Sunday 16th February 1997
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Issues - The banking system under the spotlight. Arnott's have played a magnificent but supporting role by removing all their biscuits from the shopping centres - a move which is costing them about Au$1 million per day in lost sales.
The Weekend Courier Mail went into bluster mode yesterday after it revealed how it had received one of the original contaminated packets of biscuits together with the extortionists letter - as did several others. The bluster was because for eleven days they had co-operated with police and not revealed the story to the public. They agreed to an embargo on the story while the police investigated the case - but after hearing that the television stations were sniffing around a few days ago told the police that they were going to break the embargo because they wanted the scoop on the story.
This forced the police to remove the embargo and caused a verbal backlash from the senior detectives investigating the case. The way the Courier Mail tells the story "they had done the right thing" and were now just doing their "journalistic bit".
It is very hard to talk about the Century Zinc mine or other Aboriginal affairs matters which have been going on for months by themselves. It all is an inter-related and multi-factorial problem. First, there is no plan at the start. To whom does Australia belong? This has to be clearly established. The world has a history of thousands upon thousands of invasions. It seems the only obligation the new Australians have is human-rights based. That is to ensure that the minority is no persecuted and maintains equal rights and equal opportunities. They have that.
What the Aborigines should now do is have a go like anybody else and stop whinging. If we were to do around the world what is happening here, we would be in a sorry mess. We would give the US and Canada back to the Indians and eskimos, we would kick every white out of South Africa and Mozambique and the list goes on... Once you start doing that, there is no end to it. You could kick the blacks out of Africa and put the monkeys who used to like there before...
The reality remains: whoever has money and the guns will rule. It is not good enough to have a big mouth. (I have been debating this question by email with an aborigine supporter for 6 months)
JE
Well said, can you imagine if Native Title was implemented in Europe.... what a mess! Turks would be suing Greeks, Italians would be suing French, Scottish would be sued by Irish and the new Europe would be one big, big mess!One from the Global Info-Links news group:
Subject Pubic hairs:
An angler who had failed for 11 years to catch a salmon in a Scottish
river finally succeeded when he used a fly featuring some of his
wife's pubic hairs.
" I tied an outrageously colourful fly which featured a tuft of my
wife's pubic hair, the theory being that pheromones might work on the
male salmon as they do on me, " the fisherman told the magazine.
This got me to thinking ... pubic hairs are such a wasted resource so
my wife and I are starting to save them. The possibilities are
endless ... the first thing we want is his and her scarves. We'll
mainly use my wife's hair because of the softness with just a few runs
of mine to strengthen it ... after all if it was made of all male
hair it would feel like a scotch-brite around your neck and I'd much
prefer a blonde scarf to the jet black model.
I can foresee a whole new industry springing up ... pube-spinning,
maybe it could be woven into the work-for-the-dole scheme
Forget down and feathers for doonas nothing has the thermal quality of
pubic hair ( I'm always warm when I'm near it !!! ). So start the
whole family collecting from the soap, bathdrain, toilet, washing
machine and bikini lines. You'll have enough for the warmest doona in
no time.
Anthony
You should collect them in a container measuring 12 inches x 12
inches x12 inches, then when it is full you will have a pubic foot.
Don
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