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News Report Issue
58
Index
1. Thought for the day - Jack
2. Request:
3. Opinion: The Futility of Growth - Antonia.
4. Opinion: Vitamin C Warning - Antonia
5. Opinion: Ross Cameron's Monumental Ignorance -
Antonia
6. Opinion: The Overpopulation Myth - Antonia
7. Article: Chemical Devastation of the Environment -
Neil
8. Article: Now Capital means Brains, not just Bucks
- Neil
9. Life Sciences: A "trick" to avoid Compensation -
Forwarded by Veronica
10. Feedback: Manufacturing Crisis - John
11. Feedback: New Zealand's IRD - Dave
12. Feedback: Bush v. City - Allan
13. Itinerary: The Queens Itinerary - Jim
14. Editorial Policy:
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Thought for the day:
'I must govern the clock, not be governed by it"
(Golda Meir, Former PM, Israel)
Forwarded by Jack Manasserian
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Request:
For this online news report to be ultimately effective it
must grow to such a size that it and the ideas it espouses can't be ignored. So
do your bit and help circulate it far and wide. If we are to challenge the
elites (the Packers and the Murdochs) view of history, politics, economics, the
environment, the structure of society etc., then we are going to have to do more
than wait. We are going to have to be very active and vigilant. We have given
you one of the tools (information & a medium for comment) you will need.
Help us to help you. Lets fan the flames of knowledge. Spread the word.
Editor.
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3. Opinion: The futility of 'growth'
Japan is in recession, and its predicament is highlighting the fundamental fault of our economic system which depends on growth. Simply put, the Japanese don't want to or need to spend money. The government has delivered tax cuts to tempt them, and interest rates are zero per cent, but people still don't spend. Spending has been falling now for seven years. Instead of this being seen as a good thing - that
people's wants have been met - it is an economic catastrophe.
The current system says people MUST consume, whether they want to or
not. Clearly it's madness.
What's happening in Japan will happen in all the other advanced countries unless they maintain population growth through migration. Hence big business' call for increased migration. Japan's population is declining with the fertility rate down to 1.5 and falling. The Japanese government has estimated that without any increase in fertility, "its population will have fallen from 125 million today to just 500 by the end of the next millennium. However absurd that may be, it is at least a scare in the right direction." (News Weekly, 6/11/99). This growth for growth's sake is unsustainable and therefore immoral. Man should be the master of the economy, not its slave. There is more than enough food and other resources for all the world's people many times over. The problem is not one of production - that was solved with the Industrial Revolution - but of distribution. We desperately need some economic lateral thinking. Antonia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Antonia
And in today's consumerist economy the driving force
of distribution is the disposable discretionary dollar
each and every consumer possesses. Yet with every increase in the ability to
produce "more rationally & efficiently" by yet more
retrenchments, delayering, downsizing (call it what you will),
the end result is that more and more people have less and less to spend and
given current job uncertainties, less incentive to spend and
more to save for the fast approaching "rainy day". Thus it is
that families are under the hammer most. The job losses tend to hit hardest
those males who have responsibilities for families - funny
that. The occupation categories that seem immune for the moment from
this new economic reality are those who family
structures are less permanent or traditional and whose responsibilities
on average are less.
The fewer and fewer winners under this crazy economy who win
big have a practical limitations to how much they can be
persuaded through advertising to spend. I mean once you have 7
cars, one for each day of the week or colours of the rainbow, the eighth car
just won't give you that same buzz you got from purchasing
your second unneeded car. It is not of course as though you could
drive all 7 cars simultaneously (or like Imelda Marcos - 400 pairs
of shoes). Or that most people have 7 kids to whom one could lend the keys -
because the same families or occupation categories that are the big winners in
today's society, tend to be DINKS (double incomes, no kids) or from the new age
categories of male/male or female/female relationships, where kids are not
really a biological reality, without outside assistance.
