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News Report Issue 50
Index
1. Thought for the day - Neil
2. Opinion: Prosperity for all - even
in the bush - Antonia.
3. Opinion: Australia - the odd man in
Asia - Antonia
4. Opinion: Keating's continued
arrogance - Antonia
5. Opinion: Riverside nursing home - more
lies by the media - Terry
6. Life Sciences: US Corn turned away from
Brazil - Forwarded by Veronica
7. Life Sciences: Setback for GM potatoes
in US & other issues - Forwarded by Veronica
8. Feedback: Motherhood devalued -
Antonia
9. Feedback: Environmental Issues -
Carl
10. Feedback: Truth will out - Hollywood's
Porkies again - Gweilo
11. Feedback: Aboriginal Issues -
Col
12. Feedback: Opinion Polls - What answer do
you want - Debbie
13. Feedback: Natural Foods & New US
Legislation on "Organics" - John
14. Feedback Contacts:
15. Editorial Policy:
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Thought for the day:
"Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare,
Gentle, and merciful and just!
Who, in fear of God, didst bear
The sword of power, a nation's
trust."
(Stephen Vincent Benet, from "John Browns
Body", on Abraham Lincoln)
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Opinion: Prosperity for all - even the
bush!
The Australian's economics editor, Alan Wood, published a paeon to financial deregulation in Tuesday's edition. He was scathing of what he called "craven political pandering to every whinge and whine from the bush". That's Woodspeak for caring about your fellow Australians in distress. He insists deregulation has delivered gains to everybody. And what are they? Rapid growth in the financial market activity and in the size of the sector. For example,
Well, no, this prosperity
doesn't actually doesn't restore closed
It doesn't re-open
No, it doesn't put meat on the table
for ruined farmers and businessmen and sacked workers who once enjoyed a decent
standard of living.
But they're only the losers, and who cares about them. Caring about others is just "craven political pandering to every whinge and whine". Wood ended his article with this Woodian gem: "In short, stop the whinging." Nice. That's economic rationalism for you. Antonia
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Australia - the odd man in Asia The Australian's international editor, Paul Kelly is worried that the new Asian regionalism doesn't include Australia, and of course he blames it on John Howard. It's difficult to imagine a mind so brainwashed with globalist clap-trap that it could genuinely believe Australia could ever be part of Asia, but there you go. If he hasn't already done so, Kelly should read Samuel Huntington's book, "The Clash of Civilisations" (Simon & Schuster, c1996), which predicted what's happening now. In short, Huntington says the world will probably fracture on cultural lines - Islamic, Christian, etc. It's certainly happening at the micro level, just look at the Balkans, Indonesia, and the Russia breakaways. Even the Basques have renewed their campaign to be independent of Spain. Now with the formation of "ASEAN plus 3" - the 3 being China, Japan and South Korea - Australia has been well and truly cold-shouldered. Surprise, surprise? Not really. Intelligent people know the Asian push is nonsense. One diplomat said, "The real problem for Australia in the region is not our flag, but the root social values. I suspect you won't find any Australians who are willing to surrender any of those values to be accepted in the region." You betcha, mate! But incredibly our traitorous elites ARE willing to surrender our hard-won freedoms for a quick buck. An Indonesian official quoted in Huntington said Australia's acceptance will depend on how well the Australian government and people understand Asian values. Another Australian diplomat noted that the Thais treat Australia's claim to be Asian with "bemused tolerance". And Mahatir insists Australia is European - "This is my reason [for opposing membership in EAEC]. It's not the colour of the skin, it's the culture." Spot on, Dr Mahatir. And that's why Australia has been pointedly excluded from "ASEAN plus 3" - we are a European nation in culture as well as race. Huntington forecast that Australia's attempt to be part of Asia were doomed, and we'd be better off forging a Pacific alliance with the US, Canada, and maybe the South American Pacific nations. He's obviously got a lot more nous than Kelly. Antonia
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Keating's continued
arrogance
