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News Report Issue 69
Index
1. Thought for the day - Tony Lee
2. Request:
3. Opinion: Apologomania -
Antonia
4. Opinion: The Alaska permanent fund
- Neil
5. Opinion: Dream on, Australia -
Antonia
6. Opinion: Sauce for the goose -
Antonia
7. Opinion: Politically correct academics
- Antonia
8. Opinion: A passage from India - Dowell &
Karson
9. Life Sciences: Factory farming of
organs - Forwarded by John
10. Feedback: Unnecessary Imports - Kerry
Spencer Salt
11. Feedback: Tax reform - John
McRoberts
12. Poetry: The dash - Forwarded by Dave
Storage
13. Feedback: Content of News
Reports 14. Feedback Contacts:
15. Editorial Policy:
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1. Thought for the day:
"The Government covers the surface of society with a
network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through
which original minds and the most energetic character cannot penetrate, to rise
above the crowd. The will of man(sic) is not shattered, but
softened, bent and guided....it does not tyrannise, but it
compresses, enervates, extinguishes and stupefies a people."
(Alexis de Tocqueville, 1833).
Forwarded by Tony Lee +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2. 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: Apologomania
Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a year's moratorium on the word 'apology'. Meg Lees is the latest apology freak. Showing gross rudeness, she's called on the Queen to apologise to Aborigines for "their suffering under Britain's colonial rule." Don't these people ever concede that the overwhelming majority of Aborigines actually enjoy living in the twentieth century? In any case they were far better off thirty years ago than now. The replacement of Paul Hasluck's assimilationist policies with Coombe's apartheid ones have proven disastrous as far as Aboriginal heath, welfare and education go. Aboriginal resentment of white settlement is futile. It is also of recent origin and has been encouraged by whites. People are startled to learn that Aboriginal activists in the thirties were strongly assimilationist. In 1938, William Cooper, an initiator of the Aboriginal Day of Mourning wrote: "Whether the white man likes it or not, every native is headed towards the culture of the white man". (Geoffrey Partington, Hasluck Versus Coombs: White Politics and Australia's Aborigines, 1996, p.34) And in a letter to the Prime Minister he wrote: "... the British were once as we are now. The conquering power of Rome, whatever else it did, lifted the British to culture and civilisation. We want that same uplift. ... We want the right to full education, academic and cultural and industrial, and to be able to take our place beside the white race in full equality and responsibility. We ask the right to be fully British". And just in case there's any doubt: "We ask you to teach our people to live in the modern age, as modern citizens. We want to be absorbed into the Nation of Australia, and thus to survive in the land of our forefathers, on equal terms." For obvious reasons this stuff doesn't get much of an airing these days. Nevertheless it's the truth. Antonia
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The Alaska Permanent Fund People are generally amazed when they hear about the Alaska Permanent Fund. It was formed in 1976 to give Alaskans a direct share of the profits their state government received from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. What a great idea! By 1998, through property, stock market and other investments, the Fund was providing greater returns than the oil itself, even with the then declining price of oil. And what happens to the money? Well half of the Fund's annual income is distributed to the residents of Alaska as a dividend. So in 1998, every man, woman and new born baby in Alaska received a dividend of $US 1,300 - in 1998 that equated to $ A 2,151. (Australian Financial Review, 27-28 / 6 / 98). Imagine what the distribution of such dividends would do for the real economy, as opposed to that smoke and mirrors travesty the government and the media crow about. On the Fund's profit sharing, a family of four would receive $8,604. A family of five, $10,755. A very likely spin-off might even be that with such financial security, women would again be willing to bear that longed-for and demographically important third baby. Some families and individuals would spend the dividend - whether buying pyjamas, a piano or extending the house is immaterial. Some would save it. Others would invest it. Think of the entrepreneurial possibilities if people could look forward to some start-up capital, financed from the existing wealth. An economics professor at the University of Alaska, Dr. Scott Goldsmith, who initially warned that declining oil revenue and rising government spending would result in a fiscal gap, has repudiated his former view. He now says there's no reason the situation shouldn't continue forever. Nor is there - unless the Alaskan government treacherously privatises. Ps. Apart from sharing in the wealth of their state, Alaskans pay no state income tax or sales tax. This is not socialism, folks, quite the opposite. This is giving individuals their proper share in the wealth of their state, to do with as THEY please. Antonia