Neil
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4. Opinion:
Vitamin C warning New research is indicating vitamin C tablets may be harmful. This is very worrying news as I've heard teachers say they'd like to hand them out at school to children they deem as suffering from inadequate diets. Researchers at the University of Southern California claim that people taking 500 mg a day for over a year suffer thickening of the arteries at double the rate of those who don't take them. British researchers two years ago warned that vitamin C tablets in doses of over 500 mg a day acted as a "pro-oxidant" when previously it had been thought they were anti-oxidants. A cardiologist said naturally occurring anti-oxidants in fruit and vegetables were preferable to tablets. It stands to reason, but unfortunately, the vitamin levels in much commercially produced food is significantly lower than in organically grown food which is far more expensive. But then, maybe it's a matter of priorities. Just think: if the world's family farms hadn't been taken over by global agri-business with consequent expansion of acreage and massive chemical control of pests, we'd be eating far better quality food. Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
5. Opinion:
Ross Cameron's monumental ignorance Liberal MP for Parramatta, Ross Cameron, has made a total git of himself with his comment that people in the bush should decamp to the cities. For a start, many of the young do leave the bush as there are so few opportunities in the country. For example, one of my sons is in Sydney and two are in Perth. So it's highly insulting to us for him to suggest that rural people all just sit around with a cargo cult mentality. Has Cameron no understanding that towns in the regions exist for a reason? To service their regions? Should the farmers of Gunnedah or anywhere else have no post offices, banks, supermarkets, cafes, schools, hardware stores, newsagents, pubs, cake shops, etc? Should there be no hairdressers, butchers, chemists, doctors, dentists, photographers or accountants in the bush? Perhaps Mr Cameron thinks a haircut or a slab of beer can be delivered by the internet? His claim that living in the bush is a "lifestyle choice" is utter nonsense. Most people in the regions were born there. They can't move because they will be financially ruined if they do. The housing market in the bush is grim. Last year, a house in a mid north-coast town sold for under $30,000 which is not even anywhere near the deposit for a house in Sydney. What does Mr Cameron suggest people do? Embrace voluntary pauperhood? Cameron is typical of pig-ignorant bush-bashers. One of his parliamentary colleagues said, "Ross is always bashing the bush" (PM, 16 / 3 / 00). Well I'd never heard of the ignoramus, so thank goodness his ignorance and his name are now national news. He deserves the opprobrium. Antonia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6. Opinion: The over-population myth According to Max Singer, "unless people's values change greatly, several centuries from now there could be fewer people living in the entire world than live in the United States today." (Atlantic Monthly, August 1999) . How does he come to this unorthodox view? Because nobody predicted that when fertility dropped to the replacement level - 2.1 child per woman - it would keep falling as it has. In Western Europe and Japan it's 1.5. and falling. Italy's is down to a national suicidal 1.2. Australia is also below replacement rate as fewer women have that demographically important third baby. Singer said fearing a population explosion is like fearing your baby will grow to 1000 pounds because it doubles its weight three times in the first seven years. In the 1960s population grew at 2 per cent. It's now growing at 1 per cent and if it continues to drop as the pattern suggests it will, it will head into negative numbers. Many demographers now think the world's population will peak at 8 billion and then go into a rapid decline. So far from facing a population explosion, we're looking at a population implosion which will have catastrophic effects. The UN claimed the world's population reached 6 billion by the 12th of October last year. But Pierre Chaunu, professor emeritus of the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy, denounced the claim as "false". He claimed there's been little recognition of the demographic collapse of the West, which will take a time lag of thirty years to become obvious. "According to my calculations, in the totality of the planet, the generations will not be replaced beginning the year 2020." He claims that the African figures are inflated and notes than in the former USSR, where there is one live birth for every 7 abortions, 292 million people have never existed. Then there's the 80-120 million killed under communism who haven't been officially recognised as being not part of their countries' population statistics. And the wars. So why the population explosion scare? "The international organisms have spent huge sums to impose a very authoritarian birth control plan in many countries, which must be justified by announcing an imminent danger for all the planet." It makes sense. Antonia ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
7.