New author Keating is taking his book, "Engagement: Australia Faces the Asia Pacific", to the Adelaide Writers' Week. He is as arrogant as ever saying, "I think the greatest honour you are given as prime minister is that you are in charge of the spirituality - in the broadest sense - of the nation." What nauseating, elitist codswallop. If elites like Keating genuinely believe they have such power, no wonder they keep getting surprised by voters' decisions. During the republic campaign, The Australian's Paul Kelly demonstrated his utter contempt for women when he said Coalition-voting women aged 30-50 must be "reassured" and given "the confidence" to vote yes after tacticians reported they were worried, edgy and reluctant about change. His sexist, patronising arrogance was mind-blowing. In office, Keating was insistent that Australia's fortune lay in Asia. The previously mentioned Huntington didn't think much of Keating himself, or the early 1990s policy to re-define Australia as an Asian society and to focus on cultivating close ties with Asian neighbours. Huntington said in pursuing their goals, Asians are "subtle, indirect, modulated, devious, non-judgemental, non-moralistic and non-confrontational. Australians, in contrast, are the most direct, blunt, outspoken, some would say insensitive people in the English-speaking world." He said Keating embodied Australian national characteristics to an extreme, not hesitating to call his political opponents "scumbags" and "brain-damaged looney crims". He "regularly irritated, shocked and antagonised Asian leaders by his brutal frankness. The gap between the cultures was so large that it blinded [Keating] to the extent his own behaviour repelled those whom he claims as cultural brethren." Keating didn't only repel the Asians. He repelled everybody. It's outrageous that taxpayers still maintain the creep, even though he's a multi-millionaire. Such a great Labor man. No wonder the likes of old Clyde Cameron are so embarrassed at what the Labor Party has been reduced to. It's been a long time since it championed workers and ordinary people. Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Opinion:
Riverside Nursing
Home - More lies by the
media.
Recently there have been reports from the media in relation to patients being bathed in kerosene at the Riverside nursing home in Melbourne Well. Here is the true story. An independent nursing administrator was appointed to the Riverside nursing home in Melbourne. She was absolutely amazed with the lies told by the media and the knee jerk reaction by Canberra. The patients of that nursing home had been treated for scabies with lyclear lotion, and as an adjunct, 6 ml of kerosene is usually added to a bathfull of water for the continued treatment of scabies, this helps ease the itchiness associated with scabies. I used to be a male nurse / Paramedic, and this is a well-known old-fashioned remedy for the cure of scabies. Just ask any doctor or geriatric nurse and they will confirm this. Dr Wright also confirmed this on Radio 2GB last Sunday morning. Yes, the Nursing home has been run down, i.e. Fly screens broken, air conditioning not working properly and paint peeling off the wall etc. But not to the point where patients were being neglected. I have seen this in public hospitals! One will occasionally hear about geriatric patient's hands being tied to the bed rails. Well this is true, but there is a very good reason for it. These patients have catheter tubes coming from either their stomach, or nose, and tying their hands (which is a very loose padded bandage) stops them from pulling these tubes out. It is all for the benefit of the patient. It prevents self-inflicted injury to the patient. It's a hell of a job trying to re-insert these tubes. Now what about the staff of this nursing home? The poor buggers were under staffed and over worked, and yet, the media has demonized them. Those of which have applied for jobs in other nursing homes have had the phone hung up on them. All because of the lying bloody media. The patients are upset about what is happening to them. They have been forced to be separated from their friends and nursing staff, to which they have formed a great bond. The relatives of these patients have no complaints about the treatment of their loved one's. They were happy with the care they had been receiving. The Pollies (Labour) and media are having a field day with this incident. What can we, the public, do to stop the media from lying? Terry Winship ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Terry
Individually not a lot. Collectively
heaps. The media get away with lies because they control all the key
sources of information most people receive. Publications such as this will only
have an impact on media reporting when thousands get it daily
and spread the word by voice or electronics. That is the only thing
that will frighten our so-called leaders into changing ingrained habits of lying
and cheating. So do your best.
Neil
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US Corn Turned Away From Brazil Port
As GM Suspect
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Perdigao,
one of Brazil's largest poultry and pork producers, said Friday it had turned
back from port a cargo ship carrying U.S. corn as it was suspected of being
genetically modified, which is illegal in Brazil.