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Opinion
Dream on,
Australia
Just imagine what a similar scheme to invest the profits of Australian federal and state government owned resources and subsequently to issue an annual dividend to the people of Australia could have done for our country. Note I said, 'the people'. Note also, they were OUR resources. They didn't belong to the clowns in Canberra, and in my opinion they are guilty of no less than treason for selling them without the people's consent. Clearly the Australian people don't count for much any more. Our children won't think much of us for having so meekly accepted our demise. Once Telstra is finally privatised, who among us thinks that board members of the private phone companies whose headquarters are in London, Los Angeles, Tokyo or Berlin will give two hoots whether the people of the Central Darling shire in NSW have a mobile phone network. If a business is not profitable it will not happen. That's the bottom line under economic rationalist policies. Any idea of nationhood and community have gone the way of the dodo. The Central Darling shire in NSW - as big as Tasmania but with only 3,000 people - will never return a profit. So they don't get a service. Antonia
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Sauce for the goose ... As part of their campaign for a wage rise, security staff have walked off the job at Howard's Kirribilli House more than 20 times over the past three months (Sun-Herald, 26 / 3 / 00). Good on them too. You'd think the politicians would place some value on the people whose job it is to protect them, but no. Instead, they are trying to introduce some "flexibility" - that's Reith-speak for reducing conditions. The security staff last received a pay rise in 1996, and they are asking for 6 per cent over two years. The government has offered 13 per cent if staff give up their rostered day off and accept cuts to their overtime rates. Now I recall that just before Christmas the politicians agreed to pay themselves a hefty pay rise. The PM's pay increased by $30,000. His increase was more than many people earn. They justified it because they hadn't had a pay rise for a few years, just like the security guards. But they didn't have to give up any of THEIR entitlements or conditions, did they. Antonia
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Politically correct academics Senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Western Sydney, Dr Scott Poynting, is the epitome of the political correct academic. He thinks it's very wrong of NSW Police Commissioner, Peter Ryan, to link the words 'ethnic' and especially 'Lebanese' with the word 'gang'. According to Poynting, there's no such animal as an ethnic or a Lebanese gang. He said the violence, including the more than 40 shootings this year was the result of poor standards of living. That's utter clap-trap. Do people like him ever consider how absurd they are? For a start, people can be poor and decent at the same time. It's highly insulting to Australia's struggling families to suggest people should be excused for criminal activities because of their standard of living. Secondly, the standards of living in Cabramatta or Bankstown would be vastly superior to many of the places migrants come from. Why else would they come here if not for a better life? Dr Poynting also was peeved that "Anglo-Celtic communities" aren't accused of building up a wall of silence or of refusing to help police. He's right. They aren't accused of it because they don't do it! It just happens to be one of our fuddy-duddy Australian customs to co-operate with the police in their crime investigations. Dr Poynting ought to come down from his ivory tower and spend a month on the beat in places like Cabramatta and Bankstown. He'll find that most people are good, but that these areas DO suffer from ethnic gangs running drugs and brothels. Once he gets shot at, he might even take in the words of Dr Richard Basham, Australia's expert on the links between crime and culture. Basham says, "The charge of racism is being used to suppress information [on crime and ethnicity]. The comfort level of Asian criminals in Australia is now very high. It is almost as if they have political protection. This imposed silence is one of the reasons why Australia now has Pauline Hanson." (Sheehan, Among the Barbarians, p.182). He's right. Asian and other ethnic criminals do seem to have political protection. Commissioner Ryan gets savaged every time he opens his mouth on the subject by the likes of politicians Helen Sham-Ho and Franca Arena, ethnic leaders, and academics like Poynting. Antonia