Opinion:
Chemical Devastation of the
Environment
In the last 200 years, man has sought to
deny the existence of God and to despise the view that the world was his
creation. Since the birth of "Rational Science" as part of the Renaissance and
Enlightenment, man has sought to raise scientists to the pedestal as
surrogate demi-gods. People on whom we can surely look to better the
world and make it safer for mankind.
In the process man has stumbled, bumbled
from one man-made crisis and catastrophe to another. This century the world
around us has become infinitely less safe because of two major threats to the
existence of life on this planet and the entire web of
interrelationships, which abound in nature between all living
things.
One threat, that of nuclear war and the
perils of radiation, is fairly well known and understood by every educated and
informed man and woman. These threats poise like a sword of Damocles
over us all as in theory they have the capacity to kill all living
matter in hours, if not in minutes. From nuclear weapons we have subsequently
developed nuclear power and this has greatly increased the risk of nuclear
terrorism or nuclear accidents (like Chernobyl in the former USSR and Three Mile
Island in the USA) as the number of power plants has proliferated. In
the Asia Pacific region there are some 220 nuclear power plants in operation or
under construction.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the mad
scientists and industrialists have sought other ways to kill, maim, and damage
man, the animals, the birds, the plants, the fishes, and the insects etc. all
the other creatures that God set on Earth to make it one and to be man’s
companions on this fragile and interwoven web of life.
In this century, from the early 1940’s,
man has embarked on an experiment without equal in the history of
mankind to "tame" Nature. To bend Nature to his will and bidding. And
in doing so has undermined all credibility for the scientific community
as "Rational Thinking" and concerned individuals solely promoting the
well being of and peace and goodwill on this Planet.
In this last half-century we have unleashed
a barrage of toxic poisons and chemicals, pesticides, insecticides,
herbicides, fungicides, etc on the world. We have sprayed
people, animals and crops directly and indirectly with
DDT-Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane, DDE, DDD, PCB’s-Polychlorinated
biphenyl’s, Dieldrin, Aldrin, Endrin, Heptachlor, Methoxyclor, BHC-Benzene
Hexachloride, Toxaphene and many thousands of other chemicals
for which we have scant knowledge of their short, let alone
their long term effects on the animal world and man,
and practically no way of verifying their effects.
When will we learn that the world created
was not made for the sole enjoyment of men. Man was to be the custodian
of the Earth, not its despoiler. What are the current and ongoing
consequences of this stupidity.
Firstly, the economic system of man
is leading to ever increasing gargantuism. Companies and corporations
are growing mightily bigger by the day and are leaving regulatory
authorities behind them in the dust. No regulator can hope to challenge
and beat a multinational or global corporation if some activity that
they are indulging in is destructive to the community or to the safety of
individuals. It would be a brave, courageous man get in the way
of these monstrosities. So as the corporations become larger, they thus
become more remote from common man and thus are no longer the servant of
mankind, but his oppressor.
Increasingly therefor, these companies look
for technological and scientific solutions to problems of production or supply.
Such solutions when applied to the agricultural world tend to be either
mechanical or chemical. These are man-made solutions. And as they are
not natural to the Natural world, inevitably they have wrought immense damage to
everyone, usually also including the corporation that sought to benefit
from their application.
The old family farms are being
forced to amalgamate by economic forces and pressured by
Government and the Banks to do so. In doing so, they are increasingly
adopting monocultures (single type crops or animals) over a wide expanse of
land, thus providing a tempting target for insects or diseases. In
trying to combat the large proliferation of insects, brought about by the
adoption of modern farming techniques of large scale farming, farmers have been
encouraged by their Agricultural departments and training schools, not to
mention salesmen from the Chemical companies, to adopt "modern",
progressive, scientific solutions to pest and disease control.