In a statement, Perdigao said it had bought
27,500 tonnes of corn in the U.S. market and was waiting for the supplier to
provide a certificate that the cargo was guaranteed free of genetic
modification. In the meantime, the corn was loaded onto a vessel named the Bulk
Star for shipment to the port of Sao Francisco do Sul in Brazil's southern state
of Santa Catarina, Perdigao said. "As up to the present moment such
certification was not presented and considering that the vessel Bulk Star was
forecast to dock in the port of Sao Francisco do Sul today, Perdigao
decided...to cancel the purchase and alter the course of the ship, still on the
high seas, so that it returns immediately to its port of origin," the statement
said.
..Perdigao said a shortfall in Brazil's
domestic corn supply this season had forced it to seek alternative suppliers to
provide feed for its 40 million birds and one million pigs.
Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Setback for GM potatoes in
USA
GENETICALLY modified potatoes are on hold in the US, as major processors and consumers turn their backs on the new technology. Speaking at the Agra Europe Potato
2000 conference in Rome, Oscar Gutbrod from Oregon State University
said growers had been forced to drop GM potatoes in response to buyer
demands.
"About 80% of our production in the US is
for processing," he said. "McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy have
all said no to GM fries and the whole industry has had to back
off."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloomberg News Friday, January 28, 2000 Frito-Lay Doesn't Want Bioengineered Corn Snack food maker Frito-Lay Inc. has asked its hundreds of contract farmers to grow corn that has not been genetically modified in case U.S. consumers shun bio-engineered products. Frito-Lay, a unit of PepsiCo Inc. and maker of Doritos and Tostitos corn chips, bought 1.2 billion pounds of U.S. corn last year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Company Press Release, Thursday February 10, 2:31 p.m. Eastern Time DOLE Delivers Favourite of Farmer's Market to Local Grocery Stores New Organic Blends Salads Will Be Available East
of Mississippi
SALINAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2000--A breath of fresh air will be felt in the produce section of your local supermarket chains Feb. 27 when Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. (DFV) launches a new line of Organic Blends salads. http://www.dole.com Articles Forwarded by Veronica Griffin
Ph.D..
Kerawa Qld.
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Feedback:
Motherhood
devalued
Motherhood has been totally de-valued in our society. While picking up her 18 month old baby from childcare, a 41 year old woman with two children under two said, "I project planned my first and second child like I project planned at work. I wanted to carry on with a normal life, making kids a stage, not a dead end." A dead end? Children are a dead end? When my teenage daughter read that I'm proud to say she was shocked. No wonder Australia's fertility rate is at an all time low. Antonia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Feedback:
Environmental Issues
Once again an excellent edition of The News Report (issue
48). After reading this edition I have to wonder why it is that the greenies and
other protest groups only seem to agitate the Western nations and not Russia or
China or any of the Socialist States?
Is it because their government reply would not be to
Kow-tow to them, but put them away or call out the army riot squad. I note
that the Eastern block do not stand for the rubbish we seem to. It's
always the minority that get their own way. I thought we were in a
democracy where the majority got their way?
Regards
Carl Wesley +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Feedback:
Truth will out: Hollywood's Porkies
Again.
There is a movie called "The Hurricane" out
at the moment, and it stars Denzel Washington as an "innocent" black boxer,
Rubin Carter, who goes to jail for a crime he supposedly didn't
commit. It's your standard Hollywood politically correct
propaganda, which blames the evil white people for their
victimisation of poor innocent blacks.
