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Murdoch media "paparazzi" pursue Pauline Hanson mercilessly.
Well placed sources informed me that the new Murdoch stable magazine "That's Life" (Pacific Publications) spent Au$20,000 on a photograph of Pauline Hanson with the new man in her life yesterday. They were trying to escape media attention by going to Magnetic Island.
I immediately advised Pauline Hanson One Nation director David Ettridge who got Pauline's political adviser, David Oldfield, to call me. My source was verified and our mutual disgust at the low life tactics of the Murdoch media were expressed in no uncertain terms over the phone.
Pauline and the mystery man did not want to be photographed while enjoying a short break on Magnetic Island but Murdoch couldn't give a damn could he.
Anything to increase sales - despite clear breaches of privacy and the appalling track record of the trashy magazines that Packer or Murdoch produce just to earn a dollar.
It was Murdoch who paid the paparazzi a fee of 50,000 pounds (British Sterling)... shortly before Di and Dodi died last year for compromising pictures and Murdoch is not the "honourable, Papally recognised" man News Limited would want you to believe he is scum.
In another example, on that memorable day when the world stopped. The day that Princess Di was buried I was able to buy a Packer magazine, New Weekly, which carries the headline "Di and Dodi - making love for the cameras".... with several images of Di and Dodi taken by the paparazzi.
Of course, since then we have had Packer's Channel 9, A Current Affair having the open deceit, perpetrated by the politically correct stooge Ray Martin, with shock-horror reports on the beastly ways of the paparazzi.... what a load of c**** - Packer is about one thing a five letter word... GREED.
Well Packer's compromising image has now been published in the public arena, under the circumstances its only a wonder that it took so long to get there.
There is one other side to this story about the invasion of Pauline's privacy that is almost as disgusting as the payment by Packer of the pieces of silver to promote magazine sales... and that is the Editor of the Courier Mail, who goes out of his way to denigrate Pauline Hanson in his paper - personally phoning her several times yesterday trying to entice her to allow his photographer to take a picture of her with her new beau on Magnetic Island.
She of course declined. Is it any surprise that Pauline has utter contempt for the ethics of the Australian media.
While our troops are fighting the US' war - what about our commitments in Indonesia?
Yesterday we discussed the crazy role of our troops in the looming conflict in the gulf.
Now consider this, one of our Asian neighbours, Indonesia, is breaking into civil disorder following the Asian currency crisis. Under Paul Keating we signed the Five Powers Defence Arrangement (FPDA) between Australia, Britain, Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand which was entered into by Australia mainly to guarantee Malaysia military help in the event of attack
We also have military agreements with Indonesia but the FPDA, as we covered in detail last year, has every likelihood of embroiling us in a war between our Asian neighbours if the situation continues to worsen... worsening because of the money powers in the US fronted by International Monetary Fund (IMF) whose handling of the Asian meltdown has been pathetic and based on sheer self-interest.
Remember Australia lost a Au$2 billion contract to Germany for the supply of warships to Malaysia last year. I understand everyone blamed those they did not like. The Liberals blamed Labor, Labor blamed the Liberals. Many, of course, like Victorian premier Jeff Kennett, put the blame on Pauline Hanson.
That roving idiot, our foreign minister, Alexander Downer, says in Bonn:
"I would like to explore a further recent development shaping Australia's relations with Germany and Europe in general: that is the convergence of Australian and European interests in the Asia Pacific region and the advancement of our respective commercial interests through regional initiatives.
"Australia appreciates the contribution that Europe makes to the global security environment. France and the UK are globally engaged powers and their interests extend to the Asia-Pacific region - France particularly in the Pacific, the UK with its involvement in Hong Kong, Brunei and the Five Power Defence Arrangement, Germany with its international economic weight and its interest in the international security agenda, for example on disarmament/non- proliferation issues."
In this new global "level playing" field I get the strong feeling that Australia is being "gang raped" by the US multinationals who run that countries senate.
My reasoning is simple:
Is it any wonder Australians want a change in government from tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum - the Australian Labor Party and the Federal Coalition Government...
Anglican Church warn of "blood on the streets".
The Anglican Church, following its recent apology to the "stolen children" have warned Prime Minister John Howard that there will be blood on the streets unless he reconsiders the Senate amendments to his ten point plan.
The Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Bruce Wislos said, "If there is a Federal Election based on a racial issue like the Wik ten point plan, there is no doubt there will be blood on the streets of New South Wales. People in the cities are unaware of the tensions, struggles and violence that exists in many country towns."
Brisbane's Anglican Archbishop Peter Hollingworth said that Queensland has reached "flashpoint" describing the situation as one of "real tension".
"Everyone has got to move away from fixed positions. We are urging the Prime Minister to engage all the parties to try to get some resolutions. The main problem we identified was everyone is a bit in the trenches fighting for a position.
"People who are a long, long away from the scene simply do not understand the tremendous pressures pastoralists in rural Australia are feeling."
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reach new lows.
Last night at about 9pm the ABC "Short Stories" programme ran a revolting programme about gays justifying their sexuality. Not just gays but (exclusively) Asian gays. What the hell is this country coming to - how politically correct can you get?
Here are some quotes:
"Nothing to do with race... here I was with another Chinese gay man.. it was the most liberating experience of my life."
"I will buy pictures... which have Asian models because I don't want to be bombarded with white images."
"I was a banana yellow on the outside, white on the inside."
"My Caucasian friends said they never thought of me as Asian.. I took that as a compliment. I realised I was attracted to men when I was 14 years old. Every month I bought Cleo for my sister. My heart was pounding when I turned to the centrefold."