The results have nearly all been
catastrophic for the family farmer. All such scientific
solutions usually result in the use of toxic chemicals.
Few non toxic chemicals have any effect these days and many toxic
chemicals have no effect either, since we have made most insects and
diseases in the last half century resistant to everything other than the
most extremely toxic poisons.
Even the so-called wonder
insecticide DDT, introduced in 1942 and which launched this man-made
chemical assault had lost its effectiveness within 5 years of
its introduction by the late 1940’s. But these chemicals are ending up
in us, directly or indirectly, through the food chain.
Secondly, vast new ailments and
diseases threaten the existence of man or large parts of the
population. As long ago as 1962, it was estimated that some 25% of
Americans (i.e. 70 Millions) would develop cancer in one form or
another. Now the list of ailments, both physical and mental defects,
and other related illnesses that can be related to this continuous chemical and
pharmacological poisoning of man are endless. Some of them are listed
below:-
Cancers of –
Sexual Reproduction -
Sexual Differentiation –
Mentality
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All of these, and too many others to
list, are the direct, and indirect, consequences of mans stupidity
regarding chemicals and their effects on man and the world. In
particular we have been negligent of the consequences of our decisions in the
manner in which, while they might be acceptable to grown men and women,
turn out to be extremely hazardous to prenatal babies and growing
children.
I commend to you two books to read and to
find out more about these problems: -
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson,
1962
"Our Stolen Futures" by Theo Colborn
et al, 1995.
On the pages of both of these books, you
will see the majesty of the working of a supreme architect and how
much man, in his hubris, has been grossly negligent and
destructive in his custodianship of the world. Man, driven by
the quest for short-term gain and profit, has unleashed an
unmitigated disaster on the world of which we are a
part.
Man claims to be intelligent, the
supreme intelligence on this planet. Yet in comparison to the wonders
of the world as it unfolds in these two books, detailing the immense
complexity and sensitivity and the myriad of hidden relationships that
can be unwound with broad brush solutions, one can sense that man is
nothing more than a pygmy before a colossus. A colossus, the architect
of the World, who cannot be anything other than God. No man can comprehend its
wonder, magnificence and munificence. He is left in awe by its magnitude and
spectacle.
And we, in our ignorance and
greed, are unravelling this magnificent conception.
Neil Baird
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8.
Article:
3 ages of Capitalism.
‘Ralph Stayer, CEO of Johnsonville foods,
argues that we are witnessing a fundamental shift in business history. First,
entrepreneurial capitalism yielded to managerial capitalism, which is now giving
way to something he and his consulting partner, James Belasco, call
"intellectual capitalism". It’s a bit like reversing
the Industrial Revolution, O’Neill, CEO of Alcoa, instead of dumbing
down production, business is evolving a high tech version or
pre-industrial craftsmanship. This time artisans are using their heads,
not their hands. Traditional goods, says Stanford economists W. Brian
Arthur, are "congealed resources" - like the coal, coke, and iron that
go to make an ingot of steel - put together with a bit of know how. New products
- like software and advanced aircraft - are "congealed knowledge" bound up in a
bit of material’.
The Value of Intellectual Capitalism.
‘Arthur is one of a handful of economists who say
grey matter is so different from greenbacks that
neo-classical economics, with it’s laws of supply and demand and of
diminishing returns, cannot fully explain how the stuff works. So
different, says Apples Sculley, that intellectual
capital will ultimately lead to "a dramatic shift in the wealth of the
world" from natural resource owners to those who control ideas
and knowledge. Tangible forms of intellectual capital - patents
and copyright - preoccupy many companies.
Membership in the Society for Competitor Intelligence
Professionals, a trade association for corporate intelligence and
counterintelligence agents, doubled in 1990. Patent infringement suits
have multiplied. The fights were fiercest in high-tech, which saw
battles involving Motorola, Hitachi, Texas Instruments, and Intel among others.