Interestingly, former Australian Cricket captain Mark Taylor is helping to advertise this film in Australia. He repeats the publicity blurb that it is "based on a true story", and how he was 'deeply moved' by the story and 'shocked' by the injustice. The trouble is, it's all a lie, and the relatives of the man who was murdered by the "innocent boxer" are very angry. Their side of the story is given at this website: http://www.graphicwitness.com/carter/ Now the family members of the victims Rubin Carter was convicted of murdering blame studio pressure as the reason two entertainment trade publications refused to run an ad urging Oscar voters not to cast their ballots for Denzel Washington, who plays the former boxer in The Hurricane and is considered the front-runner for the award. The ad asks voters not to "support an Oscar for this terribly false and hurtful film." It alleges that the movie, which portrays Carter as a victim of a racist criminal justice system, skews the truth and that Carter is responsible for the deaths of three people in a New Jersey bar in 1966. James DeSimone, who acts as the group's spokesman, said he was "flabbergasted" when he learned the ad had been turned down by Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Universal Studios released the film and has been promoting Washington heavily for the best actor prize in both publications. Universal spokeswoman Perry Curtin was travelling and unavailable for comment. Calls placed to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter were not returned as of press time. DeSimone disagrees that he and the families are politicising a process intended to honour Washington's acclaimed performance. "[Washington] made it a political issue at the Golden Globes when he brought [Carter] up to the stage and said 'God is love, Rubin Carter is love,'" DeSimone said. "Our only objective is to discourage people from letting him have this forum again." Gweilo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gweilo
Hollywood unfortunately is noted for stories
sold as "true stories" which are embellishments of the truth. Occasionally, as
would appear to be the case here, the embellishment goes to far that an outcry
highlights this marketing / scriptwriting duplicity and for a
while Hollywood cleans up their act, until the lure of money becomes
irresistible again.
The last time a major issue was made of this
that I recall was Oliver Stones movie on Richard
Nixon where hole dialogues were made up between people who never met in
real life or said the things (or even remotely similar things) that they were
portrayed on celluloid saying.
I think they call it
"faction" a mix of fiction and fact. Children have a better
word for it - Make-believe.
Neil
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Feedback:
Aboriginal
Issues
At approx. 4:20 pm to day Tues 7 / 3 / 00,
on radio 2GB, Mike Jeffries was interviewing a woman called
Joan Kim, a graduate in law from Monash
University. She thought it would be beneficial to go into the field and research
why the influence of whites on Aboriginal men causes violence against
Aboriginal women. She produced a paper on it. She spoke in a calm,
almost tentative voice.
She was surprised to find that violence was a CULTURAL THING, although it could be exacerbated by white influence. She found that sacrificial rapes and execution of Aborigine women for such crimes as speaking a word that was only to be used in male rites, was not unusual. She stated that 59% of all NT homicide victims are Aboriginal women, and that 53% of NT deaths in custody are aboriginal men who have been jailed for acts of violence against women. She doubted claims that land rights
were a factor, pointing out that they already owned 47% of
NT. Mike Jeffries credited her with courage for producing the paper,
after asking her if she thought it was controversial. She
agreed it was. He mused later that people, who were not cloistered in a place
where the PC views abounded, may not have been so surprised. He also
wondered whether we will hear any more about it.
In my view, we are continually made to feel guilty about the lack of education and health of Aboriginal people, but the experience of a close relative who lived in a far west NSW town until recently, is quite different. Kids don't generally go to school until it is winter, when it is warmer in school. They are generally not interested in education or health. Why do you need education or work when money falls from the sky, or in this case, the hole in the wall? Crime is a huge problem there, too! Whites
don't go down the main street on Friday and Saturday nights. All the
shop windows are now shutters or corrugated iron. My relatives wife
couldn't walk home from work in daylight because the kids would proposition her,
and try to grab her handbag. There are areas police won't
enter. The ambulance men take in as much equipment as possible in case
of needing it as a weapon during exit. And abuse against Aboriginal women is
rife too.
The city people leading their
plastic existence are unaware of the realities of many situations, yet
have the political numbers to influence the rules others have to live
by.
Col
Easton
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Opinion Polls: What answer do you
want!!