"From my research I knew there was a world out there waiting to be discovered. There is a whole underworld out there. There were parties at the Sydney University and parties at Paddington Hall. I remember some of the boys at one party taking their shirts off and I thought that that was the most exciting thing that I had ever seen..."
"We are all outsiders, foreigners struggling to be part of someone else's dream."
"There is a new generation of young men out there.... When I see these guys laughing, dancing and fitting in I feel jealousy.. is it really for them as easy as it looks."
"We came to this country to be part of this dream only to realise the dream does not include us..."
For the record the Producer was Helen Bowden... who came up with this classic statement "Among her favourites, Bowden cites Katherine Newman's Ladies, made for less than $400. "Wham! Very gutsy, interesting film-making. And such a bold move to shoot it in a toilet."
While researching Bowden I came up with this classic example of political correctness that makes the Australian Council for the Arts look like junior league.
Have a look at this web page on the Australian Film Commission.... and where grant (taxpayer) money is spent! It made my stomach turn.
Making the
news" -
Subject: re GWB
A couple of things to mention today.
I have just had a look at the apology sent from the Australian Council for the stupid and unnecessary. I notice the word "INADVERTANTLY". Are we to believe that the posting of this picture was an accident? Wel, if you believe that, then I've got a nice bridge I'd like to sell you. The other point is petrol prices. Can you send some cheap petrol to Townsville please? We are still paying up to 74 cents per litre up here.
Jason
Subject: No place to land
Dear Editor,
In April 1942, nine Aussie crew members of a Catalina flying boat placed their lives on the line to save mine.
I feel a deep sense of shame, that any of my countrymen would refuse permission for your Special Forces to land at their location of choice, when they are in the Middle East only for that very same purpose!
. john hamilton, entrepreneur
Subject: links
Whats the purpose of you putting links in the daily news if I have to have a password? You might as well leave the links out of the news page altogether. I thought and agree that any one wanting to use your archives should pay. But not the daily news reader who only goes to the link because he thinks the info is beyond the capacity of the newsletter, and might distract from the stories. many times I go to a link only to find it was old news, not new. I will send some suggestions. like journalists from news limited pay $50 per month. and one nation members and supporters pay $10 per hour to be used up over 12 months.
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Editor.
Subject: Economic Rationalism
I follow with great interest your series ECONOMIC RATIONALISM by Graham Strachan, which demonstrates the manipulation of money and thus Governments in our modern era. In support I would like to pass on some interesting quotations which seem prophetic, but are in reality just part of the same plan. These have been taken from a small book, "Money Manipulation and Social Order" 1944, by Rev. Denis Fahey, and support the general theme of his subject.
"If the manipulators of money get control of the government of the state then the government will not be able to compel the bankers and money-changers to practice the virtue of social justice, namely, the common good; the nation suffers. Usury and alteration of the price level will then be permitted to go on unchecked and the real sovereignty of the state passes into the manipulators of money. The NEXT STAGE will be a move to bring national sovereignty under the domination of some international organisation subject to finance.(shades of MAI) That will make permanent and world-wide the present day (1943) anti-Christian and anti-natural perversion of order involved in the subordination of human persons to the production of material goods, and in the subordination of the production and distribution of material goods to finance. "
"As a measure used for estimating the value of other things, money must keep the same value, since the value of all things must be expressed in terms of money. The art of manipulating money or exchange medium must not be allowed to fall uncontrolled into the hands of private individuals, as they will be tempted to work for instability of price-levels in view of their own gain. A fortiori, the Rulers of the state must see to it that the manipulators of money do not get control of the Government." (The philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas c.1244AD) Straight from the "dark" ages?) I hope that the advisers to Pauline Hanson take notice of this principle when government for and by the people is regained.
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money…..They who control the credit of a nation, direct the policy of governments, and hold the destiny of the people in the hollow of their hands." Jan.1924, Rt. Hon. Sir Reginald McKenna former English Chancellor of the Exchequer. Think about this remembering the 18 or 20% you pay all your life for computer entries (created credit) in your bankcard account, or overdraft.
Testimonies: "..In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson thus summed up the situation in the USA, 'A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. . The growth of our nation is in the hands of a few men, we have come to being one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by conviction and the free vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.. An invisible government owning no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people"
British Government Thomas Johnston MP, 1931 Lord Privy Seal to the Labour Government "..The moneylenders in New York and Paris refused to put up credits to support a balanced budget. They demanded a cut in unemployment benefit. They wanted humanity crucified on a cross of gold. We declined absolutely, and resigned….twenty men and one woman-- a British Cabinet-- waited one black Sunday afternoon in a Downing St. garden for a final decision from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York." Hansard vol. 256 col. 1272.21st. Sept. 1931. Shades of Indonesia today.
Farming: "This disorder has lead to the subordination of farming, by which the primary necessities of life are produced, to industry and the manufacture of secondary things. This reversal of order in regard to production is having disastrous consequences in soil erosion, loss of fertility, and ill health of human beings, animals and living things in general. " Based on the Philosophies of St. Thomas. Today's greenies could take a lesson from St. Thomas here and find the real reason to protest, by finding out who is paying their "Piper".
So nothing has changed. The control is almost total and universal. Sovereign states are subject to multinational police action, supported by puppet Governments and compliant political bi-partisan Parties, and a controlled media. The general public is lulled to sleep by a false propaganda that would make Adolf Hitler turn in his grave with envy.
Prophecy tells us (those without the 'stumbling block') that this 5th Reich will be destroyed through its own folly, but the price will be terrible to contemplate as they turn their terrible weapons upon an awakening populace.
Philip Madsen.
Another beautiful day in paradise.
Have a good one.
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