Scarcity is one reason why intellectual capital is so hotly
pursued. In JP Morgans day, money was the hardest form of capital to
get. Now, argues Virgil Barry of AT Kearney consulting firm, "Brainpower
is dangerously short - at a time when advances are being made
by people who out-think others, not people who buy twice as many
machines." ’
A Queer Kind of Wealth.
‘It is a queer kind of wealth. For one thing,
intellectual capital is virtually impossible to measure -
"An off balance sheet asset," says Donald L Curtis a management
consultant at Deloitte Touche. Your new investment in a new plant shows up on
the balance sheet as an asset. But all the money you spend on training
your work force to double output of the old one doesn’t (in fact this
hits your P&L a/c hard). Most importantly, the return on intellectual
capital can be nearly infinite’.
Winner-take-most.
‘Competition in knowledge based products is often
winner-take-most:
Winners can be impossible to dislodge, even if another product is
more advantageous.
The Cost of Coming 2nd.Congealed
Knowledge.
Losers get immured in market niches like players struggling
in the final stages of the Japanese game of Go. Winners keep winning
because "congealed knowledge" often has high up-front costs, but negligible
marginal costs - resulting in staggering profits. It may take millions
to write a piece of software, for instance, but copying it costs just a
few dollars - dramatically less in relation to R&D than, say, a
second Ford Laser. Likewise, the mark-ups are much higher than for low-tech
products. And the sophisticated manufacturing processes that produce
them are susceptible to cost saving improvements that dwarf the usual economies
of scale.
Economics in a Zero Marginal Cost
World.
The more nearly a product is pure knowledge, the
higher the returns may be. In electronic networks the marginal cost for
anybody with a terminal is a mere spark of electricity, and
each participant can deal directly with all the others. MIT economists Julio
Rotemberg and Garth Saloner show what that does in a network for electronic
funds transfer. If two banks can exchange funds with each other and the price of
each transaction is $1, the network earns $2. Add a 3rd bank, however
and its can make $6, because each bank can send money to two others. That’s a
300% increase in value from a 50% increase in capacity. Put 20 banks on line,
and its worth $380: ten times the capacity has created a 190 fold increase in
value (note: value can also vanish overnight, as happened when the fax
put the kibosh on the telex).
The Reality of Increasing Returns.
The network will one day reach a point of diminishing
returns, but far later than in an appliance factory or a brewery - and
after a prolonged period of increasing returns. Brian
Arthur argues that the effects of increasing returns (rather than
diminishing) explains the economics of high tech. You want the temperament of
a gambler, but the deep pockets of a corporation. That’s because the start up
costs are so high and because, in a winner-take-most games, market share is so
valuable - as many Japanese companies have learned.
Managing knowledge workers is more that a matter of
tolerating eccentric neckties. Most pay scales, for example, don’t make
sense when the source of wealth is brainpower - often group brainpower
- not bricks and mortar. It’s no accident that real estate
costs more in idea epicentres like Cambridge or Beverly Hills
that in Pittsburgh or Detroit.
Neil Baird
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9. Life Sciences:
Subject: "A trick" to avoid compensation
The shenanigans of Australian mining company Esmeralda in avoiding its responsibilities in the appalling pollution afflicting three European countries should be a warning to others. The proponents of such risky ventures claim to have abided by
all the codes and best practice, (as did the UQ and CSIRO in getting government
backing for the IMB at St Lucia), but the surrounding community is inevitably
left "high and dry" when poor planning and lax
supervision come to their inevitable conclusion. They suffer for what
is euphemistically termed "An act of God"!