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Article:
A Passage From India
President Clinton's visit to
their homeland acknowledges the growing influence of
Indian-Americans BY WILLIAM DOWELL AND TONY
KARON
Indian-Americans were once viewed as the people who did the jobs nobody wanted; now they're just as likely to be the high flyers at the dot-com's. Not only that, it's suddenly no longer a surprise to find Indians in the pantheon of (thinking) America's celebrities. From publisher Sonny Mehta and McKinsey & Co. managing director Rajat Gupta to alternative health guru Deepak Chopra and Academy Award-nominated director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense"), the influence of Indian immigrants over American society is growing, not least because tens of millions of Americans make daily use of an Internet whose growth and maintenance has relied heavily on Indian brainpower. And as President Clinton completes the first visit by a U.S. president to India in 22 years, he will be keenly aware of the burgeoning power and influence of that nation's children on his own country. A special chemistry of culture, economics, circumstance and pure luck has propelled Indians toward success at a rate unmatched by most immigrant groups. While Indian entrepreneurial success is nothing new, the scale of Indian success in the dot-com economy bears examination. Indian employees are believed to make up some one third of the workforce in the engineering sectors of Silicon Valley's largest firms. Not only that, some 7 percent of the Valley's high-tech firms are led by an Indian CEO — Healtheon / WebMD vice president Pavan Nigam, Sun Microsystems' Vinod Khosla and Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia are but a few of the Indian-born legends of the dot-com economy. One of the most important factors propelling Indian immigrants into Silicon Valley is education. As Michael Lewis points out in "The New New Thing," his recent book on Silicon Valley superstar Jim Clark, the superlative education offered to a select few by India's six Institutes of Technology have made Indian techies extremely attractive to Silicon Valley. "The tragedy," notes Fareed Zakaria, editor of the New York-based policy magazine Foreign Affairs, "is that these people were all educated in institutes built by Nehru to create India's economic renaissance, and instead they came here to create the Silicon Valley renaissance." But the freewheeling, laissez-faire meritocracy of the United States has offered some Indians an environment in which they've flourished at lightning speed. Zakaria, incidentally, dismisses the idea of an Indian brain drain. "The problem is not that talented people are leaving India," he says. "The problem is that the many, many talented people who are still in India have no opportunity to fully express their talent." Indian influence, of course, goes a lot farther than technology. From pop-cultural appropriations such as the bindis routinely worn by Madonna or the fact that you'll find more New York-based actresses, rock stars and models at one particular yoga center than at any SoHo night-spot, to the burgeoning "Desi" ("homeland") cultural scene, Indian culture is moving stealthily toward the American mainstream. Indeed, the deli manager Apu Nahasapeemapetilon of "The Simpsons" may still be the most recognisable Indian character on TV, but his evolution over a decade from a stereotyped accent-joke into an almost venerated repository of fascinating cultural "otherness" suggests a changing perception of Indians among American screenwriters. The American-Indian relationship is a two-way cultural equation, and Indians who make their homes in the US are freed of many of the strictures created by their homeland's complex social and cultural codes. While back home their countrymen face off over rifles in Kashmir, Indians and Pakistanis in New York's outer boroughs play on the same cricket teams and joke about who is likely to gain control of the disputed Himalayan region. Immigrant parents traditionally struggle to keep their American-born children interested in the culture of the old country, and Indian-Americans are no exception. But many of the second generation, some of whom refer to themselves as "ABCDs" (American-Born Confused Desis), have begun to create a hybrid Desi culture that crosses over traditional Indian social boundaries — Hindus and Muslims dating each other, for example — as well as fusing with other American subcultures, as in the "basement Banghra" fusion Punjabi Bhangra music, with elements of hip-hop, house and reggae. Aladdin Ullah, a Bangladeshi born in East Harlem who has a one-man stand-up comedy act called "Curry Power," says that most of the South Asian kids he was with growing up were so radicalised that they would do the opposite of just about everything demanded by tradition. "If you weren't supposed to eat beef," he says, referring to Hindu tradition, "that is what you ordered." Aladdin, a Muslim, says he never