
Letter to Qld. Premier Beatty
Dear Mr Premier
Are you ready to retract? We still recall being labelled "Luddites" for opposing the construction of the Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology, by our homes, in residential St Lucia. Thankfully your "biotech" rhetoric has not been so strident of late, which we hope means a change of heart. "Sorry" seems to be the hardest word, but the President of Indonesia has managed it (yesterday in East Timor), and even the Labor Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has made a U-turn on the controversial issue of GM food. We wait patiently for your similar conciliatory statement on
the "legitimate public concern" (as demolition and construction
commences on the site of the Queensland Institute of Molecular Bio-science at
Carmody Road, St Lucia).
Regards John Massey St Lucia Residents' Association +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Feedback:
Dear Neil,
The following is a copy of a letter I
sent to the US Secretary of State. I await
with interest the reply, if any. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
9 February 2000
Madame Madeleine Korbel
Albright
Department of State
Washington DC 20520
United States of America
Dear Madame Albright, I have closely followed and admired many of the actions you have taken towards maintaining peace in various regions of the world. However your latest remarks regarding Mr. Joerg Haider and the Government of the Republic of Austria can only be described as outrageous and hypocritical. Austria is a modern democratic society with a high standard of living; the people are highly intelligent and are quite capable of making informed decisions as to who shall be their elected representatives. Mr. Haider was democratically elected by the people of Austria and this is entirely a domestic matter. Any interference from the United Nations, United States or the European Parliament will put paid to any notion that these three institutions believe in true democracy and human rights. Henry Ford is reputed to have said “You can have a car any colour you like as long as it is black”. Are Austrians now being told, “You can have any political party you wish in government as long as it conforms to the wishes of the United States, United Nations and the members of the European Parliament”? America seems quite content to do business with China even though its army flattens its own people with tanks and murders thousands of innocent civilians in Tibet. There are numerous other examples of America’s shady dealings with oppressive regimes. Mr. Haider has not threatened violence against any person or state, but are we now about to see Cruise and Tomahawks landing in Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck? I lost close relatives in the fight against Nazism and my brother was in one of the early parties to enter Belsen, and I am a fierce believer in democracy. I believe that the measures which are being espoused against Austria are the very actions which will encourage anti-Semitism - not prevent it. Please do not undo many years of good work by rash statements. Yours sincerely,
Maurice E.
Horsburgh
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Maurice
I don't know the reasoning or
the ultimate objectives other than the very clearly transparent objective of a
single world government overriding three large blocks of countries centred on
Eurasia, Asia and the Americas. However, as part of that goal,
I believe the western governments are doing all in their power to see a
resurgence of anti-semitism (i.e they are fanning the flames,
not dousing them out, with their policies / reportage). The question is
why, to what end? I believe that to find the answers we will have to
become as machiavellian as they are.
Neil
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Feedback:
Guns & Violence in Society
"This kind of stuff just does NOT happen for no reason -
usually it comes from a situation where the kids immediate surroundings and
home life are a living hell and the kid is a product of his
environment.....which exactly the case here .
Can't imagine what a life this poor kid has already had at age 6 that he is already so full of violence, hate and frustration.....but I'm sure we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg and there will be more and more down the road and we all know laws mean nothing unless society cleans its act up and that won't happen anytime soon with this liberal agenda of all our governments abounding..... - boy's father is in jail Flint Michigan is a blue collar area and often very low wage, low education and like a lot of very small rural areas - poor. It's what I often take many to task on - on various boards that the poverty and undereducation and despair of Poor White America is just as bad but it does not make the news - it just did...... I doubt this kid was on any psychotic drugs, like the older monsters - but if I had to bet it would be mom is a druggie or some kind and this kid was a product of a bad pregnancy as far as nutrition and abuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco while he was developing and the outcome of those little babies is almost always problematic.... (PC note: Denise trained paramedics and works on various boards to try getting people to see the root causes) What do you do with this kid - I doubt that he really had a firm conception of death or what he did other than get even with someone that he perceived as hurting him..... (PC note: READ ON - this is SAD, but an example of why some turn or are turned bad - but it's the guns!!) This type of thing makes me worry and wonder what my nephew will be like in a few more years - the effects of his early childhood already rear their ugly head off and on..... Even though my sister-in-law had the best of prenatal care and did not drink, smoke or do drugs - she still was into that starvation thing as much as she could get away with to keep her figure..... She and Tim were the ultimate yuppies and when he was only a few weeks old dumped him on my mother-in-law for a 3 week vacation and that was his life up till 3 yrs when Tim died .....he was passed back and forth from grandma to grandma to raise him, whilst they pursued their careers and social life..... It was very sad - at 3 he was already throwing horribly violent temper tantrums and was a very moody and withdrawn child - he would have horrible outburst at 4 - 5 of screaming at people for no reason "I hate you" or hitting people then running away....he survived on McDonalds - or he would not eat - at one point he was so frail and pale looking my mother-in -law forced Donna to take him to paediatrician and have him tested...the kids diet was so bad they could not find a trace of vitamin B in his blood stream or any other basic nutrients either. Doctor read my sister-in-law the riot act and asked how could a woman that obviously was well to do and had money be so bad about feeding her own son......she didn't want to be bothered is what it boiled down to - he spent so much time with my mother-in-law - the ABC's of raising a small kid were completely foreign to her highness.....to her being with him meant turning on the TV and popping in a video, while she did her nails, talked on phone or whatever and feeding him meant running to McD's..... Her excuse was he didn't like anything - well she never cooked for a kid....she would try and feed the kid stuff she was making for dinner parties or cocktail parties and I don't know many 3 - 7 year olds that like liver pate' or caviar on crackers etc.....he would come here and after an hour or so would warm up to me and Wally and then he'd say Aunt De I'm hungry...so we'd go into the kitchen and check it out....my sister in law would be amazed to find her son not only sitting at the table and using his fork and spoon like a little man but he was eating FOOD....she'd say "how do you get him to do that ".....I'd look at her and say easy - first you offer him stuff you know most kids will eat - then you let him Help you put it together then sit down with him and talk to him while he's eating....darn kid would have 2 nd's and sometimes 3rd when he's here...... Well, enough of that sorry mess.....Step Daddy is not the great saviour he was cracked up to be now either - he went from being a father figure this poor kid never had and stared to trust and feel comfortable with to the "mean step-dad now".... SAD? Let's spend money on over-managing the legitimate ownership (which is to a degree necessary) and ignore the root causes of why parts of society are deteriorating, and negatively impacting on the whole. If current philosophy was effective - we would not have such utterly self centred and irresponsible people, nor the extent of sad souls and problems society suffers. The FAMILY is the key to society, and must be encouraged to be stable and good. Imposing undue financial pressures - stifling development and a host of government processes which kick us in the head every day - is NOT the way to develop self worth, achievement and stability. Peter Cunningham
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Peter
What you say is correct. However it is not the object of governments in the
new globalised world to have stable family arrangements. Total Control
ultimately can only be exercised continuously if the youth generation can be
split entirely from the parental generation and be taught, nay encouraged, to
spy & report back on their parents as George Orwell envisaged in
1984.
Loving & united families will always put family first. So there you
have it.
Neil
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Feedback:
Fuel Excise Tax.
Can somebody please tell me whether the enormous excise we are paying on
our fuel is a tax or not? I haven't seen any explanation of this yet.
If it is another form of indirect tax, then shouldn't it be abolished under
the GST?
Why is it exempt from the "rules"? Is it because the motorist is still
required to carry the bulk of the burden of supplying revenue to the government
despite the GST?
Bob Laidlaw +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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must start with a single step.
Antonia Feitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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