The Premier, Mr Beattie, has just pontificated on ABC radio news that, "There is nothing more important than community safety"! We therefore insist that the Queensland Government and the UQ and CSIRO underwrite their biotech projects by lodgement of a $100 million Security Bond to cover the contingency of chemical or biological pollution emanating from each of the biotech facilities proposed in suburban Brisbane. John Massey
Biohazard Action Alliance ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hungary dismisses miner's 'trick' at compensation From TREVOR MARSHALLSEA of AAP 17 mar 00 8.15 am (AEDT) GREENPEACE today joined the Hungarian Government in dismissing Australian mining company Esmeralda Exploration's decision to go into voluntary administration as "a trick" to avoid compensation payouts. Esmeralda went into the hands of an administrator yesterday
as its shares remained suspended following a January cyanide spill
from the tailings dam of its half-owned Baia Mare gold tailings
project in Romania.
The spillage of 100,000 cubic metres of cyanide
tainted water was blamed for the deaths of tonnes of fish in the
Tisza river in Hungary, and further pollution of the
Danube in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and the Ukraine.
Relations between Hungary and Romania have been
strained again following two other accidents at Romanian mines last
Monday and Friday which further devastated the Tisza.
As Hungarian Foreign Minister Janos Martonyi reiterated that
Budapest would sue all mining companies responsible, Greenpeace
joined a Hungarian parliamentary environment committee in dismissing Esmeralda's
administration move as a ruse. "This is a trick which is very well known in this
context," said Greenpeace spokesman Andreas
Bernstorff.
"In history there's been a series of cyanide spills
at mines after which the company supposedly goes bankrupt, but then
sets itself up under another name somewhere else, using the same unsafe
practices. "We might find Esmeralda operating under another name at a different
location at some time down the track."
The head of the Hungarian parliament's environmental
protection committee, Zoltan Illes, said: "This is just a trick
on their side to not pay compensation for what they are responsible." He said if
the company could not or would not pay up, Hungary would pursue through
international courts the banks and investors who backed those responsible for
the spill. Forwarded by
Veronica Griffin Ph.D..
Kerawa Qld.
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10. Feedback:
Manufacturing Crisis:
Dear Neil
The following despatch may be of interest for your News Report. Keep up the good work! Regards John Massey On 15th March, 2,000
manufacturing workers rallied in Brisbane to express their concern
about the crisis in the Australian manufacturing industry. This
crisis has been brought about by the reliance of both Labour and
Conservative Governments on so called "free trade" economic models. The
driving force behind "free trade" is the World Trade Organization.
The Australian manufacturing has seen * Over 60,000 jobs lost in the past 2 years * Established manufacturing plants such as Evans Deacon close down. * A lack of support by politicians for a strong manufacturing industry * A decline in apprenticeships and traineeships * Australia's economic independence under threat as our skills base declines In the interests of "free trade" * 200,000 tonnes of pre-fabricated steel to be imported in the next few months, while our steel makers close down. * $1.3 billion of Victorian rolling stock to be manufactured overseas, with the potential loss of 6,000 Australian jobs * Australian workers forced to compete with overseas workers, many of whom are denied basic human rights and are forced to work for as little as $US 30 per month. * Australian workers forced to compete with countries who use forced labour, child labour and where working people have no reasonable access to health care, education and welfare services * Although WTO rules only require us to decrease our protective tariffs to 10%, the Federal Government has in an excess of (?) enthusiasm , has decreased Australia's tariffs to 5%. WTO Watch(Qld) supports the AMWU's call for "fair trade not free trade". If you agree, please contact your State and Federal politicians and tell them. And just to buy into the fuel debate: WTO pushes for "export driven" development. Thus we have
steel being imported, when we could make our own; we have
14,000 tonnes of pork coming into this country from Canada (which we didn"t
want) and 16,000 tonnes of pork going out of this country. Just think
about how many 'steel miles 'and 'pork miles 'are being travelled unnecessarily
and how much fuel is being used ...and how many greenhouse emissions
are being pumped out.......Need I say more?