had problems dating Hindu girls, except the first time, when he took his date to a McDonalds. "She realized that I didn't know," he says. "And it worked out alright." Not surprisingly, the makeup of the Indian community has changed dramatically in the last few decades. The first major influx came in the late '60s, after US immigration laws were changed in 1965. The Vietnam War and a heated economy created a demand for professionals willing to work at low wages, particularly in medicine. The first wave of Indians were mostly well-educated doctors and engineers prepared to take jobs shunned by ambitious Americans. "There would be an opening for a surgeon in Champaign, Illinois, and the Indian would go into it," says Fareed Zakaria. "I think it speeded up assimilation more than most people realized." The cap on immigration was raised in 1986, which brought an influx of poorer Indians to take jobs as cab drivers, news vendors and the like. That created some class differentiation, although those are partly counteracted by cultural bonds. "It is nice to be able to go into a restaurant and speak Hindi or Punjabi, no matter whom you are talking to," says Ravi Malhotra, an assistant treasurer at the Bank of New York who emigrated from New Delhi after graduating from the India Institute of Technology. "It evens out the class differences." The US has accepted some 722,000 immigrants from India since 1970, and their economic profile is among the most prosperous and best educated of all immigrant groups — even by comparison with immigrants from India's South Asian neighbours, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Less than 1 percent of Indian immigrants rely on public assistance, which makes them the most self-sufficient immigrant community, while some 75 percent of working Indians are college-educated. And the centrality of Indian high-tech entrepreneurs in the "New Economy" boom of the '90s has opened doors to Indians throughout the upper echelons of corporate America. "There is no other place in the world today," notes Pavan Nigam, "where an Indian heritage is such a competitive asset." With additional reporting by Jacqueline Savaiano / Los Angeles, Barry Hillenbrand / Washington and Chandrika Narayan / Dallas ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
9. Life Sciences:
Factory farming of Organs Is factory farming of humans and organ stripping of children for research
contemplated at the proposed Institute for Molecular Biology being built in
residential St Lucia? Professor Dick Van Velzen
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Doctor admits organ stripping The pathologist at the centre of the child organ-stripping scandal has told the BBC he used organs for research without the permission of the coroner or consent of parents. Professor Dick Van Velzen maintains that he removed and stored the organs of 845 children at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool because he did not have the resources from the hospital to carry out detailed post mortem examinations. He says he hoped to complete the post mortems eventually. But asked by BBC1's Panorama programme if he did research on organs he took he admits: "We always did research. Everybody does research, but especially when you're an academic pathologist. But in reality we did extremely little research on all those organs." As well as pathology, Professor Van Velzen was carrying out his own research into cot death in infants. The Coroners Act says that organs cannot be used for research without the coroner's permission, but Professor Van Velzen did not seek it. 'Not misusing' He insists he was not misusing children's organs in order to progress his own career. "All our published research, 75, 80, 90% of it, has nothing to do with post mortem tissues. 90% of my papers - my best papers have nothing to do with babies' organs. "My intention was to skate very close to the letter of the law with only one purpose - to achieve a better situation," he added. Alder Hey Hospital was exposed last September as having retained a very large number of children's organs. But the scandal has touched hospitals across Britain. Professor Sebastian Lucas, chairman of the Royal College of Pathologists working group on organ retention and a professor of pathology at Guy's Hospital, London, admits to Panorama that organs were "most certainly" retained for research when, strictly speaking, they should not have been. "It came under the general rubric of 'doctor knows best', that it was not thought needed to explain precisely what went on during a rather unpleasant procedure and to thereby upset relatives and parents. "The consolation being that we were doing it for the greater good of the public, the individual and the public good, and I suspect we made a philosophical calculation that it was better to keep it that way round than to be too explicit as to exactly what we were doing," he said. Panorama, BBC1, Monday 21 February, 2200 GMT Articles Forwarded by
John Massey..