On a report last week the Government stated that a poll
had been taken in which I think it said 53% of the people wanted a
GST. I ask the question...which 100 people did they ask.............it
wasn't anyone that we have talked to
Over 97% of the Australian population DON'T want a
GST and when is this Government going to start
listening......these are the same politicians who stand up at election
time and tell you how much they are going to do for us.................well
start listening Mate............NO GST
Debbie +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Feedback:
Natural Foods
Natural foods are hungered for by a world population wary of mutant concoctions created in science fiction laboratories, such as the massive biotechnology complex proposed at the U/Q. Why not listen to the people and exploit our advantage of being "clean and green" for an ecologically sustainable future? John Massey Biohazard Action Alliance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07:50 PM ET 03/04/00 Organic Food Standards To Be Set By PHILIP BRASHER = AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ Americans hunger for any food promoted
as natural, consuming $6 billion worth of products labelled organic,
often with no guarantee they actually were grown and processed without
synthetic chemicals.
That should change with the release, as
early as Tuesday, of the first national standards for organic
food. The rules, expected to take effect this summer, will spell out
for the first time what it means for foods to be labelled
organic. They also will bar the use of genetically engineered crops or
irradiated ingredients in organic
foods.
Food grown and processed in accordance
with those rules can carry a seal of approval from the Agriculture
Department, agency officials
say.
The rules ``give the consumers assurance
that they've been looking for that the products meet a set of standards
that have been enforced and that those standards are the same regardless of the
state it was grown in,'' said Katherine DiMatteo, executive director of
the Organic Trade Association.
``That will build consumer confidence in
the label and certainly will encourage
sales.''
Critics of the organic industry say the
rules could lead consumers into thinking organic products are safer or more
nutritious than conventional food. There is no evidence that is true, said
Christine Bruhn, director of the Center for Consumer Research at the University
of California-Davis.
``I hope they will understand what
organic means and make this an informed choice,'' she
said.
Out of the 10,000 farms
nation-wide that claim to be organic, only 6,600 are approved by the 88
different state or private certifying agencies around the
country.
Nineteen states have no regulations for
organic farming. Eleven others, including California, have production
standards but no certification process for ensuring that farmers comply with
them.
Meanwhile, the industry has been growing
at a rate of 20 percent annually over the past decade. Sales are expected to
reach $6 billion this year, according to the trade
association.
Some of the nation's biggest
food manufacturers are getting into the natural-foods business,
including General Mills Inc. and H.J. Heinz Co. General Mills has a new organic
cereal and announced in December that it was buying Small Planet Foods, a
leading producer of organic food
products.
Nearly half the population eats organic
products at least occasionally, a recent ABC News Poll found. The organic market is likely to continue growing at a
double-digit pace for years to come, said David Nelson, a food industry
analyst with CS First Boston.
``Consumers are buying food less as a
staple or basic fuel and more as an expression of lifestyle, like clothing or
choice of car. It's a niche market certainly, but rapidly growing,'' he
said.
The rules are expected
to:
_require that farmers go through a mandatory planning process and have their practices certified by an approved state or private agency. _restrict the pesticides, fertilisers and seed treatments they can apply. _limit the kind of additives and packaging processors can use. Banned will be additives like sulphites, nitrates or nitrite, for example. Congress ordered national organic
standards in 1990. Seven years later, rules proposed by USDA were rejected by
the industry because they left open the possibility of allowing irradiated and
genetically engineered food and the use of sewage sludge as fertiliser. Those
possibilities have been ruled out in the new proposals, said Andy Solomon, a
spokesman for Agriculture Secretary Dan
Glickman.
Producers and processors are
expected to have 18 months to comply; enforcement is left to states and private
agencies approved by
USDA.
In the absence of national standards,
foods claiming to be organic are labelled in many different. Some list a
certifying agency, others do not.
``They can charge more if it
says organic and it may not be,''said Jennifer Brenner, who was
shopping Saturday at a Fresh Fields natural foods store in Falls Church, Va.
``It's healthy whether it's truly organic or not, but it would be nice to know
for sure.''
The store
carried four varieties of organic apple sauce: One claimed certification by
``OCIA,'' a reference to the Organic Crop Improvement Association; a second was
certified by Vermont Organic Growers; a third cited a private California
certifying agency, Quality Assurance International; the label on Fresh Fields'
house brand simply said it was grown in accordance with California
law.
Forwarded by: John
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