Cheers, Terrie (WTO Watch (Qld)) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
11. Feedback
New Zealand IRD (Inland Revenue Dept)
Graham Holland, the man who has devoted his
entire career to legalised theft, the forcible
confiscation of Other People's Money, is due to step down soon
as Godfather of the IRD Mafia. A letter from him in yesterday's Dominion
shows that this entity, who's never had a productive day in his
life, is as uncontrite now as he was when Ian Mutton committed
suicide:
"While it is technically true that Inland Revenue could request information from a minister of religion about a parishioner's tax affairs, it is not easy to imagine a situation in which this would be necessary. Indeed, to the best of my personal knowledge, such a thing has never happened in the more than 25 years I have worked for the department. Inland Revenue's powers to demand information have received a lot of attention recently, & have been reported in rather alarming terms. It may be useful for me to put these powers into context. It is essential to be able legally to demand information concerning those who attempt not to pay tax. Without such a tool honest taxpayers will end up paying for those who do not comply." This is akin to a highwayman saying that the reason he must strip-search his victims is that if some of them manage to conceal their money from him, the others will have to hand over more. The highwayman's real agenda of course is to steal everything from all of them. But the truly appalling thing about Mr Holland's letter is his utter sanguineness in defending the indefensible. This discussion over breaching priest / parishioner confidentiality in the confessional followed hard on the heels of the revelation that the IRD had sought the MEDICAL records of one of their victims, thus trampling on the age-old convention of doctor / patient confidentiality. You see, under Section 17 of the Tax Administration Act, nothing is sacred, & Mr Holland, devoid of conscience as he is, doesn't give a damn. The IRD may uplift information about anyone from anyone on pain of an automatic fine of $25,000 should the information be withheld. Article 21 of our Bill of Rights says, "Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure, whether of the person, property or correspondence or otherwise." Article 4 of course says that any legislation inconsistent with this takes precedence over it, but leaving that aside, the only way the IRD's powers & actions could be construed as "reasonable" would be for the individual & his possessions to be deemed to be common property which must be relinquished at society's discretion. THAT, of course, is entirely Unreasonable. Communists & fascists - our Parliament in other words - & Mr Holland believe it, though, & unfortunately the sheeple are content to surrender themselves up to a life of enslavement to these entities. Let's put a stop to that right now. The IRD are currently running a television PR campaign portraying themselves as bumbling, misunderstood & well-meaning. Don't be fooled for a second. They are bumbling, well-understood & vicious. If you encounter "Bob" at a barbecue, a la the TV ads, do yourself & all productive people a favour & throw him into the pool. This editorial will be posted on my web site later today: http://www.freeradical.co.nz Or if you'd like a fax of it please fax us here on 09 378 1109. David Storage
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12. Feedback:
Bush v. City
Well done Antonia you hit the nail right on the
head. Your words were justified today when a govt. minister said on
national radio that if we don't like ' the bush' we should go and live in the
city. What sort of rot do these pollies think they can throw at
us. Then again maybe it's our own complacent
fault for not being more vigilant.
Maybe if our Govt. ministers buy us out with
some of their ' perks' money we will be able to go. Who
in their right mind would want to buy in the country when we are being treated
as second class citizens. Attached is a photo of our farm which
we couldn't sell, 400 acres in a 33 inch rainfall area.
Keep up the good work.
Regards
Allan Christensen.
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Anybody interested in the photos of the property, I will
gladly send it to them electronically. From the aerial shots, it looks a
beauty.