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10. Feedback:
Unnecessary Imports
I was doing some renovations the other day and I needed to get some
gyprock. I ordered it from my friendly hardware store and waited for delivery.
It promptly arrived and was marked A product of
Thailand.
Regards Kerry Spencer Salt +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11.Feedback:
Tax Reform
15 March 2000
Directors, Staff and Shareholders Evans Deakin Industries Limited 12 Boundary St, South Brisbane 4101 OPEN LETTER TO INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE The Future of Evans Deakin Group and the adverse effect of complex taxes Ladies and Gentlemen, The Directors of Tax Reform Limited (TRL)
are aware of media reports relating to the difficult financial situation of your
group and of your decision to close both Colmslie Works and Sherwood
Works. After making brief inquiries of your management, we note this is
due to a lack of Sales Orders required for continuing operations. We
understand that your group is Australian owned and operates in
Queensland.
The economic reality of Australia, when related to the best
interests of Australians, is that the Nation only needs half the Revenue the
present Commonwealth Government raises, to receive better government
services. Australia has lost control of the value of its currency
due to the excesses of Government forcing under-utilisation of National
resources, in particular its people. Australians as a Nation
are living beyond their means and survive by foreign debt and selling off public
assets.
2% Expenditure Tax is the answer to the best interest of
Australians. The politicians and media are still clinging to the
misrepresentation by economists and academics that 2% Expenditure Tax cascades
at a high rate. They base this view on the assumption that other taxes
remain because this is what happens under the GST which cascades on top of
income tax, profits tax, payroll tax, fringe benefits tax,
superannuation tax, capital gains tax and their derivatives e.g. withholding
tax.
All of these taxes are abolished under 2% Expenditure Tax,
but the politicians, economists, media and academics refuse to apply their minds
to understand how this is possible. In a multi-stage manufactured item,
2% Expenditure Tax cascades to 13%, HALF the RATE of the 10% GST and
OTHER TAXES which cascade to 28%. The objective of 2% Expenditure Tax is
to make Australia'ss goods and services price competitive internationally and
domestically as the means to achieve full utilisation of
Australia'ss resources, in particular its people, for wealth creation
in the hands of Australians to buy back the ownership and control of Australia
as a democratic community with freedom of choice.
This can be achieved over a three year period
by abolishing Australia'ss existing unfair and inefficient taxes
to reduce the prices of all goods by up to 40% and all services by up to
30% so that existing take-home pays, incomes and savings can buy goods
and services on a user pays basis to reduce funding required by
Government.
This reduced funding for Government is to be raised by 2%
Expenditure Tax as a fair and efficient tax which creates the incentive
to work, save and invest for a standard of living second to none in the
world. For Government, 2% Expenditure Tax provides the means to give the
underprivileged a standard of living enjoyed by other Australians and to pay
back foreign debt, returning dignity to all Australians and putting
value back into the Australian Dollar.
All Australians substantially benefit under 2%
Expenditure Tax, e.g. reduced cost of employment enables 3 educators, doctors
and health care workers, defence personnel, primary and secondary industry
workers to be employed for today's cost of 2.
Significantly, 2% Expenditure Tax reduces the cost of
Government at all levels and the wider use of user pays enables Government to
focus on achieving a higher level of performance in National issues including
defence, environmental protection, the rights of the individual and Australia's
world standing as a democracy paying its way in the world and influential in
world stability and growth.
No other tax system can achieve this turnaround in
Australia's economic position, with increasing surpluses to complete the payoff
of foreign debt and put into the hands of Australians the wealth to buy
back businesses and property in Australia.
2% Expenditure Tax can be implemented over a 3 year term with
a range of controls and fail-safe systems to ensure that its objectives are met
and not circumvented by minority vested interests in Australian and
overseas communities. A critical control is the participation of
representatives of all sectors of industry and the community in the process of
distribution of the taxes to be abolished.