Neil
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13. The Royal Visit
The Queens Itinerary
MARCH 2000
[Note: The separate visit arrangements for His Royal Highness are marked (HRH)] Fri 17 Arrive in Australia � Arrive Sydney � Arrive Canberra Sat 18 CANBERRA � The Queen receives the Governor-General � The Queen receives the Prime Minister Sun 19 Attend Church Service at St Paul's, Manuka Mon 20 SYDNEY � Ceremonial Welcome at the Sydney Opera House � Attend Luncheon given by the Prime Minister and the Premier of NSW at Darling Harbour Convention Centre � (HRH) Present Gold Awards at Duke of Edinburgh Award Reception at Government House, Sydney) � Visit the National Institute of Dramatic Art Tue 21 WAGGA WAGGA � (HRH) Visit to Wagga Wagga (Charles Sturt University; � (HRH) Luncheon given by Mayor at Civic Centre; and meets people and unveils plaque in Victory Memorial Gardens) SYDNEY � Visit the Sydney Children's Hospital � Visit the Olympic site, Homebush (Superdome, Stadium Australia, Olympic village and Aquatic Centre) and attends Luncheon given by the Premier of NSW with Australian sports figures � Receive representatives of the News Media at Admiralty House CANBERRA � (HRH) Present Gold Awards at Duke of Edinburgh Award Reception at Government House, Canberra Wed 22 BOURKE � Visit Bourke Primary School, � (HRH) Visit 'Back O Bourke ' fruit farm and the Office of National Parks and Wildlife � Visit Aboriginal Community Radio Station CUZFM � Attend Community Welcome in Central Park CANBERRA � Attend State Dinner at Government House Thu 23 MELBOURNE � Visit The Bionic Ear Institute � Attend State Luncheon given by the Governor of Victoria at Government House � (HRH) Visit Sandringham Yacht Club � Visit Australian Children's Television Foundation � Visit Immigration Museum and meet immigrant families Fri 24 BALLARATT � Visit Sovereign Hill � (HRH) Visit Greenhill Enterprise Centre � Visit Ballarat Regional Industries � Watch demonstration of bush fire-fighting by Emergency Services Sat 25 CANBERRA � Receives Major General Peter Cosgrove AM MC � (HRH) Attend Duke of Edinburgh Award function Sun 26 CANBERRA � Attend Church Service at St John's, Reid � (HRH) Attend Reception at Westminster Howe given by the Lord's Taverners Mon 27 � (HRH) Open the Tidbinbilla Visitor Centre � (HRH) Tour of Outward Bound Australia facilities, Tharwa � Visit National Museum of Australia (launches Gold exhibition) � Visit Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture � Attend Reception given by the ACT Chief Minister � Visit Australian War Memorial, open restored Hall of Memory and lay wreath � Attend Parliamentary Reception given by the Prime Minister at Parliament House Tue 28 HOBART � Community welcome at Salamanca Place � Opens Tasmanian Maritime Museum � Visit Incat Australia Pty Ltd � (HRH) Unveil plaques to commemorate HMAS Canberra and HMAS Shropshire at Anzac Park, Lindisfarne � (HRH) Reception for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award at Government House � Attend State Dinner given by the Governor and Lady Green Wed 29 LAUNCESTON � Meet the people walk in City Park � Attend State Reception given by Premier of Tasmania and Mayor of Launceston � Attend Luncheon given by the Premier and Mayor � (HRH) Visit J Boag and Son Brewery � Visit Inveresk Railyards and Show grounds and meet young people helped by 'Work for Dole' scheme � Attend Garden Party at Woolmers Estate, Longford Thu 30 ALICE SPRINGS � Meet the people walk in the Todd Mall � (HRH) Present Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards at Centralian College � Visit School of the Air and speaks to students by radio � Visit Alice Springs Desert Park (Aboriginal welcome, ' Alice in Ten 'project) and attend Reception given by the Administrator of the Northern Territory and Mrs Conn Fri 31 BUSSELTON � Community welcome in Rotary Park � Visit Vasse Primary School � Attend Luncheon given by the Shire President PERTH
� Attend State Reception given by the Premier of Western Australia at Government House APRIL 2000 Sat 1 � Opens the Centre for Medical and Surgical Skills at the University of Western Australia � Attend Luncheon given by Governor of Western Australia � Dedicate Flame of Remembrance and Ceremonial Farewell in Kings Park � Depart Australia Forwarded by Jim Stewart
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