The opportunity is open to Evans Deakin, and to other
industries, to take the initiative in this process by conducting a study of its
financial affairs and how these can realistically be expected to be impacted by
the introduction of 2% Expenditure Tax.
Feedback shows that the time is right for 2%
Expenditure Tax. What is now needed is leaders in all
sections of Australian society to speak out and require the Senate to
do the job that should have been done in early 1999, i.e. a fair and proper
evaluation of 2% Expenditure Tax and a conclusion that it is eminently suited
for implementation in Australia as a matter of National urgency.
John McRobert's book on the 2% Expenditure Tax is titled
'Your Future in Your Hands'. 2% Expenditure Tax offers to you the
opportunity to speak out and make your future what you want it to
be.
Yours sincerely, Derek Smith Chartered Accountant Chairman, Tax Reform Ltd PS Refer to Submission documents 1 & 2 by Tax Reform Limited to the Senate Select Committee on a New Tax System available at web site: http://www.taxreform.org and contact email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John McRobert
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12. Poetry
Subject: The Dash
I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone From the beginning...to the end. He noted that first came her date of birth And spoke the following date with tears, But he said what mattered most of all Was the dash between those years. (1934 -1998) For that dash represents all the time That she spent alive on earth... And now only those who loved her Know what that little line is worth. For it matters not, how much we own; The cars...the house...the cash, What matters is how we live and love And how we spend our dash. So think about this long and hard... Are there things you'd like to change? For you never know how much time is left, That can still be rearranged. If we could just slow down enough To consider what's true and real, And always try to understand The way other people feel. And be less quick to anger, And show appreciation more And love the people in our lives Like we've never loved before. If we treat each other with respect, And more often wear a smile... Remembering that this special dash Might only last a little while. So, when your eulogy's being read With your life's actions to rehash... Would you be proud of the things they say About how you spent your dash? Author Unknown
Forwarded by Dave Storage
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Content of News Report
What a fine site - The variation of
issues is truly amazing. Veronica enlightens us with extensive
information regarding (at least) food and it's manipulation. I prattle on about
natural rights to security and personal defence. Antonia and others identify
cock-ups and deliberate manipulations. We all feel
manipulated and impotent. We each have our concerns, biases and
prejudices to varying degrees.
Consider!! This is but ONE site
where people (to date) can express their concerns. Imagine Government
being bombarded with millions of perceptions!! It is no wonder they seek
comprehensive and simplistic solutions, of surely is impossible to satisfy all -
simply because we each view a given situation differently. Further complicated
by we each applying a 'solution' based on our individual life's
experiences. This is not a simple situation. Or
is it?
Imagine in a truly democratic society where
thinking people were encouraged to contribute, and exchange views. This of
course will never happen, for the cause has just been identified -- PEOPLE. But!
The cause can often be the solution.
The conductor of this symphony, and the
process of 'his' authority will dictate whether society gains or looses.
"Leadership" was the old fashioned term. BUT! What do we suffer? A "Two Party
Preferential System" We all know the results of that. SO! Having identified the
conflict - Why is it not being rectified?
We mere mortals can identify and
often proffer effective solutions - Why cannot party political animals
who by a perverted process we elect to dictate (sorry! - serve!!). It is no
wonder we are deliberately diverted by an endless series of crises, for
it is all a smokescreen to cover the party driven power struggles.
DEMOCRACY? Rubbish! Just you all wait for "Cunningham's Benevolent Dictatorship
Inc". Mirth aside - such should not be bad, for the bad WOULD
STOP.
Is this not back to perceptions - values? Where to now? Peter
Cunningham
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Can you add more or a different perspective. Your contributions are greatly
appreciated.
Send this email on to as many as you
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start reporting it as it really is, rather than the smoke and mirrors tricks
they currently indulge in, or loose readership, and therefore advertising
monies. While we have a long way to go before that happens, each epic
journey must start with a single step.
Antonia Feitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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